Comment Re:You haven't been to the north sea, have you? (Score 1, Funny) 334
In other words, the wind blows in the North Sea just an average of 12 hours per day?
Not this specific one
Yes, runaway trim (from any cause) is one of them.
Pilot Rule #3: "The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, and "
fuel in the fuel truck. FTFY.
how well a genuinely randomly selected group of, say, Indonesian pilots will perform when exposed to a emergency situation they have no specific preparation for.
If a randomly selected group of Indonesian pilots cannot deal with a runaway trim situation in an advanced aircraft then this is an issue of Indonesian pilot certification and testing standards, as well as airline testing and certification standards.
You forgot... They didn't tell the pilots that the emergency brakes existed in the menus or that other systems could deactivate the emergency brakes without warning you.
You forgot. The FAA issued an emergency AD in November following the first crash, and Boeing also notified every customer of the issue. (This information is in the report of the first crash.) The second crash occurred in March, or was it May? Not only did the FAA and Boeing tell everyone who bought one of these things about the systems, but also reiterated the proper emergency procedure to use when it happens.
Oh, and you have 10 seconds to figure this out by walking down the fault analysis tree in the flight manual that's about 5 pages long.
There is no "tree" to walk down. There is a specific, known emergency action procedure to use when dealing with runaway trim. You don't have to pour through pages of "inflight fire" or "engine failure" or "landing gear failure" procedures to get to the correct one; you practice it during your recurring training and you test the system during pre-flight.
Experienced ones are aging out because once you reach the maximum age, they yank your medical
Where did you get this ridiculous idea?
The first class medical certificate for persons who hold an ATP rating and are older than 60 years of age has a duration of 6 months. That means they need to get it renewed every six months. There is nothing in the FARs about "yanking a medical" based solely on age.
You are perhaps thinking of 14CFR121.383 which prohibits flag certificate holders (the airlines) from using anyone as a pilot once they have reached their 65th birthday.
Bob Hoover's last reported flight was at age 81 (approximately). The revocation of his medical several years prior had nothing to do with his chronological age; the reissuance took place well past age 60 or 65.
Any experienced airplane pilot will tell you that average pilots are just like average citizens.
Except for the recurring training and evaluation that every pilot flying big iron has to go through, they'd be right. You're abusing the term "average" here, though.
It's like saying that the average millionaire has $4 million of wealth, and then trying to say that the below average millionaires are poor. The difference is that those who are too far below "average" aren't pilots and don't contribute to the average anymore. Millionaires who are below a million aren't millionaires and don't contribute to the average anymore. Citizens who are "below average" are still citizens.
it would make the airplanes almost foolproof, but at an almost infinite cost.
Making airplanes foolproof isn't necessary to deal with below average pilots, but making them foolproof will be very costly.
I don't think it is though. At some point, someone has to lose.
The line is where you cross from transport to content. Getting packets to Facebook is transport; postings to Facebook are content.
You cannot lose what you never had in the first place. You do not have free speech rights on any of the web servers I run just because they are connected to the Internet. You never had.
The barriers to entry in social media is high, because social media sites are incompatible with one another,
Irrelevant. Compatibility does not define a barrier to entry.
and people want to be on popular platforms.
Also irrelevant. This is a barrier to success, perhaps, but not a barrier to entry.
I understand that the
but at some point the whole of The Internet runs on someone else's gear.
"The systems" belong to someone, and if that someone is a private company then you have no rights there. "The Internet" is the network that connects the systems. Net neutrality is a thing; note that it does not mean that every system connected to The Net must support your "right" to use their hardware to promote your speech.
So I think it's fair to say we need to discuss where the line is.
I don't think it's hard to identify that line.
No matter what, politicians and their supporters will claim that the social media platform is biased against them.
When moderation is done based on subjective rules and moderator political beliefs, it is.
Make Facebook a happy place that is free from politics.
If only we could make
What do you mean "to become"? Pretty sure thats the wrong tense there.
That's why this change is good. It takes them out of the moderation game for at least the focus points for political speech. That's the politician.
If you note in the summary, it talks about Trump's "hate speech" and the "Muslim ban". That is a not quite correct interpretation of what was actually said. But, if you have one political viewpoint you believe it, and you'd enforce "hate speech" standards on everything he says. If you have the other, you'd be seeing a completely subjective standard being applied in order to silence a view the moderator doesn't agree with.
If there were a truly objective standard, then political views could be ignored when enforcing censorship. Enforcing a subjective standard based on the moderator's political point of view is called "bias", and it would be nice if it didn't happen. It happens way too much here in
Can I assume you get at least the 3 major networks on your OTA antenna?
You can assume what you wish, and it may be true for the OP, but my OTA doesn't get them all.
Taken out of context, that *might* be argued to be a joke.
No, taken out of context it is being argued as a demand for Russia to hack into an email server for political gain.
Taken IN context it is so obviously a joke that only a deranged person could argue otherwise. Only a deranged person could claim something like "fact that Donald Trump has never been clearly seen to be joking about anything".
But the timing of 250$ million in aid being blocked
I'll see your "$250 million in aid being blocked" but never mentioned as any criterion in a request for assistance in an ongoing investigation, and I'll raise you a billion dollars being threatened explicitly with a kicker of "if you think I'm kidding call the President. Go ahead, call him. You've got six hours" to meddle in in internal investigation involving a son in a foreign country.
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
