In a windshear situation it's pitch/power.  In a significant shear it becomes useless.  Close to the ground and trying to interpret a trend on an ASI will end up putting the plane in the dirt.

You're drawing a general conclusion from a worst-case scenario.  It is true that in some circumstances a pilot may not have time to consult the ASI, but that doesn't make the gauge useless--it is still providing correct (if phase-shifted) information.  In any event, we certainly agree much more than disagree, so I am not interested in getting into a pissing contest with you over something like this.

Tim

No, a tailwind increases your ground speed but not your airspeed.

A headwind decreases your ground speed but does nothing to your airspeed.  Pitch and power changes influence your airspeed.

Yes.  Once you are flying you are one with the air and cannot even tell if you are IN a headwind except by checking your groundspeed. 

Tim

Justin Trudeau has a red headed grandson?

I presume he meant to write "her ginger grandson", referring to Prince Harry, who I guess is not a prince any more.

Edit:  Wait a minute.  You're just screwing around, aren't you?

Tim

A friend of mine that works at the local news paper has often expressed his regrets that review editors were some of the first people cut to pare expenses.

Being on the coast, our local paper often has articles on nautical issues, local fishing conditions, and the like.  One time there was an above-the-fold front page headline about a local sailor who was going to "Circumvent the Earth".  Even I gave them some gas over that one. 

I worked with a guy at a defense contractor who was an English major but was now an engineer.  The errors in technical document drove him nuts.

Years ago when I worked at IBM we had an internal network (virtual machine) on which there were forums, much like today's internet forums.  One forum, called "nitpick forum" was for people to post examples of official IBM writings that contained grammatical or usage errors.  The poster was supposed to post the example and then point out the required correction.  One rule for the forum, though, (NOT unwritten) was that the poster himself was expected to use perfect English in his post, and if he made a mistake, he became fair game.  I learned quite a lot there, actually.  To this day I try hard to write correctly, even in forum posting.  Sometimes a clunker gets through, but it's not through lack of effort.

Tim

It’s about inertia.  When it hits something, the end yaws over. That makes the round tumble into the target.  Or is there another reason my range targets never had round holes like my pistol rounds do?

If your bullets were tumbling before hitting the target, something was drastically wrong. Don't know what that might have been (other than twist, as mentioned) but if shooting paper, one should see nothing but nice round bullet holes.

Tim

What or who is a Zumbo?  You don’t think he is sincere now?

Jim Zumbo was a hunting and firearms writer, writing mostly for Outdoor Life.  He also hosted a hunting-oriented TV show.  Anyway, he went off one time (in 2007) about how evil AR15s were, and how nobody needed one, etc.  He caused quite a stir and was fired from Outdoor Life and his TV show.   Ironically, Ted Nugent visited him and supposedly got him straightened out, whereupon he apologized profusely for being ignorant and short-sighted.

I never believed Zumbo's apology, and I don't believe this guy's either. 

Tim

I'm the opposite of a Bourbon snob.  I can, and do, drink anything and like it.  It's a gift.  Sometimes friends will gift me a nice bottle of expensive Bourbon and I never have the heart to tell them that for me a twenty dollar Costco bottle of Jim Beam is the cat's meow.  Expensive booze is wasted on me.

Tim

Dennis Miller is a rabid gun-hater, so if he inexplicably fell off the face of the Earth it wouldn't bother me in the least.  I even refused to watch Monday Night Football when that POS was on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW05DQeWUZY

Tim