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Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
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peterweg   
30 Apr 2010
News / Brown's 'Bigotgate' and the debate about Poles [63]

Poland, CZ anD SVK will always be central European countries.

When you divide something into two there is no third part, its east or west, left or right.

What about west of it? Was DDR a western society? ;)

It was behind the Iron curtain, therefore East.
peterweg   
30 Apr 2010
News / Brown's 'Bigotgate' and the debate about Poles [63]

When will all the ignorant retards learn that Poland is, was and always will be a Central
European Country, together with Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia. Switzerland,
Slovenia and Hungary?

Good luck with that fantasy. The term is not geographic its political.

There is no central Europe, only East and West. Nobody in the UK refers to any of those countries as 'central', the dividing line was the Berlin wall anything east of it was Eastern Bloc/communist and now ex-communist bloc.

Eastern Germany was in the East and Austria was non-aligned. Czech Republic, Slovakia are ex-communist and Switzerland is neutral.

2) ? The Polish resettlement act of 1947 was intended for dislocated Polish troops WITHIN Britain. It was meant as a thank you from the British government for the huge Polish contributions to the war efforts. (which makes the entire discussion about the ungrateful British towards the Poles a useless one).

A thank you... right... ********.

The real reason (as documented at that time) was:

we shafted you and now we can't send you back to imprisonment under communism, in fact we can't force you back as you are armed to the teeth and neither the British Army or its officers would obey an order to force the Poles back. The UK was also desperate for workers, German POW's were forced into labour and not repatriated either for YEARS - some chose to stay.

The UK was so desperate for manpower they even recruited my friends Italian father by offering a job at the docks in Palermo - work as a coal ripper for 7 years and you get the citizenship.
peterweg   
30 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Help for Poles based in Uk who want to go bankrupt [18]

Brilliant... so not only do they put up the cost of UK housing and drive down UK workers wages, but we have to pick up the tab for their bankruptcy as well! Don't you just LOVE the policies of the EUSSR?

No, actually this would be positive for the UK economy and bad for the Polish economy. EU citizens can get out of their Polish debts by paying a UK company.
peterweg   
26 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

that his property is worth so and so (of course more) he will believe you, if you tell him it has crashed you will be his worse enemy.

Its a human mentality, everywhere is the same.
peterweg   
21 Apr 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

"A bomb? You know, it's possible but how and from where? You can rule out the idea that it was pre-planted as you don't know where the plane was going to crash"

You set a bomb to explode at high altitude so you guarantee a complete kill and maximise the explosive power in a pressurised vessel.

You don't set it to explode within 30 seconds of landing becuase the plane is virtually certain to survive it as as the passenger, especially if the plane arrives 2 minute early.
peterweg   
15 Apr 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]

Even more interesting, the flight engineer and the navigator were definately lacking in the experience dept. The navigator had 59h in type, and the flt engineer had 300h TT.

Via Pprune

Interesting USA Today article on the aircraft's avionics. It states that it was equipped with a TAWS, which should have warned the pilot about ground proximity, and helped him avoid the trap of rising ground on the approach..

Device spurs questions in Polish crash - usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-04-13-fog-plane-crash-poland_N.htm

A few quotes of interest:

Quote:
If the safety device was working properly, it would be the first such crash of an aircraft equipped with the system since its introduction in the late 1990s.

Quote:
"I really would like to know what was going on in that flight deck because no matter what kind of pressure other pilots have been under or what kind of weather they encountered, no pilot has ignored a TAWS warning. What is so different about this plane that it would break that chain?" Cox said.

Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, said that the crash may highlight a weakness in the TAWS. Maps of the U.S. and other developed nations are highly accurate, but gaps exist in the maps for countries such as Russia and in the developing world, Voss said.
peterweg   
15 Apr 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]

From PPrune

Google translator, slightly polished up, from the Russsian forum:

Rarely speak at the forum, but then grieved. So many put forward the most featured version, a shot from the satellite for me personally, put things in order.
I do not know if there is Instrument landing system, or just a drive...

peterweg   
14 Apr 2010
Travel / Stag Parties in Kraków [119]

Ahh, sad English guys jealous of Poles coming to the UK and stealing their jobs and women, so they take out their frustration on line.

I think you will notice, I didn't say people aren't allowed to do that. I just said that there is no point.

To you there might be no point, but everyone is free to decide what they want out of travelling. Visiting every church in Poland maybe someone's idea of a holiday, but to me it would be as pointless as staying in a hotel bar.
peterweg   
13 Apr 2010
Travel / Stag Parties in Kraków [119]

But there is no point coming to a different country and then doing exactly the same as you would at home.

Why not? free planet.

