16.5.11
Inclinometer/ Clinometer
An inclinometer or clinometer is an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt), elevation or depression of an object with respect to gravity. It is also known as a tilt meter, tilt indicator, slope alert, slope gauge, gradient meter, gradiometer, level gauge, level meter,declinometer, and pitch & roll indicator. Clinometers measure both inclines (positive slopes, as seen by an observer looking upwards) and declines (negative slopes, as seen by an observer looking downward).
In aircraft, the "ball" in turn coordinators or turn and bank indicators is sometimes referred to as an inclinometer.
In aircraft, the "ball" in turn coordinators or turn and bank indicators is sometimes referred to as an inclinometer.
15.5.11
Flight tracking website
Flightwise
Flightwise is the most advanced free flight tracker on the Internet. Quickly access tracking data for any aircraft or flight on an IFR flight plan with a fast, efficient interface that lets you get to the information you need quickly. Pull up detailed specifics on any of the last 10 flights, or subscribe to our premium flight tracking services for access to our long-term archives with data from as early as November of 2001. Track single flights or entire fleets.
Stay on top of aircraft movements at all times with Flightwise Flight Alerts; with the most extensive capabilities in the industry, users can receive text alerts to their cell phones or email to notify them of departures, arrivals, and even flight plans. Use Twitter to broadcast alerts on aircraft movement. Get beeped everytime an aircraft departs for your facility, or find out when a flight is 15 minutes out. You can even have Flightwise place a voice phone call to alert users and VIP's to aircraft movements.
Flightwise is the most advanced free flight tracker on the Internet. Quickly access tracking data for any aircraft or flight on an IFR flight plan with a fast, efficient interface that lets you get to the information you need quickly. Pull up detailed specifics on any of the last 10 flights, or subscribe to our premium flight tracking services for access to our long-term archives with data from as early as November of 2001. Track single flights or entire fleets.
Stay on top of aircraft movements at all times with Flightwise Flight Alerts; with the most extensive capabilities in the industry, users can receive text alerts to their cell phones or email to notify them of departures, arrivals, and even flight plans. Use Twitter to broadcast alerts on aircraft movement. Get beeped everytime an aircraft departs for your facility, or find out when a flight is 15 minutes out. You can even have Flightwise place a voice phone call to alert users and VIP's to aircraft movements.
Quora
Website.
How can I work out how high an aeroplane is in the sky from my position on the ground?
Arnav Guleria, Quantitative Derivatives Trader/Marke...
Visually:
One would need to identify some reference measurement, the wingspan, for example. This would require one to identify the craft itself. Then, the perceived length can be compared to the known length, corrected for atmospheric abnormalities, producing the distance.
(1) Calculate the size of the retinal image of a reference object:
0,17mm * tan[2 * arctan(Known Size of Ref Obj / {2 * Distance to Ref Obj})].
Note: 0,17mm is about the nodal distance to the retina.
(2) Calculate ratio of angular size of aeroplane to reference object.
(3) Use linear proportions to work out distance.
Alternatively, if one can use a theodolite to work out the angular size of the aeroplane, then one could do without the reference object and multiply 0,17mm by the tangent of the visual angle, yielding the size of the retinal image of the aeroplane, which could then be plugged into the equation in (1), solving for distance.
Range-finding, e.g. laser-based range-seekers.
When looking at an aeroplane in the sky, is there a way to locate it's approximate position over earth?
If you have an iPhone or other smart phone, there are a number of apps that will show active flights within a given radius of your current location. If you use that feature of the respective app at the moment you see your airplane, you'd be able to determine its location and identity that way. There is a free app for the iPhone put out by our company, Flightwise - Flightwise Flight Tracker Free is the name of the app.
How can I work out how high an aeroplane is in the sky from my position on the ground?
Visually:
One would need to identify some reference measurement, the wingspan, for example. This would require one to identify the craft itself. Then, the perceived length can be compared to the known length, corrected for atmospheric abnormalities, producing the distance.
(1) Calculate the size of the retinal image of a reference object:
0,17mm * tan[2 * arctan(Known Size of Ref Obj / {2 * Distance to Ref Obj})].
Note: 0,17mm is about the nodal distance to the retina.
(2) Calculate ratio of angular size of aeroplane to reference object.
(3) Use linear proportions to work out distance.
Alternatively, if one can use a theodolite to work out the angular size of the aeroplane, then one could do without the reference object and multiply 0,17mm by the tangent of the visual angle, yielding the size of the retinal image of the aeroplane, which could then be plugged into the equation in (1), solving for distance.
Range-finding, e.g. laser-based range-seekers.
Altitude of an airplane in flight
How do I figure out the altitude of an airplane in flight?
I live one street away from a regional airport and small jets take off over my house every day. I’ve always been a little nervous about this as most small jet crashes are on takeoff, not on landing. The airport has altitude restrictions on takeoff, but I’m wondering if the pilots are adhering to those policies as they seem a lot lower to me. I was trying to figure out how I can tell how high they are when they pass over my house but can’t find anything on the web or on here to help me figure it out. Can anyone help me with this?
I live one street away from a regional airport and small jets take off over my house every day. I’ve always been a little nervous about this as most small jet crashes are on takeoff, not on landing. The airport has altitude restrictions on takeoff, but I’m wondering if the pilots are adhering to those policies as they seem a lot lower to me. I was trying to figure out how I can tell how high they are when they pass over my house but can’t find anything on the web or on here to help me figure it out. Can anyone help me with this?
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Video
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960's and 1970's. By the 1990's, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo's riff in his novel Mao II: "what terrorists gain, novelists lose" and "home is a failed idea", he blends archival footage of hijackings with surreal and banal themes, including fast food, pet statistics, disco, and his quirky home movies. David Shea composed the superb soundtrack to this free fall through history, best described in the words of one hijacked Pepsi executive as "running the gamut of many emotions, from surprise to shock to fear, to joy, to laughter, and then again, fear."
"Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" is a video film structured in a single 68-minute projection installation. The guiding visual thread of the piece is the almost exhaustive chronology of airplane highjackings in the world. The soundtrack is constituted of a fictive narrative inspired by two Don DeLillo novels-"White Noise" and "Mao II"-which, for Grimonprez, "highlight the value of the spectacular in our catastrophe culture." (...) "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" blends photographic, electronic, and digital images, interspersing reportage shots, clips from science fiction films, found footage, and reconstituted scenes filmed by the artist. The work denounces the media spectacle and seeks to detect the impact of images on our feelings, our knowledge, our memory.
"Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" is a video film structured in a single 68-minute projection installation. The guiding visual thread of the piece is the almost exhaustive chronology of airplane highjackings in the world. The soundtrack is constituted of a fictive narrative inspired by two Don DeLillo novels-"White Noise" and "Mao II"-which, for Grimonprez, "highlight the value of the spectacular in our catastrophe culture." (...) "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" blends photographic, electronic, and digital images, interspersing reportage shots, clips from science fiction films, found footage, and reconstituted scenes filmed by the artist. The work denounces the media spectacle and seeks to detect the impact of images on our feelings, our knowledge, our memory.
Theodolite
A theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes. Theodolites are mainly used for surveying applications, and have been adapted for specialized purposes in fields like meteorology and rocket launch technology. A modern theodolite consists of a movable telescope mounted within two perpendicular axes — the horizontal or trunnion axis, and the vertical axis. When the telescope is pointed at a target object, the angle of each of these axes can be measured with great precision, typically to seconds of arc.
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