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A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily. The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log that was used to estimate a ship's speed through the ...
Taffrail Log Rotator Mechanical speed logs called patent logs [1] or taffrail logs, operating on physical principles in a manner similar to a car's odometer by towing a vane or rotor from the stern (or taffrail) by a long line, were developed in the eighteenth century (or earlier) but became practical in the nineteenth century and replaced the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... A logbook (or log book) is a record used to record states, events, or conditions applicable to complex machines or the ...
The Hayling Sentence Completion test is a measure of response initiation and response suppression. It consists of two sets of 15 sentences each having the last word missing. In the first section the examiner reads each sentence aloud and the participant has to simply complete the sentences, yielding a simple measure of response initiation speed.
The test is intended to check a candidate’s ability to detect developing situations that require a motorist to take some action, such as changing speed or direction. [ 1 ] The test was introduced in 2002 [ 2 ] and updated in 2015 with computer generated clips replacing the live action videos.
Rather than simply testing speed accuracy, the systems are all tested in real traffic situations some of which are created specifically to test a perceived weakness in the systems. Track and real road testing is always conducted so that all kinds of vehicles and traffic situations are used to stimulate the systems.
Airborne traffic situational awareness ATSU Air traffic services unit Avionics LRU for ACARS ATT Attitude ATTCS Automatic Take-off Thrust Control System AUPRTA Airplane Upset Prevention & Recovery Training Aid AVAIL Available Avionics: Aviation electronics AVSA "Adjust vertical speed adjust" TCAS Voice command to adjust traffic separation AWACS
A race car log book is a document certifying that a car is prepared to a given set of rules and is safe for competition (usually concerned with roll cage construction). Log books are usually issued by a certified technical inspector for a motorsports sanctioning body. All competitions entered as well as the condition of the car before and after ...