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Why is a question force edited to meet the answer given below but not the question which was asked previously?

After going through this question I am asking a different question as this deals only with serial editing. I have a question which I had recently updated with an image to prove that the below given ...
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How to deal with serial editing?

In this question in the main meta.SE is discussed the problem of serial minor editing. Apparently there are no official guidelines for the SE network at large and the review history for suggested ...
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Let's get critical: Jun 2014 Site Self-Evaluation

We all love Aviation Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Can community wiki questions be used for book recommendations

Generally "book recommendation" questions are considered a bad idea. Often opinion based and usually pretty broad. Yet I can't help but think there's a place for them on a place like this (yes, I ...
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Should questions regarding aircraft identification be discouraged?

I have noticed that in these two questions regarding airliner identification, the first thing the OP was expected to do was to Google the identification number. Which aircraft did I photograph Did I ...
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The scope of online flight navigation apps and websites on Aviation SE

There is an emerging "hobby" of flight tracking. Websites and apps offer close to real-time positioning, along with information on each aircraft and journey. FlightStats, FlightRadar24, and ...
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Are questions about paragliding appropriate?

I'm just starting to learn paragliding and I was wondering if question on that subject would be appropriate to this site.
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Improving future use of (ambiguous) questions

Using my question In an airliner, does the Captain or the First Officer fly the airplane? as an example, should we try to improve the future use of questions with the long view in sight? When I first ...
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overlapping tags (e.g. ballooning, lighter-than-air)

There seem to be several sets of overlapping tags - are these useful? For example lighter-than-air ballooning but no airship or zepppelin tags unpowered glider hang-glider so we get questions ...
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Aviation Acronyms

Aviation is full of acronyms that are very often not obvious. Where can we look if we come across one that we aren't familiar with?
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Use of Acronyms in questions & answers

Related: Using acronyms in tags Aviation is full of acronyms and abbreviations, some are quite common and therefore understood by most people(eg, ATC). Others are more specialised, and will probably ...
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Does traffic-separation warrant its own tag?

I initially rejected an edit to this question as it created an extra traffic-separation tag for a question already tagged air-traffic-control. Since the primary function of ATC is traffic separation, ...
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Does this board cover questions on airport and airline operations?

As far as I can tell, this board definitely covers the 'aeroplane side' of aviation (that is the parts directly related to planes). How about the operations and perhaps more 'commercial' side of ...
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What is the standard of evidence required in answers?

What is the standard of evidence that we should require in answers? Do we simply rely on the upvotes and downvotes to moderate what is true and untrue? What about myths that are widely believed that ...
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Why was my question closed?

Please help me find the guidelines that were not followed when asking this question. If jet engines did leave chemtrails, wouldn't the chemicals cause adverse reactions in the engines? I have ...
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Is experience an opinion?

In a comment to this answer @Danny Beckett notes that The problem is, personal experience and word of mouth sounds a lot like a personal opinion I can have had a certain (work) experience (e.g., a ...
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Are model airplanes on topic here?

Just curious, are model airplane questions on topic here? I don't know what else to put here so that the question is long enough to get past the bot.
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Custom vote up/down arrows

I've noticed that a lot of other sites have custom up and down arrows (like the linux & unix site, for example.) Is it possible for us to do that hear? I think having the up and down arrows ...
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Are questions about underwater search equipment suitable?

I just saw this question, which asks about why only one Bluefin-21 is being deployed to search the area. While the OP has mentioned it in the context of MH370, isn't this more of a question about the ...
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Aren't these two duplicate?

Is there any U.S. / FAA regulation that could apply for aviation software? Are there any EU/EASA regulations surrounding aviation software? before you answer me that one is for FAA and the other for ...
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What’s meant to go in a tag wiki (excerpt)?

I’ve noticed many suggested tag wiki excerpts along the line of this: flight-attendant The passenger-facing crew in the cabin I’ve been reviewing these based on the guidelines given by Stack ...
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Why do we allow ‘smart’ quotes to be replaced with 'straight' quotes

I’ve noticed some posts have been edited to replace proper single quotation marks and apostrophes (‘ and ’) with the typewriter quotation mark ('). In my opinion, this is unambiguously worse. I ...
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Would "recommend me an aircraft for this mission" questions be appropriate?

Would it be on topic if a question such as this was asked? Currently, I have xxx aircraft. Its fuel economy was great, but I've found that 2 seats isn't enough for the mission. I usually fly around ...
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The scope of Flight Simulation questions on the Aviation SE

Yesterday, the decision was made to close this question. While I can agree that the question is written in very unclear english, it's about engaging the autopilot on the B777, which would be the same ...
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Older questions and fewer views

I noticed that at the time Aviation Beta started (second half of December 2013), many great questions were asked, but they got very little attention because this forum didn't have many users at that ...
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Can I say "thanks" in the comments?

