Your mobile phone (stop calling it a "cell" phone, it sounds stupid and gives you away as an American) also won't last for ten years on a single battery.
American English is spoken outside the USA. In Australia and other places, you'll hear it called a "cell phone" more often than a mobile. Though, when posting on line, they tend to write "mobile" because of the British English pricks that whinge every time someone uses an American expression, even if it's more widely used than the archaic British English version.
And I have more than one cell phone that's over 10 years old, and still on a single battery.
Light (enough) brown is yellow. Blue plus yellow is green. Green eyes is blue eyes with threads/whisps of brown in them. From far back, they are green. Close up, they are blue in back, and light brown in front. And yes, the kids have green eyes. One more blue than green. The other more green than anything else.. Mine are grey (blue in back, white wisps in front, makes a blue/grey look). The wife has brown eyes.
The lights/angles/surrounding colors make a difference. I've heard mood does as well, but haven't been able to see or cause any changes that way.
And others indicated it's because he landed at the city, so the hijackers could get off, perhaps with the cargo. Then took off and flew a short distance west before turning south, and flying until out of fuel. One suicide pilot and the plane full of confused and scared passengers.
I've had a conservative try to get me fired, but never had that happen from a Liberal. I'm middle of the road enough, that I piss both off, but only a conservative stalked me online to find my work and complain to them that I said things in support of a free Internet. Of course, working for an ISP that doesn't own any media companies, that was the official company line, so they didn't care. But he tried.
The problem is when people bash hate laws as "hate speech laws". Extra punishment for death threats that come along with a burning cross should be punished more harshly than a "regular" death threat, though in practice, only threats against the president are taken seriously, without extenuating circumstances, and the burning cross is the extenuating circumstance.
Or the gays that have been dragged to death behind a pickup truck, often with notes (sometimes carved into their skin) indicating a dislike for gay people.
The idea is that such acts are domestic terrorism.
Also, Iridium was built for voice communications only.
All voice is data over Iridium. One could argue it can handle data, but not voice. Each voice call is converted to 2400 bps data and transmitted as 2400 bps data over the network. Also, at, or shortly after, launch of the service, modems were available. They were expensive, and limited to the 2400 bps.
WTF? GPS/GLONASS/Galileo don't have the ability to triangulate ANY satellite system. They only transmit coded signals such that people on the ground can triangulate themselves, and don't receive any signals other than maintenance from their operators.
GPS is considered 2-way because nearly every service using it is 2-way. Emergency locator beacons use GPS to find the location of the beacon, then send the GPS via pager (or another radio service) to a rescue service. "GPS found them" would not be an incorrect way of wording that. Your assumption that the sending of the GPS to 3rd parties is via the same GPS system that located them is your error, as common usage indicates that it doesn't matter how the GPS data is communicated to others, "GPS triangulated their position" is 100% technically accurate and "He was found by GPS [coordinates]" is also 100% correct.
That's the order for new and bad pilots. Good pilots know that 2-seconds out of a 6 minute fall into the ocean is going to make more difference than aviating for those 2 seconds. When the plane was landed in the Hudson, the pilot had a conversation with ATC discussing navigation and the cause of the incident. THe first response was to call it in. The last response was to notify ATC of the landing location.
In practice, communication is top of the list and bottom of the list, but they leave it off the top for the bad pilots and new pilots that haven't figured out that there are times when communicating is more important than any of the others, or that you can communicate at the same time as the others.
I might not call myself an electronic expert, but turning down all systems in case of fire doesn't sound like a good idea. Their is a ton of stuff keeping a plane airborne and able to ask for help. I don't think flipping a switch will make fire 'magically' go away, so turning everything off does not sound very logical to me.
Some electrical fires are purely electrical. No non-electrical material is involved. The "fire" is sparks and smoking insulation. If you shut down the power to the circuit, the "fire" is gone, and a small amount of smoulder will continue, but not as strongly as before.
