In North America when I buy a GPS I can select North up as a direction.  Is your South up?  Always wondered about that.

Jim

CYWG

 

 

Our GPS, Aviation Charts and Nautical Charts and Road Atlas are all North Up as well.

 

What differs is things like buying property, North Facing has more value because you get more sun, in North America South Facing has more value because more sun. Sometimes foreign investors will buy South Facing here thinking it is a great deal and make that mistake.

 

North is always up and south is down, regardless.  That is why you get better gas mileage when driving south.

Further to my post...

 

All my aircraft are now flying on their side. Is this important ?

 

When they dump fuel, will it go sideways ?

 

Regards

Bill

 

Simple, Bill. Just turn your monitor sideways!

Thanks OP..Good laugh before bed. :smile:

Slot type player has a tiny whole for a paperclip, if things get stuck.

Then, why did they not make a drawer for the square plastic 3.5' stiffy drive's?

It was always fun pushing a stiffy into a slot!    :Big Grin:  

 

Floppies came before stiffies!  (5" & 8")

These days, at my age, it's more akin to forcing a marshmallow into a moneybox.

 

Jon

It's even got its own Wikipedia entry...

 

Off track, reading the Haynes glossary brought back a low grade panic like I used to experience before I was rich enough to pay someone else to break my car.

 

D

You finished with a great, one liner.

 

Jon

Simple, Bill. Just turn your monitor sideways!

It depends whether you've set your instruments to north up. Pork around until you get the instrument to do your bidding. Expletives definitely help. It'll probably need some sharp taps to smarten it up. If that doesn't work you could try flipping the monitor 180 degrees, then gravity would take over.

 

Jon

 

Jon

North is always up and south is down, regardless.  That is why you get better gas mileage when driving south.

North, is actually south, here, because we have all instruments set to north up to fool everyone in the the northern hemisphere. Australia is on the bottom of the world but we know the needle is actually pointing south. Pfffft. No brainer.

 

Jon

Robin, I had the hardest time finding a keyboard with the ubiquitous "Any" key...

 

True Story Time: Many decades ago while in Basic Training for the U.S. Army, I was assigned one day to run the buffer to polish the barracks' floor. When I plugged it in I discovered it wouldn't run.

 

So, being really familiar with electronics, I proceeded to troubleshoot the buffer to find and hopefully fix the problem. About fifteen minutes after I began, the Drill Sgt. came back to the barracks, took one look at me sitting on the floor with the buffer partly disassembled, and R O A R E D at me for being so "stupid" and ordered me in no uncertain terms (which I will not post here being that AVSIM is a family friendly site!) to put it back together immediately.

 

I quickly reassembled the buffer, plugged it back in and of course it still wouldn't work. The D.I. disgustedly looked at me and said, "Of course it won't work you (expletive) idiot! There's a knot in the cord and it won't let the 'lectricity through!"

 

He disgustedly 'un-knotted' the cord and voila, the buffer now ran. Not being a complete fool, I didn't bother trying to correct his ignorance further. The cord of course had broken where the knot had been and un-knotting it allowed the broken wire(s?) to contact again.

Funny story lol. That knot in the cord took years to develop by the Army and back when it was invented as a secret off on switch, the Enemy was at the gate. Thus, the enemy never cottoned as to why none of the captured equipment worked. Drill Sgt's know, I think.

 

Jon

North is always up and south is down, regardless.  That is why you get better gas mileage when driving south.

I knew that! I found out when I was driving a semi-load of steel from sydney to melbourne once. Cooked the brakes.

 

Jon

Dunno why they always used a tray that slid out, instead of the car type players with a slot instead of a tray.

 

Open USB ports are also a cause of OOM's & memory loss, as they are an easy port, when open, for electrons, to slip out of!

 

I always thought that my keyboard had a self destruck button, when I saw the 'Pause/Break' key. I also wondered where the 'Outs' key was, after finding the 'Ins' key. 

I've upgraded to Win 3.1 lately and I'm getting annoyed with the blue screen they put up when it's time to go to bed.

 

Jon

Because there are 3" CDs which wouldn't work in the slot type player. I like the idea of the tray, which can be opened manually when the player malfunctions. I don't know how you would get a CD out of the slot type player when it malfunctions.

Will they work in a 5 1/4 inch you think?

 

Jon

 

All my aircraft are now flying on their side. Is this important ?

 

When they dump fuel, will it go sideways ?

 

Regards

Bill

Yes it will go sideways , but to determine if it goes to Port or Starboard we would need to know if

you are in the Northern or Southern hemisphere .

 

It is important that that you do not put a toilet bowl under the dump outlet as it will swirl the fuel ,

and if you have metal fragments in the fuel it can give rise to false magnetic heading readings

in your compass .

 

Regards

Karol

Tried turning my box on it side....I have one of those electricity tanks that can flip in any direction, so it doesn't affect me. 

 

The only thing I noticed was a gain of about 130FPS and my memory load dropped by 50%.  With my PMDG 737NGX, I can run my sliders maxed out at the heaviest airport in poor weather, with maximum AI at about 160 FPS and never had an OOM!!! 

Reminds me of the time when I was very busy buying a new PC, & I was told by the salesman that he was getting a round tuit!

I was interested! 

Further research has shown this was in NO WAY a rhetorical question...

 

Kindle mk1?

I remember my very first Kindle! 17' screen (amber!)