Reply to: Only 5% of drivers who crash were breaking the speed limit

[ASB]

Totally agree with that as I have a PPL. However when I fly I don’t get some Folker a metre away on my tail, and another Folker cutting in during heavy traffic.

Never mind that. What I need to know is were either of the Fokkers in a Cessena ??

IGMC

[hyperD]

VOR 115.3 OCK 307/05

Snap!

I was flying CobWeb Seneca until Synergy took over. Prob have to goto Blackbushe now as the 2 Sen IIIs are for charter only.

Are you banner towing with CPL then?

[Paddy]

LOL!

You've obviously not flown around St Petersburg, USA then!

Where and what do you fly?

VOR 115.3 OCK 307/05

Cessna 152 towing Adria with awning

[hyperD]

Totally agree with that as I have a PPL. However when I fly I don’t get some Folker a metre away on my tail, and another Folker cutting in during heavy traffic.

LOL!

You've obviously not flown around St Petersburg, USA then!

Where and what do you fly?

[Paddy]

Makes you a good instrument pilot doing your T-scan though:

Attitude indicator—wings level, pitch level
Altimeter
Attitude indicator
Heading indicator—right on heading
Attitude indicator—maintain wings level
Altimeter
Attitude indicator
Airspeed indicator—as desired

etc

Try doing that off autopilot, on an SRA to capture the ILS for runway 08 in IMC... and use the radio to ATC as well. And in the chop.

Looking at your speedo while munching a big mac is childsplay...

Totally agree with that as I have a PPL. However when I fly I don’t get some Folker a metre away on my tail, and another Folker cutting in during heavy traffic.

[hyperD]

If you ar flicking your eyes down at the speedo every 10 secs then you are a bad driver.

Makes you a good instrument pilot doing your T-scan though:

Attitude indicator—wings level, pitch level
Altimeter
Attitude indicator
Heading indicator—right on heading
Attitude indicator—maintain wings level
Altimeter
Attitude indicator
Airspeed indicator—as desired

etc

Try doing that off autopilot, on an SRA to capture the ILS for runway 08 in IMC... and use the radio to ATC as well. And in the chop.

Looking at your speedo while munching a big mac is childsplay...

[darmstadt]

Yes that's what I said, are you a fookin' Parrot?

<pedant mode on>
No you didn't, you said 'Novel'
<pedant mode off>

[Bernard Common]

novel

Yes that's what I said, are you a fookin' Parrot?

[shaunbhoy]

You have to admit though if all speed limits were reduced to zero and rigorously enforced, the number of accidents would fall dramatically.

I believe that will be the end result of the current Government's Transport Policy.

[Paddy]

No, the point I was making was....

Your speedo says you are doing 30, but the camera flashes you doing say 33.

Has anybody ever fought and won a case when they showed that their only means of gauging their speed was giving them incorrect readings. Are there any routine checks on your speedo accuracy?

GPS gives my spedo +/- 1mph.

[darmstadt]

Here's a Novel idea, how about staying within the speed limit?

novel

[Bernard Common]

Here's a Novel idea, how about staying within the speed limit?

[ASB]

No, the point I was making was....

Your speedo says you are doing 30, but the camera flashes you doing say 33.

Has anybody ever fought and won a case when they showed that their only means of gauging their speed was giving them incorrect readings. Are there any routine checks on your speedo accuracy?

Doubt it. You've normally just committed 2 offences instead of 1. The defective spedo is an offence under the construction and use regulations - but should only result in a defect notice. There are limited calls for speedo accuracy to be part of the MOT though.

However it is possible to get an absolute discharge (having been found guilty).

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors180.pdf (page 56)

[darmstadt]

If you have an accident at speed over 130 kmh (85 mph?) then you are going to be dead...

One of the members of the BMW family had a crash in his Maclaren just up the road from me a little while back at excessive speeds and walked away. The best one though was a big Mercedes travelling at high speed which hit a Trabant. The Merc was a write-off yet the Trabbie could still drive

The worst people on the roads here are East Europeans, cars packed full to the gills with crap, poodling along in the middle lane and then pull over.

I drive up and down the A5 between Frankfurt and Darmstadt which is 4 lanes and is reputed to be the fastest and busiest motorway, especially during rush hour. In the fast lane everyone is doing speeds of over 100mph with only a few meters between each other and nary an accident. The accidents that you do see are in the slower lanes or when someone who can't judge the speed pulls out. I had an accident at around 90 mph, on a motorbike, and I'm still alive.

[BoredBloke]

No, the point I was making was....

Your speedo says you are doing 30, but the camera flashes you doing say 33.

Has anybody ever fought and won a case when they showed that their only means of gauging their speed was giving them incorrect readings. Are there any routine checks on your speedo accuracy?