Don't worry Rolf, this topic will get to team flying & GFA bashing soon - then Mark Newton will step in, & the cycle will continue...
I was thinking the same thing..! WPP > On 11 Jan 2014, at 6:49, "rolf a. buelter" <rbuel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > You people are something. Somebody asks where the convention of turnpopint > numbers instead of descriptors come from. Fair enough question if it rains > cats and dogs outside and all other inside activities are exhausted and > deadly boredom set in. > Now you're suggesting that use of these numbers brings hell and damnation or > at the very least makes you crash into the Atlantic or Mt Erebus or somewhere > or at best loose your tail on take off. I'm surprised that nobody doug out > the Gimly glider yet and suggests that if we have to use numbers they should > at least be imperial. > > Rolf > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:55:54 +1000 > To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > From: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints > > This is the frightening bit: > > "the aircraft computer applied vastly less thrust " > > Is there something wrong with having the computer work out the power setting > required and have the flight crew move the throttles to the required setting? > > Or having an acceleration monitor with a liftoff prediction once the thing > starts moving? > > Or having flight crew familiar enough with the aircraft to know that the > thrust setting called for, at a weight you should have some feel for, seems > wrong? > > Mike > > > .At 09:05 AM 10/01/2014, you wrote: > On 10/01/2014 8:47 AM, opsw...@bigpond.net.au wrote: > > If people wish to continue with using just numbers they should > revisit the Air NZ accident in Antarctica. Individuals working alone, no > cross checking and inputting at dark O'clock. Sooner or later you > will have a very uncomfortable experience. > I've seen it time and time again even in professional aviation. > Yes indeed. This one was very close to home, and perilously close to being > Australia's worst air disaster.   The essential message is in the first > couple of paragraphs. > > tn > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation > since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, > visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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