Re:Teaching 'recipies' is disempowering.
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Now I'm agreeing with you, but when you say:
Teaching someone mindless procedural 'recipes' that allow them to do a task, without any conceptual understanding of what they're doing along the way, is really doing them a disservice. Telling someone "this is how you check email," and making them memorize some steps, which will stop working and leave them stranded with the next OS upgrade or interface change, is truly disempowering.
I have to respond that you have neglected those that know some things about computers -- like basic tasks they do at work (word processing). There are a lot of people, my mother especially:/, that can only be taught to follow recipes because they are so afraid of the computer. No matter how much I tell her that she cannot wreck anything by such simple tasks as exploring the toolbar to see what happens, she practically refuses and resorts to asking me how to do everything.
I remember reading somewhere that this guy had a "class" setup where he had a network image made (or was using VMWare or something) and told people to go nuts. He told people that their task was to play around with everything and see if they could make the computer unusable. Most people were quite surprised when they found out that by "playing" with their favorite program didn't cause any damage. He then broke Windows, showed his students, then re-imaged the partition and away he went; he proved that the hardware was not damaged even if "it" was.
Realizing that this could lead to actual disaster, however, I think that we could almost be opening up 'ol Pandora if we show people that "no matter what," it's fixable, because that's when they actually begin messing around with critical areas. Anyways, I was wondering what you guys' (and girl's) thoughts are on a "class" like this.
Haven't heard anybody mention it yet, but the kid was handcuffed when they were shocking him. That, according to multiple claim-to-know people, is against pretty much every district's / precinct's rules.
Also, the guy was in the process of leaving when the officer(s?) grabbed his arm, that's why he shouts out "let go of me." Now I agree that the guy probably shouldn't have been such an asshole when he was asked to leave the first time, which provoked the staff to call the "cops," but he definitely didn't deserve any of this.
I honestly don't understand why Final Fantasy VII is almost universally considered to be better than VI. IMHO the characters in VI were developed far better, the storyline was more in depth and intriguing, and even the music (gasp) was better!
To be honest with you it's quite cold up here in Minnesota right now so I currently have zero windows open. During the summer, however, it's anywhere from 0-12.
YMMV based on house size/config/location (du -hs ~; cat ~/.config; echo ~)
Get 100% commercial-free music and original programming from Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, SIRIUS Football Radio, Metropolitan Opera Radio, Deepak Chopra, Jimmy Buffet and the Rolling Stones to name a few. Try getting that from any other internet radio.
May not have such legendary radio talkers such as Martha Steward or Deepak Chopra (who?) but I'm pretty sure that they're free and you can get amazing music for any mood whenever you want with fairly good quality to boot.
Well ymmv but I work on computers for a living (temp job) and basically Every computer that I've worked on from the affore mentioned computer companies has the same schtick... the key that was used to install XP is NOT the same as the one pasted on the side of the case. When I first got the job I got wise and tried using the key that was used initially and the 1800# wouldn't even let me speak with a rep... I had to change the product key to the pasted one before it would let me "activate" my copy.
By the way I don't know if y'all know this but once you call the activation center and they start asking questions (where when why etc) you can just cancel the phone activation and do the web one to save yourself typing:D... note i haven't tried this yet since I haven't really worked in like 3 weeks because of school but I damn well trust my co-workers so...
Anyways your WGA woes can most likely be attribed to Microsoft being... well Microsoft. Also, yeah I don't get how they can do it (wierd keys) either since it's an "invalid" code yet it still lets windows install... but whatever. So re-reading the vodka is making my sentences / thoughts fragmented:( so i'll leave it at that and if you responde tomorrow when I'm sober I'll get back to you;)
Actually, the real reason that your key needs to be re-activated is because that is NOT the key that comes shipped with your computer. That's right, Dell, HP, Compaq, etc all slap a custom key(s?) on the boxes they ship then put on a sticker with the "real" key. Don't try and use the key that comes with the computer through (found through keyfinder or whatever) because then your flag is actually invalid and they will not activate your computer! Why they do this I don't know but it seems pretty questionable to me.
Thanks for your insight. I'll be a flight instructor soon (working on my MEI as we speak then CFI & CFII) so I'll rack up some hours till the big jump to regionals. Yeah for me:(. Not looking forward to the super low pay but I guess just another step in the right direction till the big bucks.
