I got to stand next to a Merlin helicopter yesterday, I never realised how big they were. I thought they were a bit bigger than a Lynx but in reality not much smaller than a chinook.
Have you ever flown fixed wing?
The Merlin is a big heli, the Lynx is fantastic I only flew them for a couple of months but going inverted in one is amazing. The lynx is also very fast and can out run and manouver an Apache!
I did start off training to be a fighter pilot but it wasn't for me so I switched to heli's.
Going to have to wait til tomorrow now for my new car, apparently paying for it in full on your debit card arouses suspicion and I've had to take bank statements in to show where I got the money from! (no one understands the concept that I worked and saved hard!)
Most pilots save a lot of cash to pay for private pilots license when you leave otherwise your grounded!
Going to have to wait til tomorrow now for my new car, apparently paying for it in full on your debit card arouses suspicion and I've had to take bank statements in to show where I got the money from! (no one understands the concept that I worked and saved hard!)
That never used to happen and it feels a little bit big brother when it does. The idea that the government is keeping an eye on everyone's spending is a little creepy.
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
Ha ha we're not all camper than christmas you know... Where's my fairy outfit gone.....
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
Ha ha we're not all camper than christmas you know... Where's my fairy outfit gone.....
I don't have a fairy outfit, but I do have a bananaman outfit!
And who know, we may have met. Although I don't recall ever meeting a gay pilot. Met a few straight ones.
Back on topic, there was red Z4 where my mate's used to live. Loved it! Always thought it looked great, and the interior looks much better than SLK's
the warning would then repeat once on every journey, roof up or down, until a visit to the dealer got it stopped (harf will now be along to tell me that that wouldn't have happened, etc ).
Cheeky!
Enjoy the Z4 - the interior looks wonderfully smart on those. Less keen on the exterior, loved the indicator behind the badge on the side in the prev gen - lovely detail.
Alas, 2 door sports cars with electrically folding roofs won't be on my shopping list until the kids have left home - that'll be about 15-20 years time then. And the roof mechanisms will all be broken by then anyway
loved the indicator behind the badge on the side in the prev gen - lovely detail
Yes, very good point. In some ways it was perhaps the very best in BMW design. A very tidy detail, well bolted together (do not believe I've ever seen one hanging off), which simulatanelously slightly obscured the indicator from view, giving the hard of thinking the opportunity to mutter that classic "BMW drivers never indicate" line.
One point about the new model though, especially the iS, it really does have the longest name badge ever to be applied to the side of a motor car, which very handily doubles as a door bump, seeing off your careless car park neighbour with aplomb.
harf wrote:
Alas, 2 door sports cars with electrically folding roofs won't be on my shopping list until the kids have left home - that'll be about 15-20 years time then. And the roof mechanisms will all be broken by then anyway
Which'll give you plenty of time to beef up, so you can operate it manually, just like in them olden times days of yore.
If I knew what I was getting into, I wouldn't have done it...and I would have been wrong.
28 July 2008
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Ah, ChopperPilot! Now I get it! Very good.
You know, I do believe that is a 'pec'...
16 July 2012
I got to stand next to a Merlin helicopter yesterday, I never realised how big they were. I thought they were a bit bigger than a Lynx but in reality not much smaller than a chinook.
Have you ever flown fixed wing?
The Merlin is a big heli, the Lynx is fantastic I only flew them for a couple of months but going inverted in one is amazing. The lynx is also very fast and can out run and manouver an Apache!
I did start off training to be a fighter pilot but it wasn't for me so I switched to heli's.
16 July 2012
Going to have to wait til tomorrow now for my new car, apparently paying for it in full on your debit card arouses suspicion and I've had to take bank statements in to show where I got the money from! (no one understands the concept that I worked and saved hard!)
Most pilots save a lot of cash to pay for private pilots license when you leave otherwise your grounded!
28 July 2008
Going to have to wait til tomorrow now for my new car, apparently paying for it in full on your debit card arouses suspicion and I've had to take bank statements in to show where I got the money from! (no one understands the concept that I worked and saved hard!)
That never used to happen and it feels a little bit big brother when it does. The idea that the government is keeping an eye on everyone's spending is a little creepy.
You know, I do believe that is a 'pec'...
8 January 2008
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello
hahaha
21 July 2012
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello
hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
16 July 2012
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello
hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
Ha ha we're not all camper than christmas you know... Where's my fairy outfit gone.....
8 January 2008
In terms of chasing girls I'm the other way inclined!
Hello
hahaha
I always thought it was stereotyping if I were to assume you two had met before! Oh well, if stereotyping's out the window, I'll get the costumes and we can do a rendition of YMCA. Though I much prefer It's Raining Men if I'm honest.
Ha ha we're not all camper than christmas you know... Where's my fairy outfit gone.....
I don't have a fairy outfit, but I do have a bananaman outfit!
And who know, we may have met. Although I don't recall ever meeting a gay pilot. Met a few straight ones.
Back on topic, there was red Z4 where my mate's used to live. Loved it! Always thought it looked great, and the interior looks much better than SLK's
11 January 2010
the warning would then repeat once on every journey, roof up or down, until a visit to the dealer got it stopped (harf will now be along to tell me that that wouldn't have happened, etc
).
Cheeky!
Enjoy the Z4 - the interior looks wonderfully smart on those. Less keen on the exterior, loved the indicator behind the badge on the side in the prev gen - lovely detail.
Alas, 2 door sports cars with electrically folding roofs won't be on my shopping list until the kids have left home - that'll be about 15-20 years time then. And the roof mechanisms will all be broken by then anyway
You're not stuck in traffic - you are traffic!!
6 November 2007
loved the indicator behind the badge on the side in the prev gen - lovely detail
Yes, very good point. In some ways it was perhaps the very best in BMW design. A very tidy detail, well bolted together (do not believe I've ever seen one hanging off), which simulatanelously slightly obscured the indicator from view, giving the hard of thinking the opportunity to mutter that classic "BMW drivers never indicate" line.
One point about the new model though, especially the iS, it really does have the longest name badge ever to be applied to the side of a motor car, which very handily doubles as a door bump, seeing off your careless car park neighbour with aplomb.
Alas, 2 door sports cars with electrically folding roofs won't be on my shopping list until the kids have left home - that'll be about 15-20 years time then. And the roof mechanisms will all be broken by then anyway
Which'll give you plenty of time to beef up, so you can operate it manually, just like in them olden times days of yore.
If I knew what I was getting into, I wouldn't have done it...and I would have been wrong.