"Outlandings" discussion

Well I just like to keep my trailer excersized. Ive flown small
triangles and came back home. It was cool but sort of boring in its
own way. Im working on getting the CAP to be my crew for at least
some flights this summer. that should be cool! Might have to add a
tent to my landout kit!

I have landed at a few airports and I guess I wouldnt technically
consider them landouts from my perspective but they certainly are from
the crews perspective. Short wings are good for missing the runway
lights

wrote:
Well I just like to keep my trailer excersized. Ive flown small
triangles and came back home. It was cool but sort of boring in its
own way. Im working on getting the CAP to be my crew for at least
some flights this summer. that should be cool! Might have to add a
tent to my landout kit!

Why would a Civil Aviation Publication require a tent?


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

It's Shaw's "two countries divided by a common language" again,
Martin. In aviation parlance over here, CAP means Civil Air Patrol,
the guys who go out searching for overdue pilots.

It's easy to get confused. A few weeks ago, you started a post with
"snap". I couldn't find anything in your post that indicated something
was broken, but then an English friend explained the game you were
referring to. Another confusing point was a reference to Noddy in
another posting - Wikipedia explained that over here we'd use Mickey
Mouse. Finally, there's that Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson thing...

English as she are spoke...

-John


On Jan 29, 4:35 pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
wrote:
Well I just like to keep my trailer excersized. Ive flown small
triangles and came back home. It was cool but sort of boring in its
own way. Im working on getting the CAP to be my crew for at least
some flights this summer. that should be cool! Might have to add a
tent to my landout kit!

Why would a Civil Aviation Publication require a tent?

--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

wrote:
Well I just like to keep my trailer excersized. Ive flown small
triangles and came back home. It was cool but sort of boring in its
own way. Im working on getting the CAP to be my crew for at least
some flights this summer. that should be cool! Might have to add a
tent to my landout kit!

I have landed at a few airports and I guess I wouldnt technically
consider them landouts from my perspective but they certainly are from
the crews perspective.

From the crew's perspective, that should be considered a retrieve, not
a landout. If it were REALLY a landout, they would insist on a LOT more
pizza and beer than a simple retrieve from an airport. Not as much pizza
and beer as if you were flying an ASW 17, of course, but definitely more
than for an airport landing.

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Maybe snap and war are similar. Throw down cards rapidly
in turn and if two in a row have the same number, the
first person to shout 'War' and grab it wins the pile.
Object is to claim all the cards.

At 23:06 30 January 2008, Jcarlyle wrote:
Hi, Martin,

I thought snap was a game that was played throughout
the card-playing
world. Rather like Monopoly and the board-game world.

From what my friend told me, I don't believe there's
any equivalent
game in the US.

What is the US English equivalent of 'Snap!'? I can't
think of one
apart from 'Right!'.

How about: Me, too! Ditto! Same here!

Funny how the same ideas can have two completely different
names. Still,
at least Murphy is known everywhere. Or does he have
different names in
other languages?

I think Murphy is world-wide. Here's an interesting
site
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html
on Murphy, who
appears to be a modern incarnation of Sod's Law.

-John