From: Mark B. Anderson (mark@aasurplus.ca)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 06:05:49 PDT
we have 2 traffic circles within 300 miles of me and only heard of them
never seen one...someone please explain how these work and do they give
enough room for an M35 to go around and around in them???
question I really need to know.
Regards,
mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] [BULK] Re: [MV] WWII DC3
> Traffic circles seem to work fine, in European countries at least. I
> noticed that traffic seems to be able to get in and out totally safe if
> the vehicle "In the circle" has the right of way.
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
> To: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>; "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 7:44 AM
> Subject: [BULK] Re: [MV] WWII DC3
>
>
>> If you really want something confusing try having a
>> circle. Pretty much full speed into the circle free
>> for all.
>>
>> NJ started taking the cricles out due to the number of
>> accidents and putting in 4 way intersections.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> --- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Peoples driving habits beats anything I've ever
>>> seen, at least where I go.
>>> NOBODY seems to know that when you come upon a multi
>>> lane roadway and make a
>>> turn that the law requires you to make your turn and
>>> remain in the closest
>>> lane to where you were UNTIL you can clearly check
>>> the traffic and THEN you
>>> may make your signal and safely move over one lane
>>> at a time until you get
>>> to where you want to be in traffic. That and the
>>> fact that NOBODY seems to
>>> know what a STOP sign means,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "dgrev" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
>>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
>>> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:11 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [MV] WWII DC3
>>>
>>>
>>> > Jeff
>>> >
>>> >> The planes I rent have all the latest GPS,
>>> weather nav
>>> >> garbage, personally I have no use for it. I like
>>> to
>>> >> follow the landscape, roads, terrain, turn on the
>>> NDB
>>> >> maybe, even try to avoid using VOR's but in a
>>> pinch I
>>> >> will, Kinda scary flying commercial these days
>>> knowing
>>> >> some young buck up there has his training from
>>> playing
>>> >> nintendo!!
>>> >
>>> > I take it that in the US you have the same
>>> abreviations
>>> > as we do (our system is based on yours) so when
>>> all else
>>> > fails it's back to the basics:
>>> >
>>> > VFR = Visually Follow Roads.
>>> >
>>> > IFR = I Follow Roads.
>>> >
>>> > It certainly does make you wonder how the world
>>> will
>>> > survive if there is ever an EMP pulse.
>>> > Bang will go all the ground based nav aids. I have
>>> no idea if the
>>> > satellites are hardened?
>>> >
>>> > The way things are these days, even your fridge
>>> and stove have electronics
>>> > and will be fried!
>>> > Same with Solargisers too.
>>> >
>>> > Of late, there appears to be a lot of ancillary
>>> military
>>> > equipment (ie, base vehicles, computers etc) that
>>> are
>>> > civilian spec. They won't be much good either.
>>> >
>>> > > Kinda scary flying commercial these days knowing
>>> > > some young buck up there has his training from
>>> playing
>>> > > nintendo!!
>>> >
>>> > There has been some stuff on TV of late that the
>>> Europeans
>>> > have noticed that the Nintendo generation make for
>>> lousy
>>> > drivers, not better ones. You don't get 3 lives in
>>> the real
>>> > world. Thus they are having to start driver
>>> training in schools
>>> > with lots of crash pics to get it through to the
>>> kids that cars
>>> > are not "virtual" devices and do obey neutonian
>>> laws of motion.
>>> > Not that anyone is taught history anymore........
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> > Doug
>>> >
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