What is hacking you off today?

[Berrichonne shrimper]

I wish I could mate. Sadly bills to pay, mouths to feed. Cant risk that.

So I ring up MK Hopsital to complain that they've lost my test results and no mofo seems to want to know and guess what....the Patient and Liaison Service it's closed due to staff shortages. It's like something from a Franz Kafka story. :nope:

Thats complete horse****,i could show you how but you suffer from the British disease.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Thats complete horse****,i could show you how but you suffer from the British disease.

Set fire to sheep in the car park?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ryan Air doing exactly the opposite thing of what I asked them to do. :nope:

 

[Pubey]

Ryan Air doing exactly the opposite thing of what I asked them to do. :nope:

Flying backwards. Is that possible?

 

[londonblue]

Flying backwards. Is that possible?

It is actually, although probably only in very small aircraft.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Flying backwards. Is that possible?

No idea, but I doubt it. London Blue....?

No we had to cancel our summer holiday due to my wife being advised not to travel, so for insurance reasons I need a letter from Ryan Air to say we never boarded the plane. They emailed one saying that we did.....:dim:

 

[Ricky Otto]

The cheque process hasn't been improved. It still takes a long time for the cash to appear in your account. In Australia it happens immediately, and you earn interest from day one even if you can't draw against the money. That could have been implemented here but funnily enough never was.

You might earn interest but it's swings and roundabouts as you need to pay a monthly fee to hold an account out there. Think mine was about $15 a month with ANZ

 

[londonblue]

No idea, but I doubt it. London Blue....?

No we had to cancel our summer holiday due to my wife being advised not to travel, so for insurance reasons I need a letter from Ryan Air to say we never boarded the plane. They emailed one saying that we did.....:dim:

Already answered. My old flying instructor did it, thankfully when I wasn't in the plane. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it all that much.

To give a bit more detail, he flew as slowly as he could into an extremely strong headwind, and pointed the plane at a DME (distance measuring equipment that uses a radio signal). He then used the readout from the DME on the plane to see to see how far away he was from the DME station. The number went up, not down, showing he was flying away from it even though he was pointing at it.

Obviously the bigger the plane the stronger the wind needed. He was in a Cessna 152. I doubt it would be possible to do that in a plane much bigger than that because I doubt the wind would ever be strong enough.

 

[londonblue]

You might earn interest but it's swings and roundabouts as you need to pay a monthly fee to hold an account out there. Think mine was about $15 a month with ANZ

Indeed, but the answer to the question that MK posed is because the banks make money out of it.

 

[Mad Cyril]

People that wear their Oxford/Cambridge sports/college tops ten years after graduation......

Canary Wharf is full of the ****ers. For Christ's sake it's time to move on.

 

[Uncle Leo]

People that wear their Oxford/Cambridge sports/college tops ten years after graduation......

Or people that wear them despite clearly never having attended the institution. I work in Camden and see a lot of 15 year old Italian school kids wearing 'Oxford University' hoodies.

While I'm here, poor provision of food at a 'breakfast briefing' I attended this morning. Plain croissants and a couple of tiny Danish pastries. Where were the bacon rolls?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Or people that wear them despite clearly never having attended the institution. I work in Camden and see a lot of 15 year old Italian school kids wearing 'Oxford University' hoodies.

The people who wear them to work want everyone to know they have been to Oxford or Cambridge.

So what, as a Southend fan I have been to both so stick that up your Baliol College windcheater you ****s.

 

[Uncle Leo]

The people who wear them to work want everyone to know they have been to Oxford or Cambridge.

The Times letters page is great for people shoe-horning in that they went to one of those universities. It's never "when I was at university", it's always "when I went up to Cambridge". Certain columnists are very good at it too. Yes, I'm looking at you Santham Sanghera and Matthew Syed.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Indeed, but the answer to the question that MK posed is because the banks make money out of it.

Yes, you are right I was going off topic

 

[londonblue]

People that wear their Oxford/Cambridge sports/college tops ten years after graduation......

Canary Wharf is full of the ****ers. For Christ's sake it's time to move on.

Not to mention the kids I saw at the last home game wearing UCLA sweatshirts. I bet they don't even know where it is.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Already answered. My old flying instructor did it, thankfully when I wasn't in the plane. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it all that much.

To give a bit more detail, he flew as slowly as he could into an extremely strong headwind, and pointed the plane at a DME (distance measuring equipment that uses a radio signal). He then used the readout from the DME on the plane to see to see how far away he was from the DME station. The number went up, not down, showing he was flying away from it even though he was pointing at it.

Obviously the bigger the plane the stronger the wind needed. He was in a Cessna 152. I doubt it would be possible to do that in a plane much bigger than that because I doubt the wind would ever be strong enough.

I typed too slow. So not really flying backwards more like being blown about like a bluebottle in a fart.

If there was no or very little wind, could a plane fly backwards?

 

[Mad Cyril]

I typed too slow. So not really flying backwards more like being blown about like a bluebottle in a fart.

If there was no or very little wind, could a plane fly backwards?

No. Unless it was falling or had vectored thrust like a Harrier but in either case the wings would not be generating lift.......

 

[Gremlin]

While I'm here, poor provision of food at a 'breakfast briefing' I attended this morning. Plain croissants and a couple of tiny Danish pastries. Where were the bacon rolls?

They're a no-no due to the offence caused to those who cannot eat bacon on religious grounds.

 

[londonblue]

I typed too slow. So not really flying backwards more like being blown about like a bluebottle in a fart.

If there was no or very little wind, could a plane fly backwards?

I doubt it. But there is nearly always wind, and a pilot has always to take it into account. (As it happens I did my skills test on a day where there was zero wind all the way up to about 5000', but that was a freak.)

However, he made the plane fly backwards. Obviously he needed help, but it happened. Flying is like sailing in that you have to plan your course taking wind into account. If the wind is at 90 degrees to your route then you have to steer into it to go straight. If the wind is directly behind you there will be no impact to your path, but it will make you fly faster so you have to adjust how long that leg of your journey will take. How much you have to do both of those depends on the wind's strength and direction.

All he was doing was using the wind in a different way, i.e. it didn't create any drift, but slowed him down massively until the plane was still flying, but was being pushed backwards. To me, that is flying backwards in the same way that maintaining a heading of, say, 100 degrees would be needed to track 90 degrees if the wind is coming from the South.

 

[Uncle Leo]

They're a no-no due to the offence caused to those who cannot eat bacon on religious grounds.

Have you mentioned this to mrsblue?