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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 286
- Views: 10691
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Cassini woke me up around 2:30am this morning so I took him outside to pee[*] While out there I could hear a loud electrical buzzing noise off in the distance, but nothing visible in the dark. Out again at 6:30am to walk Faraday before setting off to the dog show, and I heard voices, looked in that ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3732
- Views: 141536
Re: Chaos in USA
Isn't it interesting how times and minds change. The Constitution saying nothing about whether a convicted person can run for presidency (if I have understood it correctly) or being one from prison probably means that it didn't occur to the Founding Fathers that anything like that could happen. Now...
- Thu May 30, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 286
- Views: 10691
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
But if they're over the house it's stuff downrange that will get hit. You only have to worry about them on approach.
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
- Replies: 7863
- Views: 302078
Re: Rant of the Day v2.
- W.C.FieldsIf at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Experiences in Aviation
- Topic: 'Swaying' 777
- Replies: 10
- Views: 283
Re: 'Swaying' 777
OK, having thought about it a bit more, I guess the main gear has to roll for it to spin like that, so that's where they should have the chocks.
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 286
- Views: 10691
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Two B52's have just passed over the mansion about 5 minutes apart, don't know if they will send any more. At 27000ft. and 400kts heading a fraction East of North wonder where they are bound. They've been coming over my place in Northants too, since they and two others were deployed to Fairford for ...
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Experiences in Aviation
- Topic: 'Swaying' 777
- Replies: 10
- Views: 283
Re: 'Swaying' 777
Chocks stop the thing rolling fore and aft, I don't see how they'd work sideways because you're not dealing with a rolling wheel but a sliding one. There's nothing on the side of the tyre to anchor a chock. It does look like the nosewheel rotated after an initial skid mark to the side and started ro...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Allergens on board
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Allergens on board
Of course, that's the total opposite to what we were told 20 years ago. Back then it was recommended to avoid consumption of peanut products for the first five years, so he never got any. Fortunately there are no peanut allergies as a result of following that advice.
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Allergens on board
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Allergens on board
I think there are treatments that help reduce sensitivity in a lot of people, but they don't always work and do take quite a bit of time. I think it's a case of administer some of the allergen under controlled conditions so the body reacts but not too badly, then slowly increase the dose over time. ...
- Tue May 28, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Allergens on board
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Allergens on board
Reference the peanut thing, it makes you wonder how the dear young thing makes it through daily life ? Probably very carefully, carrying an Epi-pen, and with occasional rush trips to hospital if she needs to use it. Some people really are that sensitive to anaphylactic shock. Surprised that the fam...
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: C206 Jump Plane Down in Missouri, Pilot and 6 Jumpers Parachute to Safety
- Replies: 9
- Views: 319
Re: C206 Jump Plane Down in Missouri, Pilot and 6 Jumpers Parachute to Safety
On a jump flight you can carry more than the normal number of passengers. They are sitting on an empty floor anyway and you've only got the weight and balance limitations to take into consideration. Just the fact that you've taken out the seats will allow for an extra jumper. Because of all the ext...
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 286
- Views: 10691
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Morning folks. Bit of cloud 25 degs. Just had the internet off for 2 hrs. It was our local mast which involves sending a chap out from town. Goats have just been for their morning watering. Have just put in an enquiry about a new engine for the ship. Ours was a rebuild and now ten years since then....
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: Spirit Airlines Flight Prepares for Ditching Before Landing Back in Jamaica
- Replies: 1
- Views: 93
Re: Spirit Airlines Flight Prepares for Ditching Before Landing Back in Jamaica
I doubt if Spirit can afford more than $50/passenger for compensation at the moment. If they'd gotten wet (excluding self-inflicted loss of bladder control) then I could see higher compensation.
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
- Replies: 6361
- Views: 232487
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Why should private education be VAT exempt? Private health care isn't. No-one is saying you cannot educate your child privately, are they, just as you have the right to private health care? The other side of that is to look at the relative cost of imposing VAT, how much they'd actually get from it ...
- Tue May 28, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Where Are They Now
- Topic: Departed During 2024
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8653
Re: Departed During 2024
Bette Nash, the world's longest-serving flight attendant, has died aged 88 after nearly 70 years of airborne service. The news was broken by her employer, American Airlines, which mourned her death in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "She started in 1957 and held the Guinness World Record for longest...
- Mon May 27, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: By the skin of his teeth........
- Replies: 8
- Views: 323
Re: By the skin of his teeth........
Trying to look at it on Google Maps, which appear to be a bit out of date because that last building is not present, it's just open field. I think he's coming into Bankstown from the north (presumably the approach would have been round to the east and then in on a runway), flying parallel to Surrey ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: By the skin of his teeth........
- Replies: 8
- Views: 323
Re: By the skin of his teeth........
And of course the security guy turns up at the end to tell him "You can't park that there, mate".
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: By the skin of his teeth........
- Replies: 8
- Views: 323
Re: By the skin of his teeth........
All but the earliest models of C210s have an electro-hydraulic gear extension system. An electric motor driving a hydraulic pump. The first models had an engine driven hydraulic pump. Procedure is to open access door and 30-35 pumps to lower gear. If he had extended the gear when he had sufficient ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: By the skin of his teeth........
- Replies: 8
- Views: 323
Re: By the skin of his teeth........
I assume that with no engine, it would take time to lower the undercarriage, or does gravity extension work on light aircraft too? He theoretically had a short window to pull a lever once he'd cleared the last building, but he was probably concentrating on more important matters, and I assume that p...
- Mon May 27, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: What do I need to know, GCA?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 453
Re: What do I need to know, GCA?
Arthur C Clarke had a PAR description in his novel "Glide Path".