Will Walker, PhD.
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Will Walker, PhD.
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Energy policy scholar, working in energy efficiency program evaluation. VATSIM Air Traffic Controller. Foster parent. Cat dad.
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At #IEPEC 2025. The poster session is on the 38th floor. This is my view right now: Denver's a pretty cool city.
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It's me. I'm One commenter. #MOSAIC
Several commenters cited occupant weight as a reason why the maximum takeoff weight limit should be removed. One commenter stated an increased weight allowance is more realistic and will improve safety given heavier individuals, luggage, and a desire for extra fuel for wind or weather purposes. Another commenter noted challenges in accommodating themselves, fuel, and a designated pilot examiner given weight limits. EASA, AOPA, NATA, NBAA, and GAMA commented that the weight restriction has caused numerous unintended consequences including concerns about minimal useful load and resulting pilot and passenger size limitations. Finally, another commenter favored weight limits that would allow two full sized adults.
July 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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NEXRAD is the most exciting I've seen since it got implemented.

#studentpilot #avgeek #flightsim #VATSIM
STARS Scope screenshot showing the vast majority of the area covered by green hatches with regions of orange and purple. DAL7767 is on the downwind for RWY 29.
July 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak: This is the realest thing ever.
OP: "The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears: *I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out* WORKIN' HARD. HARDLY WORKIN' Reply: "Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad.
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak: Some vanity plates are good. Others are prophecies.
Photo of a motor vehicle (some kind of Chevrolet) with a dog sticking its head through the sunroof on a sunny day. The license plate reads: "SUNWOOF"
May 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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They're passing Greenland now.
VAT-spy screenshot showing all trans-Atlantic sectors online, and 25 distinct lanes of westbound aircraft so dense that they form coherent lines from Europe to approximately the southernmost tip of Greenland. Their callsigns are unreadable because of the overlap.
April 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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IT HAS BEGUN
Screenshot of VAT-Spy showing a titanic swarm of aircraft departing Europe on westbound trans-Atlantic flights. Too many to count or name.
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Soo uhhh. I think Cross the Pond and Deltas for Dummies are going to be a little more exciting than normal. Just glanced at Skyvector to see what my ATIS should read and saw this:
VFR Sectional of the Nantucket area. Nantucket is in the bottom right. The left third of the map is entirely engulfed in moderate-to-severe precipitation per a doppler RADAR overlay. All airports west of Nantucket are various degrees of IMC.
April 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak: You want to see peak Boston energy? Here you go.
Google Maps routing for Paul Revere's Midnight Ride highlighting the seven Dunkin Donuts locations along the way. Text of the social post containing this says "It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. I've mapped all seven Dunkin Donuts locations Paul could've stopped at on his route"
April 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak Not all heroes wear capes (some wear tiaras):
Social media post reading "I was playing fiddle at a ren faire, and two little girls were really enjoying our set. After quite some time one of them walked up to me an shyly offered me her star tinsel tiara, because she "didn't have any money. And this protects you from trolls!" I said, "Thanks, that's really sweet - but what about you? Don't you need protection from trolls?" At which point this six-ish-year-old girl whips out her certificate from the axe throwing booth and says, "Nah, I'm fine." I still have that tinsel tiara. It's draped over my modem. I figure it'll protect me from the most trolls that way.
April 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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In case anyone doubted the allegations against him.
Tweet from the official White House account: "DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED."
April 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Nothing... nothing... suddenly Jet Blue wakes up with departures.
March 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trio of friends flying from somewhere in NYC's vicinity to NH16, IFR because of the low clouds. You love to see it. #VATSIM
March 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak Cat-3 makes landfall.
Three sleeping kittens forming a triple spiral.
March 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak Copycat
A black and grey cat sandwiched in the scanner bed of a scan/copy/fax/print combination peripheral.
March 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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🧵 1/ Kurt actually fails to capture the true evidence in support here. This is the S&P 500 ETF for the full YEAR prior to election day, basically the last year of the Biden presidency and therefore the dominant indicator of what four years of that produced:
Weekly chart of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF [SPY]. The chart displays from early October 2023 to present day. A strong upward trendline is drawn using the three most dramatic drops that featured recoveries. The most recent four weeks dramatically break that trendline to the downside. Volume declines throughout the period until the most recent four weeks when it spikes concurrently with the trendline breakdown.
March 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#DoomscrollBreak this is how my orange tabby gets out of trouble after terrorizing us all night.
Orange tabby upside down, blissed out, wrapped around a hand petting his belly Orange tabby upside down, wrapped around a hand petting his belly, looking up at the camera adoringly.
March 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Best back to back posts on this platform so far...
Screencap of two Bluesky posts. The first, referring to the Twitter blackout, reads "IS IT BACK DOWN LMAO?!" The second reads, "you must construct additional pylons."
March 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Second customer, another oldie: SKB7767 ("Skybus") out of Westover/Chicopee (KCEF) bound for Columbus, OH.
March 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Vacation means at least SOME of my reading is for fun. Had to pass on the first edition Baldwin, The Fire Next Time; it wasn't in the budget.
A hand holding a copy of Artemis, by Andy Weir; and Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum. A fireplace is glowing I'm the background.
March 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Doomscroll break: my breakfast vision this morning. (I'm on vacation.)
Cup of coffee, silverware, pair of glasses all on a white tile table. Sun dappled bare trees, bushes, and yard through a colonial style window
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Doomscroll Break: This Wholesomely Woke Shit
Screenshot of a tweet saying "Heard my 6yo slowly and painstakingly reading a Nat Geo book about otters to his stuffed otter b/c 'I wanted him to know about his family.'"
February 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Two customers so far this morning. LYM556 is a Vans RV-10 VFR with flight following from Barnes to Worcester. The blue tag was a Piper Warrior headed from Bradley to Hanscom. He's talking to somebody else at this point, which is why he's blue.
STARS display showing two targets. LYM556 being actively tracked at 3,800ft, doing 150 knots groundspeed. The other at 5,000ft being tracked by another controller and outside the BRISTOL TRACON.
February 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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It's the last Saturday of the month, which means it's time for Deltas for Dummies on #VATSIM. I'm serving KBDL, KHFD, KBAF, KCEF, and KORH for the explicit purpose of welcoming new pilots to the network. Service begins at 1330Z, runs for 5-6 hours. You can join me at www.twitch.tv/phdipo
STARS terminal display of the Bradley International Class C airspace with approaches to runways 33 and 24 depicted. Approach course to Runway 02 at Westfield-Barnes Regional is also visible.
February 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Peanuts characters Lucy and Charlie Brown. Lucy is holding a football in kicking position. Charlie looks skeptical, as if she's done this before and always pranks him.
February 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM