IFR Riddle....or question?

[Simon Says]

OK...Here goes...smart arses feel free to post as I know you already will.

You are IFR at night in IMC. Enroute you lose both your radios and your girlfriend borrowed your transceiver to chat it up with her (other) boyfriend on the side while you are away. You know the weather is very low but an ILS will get you into either your alternate or your primary airport. Lets just assume you cannot make it out of IMC within your fuel range.

Your primary and alternate airport has pilot controlled lighting. How do you turn the lights on at the airport?

 

[52560]

The switch that says LDG LTS, flip it to ON.

 

[gringo]

Easy... toss on the NVG's you keep in your flight kit just in case and land the airplane, DEA style!

Next question!


(Don't tell me you don't keep a pair of NVG's in your flight kit...)

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I'm a dork and should have logged out last-time.

Poor Simon.

 

[Simon Says]

Poor Simon.

No kidding, you should of seen what those guys did to my profile. And then the B.S the started on the regional site.....LOL.

I left the "should of logged out last time" up for a reminder to log out of company computers.

 

[FN FAL]

...Your primary and alternate airport has pilot controlled lighting. How do you turn the lights on at the airport?

Geeze, if the ATC calls the airport manager for you, they may have the lights on when you get there. Otherwise, fly the slope untill you see the touchdown zone markings and flare, it's an emergency. Don't fly around all night trying to figure out riddles, you'll only run out of fuel somewhere and wind up in creek bed or a patch of trees.

 

[SIG600]

Get out the cell phone...

 

[FN FAL]

Get out the cell phone...

That's what drunks would do:

Using cellphone as dangerous as driving drunk?


By Tom Avril
The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Drivers who talk on cellphones may be just as dangerous as those who drive drunk.

That's the conclusion of a study by University of Utah researchers who monitored 40 men and women on a driving simulator.

Drivers using hands-free phones were no better than those with the hand-held variety, confirming previous studies.

The peer-reviewed study is in the new issue of Human Factors, the journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, which promotes the study of how humans, machines and other devices interact most optimally.

The study was funded by a $25,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, which is interested in impaired attention in pilots, and by the researchers.

The findings represent a direct blow at a popular pastime taken for granted by millions of multitasking drivers.

At any given moment, 10 percent of drivers on U.S. roads are gabbing away on their wireless devices, according to a 2005 estimate by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Bad idea, said psychologist Frank Drews, one of the Utah study's authors.
"It's kind of almost unpredictable how they are driving," Drews said.

Drews and study co-author David Strayer said lawmakers might want to use the findings to consider outlawing cellphone use while driving.

When using cellphones, drivers had slower reaction times and more accidents, and they drove inconsistently, sometimes approaching other cars and then falling back, he said.

Cellular-industry officials acknowledge phones can be a distraction but said there are ways to use them sensibly. It is unfair to single out phones, said John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA — The Wireless Association, a trade group.

"I think there are just a multitude of distractions that are out there," Walls said. "And by focusing on just one, you're creating a false sense of security among people."

The cellphone industry has issued guidelines for drivers using the phones but maintains that under certain conditions, it is safe to talk and drive. Among the guidelines: place calls only when not moving, use a hands-free device and don't engage in stressful conversations.

In another recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, other distractions, such as applying makeup and reading, were found to be much more risky than talking on cellphones.

In the Utah study, cellphone use and alcohol caused participants to "drive" more erratically over the simulated 24-mile course, but in different ways.

Cellphone users were involved in more accidents and they took about 70 milliseconds longer to react when the car on the video screen in front of them hit the brakes, a delay during which a car traveling 55 mph would cover more than 5 feet.

When the drivers were drunk — with a blood-alcohol content of .08 — they followed other cars more closely and they braked 23 percent more forcefully, a potential problem for motorists behind them. They also had twice as many close calls as they did when sober, defined as stopping less than 4 seconds away from a collision.

The participants' level of drunkenness — equivalent to four drinks in an hour on an empty stomach for a 170-pound man — was verified with a breath monitor.

By one key measure, cellphone users were even worse than drunken drivers.
When talking on the phone the drivers had three accidents, but when they were drunk, they had none. The drivers also had no accidents when they were sober and not using phones.

Researchers said they were surprised the drunken drivers were accident-free. They urged people not to misconstrue the results as suggesting that drunken driving is safe; there is no question it is not. The authors speculated that the lack of drunken accidents may have been because the study was conducted during the morning, when participants were well-rested.

Because the drunken drivers followed too closely and had more close calls, they would be expected to have accidents over time, Drews said.

The only states to ban driving while talking on a hand-held cellphone are Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Washington, D.C., and some other communities have banned it, too.

Material from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is included
in this report.

 

[LarryinTN]

ATC is actually required to turn them on for you. It's in 7110.65.

 

[PA-44Typed]

Man, I thought we were going to bash “embry-RIDDLE”