Having said that, I haven't met a single person who isn't Polish in the six months I've been in Krakow.
peterweg   
13 Apr 2010
News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

Latest information about investigation (must read):

Certainly the Russians are jumping the gun with claiming there was no technical issue with the plane and the claim that they didn't understand Russia is suspect becuase they could have been very busy dealing with a problem and finding the airport so speaking to ATC could have been a low priority.

But the fact is they attempted to land in fog after being warned not too and were aware that there was no ILS - thats not a the Russians fault.
peterweg   
12 Apr 2010
News / Will todays tragedy effect the economy of Poland? [34]

foreign investors will think twice to invest. So this can affect the economy.

Thats utter garbage.

Bloomsberg, probably the second most important business news source after Reuters says,

"The momentum that's been generated over the past few days is just astounding," said Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, who heads Othago, a Warsaw-based consultancy that helps firms do business in former Soviet Union countries. "It means the possibility of doing serious business with Russia and breaking the mold of 20 years of strained relations."

bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109

Economically, this is very good news for Poland, which was already in line for a major boom.
peterweg   
12 Apr 2010
News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

1) According to the information provided by the traffic controller on the ground and regardless of the fog, this should have been a routine landing. Planes land without an incident in such, or worst conditions each and every day.

Its not routine to land at a military airport without navigation aids to allow landing in bad weather. Minimum visibility to land was 1000m - it was between 150m and 400m when they attempted to land

2) The Polish crew was top notch. You don't get to fly the presidential plane unless you are absolutely best at what you do.

Maybe but they were flying a aircraft where the options to get a lot of experience was limited. They had a lot of experience considering the aircraft type, but they had very little experience compared to most commercial flights. Basically they were relatively in-experienced less than 2000hours versus 20,000 hours for many commercial pilots.

2) Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of geopolitics and/or linguistics will tell you that Polish pilots do speak Russian very well. If anything else, the Russian numbers were certainly NOT of any challenge to them, and most certainly were not, as described by the air traffic controller a "black magic" to the crew.

To fly the 154 requires Russian language proficiency - its part of the training. So yes they must have been proficient in Russian.

3) The instrumentation on that plane was labeled in Russian - wouldn't you think that you have to know the language in order to read the instruments?

See above.

4) A descend path of any landing plane is based on its calculated ALTITUDE

Do you mean altitude relative to the airport, or sea level? And it depends on air pressure which varies with the weather. Russia uses a different system for altitude to some countries. This is potentially a source of confusion.

5) The plane landed or was guided by an air traffic controller who DID NOT know (and admitted to it) what the altitude of the plane that was landing was.

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The pilot flies the aircraft, not ATC. The airport wasn't equipped to give altitude information - which is reason why they suggested diverting. The 154 pilot stop providing altitude information to ATC which made their further assistance impossible.
peterweg   
12 Apr 2010
News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

From what we know, ATC offered up Moscow as an alternate due to weather conditions.

"Crashed Tu-154 crew offered three alternate airports Minsk and Vitebsk - as well as Moscow Vnukovo"

flightglobal.com/articles/2010/04/11/340492/crashed-tu-154-crew-offered-three-alternate-airports.html

CVR and Flight recorder have complete data right to point of impact.
peterweg   
12 Apr 2010
News / Will todays tragedy effect the economy of Poland? [34]

having these important people in the power and now since they are not there it can affect polish economy tremendously.

As sad as the deaths of so many people are, I cannot see how it would make any difference to the Polish economy. Most were military or Politicians who have little economic impact by their absence. Military staff would be most missed in war time, politicians are easily replaced. The biggest impact will be the close of business in mourning.
peterweg   
11 Apr 2010
News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

Russian shouldnt have been used when it is not an international language.

Standard to use when flying into a military airport.

Of more relevance is the shocking lack of flight hours of the Polish Pilot - less than 2000 hours. Most civilian pilots need 15000 plus hours before being considered for a captains job.

35000 to 45000 hours is common for commercial airline pilots and they don't fly into very difficult airports like Smolensk.

One item of speculation is that while the pilot could tell Kaczynski (or his aides) to get lost, it's a whole different matter if the head of the Air Force tells you to do so

No, after the Georgian incident it was made clear that the pilots was ALWAYS in command of the aircraft

The fact that the Russians came very quickly out to declare there to be no technical reason for the crash is very telling, I think.

Yes, there was no technical reason for the crash
peterweg   
10 Apr 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]

Pilots very seldom make such errors and I doubt that the wing behaved in the way that they said it did.

Pilots very seldom make such errors and I doubt that the wing behaved in the way that they said it did.

Pilots make many many mistakes and landing in fog is one of them. TU154 is dangerous aircraft as well, although thats relative.

Why did they have a presidential plane? even thats an expense too far for the UK
peterweg   
9 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

What every you want to believe if it makes you happy. Personally I have no intention to take part in the worlds biggest drugs test.

You completely missed my irony,

You thought you were being ironic, infact you were simply stating the truth.

