#Copilot in Seattle

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Seattle is at the heart of the tech economy of the United States. Apart from IT, Seattle and the surrounding regions also have many businesses from across the industrial spectrum.

If you want to get an edge in this competitive market, then AI might hold the key. With the help of Microsoft Copilot, you can bring the power of AI to your everyday work. As an innovative Copilot Consultant in Seattle, we help you use the Copilot assistant across the Microsoft ecosystem more efficiently.

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Our sister in law came to Seattle for work and extended her stay through the weekend. Beth had the great idea of booking a 30 minute floatplane sightseeing flight. I had the good luck of sitting in the copilot seat.

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Microsoft fires employee who interrupted CEO's speech to protest AI tech for Israeli military

Business FILE – Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a presentation of the company’s AI assistant, Copilot, and 50th Anniversary celebration at Microsoft headquarters, in Redmond, Wash., April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File) (Jason Redmond, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) SEATTLE – Microsoft has fired an employee who interrupted a speech by…

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Microsoft Build 2025 keynote: Everything announced, in 14 minutes

Watch CEO Satya Nadella unveil all the biggest product moves, including Copilot and Azure updates, developer tools, and more, from Seattle.

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Everything Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, in 14 Minutes

Click to unmute Everything Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, in 14 Minutes May 19, 2025 Tech Watch CEO Satya Nadella unveil all the biggest product moves, including Copilot and Azure updates, developer tools, and more, from Seattle.

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Dataside participa do Microsoft MVP Global Summit em Seatlle

Entre os dias 25 e 28 de março, dois especialistas da Dataside, empresa brasileira especializada em soluções de dados e IA, participaram do exclusivo Microsoft MVP Global Summit em Seattle. O evento anual reúne MVPs e RDs de todo o mundo para contato direto com as equipes de produto da Microsoft. Douglas Romão e Renato Romão, especialistas em Copilot, Inteligência Artificial e aplicações de…

