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Speaker 1: On a Thursday, Slash Friday Eve Always loved this time
Speaker 1: a week. It is time for iHeart Mediavash expert Jay
Speaker 1: Rattloff Jay, how you doing?
Speaker 2: My good friends? Always a pleasure to have you on
Speaker 2: the program.
Speaker 4: Good morning to you. I'm doing very well, too many
Speaker 4: things to be thankful for.
Speaker 5: It to be otherwise, you know that.
Speaker 2: Well are you done at the Southern Command right now?
Speaker 5: Oh? We are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the winds the tropical storm warning kicked in and
Speaker 4: about to this morning we were starting to get some
Speaker 4: gusting winds forty to fifty miles an hour with some rain.
Speaker 4: Most of it was just the winds though. And we've
Speaker 4: got four of these great, big oak trees that are
Speaker 4: hundreds of years old the yard and we keep them,
Speaker 4: you know, trimmed out of all the dead stuff. But
Speaker 4: having storm after storm after storm, you wonder just how
Speaker 4: they're going to be able to withstand that. We had
Speaker 4: some damage to the house with one of the trees
Speaker 4: at the last storm, and we're thinking, okay, is how
Speaker 4: the wind's going to be now?
Speaker 5: But we fared okay.
Speaker 4: And even if we didn't, I mean, goodness, looking at
Speaker 4: the path of destruction going through Florida, that's just again
Speaker 4: just terrific. And you know, to see so much, you know, happening,
Speaker 4: it's just makes you count your blessings.
Speaker 1: Amen to that, And I just real quick i'd ask,
Speaker 1: are you in an area that could be described as
Speaker 1: a flood zone, or do you have any risk of
Speaker 1: any flooding happening. I know with the torrential rains you
Speaker 1: might get a little water in your house or something.
Speaker 1: But are you high enough a way that you're not
Speaker 1: going to be dealing with this potential issues?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're hind enough.
Speaker 4: We happen to live on a peninsula, so we've got
Speaker 4: deep water on both sides of the house, but it
Speaker 4: is far enough down that it would have to come
Speaker 4: up quite a bit for that to be the case.
Speaker 4: And we've got a two level house, so would you
Speaker 4: go upstairs if things start coming through the front doors?
Speaker 5: So we would be okay there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we are not technically in a flood zone,
Speaker 4: which means we pay six hundred and eighty dollars a
Speaker 4: year for flood insurance versus the sixty eight hundred a
Speaker 4: year it would be if it was a flood zone.
Speaker 4: So I'm pleased to say we are not.
Speaker 1: Oh and so am I That's good. One thing that
Speaker 1: maybe don't have to worry about. One thing we might
Speaker 1: have to worry about. And I know we've talked before
Speaker 1: about the idea of getting rid of co pilots and
Speaker 1: just having one pilot in the cock And I know
Speaker 1: you you're on record saying that I think that's a
Speaker 1: bad idea. Well, welcome to reality. I think you're right, Jay,
Speaker 1: it sounds like a bad idea when your airline captain
Speaker 1: drops dead in the middle of the flight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a Turkish airline flight. I think they're
Speaker 4: going laed Is symbul and so they're tooling across the
Speaker 4: country and yeah, a medical event takes place, the captain collapses,
Speaker 4: they have medical intervention, which means the flight attendants get involved.
Speaker 4: They've got a defibrillator on board, you've got medical personnel
Speaker 4: that are always on the flight that will come and
Speaker 4: try to assist. The flight made emergency landing in New
Speaker 4: York and by that time the captain was gone. So
Speaker 4: it was just really a sad situation. And yes, both
Speaker 4: Airbus and Boeing are working on prototypes for the airlines
Speaker 4: at their request that would be in essence, a single
Speaker 4: pilot cockpit, stating that the automation that's available today makes
Speaker 4: a second pilot unnecessary. And of course in a situation
Speaker 4: like this, excuse me, yes, you do need it now now,
Speaker 4: Brian Here's the other thing, though, The people that say
Speaker 4: there should be no pilots cocktail will point to this
Speaker 4: as an example of why you should not have anyone
Speaker 4: up there. They'll point to the fact that most accidents
Speaker 4: in your accidents are the result of human air and
Speaker 4: they'll say that you've got so many airlines from a
Speaker 4: logistics standpoint, that have to worry about the number of
Speaker 4: hours the crew members flying inconveniencing passengers when weather causes delays,
Speaker 4: where those hours are exceeded and everything has to stop.
