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    Old news but good article by Wm Langewiesche on Air France 447

    Some of the conversation is too muted or garbled to make out but After the landing there is a "MERDE" = "****" Then. " mumble mumble mumble, trop vite, trop vite" which translates as " mumble mumble mumble, too fast, too fast,".......anyways the only real thing I take away from that was that...
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    Who has honeybees? I really love my bees.

    Some years ago I had a cottage here in Quebec, just north of the Vermont border.....we planted a nice little perennial garden....man we had so many bees and hummingbirds around it was a better show than anything on tv. The bees really loved the bee-balm plants:idea: it was amazing...
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    Fascinating dietary statistics

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    My Wife vs Snakes.

    The markings on that body look like a copperhead to me.
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    French ATC...

    La Marmite in Antibes Josey-jo in Haut Cagnes. 2great restuarants.
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    Considering the numbers of certified scuba divers plus the hundreds of thousands of folks who have done resort course scuba dives the number of deaths injuries are pretty low...so the self-regulation is working very well. But regulation,wether by government or by the respective industry itself...
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    Nope..not a CFI.my only claim is about 13 hours dual and alot of reading for PPL....but when you consider the career path from novice to scuba instructor and novice to CFI I would say that the CFI thing is way more work and harder. Scuba has no meterology to speak of,no FARs or legal mumbo...
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    The exam is a couple of days depending on how many candidates there are.....but to say its harder to become a scuba instructor than a CFI.....no way I believe that.
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    What!!!!!! Hopefully that is bs. We did PADI instructor training and certification exams 3 times a year...its not easy but it ain't rocket science....so if your buddy is being honest then that is scarey to contemplate about the quality of CFI training out there.
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    Scuba certification is not a government document or licensing procedure. They are taught and issued by various scuba training organizations. The scuba industry is self-regulated,not government regulated.
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    Everything else aside...yes you can....and somebody would have to retrieve your body.
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    father, son dead testing Christmas gifts on Christmas day

    I owned and operated a scuba operation for 16 years until 2007 ....we were a PADI,NAUI certified teaching and diving operation. My friend and next door neighbour was one of the top cave divers in the world, Rob Palmer ......l think I know whereof I speak.....if the information about these two...
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    The Challenger Disaster "On Tonight"

    It was on at midnight here and I was watched it until about 1:30 when I finally turned it off due to the unbelievable increase of commercials. At 58 I'm well experienced and aware of the marketing concept of increased commercials towards the end of a movie or other broadcast and am willing...
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    FAA to lift mobile shut-down rule

    :yeahthat::yeahthat::yeahthat::yeahthat:
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    This is a shortfield take off!

    :yeahthat:
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    FAA shutdown stops sales????

    Can this be true????? http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/07/faa-halts-all-aircraft-sales-because-shutdown/
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    Bullying

    Does that no weapons thing include a BIC pen or a butter knife????:mad2:
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    FAA to lift mobile shut-down rule

    I keep the WiFi on my Kindle off except to download a new book to preserve battery power so I was a bit irritated the first time I was told to turn it off for departure....but heck it was for 10 whole minutes and I survived the trauma. Better safe than sorry I always figured. But I pray they...
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    Are strict medical requirements counterproductive?

    :yeahthat: The nature of bureaucrats and bureaucracies is to preserve and enlarge their little empires.
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