#safe return

[flyingprivate]

Cirrus SR22 !

Cirrus has announced the launch of the new SR series G7+, the first piston-single aircraft to be equipped with Garmin’s Safe Return Emergency Autoland system.

For use in emergency situations such as pilot incapacitation, the Collier Award-winning system will assume control of the in-flight aircraft at the touch of a button, transmit emergency alerts to air traffic control, navigate to the nearest suitable airport, and land autonomously, all the while issuing instructions and status updates to passengers via the aircraft’s cockpit data screens. The system will then bring the aircraft to a stop on the runway center line, shut down the engine, and instruct occupants when it is safe to exit.

In instances where the pilot is the lone occupant, Safe Return will passively monitor their flight patterns, and if it detects an erratic or dangerous operation, it will first query the pilot before assuming control and landing the airplane. If a pilot regains the ability to safely aviate, they can disengage the system at any point.

Safe Return is now standard equipment on all new-build Cirrus SR Series G7+ airplanes, part of an upgrade suite that also includes automatic database updates powered by Cirrus IQ Pro, runway occupancy awareness, and smart pitot heat.

[queerstudiesnatural]

greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

[akhlisheshsrivastva]

Every Family Is Waiting for Someone to Return Home” – A Road Safety Mission by Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava

Behind every door, a family waits for someone’s return. These aren’t just words. They carry the weight of loss, the pain of unspoken goodbyes, and the hope that fuels one man’s mission to make India's roads safer for everyone.

This powerful truth was shared by Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava, a veteran technocrat and globally recognized expert in infrastructure and road safety, who has spent over 30 years working to reduce preventable road crash fatalities across India. His journey began decades ago when he witnessed the aftermath of a horrific road accident—an incident that deeply changed his perspective on mobility, infrastructure, and the value of life.

Since then, his mission has not been just about improving how fast we move—but about ensuring that we all reach our destinations alive.

Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava

A National Emergency: India’s Road Crash Crisis

India has some of the deadliest roads in the world. 🔴 Over 1.8 lakh lives are cut short each year in road crashes — a silent crisis on our streets. 🔴 That’s over 500 lives every single day—most of them young, productive citizens. 🔴 In the last decade alone, over 1.5 million people have died in road accidents.

These numbers are staggering. But more importantly, they are not just numbers—they are lives lost, families shattered, dreams cut short.

Mr. Srivastav emphasizes that most of these deaths are not mere accidents. They are the result of preventable failures—inadequate infrastructure, poor road design, lack of awareness, non-enforcement of safety norms, and limited accountability.

From Helplessness to Hope: The Power of Technology

At a recent TEDx Talk, Mr. Akhilesh Srivastav shared his vision for transforming India’s road safety landscape. The focus? Technology: A lifesaver, not a luxury.

Here are key innovations he champions:

✅ AI-Enabled Alert Systems

Advanced driver assistance systems can provide real-time warnings — such as lane departure alerts, collision warnings, and fatigue detection. These systems give drivers critical extra seconds to respond, often making the difference between life and death.

✅ Real-Time Traffic Data Integration

Smart traffic monitoring spots congestion, wrong-way driving, and accident hotspots — enabling authorities to intervene before chaos turns deadly.

✅ Intelligent School Zones

Speed sensors, warning lights, and digital signages near schools can slow down traffic and protect our most precious road users — children.

✅ Geo-Fencing & Enforcement Automation

Technologies like GPS-based geo-fencing and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) can digitally enforce speed limits and traffic rules, reducing human errors and corruption.

Technology Alone Isn’t Enough — We Need Intent and Empathy

While the technology exists and is already being used in many parts of the world, Mr. Akhilesh Srivastav stresses that it needs to be backed by strong political intent, efficient implementation, and public collaboration.

Most importantly, road safety must be seen not merely as a matter of rules and fines — but as a matter of empathy. Every individual on the road is someone’s world. Behind each helmet, each seatbelt, each horn — there is a father, a mother, a child, a friend waiting to return home.

As Mr. Akhilesh Srivastav eloquently puts it:

“Road safety is not about enforcing rules. It is about saving lives.”

Collaboration is the Key

To turn this vision into reality, a collaborative approach is essential:

Policymakers must prioritize safer road design, stricter law enforcement, and the swift adoption of smart road technologies.

Technologists and engineers must develop scalable, affordable, and accessible innovations for Indian road conditions.

A safety-first mindset starts with us — helmets on, speed in check, and laws respected.

A Wake-Up Call for All of Us

If you’ve ever:

Lost someone too soon to a road accident,

Had a narrow escape yourself,

Or care about the safety of your loved ones,

Then this message is meant for you.

