Another difference between the US and Canada.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:06:33 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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Taken to the other extreme here in the states...I flew down to Lee
Gilmer (LGM) in Gainsville GA some years ago around Christmas time. I
was on a VFR flight plan with flight following.

Atlanta Center kept me wayyyy up high until we were past the mountains


How did they do that?

Common sense mostly.

I had mentioned starting down sooner and they *suggested* that I stay
up there until farther south of the mountains.

It was pitch black below. I took their advice. They kept me up there
by kinda, sorta, indicating, it might be safer until well clear of the
mountains where I could remain in contact closer to the airport.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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Common sense mostly.

I had mentioned starting down sooner and they *suggested* that I stay
up there until farther south of the mountains.

It was pitch black below. I took their advice. They kept me up there
by kinda, sorta, indicating, it might be safer until well clear of the
mountains where I could remain in contact closer to the airport.


Then they didn't keep you up, you elected to remain at altitude.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:21:29 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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Common sense mostly.

I had mentioned starting down sooner and they *suggested* that I stay
up there until farther south of the mountains.

It was pitch black below. I took their advice. They kept me up there
by kinda, sorta, indicating, it might be safer until well clear of the
mountains where I could remain in contact closer to the airport.


Then they didn't keep you up, you elected to remain at altitude.

Their advise kept me up there. :-))
Both correct from a semantics approach.

I know where you're headed, but I still prefer these terms.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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Their advise kept me up there. :-))


No, your decision not to descend kept you up there. Their advice was good,
but you were free to decline it.



Both correct from a semantics approach.


No.



I know where you're headed, but I still prefer these terms.


You said they kept you way up high, but that didn't happen.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:17:01 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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You said they kept you way up high, but that didn't happen.

Call it what you want. Their advise kept me up there and it is
scemantically correct.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2).

On 18 Aug 2003 15:41:53 GMT, Stan Gosnell
wrote:

Roger Halstead wrote in
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scemantically correct

That's cuz my OE spell checker can't .... :-))

It should be semantically

??? That's a new word for me. What does it mean? I can't find it in any
dictionary I have.

It's sorta something kinda like a circuit diagram in broken English.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Roger Halstead wrote in
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It should be semantically

I was waffling between that and schematically.

??? That's a new word for me. What does it mean? I can't find it in
any dictionary I have.

It's sorta something kinda like a circuit diagram in broken English.

OK. Enough chain-pulling for today. ;-)

--
Regards,

Stan