1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: The fifty five KCD talk station regular listeners. No, I'm 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: always excited about this time of the week because my 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: good friend and our good friend I heart Media aviation 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: expert Jay ratt If, who's like on every single station 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: in the iHeartMedia Company, like makes like seven hundred. He's 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: a busy man throughout the week, and he gets some 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: time here in the morning show. I hold him over 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: for an entire half hour because of love his stories 9 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: we talk about, and I find it very entertaining. Welcome back, 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: my friend, Jay Ratliff. It's good having you on as always. 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: Oh, I protect our time brother. Let me tell you 12 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: because Newsmax wanted me eight thirty to eight forty five, 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: I said no, so we did eight fifteen, eight thirty. 14 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: When Fox wants me from eight thirty till nine on 15 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: a Thursday, I'm like, no. They don't even ask anymore 16 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 2: because they know it's not going to happen. 17 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: You're the best. 18 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: No, I look forward to being here. We get we've 19 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: got a great audience, a lot of well educated men 20 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: and women, and I love that. I get that through 21 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: the emails and changes. And you're great at educating people 22 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: on things that you know. A lot of times hoster 23 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 2: are are bad about talking down to their audience, and 24 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: I kind of catch that. I just grimace, because you 25 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: never want to underestimate the people that you're blessed enough 26 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: to be their lives, and you always talk up. And 27 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: I love that because you know, that's the respect that 28 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: you have for the people that allow us to be 29 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 2: a part of their lives. And it's not common, which 30 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: is what makes this much time or this time of 31 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 2: day for me so enjoyable. 32 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that means the world that you say that. 33 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: My wife often accuses me of giving people too much 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: credit for intellect. My default mode is that everyone out 35 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: there is at least as smart as me, and in 36 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: many cases, and it's true on a lot of topics, 37 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: people out my listening answer smarter than me. 38 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 2: Brian. If you and I walk into a room, I'm 39 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 2: not the smartest guy in the room. So I'm just 40 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: telling you, if it's just you and I there, I'm 41 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 2: not winning that one. 42 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: Well, I'm still going to defall to me just assuming 43 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: that I don't know anything and I am searching the 44 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: world for answers to the questions. 45 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: That I have. So you are. 46 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: Let us talk about tailwind does it really mean a 47 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: lot of you get tail When I see you have 48 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: an article here about Jet Blue and got a strong tailwind, 49 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: apparently to the passengers benefit. What's this? Oh? 50 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a Jet Blue flight five twenty four 51 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: Los Angeles to JFK. They're zipping across and they arrived 52 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: in JFK early, thanks in part to a two hundred 53 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: mile an hour tailwind. I pushed that aircraft more than 54 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty five miles of mark. It was 55 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 2: booking big time because when you looked at this, it was, yeah, 56 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty five miles an hour when it's 57 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 2: typically Brian that's what five hundred and fifty miles an 58 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 2: hour is what we're looking at as far as the 59 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: average time. So there's really no danger to the aircraft 60 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 2: those excessive speeds because the pressure on the aircraft itself 61 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 2: remains pretty consistent. We do have a slight increased risk 62 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: of some turbulence, but beyond that it's nothing. The biggest 63 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: concern is if there's an available gate for the plane 64 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: to land, you know, once it arrives to get there, 65 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: because look, nothing can mess up the works more than 66 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: a flight before it arrives a way beforehand. But Brian, 67 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: you know, I'm reading all these reports and just enjoying 68 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: these these these articles I'm reading across the country, and 69 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: of course I come across the Do you know why 70 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: there was a two hundred mile an hour tail wind? 71 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: Global warming? It was climate change, Brian, That's why we 72 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: had this happen. And I thought, you know, look, you know, 73 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: I'm in my early sixties. I remember goal global cooling 74 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: in the seventies. We talked about acid rain in the eighties, 75 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: and how the population boom was going to kill twenty 76 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: five percent of the planet in the eighties and nineties. 