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How can I make it crystal clear to you that I only copied a few words so that a notification would come up beside that little bell on your screen to tell you that there was something in that thread that you might care to see. Thereafter you plucked a few words from the quote the PCM had posted and went on about engine operation. It is clear that you didn't see the quote for what it was - a litany of things that can possibly go wrong and because the pilot is guilty until proven innocent, everything is the pilot's fault. That is utterly correct. "Not Likely" = a possibility but one with a low probability. Still, the pilot will initially cop the blame. As for my choice of "forensic", the implication is of an intense, detailed examination. Perhaps you would prefer, "picking oakum" to describe the task?

I foresee 2024 being maybe the most important year in the political history of the USA since 1861. While the rest of the World watches to see if the potential train wreck occurs, it seems that the passengers on the train are oblivious to the greater effects if the wreck occurs. Preventing Trump from having his name printed on ballot papers could be the spark in the powder keg, even though he could be elected by "write-in" votes. If he is permitted on the ballot papers then the next eleven months could see some pretty wild expressions of political viewpoints. If he should win, then the World will be quaking in its boots with every utterance he makes. I do wonder, however, how biased is the selection of responses when reporters do a vox populi in the streets. What is the Silent Majority thinking. How much weight do average people put into leading a life based on the status quo?

Looks like laws coming into force today will kill off vaping.

At the risk of being howled down for making what some will describe as an ne supra crepidamian statement, I suggest that for the first ten hours or so you have your daughter use a car with automatic transmission. Very few ab initio pilots start off with constant speed props and up/down Dunlops. And ditch that "instructor". You've already picked that he/she couldn't teach a calf to suckle. Too much to say. I'll PM you.

I watched a rather in-depth weather forecast this evening. Much was made of rain systems moving down the east coast from Cape York to the NSW Northern Rivers and another system moving across Victoria and swinging northeast towards Sydney. Rainfall is predicted to be heavy in both systems. However, the depictions of the main areas to receive this rain were conspicuously absent from my neck of the woods. All I have been getting is consistent strong winds. These winds seem so strong that they could blow over a chain-link fence.

I don't reckon that every syllable needs to be forensically examined.

Did you read what PMC wrote" That puts my original post into context.

Did you read each word of the post? Were you able to comprehend the idea expressed by the words used in the post? In future I think I'll just draw down the quotation I want and replace all the words with ................ if I want the original poster to know that I am responding to their post. That method removes the influence of the original post from my post. The point I was trying to make was that no matter that a failure was completely not due to the actions of the pilot, the pilot is still going to be blamed. Yesterday it appears that either the alternator or the battery in my car failed after 200,000 kms as I was cruising at a constant speed on a level road. Are you going to shoot home the blame for that to me? I suppose you could if you knew that had experienced a minor failure with the battery a couple of months ago, but that it had been operating correctly ever since. Should I have replaced a battery that is three years old? What information can I find to determine a use by date for a battery?

I just did that so that to direct reader to your post. A bit of "forum shortcutting". If you read what I wrote, I was answering the core of your question without picking out your example of the result of someone else's actions "or something breaks because a previous "pilot" had overstressed it".

I think what the author was suggesting was that no matter how the aircraft got bent, the accident investigation will return a finding of "Pilot Error". I think he was expressing the idea of "guilty until proven innocent" - bemoaning the hopelessness of the pilot when each and every frame of the video is scrutinised by second-guessers.

Regarding following distance in urban traffic. Determining the distance between two objects is difficult when one of your reference points is not clearly visible. That's the situation you find when you are trying to determine a distance from the driver's seat. I know that, with experience, you develop the ability to get a pretty good and functional estimate, but as people who have developed this ability, we must find some technique to develop it in student drivers. What is a "car length"? I'd say it's about as long as a piece of string. I posted earlier a figure of approximately 5 metres for the average length of a passenger vehicle in Australia. But how many are able to determine a length of 5 metres (or 5-1/2 yards) on the move, let alone 10 metres (11 yards) unless your a are cricketer who bowls. I have found a way to establish a practical space between my vehicle and the one in front. Nowadays close on every passenger vehicle has a left side external mirror. The way they are mounted results in a gap between the body of the mirror and the side of the vehicle. If you pull back until you can see that gap from your driving position, you'll find that you are about that magical distance. At 60 kph, you are travelling at 16.6 m/s. Therefore a 2-second gap give you a space of about 30 metres. At 80 kph, the numbers are 22 m/s and about 45 metres.