If the electrical fire sparked the curtains in your house to catch fire, shutting down the circuit will have no effect on the fire. But flushing the area with halon (or equivalent) will not put out the fire if the electricity isn't cut. The sparks will continue, and when the area is eventually re-oxygenated, the fire will re-ignight. So, in the absence of information, you should always cut the power and extinguish. But one without the other is less likely to extinguish an electrical fire.
Commercial pilots do not follow that order. Note the pilot who landed in the Hudson. After losing power and starting the crash, he took time from navigating (he didn't know where he was going yet), and aviating to radio in his situation, and have a discussion with the ATC about what happened, and discuss options. After he made the decision to go in the Hudson, and told ATC about it, he stopped communicating. The First thing any pilot does when they know they are going down is to radio it in.
Those rules are overly simplistic and apply to non-emergency situations. Amateur pilots would have incidents and claim "I was looking up my maps" or "I just took a second to switch from departing frequency to anding frequency". It's an excuse eliminator, not a useful absolute rule. And yes, multiple times a pilot killed everyone on board without calling it in. The two most recently were both high altitude stalls. The Air France pilots thought they were fine and would get it under control any second - as they killed everyone. So no need to radio in a slight problem they can fix.
Nearly every other incident had someone take a few seconds to notify anyone who could hear of what the perceived problem is, and the expected result. That's higher than aviate. At least, when a rescue effort matters.
AF447 (Rio-Paris, crashed in the middle of the pacific) - no mayday.
Yeah, but they didn't realize they had a problem. They thought they'd recover any second, while they flew into the ocean.
QZ8501 (Surabaya - Singapore, crashed in the java sea) - no mayday.
Again, another stall under full power.
The bad pilots that killed everyone didn't call in. But did UA154 radio in? Did anyone live? Note that was at a lower altitude with less time, and he still had a chat. Listen to the radio call. It's online. I wouldn't take the deadly pilots as the best example.
One side of the abortion debate describes foes as "anti-choice" rather than "pro-life."
That's because the discussion isn't simple. Would you rather there be no abortions, or many?
Few to none, by the mother's choice? Then you are pro-life and pro-choice. None based on making them illegal in a police state? Then you are anti-choice. Lots and legal? Then you are pro-choice. Lots and illegal? Pro-life.
If you want to discuss the word games, define "conservative" and "liberal". Oddly, the rest of the world uses neo-liberal to mean US-Libertarian/Conservative. So liberal (neo-liberal at least) is a synonym for conservative. And there are many more worse ones related to politics, not just the issues they argue about.
Whether it is or isn't doesn't change the fact that a chairman of the Republican Party said they want to control the election process to discourage Blacks from voting. The details of the method are unrelated to the stated goals and desires of the Republican Party, announced publicly by an official of the party.
As a pilot and an aircraft mechanic, I can tell you it is insanely easy to put an aircraft in an unrecoverable flight condition if one chooses to do so, regardless of how the other pilot feels about it. Nothing shy of fully automating the cockpit and firing all the pilots will change that.
And how easy is it to fly the wrong way for hours without the other pilot figuring it out? Turning off transponders and missing "required" radio checks?
Tell me what the plane that went down in the Hudson did? Communicate, aviate, navigate. At least until the decision to go in the Hudson was made, after which there was no need to communicate, and it because Aviate-only. But while crashing (after engine failure), he had a conversation with ATC. That's more important than anything else, despite being last on the list.
That list is for the Cessna fliers who never have, and never will fly anything else. Nothing you say to ATC matters. There's no tower at your municipal airport so nobody is listening, and, unless you are very very lost in Alaska, they'll find you easily enough. The list exists so that you don't have any excuses for why you made a fatal mistake (I was too busy calling in a course update, I didn't see them). It's not a rule for real aviators. If you have a problem, communicate. You have to tell people what's going on in order for someone to help you and your passengers.
it's pretty well documented that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy.
