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  #11  
Old December 11th 18, 05:31 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell[_4_]
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Tango Eight wrote on 12/10/2018 9:43 AM:
On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 11:18:11 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 10:45:21 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Sorry Herb, but that was Darryl who used the 0 deg C for the ice bath.
I was just musing the other day about why, when listening to our AWOS
recordings they use inches of mercury for the altimeter setting, feet
for cloud layers, knots for winds, and, phhhht... Celsius for the
temperature.

Why screw up a perfectly good recording with that metric crap?* My pink
little body is comfortable at 72 deg F.* I just don't comprehend
22.22222 deg C, 295.3722 deg Kelvin, or 531.67 deg Rankin.* Real men
don't need 10, 10, 10 to make their calculations easy.* We still can,
but we just don't want to.* Can't we all just live together in peace?
Kum bi ya... :-D

On 12/8/2018 7:10 AM, wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 4:57:20 PM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Putting the probe in ice water is the best way to get a true 32 deg F
reading.* It won't hurt the probe.

On 12/7/2018 3:13 PM, Dave Springford wrote:
Deming,

In the user manual for Ver 6.04, section 5.1.11.1 it explains how to adjust the temperature offset.

Manuals can be downloaded from the LXNAV website he
https://gliding.lxnav.com/lxdownloads/manuals/

I'm also not sure that putting the probe in water was a good thing as I believe there is a small current that runs through the probe and getting it wet may not be good.



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Perfect, Dan! That's how you calibrate a temp probe. If we ditched the lousy Fahrenheit scale for Centigrade this would be known more widely. Melting ice and boiling water are the Standards (at sea level) to establish 0 deg C and 100 deg C.
Congrats, you made an important step to seeing the superiority of the metric system. Now let's talk about how a 10x10x10 cm volume of water makes 1 liter and also weighs 1kg. It could all be so easy...
Herb, J7

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Dan, background and personal history matter. If you had spent the first 35 years of your life around a highly rational (metric) system of measures - which the French came up with, hail to them - you'd feel different about the helter-skelter BS system we are using. Btw, if you work in most any industry these days in the US, you're on metric. Of course, the sciences have been forever.
Has nothing to do with peaceful co-existence, all with sanity and rationality.
Herb, J7


Says the guy that thinks a turnip has a gender, but an unmarried woman does not :-).

Tell me more about that turnip...

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Old December 11th 18, 10:15 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Newport-Peace[_4_]
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At 04:31 11 December 2018, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Tango Eight wrote on 12/10/2018 9:43 AM:
On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 11:18:11 AM UTC-5,

wrote:
Says the guy that thinks a turnip has a gender, but an unmarried woman

=
does not :-).
=20

Tell me more about that turnip...


In french everything has a gender:
Turnip=Le Navet


  #13  
Old December 11th 18, 11:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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I’m lost, do you put the turnip in the ice bath?
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Old December 11th 18, 11:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 11:32:02 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Tango Eight wrote on 12/10/2018 9:43 AM:
On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 11:18:11 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 10:45:21 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Sorry Herb, but that was Darryl who used the 0 deg C for the ice bath..
I was just musing the other day about why, when listening to our AWOS
recordings they use inches of mercury for the altimeter setting, feet
for cloud layers, knots for winds, and, phhhht... Celsius for the
temperature.

Why screw up a perfectly good recording with that metric crap?Â* My pink
little body is comfortable at 72 deg F.Â* I just don't comprehend
22.22222 deg C, 295.3722 deg Kelvin, or 531.67 deg Rankin.Â* Real men
don't need 10, 10, 10 to make their calculations easy.Â* We still can,
but we just don't want to.Â* Can't we all just live together in peace?
Kum bi ya... :-D

On 12/8/2018 7:10 AM, wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 4:57:20 PM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Putting the probe in ice water is the best way to get a true 32 deg F
reading.Â* It won't hurt the probe.

On 12/7/2018 3:13 PM, Dave Springford wrote:
Deming,

In the user manual for Ver 6.04, section 5.1.11.1 it explains how to adjust the temperature offset.

Manuals can be downloaded from the LXNAV website he
https://gliding.lxnav.com/lxdownloads/manuals/

I'm also not sure that putting the probe in water was a good thing as I believe there is a small current that runs through the probe and getting it wet may not be good.



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Dan, 5J
Perfect, Dan! That's how you calibrate a temp probe. If we ditched the lousy Fahrenheit scale for Centigrade this would be known more widely. Melting ice and boiling water are the Standards (at sea level) to establish 0 deg C and 100 deg C.
Congrats, you made an important step to seeing the superiority of the metric system. Now let's talk about how a 10x10x10 cm volume of water makes 1 liter and also weighs 1kg. It could all be so easy...
Herb, J7

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Dan, 5J

Dan, background and personal history matter. If you had spent the first 35 years of your life around a highly rational (metric) system of measures - which the French came up with, hail to them - you'd feel different about the helter-skelter BS system we are using. Btw, if you work in most any industry these days in the US, you're on metric. Of course, the sciences have been forever.
Has nothing to do with peaceful co-existence, all with sanity and rationality.
Herb, J7


Says the guy that thinks a turnip has a gender, but an unmarried woman does not :-).

