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Again, apples and oranges. You're not directly converting electricity into "cooling" like some kind of a reverse heater. That's why you don't hear AC vendors talk about their units being "85% efficient" and instead talk about more esoteric measurements like "SEER". If you want to look at home...

That is reasonable to approximate the performance of an electric heater, which is converting electrical energy to heat energy. That is not reasonable for your application. Because of the laws of physics (entropy), you can't directly convert electricity to cooling like you can to heating...

The pilot should have known that, yes. Did any of the passengers understand that risk? Should they have been expected to?

??? There is zero evidence to support this. No such options were ever made available. I've not heard that any option to stay with a lower barrier than "heroic effort" was available to them. We have no idea what they would have done if they could have walked next door and slapped down a...

Sure, I get unsolicited marketing phone calls all the time. Like most folks, I tell 'em, "Not interested," and if they keep talking, I just hang up on 'em. I'm not a jerk, but I'm also not overly polite about it. Life's too short to be bothered by unsolicited callers. Recently, I've noticed...

In hindsight, knowing that everyone died, it is obvious that just about any other decision, including sleeping on the cold hard ground under the stars or calling random strangers and begging for help, would have been a better decision. At the time, with a bunch of folks all thinking that they...

OK. But is that really a thing, or did Tripletek's marketing guy just catch your attention by adding that word when it's not really meaningful?

I've never seen "sustained" in a spec sheet, nor have I ever come across a mobile device that seemed to have "temporary surge max brightness" behavior. Is this really a thing?? Of course I've seen devices that have adaptive brightness that adjusts the screen to compensate for ambient lighting...

I'm an Android-only guy and have been using iFly EFB since before it was a tablet app. I fly a Cherokee 180. An 8" tablet is probably the best compromise between "big enough to read a whole approach chart" and "small enough to not block the panel too much", though I have most recently opted...

More generally, no other country except Mexico and The Bahamas recognize Basic Med, so that's an issue if you want to fly internationally outside of those areas.

I didn't say he was dumb. I didn't say he wasn't capable of accomplishing amazing things. He might be great at 6D chess. My point is that the parameters he has control over running SpaceX or Tesla are very different from the parameters he has control over re: the federal government. Being a...

Musk gets a lot of credit for his successes, and he deserves it--SpaceX and Tesla were both bold endeavours that have succeeded despite critics' predictions of failure. But take off the fanboy glasses and step back and look at his broader set of endeavors, and he is not batting 1.000. Twitter...

Yup. "Private enterprise will always do it better" is a fallacy. Example: https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-contractor-aramark-endangered-visitors-19449430.php

There's already a link to the rules at the bottom of every page no matter where you are in the forum:

Yes, of course it is.

That's not what the prelim says. It says, "Information provided by the flight school indicated that the responding airplane was not operated by the flight school and belonged to an acquaintance of the owner of the flight school." The flt school owner calling a buddy with a plane and asking him...

Perhaps you could provide an example of a complete set of rules that will never be subject to interpretation ever again.

If rules could be written such that there was no interpretation required, there would never have been such a thing as a "lawyer". It's unrealistic to think that moderation rules can ever be so clear cut that every situation is instantly agreed to by everyone involved.

It might, but at 10 years old it might also not be up-to-date.

I wonder how that compares to forum participation broadly. I think there is a general decline in forum participation overall. I'm not entirely sure if anything's replacing it, though at least for a while comparable/complementary Facebook sites were seeing far more engagement compared to their...