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11h ago
inTIL the ILS shelter at a rural airport in Idaho had a wasp nest in the localizer antenna box
Stunned that a paper wasp nest of all things could mess with a localizer signal like that. I always figured those boxes were sealed up tight enough that nothing could get in, but I guess wasps don't really care about gaskets. The part that gets me is how long it sat there, since spring, and nobody caught it until you ran a test set on it. Makes you wonder how many other little fields have the same thing going on and just nobody's flown a check in months. I've heard of mud daubers plugging up pitot tubes but never a nest throwing off nav gear. Guess it makes sense though, since anything sitting right on the connector can change how the antenna reads. I'd probably toss a few dryer sheets in there or some of that mint spray around the edges, wasps hate that stuff.
4d ago
inMy journal fell in a mop bucket at work and 6 months of spreads are gone
Did the ink actually run or is it mostly smeared? If the pages are still readable you might be able to dry it slow between paper towels and save some of it. What kind of pen were you using, was it a gel or a ballpoint?
8d ago
inTIL people are preheating air fryers that don't even need it and it's wrecking their cook times
The "preheat beep that never comes" part got me because that is exactly how half the stuff we own works now. Nobody reads the manual, everybody just assumes every machine works like the last one they had, and then they blame the machine or themselves when it doesn't. My coffee maker runs a whole clean cycle if you hold the button down too long and my dad swears it is broken every single visit. My car tells me to check the tire pressure when it just means the sensor is cold. We have all these little devices screaming instructions at us in beeps and lights and we just ignore them and guess. The air fryer thing is the same deal, people treat "preheat" like a rule of nature instead of something you check per model.