The impending assault weapons ban

[GRUMPY]

 

[tuk tuk Joe]

You could also add the number of foreign children killed by drones to your list.... h34r:

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

You could also add the number of foreign children killed by drones to your list.... h34r:

To be fair, we use them on American kids too.

 

[Rain Man]

I've used a spot during a Boy Scout trip to central Manitoba. Pinged the sat every night and the parents could follow us on a website. Let the subscription lag, but will probably renew it when I start my mountain trials in the little plane. It's better then an ELT if you are able to set it off.

Note one major limitation on SPOT - it does not have worldwide coverage.

That is why no-one uses it for offshore sailing - Murphy makes you go overboard where the coverage is weak or non-existant.

Having said that we have one in our glider - it is a cheap-ass substitute for a $2K ELT and if the SPOT is damaged in the crash you have the slug trail to look at online. .

Dash

 

[GRUMPY]

You could also add the number of foreign children killed by drones to your list.... h34r:

2011? 363 in Afghanistan

 

[Greever]

If Joe Biden says the govt is too busy to prosecute existing laws, why the fuck is he asking for new ones?

http://dailycaller.c...kground-checks/

Clearly, the proponents aren't interested in solving problems, they just want crime to be more illegal.

Hey, take your gun shit to another thread!

:lol:

 

[Greever]

I carry 16 gallons. So I can get about 3 hours of flight before needing go juice with a lot of error. Same endurance as my bladder. Its a 800 mile trip. @ 150mph, thats a 6.5 hour trip from Denver. So will probably make two stops enroute. Try to string out the last stop to a hundred miles of KOSH so I don't have to refuel at the show.

We always left KDVT (my old homefield), and flew to Pueblo to have breakfast at the Spitfire Grill. Then usually get fuel in Nebraska, and top off in Iowa right before going to the show. We would use the Ripon approach over the railroad tracks, then you do the wag your wing thingy and join the conga line!

I have a 3 hour bladder too. We never use the long range tanks in the 182, (or the Cherokee for that matter) and I will build my bird with 37 gallons of capacity. Plenty for an IO-320 or 360.

Hey, I went to Ripon College!

We should have an SA meetup at the Fly-In.

We will do that!

No matter what I am hitting The Farm this year and we are going to launch a crapton of rockets!

 

[Greever]

Edit: and flying for ten hours straight without getting out to stretch your legs would suck!

My longest flight was 17 hours non-stop on a deployment from NC to Turkey. My 2nd longest was 12 hours over Iraq when we kept getting extended to help in a big Marine firefight in Fallujah. Strapped into a fighter ejection seat for that long was not fun.

I prefer business class with flat beds these days

In a Fighter? OUCH!

How many times did you have to do air to air refueling? At your most efficient throttle setting and altitude how many hours of fuel did you carry?

 

[joneisberg]

I've used a spot during a Boy Scout trip to central Manitoba. Pinged the sat every night and the parents could follow us on a website. Let the subscription lag, but will probably renew it when I start my mountain trials in the little plane. It's better then an ELT if you are able to set it off.

Note one major limitation on SPOT - it does not have worldwide coverage.

That is why no-one uses it for offshore sailing - Murphy makes you go overboard where the coverage is weak or non-existant.

Having said that we have one in our glider - it is a cheap-ass substitute for a $2K ELT and if the SPOT is damaged in the crash you have the slug trail to look at online. .

Dash

You're right, my mistake...

It's still pretty widespread, however...

 

[Saorsa]

Flying in a plane scares the shit out of me----ergo I want all planes banned and confiscated.....

Flying in planes gives me a boner. My boner makes me feel very manly and sexy. I think everyone should be entitled to a boner-as MAGNIFICENT as my ASTOUNDINGLY AWESOME ERECTION.

That's f'ng scary. And it's painfully obvious to me that what this country needs is more Boner Control laws.....

Are they only needed for the scary black ones?

 

[Greever]

That reminds me to reactivate mine before sailing season begins.

Can I set up SPOT to call a specific Coast Guard station?

 

[Spatial Ed]

Edit: and flying for ten hours straight without getting out to stretch your legs would suck!

My longest flight was 17 hours non-stop on a deployment from NC to Turkey. My 2nd longest was 12 hours over Iraq when we kept getting extended to help in a big Marine firefight in Fallujah. Strapped into a fighter ejection seat for that long was not fun.

I prefer business class with flat beds these days />

In a Fighter? OUCH!

How many times did you have to do air to air refueling? At your most efficient throttle setting and altitude how many hours of fuel did you carry?

Might explain why Jeff is so full of shit.

 

[Enigma0]

You could also add the number of foreign children killed by drones to your list.... h34r:

To be fair, we use them on American kids too.

Actually, the Plan B drug and certain specialized medical implements kill far more American children than any weapons or diseases. I forget how many; maybe 3 - 4 million per year? Looked like a genocide number. And when you sum all those counts since Roe v. Wade, maybe more Jews have been killed in the USA and Israel between 2001 and 2010 than were in Germany and Eastern Europe between 1936 and 1945.

