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Little hard on the guy, Eye In the Sky.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I think people are mistaking "just-joined" naivety with arrogance and thus feeling a crucifixion is in order to "sort this guy our". By the way....there isn't an I in TEAM, but there's definitely an M and an E  ;D Oh, HighFlyer...

(warning: comments may not reflect the reality of the situation....unable to read the story/view the video at work and thus am posting based on the postings of others) Meh, this stuff is same-old same-old.  Someone mentioned picket lines...union guys blocking lawful access and someone getting...

CPL Jay....enjoy the private licence.  Sure, a 172 isn't a Hornet (although for a lot of people that's a benefit instead of a drawback), but just being up in the air is a lot of fun, and the first time you take your wife for a sight seeing tour with you at the controls makes the cost worth it.

Wayback is a neat site, I've played with it in the past.  Anyways....it'll helpfully delete past caches, as well as allow you to (through the use of robot.txt) to keep from being archived in the future. It's all a moot point.  With storage and processing power costing what it does, any...

Hey wait a minute, isn't google cashe an opt out system? From Google's web site:The "Cached" link will be missing for sites that have not been indexed, as well as for sites whose owners have requested we not cache their content. (source: http://www.google.com/help/features.html)...

Very fair comment.  Damn Google & low, low price storage that allows near unlimited cashe. T'was just thinking aloud about how to make things a bit more difficult is all.

Alright....so in the vein of on-line privacy....how's bout a tool for a person who wants to wipe clean all past posts....sort of a "click here and become anon again" button.  I'm guessing such a function might prove tricky to make a reality though...but if the database can search for past posts...

Tough but fair.  Me thinks me will chill out a bit now. Loachman...I don't understand this zero kts thing. Wait a minute.......you're helo's.....ahh.   ;D Anyways....I'm done.  I'll leave the thread to the adults now.  :)

Nope, that's not it.  Helluva read though.  I doubt the incident I'm thinking of made the papers (no actual accident), but may have made a Flight Comment....I just don't feel like digging through them to find it.

ARRGGG! My original question was regarding the efficiency of turbo-fans at low level.  That was it. I don't understand how that takes me out of my lane.  Further, I'm a bit confused how someone who admits no knowledge of aircraft can then call someone out for being "out of their lane".  The...

Dunno...there may have been an Aurora incident once on landing one the east coast where three engines (each cranking 4600 shp) happily tooled along while there was a loss of directional control on a go-around.  Not saying there was, just that there may have been.

No sweat Bart....the more I thought about it the more I thought I was taking things a little wrong.  One thing you can be certain of...I know fully that shutting down an engine is never a willy-nilly what-the-hell thing.  My original point with it was that shutting it down allowed you to run up...

See....this is why the internet sucks.  There's no sense of tone or tempo to the responses, and so people take meanings wrong....all that "non-verbal" stuff is missing.

Yikes....Bart.....having a bad day at the office?  I was just asking in a casual manner, I am not a member of the procurement board nor do I have a vested interest one way or the other....just bored, saw the thread, read a bit, and asked a question. In no way, shape, or form did I say anything...

umm....just throwing this out there...tell me what you think.... Blimps. Advantages: Lots of range....high loitter times...efficient...and really, really high on the intimidation scale (imagine an airship decending, blotting out the sky like so much death and destruction, on a suspected...

Funny stuff....still.... Weird how a left wing commedian from yesteryear (7 words....why get uptight over words?) turned far right in the later years. 11 Million less using gasoline?  Nope...they still use gasoline, just that they use it in their home market.  Gasoline is global, prices are...

A buddy of mine lost it one day on a guy....his response was so perfect I use it (softened and paraphrased) whenever this comes up: Random Guy: "I pay your salary..." My Buddy:  "Of course you do....I pay your salary....every time I buy gasoline or a tim hortons coffee or pay you to shovel my...

Fair enough...one engine.  I would have thought that OEI through shutdown increases the risk of Vmca  due to failure of the other engine running on that side...leaving 2 working engines on one side pulling 2 engines Inop. on the other side.  Granted, it's probably safer than having 2 engines...

I'll admit ignorance of the Maritime Patrol world, but man, I feel really bad for the poor small boat fishermen off the east coast somewhere that get visually identified by a P-8 zipping by at +400 kts, 200 feet (ish), with the two 27,000 hp turbines pushing air.  I'm sure that'll scare off some...

I'm pretty sure the initial Reliability clearance is done without the use of CSIS...that CSIS provideds the government Level I,II,or III clearance after the fact.  The reasoning I think is that CSIS charges good money, and the cost is prohibitive to run CSIS clearances on each and every...