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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
17th Apr 2009, 15:46
Replies: 3,300
Views: 453,490
Posted By cumulus

Now then, would that be the bunker you built in...

Now then, would that be the bunker you built in anticipation of the Y2K bug bringing civilisation to it's knees, or the one you built to protect yourself against Jihadist nukes? :rolleyes:
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
28th Feb 2009, 10:52
Replies: 3,300
Views: 453,490
Posted By cumulus

Black catted!

WWW, I can black-cat you on this one. I predicted all this back in 2005, when I bailed out of modular training.
Now, we need to arrange a time and place for you to formally hand over the PPRuNe Orb...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
18th Oct 2008, 11:40
Replies: 3,300
Views: 453,490
Posted By cumulus

I guess another factor is that many of the recent...

I guess another factor is that many of the recent wannabes have financed their training off the back off the recently deceased housing and credit bubble. Now, if that has gone for good, and say that...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
30th Sep 2008, 22:25
Replies: 87
Views: 9,531
Posted By cumulus

dog.101, I refuse to believe that you are real. I...

dog.101, I refuse to believe that you are real. I think that you a computer virus, a scrap of malevolent script written for the purposes of making my fillings hurt and the esteemed moderator of this...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
5th Sep 2008, 20:55
Replies: 50
Views: 4,242
Posted By cumulus

Sixty quid for fifteen minutes straight...

Sixty quid for fifteen minutes straight missionary, no kissing and nothing up the a***.:E

I flew during a visit to Capetown, and I paid about 75 quid an hour for an 172R.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Aug 2008, 18:16
Replies: 1,307
Views: 131,409
Posted By cumulus

I apologise if this has already been said, but...

I apologise if this has already been said, but unless you are going the integrated route, training is not all or nothing. You could do the PPL and start hour building, do your three hundred mile...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
11th Jul 2008, 19:24
Replies: 1,307
Views: 131,409
Posted By cumulus

Eh? you mean to say that you're dead?:confused: ...

Eh? you mean to say that you're dead?:confused:
Now that's what I call superlative message board functionality - a seance engine!:ok:
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
23rd Jun 2008, 18:55
Replies: 1,307
Views: 131,409
Posted By cumulus

Sayawa, do you work for P & O? The reason I ask,...

Sayawa, do you work for P & O? The reason I ask, is that the thought that a semi-literate sociopath such as yourself might one day worm his way onto the flightdeck of a public transport aircraft...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Jun 2008, 22:16
Replies: 1,307
Views: 131,409
Posted By cumulus

Beyond the looking glass.

This is a fascinating thread. If, as some are predicting, the price of oil heads towards $250 a barrel, I suspect that we will be in a place beyond even senor Welshman's experience - for example, not...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
3rd May 2005, 19:01
Replies: 30
Views: 3,580
Posted By cumulus

Not free, but heavily subsidised, and the food is...

Not free, but heavily subsidised, and the food is great.

It is also a good place to sit quietly and listen to the gossip.
Some of the bods from the enforcement side are marvellously...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
27th Apr 2005, 19:42
Replies: 8
Views: 2,708
Posted By cumulus

The UK AIP is available here; www.ais.org.uk...

The UK AIP is available here;

www.ais.org.uk

You will need to register to use it.
On the home page click on "Publications" and then "UK-AIP" and then follow links to "Aerodromes-specific",...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
25th Apr 2005, 21:12
Replies: 7
Views: 945
Posted By cumulus

I got the wee beasty last January, but I have no...

I got the wee beasty last January, but I have no intention of using it in a single-engine aircraft.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
19th Apr 2005, 16:37
Replies: 29
Views: 5,164
Posted By cumulus

I would be extremely wary of having anything to...

I would be extremely wary of having anything to do with this.

It is reality TV, and one of the conventions of reality TV is to make it's participants seem like utter freaks, not that it is too...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Apr 2005, 22:02
Replies: 36
Views: 3,032
Posted By cumulus

"Up Tables", AKA "Extreme Petulance", a nihilist...

"Up Tables", AKA "Extreme Petulance", a nihilist but quite spectacular tactic to recover from imminent defeat...:ok:
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Apr 2005, 21:07
Replies: 6
Views: 2,378
Posted By cumulus

Other than the lower numbers, square roots are...

Other than the lower numbers, square roots are not that readily derived, though I am ready to be proved wrong. Even in the pre-caculator era, people usually derived square roots from tables.

As...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Apr 2005, 21:01
Replies: 52
Views: 7,038
Posted By cumulus

I sat performance and Mass and Balance at Silsoe...

I sat performance and Mass and Balance at Silsoe during the week of November 4th last year. On each paper there was a typographical error that effectively rendered two questions unanswerable. The...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Apr 2005, 20:47
Replies: 5
Views: 1,618
Posted By cumulus

I am doing modular IR at PAT, and there seems to...

I am doing modular IR at PAT, and there seems to be an unwritten understanding that you wear some form of uniform. I have no problem with this, as firstly as my first "professional" course, I felt...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
30th Nov 2004, 17:35
Replies: 19
Views: 2,093
Posted By cumulus

You can do some of the exams by just studying...

