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Old 19th July 2003 | 11:12
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QAVION
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"Anyone who thinks they see a direct relationship must have been smoking something"

What part of this forum's rules don't you understand, sir?

Yes, you are right about the indicator, but would I be the first person to be a victim of an optical illusion, even when not under the influence of anything?

Without a knowledge of geometry, would some say that the angled black lines (in the following pic) divide the red line into non-even intervals?

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~b744er/Scale.gif

"I've been flying glass cockpit for 8 years! (737 and 747)"

Good for you, but what this has to do with anything, I don't know. I've been working in glass cockpits for twice that long, but have been known to be wrong now and then.

Q.