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Joined: October 10, 2015 8:08 pm
Topics: 1 / Replies: 36
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RE: Direct Supervision

I do all the field work and office work, especially with new employees. I train them and show them I can still do it. I had a boss that was a LS for a...

9 years ago
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RE: COGO program for FS exam?

Obviously there is a strong division here, and obviously I fall on the side against the use of programmable calculators. But all I hear by the propone...

9 years ago
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RE: COGO program for FS exam?

Mark Flora, post: 432910, member: 12401 wrote: Yes, but Rarely. And even then I would always have some type of data collector or CAD to verify my calc...

9 years ago
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RE: COGO program for FS exam?

Mark Flora, post: 432904, member: 12401 wrote: The HP 33s, and the HP35s are both acceptable to use for the NCEES exams. More power to you if you can ...

9 years ago
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RE: COGO program for FS exam?

I took it with a TI-30x in 2012. I believe that you shouldn't be allowed to use programmable calculators for any of the exams. The FS is a fundamental...

9 years ago
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RE: Low Bid

As a young licensed surveyor, who ran a family owned surveying company with my dad, and now a government surveyor who gets to moonlight with old clien...

9 years ago
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RE: Looking for easiest way to measure overhead power line heights

I was performing a power line survey on a power line that went through trees, so my control point was directly underneath. I had to use my rod man to ...

9 years ago
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RE: Attitude determines Altitude- 2017 LSAW Conference

KellyJohnson, post: 417606, member: 1332 wrote: It was good chatting with you today Douglas! We should all do a photo tomorrow for sure. Also, [USER=2...

9 years ago
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RE: Nate Tells some of his secrets

At the end of the day, it is all personal preference. As long as it meets the specs that we are trying to achieve, who really cares about how we do it...

10 years ago
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RE: Nate Tells some of his secrets

Eventually you'll run and have to buy more. And with good care in storage and in the field prisms last a long time, as still use some I have from the ...

10 years ago
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RE: Nate Tells some of his secrets

If your prism sets are varying by .02' I think you need adjustments. I usually vary no more than 0.01' in the woods of Washington with soft sets. But,...

10 years ago
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RE: Nate Tells some of his secrets

Jim Frame, post: 400998, member: 10 wrote: If I'm going to the trouble of setting up a tripod and tribrach, I'd rather have a real prism on it than a ...

10 years ago
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RE: Never Assume

Hope at least you replaced that 60d with something a little better

10 years ago
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RE: Terminology: Brass Cap vs. Brass Disk

To me a cap it attached on top of an item, a disc is embedded in something, and a tablet is either a cap or disc that is square or rectangular in shap...

10 years ago
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RE: ELEVATION CERTIFICATE DATUM??

I use what the FIRM and FIS maps state because that is what it used for flood insurance or building permits, and then make a note in Section D stating...

10 years ago
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