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by m2fkxy 5y ago
> You must know and speak in English to fly. This is absolutely incorrect! English proficiency is not a requirement if you are proficient in the official language of the country you are flying in. ATS provide services both in said-langua
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
Nautical miles abbreviation should be NM.
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
> it's mandatory for all pilots at least in EASA and FAA rules to be English proficient I would really like to know where you got this from. Been flying in France privately for 7 years, and not a single time have I been requested to
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
> (...) these little details would go a long way to actually showing that the German economy does have some sort of international mindset (...) Well, I think that Germany's commercial balance shows this much better than non-native-s
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
Boeing and Airbus freighters being a pale comparison is not surprising. They are optimised for cargo volume, much less weight. Comparing the Mrija to heavy military airlifters (Ruslan, Galaxy, Globemaster III...) would make more sense. The
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
French (and probably British, although I know it less) doctrine is not MAD - it is to incur "unacceptable damages" to an offender. And 500-ish combined warheads sure sounds like it can achieve that.
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
A reminder that two of Western Europe's militaries are nuclear, which hardly makes them "a joke". You seem to be projecting the state of Germany's military to all European forces, which is... questionable.
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
Good point... those 10 3080s sure would be useful for the ML stuff they probably do, hehe. Also, probably going towards buying a lot of third-party commercial data.
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
The NRO would be actually the operator. NGA takes care of exploiting the data
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
That's where imaging radar (SAR most specifically) comes in handy, as it is able to image through clouds in most circumstances. Image intepretation isn't as straight forward as with optical imaging though.
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
The IAU cites Wood L., 2003 who defines a satellite constellation as "a number of similar satellites, of a similar type and function, designed to be in similar, complementary, orbits for a shared purpose, under shared control" [1]
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by m2fkxy 5y ago
Most of SentinelHub's open access data comes from Sentinel-1 (radar) and 2 (optical) satellites constellations, which offer a 6-days or shorter revisit time over nearly any point on Earth (for S-1, this is currently longer, as one of t