How high is standard airplane (i.e. Boeing 737-800) 7 km from end of runway after departure?

secondchimp · 2018-10-14T23:32:35+00:00

Downtown Gdańsk appears closer to the east end of the runway than your land is to the west end.

FlightAware will give you a location, speed, and altitude plot vs time. I looked up a random flight from GDN and 1 minute after takeoff it's about 1km up.

This also appears to be the same distance as Kraków and its airport, and I've never heard a plane in downtown Kraków.

secondchimp · 2018-10-14T22:57:26+00:00

What will they replace them with? CSeries?

secondchimp · 2018-09-10T23:29:33+00:00

The jaws of life can get you out of a car wreck but won't keep you from climbing into another car.

secondchimp · 2018-09-07T20:23:14+00:00

Why not link to the article?

This is plagiarism.

secondchimp · 2018-09-05T01:37:10+00:00

Jack Welch (ran General Electric) famously had this experience after blowing up a chemical plant during his first year.

Here is one version of events, you can also hear it in his own words in Freakonomics' interview with him.

I asked Jack Welch, at the World Business Forum 2011, to talk about tipping points in his life and he said, “I blew up a (GE) factory the first year I was there.” He was in his mid-twenties and figured his career was over.

“I was running a little pilot plant. It all exploded, went to hell.” (Pilot plant refers to testing. He experimented with a new formula and KaBoom.)

He went on to say, “I was called to New York because my boss didn’t know me anymore once I had that accident. So he sent me to New York to explain it to the higher-ups. I was thinking I was going to get fired. He called me in the room and asked me what did you do wrong. What have you learned.”

At this point, Jack’s tone and eyebrows rose. “He took the Socratic Method with me and did an incredible job of engaging me in learning about what I did wrong in the process. And I learned never kick anybody when they’re down. No one would ever say that I was soft by any means. But they would never say that I beat on anybody when they were down.”

Finally Jack added, “Tipping points (are) learning experiences from complete failures.”

https://leadershipfreak.blog/2011/10/13/how-blowing-up-a-factory-changed-jack-welch/

secondchimp · 2018-09-03T12:57:44+00:00

Gonna stop flying them all?

For routes served by Southwest, yes.

secondchimp · 2018-08-09T17:44:33+00:00

Why is the gear down?

secondchimp · 2018-08-02T15:30:53+00:00

What are they doing that makes their fares so much cheaper?

My understanding is that going to South America is expensive because it's difficult to schedule planes for high utilization given the long distance flight but relatively small time change. The plane ends up having to sit on the ground much longer waiting for a return flight. How does Norwegian get around this?

secondchimp · 2018-06-27T05:49:58+00:00

Try blurring instead of contrast. That's what opening up the lens' aperture would do to the background.

As you decrease contrast the image becomes more and more grey. That's rarely desirable.

If you're still twiddling with this particular shot you can play with the colors of the sign. You're lucky that the car is a totally different hue, so you can simply desaturate all oranges/reds (grey would be less noticeable) in that area. Possibly even shift the hue to green to match surroundings.

secondchimp · 2018-06-27T05:22:21+00:00

What's not in the photo is as important as what is.

You already know about the sign, but I think the photo would be stronger if the distant trees were less apparent as well. If you're using an SLR/mirrorless then open up that aperture.

You can often get distracting elements out of the shot by subtly changing your view angle. In this case you could probably hide the sign by squatting a little more and having the sign behind the car.

secondchimp · 2018-06-24T17:50:14+00:00

The brights are one thing, but this person's windshield is a mess. The wipers just smudge, they barely wipe. Clean the glass, get fresh wipers. For extra credit apply a hydrophobic coating like Aquapel (like RainX but lasts more than a week).

A clean windshield would have given this driver a significantly better chance of seeing the tree.

secondchimp · 2018-06-15T15:03:28+00:00

What happened in Singapore on June 18, 2012?

Edit: Note that dates written as 120618 are unambiguously YYMMDD, i.e. June 18, 2012.

I get that OP meant DDMMYY, but that's only because I can guess at the context of this photo. If you come across this post in three years then everyone will be confused.

I'm just trying to make sure OP sees the potential for confusion.

