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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm for a month fifty five krc he talk station,
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  Speaker 1: Hey thirty on a Thursday. It means one thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm always looking forward to this time of week. I
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  Speaker 1: heard me the aviation expert Jay Ratliffe joins the show
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  Speaker 1: talk about of course, aviation topics. Welcome back, my dear friend.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great having you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Thursday. Can't get here fast enough, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you say that because I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: And you know not to labor the point. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting in my living room and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I hear Jay Ratliffe. Where the hell's that
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  Speaker 1: voice coming from. My son was taking your one of
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  Speaker 1: your classes on life. He's loving that, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: he is all over. My son's one of Jay's students.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, as long as as long as people follow the rules,
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  Speaker 2: were in good ship. Oh, he's followed like like you.
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  Speaker 2: Your voice follows you. Sherry and I are at the
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  Speaker 2: Sand Pearl in Clearwater and I'm going up in elevator
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  Speaker 2: and some lady looks at me and says, are you
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  Speaker 2: from Cincinnati? And I said, uh yeah, out she goes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to recognize your voice. So yeah, you can't
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  Speaker 2: get away with stuff where we are. I'm glad it
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  Speaker 2: was a good day for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, amen, brother, all right. The fastest growing airline
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, drum roll, Maestro Jay Ratliffe.
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  Speaker 2: Up forty one percent. We have them in Cincinnati. It's
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  Speaker 2: Breeze Airways. Breeze Breeze yep. They started operations in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, low cost carrier bringing in brand new airplanes.
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  Speaker 2: They started their operation at the beginning at twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: They joined US three years ago. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: February of three years ago. And since then they've continue
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  Speaker 2: to expand their network. They've added international service and based
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  Speaker 2: on the scheduled service from Aviation Analytics from last year
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  Speaker 2: to this year, they're operating forty one percent more flights
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  Speaker 2: now in early twenty twenty six, and they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: And again they started at Cincinnati three years ago, they've
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  Speaker 2: grown since. They now provide service to five cities. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's true Garlston in San Francisco, and then we
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  Speaker 2: get seasonal service to Hartford, Providence and one of my
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  Speaker 2: all time favorites at San Diego and the Man that
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  Speaker 2: started this airline, started Jet Blue, which we've heard of,
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  Speaker 2: also started west Jet, the low cost carrier in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one of his kids may go to
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  Speaker 2: school somewhere in the Dayton area, but in college. But
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  Speaker 2: they are constantly growing. And I hear from so many
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  Speaker 2: people across the country that said, Jay, my wife made
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  Speaker 2: a reservation on some airline. I've never heard of Breeze.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think. I said, Well, look, I've got
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  Speaker 2: nothing but high marks to say, but circle back to
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  Speaker 2: me after your trip and let me know. And I
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  Speaker 2: hear from people constantly saying, oh my gosh, we had
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  Speaker 2: a great time. They treated us great, the fairs were great,
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  Speaker 2: and I wish everybody else could be like this. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled that we've got them in Cincinnati and that
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  Speaker 2: they continue to grow well.
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  Speaker 1: In growth means maybe adding more cities. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of puzzling over that was a pretty
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  Speaker 1: random disparate number of a selection of cities. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to get get in the weeds on it,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like a weird how do they arrive
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  Speaker 1: at those cities as opposed to some of the other
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  Speaker 1: ones that we might think.