Speaker 4: If everything's fully automated, you have none of those worries,
Speaker 4: and the airplanes can be kept in motion. Passengers wouldn't
Speaker 4: be inconvenience, and they will they will throw it out
Speaker 4: that yes, it would be safer.
Speaker 5: I don't agree.
Speaker 1: I don't okay, let me let me just see any
Speaker 1: one pilot situation. Pilot drops dead, how does the automation
Speaker 1: safely land the plane? I mean, IOW, I know about ISOs,
Speaker 1: but how would that kick camp.
Speaker 4: Someone would be trained on the aircraft to step in. Now,
Speaker 4: they would be a pilot to some extent, but they
Speaker 4: would be trained on how to get everything turned over
Speaker 4: to the automation side of things not what not the
Speaker 4: experienced level you would have if you'd have you know,
Speaker 4: two pilots that had you know, tens of thousands of
Speaker 4: hours or whatever between them on the flight deck. So
Speaker 4: and again, the computers can only respond to what they've
Speaker 4: been programmed for. And I know it's an overused example,
Speaker 4: but the Hudson River landing with the bird strike with
Speaker 4: US Airways, We've never before had a double engine bird
Speaker 4: strike that caused both engines to stop, turning that airplane
Speaker 4: into a glider. Had the computer on board an aircraft
Speaker 4: been faced with something that wasn't programmed for, what's going
Speaker 4: to happen? And look, this is just years after nine
Speaker 4: to eleven and you've got an airplane that's out of
Speaker 4: control with no engines, headed towards downtown New York.
Speaker 5: I mean, please, it's just yeah, it would have been horrific.
Speaker 1: So and then also you talk about, you know, they
Speaker 1: can only do what they've been programmed to do. I
Speaker 1: understand the concept of garbage in garbage out, and that
Speaker 1: not that they would be putting garbage into it, but
Speaker 1: they can't anticipate every scenario. But also, what are the
Speaker 1: concept of hacking or maybe an EMP or something. Once
Speaker 1: the electronics are rendered incapable or corrupt, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: nice to flip the switch and be able to go
Speaker 1: to full manual. I mean, so if you had a
Speaker 1: real license pilot then knows how to land a plane
Speaker 1: without the automation, that someone would be there for that
Speaker 1: total agreement.
Speaker 4: In fact, I want somebody that has a vested interest
Speaker 4: in that plane landing sell I want their butt on
Speaker 4: the line too. So when I understand and I saw
Speaker 4: over the decades of working in that industry, and I
Speaker 4: saw the level of training of these pilots where the
Speaker 4: front landing gear was locked sideways and they're coming into
Speaker 4: land and what do you do, Well, no problem, They
Speaker 4: just landed like the Space Shuttle. They landed with the
Speaker 4: nose up, and they allow it to continue to go
Speaker 4: down the runway, nose up the entire way, and in
Speaker 4: the last few minutes they just drop it down on
Speaker 4: the nose where, yeah, the wheels sideways is going to
Speaker 4: scribble a little bit. Now, that happened with a Jet
Speaker 4: Blue flight out on the West coast, and that's exactly
Speaker 4: how they handled it, exactly the way they've trained. And
Speaker 4: when the captain got off the plane. He was ticked
Speaker 4: because he missed the center line by I think six inches.
Speaker 4: That's how good these people, these men and women are.
