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Spinner strobing as a "Bird Strike Countermeasure"



 
 
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Old December 3rd 07, 10:22 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default Spinner strobing as a "Bird Strike Countermeasure"

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Wrong again you clueless twit.


No, he is right this time.


Rule #1: MX is never right

Rule #2: Is by some wild mistake (think monkeys typing) , MX is not actually
incorrect, see rule #1


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Old December 3rd 07, 10:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt
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When observed directly under artifical light that "flickers", the most
obvious being a strobe light, but there are other types of artificial
lights that have flicker.

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Fine - but which ones cause you to see the propellers turning in
apparent reverse? Do you frequently operate your airplane indoors?
Propellers are usually observed in natural light, which does not flicker.
At
night, on the rare occasions where you actually see the props clearly, it
is
from the aircraft's own lighting, which is DC. I have nbever seen the
props
turning backwards on a real plane - see it frequently in movies though.
. .


Do you really think you see and visualize motion constantly. Perhaps you
should spend a little more time around and airport yourself. Many
propellers, especially the large diameter props found on radial engines,
will appear at times to be rotating slower, or backwards. It's a fainter
image than recorded on film, but the partnership of the human eye and brain
does not realize fluid motion.

Motion pictures captured on film greatly exaggerates the phenomenon. Some of
the new video equipment will seem to even stop a prop to the extent it's
distracting to the quality of the recording. But the human visual system
well do so as well, just to a much lesser extent.



 




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