That right there proves your true agenda and lack of real argument.
No I pointed out the aircraft the engine came from so you could look up the power straight away. Nice attempt at nit-picking one possible intention while ignoring the real and stated reason.
You and three others (now four) in this thread specialize in bloviation only on this BBS with a side-helping of self-congratulation. None of you are fooling anyone.
I disagree with your allegations in your response, but don't see any value in further debating them because it will just ratchet up the rhetoric. There is a topic you bring up that I want to elaborate on however and that’s my agenda. Yes I do have one.
In my experience the majority of FM disputes follow this approach:
1) I think theres’ something wrong with [blank].
2) I don’t have to prove why or how my assertion is right, but someone else must prove why or how my assertion is wrong.
Philosophically I have a problem with this approach. 2ndly let’s say you know why or how someone’s assertion is incorrect but to demonstrate it means painstaking effort to explain it. If you want to correct the assertion I see two ways of doing it:
A) Spend all sorts of time and effort yourself to explain why or how the assertion is flawed
B) Have the person making the assertion spend the time and effort to work through why or how the assertion is flawed
Which would be more convincing? I find myself in the camp B nowadays. Two reasons worth mentioning are IMO 1) someone is more easily convinced when they discover the flaw for themselves & 2) that someone will actually learn more in the process of discovery.
So yes, I do have an agenda in FM disputes where there is misinformation and that is to hint, needle, prod, question, & cajole folks to prove themselves why or how their assertion is right instead of putting that burden on someone else in hopes they will discover for themselves why it's actually flawed. If I've come across as a pompous bellybutton in the process then I sincerely apologize to anyone I've offended including you. I certainly don't intend to come across arrogantly and can see where I can't be the best judge of that because I can't predict how someone will receive what I say & the way I say it.
In this specific thread I judged that I've had enough "dialog" with BnZs over the years on this BBS that it was OK for me to tease him in what I thought was a good natured way while tossing questions back at him to get him to think. As complicated as the topic can be I have total confidence he can eventually sort it out and doesn't need me to do so for him. But if he honestly wanted some help in the process and was really really stuck, then I'd be happy to help if he asked for it.
Tango