Squawk as you see fit (Off Topic Thread)

andy_g

Welcome to the off topic thread please remain civil but post anything non aviation aircraft related.

A big congratulation's to Phonypony who came up with the name of the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM

Tenger

Boobs!

Zonda999

I don't know what a tracker mortgage is..

brandon_flowers

This is a drop off zone only.... :mad::mad::mad:

Most annoying announcement ever.

donvito99

I don't like Lee Evans, but this reminds me of the trek from T1 to Pier D...

Peregrine

brandon_flowers wrote: »

This is a drop off zone only.... :mad::mad::mad:

Most annoying announcement ever.

Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone **** again.

Male announcer: There's just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

Plowman

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artanevilla

I wonder will this thread TAKE OFF.

Bsal

Why is the end of the cereal box always small crumbs

andy_g

Bsal wrote: »

Why is the end of the cereal box always small crumbs

Ah but if your like me ya often find more cereal that slipped between the bag

bnt

Zonda999 wrote: »

I don't know what a tracker mortgage is..

I didn't know what an Interest-Only mortgage was - despite the name - before I had it explained to me. Then I was like "why the hell would you want to do that? Are you deluded?" This was back in 2007, too ...

BeardySi

artanevilla wrote: »

I wonder will this thread TAKE OFF.

no sign of it stalling so far...

knucklehead6

We're allowed use non aviation parlance in here right?

Or do i have to apply for departure clearance before leaving work?

sparrowcar

I absolutely refuse to post in this thread...oh wait...ahhh sh!t

BrakePad

Treadhead wrote: »

no sign of it stalling so far...

it's still in ground effect

Zonda999

I'm just going to leave this vaguely aviation related picture here.. I am a United fan though!

b757

Zonda999 wrote: »

I'm just going to leave this vaguely aviation related picture here.. I am a United fan though!

Wouldn't get in that if you paid me.....

artanevilla

The awkward moment when Etihad means United.

BrakePad

Anyone thoughts on the Clermont v Munster game tomorrow? I think Munster will be hammered but better not tell their fans that...:rolleyes:

Peregrine

BrakePad wrote: »

Anyone thoughts on the Clermont v Munster game tomorrow? I think Munster will be hammered but better not tell their fans that...:rolleyes:

Munster by 60 :cool:

When's the match? Might watch it if it's not on during the Leinster match

I would pay a great deal of money to be on this

jamo2oo9

Munster will get slaughtered by all means. Leinster match will be a good one. Looking forward to it later today. I would love to be flying on that plane with the Leinster team to anywhere. The atmosphere would be brilliant

Peregrine

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Munster will get slaughtered by all means. Leinster match will be a good one. Looking forward to it later today. I would love to be flying on that plane with the Leinster team to anywhere. The atmosphere would be brilliant

Yeah but it's weird
Rob Penney seems to think they can win against Clermont but Joe is being wary of Biarritz.

Now by all means, Munster might be able to pull something off, giant killing is not new to Munster.

I think there was a thread about the Leinster jet here last year, there are more pics of it when it was revealed here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151101068356102.533723.223587946101&type=1

jamo2oo9

Was this livery part of their image campaign or is CityJet sponsoring them?

Penney will be up for a surprise today. I think the Leinster match will be like last night's match between Paris and Perpignan. Great match and it really kept me on the edge.

Peregrine

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Was this livery part of their image campaign or is CityJet sponsoring them?

Penney will be up for a surprise today. I think the Leinster match will be like last night's match between Paris and Perpignan. Great match and it really kept me on the edge.

I think they said "Official airline of Leinster Rugby" they fly the team to their matches, the partnership started 2 or 3 years ago. They are the main sponsor of London Irish though aren't they?

Sterling Archer

BrakePad wrote: »

it's still in ground effect

If it was good enough for the Soviets It'll do

jamo2oo9

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I think they said "Official airline of Leinster Rugby" they fly the team to their matches, the partnership started 2 or 3 years ago. They are the main sponsor of London Irish though aren't they?

To be honest, I haven't seen London Irish in action before but I've looked on their website and they haven't got any airline affiliated with them..? Maybe it was a match sponsorship you might have seen?

Peregrine

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

To be honest, I haven't seen London Irish in action before but I've looked on their website and they haven't got any airline affiliated with them..? Maybe it was a match sponsorship you might have seen?

It seems Powerday is the main sponsor of London Irish now, used to be Cityjet.



I think Cityjet was the main sponsor until 2011.
http://www.cityjet.com/news/cityjet-renews-london-irish-sponsorship.shtml
http://www.powerday.co.uk/news/powerday-announced-as-new-principal-sponsor-of-london-irish-rugby-club

Lustrum

I think Cityjet must be doing all the flying for them now. We got a call in baggage tracing during the week from Leinster rugby about a couple of bits they thought they left on a flight from the rabo match the previous weekend, so I can only assume all away games are chartered with cityjet now.

Anyhoo, great win today, the second half was almost embarrassing, and I even got a bit off sunburn at it!

jamo2oo9

Yeah, I got a bit bored in the last half. Sure we had a few tries and BOD scored one of them but I didn't find it keeping me on the edge in the last 40mins.. As expected Munster lost but in fairness they did put up a hell of a fight and did their best to keep the PD as small as possible.

Looks like it is CityJet doing their charter flights these days. Anybody know what airline is chartered for Munster team?

knucklehead6

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Yeah, I got a bit bored in the last half. Sure we had a few tries and BOD scored one of them but I didn't find it keeping me on the edge in the last 40mins.. As expected Munster lost but in fairness they did put up a hell of a fight and did their best to keep the PD as small as possible.

