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What’s an air traffic person do when they have to use the restroom?
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They drop it over Burien, from what I understand.
"No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air...There's a turd... No parachutes yet... Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but... Oh my God! They're turds! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity!" Les Nessman, WKRP In Cincinnati
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as a general aviation pilot, and former bus driver, you plan your food and fluid intake so you don't have to do it when on the move.
In the Boston DMA, IHrts copter is up for almost exactly 2.5 hours each morning, same take off time, same landing time in Beverly MA every day.
There is not a lot of room to move around in a Robinson R44, at least NBC Boston uses a Bell Jet Ranger, you could take a leak into a designed for emergency use wizz tube if you were a guy, sorry people assigned female at birth with all factory installed parts intact it is a bit harder for you, although the military has been testing devices that solve that problem for their female pilots
PS if you ever want to track Kristen Eck in the morning, use ADSBExchange.com and search for N8639F.
Metro Traffic blocks tracking of their aircraft on other websites that use FAA data, but ADSB does not use FAA data so they show everything.
In the Boston DMA, IHrts copter is up for almost exactly 2.5 hours each morning, same take off time, same landing time in Beverly MA every day.
There is not a lot of room to move around in a Robinson R44, at least NBC Boston uses a Bell Jet Ranger, you could take a leak into a designed for emergency use wizz tube if you were a guy, sorry people assigned female at birth with all factory installed parts intact it is a bit harder for you, although the military has been testing devices that solve that problem for their female pilots
PS if you ever want to track Kristen Eck in the morning, use ADSBExchange.com and search for N8639F.
Metro Traffic blocks tracking of their aircraft on other websites that use FAA data, but ADSB does not use FAA data so they show everything.
A strong guess would be that they'd do what any other pilot of a helicopter or smaller aircraft would do if in midair and nature calls; The fact that they're working in TV or radio broadcasting shouldn't change the situation much. They either hold it until they land, or they can use a number of items available in catalogs for pilots or online (modified bottles, pouches that one urinates in that turn it instantly to gel for disposal once on the ground, for instance), or they make do with whatever they have in the cockpit... travel mug, trash bag, used grocery bag, etc. Lots of those same items are commonly used by long-haul truckers who'd rather not stop or pull off if they're making good time.
Those are often referred to as “trucker bombs” and used to fend off tailgating on occasion.
Someone asked NASCAR driver Chris Buescher this question. He said: "You hold it, like a big boy." 
That could be tough especially if you ate some bad chowders or something.Someone asked NASCAR driver Chris Buescher this question. He said: "You hold it, like a big boy."
Either that, or over Ballard. Remember when Almost Live always made fun of Ballard? I miss that show and I miss Pat Cashman!
Depends...
ehhh pennies do a better job, as do marbles, but the offending car has to be beside you to get a direct hit.
Dropping something out the window when you have a 53' trailer on the back isn't going to do much good.
But the good old fashioned "brake check" works every time, the ICC bar, brought to you compliments of Jane Mansfield wins every time... and you can say you had no idea someone hit the back of your rig.... which is why you kept going.
A Sacramento FM station turned in their license over a contest based on this theory.Someone asked NASCAR driver Chris Buescher this question. He said: "You hold it, like a big boy."
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