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  1. pmccarthy
    They are now called AKMs. I think he was a bit of a dinosaur.
  2. pmccarthy
    Surely a key skill is judging distances and having the threshold at 45 degrees. I was never taught to use points on the ground and have never done so.
  3. pmccarthy
    Apparently people with electric cars in the Ukraine are having to charge them from portable petrol generators.
  4. pmccarthy
    Engineer is not a protected title. Any spanner man can call himself an engineer. So what you did is fine!
  5. pmccarthy
    Should those be $B numbers?
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    I understand that the Microsoft flight simulator interfaces with a VR headset. My stepson has one and I tried it out, quite realistic. If you had a good set of pedals and stick it would be convincing.
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    Welcome. We are keen to learn!
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    I have spent time in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and a short time in Moscow. They all detest the Russians and the Russians don't have the mental vocabulary to understand why.
  9. pmccarthy
    Not if it is a Ford!
  10. pmccarthy
    In German it is scheissen. The gold rush miners used to call an unsuccessful hole a scheisser, later spelled shicer, because it still had one use.
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    My morning newspaper today tells me why we board aircraft from the left. It is a naval tradition, they say, because the Greek and Phoenician triremes had a steering oar on the right, or steer-board side, so had to pull up to the dock on the left, or port, side. A nice story, but complete BS. My reading of early aviation books tells me this: aircraft with rotary engines such as the Clerget suffered precessional yaw that made it difficult to turn right during rotation and takeoff. The preferred turn after takeoff was to the left. This meant that circuit patterns, even on all-over fields, were to the left. When side-by-side seating came along, the pilot sat on the left for a clear view into the turn and of the circuit. When airliners came along, the entry door was on the left so that the pilot could monitor boarding and confirm the door was closed. So there!
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    Yes, now 3,000 feet plus. I don't see why you would need the card. It is odds+ to the right and evens+ to the left of the north-south line. Very easy to remember. Wasn't much harder in the old days with quadrantal rule.
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    When Cleopatra fell off the barge she got counselling, but he said she was still in de Nile.
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    I have been watching vids of the shot down drones and haven’t seen a Rotax yet.
  16. pmccarthy
    I think that was a milletary model.
  17. pmccarthy
    Why two hand pumps. High quality bicycle pump will do it. It is worth removing a wheel just to find out which keys and spanners you need and how you will prop it up.
  18. pmccarthy
    With nitrous injection.
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    The headset sockets should be positioned so an accidental tug does not bend the plugs. I have ruined two headset mic plugs in my Foxbat where the sockets are in a rail behind my shoulders. The plugs are vertical, a simple lean forward can bend them, cost of the Bose replacement is about $300 each as the whole cable and noise canceller must be replaced. Or solder in a $50 plug and the headset looks crap. Never had a problem in 50 years of flying planes with sockets in the instrument panel.
  20. pmccarthy
    Nice room at Tumut.
  21. pmccarthy
    That prop looks like a real pain.
  22. pmccarthy
    WACs get PRDs. Female American soldiers get periods. Aren't acronyms wonderful.
  23. pmccarthy
    Dan is getting too silly to watch. And too much click bait.
  24. pmccarthy
    Six minutes is too long to be taxying in April.
  25. pmccarthy
    Foxbat support is not in doubt, unless Putin takes over all of Ukraine. They are still shipping aircraft.
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