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Skriven 2009-03-29 03:00:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
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 GJ> at 2 am I tried to do a wheel-stand in the middle of the
 GJ> street, on a young nephew's bike, and got tossed off the back, landing
 GJ> rather painfully.  No one sympathised with me.  :(

- There's old drunken uncle Glen cutting capers again.
- Yeah, it looks like the barstid got what was coming to him this time.

 GJ> Have you ever sat in the 3rd seat up front in a commercial jet?

Not even close. The closest I ever came -

1. as I was well dressed, as at the time I tended to be, I
was invited to be a jumpseater on an Eastern Airlines 727
(I declined), having inadvertently by my demeanor and perhaps
level of knowledgeability the false impression that I was an
airline employee - that was back in the days when stewardesses
used to try to pick me up;

2. I have sat right seat on a Cessna, not nearly so elevating
of spirit or person than sitting up front on a commercial jet.

 GJ> The last airspeed indicator I read was calibrated in Miles per Hour.

Back before they invented knots or logarithms, or something, I suppose.

 GJ> I don't know what USAn aircraft have, but Singapore Airlines gives the

Yes, you do, you're not willing to admit it. It's the same
as on all the other aircraft: knots. I'm not making a value
judgment on one system over another, except that as everyone
used the same one 100-80-60-40-20 years ago, it would have
been way complicated to change things in a risky setting.

 GJ> read-out of speed to customers in both km/h and mph, and the height in
 GJ> feet and metres.  Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that the
 GJ> dial in front of the pilot reads in either of those units.

Correct. And it doesn't. Serves you right for trying to extrapolate
from what you see on the teevee.

 GJ> The accident that I remember seeing on TV was not survived by either
 GJ> pilot.  It was definitely in Europe, but may not have been at Paris.
 GJ> It was a new model Airbus, with the new "fly by wire" system, and a
 GJ> computer which was supposed to tell the pilot if he was doing
 GJ> something stupid which could end up in a crash

If it was the "new" fly-by-wire system, that would have
to have been a couple decades ago. I seem to recall that
the computer did much of the stupidwork. I don't have
the energy to do a search on 1980s air show accidents,
but perhaps some other search-by-wire people could do so.

For your next assignment I recommend doing a Google search on
A320 "air show" accidents and a Google image search on
"airspeed indicator."

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