I work for a local comp-tech shop in town and I'm {shady eyes} building a client list in case I stay around the area for a while... I cannot believe how we, read as: my employers, screw people over so much. I'm fairly confident that with my |gasp| friendly attitude and, what will be, low prices I can run a fairly profitable yet low-key company until I get sick of re-installing windows over and over again.
I am figuring $50 - $75 for a reinstall plus around $5 per gig they want backed up, since transferring settings / files takes the most time if you use an image CD w/sysprep. The best part is that me and a couple of guys can easily do this by ourselves w/o much advertisement besides word of mouth to help pay the bills. I don't really want to spend the time building a larger(er) company because I'd rather spend my time flying or doing other things so we'll see how it all goes. Next I just need to find a lawyer to pro-bono me a contract that will save me from the evil lawsuits:o
Back to the topic at hand... do you mind asking what you do "in the biz?" As you said majors is the key, but I've always had my peripheral vision set on corporate and those shiny G-5s and Lear Xs. I'm sure that I could get in with a lot of persistence but I don't know if it's really worth it. I mean with gas/oil doing what it is now, I'm almost scared for the majors let alone corporate. It almost seams a little too risky. Also, I'm from the Twin Cities area and I desperately want to get out when I move to regional so I was thinking Sky West until I heard they don't pay more for jets with more pax which really bothers me. Know of anything really good and upcoming in the next year or so in the following areas: Seattle, Texas (Houston area or whatever), or New York (not NYC area!)?
P.S. Glad/. has pilot-minded folk, don't get to see them much.
And how hard is it to steal a uniform and pass as a pilot. Hell Soutwest doesn't even really have uniforms. I personally am not an airline pilot yet (hmm pipe dreams) but I doubt that they have the time / care to check every-body's badge to see if it's legit. They just have to get past security to pass along {x} to the guy with a ticket already inside and then go back out through the security gate and leave. Or even take along a change of clothes. You get the picture. Even if they check badges, just go to a locally shitty hotel where they put the pilots and lift one off of them the day you're going to do this. It's risky that the pilot will find it missing and call it in too soon but it could be done.
All I'm really trying to say is that you don't know for certain that person A isn't person B in reality. For that matter I think it's quite re-cock-ulous the measures that are being taken to thwart terrorism. If this is what it's coming down to then the terrorists have already won. Security is a myth that only the naive or a fool can possibly believe in. The matrix was right in ignorance is bliss I suppose. Or, people could not devote their entire life worrying and actually enjoy it a lil.
I've been semi-kicking around the idea of getting a group of commercial pilots together and starting a small air-taxi service. The problem, however, is the start-up cost. As a commercial pilot I can legally get paid or compensated to fly passengers and/or cargo, but the catch is that I cannot "hold out" to the general public. This basically means that I can't show a willingness to fly anybody (the public) around which really imposes a strong restriction on me starting a business (obviously). In order to get around this I have to operate under a completely different set of rules that regulates everything (personnel, paper work, maintenance, etc) which in turn significantly raises the start-up & ongoing price.
As well as the government burden we will also have to buy a fleet of airplanes. While we could buy old planes, the maintenance will most likely be quite expensive over time as they are old. Also, it is important to keep the perception our clients in mind. Most will object when they see they will be in 20-30 year old airplanes. The planes that we will get will most definitely not be large turbo-props like a King Air or Beech 1900 or whatever. Those companies already exist; they're called charter. Instead we would need small normal aspirating planes like a Cirrus or Diamond. For a size reference think small like a Cessna 152 since most people know that type of plane. Fact of the matter is that those type of planes are slow and don't climb very high so now, not only are we going to take longer to get to the passengers to their destination, but we're going to be stuck in the weather all the time. I don't know about you, but the last time I was on a large airliner people were scared / sick? of some very light turbulence. It is my opinion that normal light to medium turbulence would in general be a very bad thing to passengers "stuck in a ridiculously small, dangerous plane." Additionally, not many people are going to want to sit inside of a cramped cockpit for 8+ hours just to go 1/2 way across the country in even the best of weather. Therefore, we realistically have to cap our distances to within, say, 500 miles of the destination. Note that this number was just now made up so don't nitpick.
