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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:06 pm
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www.usatoday.com/trave...1_ST_N.htm

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:37 pm
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- OHOH!
Flaws in flight simulator training helped trigger some of the worst airline accidents in the past decade,...


Obviously, they've flown with us on Sundays...
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greaaaat, kids on their way to Amsterdam right now... But the dutch know how to fly, right fled ;+)

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:58 am
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Hey Slow !

on yer way to Amsterdam, you going transfer or stay here ?

and yes we have enough potato fields around the place to ditch an aircraft Razz ;D Wink
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LOL, not me fled... I am the old mule hooked to post that has the grinding wheel at the flour mill and who has to keep walking round in circles to grind the wheat to keep the family in bread LOL

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- HF_SlowHand
I am the old mule hooked to post that has the grinding wheel at the flour mill and who has to keep walking round in circles
I KNEW IT!!!

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LOL
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alas....

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What simulator faults? Bushy always lands upside down.
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Saves on the landing gear...
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actually true bushy, I interviewed with Bendix once (make brakes for USA military and most commercial manf) and the business model was that they were paid for each landing - the more landings the brakes made / lasted the higher profits they made...

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