The ELT's I've seen, and yes you are right don't need to be turned on, but they do have a safety that prevents inadvertent activation. True, we don't know if there was an impact and we don't know if the battery life was expired or not. ELT's are best installed in survivable places, like the tail, and that would require a large impact or one where the tail hit first. We won't know for a while what happened. As for nosing into a mountain, I would hope he know about the air currents that pass over mountains and nosing into a mountain is possible.
As for rushing to judgments, if you think the aviation community is bad, listen to the media.
It just goes to show you that money does not equal brains as if you didn't already know. Just look at any politician! The plane either didn't have an ELT (Emergency Locater Transmitter) or it wasn't turned on. And he didn't file a flight plan. It's OK to be a bold pilot, and old, but stupidity comes with a cost especially if something goes wrong.
Hey, how about vendors such as Dell, Gateway, IBM, and the bunch of others just sell us users a machine without an OS without a fight of uninstalling, returning the unused OS, and then fighting for a refund?
Yep, and I'm sure Microsoft stabbed SCO in the back as they like to do. However you don't hear SCO claiming that since they bankrolled SCO in their legal offense against other companies. That is one company that should up and die.
If one wants to learn computer programming, go to a community college. Having gone through a bachelor's degree recently, they teach the basics. Nothing advanced, no techniques, they do teach a little structured programming but not much. And previously I did go to a community college and did learn computer programming. However I leanred more on the job than in school.
Many teachers are out of date. Many colleges teach what is either out of date or what is not in demand.
Computer programming takes talent and a desire. In addition it takes a good teacher and time.
You are right there. The discussion groups have a lot of no-brain people posting messages. Sometimes when you post something worthwhile, your post doesn't take. Sometimes the discussion groups don't work. News articles are a day late and several dollars short, of not outdated. If you don't use a Windows based PC, you are SOL and half the stuff, if not more, just doesn't work. Support for problems are non-existent. Searching returns useless junk. I'm surprised they still in existence.
I find it difficult to believe that any relatively new software of Microsoft's will run on older hardware. It has always been that newer software of theirs will require newer hardware. Then again, what load did Microsoft put on the hardware/software? If it's stripped down, then maybe it will work. I have two identical machines. One runs Windows XP and another SuSE Linux 10. The SuSE Linux machine ALWAYS boots faster than the machine running Windows XP. More software is being loaded on Linux and the Linux machine runs a lot better with a load on it than Windows.
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The ELT's I've seen, and yes you are right don't need to be turned on, but they do have a safety that prevents inadvertent activation. True, we don't know if there was an impact and we don't know if the battery life was expired or not. ELT's are best installed in survivable places, like the tail, and that would require a large impact or one where the tail hit first. We won't know for a while what happened. As for nosing into a mountain, I would hope he know about the air currents that pass over mountains and nosing into a mountain is possible. As for rushing to judgments, if you think the aviation community is bad, listen to the media.
It just goes to show you that money does not equal brains as if you didn't already know. Just look at any politician! The plane either didn't have an ELT (Emergency Locater Transmitter) or it wasn't turned on. And he didn't file a flight plan. It's OK to be a bold pilot, and old, but stupidity comes with a cost especially if something goes wrong.
I do hope they find him alive.
Hey, how about vendors such as Dell, Gateway, IBM, and the bunch of others just sell us users a machine without an OS without a fight of uninstalling, returning the unused OS, and then fighting for a refund?
Yep, and I'm sure Microsoft stabbed SCO in the back as they like to do. However you don't hear SCO claiming that since they bankrolled SCO in their legal offense against other companies. That is one company that should up and die.
If one wants to learn computer programming, go to a community college. Having gone through a bachelor's degree recently, they teach the basics. Nothing advanced, no techniques, they do teach a little structured programming but not much. And previously I did go to a community college and did learn computer programming. However I leanred more on the job than in school. Many teachers are out of date. Many colleges teach what is either out of date or what is not in demand. Computer programming takes talent and a desire. In addition it takes a good teacher and time.
You are right there. The discussion groups have a lot of no-brain people posting messages. Sometimes when you post something worthwhile, your post doesn't take. Sometimes the discussion groups don't work. News articles are a day late and several dollars short, of not outdated. If you don't use a Windows based PC, you are SOL and half the stuff, if not more, just doesn't work. Support for problems are non-existent. Searching returns useless junk. I'm surprised they still in existence.
I find it difficult to believe that any relatively new software of Microsoft's will run on older hardware. It has always been that newer software of theirs will require newer hardware. Then again, what load did Microsoft put on the hardware /software? If it's stripped down, then maybe it will work. I have two identical machines. One runs Windows XP and another SuSE Linux 10. The SuSE Linux machine ALWAYS boots faster than the machine running Windows XP. More software is being loaded on Linux and the Linux machine runs a lot better with a load on it than Windows.