Looks like it is CityJet doing their charter flights these days. Anybody know what airline is chartered for Munster team?

Not sure, but I heard yesterday that Claremont had 25 charter flights booked for Dublin before their victory yesterday.

It's about the only good thing I can think of from the result, lots of hardware coming into visit.

Peregrine

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Yeah, I got a bit bored in the last half. Sure we had a few tries and BOD scored one of them but I didn't find it keeping me on the edge in the last 40mins.. As expected Munster lost but in fairness they did put up a hell of a fight and did their best to keep the PD as small as possible.

Ah but now we had that Isa Nacewa try in the second half with himself and Johnathan doing some brilliant passing before the try, along with BOD's try and the crowd chanting "One more year! One more year!" He was scarlet

It wasn't that bad of a second half. Quite emotional though, they will be missed.

Munster put up a really good fight, losing by 6 points to a team like Clermont was much more than expected of them. Yet another play off disappointment for the boys in red but at least Clermont broke their curse.

jamo2oo9

Is Isa leaving Leinster too? I know Sexton and BOD are leaving this year but BOD was brilliant yesterday and I thought it was fantastic to hear the supporters shouting One More Year for him. He ought to think about it! Yeah, two finals that weekend, plenty of planes coming in from France for it. Hope to make it too the Amlin Final to see Leinster win the final Yeah, looks like it. Wish Clermont the best of luck in a few weeks and may they win it.

Peregrine

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Is Isa leaving Leinster too?

Isa is retiring from rugby and going back to NZ due to "family reasons". It's a shame, he's one of Leinster's best players and he's only 30. Jonathan is moving to Racing and BOD might be retiring too.

jamo2oo9

I knew about Sexton and BOD but I never heard anything about Isa. He was truly a great player for Leinster and Ireland. Shame he has to go so soon. BOD has to stay for another year. BOD is a player nobody could forget!

Dogwatch

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

I knew about Sexton and BOD but I never heard anything about Isa. He was truly a great player for Leinster and Ireland. Shame he has to go so soon. BOD has to stay for another year. BOD is a player nobody could forget!

Isa never played for Ireland. He has 1 cap for Fiji. Yes he is a great player and will be missed.

Bsal

Great video of some GA flying in California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCB82JPBHTI

Peregrine

Any good aviation related movies?

I've seen most of the mainstream popular ones, but there has to be few hidden gems I haven't seen.

andy_g

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Any good aviation related movies?

I've seen most of the mainstream popular ones, but there has to be few hidden gems I haven't seen.

Snakes on a plane *runs*

Xpro

Bsal wrote: »

Great video of some GA flying in California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCB82JPBHTI

Hes videos are savage. I think he flies for ryanair

BrakePad

Nice to see racism is alive and well in the USA.

I have to say for a country that gets it's ass handed to it regularly by 2nd or 3rd string selections from the 6 Nations teams they are not half cocky!

I like how there a appears to be a large contingent of 1980s Irish internationals hiding in the bushes too! :rolleyes:

I think we need a response video where BOD steal's some obese gun waving simpleton's BigMac!

L1011

As I believe the ATR72-600s have ADS-B, we should start seeing some EI Regional flights on flightradar now. Handy for when I want to know where the people going over my house have come from...

Zonda999

They should hopefully

http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

Common aircraft models that do not have an ADS-B transponder and are NOT visible on Flightradar24:

ATR 42, 72 (except most new deliveries of ATR 72-600)

I think I have seen Iberia Express 72-600's on FR24 in the past alright

phonypony

Peregrine

That's great news! I'd love to know where the people travelling in my twin turboprop morning alarm clocks are going

andy_g

phonypony wrote: »

Caught her on the radar box twice first at 12:39 and 18:35.
Raging i was out when she flew out but I was trying to get a shot of Medevac 112 in Tallaght

Peregrine

andy_g wrote: »

Caught her on the radar box twice first at 12:39 and 18:35.
Raging i was out when she flew out but I was trying to get a shot of Medevac 112 in Tallaght

I think it was delivered around 15:00 yesterday. Hope to see some over my house over the week, all flights have been north to Scotland so far.

andy_g

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I think it was delivered around 15:00 yesterday. Hope to see some over my house over the week, all flights have been north to Scotland so far.

Nope first time captured on the box was at 12:39:41 end time (time lost) 12:49:03 Starting Alt was 2000ft end Alt was FL100 Callsign EI3254

Then again captured at 18:35:32 lost time 18:40:39 start Alt 2775ft end Alt 9375ft

Peregrine

andy_g wrote: »

Nope first time captured on the box was at 12:39:41 end time (time lost) 12:49:03 Starting Alt was 2000ft end Alt was FL100 Callsign EI3254

Then again captured at 18:35:32 lost time 18:40:39 start Alt 2775ft end Alt 9375ft

Oh apologies, I saw an aircraft with an RE call sign yesterday but didn't think much of it, today I thought that it might have been the delivery flight.

Edit: Hang on..then what did I see

andy_g

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Oh apologies, I saw an aircraft with an RE call sign yesterday but didn't think much of it, today I thought that it might have been the delivery flight.

Edit: Hang on..then what did I see

it may have been it im just going what the box caught

L1011

Gatwick South is in a STATE at the moment. Upper level of departures is normal-ish bar a few closed shops and a massive box in the middle blocking out light, downstairs is a building site - although, as always, they finished the massive duty free that you get brought on a circuitous path through after security first...

I seriously hope the DUB T1 refurbishment doesn't ever leave it this wrecked.

Peregrine

Interesting A319 flight over Ireland atm:



Are all their aircraft still parked at DUB?