For fun Stupid / Funny Videos Thread

Betty Swollocks · Nov 11, 2014

I'm not sure this is entirely genuine, but I'll post it anyway.

Rainer271 · Nov 21, 2014

ateekt · Nov 21, 2014

You can't afford not to watch this one! Rofl.

Betty Swollocks · Nov 28, 2014

Not really stupid or funny, but thought some people would find it interesting anyway.

This is a two minute visualisation of a day in the life of air traffic control over the UK. I control slightly to the East of the UK and cover continental Europe, but a lot of what we handle involves the major airports in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam, and we control about the same number of aircraft; about 5,500 per day.

A few interesting bits in the video; right at the start you can see the Trans-Atlantic flights coming overnight from North America to Europe in one big swarm. And then towards the end at 2:00, you can see the helicopters flying between the East coast of Scotland from Aberdeen to the oil rigs and gas platforms. Aberdeen is the World's busiest heliport.

Giannis · Nov 28, 2014

Betty Swollocks said:
Not really stupid or funny, but thought some people would find it interesting anyway.

This is a two minute visualisation of a day in the life of air traffic control over the UK. I control slightly to the East of the UK and cover continental Europe, but a lot of what we handle involves the major airports in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam, and we control about the same number of aircraft; about 5,500 per day.

A few interesting bits in the video; right at the start you can see the Trans-Atlantic flights coming overnight from North America to Europe in one big swarm. And then towards the end at 2:00, you can see the helicopters flying between the East coast of Scotland from Aberdeen to the oil rigs and gas platforms. Aberdeen is the World's busiest heliport.

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Transportation design and optimization is a huge engineering field, one which is often either ignored or underestimated.

That said, I never found it interesting