Love / My little confession hehe - I always thought polish women were ugly [57]

Some are ugly here, there is no getting away from that. The ones who think they are really pretty are almost pretty. If it isn't the character, it's the nose that puts me off.

News / Prediction: Poland to be World Superpower in XXI century [147]

Tusk has sided with both ;) ;)

News / Next 100 years - Poland as great power? [35]

Poland doesn't have charismatic figures who will make it a major power on the international stage. It doesn't have the attributes of a Russia or a Poland. Those countries have people that pushed those countries into a position of immense strength.

News / Prediction: Poland to be World Superpower in XXI century [147]

Always good to use the search facility :) :)

Poland will slowly progress due to technological exchanges but will be placed higher when other major powers begin to lose their prowess and standing!

Life / Anyone else suffering from mosquito bites in Poland? [52]

Surprisingly, I haven't been bitten but my time is coming. One of my students had a cracker of a bite on her hand today. She passed it off as being from a mosquito ;) ;)

News / Poland Should Beef Up Military [286]

Nukes are but a bargaining chip. Poland could benefit from having them nonetheless.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]

You have to be careful when taking on causes. Pol3, I wouldn't mingle with Chechens of Terbulatov's ilk. The Spetsnaz took good care of him. I understand their struggle but they are still radicals.

USA, Canada / Polish bar the best in the USA [16]

Like what, for example? I see you didn't deny it :)

Anyway, top American bars is the topic so, for once, please contribute sth that is actually on track. I can't so I'll bail out.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

It was a case I explored in depth in my Masters, M-G. Discussing such matters with one of Europe's leading professors either shows intelligence or insanity, probably the latter ;)

The latest Polish-English to appear in a commercial is dzięks instead of thanks. Quite lame but there we go.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Walloon Waste, a seminal case in EU Environmental Law. Legal basis and 1 of the 6 core principles are fully fleshed out.

Anyway, Poles use English words for different reasons. Trends are just results of things becoming common and sb has to start them. Trailblazers are not solely confined to fashion and chess.

Law / Poland presidential election: Voting abroad? [6]

Usually you have to 12 noon if my memory doesn't fail me :)

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

It's about time some investment went into improving the services there. If Poland really got serious regarding its gas business, they'd jump quicker than I could say hey to get a direct flight between Poland and themselves.

Law / Poland presidential election: Voting abroad? [6]

Do you know that the 10th of June is less than 2 hours away? ;) ;)

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Delph, you seem to have a keen eye for aviation stuff. Please go and tell Aberdeen airport to do sth with their runway so that they can have a direct flight to Wrocław or Kraków.

Language / 'jestem po weselu' [8]

Sorry, I included the Scottish dimension there :) Maybe I was hoping to be doing that as I was nervous. I had to read the vows in Polish and she changed them around :(

At the wedding reception if I am to be serious, yes.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Delph, we are going round in circles. Please try and get hold of Newsweek as I see this as a credible source. Also, even I felt some of what the pilots of PRPrune were saying to be a little conspiratorial. One even suggested a 'scud run' through a dip. He lost me with that comment. Have a read, page 43 if I recall rightly.

Language / 'jestem po weselu' [8]

I'd say at a wedding, not on a wedding. I'd say jestem po weselu if I was nursing a hangover after a long weekend of partying at the wedding ceremony.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Then why was nothing done?? The descent was clearly wrong and it wasn't corrected.

The ATC had the tools for measuring the speed so that puts that to rest.

The conditions in the dips saw air masses which had a material effect on the descent speed. Simple!

I saw the same on that website for pilots so I know pilots believe the same.

The whole point is that ATC didn't lose track of the plane which they could see was too low.

They didn't remove it for Tusk or the Polish journalists who arrived on 2 separate days. Doesn't that strike you as odd?

When you can see that sb is in trouble, do you stand aside?

I refer you to the Newsweek article of this month, Delph.

Delph, come on, they are fully aware of the local conditions there and how the terrain impacts on landings.

They were mistaken as to their true location, you will see that I'm sure from the second decoding session.

The Polish side did an equally effective job in a fraction of the time. Thorough is desirable but they waited til the mourning and anger died down. It's all about timing!

The point is, they did. Their markers are for ground-level height, not the dips and it is this which caused the inaccuracy and ultimate crash.

History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]

Actually, there was ;)

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]

Your question doesn't directly correspond with the thread title, southern. Maybe you should provide us with an insight of what you had in mind.

Slavic philosophy?? How can you bracket such a thing? Many Poles find Mickiewicz boring but spirituality is encompassed therein.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

With all due respect, that didn't answer my question. They had a duty to guide him given the askew readings through instrumental navigation. Russia is playing the role of guide dog here. Would a guide dog be taken to court for misdirecting? No. Are animals entities in the eyes of the law? Yes, in Scotland anyway. Russia tried to get smart but they knew what they were doing. Look at the ravine theory on PRPrune for further info of what I've been talking about above. I discovered it yesterday.