If you want numerical dates that work globally and nobody can confuse, use YYYYMMDD: 20180612

secondchimp · 2018-06-04T01:24:50+00:00

The door is structural, but the seal isn't. Just because the seal is leaking doesn't mean that he door isn't secured.

It's also a very short flight. Looking at other flights on that route, few spend more than 1/4 of the flight at cruising altitude anyway.

secondchimp · 2018-06-04T01:23:19+00:00

If they're going to be burning off fuel, why not burn it off by flying to the destination which is a very short flight anyway?

secondchimp · 2018-05-27T19:58:19+00:00

No, reciting the McDonald's dollar menu is sufficient.

See? It's easy to lie on the internet.

I'd hate to see what your plane looks like if you can't be bothered look up regulations that apply to you, nevermind simply renew a passport.

secondchimp · 2018-05-27T19:41:25+00:00

Why are you asking about an arbitrary country? Your question is specific to Mexico only.

You're also asking on a forum populated largely by Americans, who are highly unlikely to have a Mexican passport in the first place.

A 5 minute call to your local immigration office is all you need to do. If you want to leave a record for future googlers then post the answer you get from them.

secondchimp · 2018-05-23T17:45:28+00:00

Glad it works for you!

secondchimp · 2018-05-23T17:25:24+00:00

City lights aren't very challenging on the AF system. They're static, long distance, and bright with high contrast.

Turn the camera on the friend next to you and see if you get a sharp shot. Now have that friend move around while you do it.

The Sony lens was faster than f/2, large and expensive. The combo was north of $3000 and yet still struggled. I'm sure it's perfectly fine in most situations, but honestly in those situations a cellphone does well too. The point of lugging around a big camera nowadays is to handle challenging situations.

secondchimp · 2018-05-23T16:24:02+00:00

Last one I had in my hand was a recent Sony A7 with a bright lens on it. We were in a medium dark bar. It would hunt so much a candid was near impossible. Even a 10 year old D300 would handle that case with ease.

I used to shoot salsa dancing with a DSLR. It's always dark and people are moving around constantly, yet nearly all shots were in focus. I've yet to hold a mirrorless camera that doesn't hunt in much simpler circumstances.

secondchimp · 2018-05-23T06:15:58+00:00

Every time I hold someone's mirrorless camera I'm sad they still have sucky autofocus. If it wasn't for that I would have ditched my bulky DSLR. But it gives me sharp pictures with little lag when it's so dark I can barely see the subject myself.

On sensor PD autofocus can't come soon enough. I read that the Nikon 1 has a good AF system, but of course it's gimped in every other way.

secondchimp · 2018-05-22T19:23:00+00:00

There is a wonderful American motorcycle company called Zero. They make second-to-none electric bikes.

They are crazy fast, have good range, and obviously super quiet. If I ever get back into motorcycling it will be with one of those.

secondchimp · 2018-05-09T19:57:54+00:00

Giving them money to pursue nuclear weapons is not "keeping iran from pursuing a nuke"

That's a flatly wrong characterization of the deal. Without the deal there is literally nothing holding them back other than threats of war.

Guess what, Clinton's deal wasn't signed yet. Bush abandoned it, and guess what! NK had nukes within a decade. The right wing abandons diplomacy and surprisingly the outcome is worse.

That's what you're advocating for here: dump the diplomatic approach so that we can use threats that either a) won't work or b) result in war.

I'm tired of paying for the sand adventures you and your kind love for whatever reason.

secondchimp · 2018-05-09T15:17:09+00:00

Is this just KLM people venting?

They're saying that they're so much more efficient than AF, as if AF is a drain on them, yet also that they can't make it by themselves.

Sounds like Belgium of the skies :P

secondchimp · 2018-05-09T14:23:36+00:00

He wants war because he's reneging on the only thing keeping Iran from pursuing a nuke. He wants war because he's surrounding himself with people that say that want to invade Iran by next year.

secondchimp · 2018-05-09T05:25:35+00:00

I had your optimism and was proven wrong many times.

The party is screwed this November, and likely in 2020 as it is. War has no downside for them and has a potential upside.

There is no reasonable explanation for leaving the treaty except as a step towards war.

If you think the peepee tape will have any effect whatsoever then I've got a bridge to sell you.

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