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Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference will return to Seattle this year on May 19-22, and the event will likely have a heavy AI/Copilot focus.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the company’s plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Learn more and register here for our special Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle. A tech icon has reached another turning point. After fueling the rise of Microsoft, enabling the dream of a computer on every desk and in every home, making the leap online, becoming the target of rivals and governments around the world, suffering security breaches, missing out on mobile, and expanding to the cloud, the fate of Windows depends on the tech giant’s ability to reinvent its flagship product one more time. Microsoft is betting Windows on AI, looking to breathe new life into one of the most successful products in tech history. Just as it introduced the masses to the PC and the web, Microsoft now sees in Windows the potential to bring the full promise of AI to the world.  A lot has changed since Windows debuted in 1985 as a “graphical operating environment which runs on the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system.” For one, due in large part to the success of Windows during the past four decades, the company today has vast financial resources and strategic advantages, including its own massive cloud and AI infrastructure. But in other ways, the odds are against Microsoft as it tries to insert Windows into another revolution. The center of gravity in software development has shifted to smartphones, the cloud, and the web. After struggling for decades to get into new areas, from phones to mixed-reality headsets, the core of the Windows business remains desktop and notebook computers. And with the likes of Android, iOS, Chrome, AWS, and Meta serving as giant platforms in their own right, it’s not clear where the breakthrough AI apps will ultimately emerge. Microsoft has been laying the groundwork for the new era of Windows by working with silicon manufacturers and PC makers to augment the CPU and GPU with a powerful new chip — a neural processing unit, or NPU — to run advanced AI programs directly on the machine. But the first steps into the AI era have been shaky. Security and privacy questions delayed Microsoft’s efforts to give Windows a photographic memory with the new “Recall” feature, requiring Microsoft and other PC makers to initially launch their new Copilot+ PCs without it. Yet the sheer footprint of Windows continues to set it apart. By one measure, Microsoft’s global share of the desktop PC market stands around 70% — down from 90% a decade ago but still maintaining a wide lead over MacOS and Linux despite the gradual decline. This lasting presence is the outcome of a 50-year-old decision. Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen chose to produce software for a range of PCs, rather than making hardware of their own. That was the defining strategy of those early years, and it’s still playing out today. Pavan Davaluri, Microsoft vice president for Windows & Devices, discusses the company’s partnership with Qualcomm on Copilot+ PCs on May 20, 2024, in Redmond. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) “Windows is at planet scale. We have over a billion people using the product,” said Pavan Davaluri, Microsoft’s vice president for Windows & Devices, in a recent interview. The “superpower” of Windows, Davaluri said, is still the ecosystem: the software developers who build on the platform, the hardware partners who enable it, and the diversity of devices, applications, and experiences that result. Davaluri said the plan now is to use that diversity — along with AI — to make Windows “a more personalized experience than ever before.” In the early years, when Microsoft was trying to put a PC on every desk and in every home, the company would distribute one version of its software to all its users. AI is the opposite of that. “We go from compiling code one time for millions of people to now really compiling code for each person on the planet,” said Steven “Stevie” Bathiche, a Microsoft technical fellow and the longtime leader of its Applied Sciences Group, which works on future generations of technology. “If you think about the scale of that,” Bathiche said, “it’s kind of crazy.” For this third chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent more than a month revisiting the story of Windows, taking a new look at its history, and getting a sense for what’s coming next. We spoke with current Windows leaders, longtime journalists and analysts, and some of the former Windows chiefs who led the OS through pivotal moments in the past.  We toured the Redmond lab where Microsoft prototypes and tests new Windows devices, including its own Surface laptops and tablets — a line of first-party hardware that represents one of the biggest changes in approach from the early years of Gates and Allen. A Microsoft Surface Studio laptop in an anechoic chamber on the Redmond campus, used by the company for testing device audio systems. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) And as with prior chapters, we looked for new insights in books and other historical records, including Microsoft’s annual reports and our own reporting archives, with help from AI. There were waves of nostalgia. For many people, listening to the history of Windows startup and shutdown sounds is like hearing the soundtrack of our personal and professional lives.  This being Windows, there were also chances to chuckle. The very real headline, “Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer,” didn’t land me a job at The Onion, but seeing that old post again reminded me just how much it resonated with frustrated Windows users at the time. Knowing what Windows would become, some of the history seems quaint in hindsight. The first version of Microsoft Windows, foreground, with the Microsoft CodeView debugger, background, as pictured in the company’s annual report to shareholders in 1986. (Microsoft Photo) In Microsoft’s first annual letter to shareholders, in 1986, Bill Gates and Jon Shirley, the company’s COO and president, listed the release of Windows 1.0 as one of many milestones for Microsoft in the prior year. They noted that more than 500 software developers were planning to build applications for the fledgling operating system. It was just a hint of the giant wave of third-party software to come. Companywide, Gates and Shirley cautioned investors that Microsoft’s 20% profit margin was “probably not sustainable, especially in this period of heavy R&D expenditures.” They were completely wrong. Or at least way too conservative. Fueled by the rapid growth of Windows and Office, and the exponential economics of the software business at the time, Microsoft’s overall profit margins climbed steadily, to more than 40% in the company’s 2000 fiscal year, based on $9.4 billion in profits and nearly $23 billion in revenue. Fast-forward nearly 25 years to today: Microsoft had more than $88 billion in profits in fiscal 2024, with $245 billion in revenue — a substantial 36% profit margin at a very large scale. Fast-forward nearly 25 years to today: Microsoft had more than $88 billion in profits in fiscal 2024, with $245 billion in revenue — a substantial 36% profit margin at a very large scale. A long road to ubiquity Entire books have been written about what happened to Windows in between. The internal code names that were used for different Windows versions — Cairo, Whistler, Longhorn, etc. — still elicit groans of disgust or nods of appreciation from those who lived through those eras. After its introduction in 1985, Windows at first struggled to gain traction. The debut of Windows 3.0 in 1990 provided the first real sign of success. Microsoft’s decision to end its partnership with IBM on OS/2 in the early 1990s gave the company the freedom to go its own way. “Like Star Trek movies, Windows releases alternated between good and bad, odd and even,” writes Steven Sinofsky, recalling that era in his book and website, Hardcore Software, which tells the inside story of his time at Microsoft, including his tenure as Gates’ technical assistant, before running Office, and then Windows. In those terms, Windows 95 was the box-office blockbuster. Tonight Show host Jay Leno joined Gates in Redmond to introduce the new operating system at one of the