From: johnwright ""john" on
Alex Potter wrote:
> Cynic wrote on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:20:51 +0000:
>
>> My first car was an Austin A40 (van).
>
> Mine was a Series II Moggie. It was older than my then wife, and cost £25.

Mine was a Hillman Minx series III- not far from £25 - it cost £30!

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From: Alex Potter on
johnwright wrote on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:34:16 +0000:

> Mine was a Hillman Minx series III- not far from £25 - it cost £30!

Nowadays, a "£50 motor" seems to cost around a grand...

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From: johnwright ""john" on
Alex Potter wrote:
> johnwright wrote on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:34:16 +0000:
>
>> Mine was a Hillman Minx series III- not far from £25 - it cost £30!
>
> Nowadays, a "£50 motor" seems to cost around a grand...

That's inflation for you...
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From: johnwright ""john" on
Cynic wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:12:29 -0000, "Mr X" <invalid(a)invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> I could explain to you how to land an aeroplane or hover a helicopter
>>> every day for months, but unless you actually attempt it yourself many
>>> times, you will not be able to achieve it.
>>>
>> 10,000 hours in fact.
>
> No, nothing like that. 5 or 6 attempts will usually achieve an
> adequate performance. About 10 times as many before it starts to
> become automatic.

From instructing experience I would say that that's not far from fact.

>> I wonder how much time pilots have in the air?
>
> No that relevant. There is a saying about 10000 hour pilots - you get
> one type that has 10000 hours experience, and another type that has
> had a one hour experience 10000 times.
>
> Sitting in the left seat for 10 hours with the aircraft on autopilot
> is not really flying experience, but is logged in the same way as 10
> one-hour flights of a bush pilot.

Experience in flying or in surgery is really about knowing what to do
automatically when things don't go to plan. Ask Chesley Sullenberger
about that.

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?John Wright

From: johnwright ""john" on
Cynic wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:55:13 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I really didn't think there were people who would actually take such
>>> an argument seriously. Maybe you should think it through a tad more
>>> deeply. The clue is in the fact that a muti-engine aircraft can
>>> *continue to fly* in the event of an engine failure.
>
>> And amazingly, single engine aircraft manage to continue on in the event
>> of an engine failure.
>
> Yup, which is why I was talking about flying transatlantic. The fact
> that you can glide for 20 miles after the donk stops is little comfort
> if the closest land is 1000 miles away and the water temperature is
> below zero.

Which is not continuing on in Conor's words. It becomes an emergency in
fact. Its less of an emergency in a multi engined aircraft.

Joke: what's the propellor for? Answer: It keeps the pilot cool. See how
they sweat when it stops.

>>> I hope you have never had occasion to design a safety critical system.
>
>> I hope you don't. By the time you've finished, the item will be such a
>> behemoth due to the "must cover every eventuality" myriad of safety
>> systems that it'll be completely unusable.
>
> I design such systems frequently. Nobody is saying that *every*
> eventuality should be covered.

Which would be impossible anyway. All eventualities cannot be imagined.
Something different will always happen.

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