It's pretty clear that the US had intel that the Japanese intended to attack. Though the where and when were never clear. There may have been a cover-up about intel. After all, it wasn't a credible threat, until it happened. But once it happened, every nutjob conspiracy theorist and family member of a dead person would be claiming that they should have done something.
So yeah, I do think there was a cover-up about Pearl Harbor. A cover-up designed to protect the military intelligence organization who didn't figure it out until after it happened. There was no conspiracy to "allow" it to happen, no conspiracy to make it happen, and no conspiracy to cover up American knowledge of the attack (As the belief at the time was that there was no planned attack for that time and place), just a cover-up to hide some of what they did know, so as to not make it look like they should have known.
I've seen no "documentation" that contradicts that opinion, except at, perhaps, a micro-level, where one person guessed that there'd be an attack "soon", and that wasn't officially recognized or widely known.
Yeah, and thing happen. The WTC sprinklers were damaged by the fire, such that they couldn't work to fight a fire. Sometimes the problem breaks things to make things worse.
It certainly is when I'm trolling all the racists about the racism in the US. A GOP party chair said “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.” (And yes, he actually said “read African-American,” that wasn’t inserted.) ,br>Deliberately making it harder for workers in the city to vote, and further stating publicly that it's because the effected are mostly African-American.
But yes, pointing out things like that gets me labeled "troll" all the time here. People don't want to hear the truth. They want to hear the comforting fiction that everyone has the same chances. So I'll keep trolling until the truth is no longer a troll.
Why would a suicidal pilot go through so much trouble to hide it was a suicide? Was he trying to make sure the insurance paid out to his family? He'd have had to kill the co-pilot to pull it off, unless the co-pilot also thought suicide was a good idea. There are so many simpler ways to commit suicide.
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Your mobile phone (stop calling it a "cell" phone, it sounds stupid and gives you away as an American) also won't last for ten years on a single battery.
American English is spoken outside the USA. In Australia and other places, you'll hear it called a "cell phone" more often than a mobile. Though, when posting on line, they tend to write "mobile" because of the British English pricks that whinge every time someone uses an American expression, even if it's more widely used than the archaic British English version.
And I have more than one cell phone that's over 10 years old, and still on a single battery.
Light (enough) brown is yellow. Blue plus yellow is green. Green eyes is blue eyes with threads/whisps of brown in them. From far back, they are green. Close up, they are blue in back, and light brown in front. And yes, the kids have green eyes. One more blue than green. The other more green than anything else.. Mine are grey (blue in back, white wisps in front, makes a blue/grey look). The wife has brown eyes.
The lights/angles/surrounding colors make a difference. I've heard mood does as well, but haven't been able to see or cause any changes that way.
And others indicated it's because he landed at the city, so the hijackers could get off, perhaps with the cargo. Then took off and flew a short distance west before turning south, and flying until out of fuel. One suicide pilot and the plane full of confused and scared passengers.
I've had a conservative try to get me fired, but never had that happen from a Liberal. I'm middle of the road enough, that I piss both off, but only a conservative stalked me online to find my work and complain to them that I said things in support of a free Internet. Of course, working for an ISP that doesn't own any media companies, that was the official company line, so they didn't care. But he tried.
The problem is when people bash hate laws as "hate speech laws". Extra punishment for death threats that come along with a burning cross should be punished more harshly than a "regular" death threat, though in practice, only threats against the president are taken seriously, without extenuating circumstances, and the burning cross is the extenuating circumstance.
Or the gays that have been dragged to death behind a pickup truck, often with notes (sometimes carved into their skin) indicating a dislike for gay people.
The idea is that such acts are domestic terrorism.
Also, Iridium was built for voice communications only.
All voice is data over Iridium. One could argue it can handle data, but not voice. Each voice call is converted to 2400 bps data and transmitted as 2400 bps data over the network. Also, at, or shortly after, launch of the service, modems were available. They were expensive, and limited to the 2400 bps.
