Why The Hell... (random rant)

Maxwell writes:

Odd..you are clearly the poster child for stupidity, but you don't see
hostile.

I'm neither stupid nor hostile.

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dgs writes:

So, when he attempts to label people as stupid (even if only by
implication), or treat others as if they're idiots, remember, he's
actually proposing that he be treated as if he's stupid too. At least
it's consistent.

No. When I give honest assessments of something or someone, I expect others
to do the same.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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And that tells you your course, not which direction the nose is pointed.

For navigation, your ground track is more important.

There is no GPS instrument available that will tell you which way
your nose is pointed.

As I've said, you just use two.

The only two places on Earth a magnetic compass doesn't work in an
airplane are over the north and south magnetic poles.

No. There are thousands of local magnetic anomalies that can make a
compass
useless.

Piston engines have magnetos which generate the spark plug firing
voltage, and only the spark plug voltage.

Last time I checked, sparks counted as electricity.


Then hook up a spark plug wire to your GPS.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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They are still big, heavy, and expensive.

Laser gyros are not big or heavy, although they are usually expensive.

I'll skip the rest of your post, as there are more anomalies than I care
to
address.

Then why wonder about real flying dip****, it certainly does the same.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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dgs writes:

So, when he attempts to label people as stupid (even if only by
implication), or treat others as if they're idiots, remember, he's
actually proposing that he be treated as if he's stupid too. At least
it's consistent.

No. When I give honest assessments of something or someone, I expect
others
to do the same.


Dang, when did you do that????????????????????????

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

Odd..you are clearly the poster child for stupidity, but you don't see
hostile.

I'm neither stupid nor hostile.


That's the funny thing about being nuts, you're always the last one to know.

"Barney Rubble" wrote in message
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So what do you periodically use to align the DG to? Hint: it's not the
true magnetic north as see out of the window....


"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Sorry, I have to mildly disagree as far as flying goes, that you'd
automatically be in "deep trouble". Many pilots use just the
compass / DG for cross-country flying.

A compass / DG is not just a compass.

You can't do much with just a compass alone. You need a clock, some
charts,
other things ... not _just_ a compass.

Therefore a simple compass
was "good enough" for winged flight across the Atlantic starting in
1919. which is not "four hundred years" ago.

They had more than a simple compass. In particular, they had accurate
clocks,
and charts.


He aligns it with his bedroom picture of Pavlov.

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
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A true enough statement, but one that shows how very little you know
about navigation.

When did truth become evidence of ignorance?

The moment you posted your tripe.

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In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
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You need to know the heading to use to get somewhere. You use the
compass to actually go that direction.

You don't know what that heading is unless you already know where you are.

If you have a heading to get to where you want to go, the details of
your current position are irrelevant.

If the bathroom is down the hallway to the left, does it matter where
you are in getting to the bathroom?

You mean like fly a heading 230 degrees for 47 miles and there will be
a lake.

How do you know about the lake, with only a compass as your guide?

At the lake fly a heading of 273 degrees for 32 miles and
at that airport, fly a heading of 264 degrees for another 44 miles
and you will be at your destination?

How do you get this information from a compass?

Don't be an even bigger idiot than you already are.

Given the task is to get from point A to point B and you have a compass,
the only information you need is the heading from point A to point B.

No, the compass doesn't tell you what it it supposed to be, you need
something else to tell you that, whether it is another person, a
chart, or you just happen to know it.

So, you need a heading and a compass to follow that heading.


You obviously know nothing of real world navigation.

No, it's just that I know about covert channels.

Do you wrap your head with foil when you don't want to receive those
channels?

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In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
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Yeah, a few seconds once the decision is made.

No, far longer than that. I seem to recall it being minutes or hours,
probably the latter.

Maybe, just maybe, the satellites on the other side of the planet, but
for everything in view, seconds.

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