@mins You may be right in many cases. But I think your underestimating the power of a broken mind to convince itself of the reality it supposes it perceives. And just because somebody's mind is a bit broken (eg., hearing voices), doesn't mean they can't be an eloquent speaker, a gifted organizer or a good writer.
I've met a few truly paranoid people in my life, all of them were actually pretty well spoken. Though, honestly, you hardly have to take my own experience as evidence, the article I linked had a couple other sources and a study you can check into if you want.
@JayCarr Hi, you're right to re-emphasizing this, I agree. Btw, watching BBC series on WW2, it seems Mr. Hitler and his clique were disturbed believers in all sort of things and met before entering political action in esotericism meetings. They also had the eloquence you refer too.
I just read this in a newspaper article: "We are trying to take the airport out of the aviation experience." ...I am pretty sure the airport is actually the crucial part of aviation, but he might be talking about the airport security
I consider it bad form and poor airmanship to call "Ready for takeoff" when another aircraft is on final and it is obvious you can not be given a takeoff clearance.
This just causes the tower to respond "Hold short due to landing traffic." It adds unnecessary radio congestion and workload when...
e.g. obviously it's bad form to call "ready for takeoff" because you just don't say that
@mins lol, I almost want to cite you on Godwin's Law of the internet, but yeah, you are absolutely correct.
@rbp Not for at least two months now. Nobody seems to have any idea what's happened to him or @casey. I think @BretCopeland was trying to contact them, but I haven't heard of anything coming of that either...
I think @casey has at least been to the site a couple times recently. @voretaq7 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth...enough so that I'm slightly worried about him.
@rbp I hate to say it, but I'm starting to think we need to have another mod election. I really really like both of them as mods but.... I mean, I figured they would be around, ya know?
@DanHulme His profile says he's a B777 pilot and he has almost 7K in rep so I would consider him plausible, especially on airline topics. Airline guys just see some things differently from GA types, perhaps this is one of them.
@DanHulme I think everyone's answer is plausible because the question is subjective. My answer is definitely GA perspective. Maybe ATC has different expectations from airlines or jets, but I don't know.
@RyanMortensen The problem is, of course, it's a question where everyone can have an opinion, but I was hoping for something more official. There are lots of IMO answers.
@JayCarr Casey is still active, he just isn't in chat as much lately. voretaq7 is still alive (he's very active on Twitter), but, for whatever reason, isn't visiting the site anymore. He may just need a break for one reason or another. Give it some time. It's not like we're being overrun by mod flags.
@BretCopeland Fair enough, and actually it's quite nice to hear that voretaq7 is alive and well. I can understand the need for a break, I've taken a mont off here and there myself...
@JayCarr I actually just heard back from him, and he expects to be active again starting next month. His company (a medical tech company) is going through a product launch and it's audit season, so he just doesn't have the time to devote right now.
@BretCopeland Ah, awesome! Well I guess I can stop calling for a referendum then ;)
@DanHulme You may want to do something to make the "I want actual verifiable facts, not opinions" part of the question stand out. The first answer you got, which for whatever reason has upvotes, clearly has none of this...
@RyanMortensen The point of the question is to see if there is evidence to prove that it is not subjective. He specifically asks for verifiable information in the question. I've got to think the NTSB would have some verifiable data on the effectiveness of a regular walk around.
@JayCarr lol, yes. We also have sort of four mods to begin with anyway, since I try to serve as an auxiliary moderator, picking up the slack when the other mods aren't as active. When they're more active I tend to let the elected mods handle things.
@RyanMortensen I remember, for example, there was some debate over the use of composites in the building of the 787 and the a350 because they were worried that a walk around wouldn't be able to detect micro abrasions in the material. I think, in response to this, they determined they would on occassion use sonograms to find inter fissures (but don't quote me on that)
@BretCopeland Fair enough, fair enough... Putting down the pitchforks and the paperwork... :p
@JayCarr I thought about that up-front, but I'm not sure what verifiable facts would look like in this case. TBH, I didn't expect such diverse opinions: I thought one person would post something like "yes, I've been an ATCO for ten years and everyone at my workplace thinks it makes you look impatient" and everyone else would agree.
@DanHulme Right, sorry, for a second couldn't tell if we were talking about that one, or the question about notifying the tower when you're ready to depart.
Personally I figure someone at the NTSB has to have data on the effectiveness of different practices in the pre-flight inspection.
Probably more for commercial aircraft, but they still should have data.
about the inspection one, I feel like I should have put a big notice at the top saying I'll carry on doing my walk-around regardless of what answers I get
see, I'd assume that for something safety-critical like this there would be data
e.g. follow-up surveys of non-fatal accident pilots where an aircraft fault was the cause, to see if they felt they ought to have spotted the fault, and if they would change their practices as a result
@JayCarr and there are special measures like panels that spring open if they're not properly secured, sometimes with contrasting colours to make it obvious they've done it
knowing how big human factors people are on evidence, there must be something
somebody posted it in a comment as well, which I didn't see until my edit
I love how SE's search displays you random questions in the site search, questions that share some words in the list on the compose screen, and then actually related questions in the related questions list
My local aerodrome is towered and has parallel hard and grass runways. Simultaneous parallel departures or landings are not normally allowed. On one occasion we had been instructed to "line up and wait" on the grass runway. While I was performing the pre-take-off checks, an arriving aircraft was ...
@RyanMortensen Yeah, I figured that out when I was talking to Dan a bit ago..... -_-;;;
Sorry for giving you grief. I agree with your opinion in regards to the "ready to depart" question. It does seem to be fairly open to interpretation, and thus is most opinion based.
I think you are asking how a static port reads the ambient pressure, as opposed to some lower pressure due to the Bernoulli Effect.
The answer is the air isn't moving but the airplane is moving through it. That means the stagnation pressure at the aircraft is higher than the far-away total press...
the pprune post is interesting though, might have been the same @mins posted, dunno
I won't pull the "i'm a physicist card", cause quite frankly, not my field and I have forgotten a lot since I graduated. And for all I know, maybe he is right, and also a physicist... In either case, it's a douche move.
@falstro That's a weird, non-reletavistic way of looking at physics I guess. I'm no expert though...
My point being that I'm with you. I don't think it really matters what you pick as your reference point (air or aircraft) the outcome would be the same.
I consider it bad form and poor airmanship to call "Ready for takeoff" when another aircraft is on final and it is obvious you can not be given a takeoff clearance.
This just causes the tower to respond "Hold short due to landing traffic." It adds unnecessary radio congestion and workload when...
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