6 reported slain at Lockheed Martin facility in Mississippi

[Bertie the Bunyip]

"Tarver Engineering" <jta...@sti.net> wrote in
news:3f13...@news.sti.net:

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> "Bertie the Bunyip" <s@s.s> wrote in message
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>> "Tarver Engineering" <jta...@sti.net> wrote in
>> news:3f13...@news.sti.net:
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>> >
>> > "skygodtj" <skyg...@br549.com> wrote in message
>> > news:3F130809...@br549.com...
>> >> Tarver Engineering wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > "skygodtj" <skyg...@br549.com> wrote in message
>> >> > news:3F13022D...@br549.com...
>> >> > > Tarver Engineering wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > "skygodtj" <skyg...@br549.com> wrote in message
>> >> > > > news:3F12FB43...@br549.com...
>> >> > > > > Tarver Engineering wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > > >
>> >> > > > > > It is the data link that had me thinking TG was not a
>> >> > > > > > 757 pilot.
>> >> > > > >
>> >> > > > > Who is TG? Tell us smart guy, what is this data link you
>> >> > > > > keep
>> >> > professing?
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Oh, TJ.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > You might want to look up the fourth generation VDL4, as
>> >> > > > that is
>> > where
>> >> > it is
>> >> > > > hoped that ICAO will adopt the VHF digital radio standard.
>> >> > > > The 757
>> > is
>> >> > the
>> >> > > > demonstration vehicle for the data link. Large airlines
>> >> > > > like
>> > American
>> >> > use
>> >> > > > the data link to program their FMS systems and pass written
>> >> > > > messages
>> > to
>> >> > the
>> >> > > > crew. A similar system was demonstrated for aging DC-9-83s
>> >> > > > in
>> >> > conjunction
>> >> > > > with LAAS at Continental.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Ah, so the fact that we type in routings makes us unsafe?
>> >> > > Canned
>> > routes
>> >> > stored
>> >> > > IN the FMC would be grouped in the same way as being unsafe
>> >> > > huh?
>> >> >
>> >> > I did not wrote the word "unsafe" TJ.
>> >>
>> >> LESS SAFE. Means less THAN SAFE. Either the operation is safe,
>> >> or its
>> > less
>> >> safe. What did you mean then?
>> >>
>> >> > > Large airlines like Ameriflot are PARKING airplanes and firing
>> >> > employees(all
>> >> > > TWA, but thats another thread).
>> >> >
>> >> > TWA employees have a lot of bad karma.
>> >> >
>> >> > > Of course you wouldnt know this, but we HAVE ACARS, have HAD
>> >> > > ACARS and
>> > USED
>> >> > > ACARS for the last two years on ALL our airplanes, 37's, 57's
>> >> > > and the
>> > Bus's.
>> >> >
>> >> > But TJ, you went into great detail about how America West
>> >> > doesn't use
>> > the
>> >> > data link!!
>> >>
>> >> Hey Mumbles, what you call data link everyone else calls ACARS, IF
>> >> you had
>> > said
>> >> ACARS, then I wouldve told you. We dont use data link, we use
>> >> ACARS.
>> >
>> > Your apology is accepted again. See how easy that worked out?
>> >
>> > Keep in mind in the future that ACARS is just one unit in an entire
>> > system, where a portion of it is ground based (ie VDL), and part of
>> > it is Satellite based. (Inmarsat) The ACARS is just a router
>> > switch and not the system itself.
>>
>> So, you gonna explain why it makes thngs safer fjuckwit?
>
> I don't need to explain why automation makes common carriers safer,

Of course you don't

Bertie