N are all us registered aircraft, c is canada. each country has a prefix for registration numbers.
the size of the aircraft, number of engines, etc will effect what part of the regulations the aircraft is certified under, but all bear a registration starting with N.
You can register an aircraft anywhere, but you have do abide by the regs of the country in which it is registered. ie, flying an N registered aircraft still requires a properly qualified FAA certified pilot, regardless of where it is, and a C certified aircraft with a properly certified canadian pilot can fly into the us without an FAA cert, but he cant fly an N aircraft in the US or canada (though it is easy to get private privledges in another country, just a paperwork issue)
And nations do not inform other nations of aircraft movements, that is handled by Oceanic ATC or by the domestic ATC of whatever country you are overflying (assuming the airspace you are in is even controlled). As far as airspace to avoid, we have charts and notams to tell us that.
And to take your scenario with an aircraft collision, attatched to an aircraft registration number and serial number is a registration and airworthyness certificate. On this certificate is the name and address of the registered owner, and various governments keep databases of this information. Generally though the pilots are held responsible, and since they are often dead its pretty much a non-issue.
your intake, air filter, intake runners, imperfiections in the manifold, size of intake and exhaust ports, cam timing and exhaust system are what are suffocating your engine. not your oil.
because a different agency, the FAA, says you cant when onboard a part 121 flight.
United has gained approval to provide wifi on its 757s, and lufthansa has been doing it for a while afaik, so i guess "cant" really isnt the appropriate word.
jet-A at the airport i fly out of is $3+ a gallon, avgas is just a tad cheaper there (usually avgas is more expensive than jet-a), but both are well above what it costs to get unleaded supreme gas at the car pumps in the area.
and if you did have a contract for cheaper fuel, realize the cost per gallon is offset by the shear amount of gas carried. Jet fuel is more often measured in pounds than gallons (6.7 lbs/gal) and fuel flows are measured in hundereds of pounds per hour. Even a little citation-1 holds a good 3-4000 lbs of fuel (1000+ gal/hr fuel flow per engine at takeoff power @ SL, and down to 3-500 lbs/hr/engine in cruise at altitude iirc)
If ATC radar wont help at that level, mode S wont do a thing either. Mode S works like a normal mode C transponder, except that it can recieve a datalink from an ATC radar site. That datalink is used to transmit traffic data to give a TCAS like interface traffic avoidance.
Take away the ATC radar, and you lose TIS (the mode S datalink) and you are left with the equivelent of a mode C transponder.
Other aircraft equipped with TCAS can see you either way, but you will not see them unless you are in a mode S service area (there is a map somewhere on the faa website, and maybe in AIM)
>2) The work done with Hubble has long-term scientific value. Maintaining Hubble is looking long term.
no, NASA said a long time ago that hubble was temporary (you may recall the furor when NASA said that it was going to leave hubble in orbit at end of life rather than de-orbiting for museum display).
The end of hubble != the end. Its being replaced with a new telescope that will be more suited to thier mission.
>15.4", 1280x800? You don't seem to understand that that is the industry standard for widescreen laptops.
thats the low end industry standard, WXGA. My laptop with a 15.4" uses the next up standard 1680x1050 WSXGA+ resolution, and theres yet a higher one, 1900x1600 WUXGA, in the same 15.4" lcd.
LAX is surrounded by class bravo airspace (positive radar control) and those helpful (well i cant speak for socal approach guys) contollers keep us nice and spread out so we dont get in eachothers way.
an rv-4 kit costs about 16-17k, but thats only part of the cost, add an engine, propeller, flight instruments and avionics and you are easily pushing 30-40k.
im planning on building an rv-7, and im estimating a cost of 52k before i even think about instruments and avionics. (0 time factory new engines arent cheap:(
>Thanks. I don't consider a Windows program completely "free" if it depends on a $1,000 compiler from Microsoft.
if by $1000, you mean $60, then you have a point. Thats for Visual c++.NET learning edition, which im sure is more than ample to build giFT. If you have a college ID, you can probably pick up the pro version for a decent price, and if you go to select schools with MS's licensing deals, you can get all of Visual Studio.NET for $35.
to claim $1000, is just uninformed, and needless propogation of bullshit, thanks for your contribution to the internet.
>Unfortunately, I can't run Linux or FreeBSD effectively on either of my computers, both of which have winmodems and neither of which I got an opportunity to customize.
must be those $1000 modems keeping you down, or do you not consider an operating system "free" if it depends on hardware that costs you your hard earned allowance?
Sony has taken steps to remove info from the client. Some of the things they have changed include
1) mob hit points are sent as a percent rather than absolute value (though they still use a 16 bit int to send this value).
2) experience value is sent as a fraction of 330 now, instead of actual values for each kill. The fraction of 330 directly corresponds to the drawing of the experience bar (in case 330 sounds like an odd number to use, thats why)
3) mob faction numbers are now sent as an index of what faction text to use, instead of actual faction numbers. This went in not long after people were realizing just how many velious mobs they needed to kill to raise faction adequatly for quests.