You can do some of the exams by just studying feedback, but not Principles of Flight and Performance. So many of the questions demand that you derive an answer from first principles, and it only...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
23rd Nov 2004, 18:12
Replies: 6
Views: 4,938
Posted By cumulus

Cifpo Check your PM.

Cifpo

Check your PM.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
22nd Oct 2004, 21:58
Replies: 8
Views: 1,361
Posted By cumulus

I am just coming to the end of a 12 month...

I am just coming to the end of a 12 month distance learning course at Cabair, and I would certainly not advise shelling out on a whole extra set of notes, although with the possible exception of the...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Sep 2004, 18:39
Replies: 12
Views: 1,087
Posted By cumulus

Paying up front becomes a problem if the flight...

Paying up front becomes a problem if the flight school folds, as flight schools are wont to do. :( You then find yourself at the end of a rather long line of creditors, with little possibility of...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Sep 2004, 16:54
Replies: 11
Views: 1,305
Posted By cumulus

Chewy, check your PM. Cu.

Chewy, check your PM.

Cu.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Sep 2004, 17:58
Replies: 357
Views: 61,502
Posted By cumulus

Oh my God, we have a time-traveller from the...

Oh my God, we have a time-traveller from the eighties!!:D

Though I hesitate to offer advice to one who is so clearly a Master of the Universe, 747 truth, may I respectfully suggest that you...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
17th Jul 2004, 09:24
Replies: 4
Views: 782
Posted By cumulus

Anyone recommend a good meteorology textbook?

Hi Folks

I have just finished studying the Met module of ATPL theory, and I found that the notes I was given were a little inadequate. Though whoever wrote them obviously knew his stuff, they were...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th May 2004, 16:15
Replies: 5
Views: 2,511
Posted By cumulus

Who indeed, has shagged Arrse? If they have...

Who indeed, has shagged Arrse?

If they have been hacked, I would suspect it has come from across the pond. Of late, Arrse has taken to sending waves of trolls over to one of the US military forums...
Forum: Interviews, jobs & sponsorship
19th May 2004, 19:31
Replies: 77
Views: 11,345
Posted By cumulus

Spaketh Milt: "Tatts Trouble is anyone...

Spaketh Milt:

"Tatts

Trouble is anyone who goes for Tatts is clearly exhibiting a low IQ and most a predisposition to criminal intent

Wouldn't get a job in my airline or enterprise

Saw...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
11th Apr 2004, 21:01
Replies: 3
Views: 1,074
Posted By cumulus

Top Banana, cheers gordon.:ok:

Top Banana, cheers gordon.:ok:
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
11th Apr 2004, 19:10
Replies: 3
Views: 1,074
Posted By cumulus

737-400 flight sims

Can anybody recommend a PC flight sim that really goes into the functionality of 737-400 FMC & EFIS? I am studying ATPL theory, and notes with crude block diagrams, and in black and white do not...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Apr 2004, 08:34
Replies: 25
Views: 5,149
Posted By cumulus

Just as a matter of interest, there is the wreck...

Just as a matter of interest, there is the wreck of what I think is a Lancaster, near Talybont at GR SO 062 200 (map 160). Its been a few years now, so I am a bit vague on the details, but apparently...
Forum: Questions
8th Apr 2004, 21:19
Replies: 2
Views: 720
Posted By cumulus

Thank you very much BB, much appreciated.:ok:

Thank you very much BB, much appreciated.:ok:
Forum: Questions
8th Apr 2004, 18:56
Replies: 2
Views: 720
Posted By cumulus

737 go arounds.

Evening folks

I was in the cafe at CAA headquarters, this afternoon, when I witnessed an Eazyjet 737 do a go-around ( at least I believe it was EazyJet).

While it is obvious that there are any...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
12th Feb 2004, 04:05
Replies: 20
Views: 3,368
Posted By cumulus

Just a quick idea vis a vis water bottles on...

Just a quick idea vis a vis water bottles on light aircraft. Get a "Camelbak" water holder. It is a plastic pouch with a drinking tube, holds about 1.5 litres. All you have to do is tuck it down...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
7th Feb 2004, 00:26
Replies: 13
Views: 1,337
Posted By cumulus

"Pilots talk about the `zone': that exciting...

"Pilots talk about the `zone': that exciting moment when all attention is on one task. And it's exhilarating to be sharing airspace with the big jets and to follow a Boeing 737 on the instrument...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
31st Jan 2004, 01:39
Replies: 74
Views: 7,612
Posted By cumulus

Just heard an interview on radio with one of...

Just heard an interview on radio with one of Ryanair's charmless mini-michaels. He stated that they anticipated raising an extra 12 million pounds a year from the fifty pence surcharge. Is that...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
28th Jan 2004, 06:39
Replies: 0
Views: 512
Posted By cumulus

Online representations of EHSI?

Evening all.

I am getting ready for Radio nav exams for ATPL theory, and I am having difficulty getting EHSI for 737-400 weighed off. As the notes in black and white, they do not help much when it...
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