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fat albert
19th Jul 2001, 21:44
Ah, splendid....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13873708
BEagle
19th Jul 2001, 23:47
More wonderful publicity from our favourite newspaper. Can't help thinking that there's probably no smoke without fire though!
Legalapproach
20th Jul 2001, 00:21
Outstanding achievement.
Once used a Bulldog to visit my mum, but take my hat off to these guys! :D
uncle peter
20th Jul 2001, 00:23
cant get worked up about this whatsoever. currency is a nightmare at the best of times, why not use the opportunity to best effect. if that allows a few perks then so be it, lets face it perks are now virtually non existant. what next? ocu trainee seen shopping at BX - stealing potential cash from local shopkeepers? slack news day i guess
jockspice
21st Jul 2001, 19:53
I was wondering though........
what exactly is "transatlantic currency"? Wouldnt "overland currency" be a bit more demanding and therefore worthwhile than flying 5000 miles over the oggin? :confused:
Dan Winterland
21st Jul 2001, 22:51
I was in Alberta last weekend. Better not let the Sun know how we spent our rates in Hooters - Oooerr!
fat albert
22nd Jul 2001, 01:01
Jockspice - in a helicopter perhaps.
Oceanic is far more challenging...what exactly does one do between position reports - apart from listening our US chums exchanging baseball scores and "ride reports" - BTW why do you never hear brits asking for ride reports???
Anyway, over land or over sea it's all the same to us....hours of intense boredom punctuated by moments of intense tedium. :)
Tonkenna
22nd Jul 2001, 01:53
Couldn't get the link to work, who has done what? Is it interesting? Sorry, ofcourse not its the Sun (with the obvious exception of page 3 ofcourse :D )
Hi Dan
Tonks :)
RRAAMJET
22nd Jul 2001, 07:41
StopStart/FatAlbert (aka: S.F.A ?!):
don't know why we Brits never ask for ride reports - since flying for a Brit carrier and now a US one, I look back at how we just used to "tough it out" in silence in the UK one, and never tell anyone about impending food-missile conditions in the cabin. Astonishing, when I think about it. Okay, so they do overdo it in the US, but it breaks up the monotony oceanic, and the controllers let you know if they're too busy to pass on light turb reports on VHF over the CONUS.
I guess we just like silence so we can concentrate on the Telegraph crossword... :D
Ima Muppet
25th Jul 2001, 17:56
Oh but what a smashing opening ceremony...
http://candlezone.20m.com/image1.jpg
And check out the crazy cowboys in the after-rodeo party:
http://candlezone.20m.com/cowboys.jpg
Cheers everyone!
[ 25 July 2001: Message edited by: Ima Muppet ]