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Flat Earth Theory / Re: How do FE meteors work
« on: January 14, 2023, 07:43:22 AM »QuoteIf I may, here's 2 supplementary questions for JPJ. I'm not a rocket scientist, but I am an aircraft engineer. Aircraft actually do have a spirit level in the cockpit; its part of an instrument called the Turn and Slip Indicator. It doesn't have any electronics, its just a plain and simple spirit level, and the pilot checks it to ensure that the aircraft is balanced about its longitudinal axis.
1. Where do you think the bubble will be if the aircraft is banked 60 deg left in a level balanced turn?
2. Where do you think the bubble will be if the aircraft is perfectly level in flight with the rudder hard over to the left?
(Hint; if you have access to any kind of computer flight sim you can try this yourself).
I don't know enough about aerodynamics to answer exactly, but in an uncoordinated turn, the bubble wouldn’t be in the center. In a coordinated turn, where all the forces are balanced, it would. Because...all gravitational and inertial forces are balanced. There is no lateral acceleration relative to the planes center of gravity’ like you would feel in a car making a tight curve.
Relative to the plane, the indicator is stationary, so it responds to the same forces the plane, the pilot and passengers experience. Drinks and peanuts don’t go flying off tray tables and people don’t fall sideways out of their seats because within it’s own frame of reference, the plane is level.
A spirit level aligns itself to an equipotential surface. Maybe the “spirit” means magic and the bubble and fluid just magically change positions. It doesn’t really matter, because how it aligns isn’t the problem for FET. Its the fact that a spirit level demonstrates differences in gravitational potential that according to FET shouldn’t exist.
Thanks. So you accept that gravity is just one of the acceleration forces that act on an aircraft, and on a spirit level?
(and the "spirit" thing doesn't mean magic; it just means a non-freezing medium, like in "wines, ales and alcoholic spirits".