but I have brought shame on your 777. I've been crashing , landing short of the runway, overshooting the runway, over speeding, landing too fast without flaps, forgot landing/navigation lights,  failed to follow ATC instruction, flying under/over restricted FL, damage the landing gear, hit a tree etc...It was all done in the name of learning. Don't worry, I am not planning of flying commercial flight anytime soon.

Sir, keep on learning... that what this is all about

 

I can suggest a book - "Handling the Big Jets" by D P Davies

 

Have you thought about a motorcycle?

Sir, keep on learning... that what this is all about

 

I can suggest a book - "Handling the Big Jets" by D P Davies

 

Have you thought about a motorcycle?

LMAO. I am sure many of you did the same mistake I did at the beginning. I am just more upfront about it.

I don't mean no disrespect

 

but I have brought shame on your 777. I've been crashing , landing short of the runway, overshooting the runway, over speeding, landing too fast without flaps, forgot landing/navigation lights,  failed to follow ATC instruction, flying under/over restricted FL, damage the landing gear, hit a tree etc...It was all done in the name of learning. Don't worry, I am not planning of flying commercial flight anytime soon.

 

Never mind the dodgy flying Claude, you need to sort out that double negative in the title!!  

Never mind the dodgy flying Claude, you need to sort out that double negative in the title!!  

 

It's an expression. A bad one grammatically but an expression nonetheless.  Also I am french Canadian. I have an excuse (I don't but shhh I am still in denial about my English writing skills)

Post of the year.

I can't stop laughing. My sides are hurting. Quite brilliant. Claude and Michael, you should be on the stage.

 

Alan.

 

 

A bad one grammatically but an expression nonetheless.

 

Rodney Dangerfield?

Claude, when I first flew the queen in 2005 - I did a 13 hour group flight, only for it to end in a stall on final into EGLL

 

That day, Windsor Castle were the proud owners of a life-size 747 sculpture in her Majesty's court yard The Queen even came outside to ask "whaaat the faaaarkin hell was thaaaat?"

 

I never lived it down with the other pilots in that group flight.

 

Does anyone else chime with that *crushing* jet upset disappointment on a long haul? "Ah shed! It was all going so well until........ why did that have to happen".

 

That book is a good read however, and having understood airliner behavior in the real world - it has made me a better sim pilot. I don't crash anymore, that's for sure.

 

Don't give up!

Rodney Dangerfield?

 

 

By far my favorite comedian was Rodney Dangerfield, and here is one of my favorite quotes from him.

 

" I went to a shrink.  He told me I'm crazy, so I told him I need another opinion.  He said yeah, you're ugly too."

 

 

I can seriously relate to Rodney Dangerfield, since I don't get no respect either.

but I have brought shame on your 777. I've been crashing , landing short of the runway, overshooting the runway, over speeding, landing too fast without flaps, forgot landing/navigation lights,  failed to follow ATC instruction, flying under/over restricted FL, damage the landing gear, hit a tree etc...It was all done in the name of learning. Don't worry, I am not planning of flying commercial flight anytime soon.

Never mind the dodgy flying Claude, you need to sort out that double negative in the title!!  

 

 

It's an expression. A bad one grammatically but an expression nonetheless.  Also I am french Canadian. I have an excuse (I don't but shhh I am still in denial about my English writing skills)

 

 

Bonjour Claude!   Don't worry, I was only joking / teasing a little because the use of don't and no (a double negative) means

 

"I do mean disrespect!"

 

...which was quite funny!        Cheers.

Bonjour Claude!   Don't worry, I was only joking / teasing a little because the use of don't and no (a double negative) means

 

"I do mean disrespect!"

 

...which was quite funny!        Cheers.

 

. I guess you never watch gangster/mafia movie ? Well. Craig.. it was meant to be an humorous thread.

Recently I was flying into KBOS on VATSIM in bad weather when my Boston Terrier insisted on sitting in my lap. I figured "no problem" weather was marginal anyway so I would autoland. I got down to very short final the AP kicked off and with the dog in my lap I could not reach the controls in time and down she went. I figured out afterward that between the dog and my wife as distractions I did not set the correct altimeter so there you have it. Total bummer.

 

 

I figured out afterward that between the dog and my wife as distractions I did not set the correct altimeter

 

I doubt the dog had anything to do with it.... oh! You're being polite to your wife. Ok.