Speaker 1: Let's pause on that heavy note and we'll bring Jay back.
Speaker 1: Talk with hurricane conditions, the airport closures. When is commercial
Speaker 1: flight activity going to resume in Earnest? Plus hub delays
Speaker 1: which is a component of that more with Jay Ratliff
Speaker 1: after these brief words, it's beyond.
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Speaker 1: After Jay Ratliff, with just one more segment, we got
Speaker 1: to go a little shorter day because empower are you
Speaker 1: some of our Rob Tunnel is going to join the
Speaker 1: program in the last thing to talk about why we
Speaker 1: don't need a constitutional convention. In the interim, let's get
Speaker 1: back to Jay and talk about hurricane We've got obviously
Speaker 1: back to back hurricanes. But in terms of shutting down airports,
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine Tampa's not open right now. But what's the
Speaker 1: story on this? When are you opening one?
Speaker 2: Will?
Speaker 1: When will they reopen in Earnest? And when will this
Speaker 1: commercial flight activity resume?
Speaker 4: YEAF airports closed Tampa, Saint Pete, Fort Myers, Sarasota, all
Speaker 4: the way across Orlando Daytona Beach. All of those have
Speaker 4: pretty much closed down Tuesday and Wednesday, and Brian, we're
Speaker 4: expecting today that as the storm has moved through, the
Speaker 4: airports will have to go through their necessary inspections. They'll
Speaker 4: be doing runway inspections, they'll be looking at the avionics
Speaker 4: systems around the airport, making sure that it's also safe
Speaker 4: from a facility standpoint for the employees, the passengers.
Speaker 5: The aircraft, the crews, all of that.
Speaker 4: And they've got a checklist of everything they go through
Speaker 4: to make sure things are okay, and then once that's
Speaker 4: been verified, flight activity will start to resume. We might
Speaker 4: start to see some trickles later today, but I think
Speaker 4: that within the next probably twenty four hours, we'll start
Speaker 4: to see these airports come back to life. And I
Speaker 4: think they should be back to full schedule as early
Speaker 4: as Saturday. I've been getting a lot of emails from
Speaker 4: people traveling this weekend or you know, coming up over
Speaker 4: the Monday Columbus Day saying Jay, what do you think
Speaker 4: and given where these aircraft are staged and the plans
Speaker 4: airlines have indicated, I think that we'll be back to
Speaker 4: full schedule as early as Saturday. Now, maybe some things
Speaker 4: will change, but this storm has moved so fast that
Speaker 4: it's going to allow us to recover quickly. Now, obviously,
Speaker 4: if there's any airport damage to the facility itself, any
Speaker 4: runway damage where flooding or anything is corrupted a runway,
Speaker 4: it might limit flight activity. But I suspect that we're
Speaker 4: going to be in pretty good shape in just a
Speaker 4: couple of days and we'll be back to normal operations.
Speaker 1: Well, any of these airports you rattled off, any of
Speaker 1: this made your hubs, Like when you think of Dallas
Speaker 1: or you know, Chicago, you know major hubs. Atlanta is
Speaker 1: another one. But are there are any of them that
Speaker 1: are that big that could have a profound ripple effect?
Speaker 2: Are there?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean Spirit has fluff lights where they've made in essence,
Speaker 4: the Orlando a hub from the from the idea of
Speaker 4: anything big.
Speaker 5: Most of the major.
Speaker 4: Hubs in Florida would be the Miami International at Fort
Speaker 4: as well, but mainly Miami. Orlando would be kind of
Speaker 4: a close second, and then Tampa. But a lot of
Speaker 4: these are just the in and out the direct flights
Speaker 4: as outstations operate. And again, the good news is that
Speaker 4: the people that do this, they are so good at
Speaker 4: getting these airports back up because remember that's that's a
Speaker 4: revenue mission, yes, and the last thing you want to
Speaker 4: do is have a silver revenue tube as we call them,
Speaker 4: an aircraft sitting around not doing anything.
