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Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Oct 2013, 20:08
Replies: 60
Views: 20,992
Posted By Captain Gadget

XV222 to Mexican AF

Somebody actually bought 'Trouble Two'?

I'll wager the ferry crew had a good few nights out when trying to get Albert all the way to Mexico!

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Sep 2013, 13:12
Replies: 123
Views: 34,755
Posted By Captain Gadget

Last VC10 mission

The 2-ship just flew past Gadget Towers on their way back into Brize.

It's a bit dusty out there.

Gadget
Forum: Military Aviation
27th May 2013, 19:08
Replies: 10
Views: 2,864
Posted By Captain Gadget

XV193

I lost a lot of friends that day (is it really twenty years?), and in a place that is dear to my heart - I proudly wore the Murray of Atholl tartan at my wedding, and my connections to that beautiful...
Forum: Private Flying
23rd May 2013, 20:23
Replies: 13
Views: 4,002
Posted By Captain Gadget

Good luck! Gadget :ok:

Good luck!

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Private Flying
21st May 2013, 12:41
Replies: 5
Views: 1,256
Posted By Captain Gadget

Welcome back!

Dax

Your CFI has given you good advice. I did the same as you last year, except that my PPL had been issued in 1976 and I hadn't flown SEP since 1981 (or at all since 1992 - ex-military pilot).
...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Jan 2013, 18:59
Replies: 2
Views: 866
Posted By Captain Gadget

Hurrah!

Good on ya. however I should point out that I'm not in any way an organiser of said event, just a potential volunteer who thought that the Private Flying lot would like to know about this...
...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Jan 2013, 18:04
Replies: 2
Views: 866
Posted By Captain Gadget

Project Propeller 2013

Evening all

I thought that it might be an idea to draw to your attention a thread that is currently running on the Mil Aircrew forum (but is by no means exclusive to mil aircrew - in fact rather...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2013, 17:32
Replies: 8
Views: 3,059
Posted By Captain Gadget

Op Prop

DX - see your PMs.

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Jan 2013, 17:52
Replies: 8
Views: 3,059
Posted By Captain Gadget

UP!

Back to the top. What a great idea.

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jan 2013, 20:01
Replies: 43
Views: 15,575
Posted By Captain Gadget

Bulldog PDFs

I'd like to add my thanks to HFD for the Student Study Guide and Instructors' Guide.

Just started flying the mighty 'Dog again in 2012 (last flown with OUAS in 1978-81!). Boy, is this little lot...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Nov 2012, 18:40
Replies: 17
Views: 5,479
Posted By Captain Gadget

A400M - bit of fun

I've just been trawling some old posts (try it, it's great fun!) and have dug up these gems re the old Herc K/Herc J/A400M debate (C130J - Getting nowhere fast thread). And emphatically, just for...
Forum: Private Flying
10th Nov 2012, 20:58
Replies: 34
IMC
Views: 4,580
Posted By Captain Gadget

One for BEags...

BEags

Thanks to your pragmatism and savoir-faire we now all know (if we didn't already) that a UK IMCR, added to a UK PPL before April 2014, will result in a 'grandfathered' IR(R).

So far, so...
Forum: Private Flying
3rd Nov 2012, 21:52
Replies: 153
Views: 66,486
Posted By Captain Gadget

Obi Wan

Well said, Obi Wan.

May the Force be with you.

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Private Flying
31st Oct 2012, 07:38
Replies: 153
Views: 66,486
Posted By Captain Gadget

Aerobatics

BEags

Once again, good advice. However I should add that, since no Mk26Bs are yet flying in the UK, and despite the manufacturer's claimed +6/-4 limited aerobatic clearance (limited because the...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Oct 2012, 07:16
Replies: 153
Views: 66,486
Posted By Captain Gadget

City of Oxford Squadron

BEags

There are currently 2 more airframes partially syndicated - EN-E and EN-J. Not sure of the latest syndicate numbers, but I do believe that some further shares have recently been taken up so...
Forum: Private Flying
30th Oct 2012, 21:19
Replies: 153
Views: 66,486
Posted By Captain Gadget

OK, I'll bite. BEagle wrote: ...

OK, I'll bite.

BEagle wrote:



Well, the first airframe, EN-A (now its RAF-approved tailcode) has now reached its anniversary in construction and is now approaching the first ground run...
Forum: Private Flying
21st Oct 2012, 17:47
Replies: 150
Views: 18,556
Posted By Captain Gadget

Congrats! Well deserved

Hi Local

I'd like to add my congratulations to those above. As stated above, you are now officially an Aviator - there's no going (or holding you) back now.

And as the old Chinese proverb...
Forum: Private Flying
24th Jul 2012, 19:58
Replies: 4
Views: 1,554
Posted By Captain Gadget

stickandrudderman

Thanks for your post, stickandrudderman.

