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by cstorey
25 Nov 2006, 15:58
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Mysterious engine shutdowns
Replies: 22
Views: 3065

Can someone tell me what the aircraft is please? Is it an Orion, or perhaps a Nimrod with those Comet like engine instruments?
by cstorey
24 Nov 2006, 17:43
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Mysterious engine shutdowns
Replies: 22
Views: 3065

We frequently wore our headsets with one earpiece behind the ear - it enables conversation in the cockpit much more readily, and incidentally prevents you being deafened by sudden loud transmissions if the volume is turned up for other reasons
by cstorey
23 Nov 2006, 18:23
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Who says politicians have lost touch with reality?
Replies: 9
Views: 1554

Although it is tempting to regard smoking as a trivial problem, the fact is that it causes more, and more serious, ill health, ( largely in the shape of coronary disease with lung cancer closely behind) than any other single cause. Glasgow has a higher incidence of these diseases than anywhere else ...
by cstorey
15 Nov 2006, 21:51
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: A380 KOD??
Replies: 10
Views: 2227

What was that little blue wimp of a thing we saw scuttling round it?
by cstorey
14 Nov 2006, 00:21
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Why you should wear spectacles
Replies: 15
Views: 2805

I tried it on my wife, and all she said was " now you know the answer"
by cstorey
14 Nov 2006, 00:03
Forum: CBFS Forum
Topic: Flightlevels...
Replies: 18
Views: 1863

In addition to what Gary has said, the quadrantal rules, as they are called, are, up to FL 280 001 to 090 track odd thousands of feet/FL 091 to 180 odd thousands + 500 181 to 270 even thousands 271 to 360 even thousands + 500 So, for example, for a track Magnetic of 120 , levels would be FL 135 in E...
by cstorey
12 Nov 2006, 18:32
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Remembrance Day
Replies: 19
Views: 3542

For those interested in Wilfred Owen, there is a series of programmes, about him and including many readings of his poems, this week on BBC radio 3, starting right now ( 630 pm GMT Sunday)

Chris
by cstorey
12 Nov 2006, 12:17
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Dont you wish MSFS (Any version) could do this
Replies: 10
Views: 1715

Vegas - I'm on the Wirral and we are rather well placed to see this . You may be interested to know that the same winds very occasionally produce rotor, which looks very spectacular and which I would not want to tangle with. I did photo one about 15 years ago but I cannot now find the photo
by cstorey
12 Nov 2006, 12:08
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: You've Got Wonder About His Intelligence
Replies: 8
Views: 1770

Is this what is meant by reheat?
by cstorey
12 Nov 2006, 12:07
Forum: CBFS Forum
Topic: Viscount Routes question...
Replies: 7
Views: 1187

Before INS, dead reckoning was the primary way of planning, assisted by Omega and Loran ( although these were going out of fashion by the 1960s) and on long overwater routes, ( and in some other areas such as the Sahara) astral navigation was used to check the DR, with a bubble sextant sighted throu...