March 12, 2010 by admin
The Unite Union/Bassa, have announced the latest BA cabin crew strike dates.
I don’t have a lot to say on the matter, but it is an issue which winds me up. Your company is in financial trouble, and your protesting the cuts that could save the company – poor old BA, that’s a bad situation.
Despite the ballot being overwhelmingly in favour of a strike, I still believe fewer people will strike then voted for it. Many may vote for a strike hoping it doesn’t need to happen, seeing it as a hollow threat to get BA’s attention. If the strike does go ahead, many again will decide to work – they need the money (that’s why they are striking isn’t it, money?), plus they won’t want to lose the discount travel priviledges they have.
I think BA’s staff are very loyal, to the airline and to eachother, this is why they may all vote together, but will still work…
I guess We’ll see what happens soon enough!
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March 6, 2010 by admin
I’ve just been up wycombe air park flying for the first time in 3 months. Great to be back in the air, and glad id not lost my ability though things did seem to be happening very quickly in part because we did a tighter circuit.
After shutting down I popped into the new Transair shop in the Airways flying club reception. It’s a very nice shop with everything you could want nicely laid out, a dvd running on a tv, and very chatty helpful staff who seemed proud of the new space.
If you need anything or just fancy popping in to browse, i’d reccomend it thoroughly. If you have never been to the air park its also a great place to fly and worth a visit itself.
I also saw a nice cub today, hope to try one some day!
Tags: Flying, flying lesson, Transair, wycombe
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March 3, 2010 by admin
Anybody who’s undergone flight training will hopefully recognise the phrase…
“Power + Attitude = Performance”
But I’ve always through the phrase spans beyond simply being a way of understanding aircraft performance, infact, I think it could be a life coaching mantra. It sounds almost like a simple equation to success, balancing power and attitude (to maintain a ‘assertive equilibirum’ – to achive performance … to go places.
One of the things I love about learning to fly is the amount of inherited wisdom that exist in the aviation world. There are lots of phrases like:
- Its better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
- Runway behind you, altitude above you and fuel in the truck – are all useless.
These are simple facts eloquently stated and, if you’re a bit over enthusiatic like me, you can apply then to general life situations.
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March 2, 2010 by admin
0.9 hours in g-wacu with Roberts. We did Rwy 06 – 7 circuits, glapless, 30 deg. Total hours flown so far = 17.7
Tags: Cessna 152, EGTB, g-wacu, lesson, P u/t, Roberts
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February 8, 2010 by admin
About 3 weeks ago I offered to help with a site which is powered partialy by WordPress. I thought I would install it myself and give it a go to get a basic understanding, and was so impressed I’ve not rolled out 2 main site installations and one micro-site! I’m also thinking of rolling our wordpress installations on 3 other sites to replace jaws installations.
It’s a fantastic tool, and tonight I learnt even more tricks that show how powerful it is!
The main reason I’m loving it is the very clever Atuhualpa theme under which I am building my Heathrow site. It’s enabled to me to do a lot, and the guy at the forum – http://forum.bytesforall.com/ – really help out with nifty tricks.
But in general the strength of WordPress is so great I look forward to continuing learning how to make and do more and more with it!
Tags: php, wordpress
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February 8, 2010 by admin
Approach / landing speeds.
Flapless – 75kts crosswind, 70kts final, 65kts threshold.
Normal flaps 20 – 70kts crosswind, 65kts final, 60kts threshold.
Short field flaps 30 – 65kts crosswind, 60kts final, 55kts threshold.
Notes – 85kts is Vfe.
Extend downwind and expect lower approach profile when flapless.
Approach must be stable at 300ft and below. Don’t be afraid to go around.
Tags: Cessna 152, Flying
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February 5, 2010 by admin
I’ve played the lottery a great deal in my life. I don’t want to think how much I’ve lost to camelot! At least I know the money does some good but still its a sum I could have saved…
Anyway tonight I have forfeited 6 quid in the hope of getting my hands on some of tonights 85 million jackpot! Luckly tho I have a part of 17 tickets because I joined my first ever syndicate at work.
The boss joined in too… in the knowledge that if we won he’d need the cash too as his business would quickly have no staff!
Well I hope tonight goes well…
Tags: lottery, work
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February 1, 2010 by admin
There is nothing going on, anywhere – awesome!
But here is a cool video
And my link directory
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November 7, 2009 by admin
0.6 hours in g-wacf with Solo. We did Third solo – 3 circuits. Total hours flown so far = 16.8
Tags: Cessna 152, EGTB, g-wacf, lesson, P1, Solo
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November 7, 2009 by admin
0.6 hours in g-wacf with Roberts. We did 3 cricuits. Total hours flown so far = 16.2
Tags: Cessna 152, EGTB, g-wacf, lesson, P u/t, Roberts
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