Travel / Stag Parties in Kraków [119]


Me too, I'm a White Sox fan.

News / Kaczynski to be buried at Wawel ?! [289]


Alright, do a test. Head over to the guys standing around drinking in front of the corner shop...ask them what they thought about Kaczynski, I'm sure you'll get glowing praise. Even a week ago.

We foreigners are making observations. I guess that's hard to swallow for people wrapped up in their politics. Anyway, yea, I'm a lefty, real far off to the left... There is a different between being a true conservative and being a populist nationalist. Huge difference. That is probably the reason for his approval ratings before he died, as well as why PiS lost the elections. God, honor, and homeland are all good, but fix the f*cking roads. How about making it easier to do business? NFZ reforms anyone?

Not saying that PO is doing any better of a job, but the race to the bottom isn't all that impressive.

Kaczynski would quickly get vicious when it came to politics, Lech was at least more reserved there compared to his brother. If you don't agree with someone politically, denounce them!

Anyway, for you and the 20% of Poles who still supported Kaczynski, I'm sorry for your loss. I think he was a good guy, believed in what he said, wasn't that great of a statesman and in the end didn't really get much done for the average Pole.

There is a reason the church attendance is on the decline. People are moving from the countryside to the cities and realizing that the Church isn't the only social club around, and their neighbors won't ostracize them for not being there. Politically, it's probably the wrong horse to hitch up to if you want to reflect the changing attitude here.

Anyway, I will keep blurting out what I think, even if you don't agree with it. Maybe if I changed my tone and supported your political position, you might not have an issue with me voicing my opinion?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Both wore black pants.

Bizarre. What's the opposite of blowing someone's mind?


...or emergency bucket lighting.

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Well, some Polish people. That's one of the reasons he was fairly decisive and ended up becoming an unpopular president.


You would never hear a bad word uttered from the guys that hang out in front of corner shop. Possibly his most ardent supporters. They seem to buy into populism and nationalism even quicker than most people.

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Lets say that visibility is 500ft, that means the crew has a little under 2 seconds to react to things ahead of it when traveling at 270kph, which is around the approach speed.


For a non precision approach, this was well thick enough. With your 30 ft, you'll have plenty of time to react to things in front of you.

anyway, g'night

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You don't assume anything. You have charts, and you plan your approach before you take off.

The gunshot clip from earlier.
youtube.com/watch?v=-v59q5Vyp8o

Obviously clearing up, but still way too low for an NDB approach.

This shows some pretty thick soup as well.


No clue, but they were in Katyn, so they probably had access to a window. Are there any reports by Polish eye witnesses that the weather was good?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


It is ridiculously expensive to put an ILS in place. There are quite a few airports here in Poland without an ILS.


Reason enough for the IL to return to Moscow after a pair of approaches.

There was also video shot at the crash site showing very low ceilings.

For the fog not to work, you'd have to make sure that all 300k people in Smolensk played along, as well as all the Poles that were there (including a gaggle of journalists).

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Or...it's exactly as reported. The "we are all at fault" sounds like they wished they would have closed the airport...which would have caused a sh*t storm due to the current state of international relations. Could you imagine the response from Kaczynski? Just imagine that for a second.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


I think they will wait until the dead have been laid to rest. Hopefully they will wait until the full report comes out. Anything that will be released now will be purely what happened, not why it happened...and that will mean that the full brunt will be on the pilot instead of the organization as a whole (and the impact of international relations on the jobs of ATC, etc).


What would the benefit be to Russia to make a martyr out of a President who was nearing the end of his term and about to be sent home?

News / Kaczynski to be buried at Wawel ?! [289]


Apparently.

Exodus 21:15

He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Psalm 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

But you know, you're free to pick and choose, unless you're a Catholic. The Council of Trent has already made it clear that you can't pick and choose. Maybe a good conversation to have on a Sunday afternoon.

Just out of curiosity, how do you keep the Sabbath holy?

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And what a scandal it would have been. This is one of the side effects of mistrust :(

News / Kaczynski to be buried at Wawel ?! [289]


Deuteronomy 7:3-4

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

2 Chronicles 15:12-13

And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, but that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

Forgiveness and mercy work sometimes, other times there are explicit instructions to kill people for mistakes.


The representatives of the military on that flight have done quite a bit to make the Polish military the capable force it is today.

History / Polish-Moroccan mutual relations [67]


Often not visible, especially from the ground.

History / Polish-Moroccan mutual relations [67]

For some reason in Germany the restriction is 10,000 ft....

History / Polish-Moroccan mutual relations [67]

And on a side note, do you think the King would have flown?

History / Polish-Moroccan mutual relations [67]


What happens if you hit IMC, you can't get on top of it... What happens if you do hit ash? It does eventually come down.


So you would have been in the "at least the pilot was safe" camp?

History / Polish-Moroccan mutual relations [67]

See Torq, and this is something that you support? This is exactly the stupid risk taking that leads people to die in aviation. I'm guessing you'd be in the "pilot was a coward" camp had he diverted and missed the Katyn ceremony.

News / Poland President National Mourning in Some Countries [212]


I would take the risk, I wouldn't accept that risk on behalf of my passengers.

News / Poland President National Mourning in Some Countries [212]


It's seriously horrible to read things like that, especially considering the reason for the season... Some Air Forces take risk very seriously and manage it at a different level than others.

I'll fly with the guys that err on the side of caution, thanks.

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The altimeter and the stopwatch are important :)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

What do you need explained? This is aviation 101.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


The approach is what matters, not the plane. Why would you need TAWS or a glideslope receiver for an NDB approach? These approaches only bring you down to a certain height above the runway, at which point you land the plane visually.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

You don't need TAWS. 99% of small GA planes don't have TAWS.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

I mean, it's obviously you don't know what you're talking about, but I'm really bored.

You don't need TAWS to land a plane.

You don't need a glide slope receiver to land a plane.

You first have to realize, that there are different types of instrument approaches.

avweb.com/news/system/183202-1.html

This is a good primer.

Each one of those approaches will have different minimums that you can fly down to. For an NDB approach, the minimums will be much higher than for an ILS

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Hi, I'm a CFI.

Edit: But not a very good one.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


TAWS doesn't help you land, it only keeps you from flying into the ground.

The plane would land just like any other non precision approach. You would fly the approach down to a certain height, and go missed if you didn't see the runway. You fly the glide slope based on your ground speed, rate of descent, and distance from a fixed point.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Can you provide any information on portable ILS? I've never seen one, and would be interested to know more. And if there was such a thing, would you trust it to bring your government officials in?

There was a published NDB approach.

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There was never a fixed ILS at Smolensk.


You'd still have to tamper with the GPS receivers, the radar altimeter, and the charts (or the altimeters). TAWS is not a single point of failure.

Love / Do Polish couples live together without being married? [18]


I guess in the same way that the other rules are broken.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


The last page has a nice cross section of the flight path and the terrain.


Likewise. I think that the big question that will need to be answered is why that decision was taken. Plenty of people have pointed out that these weren't newly minted pilots.