We need more

[PHXPhlyer]

I got my multi-engine sea rating in this aircraft:

https://www.google.com/search?q=N65NE&r ... B16BAg5EAE

A "Flying Dinghy"?

https://brownsseaplane.com/

They apparently don't offer AMES ratings there after N65NE crashed.

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2019/02/s ... ident.html

PP

[TheGreenAnger]

I got my multi-engine sea rating in this aircraft:

https://www.google.com/search?q=N65NE&r ... B16BAg5EAE

A "Flying Dinghy"?

https://brownsseaplane.com/

They apparently don't offer AMES ratings there after N65NE crashed.

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2019/02/s ... ident.html

PP

Are you a certified AMES instructor PHXPhlyer?

I had the privilege of landing a D H Beaver off the Duncan Dock in Cape Town under the beady eye of my ASES instructor friend some 20 years ago (he now being resident in Oz). It was a demanding piece of flying. I wasn't doing the rating but he gave me some training and let me have the experience, and it gave me an insight into the skill and the pitfalls that might lead one astray, not least berthing the aircraft after landing.

[PHXPhlyer]

I have maintained my CFI certificate for all of the 35 years since I first got it.
I made a vow to myself that I would do whatever it took to maintain it after all of the effort, time, and money that it took to get it. Also, if you let it lapse it is a Royal pain to get it back.
At first I renewed through additional CFI ratings (II, MEI), then getting signed off by the FAA (when they could still do it based on acquaintance). They ended that practice in the late nineties. I was also able to renew with the FAA on the basis of being a company instructor/check airman for a small commuter operation that, unfortunately, didn't survive long enough for me to use that renewal route again.
Fortunately, for the last 20+ years, I have been able to renew it online through American Flyers on a $99.00 one time fee for lifetime renewals.
The best money that I have ever spent. My next renewal, in a little over a year's time will have the amortized cost at under $9.00 per every two years.
I wish that I could find that kind of value in other things.

The only drawback to using my AMES instructor privileges is the pesky FAA.
The FAR's require an instructor to have 5 hours PIC in make and model to instruct in multi-engine aircraft.
I don't think that applies to ASES instructing, so I'm good there.

PP

[TheGreenAnger]

I have maintained my CFI certificate for all of the 35 years since I first got it.
I made a vow to myself that I would do whatever it took to maintain it after all of the effort, time, and money that it took to get it. Also, if you let it lapse it is a Royal pain to get it back.
At first I renewed through additional CFI ratings (II, MEI), then getting signed off by the FAA (when they could still do it based on acquaintance). They ended that practice in the late nineties. I was also able to renew with the FAA on the basis of being a company instructor/check airman for a small commuter operation that, unfortunately, didn't survive long enough for me to use that renewal route again.
Fortunately, for the last 20+ years, I have been able to renew it online through American Flyers on a $99.00 one time fee for lifetime renewals.
The best money that I have ever spent. My next renewal, in a little over a year's time will have the amortized cost at under $9.00 per every two years.
I wish that I could find that kind of value in other things.

The only drawback to using my AMES instructor privileges is the pesky FAA.
The FAR's require an instructor to have 5 hours PIC in make and model to instruct in multi-engine aircraft.
I don't think that applies to ASES instructing, so I'm good there.

PP

Long may you abide Sir! Aviation needs more of you

[Woody]

[TheGreenAnger]

"Ach so, die Ottos genießen die Wasserrutsche!"

Ach zu, ze Otto's enjoy ze water slide no!

I enjoyed that so much that I think I might watch it again.

[TheGreenAnger]

Even the otters in South Africa are out of control.

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/new ... f88915c172

Less of this...

[PHXPhlyer]

Even the otters in South Africa are out of control.

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/new ... f88915c172

Less of this...

Simple solution:
Give these otters their own waterslide and they will leave the paddleboarders alone.

PP

[TheGreenAnger]

Even the otters in South Africa are out of control.

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/new ... f88915c172

Less of this...

Simple solution:
Give these otters their own waterslide and they will leave the paddleboarders alone.

PP

Yes, you are right, Cape Town needs more otters and fewer paddle boarders.

[TheGreenAnger]

Well we certainly don't need any more dives like this, but the documentary is excellent, if pretty difficult to watch at times.




Watched this after seeing current women's unlimited (no limits) freediving record holder Tanya Streeter on a TED talk.

[TheGreenAnger]

Tanya reminds me of my better half in looks, and frighteningly in English disposition too!

[TheGreenAnger]

Australian actor Leo McKern brought Rumpole to life!

[Undried Plum]

The late great Feynman just about got there when he tried to explain it to the likes of me and others of my of my limited understanding of the four dimensions, but then I lost him.

This bint explains rather well, in terms that I can understand and can even replicate on a dumb computer, what these Nobel guys have achieved in practical terms.


"Quantum Mechanics brings us to the brink of what is impossible, but no further. It brings us to the point at which we shouldn't fully be able to comprehend what's going on, but no further than that.

These scientists [who've just won their Nobel Prize] showed that is that not only is Quantum Mechanics weird and mysterious and counter-intuitive; it is practical."






"It brings us to the point at which we shouldn't fully be able to comprehend what's going on, but no further than that."

I think that statement is brilliantly profound. Feynman, may his gawd bless his cotton socks, I'm sure would nod in agreement to that.

[TheGreenAnger]

The late great Feynman just about got there when he tried to explain it to the likes of me and others of my of my limited understanding of the four dimensions, but then I lost him.

This bint explains rather well, in terms that I can understand and can even replicate on a dumb computer, what these Nobel guys have achieved in practical terms.


"Quantum Mechanics brings us to the brink of what is impossible, but no further. It brings us to the point at which we shouldn't fully be able to comprehend what's going on, but no further than that.

These scientists [who've just won their Nobel Prize] showed that is that not only is Quantum Mechanics weird and mysterious and counter-intuitive; it is practical."


"It brings us to the point at which we shouldn't fully be able to comprehend what's going on, but no further than that."

I think that statement is brilliantly profound. Feynman, may his gawd bless his cotton socks, I'm sure would nod in agreement to that.

John Bell's work on divining that quantum entanglement (vide. Einstein's derisive comment about spooky action at a distance) is real, is fascinating as well as mind boggling. He must be regarded as one of the greatest thinkers that Britain (and/or Ireland) have ever produced (right up there with Newton and Dirac).

French physicist Alain Aspect took that work to its logical practical with this fantastic experiment.

As you say UP, Aspect et al won the Nobel prize this year for the physical verification of a form of Bell's inequality.

Bohm is also well worth reading on this subject although his 'pilot wave theory' is much derided by some.

We need more of this. Well worth watching.

[TheGreenAnger]

We need more of anything by filmmaker Ken Burns...

[Undried Plum]

Ben Franklin always struck me as being an Edinburgh person.

Both he and I, though not equally.

[Karearea]

A Day in London 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added [8:28]

...various shots of Trafalgar Square and various shots of Picadilly Circus and awesome train shots .

Excellent clarity and quality.
Very interesting to read the comments.

[fin]

It makes me wish I lived in a time when time travel was perfected. Would LOVE to spend an afternoon sitting there in the sunshine and enjoying more of that ambience.

[Undried Plum]

[TheGreenAnger]

We need more infinity.




Highly recommended!