I think that makes a lot of sense for a start-up; being an orphaned type, the mainlines are retiring them, so there will be a supply of used ones with relatively low time.

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Yep, isn't it funny how above average temperatures, tornadoes, hurricanes, or fires one year "proves" it, but the opposite is "just weather, not climate"?

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The smog you describe isn't caused by carbon; it's caused by particulate emissions, which are primarily from industrial process, not transportation. The references to the days of visible air pollution in discussions of carbon emissions is just a scare tactic with no basis in reality.

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This forum needs a block feature.

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The "reducing competition" claim is because most people aren't flying to get from, say, Bordeaux to Paris, but are taking onward connections. It isn't convenient to replace that segment with rail because it isn't quick or convenient to transfer from the rail station to the airport, so instead, passengers will fly with connections elsewhere (e.g., London or Frankfurt). Ergo, in the end this results in less competition between the same city pairs.

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Yikes, even I've done NDB approaches, and I got my IFR rating in 2007. I haven't flown in years but I think NDBs are gone now.

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We could, but it's also logical to keep the system we have since it's optimized specifically for aeronautical navigation.

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Wouldn't it be a minute of latitude anywhere? The length of latitude units don't change with position on Earth like longitude.

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Wouldn't this technically not be domestic if it's from a Russian air base to Norwegian sovereign territory? Antarctica isn't just one country.

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I see this logic applied to autonomous cars as well, but the fact that 88% of aviation accidents are caused by human error doesn't prove that autonomy will reduce accidents by 88%. The autonomous aircraft will just have different accidents, like the (semi-)autonomous cars on the road now.

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