Classic British Flight Sim

TobyV wrote:Currently working on the PAN AM and Air India hangars to the south of runway 28L / 8R.

Goodness me, Toby - a runway with a bend in it Now there's a novelty.
Pete

My mental arithmetic (or in this case ability to subtract 18 from 28!) seems to be failing me! Never fear, the runways are still straight

Just add them together instead.... much easier

DanKH wrote:Just add them together instead.... much easier

Pardon? Now that really has confused me, Dan. Do you mean adding 18 to 28 (or 180 to 280)? I make that 46 or 460. What do you do then? Subtract 36/360 to give you the answer of 10/100? Seems a long way of doing things but perhaps I've misunderstood.

I guess after a lifetime's use, reciprocals are stored in the old grey matter but if I do need to calculate one, I find the quickest way is to relate them to the cardinal points - north and south are 36(0) and 18(0) and east and west are 09(0) and 27(0) so, if I have a runway 25 I simply say that 25 is 2 less than 27 so the reciprocal must be 2 less than 09 - therefore it's 07. If I want to know the reciprocal of runway 33, I know that that's 3 less than 36 so the reciprocal must be 3 less that 18 - in other words 15.

Pete

Once again Pete.. you bring order to confusion

ATB
DaveB

PeteP wrote:Goodness me, Toby - a runway with a bend in it Now there's a novelty.

I read somewhere that the US military once considered designs that featured huge circular runways circumscribing airfields/airports -- but, yes, it may've been an "April Fool"-type article...

David

TobyV wrote:I'm guessing some of Ian (SB951)'s "self loading freight" would have arrived by bus:

Oy! - In 1966 I was some of that Self loading freight!! I remember turning up at the BOAC Victoria buildings and the transit out to Heatrow in the blue buses before departing on G-ARVM (a VC-10 in BOAC livery but leased to Air Ceylon) for Singapore. Did that journey in both directions sveral times over the following few years.

Brian,

If you have memories of how it looked back then and you're running FS2004 still, you might be ideal as a tester if you're interested?

Toby

PeteP wrote:... Seems a long way of doing things but perhaps I've misunderstood.
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No that was just what I meant ....

Toby! ... You have infected me!

Hi Toby...I joined BEA at the end of 1964. Of course the present Terminal One had not been built but I remember that that is where the BEA staff car park was...At the time, I had a Jaguar XK150 and I remember the car park was quite large and returning from a couple of nights away, I was unable to find my car...I walked up and down and all over the place searching and in the end I concluded that it had been stolen.

I was walking disconsolately back towards our Crewroom in the Queen's Building when I stumbled into it, lurking where it had parked it! I wonder if you do put the car park in, you might place a Cotwold Blue fixed head XK150 with chromium wire wheels in there!