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An ordinary VOR display neither knows nor cares in which direction you’re pointing or travelling. So that bit of information is irrelevant.

An HSI knows which direction you’re pointing, but not which direction you’re actually travelling.

Deano, at the risk of sounding cheeky, I wouldn’t mind a copy of those BGS papers too, if you’re feeling generous 🙂 PM me?

Thanks Moggy 🙂

Yes, the Fiat is based at Booker. It was at Panshangar on Saturday, and left around 1500. It’s in Italian markings, with a similar style of camouflage to the Me108 but the base colour is dark with lighter spots. The nose is different too, having an inverted inline.

Deano — apols for borrowing the thread … how amenable is Filton to GA? (Reply by PM if you’d prefer!)

Janie — that’d be no problem in a Modern Aeroplane, but you know very well that the Emeraude doesn’t do straight lines 🙂

How much sod would a sad sod stock if a sad sod could stock sod?

Trinny and I can come to our first taxi-in

And maybe I’ll finally get to fly in from Stapleford 🙂

Janie: essentially, the brain adapts to colour casts, so when you’re in a room illuminated by incandescent light you see white paper as white, and you also see the same piece of paper as being white under fluorescent light. That’s fine as long as everything you’re seeing has the same colour cast.

The glass was probably green-tinted, green being diametrically opposite to purple on the colour wheel. So your brain factors in that green colour cast. Then, when you look through the gap at something that doesn’t have that green cast, your brain still corrects for the cast even though it doesn’t need to, hence it appears purple.

Ski goggles that filter out blue light make things look rather yellow. Once you’ve worn them for a few minutes you get used to that, and then when you take them off everything looks very blue. It’s the same thing.

Is that technical enough? 🙂