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- Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:07 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hot Air Balloons.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1755
Re: Hot Air Balloons.
So I'm up 100 feet in the dead still air in a hot air balloon with a pilot... Me: Can you go over there to the right? Pilot: Sorry, can't do that. Me: Ok, can you go over there to the left? Pilot: Nope, can't do that. Me: Hmm... well can you go forward 50 yards? Pilot: No, sorry, can't do that. Me: ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:54 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hot Air Balloons.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1755
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hot Air Balloons.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1755
Re: Hot Air Balloons.
When things go wrong in a hot air balloon, they go really wrong. Google "hot air balloon disaster".
The "pilot" is a passenger.
The "pilot" is a passenger.
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:16 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Cinder Runway?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1498
Re: Cinder Runway?
Like gravel. Cinders were the remnants of coal combustion. When I was a kid there was a factory nearby that had a cinder parking lot. The stuff is like gravel.
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Assistance compressing a large PDF file
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1596
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: COPA for Kids pilots now require police check
- Replies: 236
- Views: 24833
Re: COPA for Kids pilots now require police check
I've killed a lot of cereal in my day... shredded wheat, raisin bran, frosted flakes... guess I better not put any kids in the plane.
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Glasses with "digital block"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2477
Re: Glasses with "digital block"
Everything old is new again...
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:01 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Whats causing that shooting star
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1008
Re: Whats causing that shooting star
The concept of turd meteors is fascinating to me. I probably need to get out more.
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Whats causing that shooting star
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1008
Re: Whats causing that shooting star
Wow, there is truly no limit to the things you can learn in the "Flight Training" forum. I'm so glad I dropped by. This is much more fun than all that boring schitt about spins & stalls and adverse yaw and whatnot.
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
- Replies: 830
- Views: 85797
Re: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
Nobody minding the store? Some people think so.Eric Janson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:12 amThis has happened more than once at multiple Canadian Airlines.
- Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:07 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Navajo crash.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6229
Re: Navajo crash.
anyone who believes this story with no reservations and without question, is a functional moron with a severe lack of critical thinking abilities. My real name is DB Cooper, and I agree. https://www.historicmysteries.com/frederick-valentich/ Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappear...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:22 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Drama Queen pax runs to CBC
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6625
Re: Drama Queen pax runs to CBC
Retracting = rescinding
Autocorrect is unwise for professional journalists, but let's cut the kid a break.
Autocorrect is unwise for professional journalists, but let's cut the kid a break.
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:36 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: 3 dead, 2 uninjured in NWT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 21172
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Missing airplane on flight from Penticton to Edmonton
- Replies: 222
- Views: 49809
Re: Missing airplane on flight from Penticton to Edmonton
He is suggesting: a) There is something very valuable in that Mooney and b) The police would like to get their hands on whatever it is before someone from the general public does.
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:59 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Need a little help getting a "lift"
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5557
Re: Need a little help getting a "lift"
You could have stood out on the highway with your thumb out, and you'd be there by now.
- Wed May 30, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: .'s incident with TC
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7559
Re: .'s incident with TC
Was there a point to this thread?
- Tue May 08, 2018 10:53 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Forced landing on a beach caught on videos
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2869
Re: Forced landing on a beach caught on videos
Subject has been discussed for 20 years. Anything new developed? Don't think so.
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The Coolest Flying Jobs In The World!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9026
Re: The Coolest Flying Jobs In The World!
You have just described airline flying.HiFlyChick wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:30 am I thought it looked kinda boring going back and forth in a bunch of straight lines all day...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:10 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: What was that twang?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2404
Re: What was that twang?
Ah, Pontius. He made some fine cars, the Trans Am was a nice machine.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:42 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: What was that twang?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2404
Re: What was that twang?
Cretaceous or Jurassic?