cjrp

49 ms·

721.
by cjrp 6y ago
Low quantities, certification costs, mandatory maintenance (engine and prop overhaul/replacement after {X} hours)
722.
by cjrp 6y ago
> You don't have to stay at home, you just need internet access. This means you have the freedom to work from anywhere on the globe as long as you can access the web. This sounds great, unless you have a mortgage on a house which ne
723.
by cjrp 6y ago
Ditto. What if "highly sophisticated" actually means "stumbled upon easyjet.com/backups/latest_db_dump_w_passwords-SENSITIVE.sql"
724.
by cjrp 7y ago
I have friends and hobbies outside of work, but I still miss my "work friends". If you're going to be somewhere for ~8 hours a day, I find it's nice to have some company.
725.
by cjrp 7y ago
Our 2008 Honda Civic (EU-spec) was similarly well-designed. Controls you were likely to use while driving (temperature/windscreen-clearing, radio, hazard lights, etc.) were raised up closer to your eye-line[1]. It was a really ergonomi
726.
by cjrp 7y ago
Not following their own advice. MPs tested positive and yet the House of Commons remained open as normal.
727.
by cjrp 7y ago
> Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not? Certainly not from China.
728.
by cjrp 7y ago
> If you set an autopilot to hold a heading, it will hold a heading. You don't have to supervise it, you can concentrate on other stuff. Not _strictly_ true; faults can occur and the system always needs monitoring. Strong turbulence
729.
by cjrp 7y ago
Employment figures don't tell the whole story. For example, lots of people could be employed but still not earning a living wage.
730.
by cjrp 7y ago
I can't tell if this is satire. > Employers hire much more eagerly knowing that, if the tides turn, the extra employees will not be a burden This doesn't sound great for employees (i.e. the majority of the country).
731.
by cjrp 7y ago
If they're trying to avoid people coming to work tired, presumably they also have a no-children policy for their staff?
732.
by cjrp 7y ago
In Europe, a lot of this is done by EUROCONTROL's Central Flow Management unit. They'll issue a "Calculated Take Off Time" and the ground/tower controller at the airport will get the plane to the runway at the corre
733.
by cjrp 7y ago
Also, calling emergency services will use any available network, so even if your normal provider has no coverage your call might still get through if you're within range of a competitor's tower.
734.
by cjrp 7y ago
Check the weather radar for the nearest rainstorm
735.
by cjrp 7y ago
I imagine there'd have to be swappable batteries, but you're absolutely right that you'd be missing out on learning all the other aspects of flying. Although by the time electric aircraft become mainstream for training I&#x27
736.
by cjrp 7y ago
Even for aeroplanes with just two people, the most usable, all-electric endurance I've seen is about 1 hour[1]. Just about usable for training (mostly circuits around the airfield), but not much else. [1] https://www.pipistr
737.
by cjrp 7y ago
In the Vision Jet I believe low fuel / no suitable airport in range leads to automatic CAPS deployment by the autoland system
738.
by cjrp 7y ago
> And you need two for the obvious reason that sometimes one is incapacitated See the new Garmin/Cirrus/Piper "autoland" feature. Obviously GA is very different from Commercial, but there are definitely people in the
739.
by cjrp 7y ago
This is huge. The system will find an airport with suitable instrument approach, fly to it (avoiding terrain and weather enroute), configure the plane for landing (flaps, gear, descent rate, etc.), make a landing, stop on the runway and shu
740.
by cjrp 7y ago
> Large aircraft are basically self-driving these days. Pilots can choose to do almost nothing at all from takoff to landing. Sort of. The plane will continue to fly the pre-programmed route without pilot involvement, so the actual manip
741.
by cjrp 7y ago
On that purchase, nothing. On future buses (when you expand your fleet), or on spare parts for routine maintenance: unknown tariff. Business don't like unknowns.
742.
by cjrp 7y ago
Does that justify using bus lanes though? Are they providing enough of a benefit to everyone, like a bus does?
743.
by cjrp 7y ago
Yep, they get about 80 miles from the battery and the rest (~300 miles) using the range-extender.
744.
by cjrp 7y ago
> Furthermore the vast majority of traffic circulating in C. London traffic all day are busses, Taxies, phvs and commercial vehicles. Not private vehicles. Isn't that proof that the Congestion/ULEZ charges are working effective
745.
by cjrp 7y ago
It kind of exists in the UK; organic milk production involves higher welfare standards for the animals. There's also specific definitions for things like "free range" when it comes to chickens.
746.
by cjrp 7y ago
Fun fact: the ploughman's lunch dates back to the 1950s when cheese companies promoted it in order to sell more cheese.
747.
by cjrp 7y ago
If I use a postcode as a destination, Waze sometimes decides to pronounce the letters as if they're units. "You've arrived at "AA1 5Terajoules"
748.
by cjrp 7y ago
> The relevant time is from whatever the transport hub is to the destination It seems like the Heathrow Express comparison is fair then; Paddington's a transport hub (surface trains and several tube lines pass through it), and it ta
749.
by cjrp 7y ago
Looking at the videos and how much emphasis they've placed on the quality of the scenery, I get the feeling this version will be mostly focused on VFR flying, rather than flying in to big commercial airports with ATC and lots of traffi
750.
by cjrp 7y ago
Cancel your $100/m cable service, and replace it with 10 different $10/m streaming services. Progress.

More ›