Something Onion-worthy from Finland

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I’ve drawn these with ships numerous times. It was my usual test-pattern when calibrating magnetic compasses and testing the autopilot.

    And it’s not entirely without logic either; The calibration and testing usually goes like this:

    • A few circles to calibrate the compas, teaching it how the full 360 azimuth looks from a magnetic perspective, taking its own magnetic environment into account.
    • Straight line, checking that the heading matches the course
    • Turn 180 degrees and repeat to verify that it also holds true in the opposite direction
    • At this point, you might as well draw the other testicle too
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      Yeah, that was my thought. In order to draw these, the pilots needed to demonstrate precise control of their vehicles. Fucking pearl clutchers, I hope disciplinary action was only mentioned to appease them, though wish they’d just give a “who fucking cares?” response instead.

      • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        While i pretty much agree with you, i can see the “do we want dudes who act this juvenile to fly 70 million € aircraft when we have more mature candidates lined up and waiting their change” angle too.

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          3 hours ago

          Though is willingness/desire to draw dicks for fun (in a way that doesn’t even leave a permanent mark on anything) really correlated with maturity or have we just been allowing people with sticks up their ass to define what is and isn’t mature?

          This was done within the parameters of the training mission. If they were doing shit like Maverick in Top Gun, then I’d agree, because his immaturity created real risks and he treated the mission parameters as suggestions while trying to “win” rather than “train”.

          • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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            58 minutes ago

            I think it does indeed tell something about maturity or atleast how seriously they are taking their training.

            Thinking it about from different angle. If i had business and one job would be mowing a lawn. If i had two equally good hires, but one of them would every time draw a dick to the yard before finishing the job i would definedly hire the one that does not make company famous by drawing dicks on the peoples lawn.

            Especially if my neigboring company was famously violent and had CEO who currently is trying to burn office of another nearby company on the ground and i had a reason to look professional, so my partner companies could trust to my professionalism in case the agressive company would try something underhanded. Especially if that company had 300 years of history of killing and enslaving my employees.

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    2 days ago

    Sticking to a flight plan like that means you are successfully trained in that airframe, I see this as a positive check flight

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      Should be used as training material, the bottom right corner is cut short on these as they turn on that leg, make a more gradual turn using the rudder to round out the shaft base