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1993
1993 - 2577.PDF
STRAIGHTS LEVEL Woburn Safari Park, UK.. "If you are using a small GPS receiver, operating under ideal conditions with four or more satel lites in view, in ideal alignment, not obscured by the high wing of your Cessna, or the thin sheet of gold plate in your cockpit window, with good all-round satellite visibility, with all satel lites at least 10° above the horizon, with no rogue satellites transmitting without your knowledge, and with no clock error in either the receiver or the satellite, and with no atmospheric error, you should get a position ac curate to 100m, on 95% of occasions." = Not invented here. (part of a CAA presenta tion to a Royal Institute of VALE VICTOR Aah, Sir Freddie... The last great Handley Page bomber, from a line which started -with the O/100 nearly 80 years ago, is gone, with the retirement of the RAF's Victors. The last of the RAF's trio of V-bombers to enter service and — fittingly — the last to leave, the Victor was certainly the most interesting (if not the most beautiful), with its crescent wing, T-tail, area-ruled fuselage and a cockpit derived directly from a medieval femght's helmet. Alas, even the most recent of the K.2 tanker conversions of the B.2 is now over 30 years old, and the Gulf War knackered them, so they're being replaced by a converted airliner whose prototype flew three months before the Victor B.2 entered service, and which uses the same engines... Navigation/CAA confer ence on the use of GPS for light aircraft) • "The best navigation system you or I will ever come across is the one fitted so very ergonomi- cally between our ears." — Huw Baumgartner of NATS, at the same conference. ROGERNOMICS Lesson No 201093 * BUYING AN?'. AIRLINER * Once you have chosen your airliner, start negoti ating downwards: the list price is only there to dis courage customers who the manufacturer doesn't really want anyway. Eventually, the manufac turer will insist that the final offer has been made. For "final offer", read: "OK, now we're getting serious about negotiat ing." At this stage, you should be down to about 70% of list price. Now comes the tricky bit: you're still 5% above the price you can afford, and about 5.1% above the offer at which the manu facturer really will walk away from the table — for at least a week. Des perate measures are called for: any bargaining ploy will do. You could even bet their chief executive the $3 million-gap be tween your two positions that you can hypnotise him long enough to get his wristwatch off his wrist and on to yours GREAT INTELLECTUAL BREAKTHROUGHS OF OUR TIMES No 1 a plane run into severe prob lems in the middle of the Atlantic, or suddenly veer into the path of another aircraft near by, however, it would be unable to make an emergency landing at an airfield and might have to ditch. Fears of this happening An autopilot malfunction in straight and level flight at altitude should not present real difficulties for pilots, who can simply fly the aircraft manually. Safety experts also emphasise that the auto-pilot malfunctions are unrelated to long-range operations. Should The Times, London, 14 October, 1993 without him noticing. If you know what you're doing, the watch moves. The proof that this is an effective technique comes when the manufacturer's workforce starts painting tails red... • "The FAA does not have a mandate to make pilots happy," according to an ALPA rep. True, but that doesn't mean it has a mandate to make them unhappy... SMOKED BACON OK, Rearsby is in Leics, not Lines, as anybody equipped with an AOP.9 and an Ordnance Survey map would know, yes? • The three-year-old son of Nephew Paul Somerset has been made an honor ary member of the Regi nald S Potter Apprecia tion Society, after having correctly identified, from ancient Budgie News cut tings, Westland's ill-fated Fat Lynx as a "WD-40"... RAF Red Arrows r.l FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 20 - 26 October, 1993
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