Stuart,
The eagle doesn't need to look at his vario. His ears detect the
pressure changes caused by climb and descent. There is also some
conjecture that some soaring birds can detect the nearby presence of
thermals by the infrasound (sound at frequencies lower than 20 Hz)
generated. Hmmmm..... maybe that explains why they fly near " wind
turbines" aka taxpayer wallet extraction machines.
No humans are "born with wings" even figuratively. We're slightly
modified, slightly more intelligent monkeys (descended from ancestors
who could tolerate the ethanol in fermenting fruit that had fallen on
the ground according to some recent thinking, which explains a lot -
we're descendents of drunken monkeys) and it is slightly fortuitous
that we can actually fly aircraft at all.
Mike
At 09:27 PM 18/03/2013, you wrote:
I'm not a comp pilot however I know that all the data in the world
is of no use if you can't interoperate it and use it effectively
regardless of what your doing; there are pilots and there are
aviators; pilots drive aircraft through the sky, aviators fly as
they were born with wings; when was the last time you saw an eagle
looking at his vario?
Stuart FERGUSON
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