High of 47* today. A week ago it was a high of 74*. You could land a Piper Cub today and have to look over your shoulder to make sure you don't hit anything behind you.

Our pilot is flying a project in Stillwater, OK today. It is a city northeast of OKC. He had to fly due north to get there. The wind is blowing out of the northwest. He had horrible ground speed. He will be cooking on the way back.

Used to really like flying my RC plane on windy days. It had flaperons. Put a servo on each aileron and the computer could operate them as flaps as well as ailerons. On windy days I could taxi around with reverse flaps keeping the plane stuck to the ground. Turn the reverse flaps off and up it would fly. If there was enough wind could do takeoffs and landings traveling backwards relative to the ground.

Thought it was funny. The old farts at the flying field would tell me it was crazy using falperons, just more to go wrong and cause crashes. Then a few months later they would get one of the newer computerized radios, setup a plane with flaperons then talk about how fun they were.

It was a good flying field. The wind was almost always parallel to the runway. It wasn't uncommon on a day with wind between 20 and 25 miles and hour for the flying filed to be pack with people flying their R/C planes.

Went to see what was going on RC wise in Atlanta when visiting my Bro. It was a beautiful Saturday morning with almost no wind. Went to the nearby flying field. There were only 3 people there flying. Our filed would have been packed with 25 or 30 fliers. After about an hour with wind picked up to around 8mph. They all packed up and went home because it got too windy. If those guys flew in Oklahoma City, they would almost never get to fly.

I understand the pattern competitions where they have to fly precision loops and rolls etc graded on accuracy are only cancelled due to wind if the wind gets over 40mph. I can't even imagine flying what looks like a perfectly round loop from the ground in a 30mph wind.

I like some wind for our trainer since it doesn't like to come down. When there is little wind I always overshoot and have to come back around again.

During 1:1 scale lessons the stuff I hated the most was turns around a point. You had to make a perfect circle around a point on the ground regardless of wind. It isn't hard, just tedious.

Beating the instructor on the least amount of runway used on landing, that was exciting. I guess landing at the airport in Dyersville was as well, but that was a different kind of exciting. :eek:

We used to go out to the airport to eat lunch and going with the boss was great, because if he stuck around and got into pilot mode he would not be mad at us for not being at work. We were eating one day and a guy came in with a STOL aircraft and was playing with Short Take Off and Landing. He would land and roll 30 or 40 feet. Then a guy came in flying a piper cub. He landed and rolled about 2 feet. He had to power up to taxi to the restaurant.

The boss would get to chatting with other pilots and we could goof off at the airport.

When the boss said lunch time and headed to the car that meant NOW if you wanted to eat with him. One new guy figured he could pee first and we were gone. We went to the airport and got to talking to a friend that sells aircraft for a living. He had a Pilatus aircraft sitting on his ramp with a factory pilot ready to go. So we all piled in and flew up to Enid, OK. It is a 90 mile drive but a 15 minute flight in a multi million dollar turbo prop. We had lunch and they have great pie at the Enid airport.

We got back to the office and the new guy thought we were just pulling his chain about what we did for lunch. Only when the boss confirmed it did he get really mad that he missed it.

I bet that was the only time he decided to pee first.

The day didn't get any better. Went to Eye doc. Found out the cadillac on my left eye is going to have to get worse before they will remove it. It went from 20/40 to 20/50. He did the cadillac surgery on my right eye when it was 20/80. The bad thing is there ain't no glasses that will improve the cadillac eye and it affects my overall vision. The good thing is my right eye is 20/20, the retina is not swelling, and there is no new hemorrhaging, ie no new floaters. Have not needed a shot in either eye for several months. The shot toughens the blood vessels, making the retina swelling go down, keeping the retina from bleeding.

The eye doc made the comment that my right eye is 20/20 and you can get any better than that. I said Don't they prefer military pilots with 20/15? He didn't say anything but his nurse laughed. Like military pilot was ever an option.

