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Would it not be easier to try and get a US instructor who speaks Japanese instead of expecting the entire JASDF to speak English?
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You have to speak English to fly anyway.
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Apr 13, 2014 16:37
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Blistex posted:Would it not be easier to try and get a US instructor who speaks Japanese instead of expecting the entire JASDF to speak English? All pilots are supposedly proficient in English.
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Apr 13, 2014 16:38
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hobbesmaster posted:All pilots are supposedly proficient in English. The word 'proficient' appears to have a fairly flexible definition based on some of these recordings.
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Apr 13, 2014 16:39
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The Locator posted:The word 'proficient' appears to have a fairly flexible definition based on some of these recordings. Well for the most part that's handled by the individual nations they're registered with so...
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Apr 13, 2014 16:42
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I thought the story was that the pilot was only pretending to not understand and was razzing the instructor because he had a reputation for being a dick? Then again he was boiling alive and almost popped the canopy off so maybe it wasn't a prank.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:11
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Psion posted:top secret members-only ridge? Sent you a PM. Fifi is amazing. I have footage of that and a B-24 buzzing me on take-off and two low level passes. Maybe 150ft up, right at the end of the Stewart runway (pre-9/11). Sadly, it's on VHS and lost to time.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:36
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Eej posted:I thought the story was that the pilot was only pretending to not understand and was razzing the instructor because he had a reputation for being a dick? Then again he was boiling alive and almost popped the canopy off so maybe it wasn't a prank. Why can't each person in the cockpit control their own heat settings? It seems sort of a dick move by the McDonnell Douglas engineers to only give that ability to one person, but also make them separate controls for the front and rear cockpit. I assume that they're separate controls, otherwise the Japanese pilot would have been simultaneously turning up the heat on himself too.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:43
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Craptacular posted:Why can't each person in the cockpit control their own heat settings? It seems sort of a dick move by the McDonnell Douglas engineers to only give that ability to one person, but also make them separate controls for the front and rear cockpit. I assume that they're separate controls, otherwise the Japanese pilot would have been simultaneously turning up the heat on himself too. Well, it wasn't built ground up as a trainer so who knows how that came about (F-5 has the same origin).
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Apr 13, 2014 17:52
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Craptacular posted:It seems sort of a dick move by the McDonnell Douglas engineers to only give that ability to one person I think you mean Northrop... in which case it probably was a dick move
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Apr 13, 2014 17:58
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SybilVimes posted:I think you mean Northrop... in which case it probably was a dick move Whoops it'd been awhile since I'd seen that video and I thought it was an F-15 for some reason.
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Apr 13, 2014 18:03
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Craptacular posted:Why can't each person in the cockpit control their own heat settings? It seems sort of a dick move by the McDonnell Douglas engineers to only give that ability to one person, but also make them separate controls for the front and rear cockpit. I assume that they're separate controls, otherwise the Japanese pilot would have been simultaneously turning up the heat on himself too. Its shared ducting to a mixing area of some sort from engine bleed air. My impression if it is it just simplifies the entire system to have one set of shared ducting to each pilot (whether it be tandem or side by side) with one set of controls then two sets of ducting. The real simplicity being that you can shut off the flow of bleed air into the cockpit if there is a problem at one source, not having to do it twice.
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Apr 13, 2014 19:41
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Blistex posted:Would it not be easier to try and get a US instructor who speaks Japanese instead of expecting the entire JASDF to speak English? That isn't training the entire JASDF goes to...that was part of a training exchange type deal where the JASDF sends a couple of students every year over to the US where they go through USAF pilot training. Also, as others have pointed out, you're supposed to be proficient in English if you're flying seeing as how it is the language of aviation. "Proficient" being a relatively flexible term.
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Apr 13, 2014 21:02
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iyaayas01 posted:Also, as others have pointed out, you're supposed to be proficient in English if you're flying seeing as how it is the language of aviation. You don't actually *have* to be proficient in English to be a pilot...only if you're going to be flying internationally. In most countries where English isn't the official language (and let's face it, that's most of them), you don't need to know a word of English to hold a license. Hell, you don't even need to know English to hold a license in Quebec.
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Flying around in the more northern airspace controlled by Montreal Centre is pretty awesome for that. There is a split 50/50 of French and English controlling going on and it always impresses me how effortlessly those controllers switch back and forth. Northern Quebec flights in uncontrolled areas can also be a fun time with respect to 126.7 traffic reports. Doubly so when you are the only anglophone around. 
