AceyMan

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by AceyMan 8y ago
> The MCAS is designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall [...] This has become a trope and is flatly incorrect. MCAS was cooked up to maintain the handling characteristics required by the certification specifications. The standard requires
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by AceyMan 8y ago
To work from the same passage, >It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade [...] Yeah, well, great. But aircraft development timespans are on the order of ten to fifteen, sometimes twent
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> For me, I've often thought that heat could be utilised. It's a specific use case, but this exhaust heat is very useful. Use the top side of the refrigerator as a delicate drier for damp things that cannot be tumble dried . S
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by AceyMan 8y ago
A significant difference, too, is the US operators opted for the supplemental alerting package (a paid upgrade) for MCAS (see "AOA DISAGREE"). This might have made the difference on the two accident aircraft had they had that same
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by AceyMan 8y ago
If we believe the FAA has been captured by industry, do we trust the outcome of their investigation to be impartial? Do we trust their investigation to be at all competent? Correction: US accident investigations are conducted by the NTSB,
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by AceyMan 8y ago
To my mind, Mark Zuckerberg fits here. (He wasn't "given" power, but the end result is much the same.)
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Can confirm wrt Drive. I was just at work trying to upload files (and one-deep folders) and barely anything completed. I finally gave up. Our edge/gateway is in metro SEA, fwiw.
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> A lot of captains will let the less experienced first officer fly take off and landing if it’s favorable conditions and easy terrain to give them more experience. For US carriers, alternating legs between PF (pilot flying) and PM (pilo
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by AceyMan 8y ago
AU: Another good example where it'd pay off to use the 'FQDN', transport category aircraft .
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Knowing the state of things and the history of the project I'm not much surprised by this, yet I'm a bit taken aback that this indeed has come to pass. I always hate it when a serviceable, if not especially outstanding, aircraft g
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Earnest Gann's Fate is the Hunter is a must-read for aviation buffs which flies under the radar in discussions on the great books on flying. I worked in the business and I'd never heard of it until a hardware engineer (with WDC)
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by AceyMan 8y ago
(I hope that comment wasn't a dupe; I was on mobile and didn't see anyone else yet go over that aspect of the sitch.)
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by AceyMan 8y ago
The dagger in the heart of the big 4-engine aircraft are the changes in the ETOPS allowances¹ by the regulatory bodies. Used to be you needed the redundancy of four power plants to provide the needed nines to cross the ocean and still ensur
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Abso-freaking-lutly. The permitted range for the CG (longitudinally) — denoted as "% of MAC", for Mean Aerodynamic Chord — is quite narrow, and you prefer to stay away from the "edges" of that range whenever possible. Th
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Am I the only one who came to TFA looking for a screaming ThinkPad with a 7-row keyboard? <snaps fingers> (downvotes—rly? That really was my first thought when I saw the title ...)
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Busses don't stop. Busses don't park (except for overnight). Great, SV Unicorns — you've successfully invented an electric bus with seating for four. /s
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by AceyMan 8y ago
This, so much. I take transit and cycle everywhere. Even with the bike and bus there's lots of walking to and from bus stops. When I am out with colleagues and we want to go somewhere even a half a mile away people are all "that&#
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Sandberg says Facebook must earn back trust(reuters.com)
1 points by AceyMan 8y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> A couple years ago they called large phones "phablets." We've lost that word now. The correct term is tablone <grin>. I loved my SE until I bricked it jumping in our local pool not feeling it was still in my poc
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by AceyMan 8y ago
It requires four heads to cover even "20/365" (half the night "closed") and four is, in fact, short for true 24/7/365 = 8760 hrs, while a person works 2,000 hr/yr x 4 = 8,000. If you try it with less,
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Magnetic north pole is changing faster than forecast(p.dw.com)
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by AceyMan 8y ago
There are very few, if any, angles where the sun can fall on the primary panel. Also, just above is a shelf that juts out (with many of the commonly touched buttons) called the glareshield that keeps direct light off the instruments. Finall
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I'm a yankee and I like the boring, straightforward take the Germans have wrt news. I've recently added DW.com to my regular news scan, joining the BBC and the trad USA outlets (AP, Reuters, NPR).
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> Eastern grey squirrels were deliberately introduced into city parks for the enjoyment of people .[1] Did not know — thanks for this. Also, this has to be the dumbest move in the history of urban planning (considering squirrels track re
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Countering anecdotal experience: I live in a wealthy (high COL, at least) area, and I see what the GP referred to. Housing here is very expensive, ergo, living spaces are small, so I tried to go to the library to get some "real studyin
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> I'm gobsmacked that you can feign amazement and then post a reply that's basically "sidewalks aren't called siderides, so bikes should stay off" with no further logic. You must'a missed the subtle metapho
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> The problem is that your attention isn't riveted on the mirrors at all times. This is mitigated by what pilots call their "scan" or "flow" (I've heard both terms). Pilots follow a visual path around the i
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> I never understood why bicycles aren't required to ride on the sidewalks in areas that have them. I'm so positively gobsmacked that a statement this plainly ignorant came from a fellow HN participant, I don't even kno
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I drive a full size pickup (with a camper shell) in Los Angeles traffic, so I appreciate the value of well aimed side mirrors. (fwiw, I'm primarily a cyclist, and only drive the truck on the weekends for shopping). I remember reading a
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> Radio studios still use ISDN links to other studios, because they have fixed latency and incredibly low jitter. Can confirm. We have a good friend here in LA who is a voice actor (among other talents). He still pays for an ISDN line at

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