Why airplanes taxi

writes:

Real pilots do the "truckload of calculations" all the time.

Some do, some don't.

Here's an example of a real pilot who not only skipped the calculations, but
flew way too close to the wi

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...loaded-172.wmv

Jay has numerous other examples in the collection on his Web site.

Mxsmanic wrote:
terry writes:

come on live a little, push that envelope, you only live once.

There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

Terry is another matter, but as for your analogy, you are incorrect.
There most certainly are old bold pilots.
The trick in flying isn't the avoidance of bold action, in fact the
reverse is true.
The trick is in knowing when to be bold and when not to be. Those who
know the difference are the ones who become "old, bold pilots".


--
Dudley Henriques

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Not always. Not at all always.

That's why I said "overall." It's a general rule, not an absolute rule.

"Always" just doesn't deal with reality. Works on a sim, I
suppose.

Odd that you saw this word, but not the other one.

If you'd ever studied meteorology (Commercial Pilot
groundschool) you'd know that the temp falls with altitude until we
reach the tropopause. Then it starts rising until we reach the
stratopause, where it starts to fall again through the mesosphere, and
once we reach the thermosphere it rises again and keeps on rising,
though the density is so low that the actual heat content is minimal.

Yes. I had previously alluded to this.

If pressure rises, so does temperature.

Then why is the atmosphere hottest in areas of extremely low pressure?

The atmosphere is much more complex than you think.

I didn't comment on its complexity.

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My mistake. It was -20°C on the ground and +18°C at 3000' agl.
A 38° difference. A difference in the "wrong" direction.

So the pressure must have been much higher at 3000 feet, according to the
reasoning given in your previous post.

Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Real pilots do the "truckload of calculations" all the time.

Some do, some don't.

No, most do.

The small percentage that don't become the subject of an NTSB report.

Of course none of this makes any difference when you are play flying.

--
Jim Pennino

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On Feb 12, 1:32*pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
terry writes:

come on live a little, push that envelope, you only live once.

There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

Terry is another matter, but as for your analogy, you are incorrect.
There most certainly are old bold pilots.
The trick in flying isn't the avoidance of bold action, in fact the
reverse is true.
The trick is in knowing when to be bold and when not to be. Those who
know the difference are the ones who become "old, bold pilots".

Terry could be an old bold pilot if he wanted to be, because like many
of us weekend warriors we started old!. But I can assure you he plans
to be very old.

Dudley Henriques writes:

Terry is another matter, but as for your analogy, you are incorrect.
There most certainly are old bold pilots.
The trick in flying isn't the avoidance of bold action, in fact the
reverse is true.
The trick is in knowing when to be bold and when not to be. Those who
know the difference are the ones who become "old, bold pilots".

I didn't invent the saying.

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No, most do.

What percentage is that?

Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

No, most do.

What percentage is that?

A large one as is obvious from the NTSB data.

Feel free to use the NTSB web site to generate a number with six significant
digits on your time.


--
Jim Pennino

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Dudley Henriques writes:

Terry is another matter, but as for your analogy, you are incorrect.
There most certainly are old bold pilots.
The trick in flying isn't the avoidance of bold action, in fact the
reverse is true.
The trick is in knowing when to be bold and when not to be. Those who
know the difference are the ones who become "old, bold pilots".

I didn't invent the saying.

No one said you did. You just used the quote as a declarative sentence
that indicates clearly to the person you posted it to that you
understand the truth of the statement's meaning when in actuality both
the statement and you are incorrect.
So instead of just not understanding the statement is incorrect, you
have compounded the error by using it to make a point that was
incorrect; so you're wrong on two counts.
Good job!

--
Dudley Henriques