From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 05:39:44 PDT
Peoples driving habits beats anything I've ever seen, at least where I go.
NOBODY seems to know that when you come upon a multi lane roadway and make a
turn that the law requires you to make your turn and remain in the closest
lane to where you were UNTIL you can clearly check the traffic and THEN you
may make your signal and safely move over one lane at a time until you get
to where you want to be in traffic. That and the fact that NOBODY seems to
know what a STOP sign means,
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "dgrev" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] WWII DC3
> Jeff
>
>> The planes I rent have all the latest GPS, weather nav
>> garbage, personally I have no use for it. I like to
>> follow the landscape, roads, terrain, turn on the NDB
>> maybe, even try to avoid using VOR's but in a pinch I
>> will, Kinda scary flying commercial these days knowing
>> some young buck up there has his training from playing
>> nintendo!!
>
> I take it that in the US you have the same abreviations
> as we do (our system is based on yours) so when all else
> fails it's back to the basics:
>
> VFR = Visually Follow Roads.
>
> IFR = I Follow Roads.
>
> It certainly does make you wonder how the world will
> survive if there is ever an EMP pulse.
> Bang will go all the ground based nav aids. I have no idea if the
> satellites are hardened?
>
> The way things are these days, even your fridge and stove have electronics
> and will be fried!
> Same with Solargisers too.
>
> Of late, there appears to be a lot of ancillary military
> equipment (ie, base vehicles, computers etc) that are
> civilian spec. They won't be much good either.
>
> > Kinda scary flying commercial these days knowing
> > some young buck up there has his training from playing
> > nintendo!!
>
> There has been some stuff on TV of late that the Europeans
> have noticed that the Nintendo generation make for lousy
> drivers, not better ones. You don't get 3 lives in the real
> world. Thus they are having to start driver training in schools
> with lots of crash pics to get it through to the kids that cars
> are not "virtual" devices and do obey neutonian laws of motion.
> Not that anyone is taught history anymore........
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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