Private planes don't need air traffic controllers.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Why do you think they all have yachts?
For child orgies.
You think they won’t just get in their private planes and go without permission?
It’s not like the give one flying fuck about the law to begin with.
That’s where the People’s Air Force comes in
It would be like having no street lights and everyone being giant douches that think they should be able to go whenever they want. It would end poorly for some.
I like the idea of putting billionaires into unregulated pressurized vessels.
The pilots are more cautious than that and would fall back to their earlier experience on airfields with no permanent tower. You communicate on the local frequency with your intentions, keep your head on a swivel, and daydream about depressurizing the cabin.
Talk about a sacrifice I am willing to make!
Yeah what kind of dumbass would willingly do stupidly selfish shit that will certainly bring doom to themselves and others but might, if they're lucky, make sure they get a better outcome than everyone else?
Bob, I'll take 'business executives'.
Feel like drones with no human in the loop are a better bet
Small private airfields don't even have towers. They don't need ATC to GTFO.
This is why we have already lost. They don’t store their private jets at major airports. They can just take off from the private one without a controller. The air will be clear of commercial jets.
Hear me out.... Geese. Tons of geese.
That would kill the geese. A million humans aren’t worth one goose.
Just take the ~4000 billionaires on the planet and kill them with bullets. I’d recommend their immediate family as well. If fiction had taught me anything, you never leave loose ends to come back and get revenge.
Turbine-proof geese, perchance?
So, goose shaped drones? I’ll accept that offer.
This is a rather long name, so feel free to make an acronym, but I think we should call it Project: Goose Approximated Personality Integrated Nanobiotical Geese - Artificially Seeking Suckfucks Homeland Officially Learns Eventually
We see what you did there.
Sphere-shaped geese in a vacuum.
Drones? If no civilians in the air you don't need human in the loop
Reagan already killed the ATC union.
In a few months there won't be enough aviation fuel anyway.
You don't always have to file a flight plan. This would mostly stop just commercial flights.
Boats exist.
Orcas are on our side tho.
The longshoremen unions are the most radically left unions in the country.
And private marinas exist.
Their boats mostly aren't fast and are famously large.
Patco? I didn't know they were still around.