AceyMan

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by AceyMan 6y ago
I think you rubber-ducked yourself so well you obviated your initial question. My answer still stands and may be considered authoritative (webarchive hint).
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by AceyMan 6y ago
>a flight number seems like an immaterial bookkeeping abstraction Not when it comes to airline operations. Crews are assigned to flight numbers; changing their assigned flight number, even to the same route/city-pair, constitutes a
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Vote / Reply I'll take two fewer years of lifespan, for 200, Alex. I'm an athlete, and my cardiopulmonary bits are essential to my sense of well-being. /Acey
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by AceyMan 6y ago
While it's about the origins of a now much changed industry, Earnest Gann's Fate is the Hunter is an astounding collection of experiences as a professional pilot during the early years of commercial flight. I ran an airline for
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I've started using an equivalent pattern and my implementation has generally been a success, so I'll share: My email body has everything the "optimal" reader (i.e., someone who is already familiar with the topic item) ne
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Look into the Workman keyboard layout project. Very neat stuff.
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The Solution of the n-body Problem [pdf](math.uvic.ca)
3 points by AceyMan 6y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 6y ago
> I have often found that if someone uses imprecise terminology, it is a symptom of a bigger issue. What a spot-on observation. Maybe this is why I am always so pedantic, even when I tell myself that it's not necessary in said conte
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I learned it as meaning— Global Regular Expression Parser that seemed plausible enough I never questioned it.
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Takeoff run length is for the marketing sheets. What counts is the ASD — accelerate-stop distance, see also, balanced field length. Citation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_field_takeoff?wprov=s... /Acey
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by AceyMan 6y ago
This begs the question: if I could remember to renew the cert 365 days before it lapsed then I could as easily remember to renew it 45 days ahead (which, operationally speaking, is as good). In any case, certificates can only be purchased f
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I've got a good eye for UX and have sent several improvements / feature adds via the /feedback mechanism. (I was one of the earliest complainers about the WYSIWYG fiasco, for ex.) For everything I've suggested they have
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by AceyMan 6y ago
> but if you play smart, you can see things break your way over a long period of time Which brings to mind a great quip attributed to Gary Player (the multi Grand Slam winning golfer / peer to Palmer & Nicklaus) which goes, &quo
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by AceyMan 6y ago
bearings and bushings need to be hard to resist wear and maintain their dimensions. Stainless steels hard enough for the job are too brittle and those other metals (Al, Ti) aren't even close to the hardness of any category of steel.
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I've always explained this to myself by saying the apparent speed correlates to body lengths per unit of time. Hence jumbo jets look like they are creeping along, but a bumblebee or hummingbird looks like it's got afterburners.
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by AceyMan 6y ago
[errata] "since I'm not in management..." That goof did not change anything about my retold experience but I couldn't let that sit there and be so wrong <bulging_eyes>.
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I worked for the airlines (first career) and for public-facing employees it was a big deal if you got a 'good letter' from a customer. (It was equally suck if you happened to get a bad one...). We also could file 'thank you &
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I first read that as " by looking at the PNF ", which almost makes sense. If the first officers eyes are bulging out of his skull, you clearly have a problem... :-D
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Early on in the current administration I half-joked that it'd all be worth if if at the end of it we (a) switched to ISO216, (b) bailed on Fahrenheit, and (c) ditched the penny. Now that would be a legacy any POTUS could be proud abo
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by AceyMan 6y ago
my dimestore mixed metaphor is this: because WHO is a top of the pyramid standards body (of sorts), they are slow to adopt new lines of thinking. Very waterfall, not agile. When the ISO updates a publication we have a near zero expectation
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Crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 [pdf](ntsb.gov)
1 points by AceyMan 6y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 6y ago
hence the classic: <remote_tz_projectmate> do you have time for a question? <me> ... that's one. TTYL [iterate] Yahoo! had a TLA for it or something. It was the "hey, are you there" syndrome, coined back when thei
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by AceyMan 6y ago
except for Slack | Teams | its ilk next question. /me: an expert writer who sees no change on the horizon
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by AceyMan 6y ago
It's like the K&R of flying. Except it comes out every few years, which kind of makes it way better.
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AIM – Aeronautical Information Manual(faa.gov)
49 points by AceyMan 6y ago|28 comments
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by AceyMan 7y ago
That's how we learn, right? I am learning to be ambidextrous: I can feel my brain "doing shit" while I'm working hard on the left side. It's pretty cool.
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Legionnaires' Disease (C. 1976)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by AceyMan 7y ago|0 comments
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L.A. County voters encounter hours-long waits and glitches with brand-new system(latimes.com)
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Do some spot pricing of apartments on the Southern California coast and get back to us, m'kay?
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Even in conventional aircraft a parabolic flight plan (the vertical path) is optimally efficient, all other things being equal. In practice it'd be a nightmare to separate traffic. Additionally it'd increase the pilot workload sig

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