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Anyone else find it annoying when....

Speedbird223 — Mon, 23 May 2005 00:06:10 GMT

the battery goes flat and you have to choose the language, set the time, the date etc..wait for optimization blah blah etc etc?

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seb21__ — Mon, 23 May 2005 06:31:08 GMT

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GBS — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:24:27 GMT

Speedbird -nice Avatar. Shame they were scrapped.
You a pilot?

I dont have a VP but can imagine the problem, would be nice if it saved all this info.

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HeartOfDarkness — Mon, 23 May 2005 13:33:47 GMT

the battery goes flat and you have to choose the language, set the time, the date etc..wait for optimization blah blah etc etc?

True, but what ticks me off is the fact that it goes flat even when you don't use it and didn't put it back on its craddle.... Even if only for a few days.

Re: Anyone else find it annoying when....

Speedbird223 — Tue, 24 May 2005 18:49:18 GMT

Concordes weren't scrapped, only withdrawn from commerical flight. Currently parked up in museums around the world.

No, I am not a pilot. Sadly.

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GBS — Wed, 25 May 2005 09:05:57 GMT

Concordes weren't scrapped, only withdrawn from commerical flight. Currently parked up in museums around the world.

No, I am not a pilot. Sadly.

Which still means I will never get the opportuity to fly in one to New York.... always one of my lifelong dreams. So for me they are scrapped.

I had the pleasure of being at Mildenhall Airshow in 1987, and saw possibly one of the best flying displays of all time -SR-71etc, but my highlight was a near sub-sonic flypast of Concorde.

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kee-lo_ — Wed, 25 May 2005 12:49:40 GMT

I had dreams of going on Concorde to Japan
How dare they dismiss good French planes!

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hldomster — Wed, 25 May 2005 16:39:32 GMT

I think it's a step backwards in technology that is. But it was a money decision, people want cheap filghts, not quality.

Roll on the supersonic jumbo!!!

Re: Anyone else find it annoying when....

kee-lo_ — Wed, 25 May 2005 19:19:53 GMT

people want cheap filghts, not quality.

Shame they don't do cheap flights to Japan!

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seb21__ — Wed, 25 May 2005 19:23:19 GMT


Shame they don't do cheap flights to Japan!

Japan is too expensive for cheap flights.:smileycool:

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@4967457401015621 — Wed, 25 May 2005 20:52:19 GMT

How dare they dismiss good French planes!

That'd be Anglo-French if you don't mind
GBS, did you see the Concorde take off? I saw it take off at RIAT at Farnborough, I think it was, it covered the whole place with thick yellow smoke! And I think you may mean nearly super sonic if you could still hear afterwards.. yes I'm an aeroplane junkie, would be going off to fly them if I had good eyesight!

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kee-lo_ — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:02:01 GMT

True Seb

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GBS — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:15:02 GMT

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GBS, did you see the Concorde take off? I saw it take off at RIAT at Farnborough, I think it was, it covered the whole place with thick yellow smoke! And I think you may mean nearly super sonic if you could still hear afterwards.. yes I'm an aeroplane junkie, would be going off to fly them if I had good eyesight!

Yes, the takeoff was very impressive, thick black smoke and yellow fire (unburnt fuel from the afterburners), and the most beautiful noise....
They were not allowed to go supersonic so they went as close as possible, the SR-71, and an F-15 too....

My problem is red green colour blind.

I still plan to get my PPL when I can afford it.

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seb21__ — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:22:31 GMT

True Seb

For 3 years ago, I had the chance to fly to Japan for 2 weeks.:smileyrolling_eyes:
It was a Pupil exchange. But I hadn't the money for the flight.:smileycry:

Re: Anyone else find it annoying when....

Speedbird223 — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:13:01 GMT

Which still means I will never get the opportuity to fly in one to New York.... always one of my lifelong dreams. So for me they are scrapped.

Fortunately I managed to get myself a trip on the rocket in September 2002. If you are interested I wrote a report on it:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/50487/

Also a photo album from the trip
Username: flyertalk
Password: flyertalk

Re: Anyone else find it annoying when....

GBS — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:50:57 GMT

Fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
You lucky, lucky, SOB!!!

Ahhhh, I am SO jealous....:smileydevil: What a nice Dad.... hope you said thanks.

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Speedbird223 — Thu, 26 May 2005 11:18:45 GMT

Fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
You lucky, lucky, SOB!!!

Ahhhh, I am SO jealous....:smileydevil: What a nice Dad.... hope you said thanks.

Just a few times

Can't remember if I wrote it in the report but I wasn't expecting the flight on Concorde, was a surprise, as was getting the Chief Concorde pilot rostered. My father knows one of the people in the rostering team who sorted it out for me

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kee-lo_ — Thu, 26 May 2005 14:44:35 GMT

Wow thats cool