77 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: And I just don't understand how many times this stuff 78 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: has to happen. But poor for poor people start questioning 79 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: like like, wait a minute, can I really take what 80 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: I'm being told at face value? But why mess up 81 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: a good aviation story with climate change? 82 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: I know they love doing that, But wait a second. 83 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: The speed of sound is right about seven hundred and 84 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: sixty one miles an hour. Does this mean that that 85 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: regular commercial airliner could have potentially broken the sound barrier? 86 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: No? No, because in essence, their ground speed remained the same, 87 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: So we didn't have any worries about them breaking the 88 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 2: sound barrier because as far as they were concerned, they 89 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: were still going at that same rate of speed. So 90 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: it can think of it as kind of a pocket 91 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: that's moving with them, and within that pocket, they're still 92 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: maintaining that, you know, five hundred and fifty miles an hour. 93 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: So yeah, that would have been a little bit of 94 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: an issue if we had to be worrying about that, 95 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 2: but thankfully we do not. But there's a lot of 96 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 2: times you have flights come in and brand that flight 97 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 2: arrived thirty nine minutes early. It would have been much 98 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 2: much sooner, but when they got there, they had to 99 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: circle for a while before they were allowed to finally 100 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 2: land at JFK, So they probably would have been an 101 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: hour and five hour and ten minutes early had they 102 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: been able to land immediately when they got there. So 103 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: passengers were, you know, delighted in that, because anytime you 104 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: can catch that kind of a tail wind, yeah, it's 105 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: gonna help that connection that you have a JFK to 106 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 2: be a whole lot easier. 107 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: All right, coming up, this is insane because I was 108 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: a parent of a toddler. I absolutely would not allow 109 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: my toddler to sit anywhere but next to me on 110 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: a plane. That may not be the case if you're 111 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: working with Southwest. I heard mediaviation expert j rat Let's 112 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: go explain that. A whole lot more coming up. Don't 113 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: go away fifty five KRC the talk station. 114 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,119 Speaker 2: They are a scene the talk station. 115 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a cockpit before? 116 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 2: Jay? 117 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: Has I hurt? Media aviation expert J Rattlift Jay? This 118 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 1: one troubles me. 119 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: Now. 120 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: Toddler's are bad enough in it of themselves, but if 121 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: they're not going to be sitting next to a parent 122 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: on an airline, you know, amid stories about crazy people, 123 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: I just saw another one. They had to reroute a 124 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: flight because some guy had a mental health breakdown and 125 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: started wailing on passengers. If that wasn't bad enough, the 126 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: idea that a toddler would you know, I could even 127 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: comfortably enjoy a flight being away from mom and dad. 128 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: I and the legal challenges to make along with this, 129 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: I mean, what happens if you have your toddlers sitting 130 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: next to somebody turns out to be a pervert, you know? 131 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, what's this? It's a story about 132 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: mom and dad come to the airport and they have 133 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 2: traveling excuse me, they're traveling with two toddlers, and they 134 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 2: elected on Southwest, which you now have assigned seats. They 135 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 2: elected not to pay the fee to have all the 136 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: seat assignments in advance. So what they opted to do 137 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 2: in order to save money or because they did not 138 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: know better to get to the airport and have Southwest 139 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 2: to sign the seats. Now, the problem is when you 140 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: get there and the flight is ninety percent full, and 141 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 2: the available seats would be there's two here, one there, 142 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 2: one there, those kinds of things, there's no force eats together. 