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  Speaker 2: Of the analytics that they go through where they determined
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  Speaker 2: where are people flying to out of this market. And
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you all the different stops that I
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  Speaker 2: had in the airline industry. If I was in a
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  Speaker 2: specific city and there was a lot of people that
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  Speaker 2: were flying from our city through a connection city to
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  Speaker 2: let's say, you know, Boston, the airline said, well, we
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  Speaker 2: got that many people. What if we did a NonStop
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  Speaker 2: from that city to Boston versus everybody being forced to
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  Speaker 2: go through Atlanta or whatever the city it was, it
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  Speaker 2: might happen to be and they will put that service
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  Speaker 2: in after they've done an extensive survey, and if the
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  Speaker 2: market supports it, instead of one flight today, they may
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  Speaker 2: give them two flights today. It was a lot like
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  Speaker 2: when Comma Air was here. They decided to run a
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  Speaker 2: flight to Manchester and they thought, well, it's thirty minutes
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is from Boston, so let's try it.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so well received. I think at the
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  Speaker 2: peak there might have been five or six flo today
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  Speaker 2: back and forth between Cincinnati and there and back. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you look at it, it was great
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  Speaker 2: to see because all they're doing is providing service to
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  Speaker 2: where people want to fly, and that's what Breeze and
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  Speaker 2: other carriers are doing. Likewise, if they start to see
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  Speaker 2: the services a little bit soft, airlines will cancel some
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  Speaker 2: of their flights or they will use smaller airplanes to
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  Speaker 2: do so. So that's one of the things that they're
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  Speaker 2: always looking at it saying, look, if we're flying too
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  Speaker 2: big of an airplane, let's put a smaller airplane in
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  Speaker 2: there so we can maintain the service. Or it's dropped
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  Speaker 2: off so much that instead of four flights today, let's
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  Speaker 2: go with three flights or two flights today. And you
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  Speaker 2: know that's we've seen delta in American I think United
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  Speaker 2: also do that here, giving us bigger airplanes in some
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  Speaker 2: markets because the demand continues to increase and they want
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  Speaker 2: to respond to that.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough, we'll pause ring jayrightlif back quite a few
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  Speaker 1: different topics to talk with Jay about, as is always
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  Speaker 1: the case, including sounds like a stack of stupid story
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  Speaker 1: from a Friday intoxicated passenger removing his clothes during a flight.
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  Speaker 1: More with Jay Rylif at eight thirty five. Right now
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  Speaker 1: that you five KRCD Talk Station fifty five KRC fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KRCD Talk station. We've ever been in a cockpit
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  Speaker 1: before A thirty eight If you have KRCD talk station.
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  Speaker 1: I know Jay Ryd left has i heeart media aviation expert.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we get to the naked guy, let's
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  Speaker 1: what's the story with Air India grounding. It's Boeing sevent
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven Dreamliners. Is this represented maybe a broader problem?
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  Speaker 2: Jay? Yeah, Yeah. What they're saying is that they've they've
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  Speaker 2: seen reports of issues with the fuel control switch. So
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  Speaker 2: because they're saying it's a defect, but really what we're
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  Speaker 2: looking at is the possibility of a problem. So they're
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  Speaker 2: airing on the side of caution and they have grounded
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  Speaker 2: their fleet if I think thirty eight of these Boeing
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  Speaker 2: seven eighty seven Dreamliners. So Boeing and the FAA are
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  Speaker 2: looking into this to see if there's any reports or
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  Speaker 2: any issues that would support the need for advising other
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  Speaker 2: airlines of the countries around the world that would be operating.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've got just over eleven hundred of these
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  Speaker 2: airplanes that are flying right now around the world, so
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  Speaker 2: if there is an issue there, we'll look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Air India had that horrific crash last year
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  Speaker 2: where one of the crew members apparently turned off the
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  Speaker 2: fuel that caused it to crash. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if this is something where that I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you look at it legally, you look at
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  Speaker 2: it operationally, and there's a lot of questions that swirl.
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  Speaker 2: But at this point in time, no other airlines have
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  Speaker 2: reported this, so I mean, obviously we'll keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on it and see where it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, is this like a I suppose the FAA is
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  Speaker 1: sort of in a position of like a car manufacturer.
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  Speaker 1: They determined whether there's going to be a recall or
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  Speaker 1: like issue a technical service bulletin kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And the way it works is we had
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  Speaker 2: a Southwest Airlines flight that had an uncontrolled engine failure
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  Speaker 2: where the engine just kind of fell, came apart in
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  Speaker 2: flight and actually pierced the side of the aircraft and
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  Speaker 2: forced an emergency landing in Pensacola. And when the NTSB
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  Speaker 2: did their their work, which is again they're the all
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  Speaker 2: star team, they said, oops, part of this engines is
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  Speaker 2: reaching a point of fatigue faster than we thought. So
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  Speaker 2: the NTSB told the FAA our recommendation has had these
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  Speaker 2: engines inspected immediately, so that's what the FAA can or
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  Speaker 2: cannot do, And instead they looked at the airlines and said, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we can recommend that you do it, but we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to mandate it. It's totally up to you.