WTF? GPS/GLONASS/Galileo don't have the ability to triangulate ANY satellite system. They only transmit coded signals such that people on the ground can triangulate themselves, and don't receive any signals other than maintenance from their operators.
GPS is considered 2-way because nearly every service using it is 2-way. Emergency locator beacons use GPS to find the location of the beacon, then send the GPS via pager (or another radio service) to a rescue service. "GPS found them" would not be an incorrect way of wording that. Your assumption that the sending of the GPS to 3rd parties is via the same GPS system that located them is your error, as common usage indicates that it doesn't matter how the GPS data is communicated to others, "GPS triangulated their position" is 100% technically accurate and "He was found by GPS [coordinates]" is also 100% correct.
What does the home island have to do with anything? Is that yet another red herring by the conspiracy theorists?
That's the order for new and bad pilots. Good pilots know that 2-seconds out of a 6 minute fall into the ocean is going to make more difference than aviating for those 2 seconds. When the plane was landed in the Hudson, the pilot had a conversation with ATC discussing navigation and the cause of the incident. THe first response was to call it in. The last response was to notify ATC of the landing location.
In practice, communication is top of the list and bottom of the list, but they leave it off the top for the bad pilots and new pilots that haven't figured out that there are times when communicating is more important than any of the others, or that you can communicate at the same time as the others.
I might not call myself an electronic expert, but turning down all systems in case of fire doesn't sound like a good idea. Their is a ton of stuff keeping a plane airborne and able to ask for help. I don't think flipping a switch will make fire 'magically' go away, so turning everything off does not sound very logical to me.
Some electrical fires are purely electrical. No non-electrical material is involved. The "fire" is sparks and smoking insulation. If you shut down the power to the circuit, the "fire" is gone, and a small amount of smoulder will continue, but not as strongly as before.
If the electrical fire sparked the curtains in your house to catch fire, shutting down the circuit will have no effect on the fire. But flushing the area with halon (or equivalent) will not put out the fire if the electricity isn't cut. The sparks will continue, and when the area is eventually re-oxygenated, the fire will re-ignight. So, in the absence of information, you should always cut the power and extinguish. But one without the other is less likely to extinguish an electrical fire.
Commercial pilots do not follow that order. Note the pilot who landed in the Hudson. After losing power and starting the crash, he took time from navigating (he didn't know where he was going yet), and aviating to radio in his situation, and have a discussion with the ATC about what happened, and discuss options. After he made the decision to go in the Hudson, and told ATC about it, he stopped communicating. The First thing any pilot does when they know they are going down is to radio it in.
Those rules are overly simplistic and apply to non-emergency situations. Amateur pilots would have incidents and claim "I was looking up my maps" or "I just took a second to switch from departing frequency to anding frequency". It's an excuse eliminator, not a useful absolute rule. And yes, multiple times a pilot killed everyone on board without calling it in. The two most recently were both high altitude stalls. The Air France pilots thought they were fine and would get it under control any second - as they killed everyone. So no need to radio in a slight problem they can fix.
Nearly every other incident had someone take a few seconds to notify anyone who could hear of what the perceived problem is, and the expected result. That's higher than aviate. At least, when a rescue effort matters.
Usually the guys with the big egos are less likely to commit suicide. They want to know the answers to the questions like that.
AF447 (Rio-Paris, crashed in the middle of the pacific) - no mayday.
Yeah, but they didn't realize they had a problem. They thought they'd recover any second, while they flew into the ocean.
QZ8501 (Surabaya - Singapore, crashed in the java sea) - no mayday.
Again, another stall under full power.
The bad pilots that killed everyone didn't call in. But did UA154 radio in? Did anyone live? Note that was at a lower altitude with less time, and he still had a chat. Listen to the radio call. It's online. I wouldn't take the deadly pilots as the best example.
The difference is this is real...
One side of the abortion debate describes foes as "anti-choice" rather than "pro-life."
That's because the discussion isn't simple. Would you rather there be no abortions, or many?
