Pilot rules

SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 482 points –
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Thank you! I actually hid the post after I made it at first because I realized it was hard to read. But I saw it had gotten an upvote in the few seconds it was up so I restored it.

The username in the second one changes from SKW4238 to SKY4238, so (at least) that one is fake.

That's the flight management computer, it does waypoint navigation/autopilot. As far as I know it doesn't do chat to other planes. So all fake

See reply, I am wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS

Apparently it is a thing, but I don't know how long the messages can be or what they "usually" look like, nor do I trust these screenshots.

The twitter user is an actual commercial pilot, and ACARS messages do look like that. Not sure what's up with SKW2438/SKY2438 but otherwise it seems legit. I think faking it would be harder than actually doing this.

Edit: Here's a picture of a much longer message in a more professional, non furry rp context:

Considering pilots shitpost on guard to the extent that actual emergencies threatening lives are literally not able to be heard… I don’t doubt this lol

Turn off bleed air and vent the cabin. The suction cup should release if the pressure is low enough.

Pretty sure ACARS doesn't include [X is typing] messages

That is a good point.

Except that that might explain the slightly different alias on that line. Maybe it's a message just like the rest, sent for the sake of the meme, and the alias just happened to get typed incorrectly...

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