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Gee, I always thought the rule was:
* No smoking 24 hours before the hop. * No drinking within 50 feet of the aircraft. Guess I got it backwards. -- Mike Kanze "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -Mark Twain "Duke of URL" macbenahATkdsiDOTnet wrote in message ... In , Mike Kanze radiated into the WorldWideWait: The hairy part was whistling across Seattle and into Whidbey NORDO Almost as hairy as the 0-dark-30 drive to the base up highway 525 for the brief and the pre-flight. Especially if one had been celebrating heavily in Seattle the night before. ??? You didn't observe the 24-hour-no-alcohol rule? |
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Duke of URL wrote: In , Ned Pike radiated into the WorldWideWait: In , Glenfiddich spewed: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:00:37 -0500, "Jim Carriere" wrote: "Kristan Roberge" wrote in message ... How often do you strike 4 pounds of bird? Other than ducks and geese, I can't think of many 4 pound birds you might run a plane into. Um, there's lots... I've dodged plenty of hawks and buzzards- big ones over 5 foot wingspan too. It depends what area you fly in I guess. Buzzards aren't God's smartest creatures either, they don't seem to yield to anything no matter how big it is. Even seag(ulls will give you right of wayif they see you in time.) AND if they are not so gorged on roadkill that they can take off. I lost a radiator grille and a headlamp to a severely overloaded seagull on the road near Lossie - its rate of climb was inches/hour. As to lack of smarts - it was eating another seagull that had been smooshed on the road earlier, it never entered its greedy little brain to wonder how that meal had gotten there. Seagulls and aircraft are an even worse mix. Given such gross stupidity, can anyone explain why all gulls are protected under current US law? ??? They aren't. Who told you that? I can go out in a field and shoot any of them I want to. I wouldn't, of course, because there's nothing you can do with them. I don't know about you, but the last time I went skeet shooting, the range master warned me repeatedly that shooting them was illegal and I would be fined heavily if I did. G(*$*$#am flying rats. --Dale |
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Mike Kanze radiated into the WorldWideWait:
"Duke of URL" macbenahATkdsiDOTnet wrote in message ... In , Mike Kanze radiated into the WorldWideWait: The hairy part was whistling across Seattle and into Whidbey NORDO Almost as hairy as the 0-dark-30 drive to the base up highway 525 for the brief and the pre-flight. Especially if one had been celebrating heavily in Seattle the night before. ??? You didn't observe the 24-hour-no-alcohol rule? Gee, I always thought the rule was: * No smoking 24 hours before the hop. * No drinking within 50 feet of the aircraft. Guess I got it backwards. Hmm... |
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Dale Farmer radiated into the WorldWideWait: Duke of URL wrote: In , Ned Pike radiated into the WorldWideWait: In , Glenfiddich spewed: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:00:37 -0500, "Jim Carriere" wrote: "Kristan Roberge" wrote in message ... How often do you strike 4 pounds of bird? Other than ducks and geese, I can't think of many 4 pound birds you might run a plane into. Um, there's lots... I've dodged plenty of hawks and buzzards- big ones over 5 foot wingspan too. It depends what area you fly in I guess. Buzzards aren't God's smartest creatures either, they don't seem to yield to anything no matter how big it is. Even seag(ulls will give you right of wayif they see you in time.) AND if they are not so gorged on roadkill that they can take off. I lost a radiator grille and a headlamp to a severely overloaded seagull on the road near Lossie - its rate of climb was inches/hour. As to lack of smarts - it was eating another seagull that had been smooshed on the road earlier, it never entered its greedy little brain to wonder how that meal had gotten there. Seagulls and aircraft are an even worse mix. Given such gross stupidity, can anyone explain why all gulls are protected under current US law? ??? They aren't. Who told you that? I can go out in a field and shoot any of them I want to. I wouldn't, of course, because there's nothing you can do with them. I don't know about you, but the last time I went skeet shooting, the range master warned me repeatedly that shooting them was illegal and I would be fined heavily if I did. G(*$*$#am flying rats. Gotta be a state regulation. I can see Utah getting really upset about shooting gulls! |
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Kristan Roberge muttered....
How often do you strike 4 pounds of bird? Other than ducks and geese, I can't think of many 4 pound birds you might run a plane into. For years - back when a/c ranges were more limited than today's birds, the USN operated a/c (landbased and "seaplanes")out of scenic Midway I., where the local frigate birds/albatross ran a few bits over 4 pounds. In the US, with so many airports having been built adjacent to water...JFK, LGW, DCA, to name a prominent few, migratory ducks and geese are regular airport visitors. Several old SAC bases could have pheasant "On Final" and crossing departure runways. "TUSIABP"* *The US is a "birdy" place.... TMO |
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"Olivers" wrote in message ... Kristan Roberge muttered.... How often do you strike 4 pounds of bird? Other than ducks and geese, I can't think of many 4 pound birds you might run a plane into. For years - back when a/c ranges were more limited than today's birds, the USN operated a/c (landbased and "seaplanes")out of scenic Midway I., where the local frigate birds/albatross ran a few bits over 4 pounds. In the US, with so many airports having been built adjacent to water...JFK, LGW, DCA, to name a prominent few, migratory ducks and geese are regular airport visitors. Several old SAC bases could have pheasant "On Final" and crossing departure runways. "TUSIABP"* *The US is a "birdy" place.... Yep. He obviously is not too familiar with ornithology, as he missed out also on the ubiquitous turkey buzzards and pelicans we have here in the states, not to mention the rapidly growing eagle populations. On a trip back home from visiting my parents recently, the wife and I watched a bald eagle majestically circling right over the runway of the region's most active skydiving airfield; a couple of years back my boss took me out for a lunchtime visit to a local pond he had heard about where we counted about eight eagles roosting in trees around its banks, and the local game warden told us that they had actually counted over twenty at that spot a few days earlier. Brooks TMO |
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