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Mxsmanic wrote: brevity snip
Scott Post writes: You do realize that a radio isn't required for VFR flight, right? You do make position reports when flying over long distances, don't you? L O L ! ----- - gpsman |
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Crash Lander schrieb: I think a lot of the agro towards Mxsmanic is due to the fact that he doesn't even try to research the answers himself. he just expects others to spoon feed him the answers. Hi Crash, agreed; the manner in which he is posting and the justification of his posts are quite questionable, but you cannot possibly deny that the posts he started contain valuable information. The signal to noise ratio people complain about would greatly diminish, if those who dislike his 'personality' would simply start to ignore him altogether, as has been said endlessly already. After all, most of the 'noise' in his threads consists of the contributions of peolple discussing the pros and cons of his posts/questions which, admittedly, has nothing to do with aviation, be it simulated or RL. This obviously is also true for this very post ... :-) Andreas |
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Recently, Mxsmanic posted:
Neil Gould writes: So, if such situations were "highly unlikely" as you stated, there wouldn't be much point in providing such a simulation, would there? They are highly unlikely outside of heavy traffic areas, both in real life and in simulation. And, you know this, how? In fact, radio chatter is sometimes *much worse* in low traffic areas. You can be the only one in the vicinity, but still not be able to get a word in edgewise. And, it isn't uncommon. Let's see if you can figure out why that is. This is a perfect example of what several others have already told you; you are arguing from a position of total ignorance. If you don't know the real answer, you can not make a valid argument. Chalk up all of your responses of this nature as 100% noise. Neil |
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Recently, Andreas Tschoeke posted:
Crash Lander schrieb: I think a lot of the agro towards Mxsmanic is due to the fact that he doesn't even try to research the answers himself. he just expects others to spoon feed him the answers. Hi Crash, agreed; the manner in which he is posting and the justification of his posts are quite questionable, but you cannot possibly deny that the posts he started contain valuable information. The signal to noise ratio people complain about would greatly diminish, if those who dislike his 'personality' would simply start to ignore him altogether, as has been said endlessly already. After all, most of the 'noise' in his threads consists of the contributions of peolple discussing the pros and cons of his posts/questions which, admittedly, has nothing to do with aviation, be it simulated or RL. This obviously is also true for this very post ... :-) Andreas I disagree with this assessment. "Noise" is that which obfuscates the "signal", making it difficult to determine the true message. In this context, the "noise" is mostly from Mxsmanic's factually incorrect claims, as the other posts and OT reponses may have little to do with the message and therefore won't obfuscate the information. What angers some, myself included, is that some of the misinformation that Mxsmanic posts as fact would be quite dangerous for a student pilot to accept as true. OTOH, the responses from others that reflect frustration in dealing with such misinformation give "color" to the readers of the thread, and should help them to catch on that this person really has nothing to contribute with regard to flying real aircraft. So, over all, the signal to noise is *improved* by these contributions because they function as a "noise filter". Neil |
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"Neil Gould" wrote in
om: What angers some, myself included, is that some of the misinformation that Mxsmanic posts as fact would be quite dangerous for a student pilot to accept as true. Agree.... While we can't help the lurkers, we can advise new people that respond to his posts that he is a troll and use information provided by him with a grain of salt and they are wasting their valuable time with him. OTOH, the responses from others that reflect frustration in dealing with such misinformation give "color" to the readers of the thread, and should help them to catch on that this person really has nothing to contribute with regard to flying real aircraft. So, over all, the signal to noise is *improved* by these contributions because they function as a "noise filter". Disagree.... All it should take is one response to stop the noise factor and others follow suit by not acknowledging him. If we work as a group to improve the quality, then he will go away getting the message that nobody will put up with his nonsens. Opinions will always vary, but GENERALLY speaking, most of his responses just don't fit the real world situation. Allen |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
m... "Steve Foley" wrote in message news:%JE8h.2135$gJ1.1662@trndny09... "Jim Macklin" wrote in message ... Having a transponder squawking 1200 does very little toward S&R. Isn't that how they located JFK Jr's plane? At the bottom of the ocean? I think not. IIRC they didn't search the entire floor of the Atlantic. They had a starting point. Maybe some sonobuoys heard the splash. |
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"Montblack" wrote in message
... For me, therefore --- transporters, and time travel, are both within my grasp. Do you use the little red transporters, or the little white ones? |
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In article LWW8h.4202$_x3.3302@trndny02,
