RoundUp 036 - An Evening At The Cottage

[indieseoul]

Wow it was so great getting to hear Al Alcorn answering some of my questions. It would be so incredible if you could get the big three to reunite on a future podcast. This months podcast was super long but it still has me wanting to hear more.

[Darkwood.killers]

Al Alcorn is a top guy, Ted Dabney also - these interviews could do with animating.... When i listened to the podcast interview with Al Alcorn, for some strange reason i imagine SoCal Mike to be changing clothes like Mr Benn? Is that normal? - RGR have some great interviews.

[miner2049er]

Al Alcorn is a top guy, Ted Dabney also - these interviews could do with animating.

It would be good to get the Al Alcorn one transcribed like we did with the Ted Dabney one. Incidentally I read that on my kindle the other night.

Great Stuff.

for some strange reason i imagine SoCal Mike to be changing clothes like Mr Benn? Is that normal?

No.

[Darkwood.killers]

Were might I find the transcribed version, I enjoyed the interview but if im honest my headphones are not the best and some of Dabneys responses were a little hard to hear and my pod cast time was disturbed by a strange incident.*

*im sure its not interesting but I was half way through the Dabney interview whilst sitting at a bus stop in the middle of no where in Scotland after a job interview, out of no where a hunched over little old dear scurried to the seat next to me and about frightened a pint of urine out of me; at that point I was trying to focus on the interview when I noticed her open up this little purse type bag and roll in her hands over the biggest bundle of random keys, after stroking them she pushed them back into the purse, zipped it up and scurried back out of sight... true story

[miner2049er]

There's a link to it on the shownotes page for the episode http://www.retrogamingroundup.com/sh...24_2010.10.htm and also the guy that transcribed it (Dan at computerspacefan.com) has it on his great site too.

[SubaruBrat]

Our friend at Computerspacefan.com did the transcription for us, you can find it here. http://computerspacefan.com/Ted.htm

[Leathco]

A few comments on the neqs.....

The only android apps that were removed (emulators) were emulators that voolates fpl licensing. All of yongzhs emulators violated gpl. For a legal alternative, check ohr robert brogalias android emulators.

And why using an ipad fpr airlines is stupis. If something fries the cockpit isnt there a chance itd fdy the ipad too? Whats wrong with using the ipad as a backup but keeping tje paper map as well?

[SubaruBrat]

And why using an ipad fpr airlines is stupis. If something fries the cockpit isnt there a chance itd fdy the ipad too? Whats wrong with using the ipad as a backup but keeping tje paper map as well?

The FAA dictates that you carry paper charts with you, which makes sense. They also dictate that your aircraft must have a magnetic compass, both work in the absence of power and that makes sense.

In general, things don't "fry" in the cockpit, but you do see analog instruments that are decades old working just fine. My plane is a two seat plane where you fly solo from the rear seat and the passenger sits in the front seat, what I did was equip the rear seat as a "glass cockpit" with LCD screened instruments, autopilot, GPS, Nexgen weather radar, etc. The front cockpit has analog instruments that require no power. Should the digital panel shit the bed in whole or part all I have to do is glance over to the front panel and I have those as backup.

An Ipad makes all the sense in the world, I do similar things with my iPhone. You can store charts, view weather and other updates pilots need such as NOTAMs and TFRs. iPads are so common now in general aviation that companies make mounts to install them in the panel. I would, but my plane is a aerobatic biplane and the panels are just too small to fit an iPad in.