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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Damage@feddit.it 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

"honey, Joe's wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?"

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

These little strips don't use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.

[–] ryo 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unicom

First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄

We need a community for keming.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you read it right, UNICOM

Or UNIversal COMmunications

Also known as CTAF, or

Common Traffic Advisory Frequency.

Basically the frequency you use when you're in uncontrolled airspace.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They read it as unicor n hence the emoji.

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