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Discussion in 'Flight Following' started by NordicDave, May 8, 2023.

  1. NordicDave

    NordicDave En-Route

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    Gotta be candid... quality posts a little thin lately.

    Post something interesting.
     
  2. SoonerAviator

    SoonerAviator Final Approach

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    Parachutes shouldn't be an FAA requirement for aerobatic flight.
     
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  3. Chrisgoesflying

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    Let's do another high wing vs. low wing debate.
     
  4. Let'sgoflying!

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    Diesel Runaway
    never heard if it til last week
    Has all the guy things; science/heat/unexpected loss of control/explosions.
     
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  7. Kitch

    Kitch Pre-takeoff checklist

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    Its a pretty violent death. Seen it happen once after a guy lost a turbo in a cummins and didn't clean the motor oil out of the intake side of the system. As soon as they get the oil burning its game over unless you can stuff a blanket in the air filter quick enough to choke em out.
     
  8. Ted

    Ted The pilot formerly known as Twin Engine Ted

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    Yeah, but normally it’s restricted to old mechanical diesel engines. Detroit 2-strokes are the best known for it.
     
  9. Kitch

    Kitch Pre-takeoff checklist

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    Typically. Yes This was an N14 cummins that did it which is electronic and another local shop had a C15 cat runaway last year. If they fill the charge air cooler with oil and it doesnt get cleaned out its game over.
     
  10. Tools

    Tools Cleared for Takeoff

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    I think you can do it with modern ones and starting fluid… awful impressive!
     
  11. texasclouds

    texasclouds Ejection Handle Pulled

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    Quality posts? You must be new here.

    Saw this on my morning walk. Guess the city and win bragging rights.

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  12. luvflyin

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    That looks just like Bryan, TX. How’d I do…..
     
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  13. EdFred

    EdFred Taxi to Parking

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    People with personalized license plates on their car, on average, are 5% dumber than those that have standard license plates.
     
  14. Let'sgoflying!

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    i think I’ve decided to never start a diesel in or near a building… and once it starts to runaway, I’m not hanging around!

     
  15. luvflyin

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    Ok, we’ve posted some stuff. Your turn.
     
  16. Morgan3820

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    I’ve done my part, but the thread always gets locked.
     
  17. Timbeck2

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    Something can’t be “as American as apple pie” as neither the apple or the pie originated in the United States
     
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    Timbeck2 Final Approach

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    Four times as many people speak English as a second language than those who speak English as their primary language
     
  19. texasclouds

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    Wrong state, head east
     
  20. Bob Noel

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  21. luvflyin

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    So are you visiting somewhere or did you move? Ok, I'm looking east. We talkin' due east here? A sector based on the Cardinal Point? True or Magnetic.
     
  22. GaryM

    GaryM Pattern Altitude

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    Several groups, notably Colossal BioSciences, are working on de-extinction programs for animals such as the wooly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Biosciences
    Nearly-complete genetic sequences are available from preserved tissue, and gaps could perhaps be filled in from related species, which could also serve as host mothers for ova containing the DNA sequences from the extinct animals.

    Should we bring these extinct species back to once again walk the earth?

    We all remember how well it worked out for InGen.

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  23. EdFred

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    If we caused the extinction, sure, bring 'em back.
     
  24. Morgan3820

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    To what benefit and purpose.?
     
  25. SoonerAviator

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    We like killing. We can bring them into extinction once again.
     
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    Way south!
     
  27. Flatiowa

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    Obviously if humans were so determined to eat mammoths that they poked 14’ tall wild animals with tusks and a prehensile trunk to death with pointy rocks tied to a stick to the point that they became extinct despite the danger involved tells me one thing… they must be DELICIOUS!!!
     
  28. EdFred

    EdFred Taxi to Parking

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    Well, we left a hole in the food web. Plug it back up.
     
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    We made smallpox extinct in the wild.
     
  30. Bob Noel

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  31. texasclouds

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    State Rhymes with Duh
     
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    So youse a Flooriduh man now.....
     
  33. texasclouds

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    No, but I have this contraption that allows me to travel to far away places. Even places where you can find a goofy looking dog.
     
  34. luvflyin

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    Looks like we can narrow it down to a city. Maybe someone will put the effort into finding that house itself. Be like the guy in the movie Lion
     
  35. Bob Noel

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    I simply picked a city that the most states have... :)
     
  36. SixPapaCharlie

    SixPapaCharlie May the force be with you

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    The United States, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only countries that don't use the metric system.
     
  37. SoonerAviator

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    I-duh-ho.
     
  38. Tusayan

    Tusayan Pre-takeoff checklist

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    But only one of them has the world's largest and most successful economy.
     
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    Except if you look at the NIST definition for anything - all of the so called U.S. Customary units are actually defined in terms of the S.I. units. It's all part of the deep state / new world order / socialist / ASPCA conspiracy for world domination.

    https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/si-units-length
     
  40. Kinder

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    Right, we should use kph for airspeed and distance, also meters for altitude!!