This is, in fact, the second open weekend that has been held by the project (the first having been back in September 2011, before I became involved in...
Forum: Private Flying
24th Jul 2012, 16:43
Replies: 4
Views: 1,554
Posted By Captain Gadget

Announcement: ticket sales closing 1800 Friday

I have just been informed that the ticket sales web page for the Spitfire Club open weekend will be closing at 1800 on Friday 27 July.

Once again may I point out that there is no 'turn up on the...
Forum: Private Flying
24th Jul 2012, 12:58
Replies: 4
Views: 1,554
Posted By Captain Gadget

Wx looking good

The weather is looking reasonable for the weekend, so let's have a few more flyers-in! All welcome!

Regards

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jul 2012, 13:38
Replies: 162
Views: 25,067
Posted By Captain Gadget

Petition signed

What an injustice - privileged to sign on Bale's behalf. Let's have a few thousand more!

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Private Flying
22nd Jul 2012, 11:52
Replies: 4
Views: 1,554
Posted By Captain Gadget

Spitfire Club Open Weekend - Enstone 28/29 July

Hi everybody

I'd like to make all who are interested in the progress of the Mk 26b Spitfire project at Enstone aware that next weekend, 28/29 July, an Open Weekend is being held at the airfield. ...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jun 2012, 06:32
Replies: 14
Views: 2,391
Posted By Captain Gadget

Armed Forces Day

Hear, hear. Well said, that man.

Let's keep this thread at the top today, everyone...

Gadget :ok:
:D:D:D
Forum: Private Flying
19th Apr 2012, 13:11
Replies: 13
Views: 1,829
Posted By Captain Gadget

Feeding frenzy!

Only because I woz still typing at 14:01...but Intercepted takes home the prize this time!

Still, PompeyPaul got his answer pretty quick...

Gadget :cool:
Forum: Private Flying
19th Apr 2012, 13:03
Replies: 13
Views: 1,829
Posted By Captain Gadget

NDB puzzle

PompeyPaul

You are heading 280 with the NDB on a relative bearing of 160 - so the beacon is located 20deg to starboard of directly aft of you (100), i.e. 080.

The tail of the ADF needle...
Forum: Private Flying
13th Apr 2012, 13:04
Replies: 153
Views: 66,486
Posted By Captain Gadget

Hi F1-69

Hi F1-69

I dropped you a PM the other day - please have a look before you go off jaw-dropping at Burnett, Tx!

Gadget
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Mar 2012, 20:12
Replies: 43
Views: 15,575
Posted By Captain Gadget

Hi Sharpend

Sharpend

Please see your PMs.

Gadget :ok:
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
14th Nov 2009, 21:15
Replies: 37
Views: 4,122
Posted By Captain Gadget

HP OK here!

I bought a secondhand HP LaserJet 4000N in 2000.

It sat, untested, in its box, in my mother's garage for a year or so. It gets cold in there.

I moved into my current house in Nov 2001,...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
4th Nov 2009, 14:19
Replies: 5
Views: 597
Posted By Captain Gadget

Hi Sprogget You need to use a named range...

Hi Sprogget

You need to use a named range and a bit of code to define the range variably according to the data content within. The actual code varies slightly according to the actual content you...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Nov 2009, 07:04
Replies: 1,075
Views: 780,643
Posted By Captain Gadget

The scene: BAOR, many years ago now... An...

The scene: BAOR, many years ago now...

An AAC Sgt pilot and his Cpl crewman are tasked to pick up a senior bod. The task involves flying their helo to a certain grid reference and then...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
22nd Oct 2009, 07:02
Replies: 77
Views: 6,633
Posted By Captain Gadget

Happy birthday, Windows 7!

Well, it's here now...

I have been running Win 7 RC for several months. I should add that never before have I been tempted so early by a new offering from Microsoft - previously I have done what...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
9th Jun 2009, 11:57
Replies: 6
Views: 751
Posted By Captain Gadget

Food for thought

Thanks for the replies so far - all food for thought. Incidentally, Drapes, my video card is an ATI Radeon 256MB. How do you reckon that would cope with HD?

And Parapunter (Media Center [sic]...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
9th Jun 2009, 08:54
Replies: 6
Views: 751
Posted By Captain Gadget

Satellite upgrade at last...

Tomorrow, my ancient, inherited single-LNB satellite TV installation is to be upgraded to an Octo LNB with the cabling directed as follows:

2 x to living room
2 x to study
1 x to each of 4...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st May 2009, 13:58
Replies: 2
Views: 1,266
Posted By Captain Gadget

50 not out! Thanks for the flypast

There I was, sitting outside the Red Lion in Garsington (3 miles south east of Oxford) having a quiet drink with some work colleagues to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday tomorrow...

When across...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
15th Apr 2009, 09:30
Replies: 6
Views: 571
Posted By Captain Gadget

Vista continually drops active screen saver

Hi all

After my trusty 5-year-old P4 desktop blew its motherboard last Christmas-time, I ordered a shiny new Dell which came with Vista Ultimate (32-bit, SP1). I have to say that, despite my...
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