Comair pilots commented on lack of lights
08-29-2006 | 11:07 AM
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08-29-2006 | 11:12 AM
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As distasteful as those advertisements may be, it should not be up to Google to filter ANYTHING out...freedom of speech is an absolute, and sometimes the cost of freedom is hearing and reading things we don't like or find distasteful. If someone pays for ad space, they get to use that ad space for their purposes.
08-29-2006 | 12:06 PM
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Doesn't it depend totally on hit count? If the sites that are being hit the most register first in the search engine, isn't that out of Google's hands (unless they were to somehow revamp the search engine algorhythm)?
08-29-2006 | 03:23 PM
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08-29-2006 | 04:15 PM
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I saw the report on TV with them using Microsoft FS. I started to laugh outloud. Special Program?? I can see them maybe using something that lame RIGHT after an event just to improvise, but c'mon, it's more than 2 days later and NOW is when they come up with the idea of going to Best Buy and buying a video game to show on headline news and call it a Special Program? HA!!
08-29-2006 | 04:20 PM
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Well said, workinstiff...
The thing that gets me is that the brainless ******-for-brains journalist team that put together that piece of inane nonsense couldn't even be bothered to find out what kind of plane it was that crashed. Straight from comair's website the aircraft was a CRJ-100 not a 200. Small point maybe but just shows how little they care about the facts.
Really hammered home and saddened me looking at the passenger manifest from comair 5191
http://www.comair.com/news/index.html?id=319
It's easy to read that 49 people died but reading each name one by one, even though I didn't know any of them... Really tough
May they all rest in peace.
The thing that gets me is that the brainless ******-for-brains journalist team that put together that piece of inane nonsense couldn't even be bothered to find out what kind of plane it was that crashed. Straight from comair's website the aircraft was a CRJ-100 not a 200. Small point maybe but just shows how little they care about the facts.
Really hammered home and saddened me looking at the passenger manifest from comair 5191
http://www.comair.com/news/index.html?id=319
It's easy to read that 49 people died but reading each name one by one, even though I didn't know any of them... Really tough
May they all rest in peace.
08-31-2006 | 03:17 PM
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Microsoft Flight Sim is a pretty good program. It is actually pretty realistic; BUT, it is just that, a simulator, and with all simulations, they are not 100% accurate. They cannot accurately recreate everything that would be seen, or felt in real life.
That being said; I admit I tried to recreate the accident myself on FS. I didn't have a CRJ, so I used an ERJ. I tried 3 times to get off of that runway, and couldn't. Each time I was able to rotate the nose right at the end of the runway, but could never get airborne until I was in the trees.
That being said, I would never take video of my attempts and actually play it on national news.
That being said; I admit I tried to recreate the accident myself on FS. I didn't have a CRJ, so I used an ERJ. I tried 3 times to get off of that runway, and couldn't. Each time I was able to rotate the nose right at the end of the runway, but could never get airborne until I was in the trees.
That being said, I would never take video of my attempts and actually play it on national news.
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