143 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: So what happens is when they get to the gate, 144 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 2: the system, the computer for Southwest, assigns those seats to 145 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: the four people the best they can. So what happened 146 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: was the couple gets on, they demand people to move, 147 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: and you had a group of people that said absolutely, 148 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: we want you sitting with your kids. And then you 149 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: had another segment of the of the traveling population on 150 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 2: the airplane say wait a minute, time out here. You 151 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 2: could have paid the money to have all your seat 152 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: assignments done before you got here, you chose not to, 153 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: and now you're asking us to move out of our 154 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: window seats so you consider them to be next to 155 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: your child and I'm not doing it. So uh, there's 156 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: people that are against the new Southwest policy. So they're 157 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: looking at this and trying to drum this story up 158 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 2: and make it make it much bigger than it is, 159 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: because they're saying, well, look what happens when Southwest tries 160 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 2: to assign seats. They don't know what they're doing, blah 161 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 2: blah blah. But either they did not know the parents 162 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 2: or they did know and figured, eh, they'll work it 163 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: out when they get there, because there's no way they're 164 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: going to allow me to not sit with my toddler. 165 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: And sometimes when you presume upon the airline's goodness or 166 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: people that are you're traveling with you is goodness, sometimes 167 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 2: it's not going to work out for you. So uh, 168 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: that's what happened here. And they could have all been 169 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 2: avoided had they simply done what you should have done 170 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: and grabbed the seat assignments, paid that extra money so 171 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 2: that you know you're all seated next to each other. 172 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: Well, and that's a layer that I wasn't familiar with 173 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: the story. So there is some blame to pass along 174 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: to the parents for not doing exactly that I mean. 175 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 2: As a society, Brian. You know that people don't read 176 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: past the headline, so when. 177 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: They see that, that's. 178 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,119 Speaker 2: The gist of the story. But at least that wasn't 179 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: the blame on climate change. So I'm not a workup 180 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: over that. As the one we talked about before. 181 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: They just forgot they were gonna put it in there. 182 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: But there's an editorial that Barn Prince siye. 183 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 2: They just didn't have enough room to squeeze that one in. 184 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: Well, what kind of money we talked about in a 185 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: Southwest new policy? How much is extra is it to 186 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: get the seat assignments up front? 187 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 2: Brian? I don't have that memorized, so I can't guess 188 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 2: at that, but I know it's a nominal fee in base. 189 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 2: It's in line with what other carriers are charging. And 190 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 2: you know, it's like the basic economy seats that you 191 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: would get from Delta United American, where you're paying the 192 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: lowest possible fare. And part of that deal is when 193 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 2: you get there you may or may not get freaking 194 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 2: flyer miles. And when you get there, you only have 195 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 2: a carry on bag that can only go underneath the 196 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 2: seat in front of You can't take up the space 197 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 2: in the overhead and your seat's going to be signed 198 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 2: at the gate at the last minute, which means you're 199 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 2: probably gonna have your butt stuck in the middle seat. 200 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 2: That's just part of the deal of paying for basic transportation, 201 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 2: you know that, going in and for a lot of 202 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 2: people saying, look to our flight to wherever I'm going, 203 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: I don't care. I'm gonna save money, take my small bag, 204 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 2: I'll sit in the middle seat and Grant and Barrett 205 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 2: get there and save myself quite a bit of money 206 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: in the process. 207 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: Understood. All right, Let's move over to the new seventy 208 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: seven Dreamliner, apparently now being built to detect and also 209 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: respond to turbulence free. 210 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 2: Drive into that day real quick. 211 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: I just have to ask you, because I've been on 212 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: flights before and they said, well, we may be approaching 213 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: some turbulence up here in the New York time, so 214 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: please sit in your seat and bucket your seatbots. Do 215 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: they know that turbulence is coming based upon the weather? 216 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: Is it because prior air air airplanes have flown through 217 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: and they've issued a lit warning about the turbulence. How 218 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: do I know that there's turbulence coming before you hit 219 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: it the. 220 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 2: Latter point, it's nothing we can see on radar. It's 221 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 2: nothing that we really know that we're there unless we're 222 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: on top of it. And what ends up taking place 223 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 2: is you have turbulence that if you're flying, you might 224 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: have light, moderate, severe turbulence, and when you're going through that, 225 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 2: you'll ask air traffic control, can we go to a 226 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 2: different altitude, either climb or descend so that we can 227 