most memorable launch events in tech history. And yes, many years before the iPhone, people actually lined up at the store for a PC operating system. “Seeing all that came together was incredibly exciting, incredibly rewarding — seeing the vision of graphical operating systems go mainstream,” said Brad Silverberg, who joined Microsoft in 1990 and led Windows development for the next decade. “We changed the world.” Silverberg recalled that the Windows 95 launch ad, set to the Rolling Stones classic, “Start Me Up,” was so effective that it influenced the Windows team’s division to go with the name “Start” for the button in the lower left corner of the desktop, after seeing an early preview. “Some people wanted to call it the ‘Go’ button,” he said. “There were some other names … ‘Start’ was one of them. There was good debate internally. Then when we saw the TV ad that Weiden+Kennedy put together for us, that made the decision. There was no more debate.” Behind the scenes, the development of the 32-bit Windows NT and the Win32 API in the 1990s ultimately solidified and unified the platform for businesses, developers, and consumers, culminating in the debut of Windows XP on the NT kernel in 2001. Windows Vista in 2007 was a flop, Windows 7 in 2009 redeemed the franchise, Windows 8 in 2012 pivoted to tablets, Windows 10 in 2015 refocused on desktops and laptops, and Windows 11 in 2021 set the stage for a shift to the cloud (Windows 365) and AI (Copilot+ PCs). Toss in a few landmark antitrust cases and a string of high-profile cybersecurity incidents, and you get a very abbreviated caricature of how Windows got to where it is today. In the process, Windows has been dwarfed by the rest of Microsoft’s business, as its revenue has flattened, and Office (Microsoft 365) and the cloud (Microsoft Azure) have soared. After Microsoft’s acquisition of game giant Activision Blizzard, the company’s Xbox division surpassed Windows in revenue earlier this year, at least temporarily. And for the 2024 fiscal year, which ended in June, Windows fell below 10% of Microsoft’s total revenue for the first time. “I feel like Windows is holding its place in society — a hard-fought, very important, mission-critical place in society, and that requires great work from a lot of people,” said Terry Myerson, who led Windows from 2013 to 2018 as part of a 21-year career at Microsoft, before his current position as CEO of Seattle-based healthcare data startup Truveta. At the same time, Myerson said, “there’s still this dream of growing its role in society.” And that’s where Microsoft is betting on AI. ‘Computers that understand us’ It starts with the NPU. It originated on mobile phones and the field of computational photography. As phones evolved, the constraints around optics and sensors drove a shift towards using more computational power to enhance image quality, requiring a special chip. Especially as Microsoft worked with Qualcomm to expand its Surface lineup from Intel to ARM-based processors, it became clear that the NPU could open a new world for Windows. Microsoft had already been working on the plan for years when a small group of leaders met with Sam Altman and others from OpenAI for an early demo of its breakthrough AI model. Bathiche, the longtime leader of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, remembers turning to Panos Panay, who was then in charge of the Windows and Devices business. “We were in the middle of Windows planning, and I was like, ‘This is it.’ Everything we’re planning to do with Windows, this is how it all fits in,” Bathiche said in a recent interview. That ultimately led to the introduction of the new Copilot+ PCs earlier this year, including the Recall feature that gives users the ability to quickly find anything they’ve seen on their PC. In May, at the Copilot+ PC launch event on the Redmond campus, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminisced about the launch of Windows 95 in almost the same spot 30 years earlier. “If you go all the way back to even the birth of modern computing, 70 years ago, the pursuit has always been about how to build computers that understand us, instead of us having to understand computers,” Nadella said. “I feel like we are close to that real breakthrough.” In other ways, the rollout so far has felt at times like an homage to the roller-coaster history of Windows. Apart from the privacy and security concerns, and delays in the release, the Recall preview has been getting mixed reviews from early users in the Windows Insider program. Other Windows features enabled by the NPU include the ability to generate AI images and translate real-time captions for conversations in different languages — interesting use cases but not enough to compel people to line up to buy new Copilot+ PCs, a la Windows 95. “Most of what we’ve seen so far has been pretty lackluster,” said Paul Thurrott of Windows Weekly and Thurrott.com, a longtime analyst, author, reviewer and reporter. “At the end of the day, I don’t think we’ve seen what will make the most sense for Windows ultimately.” With the addition of a new NPU, one key function for Windows will be to serve as an orchestrator, delegating tasks to the most efficient chip for the job. But that’s still a low-level task, in the original spirit of a traditional operating system, not a glitzy new feature. “As a human being, or as a user, you have to look at this stuff and say, ‘Well, OK , but what do I get out of it?’” Thurrott said. “The problem with local AI, especially, but maybe even AI in general, is that there’s no killer app. There’s a lot of micro-utilities that are excellent, and useful, but don’t benefit everyone generally.” Davaluri, the Windows & Devices chief, said the company listened and acted on the feedback it received about the potential security and privacy issues in Recall, in line with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative, and made a series of adjustments in response (including making it an opt-in experience) before releasing it in limited preview even to the Windows Insider program in November.  More broadly, he said, AI in Windows is still in its infancy. “We’re at the start of the journey when it comes to AI products and features,” he said, promising that the company will continue to “listen, learn, iterate and refine” its approach. Tapping into the ecosystem In an echo of the past, Microsoft is also working to spark new third-party applications on Windows, this time taking advantage of the NPU, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI features. A Copilot+ PC display at the company store on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) “In the big picture, the world is a lot bigger than Microsoft,” said Brett Ostrum, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Surface devices. “And so the expectation would be that they’re going to come up with as much, if not more, over time, than the engineers at Microsoft.” Silverberg, the retired Microsoft executive who led the Windows team in the 1990s, said he sees clear parallels between AI and Microsoft’s approach to integrating the internet into everything in his era. It wasn’t just about Internet Explorer, even though the browser got the headlines. Brad Silverberg Microsoft today sees AI “as a fundamental element of everything, and not just off in a chatbox somewhere,” Silverberg said, citing the possibility of third-party developers creating “a whole new generation of applications that unleash unforeseen types of creativity.” “That’s when you know you have something really powerful and really exciting — when it gets used in ways that the inventors never really imagined,” Silverberg said. “That happened with the internet, for sure, and that happened with PCs, and it’s going to happen with AI.” Microsoft, like many companies, tends to keep its product roadmap close to the vest until it’s ready to reveal. But it’s not hard to guess some of the directions that Windows could go from here. Speaking with Bathiche recently, I described how I was using AI to help with the research for this project, uploading a whole range of source materials to Google’s NotebookLM to search for new insights and quickly verify key facts in a matter of seconds, rather than hours. But first I was collecting many of these documents in a folder on my Windows PC. To me, it would make more sense to skip the upload and do the AI analysis directly on my computer. “That’s good,” he said. “It’s good thinking.” [og_img] 2024-12-18 18:23:53

