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Setting altimeters with no radio
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:33:10 -0600, Jim Macklin wrote:
I have zero actual experience with AIDS, having left the "open market" a long long time ago. When I was in the Navy, it was the "good ol' days" (i.e. anything that you could possibly catch was curable by penicillin)... Well, that's not completely true since herpes had come around before I left, but it didn't kill you, it just made you *wish* you were dead... sick-grin These days, I doubt that it would be as fun to be single and in the Navy... Something about having to wear steel-belted radial body condoms just seems like it would take the fun out of meeting strange women waking up in bed with even *stranger* women... I alway thought it was interesting how you could go to bed with a really nice looking woman that you encounter at the bar and wake up with something that albeit female, you had to wonder if it walked upright... |
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Setting altimeters with no radio
Recently, Mxsmanic posted:
Neil Gould writes: Ever hear of WAAS? Yes. And it's not part of GPS. It's a part of my 295, and every Garmin aviation GPS newer than that. Nothing else is relevant to me as a pilot. Neil |
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The formula is ...
good looking= blood alcohol level times the number of hours since your last full nights' sleep times the number of days since you were last laid, divided by the months since your last VD movie. "Grumman-581" wrote in message news | On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:33:10 -0600, Jim Macklin wrote: | I have zero actual experience with AIDS, having left the "open market" a | long long time ago. | | When I was in the Navy, it was the "good ol' days" (i.e. anything that you | could possibly catch was curable by penicillin)... Well, that's not | completely true since herpes had come around before I left, but it didn't | kill you, it just made you *wish* you were dead... sick-grin | | These days, I doubt that it would be as fun to be single and in the | Navy... Something about having to wear steel-belted radial body condoms | just seems like it would take the fun out of meeting strange women waking | up in bed with even *stranger* women... I alway thought it was interesting | how you could go to bed with a really nice looking woman that you | encounter at the bar and wake up with something that albeit female, you | had to wonder if it walked upright... |
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Setting altimeters with no radio
"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
... Not below 3000 AGL, it does above that. "Travis Marlatte" wrote in message et... | VFR, it doesn't really matter, does it? | You seem to be suggesting that when flying VFR above 3000', we have an obligation to fly specific altitudes within some tolerence and, therefore, need to have an accurate means of determining our altitude. That is certainly not the case. Prudent, yes. Required, no. ------------------------------- Travis Lake N3094P PWK |
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"Travis Marlatte" wrote:
You seem to be suggesting that when flying VFR above 3000', we have an obligation to fly specific altitudes within some tolerence and, therefore, need to have an accurate means of determining our altitude. That is certainly not the case. Prudent, yes. Required, no. I would consider the following to be an "obligation": *91.159***VFR cruising altitude or flight level. Except while holding in a holding pattern of 2 minutes or less, or while turning, each person operating an aircraft under VFR in level cruising flight more than 3,000 feet above the surface shall maintain the appropriate altitude or flight level prescribed below, unless otherwise authorized by ATC: (a) When operating below 18,000 feet MSL and‹ (1) On a magnetic course of zero degrees through 179 degrees, any odd thousand foot MSL altitude +500 feet (such as 3,500, 5,500, or 7,500); or (2) On a magnetic course of 180 degrees through 359 degrees, any even thousand foot MSL altitude +500 feet (such as 4,500, 6,500, or 8,500). (b) When operating above 18,000 feet MSL, maintain the altitude or flight level assigned by ATC. |
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The word SHALL has a legal meaning...
§ 91.159 VFR cruising altitude or flight level. Except while holding in a holding pattern of 2 minutes or less, or while turning, each person operating an aircraft under VFR in level cruising flight more than 3,000 feet above the surface shall maintain the appropriate altitude or flight level prescribed below, unless otherwise authorized by ATC: (a) When operating below 18,000 feet MSL and- (1) On a magnetic course of zero degrees through 179 degrees, any odd thousand foot MSL altitude +500 feet (such as 3,500, 5,500, or 7,500); or (2) On a magnetic course of 180 degrees through 359 degrees, any even thousand foot MSL altitude +500 feet (such as 4,500, 6,500, or 8,500). (b) When operating above 18,000 feet MSL, maintain the altitude or flight level assigned by ATC. Last updated: August 7, 2006 "Travis Marlatte" wrote in message ... | "Jim Macklin" wrote in message | ... | Not below 3000 AGL, it does above that. | | "Travis Marlatte" wrote in | message | et... | | VFR, it doesn't really matter, does it? | | | | You seem to be suggesting that when flying VFR above 3000', we have an | obligation to fly specific altitudes within some tolerence and, therefore, | need to have an accurate means of determining our altitude. That is | certainly not the case. Prudent, yes. Required, no. | | ------------------------------- | Travis | Lake N3094P | PWK | | |
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Setting altimeters with no radio
peter writes:
No, your statement before was that it required measurement of angles and "triangulation" whereas the actual procedure does not measure any angles at all and is closer to "trilateration" or determining the distances to the satellites at known positions It does indeed measure angles, rest assured. Of course, it does a lot more than that. Not sure what you mean by times being equal to sides (the units don't match for one thing) ... Then let's just leave it at that. This is not a sandbox, and I don't have time to play. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Neil Gould writes:
It's a part of my 295, and every Garmin aviation GPS newer than that. Those are receivers, not the GPS. WAAS is completely independent of GPS. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Recently, Mxsmanic posted:
Neil Gould writes: It's a part of my 295, and every Garmin aviation GPS newer than that. Those are receivers, not the GPS. WAAS is completely independent of GPS. When we speak of GPS _usage_ in aviation, we are specifically and almost exclusively talking about receivers. Those are the devices that we either have in our planes or take with us to the plane. All that is relevant is that we understand the devices that we use. Therefore, it is easy to establish that equipment that we don't have and don't use is of lesser importance. That is one difference between a real life and a sim life. Neil |
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Travis Marlatte schrieb:
VFR, it doesn't really matter, does it? I've always thought that airspace boundaries are to be respected by VFR traffic, too. Stefan |
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