Another item that is also overlooked in the training sequence is that the operators are also expected to perform preventive and rudimentary field maintenance on the equipment itself.
Separate crews are not assigned when in the field.
Good, so you actually know what makes these things so complicated? If operating it is simply pushing X number of buttons in a specific unchanging order then training by someone who can write down that sequence would take a few days at most. If the order changes depending on circumstances, then yeah, I can see it being a bit more complicated, but like I said, if it doesn't require fine motor skills, 6 months seems like bullshit.
Another item that is also overlooked in the training sequence is that the operators are also expected to perform preventive and rudimentary field maintenance on the equipment itself.
Separate crews are not assigned when in the field.
Okay, but they had the system for what? 3 months? Maintenance may be a future problem but the thing isn't going to fall into disrepair in 3 months.Another item that is also overlooked in the training sequence is that the operators are also expected to perform preventive and rudimentary field maintenance on the equipment itself.
Separate crews are not assigned when in the field.
I have no knowledge of how the Soviets (which is what they were at my time :$) planned the training curriculum.Okay, but they had the system for what? 3 months? Maintenance may be a future problem but the thing isn't going to fall into disrepair in 3 months.Another item that is also overlooked in the training sequence is that the operators are also expected to perform preventive and rudimentary field maintenance on the equipment itself.
Separate crews are not assigned when in the field.
It's not getting the oil changed on a car, dude. Preventive field maintenance on such equipment is carried out daily where practical and certainly weekly.Okay, but they had the system for what? 3 months? Maintenance may be a future problem but the thing isn't going to fall into disrepair in 3 months.
It's now been reported the the mobile phones of some the dead are being answered when dialed. Not sure why anyone would be dialing the phones of dead people though. Not much in the way of details but the phone companies are shutting off the accounts immediately.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/07/mh17_victims_mobile_phones_ans.php
It's now been reported the the mobile phones of some the dead are being answered when dialed. Not sure why anyone would be dialing the phones of dead people though. Not much in the way of details but the phone companies are shutting off the accounts immediately.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/07/mh17_victims_mobile_phones_ans.php
If someone was going to take a trip and did not check in; people that would be concerned would continue to try to ccontact all to ensure that the "missing" person is OK. tTose that care become frantic.
Back in '82 when Air Florida went for a dip , I was also on a 737 leaving DC the same time to Fayetteville, via Charlotte. My flight was delayed in Charlotte and I did not check in at home until about 4 hours later. My wife was frantic; the TV news were showing a generic 737 and she knew that was the type of plane that I was always on. She spent the time calling the hotel and airport rental counter to find out where I was. Same concept, trying to track down a person that is missing.
What would have happened if the main part of the passengers had been US citizens?
What would have happened if the main part of the passengers had been US citizens?
Heard on the radio this morning that the two Ukrainian fighters downed yesterday were downed by missiles launched from Russia. Coming so closely after this tragedy, I can only suspect that the Malaysian airliner might also have been downed by Russia. At the very least, Russia is willing to openly be an aggressor nation in the attempt to annex Ukraine.
At this point I'm beginning to suspect this may be where to draw the line militarily. If Russia is determined to fight World War III, I'd prefer it to be before it has the industrial capabilities of Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic back under its control. Europe really needs to get cracking on alternative energy, because by winter it may well be a case of facing a widespread shooting war or facing annexation piecemeal into the new Soviet Union/New Russian Empire. Remember, Russia doesn't have to be stronger militarily if the West refuses to fight.
What would have happened if the main part of the passengers had been US citizens?
I don't think we would have any intention of occupying Russia, just disabling it from attacking its neighbors.Make sure to bring warm socks.
I don't think we would have any intention of occupying Russia, just disabling it from attacking its neighbors.
Make sure to bring warm socks.
Russians like to make simple equipment that can be maintained by a bear with an axe...
That's true, and a world war is near the most horrendous thing possible. But it's not THE most horrendous thing possible. Watching Europe slip piecemeal under Putin's brand of totalitarianism would in my mind be worse than even a world war.World wars don't always go as intended, so bring warm socks.
That's true, and a world war is near the most horrendous thing possible. But it's not THE most horrendous thing possible. Watching Europe slip piecemeal under Putin's brand of totalitarianism would in my mind be worse than even a world war.
That's true, and a world war is near the most horrendous thing possible. But it's not THE most horrendous thing possible. Watching Europe slip piecemeal under Putin's brand of totalitarianism would in my mind be worse than even a world war.
That's a bit hyperbolic. All he can really do is nibble at the edges of non-NATO nations. Yea he's a big old prick for doing it but our options are limited as are his prospects for further expansion. I'll settle for slowly strangling their economy by moving the EU away from Russian energy imports and limiting access to capital markets.
EU won't settle for it though, because of China.
Cutting off Russia not only cuts Europe off from Russian natural resources, but it also gives China monopoly buyer pricing power for those resources. So European input costs will go up while Chinese will go down. So on top of high labor costs, Europeans will be saddled with higher commodity input costs, and become economically noncompetitive vs China. EU has a 10.5% unemployment as is, add to that another competitive disadvantage, add to that competition from millions of unemployed Ukrainians from industries that rely on cheap Russian gas, and it's not a pretty picture.
What part of "slowly" was not clear? I didn't say that the EU should run out and turn the valves off right now. A concerted long term program to realign their energy imports and domestic production is in their long term interest anyway.
Russia needs vast amounts of foreign investment to even keep with their current production. Absent that there won't be nearly as much resource to deliver to anyone...let alone to the Chinese for which the infrastructure doesn't exist to do so.