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  1. ViperPilot
    True enough. Guess it's just in our lexicon to mix brave and good as somewhat synonymous. Personally I see suicide as a cowardly act and thus, not brave. Running a plane into a building is 100% suicide. Running into a barrage of gunfire to pull a buddy out may be 95% suicide, but it's still different. Pulling your buddy out has a very high chance of you getting hurt or killed, but running a plane into a building is 100% death (at least in the 9/11 case). So therefore, it's incorrect to say you commited suicide if you ran to get a buddy and died. It is correct to say the hijackers commited suicide since they 100% positively knew they were going to kill themselves.
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    Like Viking said, that's bs. Obviously a sliver would mean a shorter distance than a hole going through the center (furthest distance). Did you mean the angle wouldn't matter as long as the straight hole traveled throught the center? Because yes, that would be true.
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    Absolutely not. It's incredibly disrespectful and no matter what that country has done under a certain leadership, the flag does not necessarily represent the views and actions of the country's leadership.
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    First of all, I was referring to personally commiting suicide in order to kill thousands of innocent people. Secondly, I haven't killed hundreds of thousands and I don't know anyone who has. It's sure nice to see the news get the story wrong 100% of the time...but alas, we're all baby killers, aren't we?
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    Who do I make the check out to and how much? Guide me!
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    Same answer to all of those questions... You don't need any of that to successfully avoid a TFR, whether it's centered on a city, a NAVAID or my nuts. I don't need any of those and it would take me about 6-9 sec to find out where I am and avoid the TFR using simple VOR triangulation.
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    I'm not saying the FAA is awesome...in fact, they are pretty big d bags a lot of the time. However, 2000 accidental incursions into the ADIZ means 2000 pilots not paying attention and 100% fucking up on their own. Everyone knows (or should know) that it's there, so there's no excuse for it being a surprise. I don't care about AOPA bitching, just b/c they say jump doesn't mean I do. I generally like AOPA, but I don't agree w/ their assesment on the ADIZ. If a pilot can't avoid it, they need some NAV and SA lessons big time.
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    They're 100% cowards. It's not brave to die what you believe in if it means killing thousands of innocent people.
  9. ViperPilot
    Hook, you're preaching on deaf ears. There only 3 things to surmise out of this: 1. Kallend is not a pilot, but thinks he knows about flying or... 2. Kallend is a shitastic pilot or... 3. He is the laziest pilot on the face of this earth, in which case I'll owe you a beer Kallend
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    Yeah DMEs are readily available, there also many aircraft w/o them (in the SE GA crowd anyways). So those guys are forced to triangulate no matter what. Yeah you're right, ATC can keep track. They can tell you how far you are from the center of town, not that hard. If people only knew how easy flying is...and yeah, a freakin monkey could be trained to triangulate using VORs, it's that easy!
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    Agreed. The guy's a total sleaze and an asshole at that. I use to think he was cool back in the day, but then found out what he was really like. He doesn't deserve any sympathy.
  12. ViperPilot
    The 5 mile buffer thing is just a personal thing...it's not mandated, it's just simple common sense to not run the risk by flying on the very edge of the TFR. Secondly, what if they had centered it on a VOR and someone didn't have a DME? There's plenty of aircraft that don't, so what then? Oh yeah, they'd have to triangulate their position, silly me to expect a pilot to be able to do a simple task that a monkey could do.
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    Any more pilots want to get on the "we're not incompetent and can actually navigate bandwagon?" Yeah, that might be hard...if you suck. As a pilot, you should be able to multi-task. Are you saying you can't triangulate your position w/ VORs while flying the plane? That's something everyone has to do just to get their damn license. This is cut and dry...if a pilot can't navigate around the TFR, then they're absolutely incompetent in at least one portion of aviation and do not deserve to be in the air.
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    If I was joe blow flying a 172 and absolutely had to fly in that area, then yeah, it's not a big deal to give a 5 mile buffer so there's no question about if you're in or not. That's not a big deal. Why yes I am, thanks! The margin of error required for VOR use is +/- 4 degrees. In most cases, if there is any error, it is around 1 degree. If you are flying so close to the TFR that even a 4 degree error in the VOR receiver puts you into the TFR, then that's your own damn fault for flying that close. On another hand if you really want to be safe while flying really close, use a GPS (the TFR gives you the coordinates of the center of the TFR). Then, don't fly w/in 30 miles of that coordinate. Simple for any good pilot.
