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Batninth - brilliant 
Whirlygig - For a good use of real estate ShyTorque's "base" has to be one of the best!
ShyTorque - I operated out of NF with a previous aeroplane, but the present one is DEFINITELY staying away from there! You don't get 1000nm range without the odd penalty
Whirlygig - For a good use of real estate ShyTorque's "base" has to be one of the best!
ShyTorque - I operated out of NF with a previous aeroplane, but the present one is DEFINITELY staying away from there! You don't get 1000nm range without the odd penalty
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Great post. As some folk have already said, isn't it interesting how different an impression one can get of someone from their writing to what they are really like. And yet online dating is so popular..... I wonder how many are disappointed when they meet "in the flesh" for the first time?
PilotDar - Ontario? Whereabouts? My relatively regular stop there is Carp, CYRP. Great folks, and a really nice airport
PilotDar - Ontario? Whereabouts? My relatively regular stop there is Carp, CYRP. Great folks, and a really nice airport
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And yet online dating is so popular..... I wonder how many are disappointed when they meet "in the flesh" for the first time?
but it actually works quite well. It works because you know the other person is definitely "looking" so it cuts out the usual silly society games. The best strategy is to swap pics, basic details, and then meet up ASAP without getting into much correspondence. The people who go for months of emails are usually shocked when they meet up because anybody with more than half a brain can create a pretty good (bogus) impression in the written language Whereas here on pprune almost everybody is trying to be anonymous indefinitely
So you get months of postings and one forms the wrong impression from them. Actually a careful reader can detect the made-up tales here too...
The Original Whirly
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And yet online dating is so popular..... I wonder how many are disappointed when they meet "in the flesh" for the first time?
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a great idea . . . . . . !
There was a time when many of us on here knew each other in Real Life. This thread makes me think we must be due for another Private Flying meeting/fly-in/bash/get-together. Any thoughts?
Get together is a great idea, given time to prepare I'd be game for almost anywhere, but central in the country would seem sensible !
Has also reminded me, Whirlybird, I promised to drop in and say hello at Tatenhill one Saturday, didn't I ? ! Promise I'll get round to that in the New Year !
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Merry Christmas PPruNers,
This Christmas I am reminded of Pompey Paul's great gift to many of us last year, of actually thinking about who all of us are. Anonymous perhaps, but we're actual people too!
I hope eveyone enjoys friends and family, and is safe this holiday season...
This Christmas I am reminded of Pompey Paul's great gift to many of us last year, of actually thinking about who all of us are. Anonymous perhaps, but we're actual people too!
I hope eveyone enjoys friends and family, and is safe this holiday season...
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Well, I am afraid I am in the icing but a very Merry Christmas to one and all from the not so sunny Alps.
I love the personna and cant believe how accurate it is.
Thank you for the great debates and interesting posts. To many more next year.
(Sadly I renewed my mountain rating last week in between sliding around on the white stuff and the wet stuff - it rained all day yesterday!)
but a very Merry Christmas to one and all from the not so sunny Alps.I love the personna and cant believe how accurate it is.
Thank you for the great debates and interesting posts. To many more next year.
(Sadly I renewed my mountain rating last week in between sliding around on the white stuff and the wet stuff - it rained all day yesterday!)
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Pompey till I die
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Merry Xmas to you all!!!!
Can't fly as much as I used to due to a forthcoming wedding and new house to start the family in. Still come and read the forums though, still keeping the license going. Made me smile to see this thread around at Christmas time.
Right, where's the cranberry sauce and how come Pompey are still bottom?!?!?
Right, where's the cranberry sauce and how come Pompey are still bottom?!?!?
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Well, it's nearly that time of year again, to remember PPRuNers.
Many have come, a few have gone, and at least one has changed his identity on PPRuNe. I've had the pleasure of meeting a few more of you in the last few years - s a pleasure every time! Pompey Paul, I'm still trying to catch up to you...
Merry Christmas PPRuNers!
Many have come, a few have gone, and at least one has changed his identity on PPRuNe. I've had the pleasure of meeting a few more of you in the last few years - s a pleasure every time! Pompey Paul, I'm still trying to catch up to you...
Merry Christmas PPRuNers!
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Hope it's appropriate to mention we recently had a modest "low countries pprune private flyers" meet with just three Belgians - or rather, three pilots living in Belgium - one looking precisely exactly as I had pictured, though I am usually not good at this game; the other was not too far off either, only he was at least 20 years younger than I had imagined... Daren't wonder what they thought of me.
PS even if the meet was modest in its concept, setting, and budget, it certainly was a merry one, and called for a repeat. Might even grow into a "low countries pprune private pilot's fly-in" somewhere in spring, if that ever comes.
PS even if the meet was modest in its concept, setting, and budget, it certainly was a merry one, and called for a repeat. Might even grow into a "low countries pprune private pilot's fly-in" somewhere in spring, if that ever comes.
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When I think of those "little special things" at Christmas time, this thread comes to mind. Over the years, and after many pleasant meetings with PPRuNers (one just this week), I like to remind myself that there are very nice, interesting people behind these identities. Those people "make" PPRuNe.
Beyond correcting each others facts, and attempting to influence their opinions, it's nice just to enjoy the thought of a group with a common enjoyed interest, and the generous attitude to jump in and participate.
Merry Christmas PPRuNers, and particularly Pompey Paul, wherever you are...
Beyond correcting each others facts, and attempting to influence their opinions, it's nice just to enjoy the thought of a group with a common enjoyed interest, and the generous attitude to jump in and participate.
Merry Christmas PPRuNers, and particularly Pompey Paul, wherever you are...
The Original Whirly
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
Pilot DAR, thanks for resurrecting this thread. I'd forgotten it and I had a good laugh about the description of me. "Militaristic and invariably correct" ????? Noooo.... And I still wish I could rotate my head 360 degrees.