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- Sat Aug 27, 2022 7:23 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: Approaching the glideslope from above! Fraught approaches.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 457
Re: Approaching the glideslope from above! Fraught approaches.
On the contrary, the local tower/approach is a training facility, and I often get vectors that put me over the FAF at altitudes and speeds that vex my autopilot and multiple magenta-line-generation devices leading to things not doing what they’re supposed to and resulting in a whole bunch of vocifer...
- Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:06 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Covid - 19: How is it affecting you?
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 36490
Re: Covid - 19: How is it affecting you?
Does the term “Lockdown” rub any of you the wrong way?
I’m a physician in the thick of it, but utilizing prison verbiage to describe a quarantine just sticks in my craw.
I’m a physician in the thick of it, but utilizing prison verbiage to describe a quarantine just sticks in my craw.
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
- Topic: 200 mile an hour tailwind!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1641
Re: 200 mile an hour tailwind!
Best increase I ever saw was a groundspeed of 345 kt in a C340 (tas 180 or so) at FL 210 over Pennsylvania. Pissed it all away waiting to get into TEB though...
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:39 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Limerick Thread
- Replies: 1693
- Views: 26751
Re: The Limerick Thread
A wench who eschewed thick knickers,
Had a right football go with 10 kickers.
Had a right football go with 10 kickers.
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:37 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Limerick Thread
- Replies: 1693
- Views: 26751
Re: The Limerick Thread
You had your limerick license revvied post hasre..
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:06 pm
- Forum: Experiences in Aviation
- Topic: God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11677
Re: God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread
Shamattawa, MB.
Truly the worst place in the world.
Spent 36 hrs waiting for parts sitting on a chair next to my plane on the Hayes river with more flies than I have ever experienced, so that the fetal alcohol syndrome urchins didn’t punch holes in my wings to huff my 100LL...
Truly the worst place in the world.
Spent 36 hrs waiting for parts sitting on a chair next to my plane on the Hayes river with more flies than I have ever experienced, so that the fetal alcohol syndrome urchins didn’t punch holes in my wings to huff my 100LL...
Re: Quiz Time
If you consider your later comment "...speciality is baroque..." your position is fairly unassailable.
I appreciate (and most certainly defer to) your in-depth explanation of current African geography.
I appreciate (and most certainly defer to) your in-depth explanation of current African geography.
Re: Quiz Time
14) 52 or so, I just did this in geography with one of my kids, and I dont know whether the spanish autonomous cities count
Re: Quiz Time
19) Benjamin Britten, The Goldsborough Orchestra/ECO...
But you were doubtless thinking that it was The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, founded by Sir Neville Marriner, who, like Harper Lee, Andrew Sachs, Anita Brookner, and Alan Rickman, died in 2016
But you were doubtless thinking that it was The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, founded by Sir Neville Marriner, who, like Harper Lee, Andrew Sachs, Anita Brookner, and Alan Rickman, died in 2016
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:11 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: News From The Venezuelan Socialist Paradise
- Replies: 30
- Views: 990
Re: News From The Venezuelan Socialist Paradise
Well, it is all just sad. Once upon a time, (before we had kids, and pre-Chavez) my wife and I used to buzz down to Caracas at least once a year in a twin of one sort or another, bugger off to Los Roques, when we got tired of the marlin fishing and ludicrously small Polar 8 oz beers, for a bit of be...
- Sat Aug 27, 2016 10:15 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The bar is open.....
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1418
Re: The bar is open.....
And I would have to do what to get a bottle?
If you're around michigan and appropriately equipped, I'll be happy to come pick one up in a T-28 C with an attached ride...
If you're around michigan and appropriately equipped, I'll be happy to come pick one up in a T-28 C with an attached ride...
- Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:56 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Johannesburg
- Replies: 10
- Views: 693
Re: Johannesburg
Written previously about the English Fish and Chip shop in Hillbrow. Best fish and chips in the whole of Effrika. Also about flying in family members of various govt hierarchies from surrounding blek countries for medical attention at BaraG, when it was the best, and I mean the best, hospital for b...
- Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:35 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The bar is open.....
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1418
Re: The bar is open.....
In a previous life, I have fond memories of Lion and limonade shandies for brunch, followed by Castle milk stout to accompany the boerwoers cooked up over motorcycle-tire-eating plant life on a God-forsaken spot littered with boer war vintage foxholes. That being said, I'm relaxing with a Bombay Sap...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:13 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Old time TV and Radio Comedy...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 478
Re: Old time TV and Radio Comedy...
Every night, E.G. Marshall's dulcet tones and creaking door lull me to sleep as I listen to streaming episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater. So effective is it as a soporific, that I'm only up to year 3 after five years of listening. Not uncommon to go a week trying to stay awake through one episode.
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:48 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1393
Re: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
Well, we do use chemical cautery in the form of AgNO4 sometimes, and I'm told that it feels similar to a hot
Iron...
Best just to do it right to begin with...
Iron...
Best just to do it right to begin with...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1393
Re: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
Sebaceous cysts are not, by definition, infectious. That is to say, the proper moniker therefor: "Epithelial inclusion cyst" is much more descriptive. Basically, a group of skin cells gets buried under normal skin and do what they normally do; that is, grow. The resultant dead, keratinaceo...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:17 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1393
Re: Day surgery, sebacceous cyst
Interestingly, smacking ganglion cysts with the family bible is just about as effective as the most common "clinical" first treatment (aspiration and scarification of the capsule with a large bore needle). Both work permanently about 40% of the time. Excision and ligation of the defect in ...
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:57 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Day The Music Died
- Replies: 8
- Views: 353
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:09 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: J'oburg...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 626
Re: J'oburg...
Op Cit. I spent 9 months there in 1977-1978, and have not been whole since. I went back for the better part of a year in 1991, and damned near got necklaced on a number of occasions for trying to explain to a variety of ostensively educated ANC and Inkatha adherents (medical students at Medunsa who ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: What DVD's have you watched lately
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1720
Re: What DVD's have you watched lately
After an extensive delay in shipping/customs, I received Henry Crun's Zone 1 copy of "Cone of Silence" which he was kind enough to give me when it wouldn't play in his machine and he was too honest to hack it. Phenomenal. From a streaming standpoint, I have loved both seasons of "Moza...