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From: zoara on 14 Feb 2010 19:52 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> > > wrote: > > > > > That's anno domine nineteen thousand and sixty two - five years > > > before > > > I > > > was bloody born and I'm nearly 43! > > > > If you really were born 17,057 years in the future, then I have a > > very > > important question for you. > > > > Were jetpacks worth waiting for? > > And I guess we eventually manage time travel, at least once. > Do you think Rowland's been sent back as a scout, a prophet, a warning > or a threat? > Yes. -zoara- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Feb 2010 00:17 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > That's anno domine nineteen thousand and sixty two - five years > > > > before > > > > I > > > > was bloody born and I'm nearly 43! > > > > > > If you really were born 17,057 years in the future, then I have a > > > very > > > important question for you. > > > > > > Were jetpacks worth waiting for? > > > > And I guess we eventually manage time travel, at least once. > > Do you think Rowland's been sent back as a scout, a prophet, a warning > > or a threat? > > > > Yes. Time is a lopp. Rolland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Feb 2010 00:17 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > Was that anything to do with the most awesome air traffic control system > > in all of Africa? > > What; the one that relies on the 'the sky is big and aeroplanes are > small' principle? Which, in Africa, is fairly sound... There's a man who's never heard of air routes. Africa is big and aeroplanes are small, and people are smaller still. Best not to lose 'em in Africa - easily done without air traffic control working. But when have African rulers ever given a damn about a few deaths? <shrug> Just so long as it doesn't get in the way of the Mercs... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 15 Feb 2010 02:08 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > What; the one that relies on the 'the sky is big and aeroplanes are > > small' principle? Which, in Africa, is fairly sound... > > There's a man who's never heard of air routes. Well... Waiting for a flight at Veranasi, I've sat in the tower with the airport manager; no radar coverage, just one person for most of the time... It's smack under the airway that goes from Europe to the far East, with a flight maybe every few minutes. It's all done by procedural handling, by radio, and by separating the aircraft as they enter the local airspace. By height if they're a bit close or converging, but mainly checking that they're separated adequately as they enter and announce themselves. The pilots are informed about who's ahead of them and how many minutes behind they are. They check themselves too, from what they have been told on the last sector they traversed. 'Speedbird 301. Thank you Veranasi. That is a very *interesting* separation'. But it seemed to work rather well, as the controller was intelligent and relaxed and there was no more traffic than he could handle. It really wasn't at all crowded, and Africa has less traffic than India. Of course the small fry aviate about all over the place and are under very little control, if any. But they don't use airways so the densities are very low, and when they approach an airfield, which is the only place that densities might get serious, they contact the tower. During South African sanctions there were ghosts like the unmarked and unregistered DC8s of Afretair which delivered Cape pilchards to countries which were deeply hostile to South Africa, so you'd find South African delicacies in the market at Kinshasa even though they were technically at war. But those aircraft too used procedural handling; they knew the controllers, who knew them, and they had a lot of practice. The planes looked odd; white over all, no registration marks at all, not even a small one on the tail fin. Of course it does depend on the flights reporting in as they enter the sector, but most midairs aren't in Africa or India, but in radar controlled airspace where the density of traffic is enormously greater, and the main cause seems to be controller error and/or misunderstanding between pilots and controllers. But really, it's all about traffic densities. -- Peter
From: Woody on 15 Feb 2010 03:08
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > [snip] > > > No, you go into a shop, ask for a transistor by model. They say they > > don't really work with model numbers, so you ask for NPN, half watt, hfe > > >100, TO18. They smile and call to a guy in the back room and the guy > > looks round, brings you some transistors, they test them and give them > > to you (they are obviously second hand). The back room is full of broken > > radios, phones, tvs etc, with a group of people desoldering componants. > > > > Its a slightly different world, but it seemed to work fine when you are > > used to it! > > That's not so very different to electronics shops I've been into in > Blighty, you know. Ahh, I have never been into a electronics shop where the stuff wasn't new. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |