SERENITY at 36,000 feet... Kept me sane.
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Thursday, July 3, 2008 14:01
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Wonderful!! Glad to read you didn't acquire all this knowledge playing a microsoft flight sim!
Gliding too eh! There is a gliding club very near me here in Kent, and last year I did some work with a web designer who was waxing lyrical about it. I came very close to having a go, then work became very busy and I've not found the impetus to look at it again.
One more question if I may please.... Does a video camera interfere with instrumentation on a plane? Because I really wanted to take some footage of a landing on this trip, but everytime on approach about twenty minutes from landing the message would come over: could we switch all electronic equipment off! It's so frustrating! I love landings!!! Just once I'd like to capture it all on film....
All the consumer electronic devices are 'unknown unknowns' , which means that they've not been certified for use in-flight...Some have been shown to create types of interference with some radios and navigation equipment...And , with the advent of the 'glass cockpits' , the potential for interference issues is increased...
On a critical phase like landing , it's just good practice to eliminate as many unknown unknowns as possible...
Do have a go at the gliding...You'll be pleased that you did !
Speaking of sims , there are some good soaring sims available nowadays !
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Well Mythbusters ran several trials of a variety of electrical devices and they were unable to replicate interference of any kind...but apparently it's a possibility so why take chances??
I really may have to try that on my trip to D*C. Think I can get the pilot to intentionally fly into turbulence to enhance my viewing experience??
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Well Mythbusters ran several trials of a variety of electrical devices and they were unable to replicate interference of any kind...but apparently it's a possibility so why take chances??
The 'Mythbusters' guys , while entertaining , claim to be 'professionals' , but they're not scientists...
They could stand to take a few high school refresher courses in the sciences...I've noticed that they're frequently empty-handed when it comes to their 'homework' , to the point that they occasionally make some boneheaded claims and statements...Besides doing some things that are dangerous to the point of idiocy...One day , one of them is gonna fall down and die , and I'm not cleaning it up !
The name of that show really should be ,
" Hey , y'all , Watch THIS ! "
One of my friends IS a scientist , and one of the principal causes of com interference ( and there are many ) is the consumer-grade electronics (vid-cams) that are flown with their scientific experiment packages...
I remember a directive issued by FAA concerning these sorts of issues in flight , and a lot of med-evac choppers had experienced issues in proximity to radios and other equipment on the ground at event scenes and hospitals...
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good to know
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out2theblack wrote:
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One of my friends IS a scientist , and one of the principal causes of com interference ( and there are many ) is the consumer-grade electronics (vid-cams) that are flown with their scientific experiment packages...
I remember a directive issued by FAA concerning these sorts of issues in flight , and a lot of med-evac choppers had experienced issues in proximity to radios and other equipment on the ground at event scenes and hospitals...
See that was what was confussing me about this. Have you seen a modern airport these days. How many gazzillion people pass through those things. What is the first thing anyone ever does... Switch on their mobile. How many invisible 'signal's must be beaming from an airport terminal! By rights there shouldn't be a plane anywhere near those things. As we all know... "You can't stop the signal."
Armed with this knowledge I fully appreciate the concern.
Cheers Out2theblack You have been a great help with all this.
MSB d'you know by chance I saw that very episode yesterday. I thought it was a little inconclucive, as is most of their experiments. Re-stating what 'Out2theblack' said, those guys are frequently off with their approach... I think they just like to blow things up! Which is kinda fun :D
Cheers
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I live in Australia, but every now and then I have to travel down to Sydney (I live in the country area, a town calle Orange) which is boring in a sense.
So, one day, when doctors decided I needed to have a kidney biopsy that afternoon, I took my laptop, and Firefly and Serenity DVDs.
At one point, mum (who was diving like Wash on a bad day) told me to turn it off as it was distracting her... she could hear it, but couldn't see what Mal was doing... didn't help I told her he was topless in the scene I was watching also.
Many times it's cured boring times in hospital, it even entralled a bunch of young kids at one point (We had 6 in the ward, they had no beds, so shoved me with them and they were terrified by the Reavers... so cute) and kept nurses and doctors wondering why their patiens are suddenly saying 'Shiny' to every bit of good news.
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damn, what a good idea. i just flew to Oz and back out of Florida. i should have taken FF with me...much better than the 5" LCD seat in front of me with audio you can barely hear above the engines.
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