After thinking about this for a little bit a solution for how this could be done comes to mind. Most people tend to drive the distance from their home to the airport and are then stuck paying for week-long parking for ~$100 or so. Some are lucky and know a place to dump their car for their vacation or cough up the dough for a taxi to the airport. These are not the people we care about. We will be catering to those that live 50 to 100+ miles from a major airport and don't want to drive. Think of us as a taxi to get from their local airport to the major "hubs" in their state. Because the flights will be around 1/2 or 1 hour, maybe two max, the majority of the people will not have the time to get cramped or sick from any turbulence encountered in-flight. Also, most likely they will be able to park their car for free at their local airport with an advanced notice to the staff so their vehicle doesn't get towed.
The downside to this approach is reliability, especially during the winter months. Ice is one of the greatest dangers to a pilot and personally I would not feel confident flying into icing conditions. Even if I did, practically all small planes are not certified to fly into "known icing" even though they may have anti/deice equipment installed. For a large portion of the country there is a large risk of being grounded in a storm that will not really affect the airliners. Good luck explaining to your customers that you're sorry they missed their flight but there was nothing you could do. During the summer months there are t-storms but they can usually be flown around unless its a squall/front line or something. In both cases you can just wait for the storms to move through and fly after they pass.
The other approach would be a small airport to small airpor
Well this was a refernce to a certain alien life form from a certain movie set in space involving a computer named Hal that...
Oh I just give up.
--> ashamed at/.
For my part-time job I reinstall windows about 5-10 times a week on people's computer and if I actually had to talk to that women I would go insane. The answer you're looking for is to use your keypad to enter the numbers as it goes much faster and has fewer errors. Additionally you can just get around re-activating windows (legally?) by backing up system32/wpa.(dbl|bak) and writing down your volumeID (win+r; cmd; vol). The, when you re-install windows start boot into safe mode and replace the wpa files and then use VolumeID by Sysinternals to change back your partitions volumeID. Done and done.
While I am not an airline pilot and have received no "official" training, I was instructed during my "turbine transition" cousrse that landing with a pressurized aircraft can and will cause massive pain and possible eardrum damage to its passengers so that's where I got my information from. Thanks for the update!
On a side note have you ever been in a pressurization chamber? I think the most drastic moment for me was when we did the night tests. We had to read down a page which had a progressively darker background (with black letters) and you had to see how far down you could read before it was impossible. I didn't get too far and I didn't even think that I was feeling the effects much but when I put on my O2 mask I literally though somebody had turned on the light switch or something, it was that drastic of a change. The scary thing was that we were only pressurized to around 12,500' or so for that test. Makes me think every time I go on a long distance night cross country.
the pressurization is actually engaged before takeoff to put a slight positive pressure in the airplane
Actually, I'm quite positive that the outflow valve is setup so when the squad switches are engaged (the airplane is on the ground), the valve fully opens, releasing all pressurization in the airplane. This is a big deal when considering that if you don't unpressurized the plane before landing it "pops" which can cause a lot of pain.
How quaint, I only do gray poupon. Have a good day, sir.
Re:Moon Base Bush is pie in the sky
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Not to be redundant or anything, but the main reason that magnetos are still used is not because of the efficiency/performance but because they do not require electricity to work. As long as the brushes, magnets, plugs, etc are all functioning properly there will be a spark if the engine is rotating. If your alternators or batteries break, or if there is a short or something, the very last thing that you need at that point is to have your engines quit as well. It is true that airplanes are "gliders" with an engine, but when you lose an engine you sink, fast, and unless you happen to be in a great place such as the Midwest during daytime where there are fields everywhere, you're going to be in a heap load of trouble if you cannot find a suitable landing site quick. Also, that was an interesting article that you linked me to, thanks. About your comment on fuel burn, I believe that the FADEC system I linked to earlier solved (some) of those problems as it continuously monitors and regulates the amount of fuel being delivered to the cylinders. I don't believe that magnetos are (such) a big problem that they actually diminish fuel economy by that much. In fact, each cylinder has two spark plugs to ensure not only reliability, but also to maintain a consitant burn of fuel vapors during the combustion stage of the engine.
It is true that composite materials are expensive, however many of the kit planes, as well as some production planes like the cirrus/diamond air are using them because of the enormous performance gains you get by utilizing them. I believe that once the process is even further streamlined the cost will only continue decreasing until almost all airplanes use them. While there is the infamous starship blunder involving composite materials, the cirrus continually sets new sales records and that only goes to show that people are willing to pay for high quality, especially when it comes to an expensive hobby such as aviation where most of the people are already rich to begin with. If that seams hard to believe (it does for me too since I'm just a poor college student) you only have to look at the VLJs coming out. If people can afford to buy personal jets, then I believe that the additional price will not be a factor during these initial years when the material construction process is being perfected.
Re:Moon Base Bush is pie in the sky
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Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your viewpoint, the FAA is quite reluctant to accept any significant changes in GA because, you know the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." However, there has been multiple leaps in the technology implemented in small airplanes over the past few years.
For example, instead of carburetors, most new planes now come with a FADEC system that handles the fuel injection into each individual cylinder, increasing performance and ridding the pilot of that pesky mixture control lever. Also, this system gives you real time status information on each cylinder so you can monitor their performance and detect a problem before it becomes too serious. About the mags, I can't really see why you'd want to get rid of them, they really are a pilot's best friend because even a total electrical failure (well almost anyways) cannot stop the magneto from sparking the engine. You have to always remember that aviation is practically married to redundancy, and for good reason.
While you did mention GPS being added into planes now, that's really only half the story. Glass cockpits are literally revolutionizing how we fly. Take a look at the good 'ol 152 cockpit then and now, there's a pretty big difference, no? The GPS is also going to make traveling to smaller airports in IMC a much greater experience when WASS/LAAS and TLS approaches become implemented around airports in the upcoming years.
Besides the GPS, ideas such as 'live' radar via XM radio, as well as a much more affordable radar dish are making storm traversal a much easier, safer thing for light airplanes, while Mode S transponders are finally bringing collision avoidance systems down from the major airlines to general aviation which I'm sure you'll agree is a major advantage.
Going outside the cockpit, we find that airplanes are beginning to be made with composite materials which are both lighter and stronger. However the high cost associated with manufacturing them, as well its unknown safety factor, are keeping it from being too widely accepted. The cirrus even designed a parachute for the entire plane. Overall, while the major design of airplanes have basically remained the same, I would say that there has been many great innovative improvements in general aviation that are changing the way pilot's fly.
I believe that the point he was making was that controlling the airplane so close to the ground without actually colliding with the ground is hard to believe. All ground effect really does it remove most of the induced drag from the airplane, it isn't a magic cushion of air that prevents you from crashing into the ground or anything. Furthermore, the aircraft was going well past Vne and no doubt suffered, at the very minimum, minor structural damage, especially along the control surfaces which would, IMO, make handling much harder than normal. He mentioned how the chief pilot (or flight instructor I can't remember) said that he has trouble maintaining control over a/1(5|7)2/ which brings some serious doubt as to whether or not he had the talent and/or ability to pull such a maneuver in a heavy iron given the conditions he was under. Also, sorry for my poor grammar/spelling, I'm not in the mood to correct it.
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I remember reading somewhere that this guy had a "class" setup where he had a network image made (or was using VMWare or something) and told people to go nuts. He told people that their task was to play around with everything and see if they could make the computer unusable. Most people were quite surprised when they found out that by "playing" with their favorite program didn't cause any damage. He then broke Windows, showed his students, then re-imaged the partition and away he went; he proved that the hardware was not damaged even if "it" was.
Realizing that this could lead to actual disaster, however, I think that we could almost be opening up 'ol Pandora if we show people that "no matter what," it's fixable, because that's when they actually begin messing around with critical areas. Anyways, I was wondering what you guys' (and girl's) thoughts are on a "class" like this.
Haven't heard anybody mention it yet, but the kid was handcuffed when they were shocking him. That, according to multiple claim-to-know people, is against pretty much every district's / precinct's rules.
Also, the guy was in the process of leaving when the officer(s?) grabbed his arm, that's why he shouts out "let go of me." Now I agree that the guy probably shouldn't have been such an asshole when he was asked to leave the first time, which provoked the staff to call the "cops," but he definitely didn't deserve any of this.
Also, "this is your patriot act!" --> wtf???
I honestly don't understand why Final Fantasy VII is almost universally considered to be better than VI. IMHO the characters in VI were developed far better, the storyline was more in depth and intriguing, and even the music (gasp) was better!
Where are the remaining 27 pages of the article?
And where are the adds?
Did I time travel 4 years in the past? What year is it!
To be honest with you it's quite cold up here in Minnesota right now so I currently have zero windows open. During the summer, however, it's anywhere from 0-12.
YMMV based on house size/config/location (du -hs ~; cat ~/.config; echo ~)
Line wrap anybody?