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 2: try to find some smoother air. Once that's reported, every 228 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 2: aircraft behind them at that same altitude requested to go 229 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: to different altitudes as well to try to provide the 230 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 2: smoothest possible flight, because in itself, turbulence isn't necessarily dangerous, 231 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 2: especially when you're at altitude. It's like kind of hitting 232 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 2: a speed mump, a little pothole or something, but it 233 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 2: just kind of rattles you, unless, of course, you know 234 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 2: your seat belt on and you kiss the ceiling. You 235 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: got to be careful there. But a Dreamliner, the seven 236 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: eighty seven's have a system that actually it's called a 237 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 2: vertical gust suppression system. It monitors air data and some 238 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 2: of the acceleration cues in when it detects pressure variants. 239 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 2: It actually has an automatic command system that controls the 240 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 2: elevators and the flaps to try to move the aircraft 241 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: in such a way that it dampens the turbulence, kind 242 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 2: of trims the vertical acceleration, and the goal is to 243 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 2: reduce that vertical motion by sixty to seventy percent. Now 244 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: Boeing is very quick to say, look, we can't eliminate 245 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 2: turbulence entirely, that's not going to happen. But the Dreamliner 246 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 2: is built in such a way that everything works properly 247 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 2: that it can actually give you a smoother ride. And 248 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 2: that's one of the benefits of this. And I tell 249 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 2: you Boeing is off to a great start. In January, 250 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 2: they outsold and out delivered more aircraft than Airbus Buyer 251 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 2: a lot. So hopefully they're going to keep that moving. 252 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 2: And when they've got this kind of technology, and again 253 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 2: with new ge engines and things of this nature, which 254 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: United in other airlines are gobbling up as much as 255 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: they can getting a very powerful, fuel efficient, more quiet 256 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: aircraft engine. So a lot of this technology is really 257 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 2: moving us in the direction of again fewer emissions, which 258 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 2: is always good, and quieter aircraft, which is also good. 259 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 2: And you just love to see the technology make aviation better. 260 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: You just wish some of those improvements would happen inside 261 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 2: the cabin on customer service. But I guess we can 262 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 2: give up on that because I don't see that happening 263 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 2: anytime soon. 264 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: Noah, I don't hold your breath for that. Jay, We 265 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: enjoy hanging you around please A forty six That they 266 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: ever ever the FAA had a time where they were 267 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: not hiring based on merit scares the living crap out 268 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: of me. Apparently they've righted the ship on that. More 269 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: with Jay Rattliff plus hub delays is a good day 270 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: to fly. I don't know what the front rolling in. 271 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Jay on that as well. Stick 272 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: around me right back fifty five K see the talk 273 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: station eight on a Friday eve One more segment here 274 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratlift. Oh my word, FAA 275 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: orders airlines to base hiring on merit. What I mean 276 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: you're talking about our lives here, Jay Ratliffe. If merrit 277 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: did not wasn't involved in the first and foremost thing 278 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: in terms of hiring, I'm worried. 279 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 2: Well, I tell you, if it's a Walmart Greeter. I'm 280 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable with that. 281 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 1: Absolutely. 282 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 2: When you're talking about pilots, and this kind of SEMs 283 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 2: back to a few years ago. Airlines United specifically was 284 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 2: leading the charge on this. United identified a goal by 285 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 2: the end of the decade, by twenty thirty, they were 286 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: going to hire five thousand new pilots. They needed it 287 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 2: because the growth of aviation, the attrition. They were saying 288 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 2: within their ranks, they knew they needed five thousand new pilots, 289 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: and they said, our goal is fifty percent of those 290 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: new hires are going to be women, are individuals of color, 291 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 2: and that's what they were pushing for. Now, when you 292 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 2: recognize it currently in aviation, less than five percent of 293 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 2: the pilots that we have in the country, or women 294 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: less than five percent are people of color, you're talking 295 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 2: about total ten percent. So if United is really dedicated 296 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: as they have been, to this diversification approach, then the 297 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: diversity means that if I've got ten candidates and the 298 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 2: most qualified are someone who happens to be white versus 299 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 2: a woman or someone of color, then to make sure 300 