Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: SteepTurn on June 07, 2006, 06:16:11 PM
Title: depressed ignorant
Post by: SteepTurn on June 07, 2006, 06:16:11 PM
Reading the posts in some topics I really feel a very little, stupid Sunday-pilot with my PPL-licence and my very limited knowledge in aviation. The strange things with the fan on top you call them helicopter, right? ;) On the other hand, I don't have to fly, but I can go when I and the weather are in the right "mood"!!! ;)
So , many happy landings to everybody (not Happylandings, she is unique!!)
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: ManuPiper on June 07, 2006, 07:15:29 PM
Aww come on SteepTurn... why are you depressed? Hopefully not because you don't know what that thing with the fan on top is called - who cares about those anyway :D (ducking and running away...)
Errm, anyway, what's that thing with Happylandings? Are there some personal relationships I've missed lately? :)
-Manuel
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: SteepTurn on June 07, 2006, 07:57:07 PM
Errm, anyway, what's that thing with Happylandings? Are there some personal relationships I've missed lately? :)
-Manuel
NEGATIVE! you didn't miss nothing!!! But as she is unique, I cannot wish to everybody in here "many Happylandings"...
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: spacer on June 07, 2006, 09:40:47 PM
Oooh. I hadn't thought of that. :o
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: chuckar101 on June 08, 2006, 04:27:47 AM
Hey don't worry buddy. At least you have a PPL. I fly an ultralight and thats it. Its fun and it gets me in the air and thats all that matters on some days.
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: happylanding on June 08, 2006, 08:02:54 AM
Reading the posts in some topics I really feel a very little, stupid Sunday-pilot with my PPL-licence and my very limited knowledge in aviation.
I would not feel so depressed you know? I do not think it’s the amount of knowledge that counts here, it’s a passion we all share, either with a lot of skill or less. And the good side is that – not knowing everything – we can always learn (well, I look like Pollyanna now…) from the other’s experiences, thoughts, memories, writings, and dreams.
See, didn’t you know – i.e. – that a new aerodynamic law passed last year?!?!?!? You didn’t’ uh?!? Now you can tell everybody! ;)
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: happylanding on June 08, 2006, 08:10:47 AM
I cannot wish to everybody in here "many Happylandings"...
Well, I think that you can, but in another sense..........I'm not sure that everybody would be able (and would like...) to handle 2 happylanding in this forum: you would not have enough time to read 22 messages per day (I got shocked when I read my average per day from Fireflyr's message!!!)....... :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: SteepTurn on June 08, 2006, 08:23:57 AM
I cannot wish to everybody in here "many Happylandings"...
Well, I think that you can, but in another sense..........I'm not sure that everybody would be able (and would like...) to handle 2 happylanding in this forum: you would not have enough time to read 22 messages per day (I got shocked when I read my average per day from Fireflyr's message!!!)....... :D :D :D :D :D
...I'm about to cancel my message... it's getting quit as Avril Lavigne said..... "complicated" :D Probably I need a lawyer.... Happy do you have time??? :-\ :-\
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: happylanding on June 08, 2006, 10:44:09 AM
Probably I need a lawyer.... Happy do you have time??? :-\ :-\
Oh boy! You need a lawyer or a legal counsel? what's the matter?
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: Callisto on June 08, 2006, 01:55:04 PM
Hey ST!
I'm fully instrument rated in Microsoft Flight Simulator. So don't feel bad that anytime you are in the "mood" you can head into the wild blue yonder. I love planes and those weird "fan on top" things, and one of these days I'll have the time and $$$ to get a certification to fly something.
This place doesn't depress me. I enjoy my time here. "These people" are just the kind of aviation freaks (everything I said I meant in the nicest possible way ;D ;D ;D ) I need. Each time I read these boards just makes me want to fly more!
So cheer up... it could be worse, you could be flying a cargo plane filled with rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong... wait that's from another post :D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: fireflyr on June 08, 2006, 10:51:21 PM
Reading the posts in some topics I really feel a very little, stupid Sunday-pilot with my PPL-licence and my very limited knowledge in aviation. The strange things with the fan on top you call them helicopter, right? ;) On the other hand, I don't have to fly, but I can go when I and the weather are in the right "mood"!!! ;)
So , many happy landings to everybody (not Happylandings, she is unique!!)
NO-NO-NO! The thing with the fan on top is called a "beanie" ("propellerhut" fur unsere deutshen Sprecher)---I had one when I was a kid (maaaaany moons ago) When you ran fast the "rotor" would spin. ;D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: Plthijnx on June 08, 2006, 11:49:11 PM
there was a moon back then??
plthijnx <------------------------- RUNNING VERY FAST!!!
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: chuckar101 on June 09, 2006, 03:57:57 AM
There probably was a moon but no craters on the surface yet.
