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Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast: "Ecumenically" UCAP #401

posted on April 07, 2016

Dave, Jeb and Jack are visited by a parade of good friends at the 2016 edition of the Sun 'n Fun Fly-in from Lakeland Florida. Recorded live from the deck of Sun 'n Fun Radio. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded April 5, 2016.

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Federico

07:16

oh boy, how do we approach this?
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26721

(read the comments)

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Federico

11:22

aviation.stackexchange.com/posts/26720/revisions /me cries

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Q: Why is this question closed as a duplicate?

This question, What are winglet and endplate? And how is their functioning?, asks regarding both winglets and endplates. Neither of the supposed duplicates address endplates whatsoever. I understand that the question may not be particularly incisive and might benefit from some clean up work. The...

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rbp

14:04

@Federico what a weird set of edits!

Dan Hulme

yeah

Federico

14:20

in a sequence he:
- put the quotes in the question
- copied them in the comments
- deleted them from the question after I edited the layout
- reinstated them in the question after I said in the comments that is better to have information in the body of the question (but reinstated them with the original horrible layout)
[at which point I posted here]
- Jonathan edited a bit
- I rolled back and finished the edit

rbp

14:31

at long last, I found an authoritative answer to the ATC-to-tower handoff question

that one has bothered me for a long time, even though there's a 10 vote answer marked correct

Federico

14:47

can someone help reopening this question? aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19047

it has been marked as duplicate of this: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26596

but the second one is much newer and has been edited so not to be a duplicate

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16:16

Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast: "CAF" UCAP #402-alpha

posted on April 07, 2016

UCAP Daily from Sun 'n Fun 2016. Adam Smith of the Commemorative Air Force talks about their ongoing projects, and their presence here at SNF16. On the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded April 6, 2016.

fooot

@Federico I don't see how the edits make it not a duplicate. They're both asking about how the fuel system works... if the newer question is requesting more detail, then it would make sense that the new information would answer the old question too.

Federico

16:38

the old question asks "**if** something extra is done" the new (edited) question asks "since nothing special is done, **why**?"

How are duplicates?

rbp

17:26

@Federico hence this answer: meta.aviation.stackexchange.com/a/2960/3504

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