I can’t help thinking these campers have swollen all the hype and spin created by the government (and media) about climate change.

Not all the arguments for an anthropogenic signature in current climate change are hype or spin.

Simply visiting the Met’ Office’s web site will give you a clue and there are many many more reliable sources on the web including respected scientific establishments. Most scientists who have produced peer reviewed papers on this topic are agreed, broadly, with the IPCC.

Those that do not agree mostly consider that the IPCC forecasts could be over optimistic and if suspected feedback mechanisms such as that from methane generation from sea-bed current and temperature changes and permafrost thawing kick in then climate change could be much more extreme. Other feedbacks could come when rainforest and pelagic foraminifera in the once cool oceans of the world become CO2 producers rather than sinks. We know already that ocean currents are shifting and oceans warming the results in increased CO2 emissions lag behind these trends so will come about even if we act now and begin to limit future race away climate change.

The PMs office have responded to the petition concerning GA flying at Kemble, here.[click]

What I don’t understand is the use of the word “Unauthorised”. It beggers the question, what do they mean by “unauthorised”? Surely authorised flying is the only flying Kemble allow from the airfield anyway?

What puzzles me is that in one line Cotswold District council wish to stop flying, i.e. flying in total and yet in another only unauthorized flying which I guess is whatever flying they at some point in the future consider as unauthorized.

In all, worrying.

Not only is that crazy, its also very very sad :confused:

Or could it be more sinister, after all a laser device could be less conspicuous than a shoulder launched SAM.:eek:

Me paranoid, nah!:o

Just sitting here watching the sun go down, and the planes fly overhead. Got me thinking about the crossover between Naval Terminology, and that on a plane

For example
Captains are on both, but not co-pilot
Knots for speed, but not fathoms for height/depth, but distance in Nautical Miles

Anyone got any more………

Matt

Well of course Wing Commander, Group Captain and Air Commodore all have RN origins.

Do not forget… 😉
XM296 – G-BVBI (Gloster Aviation Services Ltd) – N82D

A photo from 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Heron_1.jpg

Still in her admiral’s barge colours if a little faded.

Wow, a submarine made from bricks !!! 😀

RN’s new Tower Class, cool – they have Stone class sub’s now.:D

Why worry about what all functions are? Unless you are a professional photographer chances are you’ll never use 80% of them. I’ve got a Canon T80 which I’ve owned for 20 odd years and still haven’t found reason to use 50% of its functions.

I guess that full feature SLRs are designed to suite photographers with many varied needs and types of work.

I recall years ago that SLRs went through a silly patch where you could either have a camera with and Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority, plus Manual on any one camera type but not both. I never used one of these and am going by the reviews I habitually read in AP at that time, early 1970s. Remember Victor Blackman.:D

I find many features useful, both quick access to flash compensation adjustments and exposure compensation. Also the ability to quickly change from aperture priority to shutter priority or manual exposure settings and rapid change from auto to manual focus are appreciated. As for user defined and stored setting, program modes, my photography is so varied I find little use for these.

The Minolta Dynax 7D had superimposed flash and exposure comp’ dials on the left and the exposure and drive mode dials to the right thus many essential controls are quick to hand. This followed on exactly from the film based Dynax 7 which had some functions that made using film a delight, I have a little device that plugs into the lens mount and all the shot data for the previous seven rolls of film can be saved as CSV files onto a SmartMedia card. The Dynax 7 also had a neat ability to remember the selected push or pull ISO setting of a particular film type between rolls. The ISO selector was initiated by one of a row of small buttons behind a slim magnetically latched cover that closed with a satisfying click.

The Sony Alpha is less friendly when it comes to flash and exposure compensation but grows on one with a little use.