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Pilot rules (pawb.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

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:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

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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