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wiggles
@wiggles

obsessed with this video i found of a guy starting up a boeing 737 (regular commercial airplane) and going through every little subsystem and alarm and instrument. planes are bonkers complex


wiggles
@wiggles

fine commentary as always


wiggles
@wiggles

Not all the checks are done in this video but

wait you're telling me this is the abbreviated version


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weirdly phonetic, like a person who learned English on the job but never had a reason to write it. name references a US city though... and there's a circumflex on that O? what is going on here...

sequency is a good word tho

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getting rid of the flight enginerd was the worst thing they did to planes. now it all makes sense, instead of the pilots having their controls get fucked up and asking the Aeroplane Wizard to divine what just happened.