george
March 19th 06, 03:42 AM
gerry wrote:
> Why would someone acting as if they were from England, spelling
> airplane as "aeroplane" and then use the word bull****, when the
> English almost always use the word "crap."
I am obviously an English speaker from another country
>There are other
> inconsistencies in your posting. For instance, slant range is more
> commonly used by ground observers, such as those operating radar units
> tracking an object in the air.
No! The term is 'slant range' look up minimums for VFR flight....
>
> Until your posting, I did not know a whizz wheel was like an aeronautic
> slide rule, with the whiz wheel used to compute your flight plan. But
> whiz wheels are used with charts for pre-flight course setting, if they
> are used at all. Pilots have access to electronic flight computers,
> Garmin GPS devices or the jet's flight computer while airborne. It
> turns out the primary use of whiz wheels is for the written
> certification tests pilots take.
Try the expression backup. No batteries. Doesn't die if it's dropped.
And thanks for telling me what I have to have to navigate VFR
ROTFL
>
> I have included some definitions below, for you to refer to the next
> time you post something on flying. Air data dead reckoning does not
> seem that easy to me, but then, I am not a psychopathic kill crazy
> Saudi who studied architecture at a Hamburg University.
The psychopathic kill crazy Saudi had a Commercial License AFAIR..
> Why would someone acting as if they were from England, spelling
> airplane as "aeroplane" and then use the word bull****, when the
> English almost always use the word "crap."
I am obviously an English speaker from another country
>There are other
> inconsistencies in your posting. For instance, slant range is more
> commonly used by ground observers, such as those operating radar units
> tracking an object in the air.
No! The term is 'slant range' look up minimums for VFR flight....
>
> Until your posting, I did not know a whizz wheel was like an aeronautic
> slide rule, with the whiz wheel used to compute your flight plan. But
> whiz wheels are used with charts for pre-flight course setting, if they
> are used at all. Pilots have access to electronic flight computers,
> Garmin GPS devices or the jet's flight computer while airborne. It
> turns out the primary use of whiz wheels is for the written
> certification tests pilots take.
Try the expression backup. No batteries. Doesn't die if it's dropped.
And thanks for telling me what I have to have to navigate VFR
ROTFL
>
> I have included some definitions below, for you to refer to the next
> time you post something on flying. Air data dead reckoning does not
> seem that easy to me, but then, I am not a psychopathic kill crazy
> Saudi who studied architecture at a Hamburg University.
The psychopathic kill crazy Saudi had a Commercial License AFAIR..