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    Because we'll post in any damn forum we want about any damn thing we want. Guess the women like to keep their stuff to themselves. We just don't care! Men rule!!!
  16. ViperPilot
    Should have, would have, could have...the point is, it's not hard to avoid that TFR. It may not be the easist location so that slack-jawed Kletus pilot can avoid the TFR, but any competant pilot will either find it easy to avoid the TFR by using triangulation or even better, not even coming close to the issue by not getting close to the boundary. Just because a TFR at a football game says 3 miles doesn't mean it's a good idea to fly 3.2 miles away. Common sense and basic airmanship will keep any pilot safe from some vipers lighting his ass up.
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    ATC can just as easily look at their screens and see the distance between an aircraft and the city as it can see the distance between an airport an aircraft. Sure it's not as easy as going by the already marked lines of different classes of airspace, but it can be done. Plus the TFR is 30 nm for a reason. They'll be able to tell if you're getting close to the boundary and advise you to turn away. Sure you might be a 1/2 mi away when they think you're a mile away, but that's not that big of deal. They can easily figure out if you're within 5-10 mi of the TFR boundary and immediately advise you to be careful and change course.
  18. ViperPilot
    Damn straight it's all about me!
  19. ViperPilot
    If you look at the pic, you can see 3 VORs. Someone can easily use these to triangulate position. Now maybe this way takes a bit more work than looking at a GPS, but it's certainly not hard. Yeah, it'd be really easy if it was centered on a VOR, but it's certainly not that much more work to just triangulate your position using the 3 available VORs. So it still stands, a pilot is incompetant if they can't remain outside this TFR. Plus, if they're scared they won't be smart enough to triangulate their position using VORs, then they can just not fly for a few days.
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    Well, it took me all of about 10 seconds to find this. Jimbo, this is a pic of a sectional showing the TFR. 1. Look at map 2. See where TFR boundaries are. 3. Use common sense to avoid TFR by looking at map. By the way, there are several VORs a pilot could use w/ a DME to determine their relative location to the TFR boundaries. If a pilot cannot understand this simple picture (don't even need to read the TFR) then I don't know how the hell they got a license in the first place, and secondly, how anyone could be that freakin stupid. Sorry for it to come to this, but Kallend, stop trying to use retarded arguments such as this to talk down on the government. It's just useless. By the way, are you even a pilot? Because if you're not, I'll cut you a ton of slack on this one...I could maybe see how a non-flyer could confuse this, but there's no excuse for a pilot confusing this.
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    Fine, how bout you or Kallend post some excerpts from the TFR that prove the boundaries are not able to be found. I've seen plenty of TFRs not centered even close to a VOR or airport...didn't affect my ability to stay the hell out of the airspace.
  22. ViperPilot
    It's a Christmas Tree to me because that's what it's been for hundreds of years. Now maybe it was called something else a few thousand years ago, but I only care about what it has recently been called (i.e. since who the hell knows, but probably at least since the 1600s or so). Now if there's some huge majority movement to change the name and it takes root over time through culture, then fine, it'll be called that. But until some huge cultural movement to change the name happens, it should remain what it is called now. Point being, the name should not change just because a few d bags get asshurt over a damn name of a tree. And as it stands now, the Christmas Tree and christmas is an American tradition, so at least in America, the name should remain until American culture demands a change.
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    The only way of not knowing whether they violated the airspace or not is because they were too lazy in the first place to check on any TFRs in the area. Every TFR says in black and white where you can't fly. It's simple. You read it and say, "oh ok, I can't fly in this area." Then while you're flying, you don't fly in that area. If a pilot is up flying and doesn't understand where that area is and if he/she is in it, then they shouldn't be allowed to even fly a plane.
  24. ViperPilot
    No. It is every pilot's responsibility to find out if there are TFRs. If so, they then must have info as far as what airspace the TFR covers. Then, you just don't fly in that airspace. If an aircraft violates the TFR, ATC can track them (assuming a transponder is on) and then send some vipers after the violating plane. Kind of like when some roads are blocked off for road construction, you just have to avoid them and find another way until the construction is done, then you can resume normal use. That's the best analogy I can come up w/ off the top of my head.
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    How big of an airspace are we talking? And secondly, even when he's not there...that's pretty retarded.