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  1. Birdseye
    Nonsense. Try a good crosswind.
  2. Birdseye
    Based on my experience, due to its appearance and configuration, its very easy to regard the Eurostar/Sportstar as a conventional light aircraft and try to fly it as such. However, if you try to fly it like a Cherokee or C172 you'll quickly find that it is actually a very light aircraft that lacks the inertia of heavier 'light' aircraft and requires greater finesse in handling near to the ground. Maybe that's the trap some fall into?
  3. Birdseye
    Yep, Allah intervened. Allahu aqbar!
  4. Birdseye
    Yes:sleep:
  5. Birdseye
    A number of countries have established or trialled operation from roads. Even in WA there is at least one section set aside for RFDS landings in the North West of the state.
  6. Birdseye
    Not sure any bugger has yet appreciated the subtlety of the comment 'you're seeing things'.
  7. Birdseye
    You're all seeing things, its a Mirage.
  8. Birdseye
    Yes, where indeed are the flaps set......
  9. Birdseye
    A valid concern I believe. Mae Hong Son is a very out of the way place to run a business from, plus that exact address pops up on a dodgy shipper's web site.
  10. Birdseye
    Somebody got the sums wrong again?
  11. Birdseye
    What's wrong about being creative with statistical data? We have entire government departments that specialise in it. Tit for tat.
  12. Birdseye
    I recall when they introduced the 'brown army' of BAA tan uniformed security people at Heathrow, sometimes back in the seventies. Now its not the uniform thats brown.
  13. Birdseye
    This has dragged on so long my memory is getting foggy, but has unlawful interference (i.e. cockpit hijack) ever been totally discounted?
  14. Birdseye
    I'd go with "pain in the ar*e"! As to the census, beats me why media (and presumably the ABS spokesperson) are calling a DDOS 'hacking'. Whilst it could conceivably be used to mask a hacking an attempt, it is not by itself hacking.
  15. Birdseye
    I don't see it mentioned much, but the wind variations that have been reported are a fairly predictable event. When I was working in Abu Dhabi (short hop down the coast from DXB) virtually without fail we'd go from an inland airflow to a sea breeze, just after midday from memory. Typically switching from SE (very hot and dry), to NW (very moist, less than 5000m viz and a drop of up to 10 degrees C or so). In fact the weather in that area is so predicatable its really boring. Did have some fun once when they tried cloud seeding, one successful flight in the whole 9 months or so of the aircraft sitting around, no rain in the UAE, but flash flooding across the border in Oman!
  16. Birdseye
    Designer's name was Bruce.
  17. Birdseye
    The rudder is the one thing that I failed to come to grips with on the Foxbat. I also made comment here about the absence of a trim tab when detailed photos first started to appear.
  18. Birdseye
    Kevin pulled for himself, just like every other politician and unionist. Last sort of person I'd like to see as head of the UN.
  19. Birdseye
    Surely just open the little window and shout "FORE".
  20. Birdseye
    Vaguely remember doing one in a Trident simulator at Heathrow many years ago, trust is required. Incidentally the minum RVR requirement at the time was (AFAIR) 75 metres and the resson for that was so the aircraft could taxi off the runway. As an ATC, I was also trained to use the airfield movement radar (ASMI) to direct emergency services to an incident in low vis conditions. All this long before we had home computers and MS Windows.
  21. Birdseye
    Out of the country for a week, something happens in Europe that results in four pages of bollocks being posted. Sigh, no wonder Bex is the most interesting poster on the entire board.
  22. Birdseye
    British Airways B737 at Manchester, an earlier example was a Gulf Air L1011 in the Persian Gulf where all died. BA example was made worse by the relative wind direction changing as the aircraft taxied in. In this case a small wind change may have caused greater issues. Can't see any evidence to support the non-evacuation on safe side so far. I wait for any contrary and informed reasoning.
  23. Birdseye
    A general comment I'd make on forecasts is that they are just that; a forecaster's (actually more likely a Bureau computer's) interpretation of what the weather should do. A pre-flight should include checking that forecast conditions match the actual e.g. is the temp and dew point in the forecast range, is the wind direction as forecast, is the barometric pressure in line with the forecast, etc etc? On more than one occasion, as a pilot and an ATC, the answers came up with no. On a couple it involved telling the forecaster/observer that fog was forming when there was no prediction on any forecast. Another day I cancelled a planned cross channel flight due to changed conditions that led to unforecast IMC conditions across the south east of England .
  24. Birdseye
    Apart from the motor and mounting there wouldn't be much left once the termites had finished.
  25. Birdseye
    Some of the chronology doesn't seem to fit the story. According to what I've read, the MkXIV hadn't arrived in the Far East before June 1945 and the Japanese had effectively been defeated in Burma around May 1945. If those dates are corrrect, then why would somebody be burying aircraft in mid-45 to prevent Japanese capture?
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