4) player positioning. This has always been bad, but they've optimised to to be a little worse for showeq somewhere down the line. Basically, if you've ever played a class that can track, and you've tracked some random player, you'll know what im talking about. Player positions are only sent if they are moving and in the radius of update (not very big). If they are outside this radius, you never get an update, and you record them as at thier last known spot. If you use track or showeq to find them, you'll go to this spot, and not them.
5) the session cipher key. They've made it bigger over time and moved to a PKI system to exchange it, so it cannot be discovered by sniffing it (passive discovery anyway).
there are more im forgetting, but its been a long time since played.
>SOE (or Verant previously) *has* removed lots of data from the client-side. For example, a long time ago, the client used to be aware of every "mob's" (monster's) loot.
ShowEQ has never been able to tell you a monsters loot. Ever.
You could deduce what they might drop from things hey have on them (the old favorite was telling which wisps had lightstones, not because we could tell thier loot, but because you could tell what level of light they gave off).
> Consider how an economy might react to (for example: the collapse of air traffic), and the subsequent secondary effects.
air traffic would *not* collapse due to a magnetic pole change. All that would be required is new charts issued (which are normally issued at regular intervals) with new isogonic lines drawn.
Charts are already drawn with respect to true north, and a step in flight planning is taking your true course and correcting for the local magnetic variation. It would just be a new number to correct with.
And as for the VOR airway system in US, the course radials that the stations broadcast tend to be aligned to magnetic north, but some stations are not, and there would be no requirement to immediatly change that if the poles were to change.
And finally, the magnetic compass in an aircraft plays a specific role, and that is to set the Directional Gyro, which precesses with time and needs to be adjusted. The process is to fly straight and level and unnacelerated (the only time the mag compass is accurate, btw), and read the compass, then consult the compass correction card, and set the DG appropriatly. The compasses already show error due to ferrous materials in the plane construction, and at minimum, you could get by by just making a new compass correction card.
as a pilot, i dont really see a magnetic pole change as a problem.
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N are all us registered aircraft, c is canada. each country has a prefix for registration numbers.
the size of the aircraft, number of engines, etc will effect what part of the regulations the aircraft is certified under, but all bear a registration starting with N.
You can register an aircraft anywhere, but you have do abide by the regs of the country in which it is registered. ie, flying an N registered aircraft still requires a properly qualified FAA certified pilot, regardless of where it is, and a C certified aircraft with a properly certified canadian pilot can fly into the us without an FAA cert, but he cant fly an N aircraft in the US or canada (though it is easy to get private privledges in another country, just a paperwork issue)
And nations do not inform other nations of aircraft movements, that is handled by Oceanic ATC or by the domestic ATC of whatever country you are overflying (assuming the airspace you are in is even controlled). As far as airspace to avoid, we have charts and notams to tell us that.
And to take your scenario with an aircraft collision, attatched to an aircraft registration number and serial number is a registration and airworthyness certificate. On this certificate is the name and address of the registered owner, and various governments keep databases of this information. Generally though the pilots are held responsible, and since they are often dead its pretty much a non-issue.
yup, thats where i got them (the ordering info for CDROM used to also offer hardcoopies).
no, that would be this red book
your intake, air filter, intake runners, imperfiections in the manifold, size of intake and exhaust ports, cam timing and exhaust system are what are suffocating your engine. not your oil.
and dont forget the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport. :)
because a different agency, the FAA, says you cant when onboard a part 121 flight.
United has gained approval to provide wifi on its 757s, and lufthansa has been doing it for a while afaik, so i guess "cant" really isnt the appropriate word.
> Jet fuel is cheaper than gasoline.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KGKY
jet-A at the airport i fly out of is $3+ a gallon, avgas is just a tad cheaper there (usually avgas is more expensive than jet-a), but both are well above what it costs to get unleaded supreme gas at the car pumps in the area.
and if you did have a contract for cheaper fuel, realize the cost per gallon is offset by the shear amount of gas carried. Jet fuel is more often measured in pounds than gallons (6.7 lbs/gal) and fuel flows are measured in hundereds of pounds per hour. Even a little citation-1 holds a good 3-4000 lbs of fuel (1000+ gal/hr fuel flow per engine at takeoff power @ SL, and down to 3-500 lbs/hr/engine in cruise at altitude iirc)
if you fly your own plane (privately under part 91 rules) you can take just about anything you want. including guns.
If ATC radar wont help at that level, mode S wont do a thing either. Mode S works like a normal mode C transponder, except that it can recieve a datalink from an ATC radar site. That datalink is used to transmit traffic data to give a TCAS like interface traffic avoidance.
Take away the ATC radar, and you lose TIS (the mode S datalink) and you are left with the equivelent of a mode C transponder.
Other aircraft equipped with TCAS can see you either way, but you will not see them unless you are in a mode S service area (there is a map somewhere on the faa website, and maybe in AIM)
The airspace above FL600 is controlled class E airspace.
>2) The work done with Hubble has long-term scientific value. Maintaining Hubble is looking long term.
no, NASA said a long time ago that hubble was temporary (you may recall the furor when NASA said that it was going to leave hubble in orbit at end of life rather than de-orbiting for museum display).
