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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 21:06
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Thank you, appreciate the comments and I agree that total isolation in a hermetically sealed cockpit is the only answer, and then accepting that you will not be able to divert due to a perfectly innocent passenger medical problem, because if the cabin crew can talk to you, you will hear a screaming stewardess with a knife up her knickers trying to persuade you to accede to the hijackers demands. You'd need a galley tho' - for the 14 hour night flights.

Which is why I get very upset at the present security nonsense, which is achieving nothing more than preventing the odd screwball who wants to visit his grandma in Cuba, the real bad guys will achieve what they want, when they want to, and are just laughing at us.

Aus. has just introduced full body X-ray scanners - to public uproar. and it has been admitted that it will not show nitro-glycerine ( or whatever ! ) in a condom hidden in a body cavity. So just what is the point - porno pictures for the security goons ? Don't start me, I become irrational.

Sun shining, w/v 2 gusting 3, 1/8 Sc. Vis. 50 nm+ - time to fly the microlight down to an airfield 30 nm. away for lunch !! ( will take my GPS tho' - you canna be too careful )

P.s. Microlight ? ALPI Pioneer-300, V.P. prop. retractable gear, 130 kts cruise, 2 p.o.b. for 4 hours plus baggage - tell that to a Cessna 152 ! Still a microlight in NZ tho'
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