Let’s stop treating road crashes as just another news item. Let’s treat them for what they really are: a national tragedy, largely preventable, and deeply personal.

Let’s Make Every Journey a Safe One

Mr. Akhilesh Srivastav’s work is a reminder that miracles happen when technology meets policy, and ambition meets execution.

We already have the tools. Now, it’s time for us — as a nation — to summon the will, take action, and create roads where every journey ends with a safe return home.

Because every family is waiting.

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[nightshade86]

Just learned of the safe return of the astronauts previously stranded on the ISS, and I am thankful that the mission was a success

[secretfae]

Tinkerbell snuck outside for the first time ever on Saturday night & she roamed the neighborhood for 72 hours while it rained for days (so thankful it has been above freezing!)

I was seriously about to go to bed when I decided to walk out front real quick just to look around a bit and call out for her again. The second I closed the door behind me and said her name, I heard her very distinct vocalizations 'yelling' 😅 at me from between our two cars & see nothing but the white tip of her tail walking towards me in the darkness.

Man, when I tell you I cried like a BABY, sobbing.

She gave us all a good heart attack.

I've never been so happy to have a house full of animals in my life 💖😩🥹 she's right back under the tree where she belongs.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

the shining (1977) - stephen king

"boo"

[chloesimaginationthings]

Jeremy Fitzgerald bravery in FNAF 2 worries Michael..

[whats-in-a-sentence]

They returned safely, and Orb secluded herself in her wagon to recover from the shock of the near escape.

"Incarnations of Immortality: Wielding a Red Sword" - Piers Anthony

[bluerosefox]

To Protect Them

Another DPxDC idea with twins Danny and Damian.

'He knows.'

That was only message Danny received before he felt like he had dropped in freezing cold Arctic waters naked and felt if he remembered to breathe at this moment he would see his own breath, even though he had an ice core and no longer felt actual cold anymore, and for a moment the world around him faded into nothing.

No sound, no touch, not even smell.

Nothing.

Then like a supernova, everything around him exploded.

Everything was too loud, to strong, his skin felt hot and cold at the same time somehow. The feeling of dread crawled up his body.

He needed to go.

Run.

This message was his only warning. The only thing his birth mother could send him in regards of help. He knows it, he knows she can't do anything else but this. He also knows she wants to do more but in order continue to be the eyes and ears inside of the hellhole he once called home, a place he both hated and feared yet somehow still loved if only for the memories of his mother and brother, she could not do anything more.

"Hey Dann-o! Anything good in the mail today!?" Came the loud voice of Jack Fenton, his adopted dad, from the doorway. The same man who took one look at a muddy, dirty, tense, untrusting, almost fully feral little six year old Danyal al Ghul who held onto his only daughter hand when she dragged him home after finding him behind the Nasty Burger looking for food, and decided point blank that he was now a Fenton. That Danny, Daniel was his son as if he always was.

Danny could feel his lip tremble when he realized if he ran, if he booked it out of Amity now, the people he loved, the people he would happily die for, would be targeted. It wouldn't matter if he faked his death, or just left with no warning and never contacted them ever, ever again.

They would be killed for just knowing him.

For their deaths would be his punishment.

Danny could feel the rest of the mail in his hands, the ones he had went outside to get before breakfast cause his mom asked him to, fall out of them, the only one staying was the message from his birth mother. He took in a shaky uneven breath and turned around.

His face no doubt was pale, paler than it normally was, and his body trembled, and Danny had no doubt that despite all the training he had learned when he was in the League that even if he brought it out and pretended he was fine, his dad would be able to tell something was wrong.

Because his dad's happy cheerful face shifted to a concerned worried frown, a frown Danny hadn't seen in a few years, a frown that was common when Danny would wake in the middle of the night screaming, begging, or cursing in his native language or when he would be spooked enough to reach for a knife. But even with those moments the man never ever found fault in Danny, instead he would lower his voice and speak softly to Danny, waiting until he calmed down before asking if it would be okay to touch or hug him. Then he would sit with Danny for hours, keeping his normally loud and booming voice soft as he talked about random things, like family fudge recipes and how they came to be.

"Danny?" Jack asked softly as he took a small step forward, one of his hands lifted up as if asking permission to reach out.

Danny wanted nothing more than to rush into his dad's arms and hide in his large frame. Hide from the world around him but Danny knows he didn't have time, none of them did.

He took in one more breath and could feel his body stop shaking, his mind no longer chaotic, and his nerves steeling up. For the first time in a long, long time, he wasn't Daniel 'Danny' Fenton anymore.

He was Danyal al Ghul again.

"Dad. Get mom and Jazz into the GAV. Now." Danny ordered, his eyes narrowing as he clutched the message in his hand tight.

His dad knew something big was going down.

And he trusted Danny enough to do so quickly.