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Новости Сиэтла - 25-04-2024

Медведи гризли вернутся в Северные каскады Западной Австралии.

В Сиэтле представители племени Верхних Скаджитов с нетерпением ждут возвращения медведей гризли в Северные Каскады, регион, который они разделяли с этими медведями в течение тысяч лет. Племя, вместе с федеральными агентствами, работает над восстановлением экосистемы путем реинтродукции медведей. Исследования указывают на то, что в Северных Каскадах возможно обитание значительной популяции медведей гризли, особенно если учесть последствия изменений климата.

План предусматривает ловлю медведей в различных районах и выпуск их в дикую природу между июнем и сентябрем каждого года. Медведей будут перевозить с помощью водопропускных лову��ек, грузовиков, прицепов и вертолетов в удаленные места, такие как заповедники Стивена Мазера, Пасайтен и Глейшер Пик. Американская часть экосистемы Северных Каскадов с ее разнообразием мест обитания считается идеальным местом для реинтродукции медведей.

Несмотря на то, что процесс займет несколько лет и вызовет некоторые споры, возвращение медведей гризли в Северные Каскады рассматривается как важный шаг к восстановлению естественного баланса в регионе. Министр внутренних дел Райан Зинке выразил поддержку проекта по восстановлению медведя гризли, подчеркнув важность этой инициативы. Общественность активно участвует в этом процессе: только за период публичных консультаций поступило более 12 000 комментариев, что свидетельствует об интересе и беспокойстве общества по поводу проекта.

Источник: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/feds-greenlight-return-of-grizzlies-to-was-north-cascades/

Квартальная прибыль Microsoft выросла на 20%, поскольку технологический гигант стремится привлечь клиентов, использующих продукты искусственного интеллекта.

