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Merry non-denominational Holidays to y'all out there. Things seem a little
quiet here so here's my year-end wrap-up. Jeppesen plates are better because they'll get you in to a lot of airports when goverment plates won't work. It's because the minimums on Jepp plates are lower, because they're only used by really good pilots and professionals. They could sell them at the same price as NACO plates but then a lot of amateurs would buy them and crash. Personally I prefer a localizer back-course because there's less traffic there than on the front course, but the needle still moves backwards. I used to be confused about Class D but then an air traffic controller I met in a bar explained it to me: aircraft in Class D airspace are bing "negatively controlled," not "positively controlled" like they are in other kinds of airspace. He was pretty busy issuing taxi clearances into his scotch and soda to explain, but he told me I could find it all in the 8710. Whenever someone asks me how dangerous flying is, I answer, "Well, it's safer than a lot of other hobbies, skydiving for instance." Whenever I fly a GPS approach, I use my handheld as the primary guidance, that way I have the GNS-430 to fall back on in case the handheld fails. I simply don't trust "plastic airplanes." I didn't like Royalite when they started putting it in Cessnas and I don't understand why I should feel any better about them building the whole darn plane out of the stuff. Next thing you know they'll be building the damn things in China like everything else. And why does a new airplane cost more than a house? Computers used to cost $5000 and now they cost $500. Only wimps announce crossing a runway while taxiing. Everybody talks about pre-heating the airplane when it's cold, but I think pre-heating the pilot's a lot more important since most crashes are due to pilot errors rather than mechanicals. Used to use a thermos filled with coffee, but since that required pre-heating too, I switched to brandy. Lost in the debate over women in the cockpit is the question of what happened to good-looking stewardesses. Who cares if they want to fly a plane or drive a car? It's not like we're going to let them vote or own property. All responses may be sent to my assistant, Dr. Sese Mabuko, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Nigeria. Cheers, -cwk. |
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Great stuff C! Funny! Merry Christmas to you. I know you're being
sarcastic, but, you know, the one about the localizer back-course is true! Less traffic! LOL! -Frank "C Kingsbury" wrote in message k.net... Merry non-denominational Holidays to y'all out there. Things seem a little quiet here so here's my year-end wrap-up. Jeppesen plates are better because they'll get you in to a lot of airports when goverment plates won't work. It's because the minimums on Jepp plates are lower, because they're only used by really good pilots and professionals. They could sell them at the same price as NACO plates but then a lot of amateurs would buy them and crash. Personally I prefer a localizer back-course because there's less traffic there than on the front course, but the needle still moves backwards. I used to be confused about Class D but then an air traffic controller I met in a bar explained it to me: aircraft in Class D airspace are bing "negatively controlled," not "positively controlled" like they are in other kinds of airspace. He was pretty busy issuing taxi clearances into his scotch and soda to explain, but he told me I could find it all in the 8710. Whenever someone asks me how dangerous flying is, I answer, "Well, it's safer than a lot of other hobbies, skydiving for instance." Whenever I fly a GPS approach, I use my handheld as the primary guidance, that way I have the GNS-430 to fall back on in case the handheld fails. I simply don't trust "plastic airplanes." I didn't like Royalite when they started putting it in Cessnas and I don't understand why I should feel any better about them building the whole darn plane out of the stuff. Next thing you know they'll be building the damn things in China like everything else. And why does a new airplane cost more than a house? Computers used to cost $5000 and now they cost $500. Only wimps announce crossing a runway while taxiing. Everybody talks about pre-heating the airplane when it's cold, but I think pre-heating the pilot's a lot more important since most crashes are due to pilot errors rather than mechanicals. Used to use a thermos filled with coffee, but since that required pre-heating too, I switched to brandy. Lost in the debate over women in the cockpit is the question of what happened to good-looking stewardesses. Who cares if they want to fly a plane or drive a car? It's not like we're going to let them vote or own property. All responses may be sent to my assistant, Dr. Sese Mabuko, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Nigeria. Cheers, -cwk. |
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Good points. I usually copy all the good tips in my logbook for future
reference but with the misspelled subject line, I will have to discard this post. I share the good feelings that come with holidays and I with you. Merry Christmas. Deep C Kingsbury wrote: Merry non-denominational Holidays to y'all out there. Things seem a little quiet here so here's my year-end wrap-up. Jeppesen plates are better because they'll get you in to a lot of airports when goverment plates won't work. It's because the minimums on Jepp plates are lower, because they're only used by really good pilots and professionals. They could sell them at the same price as NACO plates but then a lot of amateurs would buy them and crash. Personally I prefer a localizer back-course because there's less traffic there than on the front course, but the needle still moves backwards. I used to be confused about Class D but then an air traffic controller I met in a bar explained it to me: aircraft in Class D airspace are bing "negatively controlled," not "positively controlled" like they are in other kinds of airspace. He was pretty busy issuing taxi clearances into his scotch and soda to explain, but he told me I could find it all in the 8710. Whenever someone asks me how dangerous flying is, I answer, "Well, it's safer than a lot of other