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A straight line, or more accurately, a great circle route, is nearly impossible for airliners to fly today. They have to follow a complex set of air corridors, known a "controlled airspace" where they are under air traffic control at all time. To get from point A to B, the pilot will fly from point to point in controlled airspace, not a straight line. Rarely do they venture outside controlled airspace, but sometimes weather forces them to do so. Of course they try to follow the shortest route between their origin and destination, but that is usually not a straight route.
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Is the air corridor from Barcelona to Northern German over the Alps? has anyone here flow that route or one similar?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I don't know the route this flight was supposed to take, I just wanted to point out that airliners do not always follow what we would consider a "straight line" to their destination.
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I get that I was wondering if anyone here had flow that or similar route
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I've flown several times from BCN to Frankfurt, Hannover and Munich and always I've used that route (or similar of course I'm not quite sure of the route followed by that plane, but I mean I've always flown the Alps).
I think airlines try to fly as far as possible from populated areas and therefore even it would be much easier to fly straight, they usually go through the sea a little bit and go inland near Marseille or Nice.
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thank you, that would tend to imply that it is a normal route
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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if you look further down you see a map with a straight line between Barcelona and Dusseldorf drawn on it and the flight path added, I know flight paths are always curves but these just seems to be excessive, it is like they wanted to avoid French Airspace as much as possible
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The straight line is something they have just photoshopped onto the map for quick reference. The map shown has been digitally warped to remove the effect of the curvature of the earth, so the straight line shown isn't how a straight path would appear in "real life", thus the flight path may appear less like the "straight line" path than it otherwise would. Nothing so far as indicated that the path was anything other than normal, but many have reported the altitude was not normal.
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I know that, its just it seems to be a big curve, bigger than I would have expected, if asked I would not have expected that a flight between Spain and northern Germany would fly across Switzerland, I am not saying there is anything fishy about it just unexpected
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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No problem, thought you were going to be one of those tedious bores who are no doubt already posting on the internet that the plane was brought down by "the government"
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I am not saying it was aliens but IT WAS ALIENS
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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... it was aliens who were sent by the government.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Horrible plane crash in French Alps
Such a shame it wasn't one of those "nice plane crashes"
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There are different degrees of horrible, and Captain Sullenberger's emergency landing of a plane (similar to this one, btw) on the Hudson River in 2009 - where all passengers were saved - was definitely a nicer plane crash than this one...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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what like that one in the US a couple of weeks ago where they all walked away?
I would prefer a nice one to a horrible one every time, much more chance of survival
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Take it to GIT, please...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Maybe England should send an actual team to the next one rather than 11 blokes they found in the local pub
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Don't be daft.
Eleven blokes found in a local pub can play better than the England team*.
* You can pick any sport to apply that to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed!!!!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Eleven blokes found in a local pub can play better than the England team*.
I'm not a cricket fan and I don't know who played whom, but my guess is that both winners and losers can now be found in a local pub.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Hello all,
I've been used to have a desktop and a laptop, it is wonderful for some things and a "nightmare" for other things.
Now I've changed my desktop and I'll have only a powerful Lenovo laptop and no desktop. the laptop is connected to a USB 3.0 Lenovo docking station.
I hope now I'll be able to find everything at the first attempt as no more sync folders will be needed... Only the laptop, the server and subversion.
Note:
I've chosen that USB based docking station because usually when I'm on the move the laptop lies in dirt tables and the bottom connector could become dirt.
In the docking station I've plugged:
1. USB mouse.
2. USB keyboard.
3. USB 3.0 HDD.
4. USB 3.0 DVD burner.
5. DVI 24" display.
6. DVI 24" display.
7. Audio speakers.
All in all I can see it working, but it is not as smooth as I would like to: mouse seems responsive, some keys are missed (but I'm not sure if the keyboard change is the reason for that, not me of course), ... but the thing that is not as smooth as it should be is when I move any window in the 24" displays: it is a little bit "jumpy".
I've downloaded:
- the latest DisplayLink drivers for Windows 7.
- the latest USB 3.0 host controller driver.
I've set the performance options in the laptop to be at full while on power.
Both things have improved a lot the behavior (before doing that the mouse was also jumping!).
Anyone here has faced this kind of thing and got a completely responsive device? if so... how have you done it?
And in case none of you have been here, what would you try?
As always thank you in advance!
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Are you saying that your displays are driven via USB?
USB 3 is 5Gb/s
DVI 4.95 Gb/s
You have 2 x dvi plus the rest - so there's no surprise performance is an issue!
Even assuming USB 3.1 (10Gb/s i) it's an obvious issue!
Of course, you're not necessarily using the full bandwidth (depends on screen resolution etc.) but still .. pushing it to the limits!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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