You should have stopped at "I've never flown outside the US".
Try a day trip to Mexico and you'll see what I mean about fuel availability. Oh yeah, and make sure you put some in a jug to inspect first. Better to find out it's water BEFORE you add it to the tank.
If pilots only flew when they knew they could get good quality fuel at all of their emergency landing strips, you wouldn't see air service anywhere outside of international airports in first world country.
You've obviously never planned a flight if you think that pilots call every single alternate air strip to make sure they're going to have gas. Because if you did you'd know that most places outside of the US will say "I'll tell you when I get here."
Damn right! Finally somebody with a soul.
As a pilot, this thread has pissed me off more than anything else I've ever seen on slashdot.
Just goes to show that most pasty server room rats can't survive outside of their natural environment of animated porn. That's right, I called it porn, like real people do;)
"I feel these things about the computer systems that I build, and I appreciate the feeling. I also have a fetish for flying, and joined the Air Force to enjoy aircraft and being around them...even though my job is with computers."
And it shows. Perhaps you should have said you are in the chair force, you certainly aren't deserving of any other moniker.
"Its because if it goes down...supposedly they can send another one...and...those people signed up to die in the service of their country."
You'd think that somebody in the air force would know that those military aicraft also have a pair of turboprop engines with reliability unheard of amongst piston engines...
"There is one other person that I can think of with this mentality, and only one. Chuck Yeager. Perhaps this man should take his fearless and confident self down to the local recruiter and tell them he needs a new job as a test pilot."
What a crock of bullshit that is. Chuck Yeager might be the most famous test pilot, but he certainly wasn't the ballsiest. Take a trip over to NTPS. Oh, I almost forgot, chair force... Take a trip over to the National Test Pilot School, and you'll see that Mister Yeager is hardly alone in the world of fearless test pilots.
In case you didn't notice, throughout human history science has often followed the demonstration that it is possible, not the other way around.
For instance, scientists told sikorsky that helicopters were a physical impossibility. Only after they had them flying did the science change to match the reality.
My god, you armchair pilots obviously don't have a single hour in the cockpit. The RV-4 has an economy cruise speed of 140 knots KIAS. If you get hit with a 60 knot headwind (not uncommon over Antarctica I imagine) your speed over ground suddenly becomes 80 knots. That takes a chunk out of your range, don't you think?
There is no "point of no return," at least, not a constant one. It changes with the headwinds.
You should probably leave the aviation commentary to the pilots on this forum...
"They have an obligation to society to serve its interests as well as their own."
Companies have no obligation to serve anybody but their stockholders. If a company excercises poor hiring practices, they lose out on good employees. This makes them less able to compete, costing them market share.
The government would "protect" Google the way they "protect" the post office and Amtrak. That is to say, they'd let it grow fat and lazy, immune to the pressures of competition. And we as consumers would suffer as a result.
Anybody with even a basic understanding of economics knows that.
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You should have stopped at "I've never flown outside the US".
Try a day trip to Mexico and you'll see what I mean about fuel availability. Oh yeah, and make sure you put some in a jug to inspect first. Better to find out it's water BEFORE you add it to the tank.
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If pilots only flew when they knew they could get good quality fuel at all of their emergency landing strips, you wouldn't see air service anywhere outside of international airports in first world country. You've obviously never planned a flight if you think that pilots call every single alternate air strip to make sure they're going to have gas. Because if you did you'd know that most places outside of the US will say "I'll tell you when I get here."
Damn right! Finally somebody with a soul. As a pilot, this thread has pissed me off more than anything else I've ever seen on slashdot. Just goes to show that most pasty server room rats can't survive outside of their natural environment of animated porn. That's right, I called it porn, like real people do ;)
"I feel these things about the computer systems that I build, and I appreciate the feeling. I also have a fetish for flying, and joined the Air Force to enjoy aircraft and being around them...even though my job is with computers." And it shows. Perhaps you should have said you are in the chair force, you certainly aren't deserving of any other moniker. "Its because if it goes down...supposedly they can send another one...and...those people signed up to die in the service of their country." You'd think that somebody in the air force would know that those military aicraft also have a pair of turboprop engines with reliability unheard of amongst piston engines... "There is one other person that I can think of with this mentality, and only one. Chuck Yeager. Perhaps this man should take his fearless and confident self down to the local recruiter and tell them he needs a new job as a test pilot." What a crock of bullshit that is. Chuck Yeager might be the most famous test pilot, but he certainly wasn't the ballsiest. Take a trip over to NTPS. Oh, I almost forgot, chair force... Take a trip over to the National Test Pilot School, and you'll see that Mister Yeager is hardly alone in the world of fearless test pilots.
Vonnegut is never off topic...
In case you didn't notice, throughout human history science has often followed the demonstration that it is possible, not the other way around. For instance, scientists told sikorsky that helicopters were a physical impossibility. Only after they had them flying did the science change to match the reality.
My god, you armchair pilots obviously don't have a single hour in the cockpit. The RV-4 has an economy cruise speed of 140 knots KIAS. If you get hit with a 60 knot headwind (not uncommon over Antarctica I imagine) your speed over ground suddenly becomes 80 knots. That takes a chunk out of your range, don't you think?
There is no "point of no return," at least, not a constant one. It changes with the headwinds.
You should probably leave the aviation commentary to the pilots on this forum...
There is a post right above yours that quotes him as saying "All I would like to do is make a commercial transaction of fuel."
How the hell do you take that and turn it into him demanding a GIFT of fuel?
"They have an obligation to society to serve its interests as well as their own."
Companies have no obligation to serve anybody but their stockholders. If a company excercises poor hiring practices, they lose out on good employees. This makes them less able to compete, costing them market share.
Adam Smith's invisible makes sure of it.
The government would "protect" Google the way they "protect" the post office and Amtrak. That is to say, they'd let it grow fat and lazy, immune to the pressures of competition. And we as consumers would suffer as a result.
Anybody with even a basic understanding of economics knows that.
The replacement page's wording seems a little off. Doesn't it sound like too little legalize for a DEA post?
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