[Info-vax] OT: Aircraft pitot tubes and clustering.

[Peter Weaver]

>  I found out how big a "little" A-10 is one day when I taxied a
>  Tomahawk in front of one.  He could have fired his gatling gun and
>  missed me because as a chin mount is was that much higher than my
>  tail.

Even way more off topic, non-pilots can skip this one.

I have 86.8 hours in Tomahawks, they were the primary trainers when I
started flying but the club sold them off years ago because so many
instructors hated flying them. I'm sure that an A-10 would look huge if you
are in a plane next to them. Size is all a matter of perspective.

If you can then try to watch a Canadian Discovery Channel series call
"JetStream" (http://www.discoverychannel.ca/jetstream). There is one section
where the instructors are teaching the CF-18 students about formation flying
and one CF-18 banks off to the side. The instructor in the plane staying
straight said "Look at that, that plane is ** huge!"

I'm not one to watch any reality show and even when watching standard TV I
usually spend more time working on a computer and/or reading something. But
when JetStream started I was glued to the TV, my wife said that she never
saw me watch anything like that. One student described how he felt coming
out of GLOC and that was the first time I ever heard anyone else describe it
like that. His comments brought back a lot of memories since he described
exactly the way I felt when I messed up a slow roll and blacked out. It took
me a shakes of my head before I realized that I was flying an airplane.


Peter Weaver
http://www.weaverconsulting.ca
Winner of the OpenVMS.org Readers' Choice Award for System
Management/Performance
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