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  Speaker 2: Even when the engine manufacturer came along and said, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, we also agree with the NTSB, these need
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  Speaker 2: to be inspected now, the FAA again said we're going
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  Speaker 2: to leave it up to the airlines. Eighteen months later,
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  Speaker 2: the same thing happened over Pennsylvania and a passenger was killed.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of times I grow really frustrated with
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  Speaker 2: the FAA. I'm not saying yielding to the pressure of
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  Speaker 2: the airline lobbying group, because there was a great deal
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  Speaker 2: of cost associated with those engine inspections, but sometimes they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of slow, and sometimes there needs to be an
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  Speaker 2: accident or near accident before we do things that need
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  Speaker 2: to be done, which again shouldn't be the case, but
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  Speaker 2: history shows that, sadly, that tends to be what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gee, and here's the Federal Aviation Emission agreeing with
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  Speaker 1: the NTSB that, woops, we screwed up our decision to
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  Speaker 1: allow helicopter routes to operate near a runway at Reagan
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  Speaker 1: National Airport was a really stupid idea. Woops, sorry are bad?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's sad to see that, especially when you
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  Speaker 2: have so many indications of possible problems where it's obvious
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  Speaker 2: something's up, something's going wrong, and it's a matter of
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  Speaker 2: how many near missus do we need to have in
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  Speaker 2: the thousands and thousands and thousands before somebody says, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're on borrowed time here. But you know, sometimes logistically
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  Speaker 2: from an operational standpoint, there is sometimes only so much
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  Speaker 2: you can do, but there's always options. You can either
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  Speaker 2: throw brottle back on the number of flights going through
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  Speaker 2: an area, or you can change certain arrival departure patterns
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  Speaker 2: or in that case, stop the military flights from going
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  Speaker 2: across the river there like they were doing both in
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  Speaker 2: training and transportation. And it was a very very slow process,
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  Speaker 2: which again we had to have the crash before the
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  Speaker 2: focus was on there. And now the FA is looking
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  Speaker 2: at creating a separate safety board that is going to
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  Speaker 2: look at specific things to you know, kind of speed
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  Speaker 2: things along. Now I would have thought just making the
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  Speaker 2: FAA better at what they did, if they needed more
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  Speaker 2: inspectors or what have you would have been the fix.
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  Speaker 2: But to have a separate entity there I'm not really
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  Speaker 2: sure of at this point in time. But we'll see
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  Speaker 2: where it goes, because I don't know. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: like having those committee meetings we've talked about where there
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  Speaker 2: were working on it, folks. We've we've we've got that
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  Speaker 2: committee that's going to be looking into it. Blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's it sounds political.
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  Speaker 1: It does sounds like just adding another layer of government
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  Speaker 1: to make it look like they're doing something, and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: it's the status quo, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is which was exactly how the TSA was born, because
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven was not a process or a result
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  Speaker 2: of a lack of security. It was the protocol at
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  Speaker 2: the time. But to make people feel like we were
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  Speaker 2: addressing it, attacking it, we created an entire new government
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  Speaker 2: body that's got fifty thousand plus new federal employees. When
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  Speaker 2: George Bush did that as president, I thought, I understand,
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  Speaker 2: we need to act like we're doing something, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think this is it. And I still agree that
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't the step to take.
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  Speaker 1: And then brother, all right, let's move over to the
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  Speaker 1: intoxicated passenger. I love these types of stories. Jay makes
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  Speaker 1: up the stack of stupid, most notably on Friday since
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  Speaker 1: it involves naked guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. In fact, the passengers on board called
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  Speaker 2: this a thrilling situation, so I guess it was fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch. But it was during an Air Asia flight
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  Speaker 2: Vietnam to Thailand. You've got a guy on board that
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  Speaker 2: starts to get agitated, and he starts walking up down
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  Speaker 2: the aisle saying he wants off the airplane. Yeah, no problem,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not like you can pull over to the
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  Speaker 2: curb and let him step out. But he gets into
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  Speaker 2: this fit and he starts tearing off his clothes all
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  Speaker 2: the way down to his underwear, and they finally got
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  Speaker 2: the guy subdued enough where he would sit. The plane lands,
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  Speaker 2: he jumps up and runs out the front door, and
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  Speaker 2: instead of going down the jet bridge into the airport,
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  Speaker 2: he busts through the door and goes down the steps
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  Speaker 2: to the ramp. Now he's thinking nobody's watching him and
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  Speaker 2: nobody can see him, so he jumps under a truck,
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  Speaker 2: a fuel truck, like nobody's going to see him, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure his legs were hanging out too, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not like nobody's not going to see him. The police
