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BA - I deliberately off-set my track a bit to reduce the chance of running into someone else on the airway. One of the hazards of GPS navigation is that it is so accurate - I figure +/- 1 m.
With that sort of GS you don't get much time to take avoiding action.
Dr
With that sort of GS you don't get much time to take avoiding action.
Dr
1) What is the story with the groundspeed?
Sub-jetstream = An unusual meteorological event resulting in extreme lower level winds!
2) Shouldn't you be applying a right track offset like everyone else instead of a left one?
If everyone offsets to the right - I like to go left to be different.
Dr
PS: An alternative explaination might be that the mad Dr, being a bit of a smartar*e, used a GPS simulator program to produce the Jepp FliteDeck output illustrated. Said program may have required the Dr to input the waypoints in whole degrees to five decimals, and the Dr was too lasy (or incapable!) to do so, resulting in a slightly offset track.
It does however illustrate that you should not believe everything you see in PPRuNe!
Sub-jetstream = An unusual meteorological event resulting in extreme lower level winds!
2) Shouldn't you be applying a right track offset like everyone else instead of a left one?
If everyone offsets to the right - I like to go left to be different.
Dr
PS: An alternative explaination might be that the mad Dr, being a bit of a smartar*e, used a GPS simulator program to produce the Jepp FliteDeck output illustrated. Said program may have required the Dr to input the waypoints in whole degrees to five decimals, and the Dr was too lasy (or incapable!) to do so, resulting in a slightly offset track.
It does however illustrate that you should not believe everything you see in PPRuNe!
Last edited by ForkTailedDrKiller; 3rd Feb 2008 at 00:07.
Plank... if you read the last post that the Dr. wrote you'll see he just used a GPS sim. i.e. Pulling your leg.
An approximate 700 kt (or read ~1300kmph) tail wind should have given that away that he was having you on...
Dr - fishing out at Hinchenbrook? (Did you get some floats fitted to your FDK? )
An approximate 700 kt (or read ~1300kmph) tail wind should have given that away that he was having you on...
Dr - fishing out at Hinchenbrook? (Did you get some floats fitted to your FDK? )
Now you introduce kilo- miles per hour?
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Ahhhh the FTDK on Floats, well thats about as good as it gets hey Doc?
Did you get your 1m friend Barry a mate for the foyer?
Yes folks the mad Dr did catch this one......
Did you get your 1m friend Barry a mate for the foyer?
Yes folks the mad Dr did catch this one......
Nah Jaba, I was tested and found wanting (yet again)!
Dr
PS: Got one only of the targeted species, 57 cm - just under size!
Psssst! You forgot to mention that the Bazza above was 102 cm / 13.6 kg!
Dr
PS: Got one only of the targeted species, 57 cm - just under size!
Psssst! You forgot to mention that the Bazza above was 102 cm / 13.6 kg!