Tanwen Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Not quite so unfortunate as my niece who is called Vanesse Dawn - don't think she uses 'Dawn' much. Link to post Share on other sites
kg Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 I've some friends with worse. :-( Can't even say it here ! I think the most amusing unfortunate one was what the email admins made of a friend's first and last name. Last name was Wat, and the first name started with a T ....and they combined them. Needless to say... And I'll just end it there for this thread .... Link to post Share on other sites
Tanwen Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 That's OK, I have an over-active imagination... :lol: :lol: That really is funny...I mean unfortunate Link to post Share on other sites
osito Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 You're a CFI? Cool! In your song you make a couple references to Pitts. Is that what you fly? I own a Super Decathlon. Love doing those inverted spins. Hi, Hammerhead!! I don't own an airplane. I suppose that's fortunate, because I'd be even more impoverished than I am now, with all the rain we're having in Texas. That's my bread and butter being washed down to the water table. :( I used to have somewhat regular access to a Pitts S-2B. One of my friends now has a Sukhoi Su-29, and I haven't yet had a chance to fly with him...what with his down time (partner taxied it into a crawfish pond in Louisiana during a competition) and now... all this rain. :roll: I teach spins and aerobatics in the humblest of underpowered craft--the Cessna 152 Aerobat; it belongs to a flying club for which I am an instructor. It's actually quite OK for the basics. It can do non-competitively acceptable reverse Cubans, double snaps and avalanches..and of course upright spins for as long as one prudently wants to. I have about 10 hours in a Super Decathlon--very nice! I have done some short and longer inverted spins in that and also in the Pitts (with a CFI), but I am not well-versed in them. I am not into competition; if I had the $, I might be. Very sorry about your back.:( I don't s'pose the flying helps, does it? The song is unfortunately fiction. I have more songs--a whole album of them produced as a cassette (last of the breed) back in 1995. I am thinking of self-producing it as a CD, but first have to get the rights thing all straightened out. osito Link to post Share on other sites
Tanwen Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Islander 9 mentioned a chatroom, and yes we do have one, no I can't copy a link so I'll have to ask one of our (many) computer literate people to do it for me, in the meantime there is (are) a group chat, link to original post is: http://www.asexuality.org/discussion/viewt...889&start=0 I haven't been in the chat room for months, so I can't say how well used it is, I used to go in at a time when I was th only one and I can (and do) talk to myself in rl, Link to post Share on other sites
Hammerhead Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Hi osito. Yeah a plane can be rather expensive at times. I hate getting another A/D from the FAA in the mail. Wonder how many $1,000s this one is going to cost me. Sometimes I think it would have been better just to rent but there aren't any FBOs around here that rent Decathons. Never flown a Pitts or Sukhoi. Heard the Pitts can be rather squirrely taxing in a cross wind. I have flown a Cessna Aerobat once. The only problem I had with it is the yoke, I much prefer stick. My back is getting better and I went thru my BFR a month ago so I'm current again. Was surpised how rusty I got, not exactly doing grease landings. :D Hope things are drying out in Texas. Hammerhead Link to post Share on other sites
osito Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Hi, Hammerhead, I am assuming this is the AD you are fretting over: http://asms.casa.go.kr/asms_ad/file/2006-10-21.pdf It's very hard to find any FBOs anywhere that rent Decathlons. We had one in Georgetown for a while (north of Austin) that rented for $85 an hour...that was 7-8 years ago. But the owner lost his medical and sold it. There have been a few others around now and then. The local Pitts S-2B, after my friend sold it, sat gathering dust and then it was bought by a guy in South Africa who runs big game safaris...mm-hmm, that will wake up the lions, I am sure. I much prefer a stick too--it's so natural. But I have learned to accept that I am still fortunate to get to teack akro at all. Currently I am ther only active aerobatic instructor in Austin, which seems very odd to me. Glad your back is better!! Link to post Share on other sites
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