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  Speaker 2: were quickly there, obviously and got him arrested. Alcohol was
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  Speaker 2: certainly involved, I think in excess here. But he's arrested
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see where it goes from there. But the
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  Speaker 2: passengers on board, did they once feel threatened? No. The
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  Speaker 2: word they kept using was it was thrilling. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess he was on board entertainment. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the circus sideshow of life. Jay Rightft'll pause,
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  Speaker 1: will bring jayback.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, So like the woman in Fort Lauderdale
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  Speaker 2: years ago was walking through the airport solely taking off
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  Speaker 2: her close every fifteen twenty steps, A lot of men
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  Speaker 2: consider that thrilling as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe even some women. Don't go away. We have
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  Speaker 1: a couple more topics go and of course get a
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  Speaker 1: hub delay as we always do at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the segment with Jay Ratliffe. One more stick around fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KRC Men Trump Hey, forty eight Happy Friday Eve
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on the fifty five KERC Morning show Tech Friday
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Hatter and Congressman Warren Davidson returns tomorrow, icently
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  Speaker 1: called Congressman Taylor, Congressman Davidson earlier he didn't mind that
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  Speaker 1: that was actually a compliment. But that's tomorrow and today
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  Speaker 1: we are talking as we always close out the show
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  Speaker 1: three segments with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Rattlifte the new
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  Speaker 1: mandate not two hours of cockpit recording, but twenty five hours,
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  Speaker 1: which sounds we're talking about cockpit flight recording, Jay, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One of the two block boxes is the cockpit voice recorder,
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  Speaker 2: the CBR, and it is it's on a loop of
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  Speaker 2: two hours, and the National Transportation Safety Board for a
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  Speaker 2: number of years has told the FAA, look, we need
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  Speaker 2: more than two hours when we're doing an investigation because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we need more because of what's going on during
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  Speaker 2: the flight, and having a short two hour loop is
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  Speaker 2: just not enough, and they wanted something twenty five hours
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  Speaker 2: or so. So it finally got to the point after
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  Speaker 2: I think the NTSB has been asking for this since
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, and it was last Friday that the Fighter
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  Speaker 2: Aviation Administration said, Okay, we are going to now finalize
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  Speaker 2: our rule to require cockpit voice recorders to retain twenty
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  Speaker 2: five hours of data for all passing your planes. I
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  Speaker 2: believe beginning next year in twenty twenty seven, and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to replace that with that two hour loop. This
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  Speaker 2: is already being done in Europe where airlines or airplanes
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  Speaker 2: are designed to collect that twenty five hours of the
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  Speaker 2: voice recordings. They've been doing that for three or four years,
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  Speaker 2: maybe five at this point in time. So I'm really
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  Speaker 2: that the FA's taking this needed step because all it's
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  Speaker 2: going to do is make it easier for them to
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  Speaker 2: do their job. And again, they're the all star team.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime we've got an accident or near accident, that's the
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  Speaker 2: team that's dispatched to investigate it. They learn a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and then they turn those findings over to the FAA,
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  Speaker 2: who can, if they so choose, implement some of the
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  Speaker 2: changes that have been recommended after the investigations concluded.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can only imagine the two hour requirement was
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  Speaker 1: back in the days when maybe data storage was really
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  Speaker 1: expensive or something. But in these modern times, I mean
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  Speaker 1: data storage.
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  Speaker 2: Is also cheap. You look at how aviation was thirty
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  Speaker 2: forty fifty years ago. To our loops were fine because
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  Speaker 2: what ended up taking place is most of the time
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  Speaker 2: the flights were short segments where most of the flights
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  Speaker 2: were at under two hours because you know, before the
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  Speaker 2: days of the hub and spoke distribution, you'd have a
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  Speaker 2: flight from Cincinnati to the West coast. It might make
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  Speaker 2: three stops or four stops. It was still a wreck flight.
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  Speaker 2: It was not NonStop to the ultimate destination, but it
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  Speaker 2: would make several stops in between. So you know, two
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  Speaker 2: hours was something that was okay. Pilots haven't been incredibly
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  Speaker 2: excited about that because they feel like the airlines could
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  Speaker 2: use that if they wanted to try to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of somebody that's making a lot of money under some
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  Speaker 2: little technicality of some kind. So there's concern on their part.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the FAA is moving forward with this and
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  Speaker 2: I'm very pleased to see.
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  Speaker 1: It, and the FAA is on the job looking into
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  Speaker 1: a close call, this one at the San Antonio Airport.
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  Speaker 1: What's the story behind this one?
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  Speaker 2: Jay, We had a southwest flight that was cleared for
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  Speaker 2: takeoff and it started rolling down the runway increasing speed.
