HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agoAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlimagemessage-square201fedilinkarrow-up1897arrow-down130file-textcross-posted to: mildlyinteresting@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1867arrow-down1imageAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlHiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agomessage-square201fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: mildlyinteresting@lemmy.ml
Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·10 months ago“honey, Joe’s wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?”
minus-squareSynthead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·10 months agoThese little strips don’t use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.
minus-squareryo@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months ago unicom First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄 We need a community for keming.
minus-squareDa_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoNo, you read it right, UNICOM Or UNIversal COMmunications Also known as CTAF, or Common Traffic Advisory Frequency. Basically the frequency you use when you’re in uncontrolled airspace.
minus-squarestevehobbes@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-210 months agoThey read it as unicor n hence the emoji.
minus-squareDa_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoTower duty? Where we are going, we don’t need towers.
“honey, Joe’s wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?”
These little strips don’t use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.
First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄
We need a community for keming.
No, you read it right, UNICOM
Or UNIversal COMmunications
Also known as CTAF, or
Common Traffic Advisory Frequency.
Basically the frequency you use when you’re in uncontrolled airspace.
They read it as unicor n hence the emoji.
Tower duty? Where we are going, we don’t need towers.