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Dylan Smith wrote:
In article , Matt Whiting wrote: Yeah, then you'll complain that nobody listens to you :~) I don't mind if the net nannies don't listen! :-) Netiquette isn't about net nannies. It's like saying 'please', 'thank you' and not letting doors slam in the faces of people following you. Trimming quoted material is netiquette - the manners of Usenet (and other online forums). It is the equivalent of holding open the door for the person after you in real life; politeness. Maybe one day it'll no longer be September 1993. If the net nanny had made a polite request, I might have responded differently. I don't recall exactly, but it seems the comment was something like "You too, Matt." Not exactly a polite request. Matt |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote Rotax aren't a bad engine manufacturers - you've gotta remember a lot of their output is inherently less reliable 2-strokes. So lots of people say. Nevertheless, you'll not catch me flying behind one, anywhere except the plains, or the water with floats. -- Jim in NC |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Matt Whiting wrote: Yeah, then you'll complain that nobody listens to you :~) I don't mind if the net nannies don't listen! :-) Netiquette isn't about net nannies. It's like saying 'please', 'thank you' and not letting doors slam in the faces of people following you. Trimming quoted material is netiquette - Right. Someone needs to tell the "rude" to shape up. Then they call you a net nanny, for stating the obvious. -- Jim in NC |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Dave Stadt wrote: I have time in a Nanching (sp). It is an excellent airplane, solid airframe and bullet proof engine. I don't see a problem as long as they don't use Rotax engines. I think the new Diamonds (DA-40 etc) use either the diesel or a Lycoming O-360 (rated at 180hp). Rotax aren't a bad engine manufacturers - you've gotta remember a lot of their output is inherently less reliable 2-strokes. The small 4cyl 4stroke fitted to the original Katana I think got a bad rap mainly because there weren't many mainstream Lyco-Conti mechanics who were familiar with it. We don't have a similar problem with the Rotax 91* series engines here where they are more common (indeed, I've flown behind the turbocharged 914S, and it's a very nice engine making sea level power up to around 18000 feet, with automatic turbo and mixture control). They dumped the Rotax because customer support is for the most part non-existant. People aren't going to buy production airplanes that they cannot get engine parts for. Rotax 4 strokes are somewhat better than the 2 strokes but certainly not what they should be. Homebuilders seem to like them because they get to work on them a lot. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message . .. They dumped the Rotax because customer support is for the most part non-existant. People aren't going to buy production airplanes that they cannot get engine parts for. Rotax 4 strokes are somewhat better than the 2 strokes but certainly not what they should be. Homebuilders seem to like them because they get to work on them a lot. That's like marrying a virgin -- they have no baseline to compare! -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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In article 8GUae.17388$NU4.3706@attbi_s22, Jay Honeck wrote:
b) Political correctness, dictated by umpteen zillion stupid lawsuits over the years, dictates that the TSA must frisk EVERYONE, even though any idiot knows that a 93 year old woman in a wheelchair is probably not a security risk. It's a sign of the times, not of the TSA. Actually - if you want your security to work then you *cannot* profile. It's not a case of political correctness. If you only frisk brown people, soon the terrorists will find non-brown extremists to perpetrate attacks. If you only frisk people who bought last minute one way tickets over the Internet, the terrorists will start gettin their tickets from a traditional travel agents, pay by cheque and buy a return ticket. Even so, the airport security the US has now is window-dressing - the only things that have actually increased security is a locked flight deck door policy and the fact that the passengers will now take out any would-be hijacker instead of going quietly (witness what happened with the attempted shoe bombing). In Britain, our airport security isn't anywhere near as onerous and intrusive, yet we've not had any attacks-by-airliner since Sept.11, and Britain is hated every bit as much by the terrorists. (We can even carry nail clippers and knitting needles on airliners now, yay us). -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
companies ploughed vast amounts of money into 3G licenses which were ALL to do with the dot.com bubble) They did so under the orders of the FCC. (See first article below). Not here they didn't - they did it to themselves - the mad scramble for 3G licenses sold by auction pushed the value way above what they were worth as the telecoms companies scrambled blindly to get on the 3G bandwagon. To date, there is only one major 3G network (called 3) which is notable for being awful (it doesn't give you real internet access, merely a walled garden of their own approved content). Not surprisingly, 3 has moved to selling their service on cheap voice calls. Hardly the promise of 3G. I think another mobile provider has recently started rolling out 3G, years after they scrambled to get on the bandwagon that was as insubstantial as the hard vacuum of space. There is one telecom company that has continuously turned a profit. Manx Telecom. But they are a monopoly, and if times are tough they just ratchet up their charges a bit because they don't need to care about competition (and to make it seem as if they are offering 'value' and are not a monopoly, price their less popular services dirt cheap so they can crow in their advertising how calls to Outer Timbuktoo are half the price with them compared to a UK carrier). Whilst the rest of the telecom industry has been in the doldrums, they have been making profit rates well over 30%. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
Many Europeans tell us we should drive microcars, but they have no comprehension of just how big and spread out the US is. Hardly, it's quite possible to make a mid or fullsize diesel car very economical on fuel. That's why I specifically metioned my Dad's Pug - a decent sized station wagon that lasted over 350,000 miles (easily up to the distance), did 40+ MPG all day long, and big enough to throw building supplies in the back and tow a 1 tonne caravan (travel trailer) with a racing sidecar outfit. Modern turbo diesels make GREAT all purpose cars and they can be economical without being 'micro cars'. A turbo diesel also runs great in the mountains. I've driven a VW TDi over the Rockies, and its performance was indistinguishable from at sea level. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
Speeds are generally much higher in Europe than the western US. Have you ever driven the western US? Yes. In a Volkswagen TDi in fact. However, I generally preferred to fly over the western US in my C140. Speed limit is generally 75 and that's ususally scoffed at. What are speed limits in the rest of Europe other than the autobahn? Right-o. That's why when I was doing 80 in the Jetta through Colorado and Utah I was passing practically everything. The prevailing speed of motorway traffic in Britain is generally 80mph (even though the limit is 70). In France, I think the autoroutes have a speed limit of 130km/h which is 80mph - faster than your freeways out west - and having driven in France, I know the French pay little attention to that speed limit (or many other good principles of road safety!) Additionally, take the range of a Volkswagen Jetta TDi - it'll get around 700 miles off a tank of diesel. It will also give good power in the mountains, I have friends in Utah who love their TDi. My Dad's last diesel, a Peugeot, lasted over 350,000 miles. Americans just don't like diesels. They're better than the junk that came out 20-25 years ago, but they still sell abysmally other than in the bigger pickup trucks. I know that - but that doesn't mean that diesels AREN'T good now and AREN'T up to the job because they most certianly are. A modern turbo diesel car is as comfortable as a gasoline driven one, just as fast and often has way better endurance and often has an engine which will last much longer on less maintenance. Just because Americans in general haven't considered a diesel car doesn't some how mean the modern turbo diesel can't cope with distances or speeds out west - on the distance they are unarguably BETTER than gasoline cars - the range on a tank of fuel is often 50 to 100% greater than the equivalent gasoline car, the engines generally are much stronger and last longer, and the speed is just as good. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
Must have raised them 'cause when I was there (mid 70's and again in the early 80s) they topped out about 60. In Britain, the speed limit has never been that low. All dual carriageways ('divided highways') have a default speed limit of 70mph. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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