It’s mucking around to use a palm size wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse? it’s very easy for most people not just geeks, exactly like using the ubiquitous PC. My 91 year old father can do it. With my various channels as shortcuts, I rarely need to use the keyboard.
I use an old Dell dual core desktop, to a Panasonic smart TV via hdmi. The TV never gets connected to the internet, the whole exercise took 1/2 an hour to setup, including OS install. No mucking around, just a once only setup, still going fine 4 years later. I will never allow my TVs to connect to the internet, exactly because they can pull this shit.
As is the key point for all recreational drugs, including alcohol, can be used or abused. Sensible use is largely harmless, abuse is harmful. In my experience of friends with drug issues,(working in the music biz included) the vast majority deaths that have occoured have been due to alcohol.
It may startle you to learn that the LiPo batteries in electric cars are not grandpa’s old lead acid batteries, not the Prius NiMh either, and that they have different properties.
Quite so, glider pilots feel for the air is unmatched. The high level competition pilots have a freakish ability to find what is known as energy lines in the air purely by feel. Recently, the 100km triangle record was broken with an average speed of 205km/h approx 110kts. Interestingly, each day the air has different properties of lift and sink, the size and strength and the pattern of distribution. For example, when flying between thermals you can feel an upcoming thermal in the nature of turbulence before you get to it, it’s often referred to as cobble stones by pilots due to the rumbling sensation. Every flying day the pilot has to quickly asses the patterns, to utilise them efficiently. It’s this never ending challenge that keeps the devotees coming back for more, even the best never stop learning.
In those incidents of total power failure, (the most famous example being the Gimli glider, where a steep side slip was required to get the approach right) the pilots with gliding experience have performed very well indeed. A glider never has the option of going around after a bad approach, so the pilots are very well trained in using angles to judge their circuits. During training in most countries, pilots even have to fly several flights with all instruments covered, to protect against failures. At least here in Australia stall and spin training is mandatory, and tested each year at the annual flight review. Most power pilots have never done a full blooded spin, which is a violent and disorienting manoeuvre, due to practice, glider pilots respond very quickly to an incipient spin, and usually take action well before the full spin develops. Even during takeoff, we are actively expecting problems and have a plan should the tow rope fail for each stage. I would back the stick and rudder skills and energy management of a well trained glider pilot against any other form of flight training. Gliding is relatively cheap too, and in competition, many of the pilots are airline pilots who like to use real flying skills, and can afford the latest very high performance gliders. If I could choose, I wouldn’t fly with a pilot without gliding experience.
MCAS controls the trim of the whole horizontal stabiliser (fixed stab and movable elevator move as one) whereas the pilot controls only the elevator part. This method of trim gives full control authority at all trim settings, as opposed to an elevator trim that uses some of the elevators travel to do the trimming, limiting the maximum control throw. Every time the pilots pulled back, the system added more down trim, then they ran out of elevator throw. Then the big lawn dart.
Just built a new panel for my Glider, bought new Borgelt B800 vario and 7” tablet and only needed to replace 80mm altimeter with 57mm Winter. With the Borgelt vario I got a Bluetooth combiner, which combine FLARM and B800 outputs and makes them available to the tablet, which has its own GPS, baro altitude and accelerometers. Given my DG200-17C has a very small panel, it shouldn’t be they hard to do other gliders. I carry a Sony Z3 android phone in the side pocket as a fully independent backup. Modern various are vastly superior too. I wouldn’t fly without a FLARM these days. Time to bite the bullet!:)
Meanwhile here in South Australia with our world leading renewables, our grid is holding fine under the extreme load of a record breaking heatwave of 4 days above 41C. We now increase grid stability nation wide. Want to try some other discredited talking points?
Ive recently gone to a Sony Z3 android phone, after many years of iPhones, the differences are marginal at best, and the Sony camera is very good. It really makes no difference at all in day to day use. The cost saving was 80%.
They are certainly kicking your asses in life expectancy, education and public health. I know it’s hard for a seppo to comprehend, but money isn’t everything.
We do not have a shaky power grid, the only time we had problems was due to a storm creating mini tornados which brought the lines down. Why do so many people spread this lie?
The bigger case is that of 4 Russians caught red handed in Sweden, with plenty of physical evidence. All the denials in the world cant make this go away. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
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It’s mucking around to use a palm size wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse? it’s very easy for most people not just geeks, exactly like using the ubiquitous PC. My 91 year old father can do it. With my various channels as shortcuts, I rarely need to use the keyboard.
I use an old Dell dual core desktop, to a Panasonic smart TV via hdmi. The TV never gets connected to the internet, the whole exercise took 1/2 an hour to setup, including OS install. No mucking around, just a once only setup, still going fine 4 years later.
