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  1. johnm
    what about a jail house Ian if you get banned - you throw the avatar in the slammer - we can go and see who is doing time
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    what about - VFR has to be 1000 ft vertical from cloud I have done some gliding and I'd find it difficult to believe that all gliders stay 1000 ft vertically away from cloud at ALL times
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    how does 24:1 sound ? - glide ratio for a big bird - numbers from post 35 cruise ? - 35,000 ft 140 nm - 850,000 ft glide = 24:1
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    I'll halve that Old K (average 50 km / h) if a car could do 5,000,000 kms - the automotive manufacturing industry would be ruined car salesman would be hiring the mafia to pour sugar in car fuel tanks at night ............... etc etc
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    Tell us more onetrack ! ............ sound like a great story $ 10m loss for the paltry fee of $ 105 (115 less the 10 toll saved)
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    .................. ain't that life !
  7. johnm
    Gee thanks Turboplanner - I try my best ! Stuff quality and value ............. although they are fine attributes we all don't come out of the same mold participation an opinion is way more important ........... it adds to the fabric of the conversation - hence number of posts works well (all for fun with rank)
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    your postal code in a way is a ranking system (or seems to be used as one in surveys) ............... and we seem to be able to live with that the number of posts probably indicates interest, wit, keeness, good intent, a person enjoying and using the site - number of posts (as opposed to likes) seems OK to me
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    as said before - I am told the NZ model for accident compensation ? has been beneficial - a levy is paid by each tax payer ? if you lose a finger its so much - if you lose a leg .................. you get more. A life, more again no worse than any levy that any Oz now pays for the courts, pills, roads, health, aviation safety (should I also mention pollies ?) etc etc could be something to consider & might be a fairer society of course any change will mean someone will miss out on the existing money shuffle in our Courts
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    at least it did n't go 'pop' ............................. most did - unfortunately
  11. johnm
    (the non medical viewpoint) there seems to be a growing opinion that there is so much technology available that some / many prescribed procedures and prescriptions may be unnecessary or harmful its true, I watched an ABC program on it the cure might be more harmful than the ailment (I now expect all trained medical persons to defend their position !) ................... or is this just a popular misconception ?
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    seems airlines and health agencies have the same strategies DR ? ................. always enjoy your dissection of the 2
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    I don't think big superannuation is any answer ...................... a cheque does not stop mental / instability (assuming that's what occurred on MH370)
  14. johnm
    Chilling stuff - whoever the culprit ....... Does that Level of cockpit side security still exist ? - no one with knowledge can probably answer ? - but I still think there should be a mechanism to deal with megalomania int front window
  15. johnm
    2.12 is the most optimistic in that design looks like it could carry numerous passengers ............... Boeing should consider R & D for this concept
  16. johnm
    .................. please deliver all political clap trap elsewhere (religion as well) why ruin a good thread with such #$%^^&^%%$$#@%^&*&%$@#$%^&*((*&^%$@#$%^&*((*&^%$##$%^&*(
  17. johnm
    Well said m6 - never considered the design and build importance till u put it that way. It's a founding ? Principle and we should chisel it in stone - we should get that enshrined asap - ignoring ? politics maybe don Ramsey when he gets out on parole - assuming he doesn't pick up a habit - can help - how bout it don or others ?
  18. johnm
    ..................... tis an Agricola
  19. johnm
    Close - wrong country - mid 1950's vintage
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    ............... much bigger and brute'ier than Hummelbird
  21. johnm
    this ones partly disguised - taking a bath in a river (hop attachment works ?) guess.pdf guess.pdf guess.pdf
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    Good point facthunter. Would a glider nose pod fail at a wire fence ?think if you were in one or a pusher plane a wire fence would be something to avoid - with a tractor plane probably could be a good thing to slow you down ?
  23. johnm
    There should be an agreed understood rule that you fly right of track - though in this instance may not of helped ? - fly a mile or 5 off track - irrespective of the vertical separation thingy
  24. johnm
    its a bit like crossing the road ..................... 'the pedestrian' sometimes traffic slows down for a pedestrian (some traffic likes to speed up - just to make it that much more exciting) either way its a chance in 10,000,000 ? that certain traffic will deliberately try and run the pedestrian over and probably more likely that traffic won't see the pedestrian .......... and smear 'em
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    Sounds like an interesting place to work Dutch ! I guess the bosses faults (assuming the boss has some) are under scrutiny by many who think they could do better - but I guess civility should always be present. Employees are any businesses best asset what would be a few things the boss should change to get everyone smiling again ? quote dutch 'Mr J has endured some quite frankly withering, blistering, and highly deserved criticism of the way he runs his company from us. No one has yet been asked to love it or leave. I enjoy my flying, but I think my boss is a corporate psychopath and a manipulative a***hole. Some of his management team take that a step further. I once even emailed the Group Executive (who reports directly to the CEO) and told him it was pretty rich of him to demand cultural change when he and his henchmen had been guilty of appalling behaviour towards their employees in the preceding months (I used that exact language). I was invited to a meeting with him but refused to attend'
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