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by inoffensivename 2y ago
I honestly can't tell if this comment is sarcastic... google3 is a quagmire and it's getting worse by the day
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by inoffensivename 2y ago
I get this feeling about myself when I see this impenetrable notation with no introduction.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
So many people, every day. Pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers, airline employees and their families with travel benefits.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I haven't seen anybody mention JavE ( http://www.jave.de/ ), substantially predates monodraw, but maybe they have different features.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Sounds like "A Taste of Armageddon"[1], a Star Trek episode where neighboring warring planets decide to wage simulated war in order to spare expensive real infrastructure. Except in this imagination, the people declared "dead
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I was a software engineer for 20 years, now I'm an airline pilot. Change is a good thing!
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
It depends on what you mean by "accurately enough". To teach a student the interplay between pitch and power, how changes in configuration require changes to pitch and power, etc, they can be useful. They are very good as instrume
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Exactly, for example accelerating down the runway on takeoff is simulated by tilting the whole room so you're actually reclining slightly.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
You'll get about half way to a third of the way through a PPL, depending on the kind of plane you rent and where you live.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Airline training takes place in a multi-million dollar simulator, which is a 1:1 replica of the flight deck in a room on hydraulic struts. The struts provide feedback and the sensation of acceleration... to a certain extent. They are the st
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Simply put: VFR, Visual Flight Rules, you can see outside, you must stay outside clouds, it's your job to not hit other planes and the ground. You do this primarily by looking out the window. IFR, Instrument Flight Rules, you are in th
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
This is just not right, sorry. VFR flying should be 90% done looking outside, with an occasional cross check of altitude and heading inside. I'm visual conditions, there is nothing your instruments can tell you that your eyes can'
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I'm an airline pilot and an instructor. If you spend thousands of hours in a flight simulator, you're probably the type of person who will try to absorb all the information you can about flying airplanes. This kind of person will
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ Notice all the people in these videos oblivious to the drowning people nearby.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
He was the only senior manager I ever had who would walk the halls and talk to engineers he bumped into. He would be genuinely curious about what we were doing. Once we were admiring a bird perched in a tree outside the window, and he came
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
A long time ago when I wrote any amount of Perl, the acronym was TMTOWTDI... Or am I misremembering?
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I spent 40 minutes trying to eke out more than a handful of fps on an empty map with the resolution set at 1080p with Proton Experimental. I gave up and got a refund, I'll try again if they fix the awful performance. I got a tremendous
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
It allows the fuel to withstand higher pressures without detonating in an uncontrolled manner. This is important in aircraft engines, which run at a significant fraction of their maximum power output for most of their working lives. People
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
It's common to have a few lap infants in the plane, so you could have 76 passengers, 3 lap infants, 4 crew, 1 crazy jumpseater. We often fly with 80+ people on board. Source: I am a E175 pilot.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Commuting pilots will often sit in the flight deck if there is no room in the back.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
nitpicking: that would be FL350 and FL360
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
The headline is a bit misleading, an electronic travel authority is not a visa and is substantially easier to obtain than an average visa. Like many have pointed out, the US requires visitors from otherwise visa-free countries to have a tra
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
These things have a habit of turning into policies. The data will be interpreted to agree with whatever outcome the enactors want.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
IMO, automatic DI frameworks were a big mistake. An idea that looks useful at the time, but actually leads to spaghetti mess code that is harder to maintain than it would be without any automatic DI.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
How many engineers should it take to maintain domains.google in a steady state, maybe fixing bugs and patching security vulnerabilities that come up, doing an occasional release?
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I learned to fly as a hobby after hours. I started teaching people how to fly on weekends and evenings for about 3 years, accumulating the required hours to be an airline pilot. I recently interviewed and was hired by an airline. I've
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
Certainly it is getting more lucrative, but you have to be there for a few years before the money starts to be within 1/3 of what a software engineer in Silicon Valley is making.
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by inoffensivename 3y ago
I'm moonlighting as an airline pilot, the best part of this job is that you don't have to think about it after you finish for the day. The worst part is the money... but it's not all about money, right?? :-)
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by inoffensivename 4y ago
Typically, airplanes are deiced with heat from the compressor section of the engines ("bleed air"). Evidently it's cheaper/lighter to do that than it is to generate the substantial amounts of electricity that would be re
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by inoffensivename 4y ago
If I wanted to experience airplane de-icing, I'd pick up a Denver turn in open time.

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