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Apr 13, 2014 22:55
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Flying around in Ottawa gets to be hilarious - I guess a lot of the francophone pilots don't realize that YOW airspace is staffed entirely by billingual controllers, so you get some THICK french accents struggling with their english. I stuggled to keep it together once when this guy with the most hilariously stereotypical accent rolled through and would emphasize the hell out of the Quebec in his registration, "Hhhottawa Terminal, its alfa bravo KEEYBECK!, 3000'."
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Apr 13, 2014 23:52
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We had Thunder over Louisville this weekend, Blue Angels + F22s was the highlights. I had my rtl-sdr setup and got flawless reception all day long and somehow lucked into every single show frequency, including the F22s, though they didn't talk a lot. The Blue Angels are bizzzare to listen to. It was trippy watching them on tv, hearing them, and then seeing the formation rocket over the backyard all in real time. The sdr has been totally worth the $20 I've spent so far, very fun toy. I'm probably going to pick up a second to do ADSB or maybe try to capture weather satellite imagery.
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revmoo posted:We had Thunder over Louisville this weekend, Blue Angels + F22s was the highlights. I had my rtl-sdr setup and got flawless reception all day long and somehow lucked into every single show frequency, including the F22s, though they didn't talk a lot. The Blue Angels are bizzzare to listen to. It was trippy watching them on tv, hearing them, and then seeing the formation rocket over the backyard all in real time. You can build a stealth-defying radar out of 2+ RTLs  , you could also have the f-22 on radar while watching in on TV, intercepting it's communications and watching it do loopy loops. And it's passive, do not fear the FCC/FBI sponsored Guantanamo vacations!http://kaira.sgo.fi/search/label/passive%20radar
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Apr 14, 2014 08:15
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So US Airways loving owns. Also if you work in PR they will probably have a job opening in the near future.
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iyaayas01 posted:So US Airways loving owns. Best reply I've seen so far 'Aer Lingus' e: Vanessa Ramos: 'Charging $60 for checking 2 bags is still the grossest thing US Airways has ever done' movax fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Apr 14, 2014 22:05
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revmoo posted:We had Thunder over Louisville this weekend, Blue Angels + F22s was the highlights. I had my rtl-sdr setup and got flawless reception all day long and somehow lucked into every single show frequency, including the F22s, though they didn't talk a lot. The Blue Angels are bizzzare to listen to. It was trippy watching them on tv, hearing them, and then seeing the formation rocket over the backyard all in real time. The wife, kids, and I drove through Louisville Thursday around lunch time and the Angels were practicing flying around downtown. We were caught in that construction on 65 there, so I rolled down the windows and opened the sunroof so we could get some air and so we could hear them passing over. My daughters were suitably impressed.
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iyaayas01 posted:So US Airways loving owns. Somebody had the wrong URL in their clipboard. 
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iyaayas01 posted:So US Airways loving owns. So that's where MH 370 went.
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MrChips posted:So that's where MH 370 went. That CNN guy was half right with his black hole theory.
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priznat posted:That CNN guy was half right with his black hole theory.
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Apr 15, 2014 15:28
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The danger of not having a long enough landing strip is an overrun and gash landing.
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Apr 15, 2014 17:35
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a 2nd plane has hit the butthole
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bitcoin bastard posted:a 2nd plane has hit the butthole The third one crashed down the throat.
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CommieGIR posted:The third one crashed down the throat. Two Airbuses are now Eiffel Towering.
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Landing strip joke in 3...2....1.... e: nooooooo Tsuru fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Apr 15, 2014 20:15
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Tsuru posted:Landing strip joke in 3...2....1.... Widebody Fokker
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Tsuru posted:Landing strip joke in 3...2....1.... You missed it: Previa_fun posted:The danger of not having a long enough landing strip is an overrun and gash landing.
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At least a towel is a far easier and cheaper recovery kit for a runway overrun than the jacks, tow cables and spreader boards you need in reality...
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Apr 15, 2014 20:40
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Once you go A380, you'll never go back.
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Apr 15, 2014 20:53
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IOwnCalculus posted:Once you go A380, you'll never go back. Stubby and fat?
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IOwnCalculus posted:Once you go A380, you'll never go back. I want to say AN-225, but I don't think it'll fit... 
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I just came across this basic aircraft design tutorial from the kerbal space program thread. It is for a video game but it does a good job of explaining many basic concepts in aircraft design. Plane nerds should enjoy this.
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Wow. I'm totally getting that game the next time it's on Steam special.
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ctishman posted:Wow. I'm totally getting that game the next time it's on Steam special. You really should
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Not enough explosions
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