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Cacycle 21:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Patrick. I have noticed your edit in the PFOA article. Hence, you might be able to contribute to this talk: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals#Perfluorocarbon. 77.56.108.47 00:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm preemptively creating a section to handle fallout from all of the changes I've made to the "Red Letter Days"-series of articles (note caps). Please note the following:
Thanks! Patrick O'Leary (talk) 01:15, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings & salutations. I was wondering why you redirected Airborne Collision Avoidance System to Traffic Collision Avoidance System? TCAS is a proprietary system, originally developed by Honeywell (I believe). ACAS is the generic term used by researchers (myself included) to describe such systems. To be bold (as you suggest on your talk page!), this is like redirecting "aspirin" to "Bayer aspirin."
All due respect & no offense intended, of course.
Technically, we researchers are now starting to make a distinction between ACAS and ASAS (airborne separation assurance systems). The new definition has ACAS representing short-range systems (literally, collisions), with ASAS aimed at representing longer-range systems, specifically protecting the 5 nm / 1000' protected zone surrounding aircraft in the en-route environment.
I guess my main concern is that we are providing free advertising for a specific manufacturer, when we should be keeping up with current research practice.
Best regards PrairieOjibway (talk) 17:51, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
A pleasure to meet you, Patrick. I'll check out what you've done, and thanks. I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so feel free to point out ways to help me improve. If you get a moment, you can get a sense of me from www.maneuverspacetechnologies.org, which is my private stuff. My public stuff is as a human factors researcher for FAA in Oklahoma City. For them, I look at how general aviation pilots deal with weather issues. Next big project will probably be looking at how to extend flight envelope protection down into GA aircraft. How about you? What are you working on these days?
Oh, btw, I actually do live on the prairie (on a small ranch) & am 1/16 Ojibway, hence the name. Perhaps one day I'll get bold enough to use my real name on Wikipedia. What's your opinion on that? I see you're a Ramblin' Wreck. Did you know Amy Pritchett? She and I have done a bit of work together.PrairieOjibway (talk) 02:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Small world indeed! She & I have worked one small project together. Yesterday, I e-mailed her to see if she'd like to write a chapter for a book I'm (hopefully) editing on ACAS/ASAS. May be too busy, dunno. Unfortunately, I'm not overly sure abt the ASP address I have. Her lab address bounced. The one I have probably goes to a gatekeeper who may not recognize it's to be forwarded. We'll see. Anyway, I got commitments from Walt Johnson, Jacco Hoekstra, Martin Eby, so the initial outlook is good. What's your thesis topic?PrairieOjibway (talk) 22:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
PS: I talked with Amy at the ISAP convention this week & she agreed to work with us on the book. PrairieOjibway (talk) 02:30, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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