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An iPad app can land your plane if the engine quits
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| 12/18/2014
| Steve Dent
Posted on 12/18/2014 2:33:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Does anyone have an iPad??
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posted on
12/18/2014 5:13:12 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Surely, you can’t be serious.
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posted on
12/18/2014 6:17:32 PM PST
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
To: RetiredTexasVet
I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick. Two examples: the miracle on the Hudson and the Gimli glider.
To: smokingfrog; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
iPad app can land your small plane for you at the nearest airport . . . if your engine quits and it's close enough for a dead stick landing. I AM NOT A PILOT, so I can not evaluate this or even speak to it's efficacy. However, it looks good. PING!
Apple iPad Emergency Auto-Pilot Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:06:04 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: SMGFan
Surely, you cant be serious. Don't call me Shirley. And it's series. This could be Hugh.
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:07:03 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: FirstFlaBn
Well then, technology just killed any chance of a remake of Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney would have no emergency to deal with now with Jim Baccus konked out in the back. Maybe the NORKs could disable the WiFi in the remake. No, you just haven't enough imagination to write the new version. Put a seven year old kid on board who wants to play Angry Birds with the iPad. . . and keeps switching Apps from the Xavion auto-pilot to Angry Birds, which somehow has accidentally been linked into the auto-Pilot, and every time he launches a bird, the plane arcs in a similar fashion! They take it back. . . and he always finds a way to snatch it back and play some more Birds. . . WHEE! Fun!
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:12:11 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: bunkerhill7
I am working on a video of the experience. I put a video on you tube MaXtanic films of how to do an annual on a 310(and how not to change the oil), also a bunch of trips to Oshkosh.
BTW, how do you post a pic on free Republic?
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:18:02 PM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:34:47 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Whats this auto pilot of which you speak?
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posted on
12/19/2014 12:02:44 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
To: CFIIIMEIATP737; RetiredTexasVet
I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick. It's Air Force fighter jets - especially the old F-4 Phantom - that have the aerodynamics of a brick.
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:30:31 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
(Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
To: itsahoot
Whats this auto pilot of which you speak
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:32:18 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Just proving that even a brick can fly if you have big enough engins. ;)
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posted on
12/19/2014 4:39:27 AM PST
by
antidisestablishment
(When the passion of your convictions surpass those of your leader, it's past time for a change.)
To: FirstFlaBn
Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney would have no emergency to deal with now with Jim Baccus konked out in the back. I watch that movie when it's on just to get a look at that beauuuuutiful Beechcraft Model 18 twin engine aircraft.
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posted on
12/19/2014 7:11:45 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
12/19/2014 9:10:06 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
To: CFIIIMEIATP737
Hudson pilot was lucky he was over water and never got any altitude before he “crash landed” his brick.
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posted on
12/19/2014 6:53:21 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a “large” brick when compared to a smaller aircraft such as the old F-4 Phantom or even worse F-111.
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posted on
12/19/2014 6:55:19 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
To: SeekAndFind
Just make sure to uncheck the 'kamikaze' option.
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posted on
12/19/2014 7:03:51 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: Yo-Yo
I think you get a bingo!
My thought was, Ok, now I need to fly in only autopilot equipped GA aircraft. In some cases a difficult task since very few small aircraft are so equipped.
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posted on
12/20/2014 6:33:02 AM PST
by
wita
To: RetiredTexasVet
Glide ratios for various airliners:
Boeing B707-320 19.4
Boeing 767-200 19.0
Douglas DC-8 17.9
Boeing 747-100 17.7
Douglas DC-10 17.7
Airbus A320 17.0
Lockeed Tristar L1011 17.0
Douglas DC-9 (1966) 16.5
Boeing B727-200 16.4
Douglas DC-3 14.7
And you still they they are bricks?
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