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  Speaker 2: But then we had a small, smaller aircraft General Aviation
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  Speaker 2: at the other end of the runway that took a
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  Speaker 2: wrong turn onto that active runway and was actually turned
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  Speaker 2: and taxing somewhat slowly towards the Southwest plane, so we've
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  Speaker 2: got two planes pointed at each other. An air traffic
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  Speaker 2: controllers spotted this smaller airplane and immediately ordered Southwest to
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  Speaker 2: cancel their takeoff, and I mean the voice on the
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  Speaker 2: air traffic control tape. He was definitely trying to get
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  Speaker 2: Southwest's attention to try to stop their takeoff. They did.
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  Speaker 2: The two aircraft didn't come any closer than I think
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  Speaker 2: about two thousand feet, but still, when you've got one
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  Speaker 2: accelerating to more than one hundred and fifty miles an hour,
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  Speaker 2: that distance can be close rapidly. So the FAA will
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  Speaker 2: be having a conversation I am sure, with the pilot
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  Speaker 2: of that smaller aircraft. But this is just another one
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  Speaker 2: of these incidents, and they happen not frequently, well they do,
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  Speaker 2: but the air traffic controllers do such a good job
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  Speaker 2: of making sure that if there's any ground equipment or
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  Speaker 2: any aircraft where it shouldn't be, they'll tell airplanes to
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  Speaker 2: go around to stop their taxi or takeoff. And even
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  Speaker 2: though they're understaffed, they do an incredible, incredible job, and
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons I'm still very very pleased
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: that President Trump is made it early in his administration
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  Speaker 2: a priority to fix that, to get the thousands and
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: thousands of air traffic controllers that we need hired or
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: trained quickly, so that in the next four or five years,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: because that's how long it takes to train everybody, get
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: them back on the job. So these men and women
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: don't have to work six seven hour or day work weeks.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: They can actually have a day offer, oh my gosh, gas,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: a weekend off. Yeah, and not be as exhausted as
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: these people are right now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: No question about it. And that's a stressful job, as I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: think you certainly know that, all right. And before we
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: get the hubbed layers, we have well idiots doing idiot
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: things because they're idiots, apparently, Jay, another laser incident.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Charlotte American Airlines thirty one to fourteen final approach,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: when someone on the ground pointed one of these powerful
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: handheld lasers at the plane. And you know, I've talked
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: about it before. These lasers can actually cause temporary blindness
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  Speaker 2: to a flight crew because it hits the cockpit ceiling
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  Speaker 2: and it illuminates it to such an extent that they
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: lose their site. In fact, we've had some pilots that
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: had to retire because they've lost vision a in an
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: eye because of these laser attacks. The last year that
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: we've seen a full year of report, I think was
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. The FA had ten nine and ninety
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  Speaker 2: three of these laser strikes that were reported. And look,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: if you get caught with this year talking about the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: thirty two thousand dollars minimum fine can reach up to
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and you can go
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to prison for five years. So it's stupid and sadly
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: we don't catch enough of these people because once the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: aircraft is hit, as they're you know, at that critical
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: moment of flight, take off the landing, for them to
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: have to relay air air traffic controller where the idiot is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: At many times it's you know, half a mile or
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: a mile behind him at that point in time, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: to give an exact location is very difficult. Now, we
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: did have one of these people that experienced karma when
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: he pointed one of these at a helicopter that was
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a sheriff's helicopter and they chased him down ain't got him,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: And I was glad for that, but if you ever
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: see somebody that's acting in this kind of manner, please
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: stop them because they're putting people's lives at risk when
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: they're like, ooh, I wonder if I can you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: paint this airplane that's flying over, because it can actually
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: blind the pilots and cause a crash that could actually
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: kill people.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Anyhow, I don't understand people's actions some days.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Finally, alcohols involved in Alcohol is involved in some of those,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: my friends.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I bet you're right, yes. And finally, we always part
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: company on hub delays. How looking out there for air travel.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Jay, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Orlando. Weather delays with snow in
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the north and a lot of rain through the south,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: that's going to give us some weather related delays approaching
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: an hour. But all in all pretty decent I mean
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: for February weather, so minimal delays and if you picked today,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: pretty good day to fly it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Jay Ryler, Thank God for you. Love having you on
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the show. It's great information and sometimes quite comical. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: look forward to having another talk with you next Thursday.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, my friend, and as always
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: up as to health and loved you in your better
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  Speaker 1: half