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by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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.
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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.
by 421dog
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..
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:01 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Quiz Time
Replies: 31
Views: 773

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.
by 421dog
Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:41 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Quiz Time
Replies: 31
Views: 773

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
by 421dog
Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:59 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Quiz Time
Replies: 31
Views: 773

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
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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.
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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...
by 421dog
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 ...
by 421dog
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 ...
by 421dog
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...