Aviation Appreciation Station v2

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by InglewoodFan

Insomniac question for folks who know more about such things - I was awake at 1:15 and it occured to me that the plane flying over was kinda loud. So I popped open FlightRadar and it was a Delta 757 on a YEG-YYC route. Which confuses me a bit, I am assuming it is a cargo flight but do they get flight numbers too? Is it just a Christmas thing that Delta is doing cargo flights within Calgary?

I also thought maybe it was for the Lightning but it was a couple hours after the game and it was coming in from YEG.

Originally Posted by Ryan Coke

Doubt cargo, but maybe the Panthers coming from YEG?

It is the Panthers. Check out the recent flight history from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus to Seattle to Vancouver to Edmonton and finally Calgary.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL8948

[btimbit]

Makes sense, looking up the tail number it's an all business class plane as well

[Acey]

Originally Posted by jayswin

That seems like an unnecessarily dickish post. Bigtime made the post and corrected it as fake and then you come in two days later to basically insinuate "of course it's fake, you idiot, everyone knows that".

Wasn't supposed to be dickish, I could have sworn I've seen it posted before and it was discussed to be fake, but that must have been elsewhere.

I suppose I'm just too bitter from being banned from Bigtime's big Facebook aviation group for no reason.

[timun]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Acey]

There's no fight, I've discussed it already on this forum - my dad died, which I documented in the covid forum on this board for the month as he slowly died in the ICU, I made a post about it in the Facebook group of his favorite picture of mine that I had taken, then I was banned before I was able to see the comments of support when words of support on my photography was pretty much all I had left in my life at that time.

So yeah these people were cruel to me for no reason and this is beyond petty drama.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Acey

Wasn't supposed to be dickish, I could have sworn I've seen it posted before and it was discussed to be fake, but that must have been elsewhere.

I suppose I'm just too bitter from being banned from Bigtime's big Facebook aviation group for no reason.

Originally Posted by Acey

There's no fight, I've discussed it already on this forum - my dad died, which I documented in the covid forum on this board for the month as he slowly died in the ICU, I made a post about it in the Facebook group of his favorite picture of mine that I had taken, then I was banned before I was able to see the comments of support when words of support on my photography was pretty much all I had left in my life at that time.

So yeah these people were cruel to me for no reason and this is beyond petty drama.

I'm not going to go down to that level and post messenger chat logs from back then between you and me, but you know very well that it's not my group, and that I wasn't the mod that removed that post and banned you (not even sure why you were banned back then). Looks like a lot of it occurred while I was away from the internet at the time, and I reached out to other mods/founder to help you out after you messaged me.

But go with whatever revisionist history suits you.

Edit: And for everyone watching this drama llama unfold, Acey was back in the group as of May 6, 2021.

[nik-]

You aviation nerds are a passionate bunch

[Bigtime]

I hear the train nerds are even worse...

[Acey]

Originally Posted by nik-

You aviation nerds are a passionate bunch

The original situation really had nothing to do with aviation and was centered around the death of my father, if I failed to make that clear. Forget it all, my bad for the initial remark and like I said I could have sworn it had been debunked long ago.

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I hear the train nerds are even worse...

OMG soooo much worse!!

beyond belief...

the horror... the horror...

cho-cho...

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I hear the train nerds are even worse...

You think?

AvGeeks:



Train Nerds:

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I hear the train nerds are even worse...

Which train nerd will you get?:

I noticed you called it a BBM40-9 locomotive when it's actually a BBW40-9 locomotive. If you've got the time I can show you how these two fascinating machines differ, and how we progressed from the Dash-8s. I know what you're thinking, the Dash-9s are probably just an updated version of the Dash 8s, right? Well, to answer that we have to go all the way back to a guy by the name of James Watt...

or

Oh, you mixed up a BBM40-9 with a BBW40-9?! I bet you don't think it's a big deal because they're pretty much the same. Do you think a N700S Series Shinkansen is pretty much the same as Thomas the Tank Engine? How about you spend the next four hours listening me to explain in detail how much of a ####ing idiot you are you irredeemable piece of human trash! How can you even live with yourself?!

[Bigtime]

Wait, so the N700S Series Shinkansen isn't the same as Thomas and Friends?

And what is this Dash 8 nonsense? The Dash 8 is an airplane, don't steal our good stuff for your ground based modes of transportation.

[Bigtime]

Kneecap warning:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1737134484892320072

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Kneecap warning:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1737134484892320072

So the Swoop planes are getting an extra row? I didn't think that was possible as I thought they already added an extra three rows in those aircraft compared to the WestJet planes.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

So the Swoop planes are getting an extra row? I didn't think that was possible as I thought they already added an extra three rows in those aircraft compared to the WestJet planes.

No, ALL the WestJet 737's are getting that extra Swoop row. Oh and Swoop somehow gets another extra row.

Ouch.

I love what WestJet has done for our international destinations, but stuff like this makes me wish AC was keeping up a larger presence here.

[Fuzz]

No, from what I've heard they will have their business class up front, regular in the middle, then tighter seating at the back. Basically a 3rd class that they can price closer to Swoop rates.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

Which train nerd will you get?:

I noticed you called it a BBM40-9 locomotive when it's actually a BBW40-9 locomotive. If you've got the time I can show you how these two fascinating machines differ, and how we progressed from the Dash-8s. I know what you're thinking, the Dash-9s are probably just an updated version of the Dash 8s, right? Well, to answer that we have to go all the way back to a guy by the name of James Watt...

or

Oh, you mixed up a BBM40-9 with a BBW40-9?! I bet you don't think it's a big deal because they're pretty much the same. Do you think a N700S Series Shinkansen is pretty much the same as Thomas the Tank Engine? How about you spend the next four hours listening me to explain in detail how much of a ####ing idiot you are you irredeemable piece of human trash! How can you even live with yourself?!

I’ve chatted with a bunch of the former on the Virtual Railfan cams. They usually keep the latter in check. They’re mostly retired dudes who tinker with old cars and stuff. Good people with an intense passion that I respect.

It’s usually younger guys trying to prove something who challenge others in the hobby. They suck.

[DownInFlames]

“Welcome aboard WestJet flight 2276. We are about to take off so please have your lapmate buckle your seatbelt. Thank you for flying WestJet.”

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

And what is this Dash 8 nonsense? The Dash 8 is an airplane, don't steal our good stuff for your ground based modes of transportation.

Funny enough, the sky Dash 8 and the ground Dash 8 came out in the same year. One is better in the air, the other on land, so any competition will come down to which one performs better in the water.