treetoppin

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by treetoppin 3y ago
It’s shocking how much this gets thrown around, yet there are countless people who are alive only because someone from the government showed up to help. A democratic government is no more or less corrupt then the people they serve.
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by treetoppin 4y ago
While I appreciate the subject matter, I think ignoring the prior art of checklist design and human factors engineering is a big oversight. I don’t know enough about either field to know what tools they are using in the process of designing
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by treetoppin 4y ago
Interestingly, the US Coast Guards only “no fail” mission is providing rotary wing air intercept capability to the air defense network. In the National Capital Region they have helicopters that get scrambled as part of the air defense respo
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by treetoppin 4y ago
Why do you say it isnt a navy crew, and those arent navy uniforms? Not in the USN so not able to tell quickly, but it seems that they are in a mix of the USN NWA Type IIIs, Navy Whites, and then working overalls. They almost all seem to hav
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by treetoppin 4y ago
At the end of the day, the only things that matter are those that you let influence your operational tempo. Unfortunately, a wartime organization that is able to accept a certain level of fatalities in a combat situation has trouble adaptin
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by treetoppin 4y ago
Making things legible to the state is one of the ever going projects of any state. So while I think it’s important to make sure that refusal to participate in one of these projects doesn’t preclude you from still receiving the services of t
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by treetoppin 5y ago
It refers to rowing on a stationary rowing machine, the kind you would see at a gym
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by treetoppin 5y ago
Your comment about automating autorotations got me interested, and it appears that one UAV company has done a tech demo for it, at least from my cursory search. From what I can tell though the design space would be extraordinarily difficult
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by treetoppin 5y ago
I’m having trouble digging into their tech stack and can mostly just find advertising copy, but from what I can tell they must be integrating software (run on an iPad) into the flight controls. Which makes this a fancy skin on an automatic
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by treetoppin 5y ago
I love quality tools and products, especially when you have taken the time to find what works for your specific use case or body type. That being said, I started slowly shifting to an attitude that, to paraphrase an over quoted movie, &quot
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by treetoppin 6y ago
Glad to see someone else referenced this book. For anyone who wants to learn more about just how difficult it is to peer into the minds of other creatures, I highly recommend this book. Also, it's filled with delightful anecdotes of an
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by treetoppin 6y ago
I'm curious, in your experience what is the delay between: knowing there's a need for a response - knowing where the individual is - getting someone on scene? I'm not familiar with mtn rescue so I'm not sure how long it
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by treetoppin 6y ago
If they survived the crash, it probably was something necessitated an auto rotation, rather than the main rotor departing the helicopter. If that happened they would almost certainly be dead. If the nut on the top of the rotor mast detached
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by treetoppin 6y ago
What's cool about the history of helicopters is that people immediately recognized the ability of a helicopter to save lives, and then they promptly started doing so. The first helicopter flight was 1939,and the USCG's first life
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by treetoppin 6y ago
I guess I'm confused. If an aircraft can't go backwards or do a loop, does that mean it's not flying? Because as far as I know, every fixed wing aircraft is incapable of going in reverse, and most can't do a loop. Not tr
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by treetoppin 6y ago
Well I think the question becomes, what sort of situations are actually happening, and then what capability is needed to mitigate those situations? If an area's data says that there are enough people whose position we know, but because
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by treetoppin 6y ago
Good points, but remember we can't only compare the initial capital outlay, we have to compare the hourly operating cost. I imagine that it isn't quite as cheap as you think, and we would also need to see sustained operations from
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by treetoppin 6y ago
My experience is focused on finding people over water, but a lot of the tools will be the same. Using NVGs if we're at night to pick up any sort of light, our electro optical sensor that has thermal imaging capability, and good old fas
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by treetoppin 6y ago
Pretty cool usage scenario, since everyone can imagine a flying hero coming in to save the day. That being said, this feels like a solution looking for a problem. I am sure there are specific areas of responsibility that would benefit from
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by treetoppin 7y ago
Check out food recovery network for the college organization, and then food rescue us if you want to kick things off from the ground level since that's more their specialty. If you want more specific guidance PM me a contact and I can
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by treetoppin 7y ago
This article conflates "clean your plate" with taking actionable steps to minimize food waste where you have mid-level influence. To steel man the author's arguments, the large, systemic food issues in the United States will
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by treetoppin 7y ago
Which means that those employees not deemed higher quality will only get the minimum market rate of benefits.
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by treetoppin 8y ago
I think a key element of checklists, and checklist discipline, is coordination between members of a team. What checklists allow you to do is have accountability across differences in experience/authority/expertise and also track a
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by treetoppin 9y ago
Stories like this remind me that we are standing at a key decision point for human presence in space. At the culmination of the commercial resupply and commercial crew contracts that NASA has been fundinf there will be several privately hel
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by treetoppin 9y ago
The hard part is that no one wants to admit that they are tired. Everyone wants to be "that guy" or "that girl" who is always ready to go. After all, most people Ive met in the military have a hard time putting themselve
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by treetoppin 9y ago
If I was a company looking to break into the automated passenger/cargo carrying drone business, I would focus on ferrying people and supplies to offshore drilling sites and remote mining locations. That way you are flying in uncontroll
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by treetoppin 9y ago
I am only about 20 hrs into my flight training, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I still have yet to hear anyone offer up an explanation how AI will integrate with our current air traffic control system and other aircraft. Right now
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by treetoppin 9y ago
Im not privy to the nitty gritty of the Coast Guard's Maritime Safety ans Security Teams (MSSTs) operations, but finding a nuclear weapon on a vessel is fundamentally a needle in a haystack problem. The best way is going to be intel dr
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by treetoppin 9y ago
Shout out to a fellow Coastie. I think what I learned from my superiors is that it doesnt matter so much what system is used for risk assessment, but whether a conversation about risk was had in a meaningful way. Sometimes quantification he
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by treetoppin 9y ago
I was a Junior Officer on a Coast Guard cutter for a year and a half. Without a doubt it comes down to command climate. Our Captain had "Standing Orders" that every deck watch officer was required to follow. This is required for a

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