В Сиэтле компания Microsoft сообщила о 20% приросте прибыли за квартал январь-март, утвердив себя лидером в области применения искусственного интеллекта для повышения производительности на рабочем месте. Чистая прибыль компании составила 21,93 миллиарда долларов, превысив ожидания Уолл-стрит. Выручка достигла 61,86 миллиарда долларов, увеличившись на 17% по сравнению с предыдущим годом, благодаря значительному росту в сегменте облачных вычислений и услуг для повышения производительности. Microsoft интегрирует искусственный интеллект в свои основные бизнес-предложения, включая чат-бота Copilot, который помогает в составлении документов и написании кода.

Несмотря на успех в интеграции искусственного интеллекта, Microsoft столкнулась с проблемами в области кибербезопасности, с федеральным отчетом, который критиковал культуру безопасности компании после взлома китайскими кибероператорами. Это вызвало беспокойство среди клиентов, размещающих свои электронные письма и бизнес-услуги на платформе Microsoft. Выручка дивизиона персональных компьютеров компании, сосредоточенного на лицензировании операционной системы Windows, увеличилась на 17%.

Акции Microsoft поднялись на 4% в торгах после закрытия рынка, отражая доверие инвесторов. Компания планирует инвестировать больше в инфраструктуру для систем искусственного интеллекта, учитывая растущий спрос в сравнении с текущими возможностями. Благотворительный фонд Microsoft поддерживает журналистские проекты в газете Seattle Times. В целом, Microsoft продолжает навигацию в сфере искусственного интеллекта, учитывая проблемы кибербезопасности и расширяя свои технологические возможности.

Источник: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-quarterly-profit-rises-20-as-tech-giant-pushes-to-get-customers-using-ai-products/

В этом году в Сиэтле было меньше дождей, чем в Лос-Анджелесе, но как долго?.

В Сиэтле этой зимой сильное воздействие Эль-Ниньо не гарантировало недостаточное количество осадков для Западного Вашингтона. В то время как Лос-Анджелес получил больше нормы осадков, Сиэтл получил типичное количество осадков, причем ураганный период в январе в течение 25 дней способствовал почти половине общего количества осадков. Тем не менее, в апреле в Сиэтле было необычайно мало осадков - всего 0,43 дюйма вместо типичных 3,18 дюйма за месяц. Метеорологи ожидали, что в четверг придет система, которая принесет больше дождей и возможно установит новый суточный рекорд осадков для 25 апреля.

Несмотря на то, что Лос-Анджелес опережает по общему количеству осадков, сила Эль-Ниньо быстро ослабевает, и ожидается, что города Калифорнии вскоре приблизятся к среднему уровню осадков. К июню Эль-Ниньо, вероятно, исчезнет, что приведет к повышенной температуре и недостаточному количеству осадков на Западном Вашингтоне летом. Возможно, что Ла-Нинья придет во второй половине лета, что может принести более жаркую погоду, особенно после сильного Эль-Ниньо, как в прошлую зиму.

Относительно сухая зима в Сиэтле может оказать более широкое влияние на климат, включая потенциальные последствия для лесных пожаров в этом году из-за недостаточно высокого уровня снега в некоторых районах.

Источник: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/seattle-has-been-less-rainy-than-l-a-this-year-but-for-how-long/

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Seattle is at the heart of the tech economy of the United States. Apart from IT, Seattle and the surrounding regions also have many businesses from across the industrial spectrum.

If you want to get an edge in this competitive market, then AI might hold the key. With the help of Microsoft Copilot, you can bring the power of AI to your everyday work. As an innovative Copilot Consultant in Seattle, we help you use the Copilot assistant across the Microsoft ecosystem more efficiently.

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Reporting from Seattle Nov. 28, 2023 OpenAI has ChatGPT. Google has the Bard chatbot. Microsoft has its Copilots. On Tuesday, Amazon joined the chatbot race and announced an artificial intelligence assistant of its own: Amazon Q. The chatbot, developed by Amazon’s cloud computing division, is focused on workplaces and not intended for consumers. Amazon Q aims to help employees with daily tasks,…

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Microsoft Copilot é o novo nome do Bing Chat Enterprise

O Bing Chat, chatbot incorporado ao motor de busca Microsoft Bing, está sendo renomeado para Microsoft Copilot. A divulgação da mudança de marca foi feita durante o evento Microsoft Ignite, que aconteceu em Seattle, nos Estados Unidos. A gigante da tecnologia informa que essa alteração visa proporcionar uma experiência unificada aos clientes em relação ao assistente de IA; o Microsoft Copilot.…

