Emergency Best Posts in Thread: Dumaguete Airport/ Million peso tree/ overnight parking

I know the man and the tree so do many other members that grow veggies, their is two sides to every story then their is the truth the sight is the mans house and his business . Way back when the Air Bus started landing here he had damage to the roof of his house and sheds from wind sheer, no money was forth coming for repairs so the trees were let grow to to give some protection from it happening again. (i think that is fair enough). maybe the stale mate came when some one was asked to sign on the line to except the costs of repairs to any further damage.

 

If this is so, this isn't about the person with the tree but whoever refused to pay for damage to a roof. Sounds to me like they could have offered to pay for a much better roof that would be resistant to damage, the tree would be gone and all would be satisfied.

But no, some entity is not going to get off it's hip pocket for chump change and in so doing they endanger the commerce of the area and negate people's investment. Frankly I have no sympathy. You knew where you were starting your business. At some point you must have read or heard stories that it isn't recommended that one start a business or all the crap that can happen to foreigners who are involved in business in the Philippines. To paraphrase Wesley Snipes from one of the Blade movies, always someone trying to ice skate uphill.

I know it's going through someone's mind right now that the guy with the tree should have sold out and moved someplace else. The thing about good advise like that is if it's true in one direction, it is true in both directions. If something changes and you don't like where you are at, sell up and move. Trees in the Philippines are not the problem whether they are growing under powerlines or some distance from the end of an airport runway, the problem is how entities in the Philippines resolve matters. These things are only emergencies because the people who should be resolving things before they become emergencies aren't doing a good job of it. If you didn't realize you are in the Philippines, let me be the first to tell you.

Is your emotional barometer up yet? Good! Now you can imagine how the Ramos family and the guy with the tree feel.

I think it's a hoot when people would chastise someone for a lack of civic mindedness, when it's someone you don't know. Evidently, Alex knows the guy and I don't seem to be getting that vibe from him. Taking one for the team presupposes that there is a TEAM to begin with. Where was the team when the tree guy's roof was damaged? Did the TEAM take up a collection to get it fixed? Or is it really everyone for themselves? In the Philippines I preface every breath I take with @ your own risk. It keeps me reasonably satisfied with how things go because my expectations were low to begin with. In case nobody has mentioned it, you may not want to start a business or invest in land or other investment in the Philippines and if you do so, it is @ your own risk. I figured that out before my first trip to the Philippines. I can't believe this could be news but people act like they never heard it before.

 

If you make it so someone's only chance of redress is to sue you, of course they become unreasonable. Or possibly their reasonable threshold lowers to equal the one who refuses to compensate them for damages. When a corporate entity refuses to pay for damages they are responsible for, are they being reasonable? Why would you expect any individual to be reasonable when meeting un-reason?

I have a suit against a company that defrauded my brother myself and the court. I told them years ago that if they undid what they did I would let them walk away free. I don't see how I could be more reasonable than that. I will win on the basis of notarized recorded documents alone. I gave them a free out and they didn't take it so now I want a big settlement, worse yet the lawyer who is going to get 40% of the punitive wants a big settlement. It's tough to put a price on 6 years of aggravation which I would never wish on anyone.

 

Well, we seem to be so far off the Topic of the "Tree" (me Included) and with no new indications of the 'Trees' fate
I think this has run it's course so For Now *CLOSED*

 

This fellow is lucky he lives in Philippines. Other countries would just expropriate any building or property that is in the way of progress and not give a sh*t how many years the family had owned the land, but at least other countries would pay some compensation.

 

Yes, its being done in Philippines too, just that its China doing it

Spratleys!

 

Going back a few posts about speed.
I think the other reason to use a common unit of measurement is you wouldn't want some pilot confusion mph and km/h. It could result in quite a mess at the end of the runway. If you look at the image of airspeed indicators you will see multiple units being indicated.

I lean toward knots because there is rule which states that the aircraft must be traveling at less than 250 KNOTS below 10000 ft in the USA. Technically, it's KIAS or knots indicated airspeed.

Here is one man's opinion of why.

Why is the speed of aircraft, ships, and submarines measured in knots instead of in mph or km/h? - Quora

The short version is "because it makes navigation easier." Since that's likely not helpful, here's the long version:


Knot is shorthand for nautical miles per hour (the origin of the term comes from old methods of measuring speed that involved trailing ropes with knots in them behind ships, but today it means one nautical mile per hour). Saying "I'm travelling at 5 knots" means that after one hour of travelling at that speed, I will have moved 5 nautical miles.

This is precisely like miles per hour or kilometers per hour. Therefore, asking why nautical speed measurements are done in knots is effectively asking why nautical miles are used instead of simply miles or kilometers.


And that reason is because of navigation. Ships use the latitude and longitude system of global navigation. One nautical mile is 1 minute of arc on any meridian. Let me explain that in English.

A meridian is any line of longitude. On the picture below, that means any of the vertical lines.



Crossing through each meridian are lines of latitude (the horizontal lines). Latitudes are measured using the degree unit of measurement since the cross-section of the Earth is roughly circular (see picture below). Fractions of degrees are measured in minutes. 1 minute is 1/60 degrees.



So, getting back to nautical miles, 1 nautical mile is 1 minute, or 1/60 degrees, along a line of longitude. Or, to put it another way, 1 nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude.

This is useful because nautical charts are marked with latitude and longitude lines.



(click to enlarge the below image and look at the borders)


So, using a nautical chart and the correlation between nautical miles, fractions of latitude, and the convenient marks on the edges of charts, navigation becomes much simpler. Finding distances, calculating speeds, and locating your position all boils down to measuring distances on the chart using dividers and the math formula: distance = speed x time



Long story short, we use knots because they correspond to a certain amount of latitude which makes navigation easier.