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Coming home from Houston Sunday...
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Wheels up means gear up, period. I learned it as "departing the field". Sorry! |
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Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a
runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form? Jim -- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip. Bertie |
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B A R R Y wrote in news:yvPhk.14041$cW3.8544
@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Wheels up means gear up, period. I learned it as "departing the field". Sorry! That'd be "Airborne" Bertie |
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On Jul 23, 8:11 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote:
Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form? Jim -- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip. Bertie You'd have to look pretty far to find a pilot who was confused by Jay's wheels up comment when talking about that airplane. If it's understood, it's good communication. Let's do a poll -- all who understood it meant departing, remain sitting comfortably. All who didn't, let's see -- yes, move to Paris. |
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
That'd be "Airborne" I can't count the times I've hear instructors say: "I want to be be wheels-up by 1930..." To tell a student to be ready to be ready to go. Maybe it's regional, but I don't think so! |
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On Jul 23, 8:19 pm, wrote:
On Jul 23, 8:11 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote: Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form? Jim -- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip. Bertie You'd have to look pretty far to find a pilot who was confused by Jay's wheels up comment when talking about that airplane. If it's understood, it's good communication. Let's do a poll -- all who understood it meant departing, remain sitting comfortably. All who didn't, let's see -- yes, move to Paris. But, "take off" would have been better! |
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B A R R Y wrote in news:tTPhk.18342$Ri.7069
@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: That'd be "Airborne" I can't count the times I've hear instructors say: "I want to be be wheels-up by 1930..." To tell a student to be ready to be ready to go. Maybe it's regional, but I don't think so! Nah, it's common enough. it's further of evidence of terminology going down the ****ter. Bertie |
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"RST Engineering" wrote in
m: Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form? Only 5,000 hours and 45 years? OK sonny. Bertie |
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Coming home from Houston Sunday...
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... "RST Engineering" wrote in m: Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form? Only 5,000 hours and 45 years? OK sonny. That's about normal for a private pilot, no? I've got 1,300 in 10. |
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