If a country doesn't value its own infants, what sort of care will it expend on distant ones? Only that BLU-82 kind of care...

 

[Enigma0]

A certain poster who stomped off vowing never to return? One who has been kicking ass on the internet since the 80's? Enigma indeed.

I don't think so... This guy's just looking for a new home, he was recently flicked from freakin' SAILNET, of all places... One of the tamest, most heavily moderated boards on the web, where even posting a word like 'sh_t' is likely to draw one a reprimand...

Actually, I've been a secret observer at this, CruisingOutpost, and the Sailnet site for months. I always observe the conduct of 'forum monitors' to discover what sort of abusers they are, and which members are their fellators and agents provocateur.

The Sailnet filth shunned me not for any obscenities or profanities, but for describing with particulars the abuses they commit. And for identifying their sodomite agents. You may review whatever posts of mine that yet remain; the Global Warming thread is typical of my behavior.

My language is always clean, and I never provide any rational excuse for objecting to my posts. But I've been shunned by a few boards ever since CompuServe; he who suspected me of being online since 1980 was not far from the truth. However, I've never 'stomped off' from any site. I'm invariably ejected by those cretins unable to counter my principles and reasonings.

I rather like Bob Bichin's Cruising Outpost site, aside from the gynecological posts. I only post rather sedate pretty-girl and scenery images.

Now, I've not yet seen any substantive responses to my modest proposal of a country-wide county-based jury system for granting auto-loading firearms licenses.

This site is very hard to navigate, so it's difficult to get back to my posts and to any responses. Anyone have any counters to that socialist Obama agenda of totally abrogating the Bill of Rights? Other than burying some full-auto weapons and a few thousand rounds in a bunker under the patio?

 

[Olsonist]

Whatever.

 

[Enigma0]

Yeah, that's typical of the substantive responses I got at Sailnet from the doctrinaire atheists and socialists. Whatever, but with much more waving of hands and frothing at the mouth.

 

[Guest]

Edit: and flying for ten hours straight without getting out to stretch your legs would suck!

My longest flight was 17 hours non-stop on a deployment from NC to Turkey. My 2nd longest was 12 hours over Iraq when we kept getting extended to help in a big Marine firefight in Fallujah. Strapped into a fighter ejection seat for that long was not fun.

I prefer business class with flat beds these days

In a Fighter? OUCH!

How many times did you have to do air to air refueling? At your most efficient throttle setting and altitude how many hours of fuel did you carry?

11 times on the way to Turkey. 10 was between takeoff from NC until we hit the coast of Spain. When we ferry jets like that, we typically go with 3 external tanks.which gives us 35,500 lbs of fuel. In theory, we could go 3.5 to 4 hours max with a 20 min reserve.

Why 11 refuelings you ask? Its because when you're over the ocean a LONG way from land, you always have to keep enough fuel in the jet to get to a divert base in case you can take fuel from the tanker. So we were no kidding refueling almost every hour, sometimes less, to keep the tanks full enough to get somewhere if we had a problem getting gas. If we went right to the minimums before we tried to refuel, and the system breaks (it happens), it would be a long cold swim home.

Once we were over the Med, we got topped off one last time near Libya and made it to turkey with no problem on one tank. Because there were lots of places to go if something happened.

 

[tq2000]

Yeah, that's typical of the substantive responses I got at Sailnet from the doctrinaire atheists and socialists. Whatever, but with much more waving of hands and frothing at the mouth.

So they finally banned you over at Sailnet? Well you are going to love it here there are plenty of atheists and heretics here. Lots of filth and depravity. You have just stepped into a virtual sodom and gomorrah and will have no shortage of opportunities to point out the splinter in many an eye. This is gonna be good, I am going to go get some popcorn.

 

[Greever]

Edit: and flying for ten hours straight without getting out to stretch your legs would suck!

My longest flight was 17 hours non-stop on a deployment from NC to Turkey. My 2nd longest was 12 hours over Iraq when we kept getting extended to help in a big Marine firefight in Fallujah. Strapped into a fighter ejection seat for that long was not fun.

I prefer business class with flat beds these days

In a Fighter? OUCH!

How many times did you have to do air to air refueling? At your most efficient throttle setting and altitude how many hours of fuel did you carry?

11 times on the way to Turkey. 10 was between takeoff from NC until we hit the coast of Spain. When we ferry jets like that, we typically go with 3 external tanks.which gives us 35,500 lbs of fuel. In theory, we could go 3.5 to 4 hours max with a 20 min reserve.

Why 11 refuelings you ask? Its because when you're over the ocean a LONG way from land, you always have to keep enough fuel in the jet to get to a divert base in case you can take fuel from the tanker. So we were no kidding refueling almost every hour, sometimes less, to keep the tanks full enough to get somewhere if we had a problem getting gas. If we went right to the minimums before we tried to refuel, and the system breaks (it happens), it would be a long cold swim home.

Once we were over the Med, we got topped off one last time near Libya and made it to turkey with no problem on one tank. Because there were lots of places to go if something happened.

SuperHornet?

Thanks for the response btw, always eager to learn new aviation stuff.

 

[austin1972]

I think Jeff flew F15E's.