"Mike" wrote in news:rhEik.91$aA5.57@trnddc05:

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in news:qFwik.67$JH5.22@trnddc06:

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"RST Engineering" wrote in
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Good grief.



I was pointing out that if you gotta tell 'em who ya are...



In any case the term is crap and poor usage coming from a percieved
need to
"sex it up"

Civil Air Patrol reports "wheels up" and "wheels down" times back to
mission base and has ever since their planes have had radios.

Oh well, if the sily ass patrol does it, then it must be standard..

The CAP squadron I belong to has retired airline captains, and
professional pilots, and no cadets as members. All but one of the
members are pilots and almost all have advanced ratings including
several ATPs and CFIIs. We also have a B17 pilot from WWII who still
has a current medical and more than one pilot who has 30,000 hrs.
We fly all types of missions on a regular basis including disaster
relief, search and rescue, fire spotting, low level military route
surveys, and searching for missing pieces of space shuttle Columbia,
just to name a few. Perhaps you think that's silly, but then you
spend a good proportion of your time trolling usenet desperately in
search of something you think is clever to say, so I'll consider the
source. Perhaps sometimes you succeed, but in this case you're
waffling, but not man enough to admit it.


Nope.

Bertie