The end of hubble != the end. Its being replaced with a new telescope that will be more suited to thier mission.
>15.4", 1280x800? You don't seem to understand that that is the industry standard for widescreen laptops.
thats the low end industry standard, WXGA. My laptop with a 15.4" uses the next up standard 1680x1050 WSXGA+ resolution, and theres yet a higher one, 1900x1600 WUXGA, in the same 15.4" lcd.
LAX is surrounded by class bravo airspace (positive radar control) and those helpful (well i cant speak for socal approach guys) contollers keep us nice and spread out so we dont get in eachothers way.
an rv-4 kit costs about 16-17k, but thats only part of the cost, add an engine, propeller, flight instruments and avionics and you are easily pushing 30-40k.
:(
im planning on building an rv-7, and im estimating a cost of 52k before i even think about instruments and avionics. (0 time factory new engines arent cheap
but you still need connectivity for that to work. with html/js, you could host it on the phone and not eat up bandwidth uselessly.
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>Thanks. I don't consider a Windows program completely "free" if it depends on a $1,000 compiler from Microsoft.
if by $1000, you mean $60, then you have a point. Thats for Visual c++.NET learning edition, which im sure is more than ample to build giFT. If you have a college ID, you can probably pick up the pro version for a decent price, and if you go to select schools with MS's licensing deals, you can get all of Visual Studio.NET for $35.
to claim $1000, is just uninformed, and needless propogation of bullshit, thanks for your contribution to the internet.
>Unfortunately, I can't run Linux or FreeBSD effectively on either of my computers, both of which have winmodems and neither of which I got an opportunity to customize.
must be those $1000 modems keeping you down, or do you not consider an operating system "free" if it depends on hardware that costs you your hard earned allowance?
Sony has taken steps to remove info from the client. Some of the things they have changed include
1) mob hit points are sent as a percent rather than absolute value (though they still use a 16 bit int to send this value).
2) experience value is sent as a fraction of 330 now, instead of actual values for each kill. The fraction of 330 directly corresponds to the drawing of the experience bar (in case 330 sounds like an odd number to use, thats why)
3) mob faction numbers are now sent as an index of what faction text to use, instead of actual faction numbers. This went in not long after people were realizing just how many velious mobs they needed to kill to raise faction adequatly for quests.
4) player positioning. This has always been bad, but they've optimised to to be a little worse for showeq somewhere down the line. Basically, if you've ever played a class that can track, and you've tracked some random player, you'll know what im talking about. Player positions are only sent if they are moving and in the radius of update (not very big). If they are outside this radius, you never get an update, and you record them as at thier last known spot. If you use track or showeq to find them, you'll go to this spot, and not them.
5) the session cipher key. They've made it bigger over time and moved to a PKI system to exchange it, so it cannot be discovered by sniffing it (passive discovery anyway).
there are more im forgetting, but its been a long time since played.
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(not anon, and i am a seq dev)
>SOE (or Verant previously) *has* removed lots of data from the client-side. For example, a long time ago, the client used to be aware of every "mob's" (monster's) loot.
ShowEQ has never been able to tell you a monsters loot. Ever.
You could deduce what they might drop from things hey have on them (the old favorite was telling which wisps had lightstones, not because we could tell thier loot, but because you could tell what level of light they gave off).
ShowEQ has never known loot.
why would they need too? photoshop is available on i386/win32 nativly, its not like they lack i386 assembler to match thier ppc stuff...
> Consider how an economy might react to (for example: the collapse of air traffic), and the subsequent secondary effects.
air traffic would *not* collapse due to a magnetic pole change. All that would be required is new charts issued (which are normally issued at regular intervals) with new isogonic lines drawn.
Charts are already drawn with respect to true north, and a step in flight planning is taking your true course and correcting for the local magnetic variation. It would just be a new number to correct with.
And as for the VOR airway system in US, the course radials that the stations broadcast tend to be aligned to magnetic north, but some stations are not, and there would be no requirement to immediatly change that if the poles were to change.
And finally, the magnetic compass in an aircraft plays a specific role, and that is to set the Directional Gyro, which precesses with time and needs to be adjusted. The process is to fly straight and level and unnacelerated (the only time the mag compass is accurate, btw), and read the compass, then consult the compass correction card, and set the DG appropriatly. The compasses already show error due to ferrous materials in the plane construction, and at minimum, you could get by by just making a new compass correction card.
as a pilot, i dont really see a magnetic pole change as a problem.
time warner, austin tx.
screen is split into 3 sections during guide use. bottom half shows 90 minutes of programming for 5 channels at once, tv guide style. Top left quadrant shows basic info about the highlighted show in the guide, and top right quadrant is whatever channel is currently tuned, so you can watch it while you browse. If you hit info, the bottom half changes to the program description of the highlighted show. no ads.
there are no ads in my digital cable program guide...
If you want to see a vulnerable robot, find the robot wars episode featuring a bot named "tiger woods". As then name might suggest, the bot is made of wood, he makes it to the final fight, but the other bot literally turns him into splinters.
and thats abviously where you stopped attending classes.