Oookay... Shoutcast anybody?
May not have such legendary radio talkers such as Martha Steward or Deepak Chopra (who?) but I'm pretty sure that they're free and you can get amazing music for any mood whenever you want with fairly good quality to boot.
/not responsibly for any grammir/speeling errers
Well ymmv but I work on computers for a living (temp job) and basically Every computer that I've worked on from the affore mentioned computer companies has the same schtick... the key that was used to install XP is NOT the same as the one pasted on the side of the case. When I first got the job I got wise and tried using the key that was used initially and the 1800# wouldn't even let me speak with a rep... I had to change the product key to the pasted one before it would let me "activate" my copy.
:D... note i haven't tried this yet since I haven't really worked in like 3 weeks because of school but I damn well trust my co-workers so...
:( so i'll leave it at that and if you responde tomorrow when I'm sober I'll get back to you ;)
By the way I don't know if y'all know this but once you call the activation center and they start asking questions (where when why etc) you can just cancel the phone activation and do the web one to save yourself typing
Anyways your WGA woes can most likely be attribed to Microsoft being... well Microsoft. Also, yeah I don't get how they can do it (wierd keys) either since it's an "invalid" code yet it still lets windows install... but whatever. So re-reading the vodka is making my sentences / thoughts fragmented
Actually, the real reason that your key needs to be re-activated is because that is NOT the key that comes shipped with your computer. That's right, Dell, HP, Compaq, etc all slap a custom key(s?) on the boxes they ship then put on a sticker with the "real" key. Don't try and use the key that comes with the computer through (found through keyfinder or whatever) because then your flag is actually invalid and they will not activate your computer! Why they do this I don't know but it seems pretty questionable to me.
~Teh Def1c4t05S~
Thanks for your insight. I'll be a flight instructor soon (working on my MEI as we speak then CFI & CFII) so I'll rack up some hours till the big jump to regionals. Yeah for me :(. Not looking forward to the super low pay but I guess just another step in the right direction till the big bucks.
:o
/. has pilot-minded folk, don't get to see them much.
I work for a local comp-tech shop in town and I'm {shady eyes} building a client list in case I stay around the area for a while... I cannot believe how we, read as: my employers, screw people over so much. I'm fairly confident that with my |gasp| friendly attitude and, what will be, low prices I can run a fairly profitable yet low-key company until I get sick of re-installing windows over and over again.
I am figuring $50 - $75 for a reinstall plus around $5 per gig they want backed up, since transferring settings / files takes the most time if you use an image CD w/sysprep. The best part is that me and a couple of guys can easily do this by ourselves w/o much advertisement besides word of mouth to help pay the bills. I don't really want to spend the time building a larger(er) company because I'd rather spend my time flying or doing other things so we'll see how it all goes. Next I just need to find a lawyer to pro-bono me a contract that will save me from the evil lawsuits
Back to the topic at hand... do you mind asking what you do "in the biz?" As you said majors is the key, but I've always had my peripheral vision set on corporate and those shiny G-5s and Lear Xs. I'm sure that I could get in with a lot of persistence but I don't know if it's really worth it. I mean with gas/oil doing what it is now, I'm almost scared for the majors let alone corporate. It almost seams a little too risky. Also, I'm from the Twin Cities area and I desperately want to get out when I move to regional so I was thinking Sky West until I heard they don't pay more for jets with more pax which really bothers me. Know of anything really good and upcoming in the next year or so in the following areas: Seattle, Texas (Houston area or whatever), or New York (not NYC area!)?
P.S. Glad
Adam
And how hard is it to steal a uniform and pass as a pilot. Hell Soutwest doesn't even really have uniforms. I personally am not an airline pilot yet (hmm pipe dreams) but I doubt that they have the time / care to check every-body's badge to see if it's legit. They just have to get past security to pass along {x} to the guy with a ticket already inside and then go back out through the security gate and leave. Or even take along a change of clothes. You get the picture. Even if they check badges, just go to a locally shitty hotel where they put the pilots and lift one off of them the day you're going to do this. It's risky that the pilot will find it missing and call it in too soon but it could be done.
All I'm really trying to say is that you don't know for certain that person A isn't person B in reality. For that matter I think it's quite re-cock-ulous the measures that are being taken to thwart terrorism. If this is what it's coming down to then the terrorists have already won. Security is a myth that only the naive or a fool can possibly believe in. The matrix was right in ignorance is bliss I suppose. Or, people could not devote their entire life worrying and actually enjoy it a lil.