I know the "upvote" and "mark as answer" should be used for this porpouse but, if someone answer my question and I like it, should/can I say thanks?
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Does this site have a sense of humour?

I've had several comments deleted on here (and as far as I can determine, no way to see who deleted them so cannot ask directly). I'm assuming it's because I sometimes try to inject a little humour. ...
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Necessity of the airliner tag

We now have 20 questions with the airliner tag. Looking through them, there are very few, if any, that actually need it. Most of them are either generic large/transport category airplane questions ...
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Should we have a site blog?

Many stack exchange sites have associated site blogs for things that don't quite "fit" with the Q&A format of the main site. I think there are quite a few interesting topics we could cover in a ...
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Are questions on this site limited to the USA?

Are questions posted on aviation.stackexchange.com designed to be applicable to the U.S. only ... or are questions for other locales OK? If it's worldwide, perhaps there need to be some country tags.
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The only way is up: Where do we put the boundary to the 'upper' (altitude) scope of aviation?

Where do we pull the boundary between aviation and the space exploration beta? We've gotten a few questions on spaceshiptwo, and I'd imagine it's only a question of time before stuff comes up on the ...
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Synonym request for [n-number] -> [aircraft-registration]

Could a mod create n-number as a synonym of aircraft-registration? Unless anyone thinks otherwise?... It's a common expression State-side, right?
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What topics can I ask about here?

In the help center, we have an important question unique to Aviation.SE which is: What topics can I ask about here? Please look around to see if your question has been asked before. It’s also OK to ...
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remove mas370 tag

there are currently 6 mas370 questions (of which 2 are closed). However each of these could be asked without referencing the missing plane. I suggest removing the tag from these and removing the tag ...
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Why do we need electronics?

From Wikipedia: Avionics are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of ...
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Considerations for editing and approving edits for closed posts

Vising the re-open queue tonight I came across two posts nominated for re-opening due to edits made to the post. You can see them for yourself here: Suggested edit by @ctx and approved by @egid and, ...
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Should we comment/speculate on incidents being investigated?

Inspired by some of the recent questions about MHA370 (here and here), I'm thinking we should establish a more-or-less official stance on questions about accidents or incidents currently under ...
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Are questions that involve SSI on-topic?

There have been a few questions that are answerable but to do so would invoke Sensitive Security Information. While some SSI has made its way into public knowledge and someone determined to know ...
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Can we post links to liveatc?

I answered a question regarding military intercepts recently. A few days later someone posted a recording of an interception of a Bonanza in a TFR (VIP movement) in the forums at liveatc.net. Very ...
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Using acronyms in tags

There are a ton of acronyms is the world of aviation. This could lead to duplicate tags, and some non-acronym tags, and some acronym tags. Before the site goes public [knock on wood] we should ...
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Where do we draw the line?

When I originally defined this site on A51 I had an example question along the lines of If a pedestrian is doing something (model rockets) near controlled airspace is it OK for them to contact ATC ...
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Can we have "identify that airplane" questions?

On the sci-fi SE its ok for people to post questions asking for book/ show identifications. Can we do something similar on this site? I think that the person asking would have to have a photo or ...
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Should we have a [light-ga] tag?

Exactly as the title asks: should we have a light-ga tag for questions pertaining to aircraft with a maximum certificated takeoff wage of less than 12,500 pounds, and requiring only one crew member? ...
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A little bit of FAA vs EASA

I'm trying hard to bring in some new users from EASA-land, but most of the questions seem to specifically mention 'FAA regulations', 'what is the [__] in USA', etc, that I feel kinda silly coming up ...
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What to do about the "window shades" question?

There has been a question about window shades, which has been asked on both Travel.SE and Skeptics.SE. Why open up the window-shades before landing? On commercial airlines, I've noticed that ...
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Are these questions on-topic? TV shows/movies

Interested to see what other suggestions people have, I asked What aviation-related TV shows are there? A number of people have since asked for a movie question: What aviation-related movies are ...
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How should we handle "How much does ______ cost?" questions?

Every aviation site eventually gets "the money questions" -- We already have a few of these: How much, generally speaking, does it cost to learn how to fly? How much should it cost to get IFR-rated? ...
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Would you consider this question suitable?

I've taken a look at the following questions, but I don't know what to make of it: Switching careers to become a professional pilot For me, there seems to be something not quite right about the way ...
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PPL tag, but there is not a Private Pilot License in the US

I know this is harping on semantics, but there is no such thing as a Private Pilot's License in the USA. And while this might be common vernacular, wouldn't it be more appropriate to encourage users ...
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How should regulation "part" tags be named?

As an example, we now have faa-regulations, but there are many parts to the FAA regulations, such as 14 CFR 61/91/121/135/etc. The regulations that apply are to something can be very different ...
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