Thank You, Niners

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

-Airplane!

JoshRoss said:

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

 

-Airplane!

It's funny that you ask that Josh. In fact, I had moved to Kalamazoo, in 2001 to learn how to fly. That didn't go so well, with September 11th and the subsequent events. After that, aviation didn't have the same appeal to me. To end this post with a positive note, I met my wife out there.

-Josh

Good evening, this is your captain speaking.

As you may have noticed, we are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties with all four of our engines.

I just wanted to assure everyone on board that we have escalated this issue to priority-1 with our experts, and hope to have them all restarted shortly.

In the meantime, sit back and relax, and I thank you for choosing to fly with us.

**CLICK**

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS IN TRAINING ? WHAT THE F* DO WE PAY YOU IDIOTS FOR ?? YOU’RE GOING TO KILL US ALL... OH, F*, the intercom is still on...”

**CLICK**

In my limited research of avionics, one of the things that I came across, that impressed the hell out of me, was a pilots ability to strictly adhere to the procedure of following a check list. Just imagine if programmers could come to an agreement as to what should be on a check list, for writing applications.

JoshRoss said:

In my limited research of avionics, one of the things that I came across, that impressed the hell out of me, was a pilots ability to strictly adhere to the procedure of following a check list. Just imagine if programmers could come to an agreement as to what should be on a check list, for writing applications.

I don't fly, but I've found that strictly adhering to a checklist is useful in a variety of areas. If everybody knows that they must follow the checklist or risk being killed or injured (even if they aren't doing something dangerous, that's just the incentive to follow the checklist ) then you never forget any step. You aren't tempted to go too fast and nothing gets missed. In the end everything is much smoother.

kettch said:

JoshRoss said:

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I don't fly, but I've found that strictly adhering to a checklist is useful in a variety of areas. If everybody knows that they must follow the checklist or risk being killed or injured (even if they aren't doing something dangerous, that's just the incentive to follow the checklist ) then you never forget any step. You aren't tempted to go too fast and nothing gets missed. In the end everything is much smoother.

Like the checklist idea but am seat of the pants flyer myself.

Ian2 said:

kettch said:

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Like the checklist idea but am seat of the pants flyer myself.

My dad is a captain on a large airplane thingie,..

Scariest moment in my life was the landing I witnessed from the thrid chair in the cockpit,..

Duncanma said:

JoshRoss said:

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The idea of following a checklist as a key to improved results or performance has been studied extensively and written about by this one guy... I read an interview with him once and I know he has a few books out on the subject.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742

If Programmers were pilots they would make the checklist up after they landed  (way too busy before & during the flight dude) .

Wait, .. my boss is reading this?

I would like to thank you and the 9 team, as well as the other niners for keeping this aeroplane headed in tropical directions. That I am a better developer since watching the plethora of development material et al is unquestionable. Thanks also to the people that (very speedily I might add) correct, help or fix issues for me and others.

elmer said:

Good evening, this is your captain speaking.

 

As you may have noticed, we are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties with all four of our engines.

 

I just wanted to assure everyone on board that we have escalated this issue to priority-1 with our experts, and hope to have them all restarted shortly.

 

In the meantime, sit back and relax, and I thank you for choosing to fly with us.

  

**CLICK**

 

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS IN TRAINING ? WHAT THE F* DO WE PAY YOU IDIOTS FOR ?? YOU’RE GOING TO KILL US ALL... OH, F*, the intercom is still on...”

 

**CLICK**

Reminded me of this real life incident:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 

elmer said:

Good evening, this is your captain speaking.

 

As you may have noticed, we are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties with all four of our engines.

 

I just wanted to assure everyone on board that we have escalated this issue to priority-1 with our experts, and hope to have them all restarted shortly.

 

In the meantime, sit back and relax, and I thank you for choosing to fly with us.

  

**CLICK**

 

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS IN TRAINING ? WHAT THE F* DO WE PAY YOU IDIOTS FOR ?? YOU’RE GOING TO KILL US ALL... OH, F*, the intercom is still on...”

 

**CLICK**

As you may have noticed, we are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties with all four of our engines.

You were close. The below is an actual quote from the Captain of the famous British Airways Flight 9 that lost all four engines over Jakarta:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress."

EDIT: In case you were wondering, they landed safely. The incident was caused because they unwittingly flew into a volcanic ash cloud (something which they didn't realize until after they had landed). The volcanic ash melted in the engines and attached to various surfaces causing the engines to surge and flame out. After descending out of the cloud, cooling of the engines caused the molten slag to break off the interior of the engines and the crew was able to restart the engines.

8 hours ago, Ian2 wrote

Duncanma said:

JoshRoss said:

*snip*

The idea of following a checklist as a key to improved results or performance has been studied extensively and written about by this one guy... I read an interview with him once and I know he has a few books out on the subject.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742

If Programmers were pilots they would make the checklist up after they landed  (way too busy before & during the flight dude) .

 

 

Wait, .. my boss is reading this?

What about pushing code to the production environment mid flight?

14 minutes ago, kettch wrote

8 hours ago, Ian2 wrote

Duncanma said:

JoshRoss said:

*snip*

The idea of following a checklist as a key to improved results or performance has been studied extensively and written about by this one guy... I read an interview with him once and I know he has a few books out on the subject.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742

If Programmers were pilots they would make the checklist up after they landed  (way too busy before & during the flight dude) .

 

 

Wait, .. my boss is reading this?

What about pushing code to the production environment mid flight?

Let's just say that it will take the term "crash" to whole new, deep levels.