Danny closed his eyes as his dad ran into the house, yelling for Maddie and Jazz to get into the GAV. Danny opened them when he could feel the message in his hands slowly being covered in ice and knew his eyes were now glowing green.

He didn't have a lot of time. He needed to get his family, Tucker, and Sam out of Amity.

He needed to get them someplace safe.

He needed backup. More than his family and his friends.

He needed-

Danny nearly jumped when he realized who he can call to help.

In a flash he took his phone out of his pocket and quickly dialed a number he barely liked calling but needed to do so at this moment.

He waited, it felt like ages and it was agonizing, before the person on the other line finally picked up.

"What do you want-" came a somewhat same but rougher sounding of his voice but Danny cut him off.

"Dan, he knows." was the only thing Danny needed to say because he could hear the sharp intake of breath.

"Get them here now." was the order.

"Already on it. Is Ellie and Vlad with you?"

"Yes."

"Good. We'll be there shorty. Keep them safe."

"And then what?" Came the gruff question.

"Then... Then we'll prepare and call in Father and Damian. We need all the help we can get."

".....He won't be happy... About everything. Our... your fake death you know."

".... I know. But hopefully Father and the rest of his batclan will keep him from lashing out too much, especially with civilians and innocent lives on the line."

The two, Danny and Dan fell into a silence for a moment. Danny could hear his dad trying to hurry his mom and Jazz into the GAV despite their questions

".... Explaining all of this is going to be a shit show isn't it." Came Dan's voice after a couple of minutes.

Danny winced because yeah, not only explaining his actual past as Danyal al Ghul to the Fenton's, Tucker, Sam, and to Ellie, and Vlad but also having to explain his new life to his birth father and twin brother, a brother who thought he was dead, was going to be a hell in a handbasket.

"Yeah... it will be." Came his only response as he heard the GAV starting up and the garage door opening. Dan must of heard it over the speaker phone and said "Get Sam and Tucker and get here soon. No stops. We'll fortified Vlads dumb place in the meantime."

Dan didn't wait after that and instead just disconnected the call. Danny removed his phone from his ear and quickly pull up the group chat he had with his friends, sending them a quick message to meet him now. He used the code they had set up incase the Fenton's didn't take to him being Phantom well, he never had to use it since they took the news good, well as good as one could be after finding out their invention had half killed their son and that they had been hunting his ghost side down, but since this was important he needed them to be ready now.

He frowned as the Fenton GAV pulled up towards him and knew that what happens next would be...

Stressful.

[shotmrmiller]

i was talking w @xoxunhinged about reader thinking jealousy would look good on Kyle— just his color, you'd decided, and in a silly little thought fueled by the haze of too many drinks, you'd assumed it'd be harmless enough, batting your lashes at some unfortunate guy, imagining Kyle's reaction— a protective arm slung around your shoulders, his sharp glare cutting through the air like a warning.

but there's a dark, quiet danger to him, the kind that you don't see coming until it's too late, like the chill of steel against your skin before you even realize it's there. your drunken mischief spirals, fast and merciless, and before you can process what's happening, wrathful hands drag the man out of the place, leaving you behind, frozen in a stunned silence.

you'd expected at most a sharp word or two, something restrained, a reminder of the line that had almost been crossed, not waking up to find that guy as a headline, his face staring back at you on the television, frozen in a grainy photo, deceased, the ends to that investigation tied too neatly.

your eyes drift to his hands, nimble fingers screwing off the cap of the bottle of orange juice, and you see what you missed last night, when he'd wrapped those same hands around your throat as he swallowed every keen and moan. the bruising. it blooms dark and angry across his knuckles, the skin split in certain places, swollen and raw. they look like they've been through war.

his voice breaks the silence first, metal against stone. "a shame." the very ground beneath you shifts, a chilly unease creeping into your bones, the pit in your stomach growing, knot in your throat twisting tighter as your mind races with questions you refuse to voice. confrontation would mean peeling back layers you're not ready to see. so instead, you redirect, grasping for something mundane, something safe.

"what do you want to eat for breakfast?" it comes out warbly, uncertain, but it's all you can manage.

warmth returns to his voice, tone laced with a quiet tenderness as he answers, "whatever you want."

(his loyalty runs deep, his love as consuming as his fury. best to remember he does nothing by halves— it's all or nothing. when you're his, you're his completely.)

[churchofthemimic]

Meow Wolf's House Of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My personal favorite meow wolf other than convergence station :).

[tatooineknights]

Distressed Moodboard: Luke Skywalker Edition

[seagiri]

presenting these idiots

[gastersreturn]

An elegant little bean

I love drawing this little guy, he's just adorable ToT The golden child everyone ✨

[pucksandpower]