I will never allow my TVs to connect to the internet, exactly because they can pull this shit.
Most cases are spread by returning unvaccinated travellers, sorry to ruin your dog whistle.
As is the key point for all recreational drugs, including alcohol, can be used or abused. Sensible use is largely harmless, abuse is harmful.
In my experience of friends with drug issues,(working in the music biz included) the vast majority deaths that have occoured have been due to alcohol.
It may startle you to learn that the LiPo batteries in electric cars are not grandpa’s old lead acid batteries, not the Prius NiMh either, and that they have different properties.
Nah, geologists have got rocks in their heads. :)
Let’s not forget the New Zealand shooter promoted the asshole.
Obligatory XKCD.
https://xkcd.com/1217/
Quite so, glider pilots feel for the air is unmatched. The high level competition pilots have a freakish ability to find what is known as energy lines in the air purely by feel. Recently, the 100km triangle record was broken with an average speed of 205km/h approx 110kts.
Interestingly, each day the air has different properties of lift and sink, the size and strength and the pattern of distribution.
For example, when flying between thermals you can feel an upcoming thermal in the nature of turbulence before you get to it, it’s often referred to as cobble stones by pilots due to the rumbling sensation.
Every flying day the pilot has to quickly asses the patterns, to utilise them efficiently. It’s this never ending challenge that keeps the devotees coming back for more, even the best never stop learning.
In those incidents of total power failure, (the most famous example being the Gimli glider, where a steep side slip was required to get the approach right) the pilots with gliding experience have performed very well indeed. A glider never has the option of going around after a bad approach, so the pilots are very well trained in using angles to judge their circuits. During training in most countries, pilots even have to fly several flights with all instruments covered, to protect against failures. At least here in Australia stall and spin training is mandatory, and tested each year at the annual flight review.
Most power pilots have never done a full blooded spin, which is a violent and disorienting manoeuvre, due to practice, glider pilots respond very quickly to an incipient spin, and usually take action well before the full spin develops.
Even during takeoff, we are actively expecting problems and have a plan should the tow rope fail for each stage.
I would back the stick and rudder skills and energy management of a well trained glider pilot against any other form of flight training.
Gliding is relatively cheap too, and in competition, many of the pilots are airline pilots who like to use real flying skills, and can afford the latest very high performance gliders.
If I could choose, I wouldn’t fly with a pilot without gliding experience.
MCAS controls the trim of the whole horizontal stabiliser (fixed stab and movable elevator move as one) whereas the pilot controls
only the elevator part. This method of trim gives full control authority at all trim settings, as opposed to an elevator trim that uses some of the elevators travel to do the trimming, limiting the maximum control throw. Every time the pilots pulled back, the system added more down trim, then they ran out of elevator throw.
Then the big lawn dart.
Fair comment. :)
Just built a new panel for my Glider, bought new Borgelt B800 vario and 7” tablet and only needed to replace 80mm altimeter with 57mm Winter. With the Borgelt vario I got a Bluetooth combiner, which combine FLARM and B800 outputs and makes them available to the tablet, which has its own GPS, baro altitude and accelerometers. Given my DG200-17C has a very small panel, it shouldn’t be they hard to do other gliders. I carry a Sony Z3 android phone in the side pocket as a fully independent backup. :)
Modern various are vastly superior too. I wouldn’t fly without a FLARM these days.
Time to bite the bullet!
Close, its runway 02 in aviation speak.
We now export power to the mexicans
I must be imagining my zero power bill due to my solar panels then?
Not on the equator, not in the desert. Solar for home use scales easily.
Meanwhile here in South Australia with our world leading renewables, our grid is holding fine under the extreme load of a record breaking heatwave of 4 days above 41C. We now increase grid stability nation wide. Want to try some other discredited talking points?
A large roughly humanoid Orange thing with no brain, currently US President.
Ive recently gone to a Sony Z3 android phone, after many years of iPhones, the differences are marginal at best, and the Sony camera is very good. It really makes no difference at all in day to day use. The cost saving was 80%.
They are certainly kicking your asses in life expectancy, education and public health. I know it’s hard for a seppo to comprehend, but money isn’t everything.
Another lie, I pay 30c per kWh. That is the normal price. With my 2kw solar my bills are very small.
Another uninformed clown. Our grid is fine here in SA, the only issue was due to a storm bringing transmission towers down.
We do not have a shaky power grid, the only time we had problems was due to a storm creating mini tornados which brought the lines down. Why do so many people spread this lie?
The bigger case is that of 4 Russians caught red handed in Sweden, with plenty of physical evidence. All the denials in the world cant make this go away.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
This costs next to nothing, and prevents a deadly form of cancer.
Sorry to burst your sad little troll bubble.