hobbies, skydiving for instance." Whenever I fly a GPS approach, I use my handheld as the primary guidance, that way I have the GNS-430 to fall back on in case the handheld fails. I simply don't trust "plastic airplanes." I didn't like Royalite when they started putting it in Cessnas and I don't understand why I should feel any better about them building the whole darn plane out of the stuff. Next thing you know they'll be building the damn things in China like everything else. And why does a new airplane cost more than a house? Computers used to cost $5000 and now they cost $500. Only wimps announce crossing a runway while taxiing. Everybody talks about pre-heating the airplane when it's cold, but I think pre-heating the pilot's a lot more important since most crashes are due to pilot errors rather than mechanicals. Used to use a thermos filled with coffee, but since that required pre-heating too, I switched to brandy. Lost in the debate over women in the cockpit is the question of what happened to good-looking stewardesses. Who cares if they want to fly a plane or drive a car? It's not like we're going to let them vote or own property. All responses may be sent to my assistant, Dr. Sese Mabuko, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Nigeria. Cheers, -cwk. |
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Good points. I usually copy all the good tips in my logbook for future reference but with the misspelled subject line, I will have to discard this post. It's not a misspelling. It's a reference to an old but popular Ninetendo Game made in Japan and not-so-carefully translated to English. I can't remember the name of it. Anyways, at one point in the game, one of the villans states, "All your bases are belong to us!" Funny post, original poster! -- Jim Fisher |
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Ditto. (Top posted and quoting the whole thing, plus adding an additional
cross posting.) "C Kingsbury" wrote in message k.net... Merry non-denominational Holidays to y'all out there. Things seem a little quiet here so here's my year-end wrap-up. Jeppesen plates are better because they'll get you in to a lot of airports when goverment plates won't work. It's because the minimums on Jepp plates are lower, because they're only used by really good pilots and professionals. They could sell them at the same price as NACO plates but then a lot of amateurs would buy them and crash. Personally I prefer a localizer back-course because there's less traffic there than on the front course, but the needle still moves backwards. I used to be confused about Class D but then an air traffic controller I met in a bar explained it to me: aircraft in Class D airspace are bing "negatively controlled," not "positively controlled" like they are in other kinds of airspace. He was pretty busy issuing taxi clearances into his scotch and soda to explain, but he told me I could find it all in the 8710. Whenever someone asks me how dangerous flying is, I answer, "Well, it's safer than a lot of other hobbies, skydiving for instance." Whenever I fly a GPS approach, I use my handheld as the primary guidance, that way I have the GNS-430 to fall back on in case the handheld fails. I simply don't trust "plastic airplanes." I didn't like Royalite when they started putting it in Cessnas and I don't understand why I should feel any better about them building the whole darn plane out of the stuff. Next thing you know they'll be building the damn things in China like everything else. And why does a new airplane cost more than a house? Computers used to cost $5000 and now they cost $500. Only wimps announce crossing a runway while taxiing. Everybody talks about pre-heating the airplane when it's cold, but I think pre-heating the pilot's a lot more important since most crashes are due to pilot errors rather than mechanicals. Used to use a thermos filled with coffee, but since that required pre-heating too, I switched to brandy. Lost in the debate over women in the cockpit is the question of what happened to good-looking stewardesses. Who cares if they want to fly a plane or drive a car? It's not like we're going to let them vote or own property. All responses may be sent to my assistant, Dr. Sese Mabuko, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Nigeria. Cheers, -cwk. |
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Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, best wishes for
an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all... AND A fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2004, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wishee. (Note, by accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.) |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:32:25 -0600, "Jim Fisher"
wrote: It's not a misspelling. It's a reference to an old but popular Ninetendo Game made in Japan and not-so-carefully translated to English. I can't remember the name of it. Anyways, at one point in the game, one of the villans states, "All your bases are belong to us!" See http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/history/ for the history of the 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us' mania. See http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/flash/ for an animated flash clip of the game. |
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2004?? Must be a calendar from another culture. :-)
"Roy Smith" wrote in message ... Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all... AND A fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2004, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wishee. (Note, by accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.) |
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![]() "Jim Fisher" wrote in message . .. wrote in message Good points. I usually copy all the good tips in my logbook for future reference but with the misspelled subject line, I will have to discard this post. It's not a misspelling. It's a reference to an old but popular Ninetendo Game made in Japan and not-so-carefully translated to English. I can't remember the name of it. Anyways, at one point in the game, one of the villans states, "All your bases are belong to us!" "allyourbasearebelongtous" has been immortalized as a cheat code in Warcraft 3. |
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