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Old 07-09-13, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Hermes
We are on our way to Geneva Switzerland for the start of our bicycle tour to Marseille, France and then flying to London for 5 days. Nothing but Fred rides, eating and drinking.
Looking forwards to reports and pictures.
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@Hermes, I didn't need no stinking Race Predictor to figure that out.
Ditto!
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Originally Posted by Allegheny Jet
Looking forwards to reports and pictures.
And sightings!
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I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
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Originally Posted by shovelhd
I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
All right!!!!!! Fingers crossed for you....!
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We responded as part of mutual aid to that Asiana accident at SFO along with two of our other bases, three aircraft total. Only one helicopter took any patients. We and one other were released, which turned out to be a good thing. From a pilot standpoint, it was readily evident that the accident was pilot error all the way. I could plainly see that by the debris distribution as I flew by the accident scene to land on the parallel taxiway to 28R.



The view from where I was parked. That United 747 had a hell of a view. They were lucky nothing hit them.



Us, taken from our partner's aircraft.

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Originally Posted by shovelhd
I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
Good luck!
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Once again thunderstorms will roll in this afternoon giving us the usual 1/2" - 1" rainfall. The same pattern has been going on for three weeks. I'm wondering how it would work to spray down the road bike with simple green before the ride to clean up the bike before tomorrow's crit?
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Originally Posted by shovelhd
I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
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Originally Posted by shovelhd
I got my first callback for a job opportunity this morning. Needed immediately. Rate is lower than I'd like. Let's see where this goes.
Hopefully it's just a start point for negotiations. Fingers crossed for you.
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Right on schedule for 5:00 PM making today the 20th consecutive day with rain.

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Originally Posted by Cleave
Indeed! I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you.
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Originally Posted by sarals
From a pilot standpoint, it was readily evident that the accident was pilot error all the way.
It reminded me of when my son and I were taking pilot lessons. I was too short on an approach, and was attempting to correct by pulling back on the yoke. I raised a puff of dirt as I just made it to the tarmac after being prompted to point the nose -down- and get some more airspeed. Got a "everyone okay?" query from the tower. My son never let me forget it, not that I ever would. One has to keep the speed up and, from the reports I've read, apparently a few knots make a huge difference even for that jetliner. My son was ~12 at the time, and the instructor jury-rigged wood risers on the pedals. The deal was that he had to approach it as if he could actually get his license, doing all the same bookwork I was doing. Folks would gather around during our sessions at the FBO as he answered (always correctly) questions on such things as lift and thrust. He was once asked in class what was scary, in a generic sense, and he replied "practicing full power stalls". I can confirm that it was sure scary from the back seat.

Good memories, brought up by an awful incident.
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Piloting a plane at 12? Wow. You are one cool Dad.
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Originally Posted by shovelhd
Piloting a plane at 12? Wow. You are one cool Dad.
Yes he is!

The key to low airspeed is power. Get some power on. Now. The engines the triple seven uses, the one that crashed, were high bypass turbofans made by Pratt and Whitney (others use GE's and Rolls Royce). They have an enormous fan on the front of them that is driven by a dedicated power turbine(s). From what I understand, the engines were at idle thrust. Turbine engines by nature are slow to accelerate from idle, not like a recip. Those big motors spool up even slower with all that fan mass to get spinning. The practice is to "stand the throttles up" - move them halfway up the quadrant and wait for the engines to catch up - then advance the rest of the way. That can take several seconds. By the time the cockpit crew recognized the low airspeed condition, as well as the fact that they were way below the glideslope, they had no time left for the engines to give them go around power. Sink rate got them, too. It was a classic accident.
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So, for a landlubber like me, it's sort of like turbo lag. The power takes time to spool up, and they didn't have enough time.
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So, for a landlubber like me, it's sort of like turbo lag. The power takes time to spool up, and they didn't have enough time.
That's EXACTLY what it's like, and yes, that's it.
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First kinda job offer today. I had questions after the call, and they had closed up shop for the day, so I'll hopefully get stuff clarified tomorrow morning. If it works out, I'll be in Lebanon (the one next to Israel) by the end of the month.
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First kinda job offer today. I had questions after the call, and they had closed up shop for the day, so I'll hopefully get stuff clarified tomorrow morning. If it works out, I'll be in Lebanon (the one next to Israel) by the end of the month.
OMG....be careful!
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First kinda job offer today. I had questions after the call, and they had closed up shop for the day, so I'll hopefully get stuff clarified tomorrow morning. If it works out, I'll be in Lebanon (the one next to Israel) by the end of the month.
You're a spook aren't you?

Good luck to all in the job dept. My B-I-N just got hired on at one of the big cellular providers...took 6 weeks of back and forth because of (gasp) a moving violation on his DMV report.

Sara and I were both "pilot error" right after the 777 hit. Impact marks were pretty clear that it was a short landing; and short of some giant systemic failure that's a pretty hard thing to do these days in a jetliner. While I was pretty sad at two teenagers dying it's hard not to be amazed at such a low fatality rate in a crash like this.

A huge part of it was luck (a few feet shorter and there would have been bits all over the place) but the FAA is pretty active on the design side regulations. I've seen more than a few "after" non-regulated aircraft that crashed. Much smaller pieces.

Part of me wants it to come out that it was caused by some cell phone user ignoring the switch off instructions.

I kid. Sort of.
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Thought I would share the Facebook post we just put up, from TallWife. Her mother passed away this morning, and we head for New Orleans Saturday. It was wonderful knowing my Mother In Law, and we are all glad she didn't endure years of failed health. Not long ago, she was keen and vigorous. May we all be as happy as she was, for as long, then pass as peacefully.

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My Momma loved the wide open spaces and the wildlife of the West, spending much of her time when here with us walking and hiking. I have that in me, too, so I became fascinated by the owl family raising its young in the trees, and the neighbor's shed, just over our fence. I researched to learn they were Barn Owls, and I set aside some of my gardening to observe them each evening at dusk. I even let the grass grow long to encourage the mouse population and provide them with ample food. They have prospered, and we fall asleep each night to the sound of their soft screeching.

Yet when I mentioned "my owls" to a Navajo friend, she had a very subdued reaction, letting me know that in Navajo folklore, owls are harbingers of death. Yesterday, they seemed to me to be true symbols of life, and of the West, when they circled my yard several times as I stared in admiration. But my friend, the Navajo, was just as right as I was. This morning my dear mother died a gentle death. She would have loved knowing her passing was heralded by a family of owls. She would have smiled one those smiles that lit up the lives of so many of us who knew her. My mother lived a full life, enriching those around her. We will miss her, but that will be our only pain, because Momma died happy, just as she lived.

We will continue to enjoy our owls, and remember our mother.


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Touched. Sad. Want to cheer up my friend.
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AzT - My thoughts and prayers go out to your wife and her family. It sounds like your mother-in-law was a woman to celebrate!
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You're a spook aren't you?
Nah, research, cube rat. A look inside my world, from someone who's definitely an insider:
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