Speaker 5: As well as the.
Speaker 4: Airports, they want to get that bad boy fired up
Speaker 4: as quickly as they can. They just need to make
Speaker 4: sure it's safe before they do it, and then as
Speaker 4: soon as that it's done, it's like, hey, let's get
Speaker 4: the flights.
Speaker 5: In here and go from there.
Speaker 4: Orlando was never closed totally because it was still open
Speaker 4: for emergency operations if the military had to bring in
Speaker 4: any sort of relief flight with medical personnel, cargo, those
Speaker 4: kinds of things. But again, when you look at Debbie,
Speaker 4: how slow it moved and the problems it gave us,
Speaker 4: this storm has been a very fast one and it's
Speaker 4: exactly what we want to have. Not those winds, obviously,
Speaker 4: but we want the storm to move through quickly so
Speaker 4: that we can resume normal flight operations because you've got
Speaker 4: airlines that are trying to bring in cargo, yeah, as
Speaker 4: well as the first responders and people that are anxious
Speaker 4: to get home to check on friends, family and their property.
Speaker 4: So you can't resume that stuff too soon.
Speaker 1: Well, real quick for we get hub Lays and part
Speaker 1: Covey this week. Jay, How about the airplanes themselves? Did
Speaker 1: they fly those out of the area before the hurricane
Speaker 1: was on final approach?
Speaker 2: If he so bold always, I.
Speaker 4: Mean what happens is, long before the winds got to
Speaker 4: the point where they were problematic, airlines canceling flights and
Speaker 4: aircraft that were scheduled to be at all those airports
Speaker 4: that were impacted in Florida, we stage them in other airports.
Speaker 4: We'll get them out of there to nearby airports that
Speaker 4: are out of the range of this storm. Because you
Speaker 4: never want to have an aircraft that's in a high
Speaker 4: wind event where you've got debriflying all over the place,
Speaker 4: that's going to get demed. It becomes a mechanical situation.
Speaker 4: It's out of service, so the mechanics can fix whatever
Speaker 4: damage it is. So you don't take that chance. You
Speaker 4: get these expensive airplanes out of harm's way, and as
Speaker 4: soon as that storm moves through Boom, you get them
Speaker 4: back in their airlines stink when it comes to customer service,
Speaker 4: but are regular flight operations like this. They've got down
Speaker 4: to a t and they do a very good job
Speaker 4: because they get us all accommodated long before we have
Speaker 4: to get to the airport. They let us know our
Speaker 4: flights are impacted. If they are, they give us options.
Speaker 4: If you want to put it off to another week,
Speaker 4: another month, they have waivers that allow us to do
Speaker 4: that without eating a change fee. So the only thing
Speaker 4: that we had was United Airlines real Quick was kind
Speaker 4: of gouging people because the fares out of Tampa to
Speaker 4: Chicago the last day of the airport was open American United.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, American Southwest. We're charging like four six hundred
Speaker 4: dollars like to Chicago United was over two thousands.
Speaker 1: Holy yeah, well, unleash Kamala Harris on him.
Speaker 4: We got to hit okay, but the administration didn't come
Speaker 4: out quickly saying they were going to go after airlines,
Speaker 4: and they quickly shut it down.
Speaker 2: So yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1: Well, Maureen pointed out, we got to worry about I
Speaker 1: guess tropical storm Nadine next on the agenda. Anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that down the road. Jay real quick Hub delays,
Speaker 1: what are we looking at today.
Speaker 5: Sir Florida is it. The rest of the country is
Speaker 5: in great shape.
Speaker 1: Wonderful Jay. I always love talking to you, having you
Speaker 1: in the morning show. Look forward to next Thursday, and
Speaker 1: as always, best to health and love to you and
Speaker 1: your better half, my friend.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, serve with you too.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks brother forty five.
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Speaker 1: a constitutional Convention? Rob Tutt'll be talking about that at
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