Our Airline...What are they upto?
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Here,Here. If the moderators won't stop BB spoiling the thread for everyone then I agree close it . It is just a pity that they let one fool spoil it for all when almost every contributer has complained about his inane nonsense. Unfortunately due to their non action he will only pollute any new thread started so I guess you need to call for action against this idiot rather than complain about what was a relevant thread. Then again he will probably simply return as another name as I suspect he has already done ,so in hind sight I guess all we can do is ignore his posts as I said before and thereby stop feeding his warped ego. The unfortunate thing is his damaged mind will even gain pleasure from this post
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The petty and juvenile bickering was becoming tiring. Glad to see that ivan ellerbai has dropped the matter and one hopes blackbandit, too, exhibits similar wisdom.
However, but by no means getting involved in their spat, I have the following for them both:-
et al - has no tense as is claimed. It simply means "and others".
Rumination - you don't need to be a ruminant to partake in rumination. If you believe that then you don't have the grasp on English you seem to believe you have. Ruminant, as an adjective, is to be meditative or contemplative - hence, meditation and contemplation.
Don't either of you waste your time responding to the above paragraph, I will not be drawn into it.
Feenix's general point is valid, the post doesn't need closing, rather, a higher standard of posting is required by one poster in particular and to a lesser degree by others.
Please desist, blackbandit, from your usual outbursts which have culminated in you being ignored by many but instead contribute in a worthwhile manner to help get this thread back on track.
However, but by no means getting involved in their spat, I have the following for them both:-
et al - has no tense as is claimed. It simply means "and others".
Rumination - you don't need to be a ruminant to partake in rumination. If you believe that then you don't have the grasp on English you seem to believe you have. Ruminant, as an adjective, is to be meditative or contemplative - hence, meditation and contemplation.
Don't either of you waste your time responding to the above paragraph, I will not be drawn into it.
Feenix's general point is valid, the post doesn't need closing, rather, a higher standard of posting is required by one poster in particular and to a lesser degree by others.
Please desist, blackbandit, from your usual outbursts which have culminated in you being ignored by many but instead contribute in a worthwhile manner to help get this thread back on track.
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Peter Brady
If you don't like the thread don't come hear! Simple! ITS A RUMOUR SITE!!
But I can't see one reason why the thread should be closed.
Its funny, irrelevant and very informative or miss informative depending on your point of view.
As for BB he must think its like shooting fish in a barrel except that fish have a higher IQ.
If you don't like the thread don't come hear! Simple! ITS A RUMOUR SITE!!
But I can't see one reason why the thread should be closed.
Its funny, irrelevant and very informative or miss informative depending on your point of view.
As for BB he must think its like shooting fish in a barrel except that fish have a higher IQ.
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Flew H.E and the Minister for Aviation to BNE today and had an in depth chat with them enroute. Now before i am accused of allowing VIP's into my cockpit, it was a 3 man crew and i had plenty of time to sit in row 1.....
Asked what significance October had if any? "October my butt, bring it on!" Such a fighter my little nephew is....H.E is quite a gambler and would like some odds, whoever is willing to offer them....any takers?
Off the record, the so called 'insiders who are supposed to have signed contracts etc are actually pretenders, not even close to the decision making process.'
I do hate it when old farts (yes, ye know who you are) pass on rumours. When truth be found its all bloody wind up someones alley.
I heard this comment the other day from the boys at Henderson, "beware the Ni-Vanuatu mafia."
I wonder if a certain pilot in NF can be added to this group.
Asked what significance October had if any? "October my butt, bring it on!" Such a fighter my little nephew is....H.E is quite a gambler and would like some odds, whoever is willing to offer them....any takers?Off the record, the so called 'insiders who are supposed to have signed contracts etc are actually pretenders, not even close to the decision making process.'
I do hate it when old farts (yes, ye know who you are) pass on rumours. When truth be found its all bloody wind up someones alley.
I heard this comment the other day from the boys at Henderson, "beware the Ni-Vanuatu mafia."
I wonder if a certain pilot in NF can be added to this group.
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Good on you Coco !! Nice to see the thumb coming back up and more bars on the sleeve of this thread. Its definitely the SS and Mafia that are the problem. Think long term sustainable forest.
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Peter
You are a rather confused boy.
I suggest that you tuck away the thesaurus and come up with a logical and coherent argument. In one post you demand the the thread to be close because of puerile irrelevance. The next you engage in exactly what you rant against.
Ever thought of the priesthood!
Revel on (what ever that means)
Now back to the topic
I love to hear more about this Ni Vanuatu Mafia!
Sounds highly unlikely.
You are a rather confused boy.
I suggest that you tuck away the thesaurus and come up with a logical and coherent argument. In one post you demand the the thread to be close because of puerile irrelevance. The next you engage in exactly what you rant against.
Ever thought of the priesthood!
Revel on (what ever that means)
Now back to the topic
I love to hear more about this Ni Vanuatu Mafia!
Sounds highly unlikely.
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Mains, had to shoot the NDB down to minima and heavy rain on final to get in. I almost thought i was in PNI again...heaven forbid that place appears on the schedule????