Tell me more about that turnip...


Geeze, I'm disappointed, don't my fellow ras-aholics read about things that don't fly?

I thought it was amusing that Herb, who as far as I know grew up speaking *German*, would take such umbrage with the traditional American system of units and measures.

Mark Twain's satirical $0.02 on "The Awful German Language", (turnip reference within)

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html


Enjoy.

best,
Evan / T8
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Old December 12th 18, 08:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Isn't it ironic that the US persists in using the outdated Imperial system of measures inherited from and now discarded by the British, with whom you fought a war for independence, rather than the metric system invented by the French who sent you the Statue of Liberty?
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Old December 12th 18, 05:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Not at all.Â* Winning independence from an oppressive government does not
mean that a country must cleanse itself of everything taken from that
government, nor does receiving help from the French in our war of
independence mean that we have to take their form of government,
measurements, literature, etc.Â* What's ironic is that the rest of the
world can't stay out of our business.Â* Everyone hates the USA, yet they
all line up for the benefits to be gained from the US. Take care of
yourselves for a change, pay your own bills for once, and leave us
alone.Â* And you might take the UN with you when you leave.

On 12/12/2018 12:09 AM, wrote:
Isn't it ironic that the US persists in using the outdated Imperial system of measures inherited from and now discarded by the British, with whom you fought a war for independence, rather than the metric system invented by the French who sent you the Statue of Liberty?


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Old December 12th 18, 06:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 4:47:47 PM UTC, Dan Marotta wrote:
Not at all.Â* Winning independence from an oppressive government does not
mean that a country must cleanse itself of everything taken from that
government, nor does receiving help from the French in our war of
independence mean that we have to take their form of government,
measurements, literature, etc.Â* What's ironic is that the rest of the
world can't stay out of our business.Â* Everyone hates the USA, yet they
all line up for the benefits to be gained from the US. Take care of
yourselves for a change, pay your own bills for once, and leave us
alone.Â* And you might take the UN with you when you leave.


And you get all that from a gentle observation!? Quite alarming really.
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Old December 12th 18, 08:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Entire prologue snipped...

This is the kind of isolationism that worked quite well.

until December 7, 1941.


Sheesh...

Your point being George Santayana was correct in observing that those who fail
to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat it?

Lessee...prior to"isolationism" - (You stay out or our face, and we'll stay
out of yours.) - there was a whole lot of appeasement to go around on the
European continent...after a decade or so of the League of Nations ignoring
more-or-less-global (e.g. Asia/Africa) aggressions...which was clearly the
United States' fault since the very idea of the League can be laid at Woodrow
Wilson's feet...after the European (and here I include the European part of
Czarist Russia) continent went nuts over an overly exuberant burst of
nationalism in the Balkans...

I think savvy readers get the idea. It shouldn't be necessary to nod toward
the fact United States forces bailed out Europe's squabbling butts twice (in
both global conflicts). But, hey, RASidents can all look on the bright side:
WW-I arguably led to the development of soaring as we know it today!

Looks like it may be a long northern winter on RAS...

Bob W.

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Old December 12th 18, 10:53 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 11:33:05 AM UTC-8, Bob Whelan wrote:
Entire prologue snipped...

This is the kind of isolationism that worked quite well.

until December 7, 1941.


Sheesh...

Your point being George Santayana was correct in observing that those who fail
to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat it?

Lessee...prior to"isolationism" - (You stay out or our face, and we'll stay
out of yours.) - there was a whole lot of appeasement to go around on the
European continent...after a decade or so of the League of Nations ignoring
more-or-less-global (e.g. Asia/Africa) aggressions...which was clearly the
United States' fault since the very idea of the League can be laid at Woodrow
Wilson's feet...after the European (and here I include the European part of
Czarist Russia) continent went nuts over an overly exuberant burst of
nationalism in the Balkans...

I think savvy readers get the idea. It shouldn't be necessary to nod toward
the fact United States forces bailed out Europe's squabbling butts twice (in
both global conflicts). But, hey, RASidents can all look on the bright side:
WW-I arguably led to the development of soaring as we know it today!

Looks like it may be a long northern winter on RAS...

Bob W.

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Exactly, "Your point being .. was correct in observing that those who fail
to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat it..."

Time and time again history has shown when you start a moral, political, social debate on a SOARING newsgroup you are bringing the rest of the group into discussion they did not sign up for, so let us respect the other members of the group, and conduct ourselves accordingly! Another little know fact, it is entirely possible to let a small quip about another's country go unchallenged as in this group most likely it was issued in jest. Happy Christmas spirit all!
 




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