AvTalk Episode 175: Thanks Nancy
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of AvTalk, SPAR19 becomes the most tracked flight of all time, a bizarre mystery surrounds a tragic flight, and Seth Miller joins us to explain the proposed passenger refund rules from the US Department of Transportation. SPAR19 becomes Flightradar24’s most tracked flight ever The flight of a US Air Force C-40 from […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 175 of Av Talk. I am Eim Petchenik here as always with... |
| 0:15.7 | Jason Rubenoids and this is going to be the sleepy episode because it turns out |
| 0:20.2 | not a whole lot happened in the last week. No, it's been a pretty quiet week as far as |
| 0:27.2 | aviation news and happenings, I guess. It has not been a quiet week as far as I am concerned. I must admit. |
| 0:38.0 | Well you had one big event which we'll get to but other than that hardly anything has happened and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. |
| 0:47.0 | No, it's August things are supposed to be quiet. I'm thankful for it. I was ready to keep my head down for the month, but alas, events outside of my |
| 0:59.2 | control have brought me to the forefront of what could surely be described as a giant mess? |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, I think that's an accurate description. |
| 1:08.6 | So, yeah, we're not going to dwell on this a lot, but I will say that this is the first time that a single flight has disrupted the flight radio 24 services for such an extended period of time. |
| 1:23.0 | What happened was is the US speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is currently visiting a variety of Asian countries and meeting with leaders there and there was a lot of will she won't she |
| 1:37.8 | about a visit to Taipei Taiwan and the flight departed Kuala Lumpur, headed east, then made a left turn north and the |
| 1:49.7 | traffic was such that we experienced instability on the platform. |
| 1:55.0 | We had to implement the waiting room feature, which is basically a cue to access the site |
| 2:01.0 | and under some crushing load. So just real quick figures. |
| 2:05.2 | Seven hundred and eight thousand people were following the flight as it landed so |
| 2:10.1 | that's the most that have ever followed a flight at the single one time. |
| 2:13.0 | Over the course of the flight, nearly 3 million people followed at least a portion of it, |
| 2:18.3 | and there were almost 10 million clicks on that flight alone. So it was a busy day, lots of |
| 2:28.0 | learnings going on about dealing with that kind of sustained load. We've done a lot of work dealing with spikes and making |
| 2:36.8 | sure that the site stays healthy when we have very, very large, but not necessarily sustained spikes. |
| 2:43.8 | This was a seven hour flight, |
| 2:45.8 | and as the flight went on, it only attracted more |
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