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heaven forbid that place appears on the schedule????
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A375, hell man, its been a few years since i was in PNI and by your own words, probably more since you were there.
PNI, the Venice of the Pacific, never in my flying career have i ever been in such heavy blinding rain, and usually on short final too. GUM in typhoon season and MNL are 'simple' because of their ILS, but PNI, NDB and a bloody big Sokes Rock for short final ..i will say this, after flying the Pacific and the short runways, everything in India, Africa, Japan, and NLK on a really bad day dont even come close.
Heard this from a new f/o the other day 'shot 3 approaches into NLK, landed and the legs shook,', all i could say was, been there, done that, including the shakes!'
Hehe!
PNI, the Venice of the Pacific, never in my flying career have i ever been in such heavy blinding rain, and usually on short final too. GUM in typhoon season and MNL are 'simple' because of their ILS, but PNI, NDB and a bloody big Sokes Rock for short final ..i will say this, after flying the Pacific and the short runways, everything in India, Africa, Japan, and NLK on a really bad day dont even come close.
Heard this from a new f/o the other day 'shot 3 approaches into NLK, landed and the legs shook,', all i could say was, been there, done that, including the shakes!'
Hehe!
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Flying the Pacific?
The pacific is probably one of the most benign environs in the world.
All showers are "low level", unless of course you're referring to virga???
Get a grip mate, or rather, loosen your grip!
All showers are "low level", unless of course you're referring to virga???
Get a grip mate, or rather, loosen your grip!
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Sure -in the Tropics you don't get moving frontal systems with their nasties, but you get an east-west ITF or convergence zone where the cyclones form. You don't get fog, or only at the lower ports. You do get big afternoon thunderstorms, but you can dodge them providing they are not sitting on the place you want to land. The heavy rain doesn't last long, but if you have come a long way on a 'Pacific Thin Route', you don't want to muck around because the fuel will be getting down. Bad ones can be at night, when you don't want to go to remote places because of unreliable lighting or navaids anyway.
Three things in nature make me feel small.
Stand on the lip of a volcano, say Tanna in Vanuatu, watch the cinders fly and listen to it rumble and hope that that it is all it is going to do, because there is not a damn thing you can do to stop it.
Be on the ground in an earthquake, (with or without subsequent tsunami), preferably outdoors so thing don't fall on you, and know the same feeling.
Bunker down for a few days while the eye of a cyclone goes slowly past, stripping all the leaves from all the trees, blowing away leaf houses -(and the materials to make new ones )- destroying gardens, torrential rain falling in sheets, wind howling and gusting and swinging. And hope the aircraft tied down on the other side of town has survived, because you know you will be needed for relief clean up work later. And if you are trying to do a service to a port that is coming under the influence of a cyclone, knowing when to call it off as the crosswind on the runway gets too high, and even with the wipers belting, the lead-in lights, or runway lights, are hard to make out.
Sure its easy in the central Pacific, we don't have the snow.
Three things in nature make me feel small.
Stand on the lip of a volcano, say Tanna in Vanuatu, watch the cinders fly and listen to it rumble and hope that that it is all it is going to do, because there is not a damn thing you can do to stop it.
Be on the ground in an earthquake, (with or without subsequent tsunami), preferably outdoors so thing don't fall on you, and know the same feeling.
Bunker down for a few days while the eye of a cyclone goes slowly past, stripping all the leaves from all the trees, blowing away leaf houses -(and the materials to make new ones )- destroying gardens, torrential rain falling in sheets, wind howling and gusting and swinging. And hope the aircraft tied down on the other side of town has survived, because you know you will be needed for relief clean up work later. And if you are trying to do a service to a port that is coming under the influence of a cyclone, knowing when to call it off as the crosswind on the runway gets too high, and even with the wipers belting, the lead-in lights, or runway lights, are hard to make out.
Sure its easy in the central Pacific, we don't have the snow.
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Frigate, you gotta get out more bro.
And believe me, its for the best you dont have the snow bro, cos there would be a lot less of you still with us.
You wouldn't last 5 minutes in the real world.
I did enjoy the drama of your post though. Remember my boy, I was living in the places you describe while half your genes were swimming about between your fathers legs.
xxx
And believe me, its for the best you dont have the snow bro, cos there would be a lot less of you still with us.
You wouldn't last 5 minutes in the real world.
I did enjoy the drama of your post though. Remember my boy, I was living in the places you describe while half your genes were swimming about between your fathers legs.
xxx
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Lasted more than 40 years Bro, at better than 500 hours a year. Particularly remember a night ILS into Faleolo with the swells breaking on the rockwall as we got visual. But that was my decision, and those are MY memories. Get Stuffed. (Great man, my father. Champion lawn bowler too, look up the champions for '49 and you will see his name there. Still have all the club badges he used to swap when he was touring. Have them on a piece of black velvet, my favourite is the one for Gundagai with the dog on the tuckerbox. Have a similar setup for the wings of the airlines I have flown for on a smaller piece of red velvet.)
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