Mertnin.

Was hoping today is less frustificating than yesterdee.

Safety department emailed some documents for everyone to read about some safety issues.
They are single page PowerPoint documents?
Only 1/3 of users have PowerPoint, even less have ever used it.
IT is getting flooded with help tickets because users can't open the documents.
Users are saying they received the documents from the training department.

"It's not what I say or how I say it, but I make people feel stupid."

Morning all.

Richard, as you know it is easy to send out a PPS file instead of a PPT. The PPS is a self contained and anyone can run it even without PowerPoint. The PPT, yep it needs PowerPoint installed on the computer to run. And why in the world not just send a PDF. Everyone can read a PDF.

Oh well, as a friend of mine says. "It's not my farm, not my pig" which sums it up perfect. Not my problem. Good luck! ;)

Don't think all the users have a pdf reader installed even though they should. That is how I would distribute a document(s).

If not my pig and yet on my farm, let's butcher the pig and have a BBQ!

Richard, if it isn't what or how you say it then it must be the other person comes to that realization on their own.

By the way, with contacts my eyes are corrected to 20/13. Would be 20/10 if not for the astigmatism. I can't distinguish between the P and F on the 20/10 line.

Puck it! :)

It's been very dry here, so the typical marine layer / haze isn't present. Early morning view...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1508948873.jpg

The land in the background is about 30-40 miles down the coast.

Jim, it doesn't seem you have gotten the "socal" weather very often. Seems one extreme to the other.

Overall, it's been great, Brent. SmileWavy

Thinkin I may make some kind of small Victory Garden next spring.
Just had a bacon tomato sammuch and while the tomato looked like a tomato, it just didn't have any flavor.

When in college I wanted to make a greenhouse. The idea was to plant veggies at different times so there was fresh veggies year round. For example plant a new tomato plant so it would start producing tomatoes as the last one finished producing tomatoes. Rotating crops to always have a plant producing fruit. Even planned to control the light and temps so it was always a mild summer in the greenhouse. Even had plans to use a freezer so I could cycle the seeds thru winter dormancy. Never quite figured out how to do the job of bees without it taking too much time though.

morning all. Got caught up once again with a first thing rush. I'll file it under can fix stupid. We have engineers doing CAD and using xref files, they path them as absolute or full path. Darn things need to be relative if you are going to move the entire CAD file to the client. They just don't get it.

But it always works from their machine!

Right now we have an executive assistant that is upset and turning in IT help tickets because the nearest color copier to her office keeps jamming while she is trying to print card stock by putting it in the paper tray. She won't use manual feed because she doesn't have time for that. The card stock paper bin at the printer station has a note on it that says manual feed only.

I supposed if I politely told her the note is on the card stock paper bin telling users to use the manual feed because the printer jams to often if you try to use the paper tray and that the printer specifications are that it can only run card stock with manual feed will just make her feel stupid.

Guess I could say "That stupid printer. It just won't print on card stock unless you use the manual feed." And not mention the sign or printer specifications so she continues to be frustrated with the printer and doesn't associate her problem with her lack of observation.

Not if I drill holes thru it at high velocity.................

Sledge hammers are much more satisfying and don't require any electrical power. It is so disappointing to show up with a battery powered drill and the batteries are dead.

And NO. We don't use a generic login for devices on our network that send emails to our users. Example: copiers that can email scans to users. Everything using the same generic login would make it nearly impossible to troubleshoot problems. And it is set up so these local devices don't need a login at all, only a reply address. This guy that used to be a supposed exchange administrator is getting to the point where I am thinking he needs an above suggested sledge hammer adjustment.

The executive secretary is calling our printer service company to have the printer that only prints card stock thru the manual feed tray serviced so it will print card stock from the regular paper trays. So now we are spending money to have someone outside our company tell her it only prints card stock when you use manual feed.

I've noticed, mainly when driving, there are weeks during spring and fall that morons seem to be more active. This must be the fall season.