Now there's another of those lost sayings. Probably extremely non-PC in the current political climate.

Ever wondered how those Vapes work? Here's an explanation of the electronics involved in the device. Although I don't know why he is calling something that is a battery a capcitor.

It's a joke, Joyce.

None of your Pommy stuff here, mate!

A question of great gravity.

But experience is gained over time, and part of that experience is learning that patience is a virtue. The dickhead can't manage to get all the greens.

Keep your rifle high and your powder dry.

When ya gunna do that?

A lot of "Singin' in the Rain" . One very quick shot of Dorothy Dandridge from Carmen Jones. Marlon Brando twice from A Streetcar Named Desire and once from The Wild One. James Dean from Rebel Without a Cause with Natalie Wood. Also James from Giant. That's a start. I'll have to go through frame by frame to get some more.

If one wanted to make a stand against refusal to accept cash, then one should insist that the receiver prominently display a sign saying "No Cash Accepted" It appears that a provider of goods or services is at liberty to set the commercial terms upon which payment will take place before the ‘contract’ for supply of the goods or services is entered into. If a provider of goods or services specifies other means of payment prior to the contract, then there is usually no obligation for legal tender to be accepted as payment. However, refusal to accept legal tender in payment of an existing debt, where no other means of payment/settlement has been specified in advance, conceivably could have consequences in legal proceedings; for example, the creditor may be unable to enforce payment in any other form.

I was thinking about what you said here: and I realised that you would not have been able to say that if you had never experienced it happening. That leads me to this: I frequently drove in metropolitan peak hour traffic, but always kept a goodly gap between my car and the one in front. EXPERIENCE told me that there was a high likelihood that someone would overtake in the lane to my right and dive into that space - shortening my "happy space". Therefore, based on that experience, my strategy, when it happened, was to slow to allow my "happy space" to redevelop, then increase my speed to be consistent with the flow of traffic. It was because I expected that "cut in" to occur, that when it did happen, it was not unexpected. Did my method slow my overall trip time? No, because come the next set of traffic lights I could stop a bee's dick off the bumper of the car in front. The key to defeating the unexpected is to have your mind drive ahead of you as far as you can see. One of the assessments under the Hendon system is a thing called the "Narrative Drive". The student drives along giving a continuous narrative of what can be seen that could infringe on the passage of the vehicle. That includes describing things in the short, medium and long distances as well as noting and interpreting the movements of other vehicles. It is a really good method for getting your head "out of the cockpit". Do the Narrative Drive a couple of times and it becomes your mental driving mentor.

Call a kid a damp squib and they'll think you are calling them a wet wizard. A squib is a person born to wizard parents, but who does not possess wizardly powers. It is basically the opposite of Muggle-borns (wizards born to Muggle parents).

Do you want a list?

Which means the system is faulty. The solution is to go back to the original thinking of what the system is intended to do, then throw scenarios like the one you describe at it to see how it responds. I have a friend who was working on the periphery of Volvo's collision avoidance system. It was trialed in Australia and found nt to be able to decide what to do when a kangaroo hopped across the path of the car from one side of the road to another. I was wondering today as I drove the 60-odd Ks home from Dubbo, "What steering input would such a system make if a kangaroo did jump across the road?" A driver experienced with the motion of a roo would steer around behind it, but a collision avoidance system would see that such a move would cause the vehicle to cross the marked centreline of the road, so it might steer to the left, into the projected path of the roo. Also, I'd hate to see what such a car would do if it was rolling along at 100 ks and came up on a wombat waddling across the road. Would it try an emergency stop? I really don't want to bag the system. We must remember that it is in its development stage. Maybe the unique situational problems will be solved; maybe not. One problem solving difficulty I see is that the software designers are not likely to have had the driving experiences that exist in Australia with regard to wild animals around our roads.