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I was inspired by the men's 100m in the Olympics. Decided I'd train for that particular race. My personal best in now 10.3 metres

Do you get a biscuit at the end ?

Got myself a fair bit out of shape the last few years. Had to unexpectedly run a few months back and resembled Homer here; .... so figured better get a grip of my cardio. Would recommend the NHS's couch to 5k app. It's a structured way to...

this story is just too much:

Find that hard to believe LGA could ever operate on one controller, but that would be an amazing failure if so.

Probably only small, low traffic airports where fuel trucks cross a runway on any regular basis.

Possibly but uncommon. Usual vehicles around runways would be operations cars, maintenance trucks, bird scarers, grass cutters. Fuel trucks tend to go between the aprons and fuel farms via a service road. There are surely many incidents of...

Well, ok from a functional standpoint yes, we’re about as dysfunctional as it gets. But most sectors are funded right now, just Homeland Security (and TSA) are the major unfunded sectors. But we’re burning through buckets of money on bombs and...

It’s nearly always a chain of events isn’t it. It’s not just finding a scapegoat. Organisational factors will come under close scrutiny here; How many controllers were on mic? How many were available? What ATC procedures were in place to deal...

DEI hires remember*.

I think there were funding/temporary staffing issues before but I'm not aware of continuing shortages. (Unlike TSA, which is gate security/inside the terminal). This event was clearly related to distraction from another incident, but everyone is...

Yep, everyone makes mistakes but they don’t always cost lives like this. At least 2 errors in this if not more. You’d think a busy place like LGA would have the process better sorted out.