Adam
I've been semi-kicking around the idea of getting a group of commercial pilots together and starting a small air-taxi service. The problem, however, is the start-up cost. As a commercial pilot I can legally get paid or compensated to fly passengers and/or cargo, but the catch is that I cannot "hold out" to the general public. This basically means that I can't show a willingness to fly anybody (the public) around which really imposes a strong restriction on me starting a business (obviously). In order to get around this I have to operate under a completely different set of rules that regulates everything (personnel, paper work, maintenance, etc) which in turn significantly raises the start-up & ongoing price.
As well as the government burden we will also have to buy a fleet of airplanes. While we could buy old planes, the maintenance will most likely be quite expensive over time as they are old. Also, it is important to keep the perception our clients in mind. Most will object when they see they will be in 20-30 year old airplanes. The planes that we will get will most definitely not be large turbo-props like a King Air or Beech 1900 or whatever. Those companies already exist; they're called charter. Instead we would need small normal aspirating planes like a Cirrus or Diamond. For a size reference think small like a Cessna 152 since most people know that type of plane. Fact of the matter is that those type of planes are slow and don't climb very high so now, not only are we going to take longer to get to the passengers to their destination, but we're going to be stuck in the weather all the time. I don't know about you, but the last time I was on a large airliner people were scared / sick? of some very light turbulence. It is my opinion that normal light to medium turbulence would in general be a very bad thing to passengers "stuck in a ridiculously small, dangerous plane." Additionally, not many people are going to want to sit inside of a cramped cockpit for 8+ hours just to go 1/2 way across the country in even the best of weather. Therefore, we realistically have to cap our distances to within, say, 500 miles of the destination. Note that this number was just now made up so don't nitpick.
After thinking about this for a little bit a solution for how this could be done comes to mind. Most people tend to drive the distance from their home to the airport and are then stuck paying for week-long parking for ~$100 or so. Some are lucky and know a place to dump their car for their vacation or cough up the dough for a taxi to the airport. These are not the people we care about. We will be catering to those that live 50 to 100+ miles from a major airport and don't want to drive. Think of us as a taxi to get from their local airport to the major "hubs" in their state. Because the flights will be around 1/2 or 1 hour, maybe two max, the majority of the people will not have the time to get cramped or sick from any turbulence encountered in-flight. Also, most likely they will be able to park their car for free at their local airport with an advanced notice to the staff so their vehicle doesn't get towed.
The downside to this approach is reliability, especially during the winter months. Ice is one of the greatest dangers to a pilot and personally I would not feel confident flying into icing conditions. Even if I did, practically all small planes are not certified to fly into "known icing" even though they may have anti/deice equipment installed. For a large portion of the country there is a large risk of being grounded in a storm that will not really affect the airliners. Good luck explaining to your customers that you're sorry they missed their flight but there was nothing you could do. During the summer months there are t-storms but they can usually be flown around unless its a squall/front line or something. In both cases you can just wait for the storms to move through and fly after they pass.
The other approach would be a small airport to small airpor
Well this was a refernce to a certain alien life form from a certain movie set in space involving a computer named Hal that... Oh I just give up. --> ashamed at /.
considering its capabilities of advancing civilization and all.
For my part-time job I reinstall windows about 5-10 times a week on people's computer and if I actually had to talk to that women I would go insane. The answer you're looking for is to use your keypad to enter the numbers as it goes much faster and has fewer errors. Additionally you can just get around re-activating windows (legally?) by backing up system32/wpa.(dbl|bak) and writing down your volumeID (win+r; cmd; vol). The, when you re-install windows start boot into safe mode and replace the wpa files and then use VolumeID by Sysinternals to change back your partitions volumeID. Done and done.
While I am not an airline pilot and have received no "official" training, I was instructed during my "turbine transition" cousrse that landing with a pressurized aircraft can and will cause massive pain and possible eardrum damage to its passengers so that's where I got my information from. Thanks for the update!
- Smoke
- Have been drinking
- Are flying at night
On a side note have you ever been in a pressurization chamber? I think the most drastic moment for me was when we did the night tests. We had to read down a page which had a progressively darker background (with black letters) and you had to see how far down you could read before it was impossible. I didn't get too far and I didn't even think that I was feeling the effects much but when I put on my O2 mask I literally though somebody had turned on the light switch or something, it was that drastic of a change. The scary thing was that we were only pressurized to around 12,500' or so for that test. Makes me think every time I go on a long distance night cross country.How quaint, I only do gray poupon. Have a good day, sir.
