Coffee, 5-21-2011

freetown fred wrote:red shirt & suspenders???

Yep. And the red BMW at the end of the row.

Wow.... seems several of us had a wild weekend! Steemup, congrats go out to your daughter. Greg, glad you got on the ground at the right place. No worries, you'll get a nap within a day or two. Smitty, dry fire a bow? What a numma that person is!

I can use a nap myself. I was up all night Sat night in the ER with my wife. Nothing too serious at this point. She's had episodes of pain the last couple months. The Dr thought it was gallbladder, but testing says no. The Dr said "Next time it happens, go to the ER so they can CAT scan while you are in pain". So, Sat night it was. CAT scan shows no giant mass, no aneurism, so now they are thinking an MRI to see if it's a back problem....bad disc maybe? We got home at 4:30AM. She's been OK since.

Last night at suppertime that yellow flaming orb showed itself again. Just as I thought the doomsayer was one day off.... it didn't kill us! It actually felt pretty good. But, after about an hour it went away and it rained during the night. I had forgotten, but the weatherman said the orb was visible once only 9 days ago.

Greg, When you circle waiting for better weather, do you circle or do you "square"? The once in my life that I flew we couldn't land at Boston because of high winds. We circled for 45 minutes waiting for the winds to calm down. As we circled we could see 8 or 10 other planes in the circle. They were all at a constant bank, making a perfect circle. Our pilot did not do that. He flew straight & level, then as needed would make a sharp steep banked turn, then go back to flat & level. I thought he had a good idea. Do others do that?

Hi Freddy, We rarely turn in just a circle.. it's a 'race track' pattern, a straight leg, usually 15-20 miles then a 180* turn to go back the other way, then another 180* turn. This way the plane isn't in a constant banked turn,, which can be uncomfortable, as well as a constant turn burns more fuel.

We often see the other planes in the holding pattern, we are all separated by 1000' of altitude, and we are in roughly the same holding pattern, so we often can see each other. as well as seeing the blips on our TCAS [traffic collision avoidance system] which is like a 'fishfinder'. A blip with an altitude readout and a climb/descend arrow for each plane within a certain range/distance. So we often see the blip but not the plane because of clouds.

I'm heading into work today, I'll stop by the chief pilot's office for a 'chat' about the goofups that ATC did on Saturday. and how much money was burnt up in wasted fuel.

I'm sure glad that I did land at JFK, if I'd ended up in White Plains, Hartford, or Stewart,, I'd not have got home in time for my party.. and the party would have gone on without me !!

Supposed to be wet, in the 60's all this week, I get home on Saturday again.. a short weekend, I fly again on Monday evening. No 'Memorial Day Holiday' for me..

I did put in the garden, a few weeks early,, lets see if this 'climate change' is for real,, it's been a cold wet spring.. lets see if the usuall late May frost is an occurance of the past.

Greg L

At least you color co-ordinate your suspenders with the bike--you Beemer guys

Cap wrote:

freetown fred wrote:red shirt & suspenders???

Yep. And the red BMW at the end of the row.

Now that explains why every so often I'll have the Jet Blue fellas circling right in front of my house -- they go by in a bank, then straighten out & disappear .. for 5 minutes. Then back around again. Seen a few come by 5 times, some only a couple times. Definitely an increase in air traffic over the house here. I think ORH finally found an airline that will go near that cesspool ...

PE, I've got an old friend over the hill, that decided he wanted to put up a lil stone wall at the house--well, 14 yrs later & him not missing a day of gathering or laying, now this is a dry wall,all the stones are from a really large, really caved in barn about 200' X 100'--soooo---when all is said and done--my dog still thinks it's a good place to PEE

freetown fred wrote:PE, I've got an old friend over the hill, that decided he wanted to put up a lil stone wall at the house--well, 14 yrs later & him not missing a day of gathering or laying, now this is a dry wall,all the stones are from a really large, really caved in barn about 200' X 100'--soooo---when all is said and done--my dog still thinks it's a good place to PEE

Some people just have strange hobbies.

I find it hard to stay focused on the same project for more than 14 minutes, its a beautiful job but 14 years, the man needs a life.

Boy, I'd love to have a fire pit like that! I guess your neighbor is what we in the south call a "rock farmer." Lisa

Up here in the north, all the "rock" farmers are in the city ....

Up here in the Appalachian Mountains, we grow a new crop every year

Yep, it just come up natural like The guy who does the wall is a tool & die maker--pretty intense dude--when he's not doing the walls, etc, he rock climbs. fettish maybe??

Pretty good for a die maker. I can't do stuff like that because if I can't nail it to less than .005", I get nuts.