The point is that they were a sufficient height above the lowest point of the dip but NOT from the ground, the area that Russian ground control was monitoring.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Aha, that they were :)

Look at the descent rates, Delph. The area that they went into had a material effect on that. There are some comments online to support that.

However, such corrective action wasn't suggested by the ATC, was it?

The atmospheric conditions in that area created the distortion. They wreaked havoc with the meters, sth that the Russian ATC should have seen or surmised.

Well, they were working due to a full inspection before take off but they faultered when they encountered that terrain and atmosphere.

He chose to keep descending for the reason I keep repeating. He didn't know his true position at all. Clipping trees should not happen if correctly guided, right?

They removed the equipment and had it altered. You want proof? Read Julia Latiyan of the Moscow Times. She ran an article on it just one week after. She mentioned the removals.

Yes, but they were guiding. Let me put it to you this way. You have a man paid to be the eyes of a blind man who needs to reach his final destination. You have the full picture and can see the danger ahead. You guide him into a hole from which he dies thereafter. Whose fault is it?

Check the cenogram, Delph. They gave info to the pilots which amazed the Polish side. They could only have had that with radars to support their case. Otherwise, they'd be lying.

The Russians have different landing protocols, Delph. The truth is, when they were under 100 metres, they were falling more rapidly than they should have and they weren't told this by the tower.

Given the dips, they were 100 metres not from the ground but from the dip. The onboard metres read the wrong thing. The tower had an obligation to tell them.

Sorry, jary are the dips. The shaped terrain.

The Russians were to clarify their position and they didn't.

Tusk landed fine, as did the journalists on the same day. The fog necessitated a closer dialogue which wasn't there.

Clearly the Tupolev didn't :(

The trajectory was altered by the air pressure as they approached the dips. It's basic physics.

Look how inept the Russians have been, Delph. They took 2 months to discover the 3rd person in the cabin. The Poles found this out quickly after listening to the recordings.

Language / Why x.xx$ in Poland? [20]

Again, Polish thinking proves to be more logical. I've found this when discussing things with my wife. 50 what? 50 złoty, it's logical. What isn't always so clear is when to use złoty or złotych.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Was it news to you? ;) Some of those Poles that use English are just calling on what they have been taught in the past. You know, when you have seen much of the world, why should you confine your focus to seeing one object as only one name? You know, must it always be a chair? Can't it be krzesło, isu, chaise or stuehl?

The point is, be respectful to your audience and don't try to outdo people by going over their heads. That achieves very little!

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

No, you are just mad ;) ;) Just kidding, I do the same! Sometimes I know a word in Polish and can't remember it in English.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

It's an attempt to look smart and it's often an epic fail unless in a classroom environment where they are trying to produce certain language.

Language is changing and you will see more and more borrowing from English. There's nothing wrong in that as it's an evolutionary process.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Well, isn't it lucky that the necessary equipment possessed by the Russians conveniently went missing? They had all the guidance tools but fiddled with things (the bulb issue). Polish navigation experts will show this when they get the next instalment from the black boxes.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Perła and Goolmans are both very underrated. Goolmans is like America's Miller. Ciechan is indeed good too. Ksiaź?? I think this is the name of it, it's good too. Karpackie :) Some of the cheaper ones are more than drinkable.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Couldn't accept them? I don't follow. They were leading them into areas known to accelerate the rate of descent and they didn't inform them of that. Look at the decline speed and distance covered and you'll see that they don't check out with regular aircraft descent ratios.

The critical point at 100m is where the distortion factor came in. The TAWS system wasn't activated until around 10:39:41 as the wavering and dragging air pockets didn't allow for an accurate reading before that. The instruments' calibration was offset by the 'jary' and to a material extent.

He could have diverted, that's true. In fact, if you had read Polish transcripts, you would have seen the important utterance, 'odchodzimy' (the 2nd pilot, the co-pilot). That clearly shows that they believed they were higher due to looking at the onboard instruments. However, Russian ATC well knew that they were falling at 8m per s as opposed to the normal 3.5 m/s. They saw, on their radars, the real position and the pilots saw the distorted one after the 'jary' effect. They kept telling them that all was ok, a blatant lie! He didn't go under, he was dragged under by the pulling power which gave him a false reading of his true position.

I think jary translates as 'air pockets'. They have a clear effect. Try ling.pl and read up on the effects they can have.

Well, have a look for that interview or even check it up through Google. The TAWS system works to varying degrees, depending on the terrain. They were in special terrain there and that altered its ultimate efficacy.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

The pilot took heed of all instructions from ATC. It is a simple matter and more aviation experts are realising it. The rate of descent was expedited by the pockets of air in the dips. There was no language barrier, just a shortage of info from the Russian side.