Few to none, by the mother's choice? Then you are pro-life and pro-choice. None based on making them illegal in a police state? Then you are anti-choice. Lots and legal? Then you are pro-choice. Lots and illegal? Pro-life.
If you want to discuss the word games, define "conservative" and "liberal". Oddly, the rest of the world uses neo-liberal to mean US-Libertarian/Conservative. So liberal (neo-liberal at least) is a synonym for conservative. And there are many more worse ones related to politics, not just the issues they argue about.
Whether it is or isn't doesn't change the fact that a chairman of the Republican Party said they want to control the election process to discourage Blacks from voting. The details of the method are unrelated to the stated goals and desires of the Republican Party, announced publicly by an official of the party.
As a pilot and an aircraft mechanic, I can tell you it is insanely easy to put an aircraft in an unrecoverable flight condition if one chooses to do so, regardless of how the other pilot feels about it. Nothing shy of fully automating the cockpit and firing all the pilots will change that.
And how easy is it to fly the wrong way for hours without the other pilot figuring it out? Turning off transponders and missing "required" radio checks?
They were all on, they just never had a connection. I've tried to get reception at 30k ft. I've never had any reception at all.
Negative.
Tell me what the plane that went down in the Hudson did? Communicate, aviate, navigate. At least until the decision to go in the Hudson was made, after which there was no need to communicate, and it because Aviate-only. But while crashing (after engine failure), he had a conversation with ATC. That's more important than anything else, despite being last on the list.
That list is for the Cessna fliers who never have, and never will fly anything else. Nothing you say to ATC matters. There's no tower at your municipal airport so nobody is listening, and, unless you are very very lost in Alaska, they'll find you easily enough. The list exists so that you don't have any excuses for why you made a fatal mistake (I was too busy calling in a course update, I didn't see them). It's not a rule for real aviators. If you have a problem, communicate. You have to tell people what's going on in order for someone to help you and your passengers.
Yeah, but it'd make a better movie than Executive Decision.
it's pretty well documented that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy.
It's pretty clear that the US had intel that the Japanese intended to attack. Though the where and when were never clear. There may have been a cover-up about intel. After all, it wasn't a credible threat, until it happened. But once it happened, every nutjob conspiracy theorist and family member of a dead person would be claiming that they should have done something.
So yeah, I do think there was a cover-up about Pearl Harbor. A cover-up designed to protect the military intelligence organization who didn't figure it out until after it happened. There was no conspiracy to "allow" it to happen, no conspiracy to make it happen, and no conspiracy to cover up American knowledge of the attack (As the belief at the time was that there was no planned attack for that time and place), just a cover-up to hide some of what they did know, so as to not make it look like they should have known.
I've seen no "documentation" that contradicts that opinion, except at, perhaps, a micro-level, where one person guessed that there'd be an attack "soon", and that wasn't officially recognized or widely known.
Yeah, and thing happen. The WTC sprinklers were damaged by the fire, such that they couldn't work to fight a fire. Sometimes the problem breaks things to make things worse.
Fair and Balanced is neither.
The "wrong" opinion shouldn't be weighted the same as the "correct" one.
It certainly is when I'm trolling all the racists about the racism in the US. A GOP party chair said “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.” (And yes, he actually said “read African-American,” that wasn’t inserted.)
,br>Deliberately making it harder for workers in the city to vote, and further stating publicly that it's because the effected are mostly African-American.
But yes, pointing out things like that gets me labeled "troll" all the time here. People don't want to hear the truth. They want to hear the comforting fiction that everyone has the same chances. So I'll keep trolling until the truth is no longer a troll.
You affect an effect. Your correction is incorrect.
Why would a suicidal pilot go through so much trouble to hide it was a suicide? Was he trying to make sure the insurance paid out to his family? He'd have had to kill the co-pilot to pull it off, unless the co-pilot also thought suicide was a good idea. There are so many simpler ways to commit suicide.