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We have achieved faith-based science,
faith-based economics, faith-based law enforcement, and faith-based missile defense. What's next? Faith-based air traffic control? With 85% of the Air Traffic Controllers being able to retire by 2006 and very few being trained you might just have to have a lot of 'Faith' to fly soon. Hired right after the strike, retired the first day I was able. 21 years, 1 month, 10 days of experience out the door. My old area 1 year ago had 7 crews with 7 controllers on each, today they have 7 crews now the 5 or less controllers on each. And it is not over yet, three more retire before the end of the year I am told. That is a 46% reduction in workforce over 18 months. |
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as a pilot long ago, I never thought diddly squat of ATC people.
As a member of EAA, never met another pilot who felt any better of ATC people. I was on the grounds of the EAA International Convention when President Regan announced the firing of all ATC controlers. 100,000 pilots at the convention cheered. being an ATC controller takes no skill and damned little training. 18 year old boys in the military just 10 months out of high school study hall do the job. With 85% of the Air Traffic Controllers being able to retire by 2006 and very few being trained you might just have to have a lot of 'Faith' to fly soon. Hired right after the strike, retired the first day I was able. 21 years, 1 month, 10 days of experience out the door. My old area 1 year ago had 7 crews with 7 controllers on each, today they have 7 crews now the 5 or less controllers on each. And it is not over yet, three more retire before the end of the year I am told. That is a 46% reduction in workforce over 18 months. |
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Subject: fuel use for sailboats
From: (Andreas Borchert) Date: 09/20/2004 11:48 Pacific Standard Time Message-id: In article , JAXAshby wrote: remember, the term entered this thread when some fraud claiming to be a college professor totally misused the word. Please do not call me a fraud. If you have any doubts about my identity, just send an email to and ask for c Jax (here after referred to as Doodles) calls everyone a fraud .... to begin with. One learns quickly when dealing with Doodles, to take most of what he says as the ramblings of a "Wannabe" who still hasn't decided what exactly he "Wannabe". For instance .... he still thinks that planes and boats react the same and that the FAA is the only authority on navigation and all things "boating". Doodles is the guy you'll see coming into an anchorage with his wireless computer on his lap doing a "google" search for the Physics of tidal computations versus proper catenary for various chain sizes, versus boat displacement under given wind conditions using three strand or plaid line of nylon or dacron poly of so many feet versus so many feet of chain with a Fortress, Danforth, Navy standard, etc. anchor...... who ends up beaching, cause he forgot to steer by compass (and we all know what Doodles thinks of compasses) and couldn't trust his 4 GPS and two DGPS. Shen |
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Shen44 wrote:
Jax (here after referred to as Doodles) calls everyone a fraud .... to begin with. Yeah, calling other people names seems to be all he's good for. Doodles is the guy you'll see coming into an anchorage with his wireless computer on his lap doing a "google" search for the Physics of tidal computations Nah, he's the kind that never goes anywhere because he's too busy sneering other peoples boats & skills. As far as can be determined, Jaxxie went sailing once on somebody elses boat, on a calm afternoon, and didn't like it much. DSK |
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andreas, you are indeed a fraud, as you so convincingly show below.
The speed is asymptotic simply because it cannot reach infinity and the function that gives the speed in dependence of the power is assumed to be monotonously increasing. We all know about c, the speed of light, do we? I have never said that the hull speed would be that upper limit. I made my point because the observation ``more power = more speed'' by Terry Spragg does not tell much as long as we do not know whether it is asymptotic and, if yes, where the limit is. Or in other words: The statement ``more power = more speed'' does not contradict the popular (but incorrect) belief that the hull speed could be that limit. Andreas. -- Dr. Andreas F. Borchert, SAI, Universitaet Ulm | Habe Mut, dich deines Helmholtzstrasse 18, E02, Tel +49 731 50-23572 | eigenen Verstandes zu http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/borchert/ | bedienen! -- I. Kant |
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"DSK" wrote in message ... | | Nah, he's the kind that never goes anywhere because he's too busy | sneering other peoples boats & skills. As far as can be determined, | Jaxxie went sailing once on somebody elses boat, on a calm afternoon, | and didn't like it much. Nah, he's a liveaboard on an old Westsail 32 that leaks and the only bluewater he has seen is either sailing magazines or movies! |
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Nah, he's a liveaboard on an old Westsail 32 that leaks and the only
bluewater he has seen is either sailing magazines or movies! I have been on just two Westsails in my life, and each time was at the request of a friend who was thinking of buying one. I really am not all that interested in them, but if I were I think the Kendall-Westsail is a much better looking boat. I first saw bluewater as a young professional killer on my way to Viet Nam. I was last on bluewater five weeks ago. |
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Jax who asked about your porta-pottie
"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... Nah, he's a liveaboard on an old Westsail 32 that leaks and the only bluewater he has seen is either sailing magazines or movies! I have been on just two Westsails in my life, and each time was at the request of a friend who was thinking of buying one. I really am not all that interested in them, but if I were I think the Kendall-Westsail is a much better looking boat. I first saw bluewater as a young professional killer on my way to Viet Nam. I was last on bluewater five weeks ago. |
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