"Steve Foley" wrote: IIRC they didn't search the entire floor of the Atlantic. They had a starting point. Maybe some sonobuoys heard the splash. SOSUS? what?!!! -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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Actually, JFK Jr was the only one in the front of the airplane. His
wife and her sister were (if I remember the NTSB report correctly) in the rearmost seats. He had intended to make the trip in the daylight, but road traffic and other circumstances delayed him. The leg from about Point Judith RI to the Vineyard (Point Judith, btw, has a protected harbor called "Harbor of Last Refuge" and I've taken refuge in it several times, the seas where Long Island Sound and the Atlantic meet are not very pleasant for a sailboat) is all over water and in the flight conditions he was in, although probably marginal VFR, should be flown IFR. The Vineyard stop was intended to drop off his sister in law (a bright and beautiful investment banker, already a VP at a major investment house). He and his wife were supposed to continue on to Cape Cod for a wedding. Had the Vineyard leg been omitted, the trip would have been mostly over land, with ground lights probably providing some outside reference. As for the question about the book -- at least one was titled something like The Night John Died. The accident report is available on line at the NTSB site. On Nov 21, 7:49 pm, "Dudley Henriques" wrote: I've always believed that what nailed Kennedy was not his lack of experience, which was ok at 310 hours, but his known problem with multi-tasking. This coupled with spatial disorientation can be, and in my opinion indeed was a killer. I can only speculate on how deeply into his problem with cockpit multi-tasking and overload his instructors at Flight Safety managed to go, but I do understand he had these issues all through his training. Its very difficult for instructors when dealing in these areas. You certainly can ascertain the problem exists with a student, and you can deal with it, but in the end analysis, its extremely difficult if not impossible for an instructor to predict how a student will react somewhere down the line when suddenly faced with an actual multi-task overload. I only have questions on this issue as pertains to the Kennedy accident, not accusations. Its quite possible his instructors did all they could to solve his issues, but this leaves me with the fact that regardless of the instructor's role, I'm fairly well convinced that what killed Kennedy was his poor preflight planning putting him in conditions and at a time of day that he wasn't prepared to handle coupled with his on board reaction to an actual spatial disorientation that overloaded him to the point that he reacted contrary to his instrument training not shallowing the bank before his pitch correction thus deepening his spiral. Who knows actually what really happened? For all we know, the right front seat pax might have had an object in their lap that interfered with his effort to shallow the bank. No one will ever REALLY know. That's why we always get the "probable cause". Anyway, I for one will always have unanswered questions about the level the instructor accepted somewhere along his learning curve from Kennedy as acceptable performance concerning what the instructor absolutely had to know was a multi-tasking overload issue. Its just the way I approach the flight training issue I guess. Everybody in the business has their own way of looking at these things. Dudley Henriques "Tony" wrote in ooglegroups.com... Re JFK Jr's last flight: when you look at the prelim report you'll notice he has had more dual time instruction than for example naval pilots have total time when they're landing on carriers! He was pretty well along on his instrument rating as well. He was flying with a foot still not healed from a hang gliding accident, and it seems fairly clear he turned off the auto pilot to start down and pulled himself into a spiral. I think radar shows it was less than a minute from 5500 feet to impact. A book written about the event said his family didn't ever want to fly with him On Nov 21, 5:56 pm, "Dudley Henriques" wrote: "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in ... It indicates that he didn't use it not that the CFIs didn't teach it. From the outcome of the flight I'd say there were probably several things the CFIs taught him that he either forgot or ignored.Actually, I've had a problem with the CFI side of the Kennedy equation since the day of the accident . I know the area of the crash very well having flown up there myself many times . I've always had an issue with the fact that Kennedy wasn't as aware as he should have been about the dangers of horizon loss in the area under certain weather conditions and at certain times of the day. I also wasn't at all satisfied with his inability to avoid the loss of control situation that apparently resulted in the loss of the airplane and its occupants both on the planning end and during the operational end directly prior to the crash. This accident seemed literally riddled with contributing causes as indeed is the situation in many aircraft accidents. Not that in my opinion it was the single contributing cause, but I'll always have an unanswered question in my mind about the quality of Kennedy's flight instruction during his training. Dudley Henriques- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - |
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("Steve Foley" wrote)
For me, therefore --- transporters, and time travel, are both within my grasp. Do you use the little red transporters, or the little white ones? For Thanksgiving, whichever ones "...makes you small" (Remember, what the dormouse said: "Feed your head") Montblack-is-black I want my baby back It's gray, it's gray Since she went away, Ooh-Ooh What can I do 'Cause I-I-I-I-I'm feelin' blue |
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