StephWouldn’t it be better to start with something a little easier?
The meaning of life?
The secret of perpetual motion?
The square root of 1?
For the Square root of 1, it’s uh 1. The square root of -1 however is “i”, a number belonging to the realm of complex numbers.
I haven’t found the meaning of Life but I’d be happy to find the meaning of My life.
Perpetual motion? I’m for looking for perpetual emotions rather 🙂
Steph
Steph1. Fried onions for food and the smell of a brand new car with leather seats
2. Writing and aerobatics
3. Probably but I’d regret it anyway to the point where it wouldn’t be worth in the first place
4. Jimi Hendrix: what was it like to come on stage at Monterey and to burn your guitar in front of a completely mesmerised crowd?
Stephmy mistake
Here is the image Oops.
However I know well what winglets are but I don’t how these wing thingies are called.
Thanks for the info and let’s see if you were discussing the same thing 🙂
cheers,
Steph[Bmused55]
Thanks for the spelling tips, I take them gratefully 😉
As for the delay, I agree 25 minutes is not a lot in itself but that’s 25 min waiting for passengers only. After this you still have the time between the pushback and the actual take off…
If I was one of these last passengers I would have been probably happy but still, turning up nearly at the printed take off time is pushing it!
Anyway, I have just received my suit-case so it doesn’t matter so much now.
Sorry for the ranting but it’s the first time I have ever come across a trolley full of bags forgotten at the airport.
Merci EasyJet
StephI just caught the name at the end of this thread… “Bruce Campbell”. Now HE IS the man! Evil dead, one of my favourite movie ever and Bruce is ace in it. As always a short appearance in Spider Man 2…
Would there be any other Evil dead fans on this forum?
“Come on, give me some sugar baby”
Groovy!
Steph
Stephyes, spitfires!
Sorry Dazdaman but my shots of the spitfires weren’t very good, which really made me cross on the moment but I’m only a newbie on aerial photos 😮
Steph
StephMy contribution
Hi there,
That could be my first post to the underworld of the general discussion forum. Here are attached a couple of shots from different holidays…not necessary the best photos ever but I really like these.
1. Taken on a recent holiday to Egypt. 6h30 am on the Nile
2. Sun rise in Egypt from an A320
3. During an ice climbing holiday in February
4. Yours truly jumping in the Alps during snowboard holiday
5. Holiday in Cornwall, Tintagel
6. Holiday in Bahamas
Cheers,
Steph
StephMusic in the air… Piccies
Hi,
As promised, here are a few shots taken with my digital camera and resized reasonnably. I have discovered that I am not so good at taking pictures of moving aircrafts but hopefully these are decent enough.
1-3: The aerostars, the biggest civilian aerobatic formation team in England, flying 5 Yak 50 and one Yak52. Leader Phil Ansell
4: The famous Sally B B17 flying fortress. The only airworthy exemple in the country.
5: Christian Moullec and his tamed barnacle geese!
6-7: The matadors: Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones, each flying a Sukhoi 26, who won the formation category of the World Grand Prix aerobatic competition last February.
8: Massed military helicopters from the school of army aviation at Middle Wallop.
9: Sunset
10: Balloon glow
Enjoy
Steph
StephSteve, thanks for the great post! It was a good read and resonnates of all sorts of similar experiences I guess we all had at some point, fortunately with a happy outcome.
Just on the “oblivious” passenger side, I can’t help but agreeing that this is a strange but precious fact sometimes that they don’t realise we are struggling a bit 😉
Like the first time I got cought in some rain and had to turn back to actually land in that rain. I had a first time passenger who was delighted because it was really pretty, especially the rainbow all around the propeller as we landed. My vision of it was a difficult landing in the rain with the sun dazzling me on final. Didn’t get to see the rainbow!
Cheers,
Steph, off to Egypt in a few days YEAH!
StephThanks for your replies, I feel better now! I didn’t notice that this was just featured on a military METAR and not on other airfields METARs.
Hopefully the day will remain blue 😉
Steph
StephI’m not Froggy
Hi Janie,
Err no, fortunately or unfortunately, I’m not the guy known as “Froggy”.
Though I would not mind having done a flight to Le Touquet as this would mean that I would have finally managed to have my Cross-Channel check out postponed too many times!
I have eaten frogs’ legs though on rare occasions and rather liked it.
I’m off tonight in my favourite Slingsby for a local with a good French friend of mine around Newbury, Wantage and Malborough so if you’re in the area, watch out, who knows, we might leap on you savagely 🙂
Now who are you Froggy, come on and make yourself know or I’ll start feeling lonely on this forum!
cheers,
Steph
StephPlease Steph, ANYONE but that ****** Clarkson. Eastenders and him are the only things that make me hit the TV remote really hard!
