Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Check Lists

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)]

Hi Michael - in your country boast only used 
on daylights have to have running lights ? 

regards Carsten

Michael B Holt schrieb:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:54:08 -0800 Steven Mills writes:
> >
> >But, every pilot has "list in hand" and visually checking
> >item-by-item, "by list",
> >as the inspection is being carried out...nothing taken for granted?
> 
> Somewhere around here I have the checklist for DOWB....
> 
> >Another question: "nav lights".  Should nav lights be on a pSub
> likeother
> >watercraft and as they are on aircraft. At least a flasher or rotating
> beacon
> >topsides or on c-tower to warn other craft that a sub is surfacing and
> >has surfaced?  Any audio warning or alerts? [ I have a feeling this has
> >been discussed before? ].
> 
> According to the USCG, the boat has to have running lights.   Well, as
> long
> as it's over 16 feet and/or "mechanically powered."   Chapman's notes
> that submarines have a flashing amber beacon (one of the results of the
> meeting of the SS City of Rome and an S-boat).
> 
> However, in the Real World of bassboats and PWCs, they don't pay close
> attention to lights.   I'd be willing to bet very few of the weekend
> boaters
> have any idea what the lights mean, or what's required.   Even fewer are
> capable of being sufficiently aware of their environments to pay any
> attention to an odd flashing light at the surface.
> 
> >As for the performance calcs, I'm working hard on it. I've been in
> >contact with Prof. Siva Thangam and he has also referred me to
> >Prof. Thomas  Herrington [ also faculty of Stevens Institute ] to help
> >me.  Also, another project I started last year, an FEA tutorial/primer.
> >Kind of an FEA for Dummies [ I include myself ] I had briefly
> >corresponded with Prof. CTF Ross about his texts and  papers on
> >this subject last year.
> 
> Keep us informed of this.  I've played with this a little, but it
> deserves
> more research than I can do.
> 
> >I can't give you a definitive
> >time frame of completion, but I am determined to complete these
> >projects!
> 
> Go for it.
> 
> Mike
> 
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