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8 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]

Help me here, I don't understand what the OP meant by 'belong'. Like the Italians belong in US, for example? More? Less? Nicaraguans?
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2 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Polish pilot, who was the champion, the best and most experienced on TU -154 and did not commit those errors , which they blamed him for . It is clear his intention was not to land

Now here is the indisputable evidence that having this discussion here is a useless exercise in futility.
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2 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Every aviation accident is widely discussed all over the international aviation community, since often we share the same equipment, airports and planes.
BTW, at my company I passed around the pictures and translated the legend for the Russian autopilot that was on the TU-154 to our pilots, and we all learned something.

Yes, the conditions at the Smolensk airport were pretty primitive, that's why the lack of preparation by the Polish crew, or trying to land in the fog, was so much more damning.

The ones that can separate the business of flying a plane from cantankerous Polish-Russian history and politics, know what happened now. Agencies of both countries got their recommendations. I hope they follow them, and the conspiracy theorists - you just carry on, embarrassing yourselves.

BTW, if you look, I'm sure you can find like minded people on the internet and save everyone, including yourselves, a lot of time and aggravation here.
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1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

that the Russians have committed just as many unforgivable mistakes, it is difficult for you

like I tell my child: do not look for blame with others if you could have changed the outcome yourself.
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1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

I'm pretty sure we've been following it all along. That is the 2nd thread there about that crash, I believe. The first one was closed because the idiot conspiracy theorists started spouting their garbage there.
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1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

The YAK captain should be jailed as well. That was a big clue that the problem is systemic and not a one-off fluke

I agree here as well. I had an impression that there was an undercurrent of cocky fly-boy attitude, most probably from the military side.
The interractions between the cockpit and the tower made me feel very uneasy. At work (in the US), we always have the radio on, listening to the exchanges between the tower and the pilots, so I've heard a lot of them. What I heard from Smolensk, was very different. So I listened many, many times looking for explanation of what I was hearing, but I could not find enough excuses - Poles were obviously and off-handedly dissing the Russians - not very proffecional when you have 100 people on board. For me - unheard of.

That's why the contiued Russian bashing is so worrysome to me, there is so much more to be fixed on Polish side..
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1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Ordinary Poles too know that the report is non-credible.

With that one sentence I lost the whatever was left of my respect for you, nomad.
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1 Aug 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

I know why people are concentrating on what the russians might have done wrong. Because it's too painful to look at the man in charge, and his navigator.

Quote, page 132 of the final report.
Because the Regiment's documentation and the pilot's Pilot/Navigator Logbook are
short of an entry that he passed the check ride (oral exam and a flight test) on Tu-154M, it is
evident that under RL-2006 § 13 item 6, on 10.04.2010 the pilot had no recencies to
navigate the Tu-154M aircraft. ...
...
...
The navigator had not his navigational skills checked on Tu-154M aircraft.

They had no bussiness flying that plane.
mswia.datacenter-poland.pl/FinalReportTu-154M.pdf
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31 Jul 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Especially with tragedies, we stubbornly cling to give them more meaning than just what it was: a mistake, oversight, a decision that could have been made many times without much notice, until one day when cosmic law bunches few of them together and changes the world. It could have been just that, no?
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31 Jul 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

It is very, very rare that you can convince somebody on the internet forum, that they are wrong. I don't even try any more. The most you can do is express your opinion, the rest is hardly worth the aggravation.

But, I do wish Monia would listen to reason and free herself..
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30 Jul 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

They shouldn't have been using the radio altimeter at all, but rather the barometric one.[/quote]
dang, you're right, they were watching radalt and thought they were closer to the runway than they were.
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30 Jul 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

the plane`s height

pilots should have been reading their own altitude.
And you can't have it both ways; if they were relaying on controllers information, they should have diverted and not tried to land in the fog.
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29 Jul 2011
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

The conclusions:

Russians made serious mistakes which could be of certain importance.

It's interesting that this is the one you put forth first, while the report lists 3 much more damaging causes first... But I do understand. Seems like almosr everyone would have been relieved if more fault was found with the russians.
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27 Jul 2011
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

It may not be that easy for Poland, but predicting weather is a fascinating science, and not all that difficult with all the satellite loops, trade winds, streams, fronts data etc available on the internet. Anyone tried?

Florida is probably too easy: if it's summer, it will rain inland in the afternoon, and watch for those low pressure zones.
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27 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

anyone who is not doing exactly the same...

oh, really? You mean Polish people do not walk up in front of others anymore? Or are you one of those enjoying "jumping" the line?
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22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

LOL - a scowl.
I think there are basically two approaches to strangers: as an optimist or as a pessimist. Polish people certainly have enough reasons not to assume that everyone they meet has their best interests at heart. But also, and more importantly, once they know you, they honor frienship to a fault.