Sorry, I take it back, then 🙂 Though, come on Eastenders, this jewel of British television, how can you :rolleyes:
What about… Eddie Izzard, without the high heels?
Be ready to hear some REAL British insults!
Oh boy, what am I in for? 🙂
StephMais oui monsieur!
Thanks Melvyn to acknowledge my existence!
However, no matter what the punmaster says, I didn’t have any fleas on me 😉 but I would love flying or building a sky one (!)
As I said to Melvyn, I did consisder coming with a baguette, a berret and a garlic necklace but considered it would be too much of a give away, so I just behaved French and we were all sorted.
Melvyn is made me thought of Jeremy Clarkson with all his stories, to what Kylie agreed, which the thing that really got her into him.
And off course he played “Blackie” (guitaristic comment).
At the moment he’s getting tired holding the tail of the tiger (in Melv’s world working on his plane) but the tiger is also getting tired so we should hope for a win in the next future and, as offered kindly, a free flight, whenever, right Melv?
Anyway, very nice to meet you Melvyn. I’ll have to ask Barry about you now 😉
Stephwhat about this famous one?
‘Come Fly With Me!’
Letter from Michael Braby, Copied from CSIRO Entomology’s staff newsletter, Gnatter, Monday, August 28, 2000
I have just returned from a short field trip to Africa. It was while I was stuck in the boonies, after making a visit to see Aunt Hilda, I found myself waiting in Kariba airport for a flight to Hwange. My flight was delayed, so I settled down to wait. And wait. Three hours later, we were finally told the plane was ready to board. Air Zimbabwe buys many of its planes second-hand from other airlines, and the one I got into was no exception. Dirty and ancient, the mid-size jetliner was clearly one that no one else had wanted.
Inside, I settled into the seats with 80 or 90 other passengers and waited. And waited some more. Finally, the pilot’s voice came over the loudspeaker. “We’re all ready to go ladies and gentlemen. However, we’ve been waiting for the copilot, and he still hasn’t arrived. Since we’ve already waited so long, we’re just going to be flying without a copilot today. “There was a nervous buzz through the cabin. He continued, “If any of you feel uncomfortable with this, feel free to disembark now and Air Zimbabwe will put you on the next available flight to Hwange.”Here he paused. “Unfortunately, we are not sure when that will be. But rest assured, I have flown this route hundreds of times, we have clear blue skies, and there are no foreseeable problems.”
No one in my seating area, doubtful as they might have been, wanted to wait any longer at Kariba for a plane that may or may not materialise, so we stayed onboard for the one-hour flight. Once the aircraft reached cruising altitude, the pilot came on the loudspeaker again “Ladies and gentlemen. I am going to use the bathroom. I have put the plane on auto-pilot and everything will be fine. I just don’t want you to worry.” That said, he came out of the cockpit, fastened the door open with a rubber band to a hook on the wall. Then he went to the bathroom.
Suddenly, we hit a patch of turbulence. Nothing much, the cabin just shook a little for a moment. But the rubber band snapped off with a loud ‘ping!’ and went sailing down the aisle. The door promptly swung shut. A moment later, the pilot came out of the bathroom. When he saw the closed door, he stopped cold. I watched him from the back and wondered what was wrong. The stewardess came running up, and together they both tried to open the door. But it wouldn’t budge. It slowly dawned on me that our pilot was locked out of the cockpit. Cockpit doors lock automatically from the inside to prevent terrorists from entering. Without a copilot, there was no one to open the door from the inside.
By now, the rest of the passengers had become aware of the problem, and I watched the pilot, horrified. What would he do? After a moment of contemplation, the pilot hurried to the back of the plane. He returned holding a big lucanid beetle axe. Without ceremony, he proceeded to chop down the cockpit door. We all were rooted to our seats as we watched him. Indeed, the passengers seated in the first five rows ducked for cover to avoid being struck by flying shrapnel.
Once he managed to chop a hole in the door, he reached inside, unlocked the door, and let himself back in. Then he came on the loudspeaker, his voice a little shakier this time than before. “Ah, ladies and gentlemen, we just had a little problem there, but everything is fine now. We have plans to cover every eventuality, even pilots getting locked out of their cockpits. So relax and enjoy the rest of the flight!”
for completeness, I have to include this link where such a story is questionned strongly, shame it’s quite funny:
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/fireaxe.htm
StephAmong the long lists of items that you will probably read in the thread, I would add that there will be times where you need to be concentrating on doing vital checks and therefore not disturbed. Also, at times you need to listen carefully to the radio and might ask them to shush suddenly.
It might sound pretty obvious but it is so easy to have your routine scrambled and miss important item because you’re being asked a question at times where normally the instructor stays quiet for instance.
Steph
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