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You look in the aircraft's technical/aircrew manual. Some test pilot would have worked it out for you.


Are capital letters at the start of sentences optional nowadays?

Take it as you will. The first part of my answer was entirely serious. If you want to disregard it, feel free...

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It was a joke, and grammar, not spelling.


My heartfelt apologies for taking the time to bother to answer your question.

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Though your full stops seem rather sporadic it must be said.

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There is. Aside from the excessive use of exclamation marks in that post you also emitted the full stop from the previous one.

Dear me. They say the standard of teaching is going down.

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So thats why none of the other sites like us.

I've just eaten the last of the marmalade.... we'll have to use boiling Marmite instead

sorry, english isn't my first language. i really did think i asked for figures.

for the "other issue":
i wonder who's of age here anyway, because wise guy remarks about typing cutting out the original subject is usually the mark of teenie boards.

yeah well, i kinda thought i mentioned that method in my original post.
my question was if someone can give me the figures, either because he's been there and done that, or knows where i can find the figures of someone who's been there and done that, without me going out and buy a bunch of manuals that, even if the accuracy of the FS flight models is close enough, cost more money than i'm willing to spend on this hobby.

failing that, what other parameters are of relevance besides altitude (and here's the next question: "above sealevel", "pressure altitude", "density altitude"?) have to go into the algoritm to produce reliable and reproducable figures?

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I'd guess that the average member age here is near thirty. And even at that, I'd say that the maturity level those younger members is greater than their chronological age. Partly because the elder members try to keep the younger members on their toes; not only grammatically, but in general. Partly because the younger members return the favor and keep the old guys alert too.

When you visit a forum for the first time; even forgetting that your first impression is made by what (if any) pride you take in displaying your words/thoughts... it's always a good idea to respect the standards of that forum.

If a person would put as much effort into using proper grammar, and trying to spell correctly, as they do complaining about having it pointed out to them... everything would be ...... Oh nevermind  

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if it would have been "pointed out to me" i might have given it an effort. as it is, some residents having fun on the expense of an outsider, i don't see any reason why i should.

what this looks like is a closed group telling each other to be better than anyone else. that is no "high maturity level".
and since i still didn't get an answer that goes beyond rephrasing my original post, not as knowledgable as they like to think they are either.

but never fear, in the meantime i found a board where there's people who actually know what they doing.

you're right, it wasn't pompous, it was patronizing. and the "huge joking smiley" didn't make it any less insulting. and i wasn't talking about you alone, but the whole bunch of playground bullies that joined in.
a good sign of maturity is awareness of the line between humor and insult, and at least rough knowledge where it is.
another sign of maturity is the ability to see one has crossed the line, perhaps accidently, and to give a sincere appology, not one that is meant to justify the insult.

and you propably wouldn't find it strange at all if you'd at least tried to look at it from the other side.

well, kid, in that case you should stop acting like one.
anyways, greetings to the rest of the playground gang, i'm outa here

Wha?

Did that just happen?


Hm. The fact that SimFly had no luck with his very specific request elsewhere- forcing him to venture through the gauntlet of English-language textbook-wielding "bullies"here at the Big V-  suggests to me that he found no luck elsewhere. What did he expect? Some uber-geek sitting amongst piles of empirical flight test data for every FS model ever loaded, ready to dispense tidbits of wisdom upon request?
And for f*ck's sake, he already had published results to start from...

It's a doggone sim; you have to experiment yourself to discover things like that about these models.

Something tells me he was just spoiling for a debate or something... I can't understand why some people bother doing that. Life's too short...

And about the caps and periods: let's all bear in mind that I'm a lousy typist and often too busy to proofread (my own posts) most of the time, okay?
Seeing as how I am an incredible overbearing snob like all the rest of you, I think some allowance might be made... please don't pick on me!!

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No, no... it's a perfectly acceptable colloquialism... as if dazed, you see... refer to "Woppen?"...

Having seen and read a great deal of the recorded history on Nazis, I would really hesitate to refer to anyone as a Nazi or Hitler unless it is a truly horrendous act.  By referring to folks who may be sticklers on some subjects as Nazis really cheapens what the real Nazis did.  If there really were "spelling Nazi" around many of us would have been shipped off already.

Also as someone who has always struggled with spelling and grammar I would hate to see someone chased off after being embarrassed by their spelling or grammar.  To constantly belittle someone with poor spelling and/or grammar has the effect of silencing their voice and discounting their thoughts and ideas.

Skwang

The top is after I spellchecked the bottom before, I know I have a weakness in spelling I use tools to compensate.

www.spellcheck.net works pritty good.

Having seen a great deal of the recorded history on Nazis, I would really hesitate to refer to anyone as a Nazi or Hitler unless it is a truely horendies act.  By refering to folks who may be sticklers on some subjects as Nazis really cheapins what the real Nazis did.  If there really were "spelling Nazi" around many of us would have been shipped off already.

Also as somone who has always struggled with spelling and gramer I would hate to see somone chaised off after being embaressed by their spelling or grammer.  To constantly bellitlle somone with poor spelling and/or grammer has the effect of silencing their voice and discounting their thoughts and ideas.

Skwang

I didn't want to say anything....

Sorry, I hate to necro post, but if there is one thing I hate more than necro posting, its when mommy and daddy fight...