Not to be redundant or anything, but the main reason that magnetos are still used is not because of the efficiency/performance but because they do not require electricity to work. As long as the brushes, magnets, plugs, etc are all functioning properly there will be a spark if the engine is rotating. If your alternators or batteries break, or if there is a short or something, the very last thing that you need at that point is to have your engines quit as well. It is true that airplanes are "gliders" with an engine, but when you lose an engine you sink, fast, and unless you happen to be in a great place such as the Midwest during daytime where there are fields everywhere, you're going to be in a heap load of trouble if you cannot find a suitable landing site quick. Also, that was an interesting article that you linked me to, thanks. About your comment on fuel burn, I believe that the FADEC system I linked to earlier solved (some) of those problems as it continuously monitors and regulates the amount of fuel being delivered to the cylinders. I don't believe that magnetos are (such) a big problem that they actually diminish fuel economy by that much. In fact, each cylinder has two spark plugs to ensure not only reliability, but also to maintain a consitant burn of fuel vapors during the combustion stage of the engine.
It is true that composite materials are expensive, however many of the kit planes, as well as some production planes like the cirrus/diamond air are using them because of the enormous performance gains you get by utilizing them. I believe that once the process is even further streamlined the cost will only continue decreasing until almost all airplanes use them. While there is the infamous starship blunder involving composite materials, the cirrus continually sets new sales records and that only goes to show that people are willing to pay for high quality, especially when it comes to an expensive hobby such as aviation where most of the people are already rich to begin with. If that seams hard to believe (it does for me too since I'm just a poor college student) you only have to look at the VLJs coming out. If people can afford to buy personal jets, then I believe that the additional price will not be a factor during these initial years when the material construction process is being perfected.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your viewpoint, the FAA is quite reluctant to accept any significant changes in GA because, you know the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." However, there has been multiple leaps in the technology implemented in small airplanes over the past few years.
For example, instead of carburetors, most new planes now come with a FADEC system that handles the fuel injection into each individual cylinder, increasing performance and ridding the pilot of that pesky mixture control lever. Also, this system gives you real time status information on each cylinder so you can monitor their performance and detect a problem before it becomes too serious. About the mags, I can't really see why you'd want to get rid of them, they really are a pilot's best friend because even a total electrical failure (well almost anyways) cannot stop the magneto from sparking the engine. You have to always remember that aviation is practically married to redundancy, and for good reason.
While you did mention GPS being added into planes now, that's really only half the story. Glass cockpits are literally revolutionizing how we fly. Take a look at the good 'ol 152 cockpit then and now, there's a pretty big difference, no? The GPS is also going to make traveling to smaller airports in IMC a much greater experience when WASS/LAAS and TLS approaches become implemented around airports in the upcoming years.
Besides the GPS, ideas such as 'live' radar via XM radio, as well as a much more affordable radar dish are making storm traversal a much easier, safer thing for light airplanes, while Mode S transponders are finally bringing collision avoidance systems down from the major airlines to general aviation which I'm sure you'll agree is a major advantage.
Going outside the cockpit, we find that airplanes are beginning to be made with composite materials which are both lighter and stronger. However the high cost associated with manufacturing them, as well its unknown safety factor, are keeping it from being too widely accepted. The cirrus even designed a parachute for the entire plane. Overall, while the major design of airplanes have basically remained the same, I would say that there has been many great innovative improvements in general aviation that are changing the way pilot's fly.
I believe that the point he was making was that controlling the airplane so close to the ground without actually colliding with the ground is hard to believe. All ground effect really does it remove most of the induced drag from the airplane, it isn't a magic cushion of air that prevents you from crashing into the ground or anything. Furthermore, the aircraft was going well past Vne and no doubt suffered, at the very minimum, minor structural damage, especially along the control surfaces which would, IMO, make handling much harder than normal. He mentioned how the chief pilot (or flight instructor I can't remember) said that he has trouble maintaining control over a /1(5|7)2/ which brings some serious doubt as to whether or not he had the talent and/or ability to pull such a maneuver in a heavy iron given the conditions he was under. Also, sorry for my poor grammar/spelling, I'm not in the mood to correct it.
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