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After a Germanwings copilot in 2015 locked the captain out from the seat midflight and intentionally dove their particular Airbus to the French Alps killing all 150 aboard, the FAA assessed and modified its mental health guidelines for trip teams. But an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot’s alleged midair sabotage effort of a Horizon Air trip from Seattle to bay area on Sunday — in addition to pilot’s later on entry which he have been depressed —  programs psychological state continues to be a problem in flight business, in which specialists state pursuing therapy will set you back your wings. “If you’re crazy enough to admit you have a mental problem, that’s basically the end of your career at an airline,” stated Ross “Rusty” Aimer, a retired flight pilot and CEO of Aero Consulting Experts. “We as pilots hide anything that has to do with mental illness. It’s sad. We need to at the airlines do a better job of addressing mental health and not make it a taboo subject.” The pilot tangled up in Sunday’s event, Joseph David Emerson, 44, of pleasing Hill, stayed in custody Wednesday in Portland, Oregon, where in fact the trip he had been using had been redirected after he presumably experimented with power down the jet’s machines. He had been riding as a guest in a cockpit jump-seat when he suddenly threw off his headset, announced “he was not OK,” and grabbed shut-off handles before becoming wrestled away because of the pilots. Authorities stated Emerson reported having suicidal ideas during custody and had been closely administered. Affidavits submitted to get their state and national fees stated Emerson informed authorities that he’d struggled with despair so long as six many years together with only lost their companion. He informed detectives that he’d taken “magic mushrooms” 48 hours earlier on, had been dehydrated, hadn’t slept much more than 40 hours and was at mental crisis. He informed authorities which he seized the settings “because I thought I was dreaming, and I just wanna wake up.” Mental wellness crises associated with lethal environment crashes are very unusual. But because of the nature associated with the flight business, the possibility for tragedy is large if anything’s psychologically amiss aided by the people in seat — their particular on the job the yoke sticks at 30,000 foot in sky. The Federal Aviation management would not answer questions regarding pilot psychological state testing Wednesday. But its website says FAA regulations require flight pilots to endure a medical exam every half a year to 5 years, according to the sort of traveling they are doing and what their age is. Aviation health Examiners tend to be taught to figure out the pilot’s psychological state and physical fitness to travel. The laws need pilots to report any health visits through the past 36 months, all medicines these are generally using along with other health background, and pilots must reveal all current actual and emotional circumstances and medicines. The examiner may ask additional concerns and that can request extra emotional examination. But the FAA in addition claims it's “reducing the stigma of mental health to help pilots receive care.” The FAA stated it “encourages pilots to seek help if they have a mental health condition since most, if treated, do not disqualify a pilot from flying.” The laws specify that one diseases including a psychosis, manic depression many kinds of character condition immediately disqualify a pilot from getting an FAA health certification. The FAA’s published psychological state plan does not state just how it manages despair in pilots, in addition to connected regulations don’t mention it. But William R. Hoffman, doctor and FAA aeromedical examiner, typed in a November 2022 Scientific United states article that used, the laws club pilots through the seat for months and quite often many years for moderate anxiety or despair. He argued in article that “We must rethink the system that drives pilots