Hilfiger polo shirts in Poland cost over 300zl.

The cost and true worth of a 'designer' shirt like that is $5. The difference in price is purely down to how much a sucker is willing to pay in order to feel like he showing his/her superiority. So in Heathrow people flying from Europe's most expensive airport obviously feel rich and like to demonstrate that while trapped in the high security departure lounge/shopping mall. In Poland there is obviously a snob value attached to a shirt that costs 300zl, but thats very typical of the Nouveau riche.

In the US it was pointed out to me that Hilfiger was tasteless tat and it was sold dirt cheap in discount warehouses.

The cost of designer clothes in different countries bears no relation to anything.
peterweg   
9 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Do you speak English? Have you lived in America? New LOVE/HATE list......... [144]

My Polish wife agrees 100% and can't believe she ran away from communism only to see it rear it's ugly head over here.

Right wing nutjobs like you are why America has fallen so much into disrepair as a country.

What you conveniently forget is that Republican presidents have borrowed massively to fund military expansion and Democrats are the ones who reduce the deficit. Bush set up TARP, lets not forget as well as being responsible for the economic bubble that caused it.

You talk about 'social healthcare' being Obama's socialism, yet the US is already paying 16% of its GDP for healthcare and how more communistic can you get than that?

And remember the Project for a New American Century? Neocons plan to continue the American Empire took less than a decade to end America's sole super power status. Well done.

inspired mostly because people on this forum talk constantly about America, yet not only have they not lived and worked there, often times they've never even BEEN there. not a day.

Been there a dozen times, worked there and work with American's every day as customers and employee's. I've also been to 30 other countries and the US is definitely in the bottom three worst places to visit or live. Taiwan is the worst, followed by Dubai then has to come the US - the place is revolting.
peterweg   
9 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

The US is terrible. As he so rightfully points out. the food is crap.

Glad you agree.

What you are probably ignorant about though is that food in America is not the same as in other countries. American 'meat' and fish is pumped up with chemicals and bulkers to inflate its physical size without any reguard to its taste. GM, chemically altered and coloured food is the norm. You want rotten Tuna that looks fresh - there is a chemical for that (banned in the EU) .

So in the US you get 'high end eateries' that sell tasteless meat and fish presented in an expensive and impressive manner that have no taste whatsoever. In the US cheapness is the most important aspect, taste doesn't exist.

"I really have no idea why people still live there, and I can't even come close to comprehending why so many people from all over the world want to go there. The place is a wasteland. Somalia's better."

Very few people from western countries do want to go to the US, the EU has bigger problems that the US with third world illegal immigrants.

You may have a point about Somalia.
peterweg   
8 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

Sounds like you don't get out much.

Well, I've spend months in the US, eating out in NYC, Californian and Texas. 99% of the food was bulked up by volume, processed crap. Even expensive NYC restaurants were all show and little taste. Quality in the US is actually defined by size not taste.

The 1% exception was a Sacramento old town Mexican restaurant that was truly memorable, even though I was the only customer at the time, the food was superb.
peterweg   
8 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

really??

Yes, really.

Food is tasteless crap, the people are idiots, the scenery is cookie cutter national chain stores in every little town. Its depressing as hell.

Minimum wages is half most European countries and the populations health (and healthcare) is terrible.
peterweg   
6 Apr 2010
Life / DVB-T in Krakow [4]

telewizja-cyfrowa

There is a switch over timetable and forum to discuss it.

Quite frankly, DVB-T in Poland is a joke, analogue is due to switched off completely in three years yet you cannot receive a digital signal in the vast majority of the country. Parts of Poland is supposed to switch over this year.

Krakow had a 'test' transmission which has now been switched off.

As of last Tuesday, 13 digital channels are operating in Krakow.

Mux-3 went live with mainly TVP channels, its low power only 2KW against 100KW for Mux-2.

Here is the timetable for the rest of the country

emitel.pl/telewizja/naziemna-telewizja-cyfrowa-dvb-t/harmonogram-wdrazania-mux-3

Mux-1, goes live 31st may 2012 in Krakow.

emitel.pl/telewizja/naziemna-telewizja-cyfrowa-dvb-t/harmonogram-wdrazania-mux-1

Its like 1999 in the UK, makes me all nostalgic.
peterweg   
6 Apr 2010
Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [74]

Wildlife in Poland has not been hunted to extinction, far from in. On my farm herds of deer, flocks of pheasants and Hare are very common, more than daily sights. Hunters feeds the wild boar and deer in winter. Pheasants are reared in massive numbers then released (only 20% of the farm reared Pheasants are shot the rest fall to natural predators). Hunters have to pay a fee for every animal they kill - Hare cost 75zl for instance.

Dogs can be shot if they are more than 150m away from a house without a collar; not nice but they are dangerous themselves.