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: fireflyr on June 09, 2006, 04:58:14 AM
IS THERE NOOOOOOOOO RESPECT FOR AGE (and experience)----In all due respect, I consider you both TURDS!!!!!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: Plthijnx on June 09, 2006, 04:56:52 PM
*sniff*sniff* what's that smell?!? oh it's ME!!! lmao!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: chuckar101 on June 11, 2006, 03:13:30 AM
I'm a firefighter so being a turd would probably make me smell a little better. Thanks for the compliment fireflyr :D :D
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: fireflyr on June 11, 2006, 03:31:03 PM
I'm a firefighter so being a turd would probably make me smell a little better. Thanks for the compliment fireflyr :D :D
Yeah, you're right ;)---While back, I transported a couple of guys who'd been out on a fire for a couple of weeks and no showers---they were a might rank and the ventilation in a P-mixmaster really wasn't built for that volume of body odor! :P
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: leiafee on June 11, 2006, 04:06:07 PM
For everyone who feels unimportant and ignorant in little aeroplanes then...
I can't remember where I first saw this but it makes me go soppy every time I read it
Quote
One fine hot summer's afternoon saw a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a quiet country airfield. The instructor was getting quite bothered with the student's inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and was getting impatient at sometimes having to take over the controls. Just then he saw a twin engine Cessna 5,000ft above him and thought "Another 1,000 hrs of this and I qualify for that twin charter job! Aaahh.. to be a real pilot..going somewhere!"
The twin Cessna 402 was already late and the boss told him this charter was for one of the Company's premier clients. He was at 6,000ft with a 20kt headwind and the engines didn't like it in the heat of the day. Today was the 6th day straight and he was pretty damn tired of fighting these engines. Maybe if he got 10,000ft out of them the wind might die off... geez those cylinder temps! He looked out momentarily and saw a B737 leaving a contrail at 33,000ft in the serene blue sky. "Oh man" he thought, "My interview is next month. I hope I just don't blow it! Outa G/A, nice jet job, above the weather... no snotty passengers to wait for.. aahhh."
The Boeing 737 bucked and weaved in the heavy CAT at FL330 and ATC advised that lower levels were not available due traffic. The Captain, who was only recently advised that his destination was below RVR minimums had slowed to LRC to try and hold off a possible inflight diversion, and arrange an ETA that would helpfully ensure the fog had lifted to CATII minima. The Company negotiations broke down yesterday and looked as if everyone was going to take a damn pay cut. The F/O's will be particularly hard hit as their pay wasn't anything to speak of anyway. Finally deciding on a speed compromise between LRC and turbulence penetration, the Captain looked up and saw Concorde at Mach 2+. Tapping his F/O's shoulder as the 737 took another bashing, he said "Now THAT'S what we should be on... huge pay ...super fast... not too many routes... not too many legs... above the CAT...yep!
What a life...!" FL590 was not what he wanted anyway and considered FL570. Already the TAT was creeping up again and either they would have to descend or slow down. That damn rear fuel transfer pump was becoming unreliable and the F/E had said moments ago that the radiation meter was not reading numbers that he'd like to see. Concorde descended to FL570 but the radiation was still quite high even though the Notam indicated hunky dory below FL610. Fuel flow was up and the transfer pump was intermittent. Evening turned into night as they passed over the Atlantic. Looking up, the F/O could see a tiny white dot moving against the backdrop of a myriad of stars. "Hey Captain" he called as he pointed. "Must be the Shuttle. "The Captain looked for a moment and agreed. Quietly he thought how a Shuttle mission, while complicated, must be the be all and end all in aviation. Above the crap, no radiation problems, no damn fuel transfer problems... aaah. Must be a great way to earn a buck."
Discovery was into its 27th orbit and perigee was 200ft out from nominated rendezvous altitude with the commsat. The robot arm was virtually U/S and a walk may become necessary. The 200ft predicted error would necessitate a corrective burn and Discovery needed that fuel if a walk was to be required. Houston continually asked what the Commander wanted to do but the advice they proffered wasn't much help. The Commander had already been 12 hours on station sorting out the problem and just wanted 10 minutes to himself to take a leak. Just then a mission specialist, who had tilted the telescope down to the surface for a minute or two, called the Commander to the scope.
"Have a look at this Sir, isn't this the kinda flying you said you wanted to do after you finish up with NASA?" The Commander peered through the telescope and cried "Ooooohhhhh yeah! Now THAT'S flying! Man, that's what its all about! Geez I'd give my left nut just to be doing THAT down there!"
What the Discovery Commander was looking at was a Cessna 150 in the pattern at a quiet country airfield on a nice bright sunny afternoon.
Title: Re: depressed ignorant
Post by: fireflyr on June 11, 2006, 05:34:43 PM
There's a lot of truth in leiafee's post--seems no matter where we go or what we fly, those early days are the ones imbedded in our memories, -------like taking off on a clear windless summer morning, right at sunrise and smelling the dewey grass mingled with avgas and old airplane smells, watching the sun splash onto a rural landscape while seemingly being suspended in the calm cool air................................. Yep, that's part of the romance alright----hopefully you never lose it! |:)\
