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perfect comedy. God, they could even take potty humor and somehow raise it up to elegant. Also love the part in holy grail (among others) that I also think of as perfect, with the whole “they said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp” and specially when they get to “we stay here until he...

Only as afterthought though, right! I mean it never set well...knowing that when (not religious here, just saying that the accepted wisdom is) JC was born, it wasn’t as if the whole world recognized it, “okay everybody, obviously we have to redo our years until now, countdown instead of up, and...

I didn’t think you were being one of those posterior thingies. :-) And I am not really enamored of the fairly long checklist for ore takeoff. My instructor is not making it clear (because we have a fairly “lazy little” airport, but it can be busy at times) what and when. If we had to, as the...

Now we’re getting to it! Assuming both have working radios, I guess it is just spur of the moment (after checking each other’s actual situation) cooperation then. No hard and fast rules that final or ready for takeoff have priority, right?

I had to weigh in on the jack in the box thread, miss those greasy tacos, for some weird reason, and they don’t have them in Norway. Now this. They try, in the last few years, with doughnuts. But honestly, they are light years away from ANYTHING resembling US, Dunkin or whatever the best donuts...

If it is from airline guys, aren’t they taking a big risk since they have flight recorders, cockpit voice recordings? Do they ever review them when not an incident. Seems like that would be pretty risky behavior. Easy to get caught.

someone here once mentioned a clipboard or something slipping and hindering the control yoke, after having checked it at preflight. To me this means it is well worth one last check just before takeoff. Autopilot, I agree, but it is on the clubs checklist and so, has to be checked, I think some...

If the fence posts are around three feet high, I’m guessing 40’ for the tower. Actually 37 but I rounded up. If they are 4’ I’m thinking around 50’ high.

im not sure, but feel like I maybe know what the guard police are. In my company every now and then someone sends a personal, or limited email to “all” which is like over a hundred thousand recipients. Invariably, others then send a “reply all” message, condemning the person, but at the same...

Well, again, not so interested in who was wrong, just what should happen NOW that the situation has happened.

It sure how it is with others, but we have separate “run up” and also “pre takeoff” on our clubs checklist. Pre-takeoff includes such things as last check of free yoke, mixture full rich, autopilot off, trim set to takeoff, transponder set to ALT, flaps up, passenger brief, emergency procedures...

Never mind how it came to this, I’m curious, if plane A did due diligence, and looked very closely at the sky, seeing no traffic, also announced it was “entering and backtracking runway three zero for departure” then did that and spent one or two mins. In pre takeoff checklist, and just as they...

Reading about the old days, seems like they were a lot more grown up than now. Seems like (maybe I’m wrong) they had a lot more feel for the brotherhood of flight. Also respect for protocol, for the incremental ratcheting of the general awareness of good procedures. As they learned what was...

if that is your name, sounds French. Maybe it is a European thing, even though Norway is kind of outside, way north.

You get it. This is what I’m saying. Joy, good will, melancholy all are feelings that need to come from within and used to in the old days at Christmas time, but because of cheapening, and commercial interests and influence, incessant and manipulative marketing, it’s gotten to be a parade of...

sounds great. That is a Christmas tradition I could get behind. I think I mentioned, but if not, my absolutely favorite thing at Christmas as a child was us three (mom dad and me) getting in the car and driving around to look at the lights in the neighborhoods around us. And by today’s...

They have always played by different rules. Where you or I would be summarily fired, with no severance we’ve had golden parachutes (fitting name, **** on folk) for many decades now even for people who obviously didn’t do the job, and ran a company into the ground with bad decisions. It’s...

Yes, I just had the impression from the report here that they didn’t even pretend he resigned as is usually the case. Again, don’t know the exact way they announced it though. Could be wrong.

I have no idea if it is so, but being reported here in Norway that he was fired, not that he resigned.

Wouldn’t all they would need is a clutch and pulley system? Some way to disengage the motor and gears, and some way of pulling it manually or dropping it manually? Maybe could rig up a way to disengage?