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#1 Post by llondel » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:23 pm

Quite a few familiar names on here, so clearly I found the right place. Was on TOP and found myself banned from parts of it with no warning or explanation, which I'm sure is a familiar story. A brief radar contact guided me here and I appear to have landed safely.

I'm more engineer (but not aviation) than pilot, with flying at the front limited to a couple of Cessna flights and a fun experience in one of Duxford's Tiger Moths. I have an interest in the safety side of things and the way investigators can piece together evidence and come up with the cause. This stems from my first trip to the US in Nov 1997 where I turned up at the factory I was visiting the morning after arriving and was asked if I'd seen the news about "the plane crash at Heathrow". A bit of questioning and poking around and I discovered that it was the aircraft I'd flown out on the night before (G-VSKY). I read the accident report when it came out and the level of detail sparked my interest and I've stuck around ever since.

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#2 Post by ian16th » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:26 pm

Welcome, from Efrica.
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#3 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:04 pm

...and welcome from a breezy Scotland.
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#4 Post by Woody » Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:20 pm

Welcome, think you’ll find plenty of people on here with a similar opinion on TOP, as we like to call it, but you’re unlikely to have same problem here as we’re treated as adults, even if we don’t always behave like them :D
Noticed that you’ve put San Jose as base, ever met LaserNigel?
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#5 Post by llondel » Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:33 pm

Not that I know of. San Jose has a million people living in it (technically we're about 400ft outside) so I'm unlikely to find anyone unless by prior arrangement.

In other news, it rained for the first time in five months yesterday.

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#6 Post by Woody » Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:59 pm

llondel wrote:
Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:33 pm

In other news, it rained for the first time in five months yesterday.
Weather reports we like them :-bd
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#7 Post by FD2 » Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:20 pm

Welcome too from down here! It's beginning to warm up at last after winter.

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#8 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 05, 2018 5:39 am

Another welcome from Africa.
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#9 Post by admin » Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:10 am

Welcome Llondel from Oz, and Admin and Alison, and ......

Fair bit of rain down here as well. Believe we've now had more this October than the previous twelve months.

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#10 Post by Ibbie » Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:51 am

Welcome from the Costa.

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#11 Post by jimtherev » Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:01 pm

And Jim late on parade as usual to say welcome from the English Midlands.

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#12 Post by Sisemen » Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:24 pm

We’ve had more rain in the last 12 months than we get in a year!

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#13 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Sat Oct 06, 2018 12:46 am

Welcome aboard, spend a lot of time in CA I do, being married to one of them. Not familiar with San Jose, but know SFO, normally spend time in Santa Monica / LA but enjoyed Santa Barbara for the first time recently.

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#14 Post by Capetonian » Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:53 am

Welcome aboard. The other shower will.ban you if they know you're here, thus making your presence more valuable to us!

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#15 Post by Hydromet » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:43 am

Welcome, LLondel. You'll find that in the apparent absence of moderation, everyone plays nicely. Even when we disagree, we disagree about the subject, and it doesn't lead to the personal insults noticeable in TOP.

And it's all good fun.

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#16 Post by ian16th » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:55 am

Capetonian wrote:
Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:53 am
The other shower will.ban you if they know you're here, thus making your presence more valuable to us!
It ain't necessarily so!

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#17 Post by llondel » Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:07 pm

I'm still there, just banned from parts of the site with no explanation.

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#18 Post by Smeagol » Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:32 pm

Belated welcome from me also (been in Belgium playing golf).
I am also an engineer and also banned from various forums on TOP for no apparent reason.
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#19 Post by cockney steve » Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:12 pm

Another "hello" from the Lancs/Yorks border. I'm "persona -non-grata" on TOP....every thread locked but PM's still work!.... readable if I don't log -in. My pet theory is that many are kept registered ,merely to pad the figures and make them more attractive to advertisers. Anyway, lots of "banished" refugees here and an
easy atmosphere....what more could you want?

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