FAA actually tried moving to digital voice (has benefits wrt airband congestion) but it didn't go anywhere. I believe a lot came down to the minimal benefit over current solutions, plus the coordination and safety implications of actually making the switch. Tough for an FAA official to pull the trigger on a rollout that has even 0.1% chance of an aircraft crashing.
Some context, the average labeller on our platform puts in a single digit number of hours on our platform, works whenever and how much they want, and earn significantly more than an uber driver.
The manifesto had many disjointed themes, and some of the arguments Marc made seem intentionally inflammatory or oversimplified (and it has to be intentional polemicism, he's too smart -- and it's too on the nose -- for it to be an accident). (And if his goal was to create a stir, well, mission accomplished...the NYT ran two op-eds reacting to it.)
I was galvanized to focus on the deflationary part after reading an opinion piece that suggested that government price controls were more effective...
Yes. also wingspan and wing sweep as well as flap configuration can affect how an airplane flies as pitch changes (and as distance to the runway changes). So while other aircraft might dramatically lose lift with this type of maneuver, the G280 doesn't.
Agree that it's a bad idea to get creative with flying airplanes.
That said, this maneuver might tend to reduce landing "float" which introduces its own set of risks.
Nosewheel should never be anywhere near to being the first thing to hit the runway. In a Piper, for example, this would be an easy mistake to make but if you're landing a Gulfstream with the nose that low-down, you're in serious trouble.
100% the nose should never be anywhere near nose-down. And there's a solid argument for never doing anything that's not part of the official training canon. But the fact that it works is fascinating.
I think it is also affected by the slight increase in ground effect as the wing flies closer to the runway surface. so the pitching down is somewhat offset by the increase in wing efficiency--and probably a set of other interplaying factors. The G280 has huge barn-door flaps that extend well below the wing, so reducing the distance between these flaps and the runway may result in an appreciable increase in lift (the wing is affected by ground effect if it is <1 wingspan from the ground)