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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. .....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. John Gribbin's book 'Science - A History' contains a neat explanation in the discussion of Fresnel's model of light on p408. Stealth Pilot |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
... I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. In the grand scheme of "hands on aviation matters", how many beans are in this hill? |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:43:21 GMT, "Mike" wrote:
"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message .. . I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. In the grand scheme of "hands on aviation matters", how many beans are in this hill? I notice that there are no attempts at an answer. |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
Stealth Pilot wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:43:21 GMT, "Mike" wrote: "Stealth Pilot" wrote in message . .. I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. In the grand scheme of "hands on aviation matters", how many beans are in this hill? I notice that there are no attempts at an answer. Well, you directed the question to flight simmers and trolls. If you want to open it up to non-pilot lurkers, I'll take a guess. Assuming you will reveal the correct answer and explain it. -- Alex -- Replace "nospam" with "mail" to reply by email. Checked infrequently. |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
glory be, what can the answer be?
On Jun 25, 10:46 am, alexy wrote: Stealth Pilot wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:43:21 GMT, "Mike" wrote: "Stealth Pilot" wrote in message . .. I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. In the grand scheme of "hands on aviation matters", how many beans are in this hill? I notice that there are no attempts at an answer. Well, you directed the question to flight simmers and trolls. If you want to open it up to non-pilot lurkers, I'll take a guess. Assuming you will reveal the correct answer and explain it. -- Alex -- Replace "nospam" with "mail" to reply by email. Checked infrequently. |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
On Jun 19, 8:49 am, Stealth Pilot
wrote: I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. John Gribbin's book 'Science - A History' contains a neat explanation in the discussion of Fresnel's model of light on p408. Stealth Pilot Is this a test, or are you curious what the sim does? :/ In real life, you will see a vague outline of the plane, but it will be pretty fuzzy in general. In the present sim I use, "FSX" the shadow is always sharp.. They don't have that "fuzzy" technology down yet.. I have pictures of both real shadows, and can easily fire up the sim for it's version if needed. Dunno about 4500 ft though.. I'm not sure if he was quite that high in the best examples I have, which were taken from a Piper Cub.. The sim has the same Cub, so it would be easy to compare real to sim, using the same exact aircraft. But I can tell you right now, the real version is going to be a lot fuzzier than the sim. |
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Here's a question for the trolls and flight simmers
On Jun 25, 4:32 pm, wrote:
On Jun 19, 8:49 am, Stealth Pilot wrote: I know we beat on you guys a lot here but here is a serious question for you to explore. scenario: you are flying along on a bright sunny day with no cloud cover. your wingspan is about 20 ft, fuselage length 14ft and tailplane about 8ft span. your altitude is 4,500ft. you look down below you in the exact opposite direction to the sun. what do you see below you scooting along the ground below you? is it a sharply defined shadow of your aircraft? a fuzzy indistinct shadow of your aeroplane? or what? it is quite distinct and you can pick it from nearly a mile away. ....now pilots dont tell them. these guys are actually quite intelligent but not in' hands on' aviation matters. they should be able to work this out. John Gribbin's book 'Science - A History' contains a neat explanation in the discussion of Fresnel's model of light on p408. Stealth Pilot Is this a test, or are you curious what the sim does? :/ In real life, you will see a vague outline of the plane, but it will be pretty fuzzy in general. In the present sim I use, "FSX" the shadow is always sharp.. They don't have that "fuzzy" technology down yet.. I have pictures of both real shadows, and can easily fire up the sim for it's version if needed. Dunno about 4500 ft though.. I'm not sure if he was quite that high in the best examples I have, which were taken from a Piper Cub.. The sim has the same Cub, so it would be easy to compare real to sim, using the same exact aircraft. But I can tell you right now, the real version is going to be a lot fuzzier than the sim. look up 'glory' in an aviation context. |
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