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: I'm fulfilling my quota, there's going to be the tendency 301 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: to go with less qualified applicants. Now United has been 302 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: pushing back on this thing. Look, we're not hiring anybody 303 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 2: who's not qualified, true, But what they are doing is 304 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 2: you might have an individual that might have eight thousand 305 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: flight hours versus somebody that has two thousand flight hours, 306 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: and to fulfill the diversity goal you have, let's hire 307 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 2: the pilot with two thousand hours. So if the Federal 308 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: Aviation Administration is doing now through obvious pressure from the 309 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: Trump administration, and I totally agree with it, is Look, 310 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: let's just hire the best person qualified, if a black woman, 311 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 2: a person of color, non color, who cares, let's just 312 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: put the best possible person into the flight deck of 313 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 2: an aircraft. And that's where the sanity is starting to 314 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: return here. It's a lot like a few months ago, 315 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: it was ordered that the millions of dollars the FAA 316 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 2: spent removing all the offensive terms like you know, manpower 317 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: and and a lot of these other terms, so you 318 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: can't have notice to airmen because oops, that could be 319 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 2: a you know, we went back to what we did before, 320 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 2: which is what we should have done. But Brian, here, 321 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,359 Speaker 2: they're just trying to make sure that the airlines are 322 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: proceeding without that the anything other than based on merit, 323 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: which is exactly what they should. 324 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: Be doing exactly. And I've been thinking like, well, if 325 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: I have to go into the knife and have a 326 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: surgeon operate on me, I'm not looking for a DEI hire. 327 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: I want whoever is the best qualified. This is life 328 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: and life and death stuff we're talking about here. We 329 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: don't have time for games, So no. 330 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 2: Not when you're thirty thousand and five thousand seed and 331 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: plus I mean, look at the situation with the miracle 332 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 2: on the Hudson. You've had two incredibly qualified pilots and 333 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 2: Sully and Jeff Skiles that worked that situation and they 334 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: called upon their experience and they did an incredible job 335 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: and saved a lot of lives. That's what you want 336 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 2: on the flight deck, not somebody that's there simply because 337 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: there was a box that needed to be checked. And look. 338 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 2: I help out the Legacy program in Chicago. They try 339 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 2: to bring in a lot of women in minorities into 340 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 2: aviation to try to get them excited as kids about 341 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 2: aviation so that they can become pilots at a later age. 342 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 2: I love doing that because there's a need for it, 343 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 2: but you can't push it to the point that you're 344 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: compromising levels of safety. And sadly, that's what's happened in 345 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: the past, and it's just you know, sanity has returned. 346 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: You just hope it's going to remain here for a while. 347 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: Indeed, and I suppose you pulled any man, woman, or 348 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: person on the airplane, regardless of color or gender, they'd 349 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: all agree they want the best qualified person behind the 350 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: stick of the airplane that they're on, right. 351 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean put every prejudice you might have aside. 352 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 2: You want the best qualified person up there. Yeah, you know, 353 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 2: And I don't care what their orientation is or what 354 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 2: this or what I want the most qualified. And I'll 355 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 2: even give them a hug if they get me on 356 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 2: the on the ground safely. I don't care a brother. 357 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: All Right, we got a front coming today. What's looked 358 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: like out there for air travel? Time for the hub delay. 359 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, the winds could give us some issues as the 360 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 2: day progresses, Ryan, But right now, I think the biggest 361 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: concerns are going to be towards the south. We're seeing 362 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 2: Atlanta and Charlotte expecting some delays. Detroit as well, that's 363 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 2: going to be probably the biggest issue today. Now. Obviously 364 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: the West Coast is getting hammered San Francisco in LA. 365 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,239 Speaker 2: But as far as the closer home stuff to around us, 366 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 2: those are the ones that are going to be seeing 367 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 2: the biggest impact. Towards late in the day, some of 368 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 2: those winds and the issues could kind of hit impact 369 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 2: US in the Northeast and Philadelphia, DC, in New York. 370 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be till late in the 371 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: day though. 372 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: Excuse me, Jay Rayler, thank you for your thoughts.