from attending to their mental health and change what seeking mental health care services means in aviation.” The air-line Pilots Association Global, which signifies pilots at numerous huge companies including Alaska Airlines, stated in a statement that “it is important to remember that the airline pilot profession in North America is one of the most highly vetted and scrutinized careers, and for good reason.” “U.S. pilots are continuously evaluated throughout their careers through training, medical exams, crew resource management, and programs such as the Line Operations Safety Audit, as well as by the airline and during random flight checks by the Federal Aviation Administration.” Susan J. Lewis, an authorized psychologist and attorney in Denver who has got caused a few pilots, stated the FAA guidelines permit a far more nuanced way of managing despair, hence it's certainly not a career-ender for all of them. “It’s on a case by case basis, it would depend on if the clinician believed the pilot could fly safely,” Lewis stated. “The FAA is trying to be sensitive to mental health and the stress pilots go through. But with any governmental organization, the wheels turn slowly. I always think more things can be done in terms of mental health.” Lewis stated she had beenn’t an admirer of just one modification applied considering that the Germanwings crash: The FAA’s support of pilot peer assistance programs arranged by air companies and unions. “Pilots are pilots, not mental health practitioners,” Lewis stated. “There’s a difference between needing support and needing mental health care.” But Lewis stated the FAA has actually alleviated its plan toward antidepressants, permitting their particular used in some situations. And Aimer noted that FAA recently changed the way it views transgender pilots, so that it’s no more addressed as a problem needing extra health scrutiny. Aimer stated the FAA has been doing better at coping with drug abuse among pilots, but that psychological state continues to be difficult. There were a few pilot suicides after stressful flight mergers, but “it’s a taboo subject and everybody wants it to go away.” “I wish Iknew all the answers — I don’t, I’m not a psychiatrist,” Aimer stated. “We need some really serious minds and professionals to address this properly.”   #Horizon #Air #cockpit #scare #revives #pilot #mental #health #concerns

[badjokesbyjeff]

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."

[feralnumberfive]

17 for the travel ask game (:

-🦕(your local dinosaur anon)

Thank you very much, dinosaur anon! ❤️ I am sorry for the delay in my answer and how long my it became! 😅

17. Tell me a travel horror story

I thankfully haven't really experienced anything I consider horrific, or anything really bad that I can think of at the moment, but I have found out that I haven't had much luck at airports! So a longtime family friend of ours is a pilot for Southwest Airlines and he likes to give us free tickets to take a trip to wherever Southwest flies. While the free tickets are awesome, you aren't guaranteed a specific flight since these tickets are standby. So while he has access to let us know in advance how full a specific flight may be at the moment, it can always change and the plane may suddenly have full capacity while you're at the airport waiting to board. So if you aim for a specific flight to go somewhere on a limited route, you may be stranded at the airport if your specific flight is full and there isn't another one on the same route until tomorrow.

So this had happened to me both times we have used these tickets, but one of them was a little more "adventurous" than the other. My dad and I were trying to go from Seattle to Chicago late in the afternoon and the flight we were aiming for got filled up so we had to wait for a few more hours. My dad called our pilot friend to tell him that our flight was full and asked what the capacity looked like for the next flight back to Chicago. It had room but wasn't coming until nighttime. At the same time, there was a very delayed flight at the gate our new plane was supposed to be arriving at later so it was pretty chaotic at our end of the terminal with tons of angry people. So our flight became delayed but there were seats available and we eventually boarded and were now leaving Seattle for the nearly 4 hour flight back to Chicago.

With these tickets though you sit wherever there are empty seats, so my dad sat towards the front of the plane and I sat towards the back and in a middle seat. The ladies I sat between were really nice though, but the woman to my left warned me that she easily gets sick on flights. So when we took off she held up a Kleenex to her mouth like she was going to throw up and I immediately thought "Well this isn't going to be a pleasant flight." She thankfully didn't throw up though! As we got closer towards Chicago we ran into a thunderstorm, which gave us some turbulence. It was a small amount of turbulence but the lady next to me started gagging into her Kleenex again, but again she thankfully never threw up but had a death grip on her arm rests.

So we were beginning to descend now and the turbulence got a little stronger and it really wasn't too bad but it was bumpy. I could see that we were passing through low clouds as we got closer and closer to the ground. Right as we were about to land the engines suddenly spooled back up and we went right back into the air. The copilot let us know that the go-around happened because the airport had decided to change the landing direction because the wind had suddenly shifted. That part wasn't scary or anything, as an avgeek I actually thought that it was awesome to experience a go-around, but as we were climbing back up you could see off in the not-too-far-but-not-too-close distance the landing lights of the new traffic pattern lining up on final so that was odd to think about being close to oncoming traffic. So anyways we finally landed at about 3:00 am at Midway and began our 3 1/2 hour drive back home. My dad eventually had to pull over to sleep a little bit so we ended up getting home even later than we had planned.

And that's my story! It's nothing too horrific, or really horrific at all, but it wasn't very pleasant lol. One really awesome part about this story though is that we departed Seattle while the sun was setting and it was getting dark out. We climbed through a layer of clouds on our way out and I saw the top of Mt. Rainier sticking up through the clouds and it was so cool and pretty to see! :]