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Comment Re:How about just an iPhone and save even more? (Score 1) 372

Not sure, I only fly in consumer sims, not the real thing.

I do know that most FMCs work primarily off of GPS - you might be routing VOR to VOR, but you aren't actually tuning them in and following a radial in.

Some airliners can theoretically perform a full flight takeoff to landing. All the pilots would need to is taxi to the runway.

Never quite that simple in the real world due to ATC, but the tech is there.

Comment Re:Priorities (Score 4, Informative) 214

Category 5 and F5 are very different beasts.

An F5 tornado is going to level,or at least mostly demolish, most buildings short of a concrete bunker.

A Category 5 hurricane is roughly equivalent to a low end F3 tornado - it will destroy weaker structures like prefab metal buildings and mobile homes, and perhaps de-roof and blow the windows out of more solid foundation-built structures. Still very bad news, but not on quite the same scale. Hurricanes do most the damage from flooding anyway, not the straightline winds.

Comment Re:The UK has some lead time on this (Score 1) 380

As does this. The lower receiver is basically the trigger mechanism.

It's NOT the barrel, the chamber, or any of the other parts that see actual stress.

This article is like saying, in 200pt type, that you 3D printed a car, and then in 5pt type saying "because you 3d printed the dashboard".

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