X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Sender: To: lml Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:53:02 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from wind.imbris.com ([216.18.130.7] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.4) with ESMTPS id 1761639 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:12:26 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.18.130.7; envelope-from=brent@regandesigns.com Received: from [192.168.1.138] (cbl-238-80.conceptcable.com [207.170.238.80] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by wind.imbris.com (8.12.11/8.12.11.S) with ESMTP id l0G2BMkJ089158 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@regandesigns.com) X-Original-Message-ID: <45AC3448.3040106@regandesigns.com> X-Original-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:11:20 -0800 From: Brent Regan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: Pinpoint Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060203060907020003070208" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060203060907020003070208 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chuck Jensen writes: << So....where is Pinpoint's data? >> D2 had quite a lot of information on their web site. Presumably, CFS now has it. Have you asked them? Here is some data, I can think of 6 former 425 users that now fly Pinpoints (there are probably several times that number, CFS would know) and all are very satisfied (I named several in previous posts). I am unaware of a single Pinpoint user who has switched to, or back to, a 425. ADAHRS performance is difficult to describe in terms that are both meaningful and comprehensible to the typical end user. The most direct method of comparison is the test flight. Talking to the people who have flown both will give you a better comparison than reading Xbow's or CFS' marketing material. Ultimately, user experience will prevail over "specsmanship" as the predictive metric for a successful product. << but most dishonest people are secretive and covert >> Yea, like Miss Cleo, the queen of TV fortune telling. Why didn't she foresee her own indictment? Secrecy and honesty are not associated traits. Everyone has secrets and everyone is dishonest (Honey, do these pants make me look fat?), the only question is degree. Twenty years ago I designed a servo hydraulic telemanipulator (robotic arm) that ran on heavy water and glycol. It was deployed into the core of a heavy water nuclear reactor to clean up a shattered fuel rod. Due to geo-political concerns, I was required to keep the project secret for a period of time and, in an honest fashion, I did so. In my experience, people see the world through the lens of their own experience. People who see "vast conspiracies" and "dishonesty" wherever they look do so because that is how they think. They are themselves conspiratorial and dishonest and apply those metrics in evaluating the behavior of others. Regards Brent Regan --------------060203060907020003070208 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chuck Jensen writes:
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So....where is Pinpoint's data?

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D2 had quite a lot of information on their web site. Presumably, CFS now has it. Have you asked them?

Here is some data, I can think of 6 former 425 users that now fly Pinpoints (there are probably several times that number, CFS would know) and all are very satisfied (I named several in previous posts). I am unaware of a single Pinpoint user who has switched to, or back to, a 425.

ADAHRS performance is difficult to describe in terms that are both meaningful and comprehensible to the typical end user. The most direct method of comparison is the test flight. Talking to the people who have flown both will give you a better comparison than reading Xbow's or CFS' marketing material. Ultimately, user experience will prevail over "specsmanship" as the predictive metric for a successful product.

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but most dishonest people are secretive and covert

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Yea, like Miss Cleo, the queen of TV fortune telling. Why didn't she foresee her own indictment?

Secrecy and honesty are not associated traits. Everyone has secrets and everyone is dishonest (Honey, do these pants make me look fat?), the only question is degree. Twenty years ago I designed a servo hydraulic telemanipulator (robotic arm) that ran on heavy water and glycol. It was deployed into the core of a heavy water nuclear reactor to clean up a shattered fuel rod. Due to geo-political concerns, I was required to keep the project secret for a period of time and, in an honest fashion, I did so.

In my experience, people see the world through the lens of their own experience. People who see "vast conspiracies" and "dishonesty" wherever they look do so because that is how they think. They are themselves conspiratorial and dishonest and apply those metrics in evaluating the behavior of others.

Regards
Brent Regan

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