Stijn!! - Page 3527

Rick V · 09-10-2012, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

What the heck did I do to deserve this torture?!?

Ya can't choose family, it's one of natures cruel laws

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

The nail was actually a bright shiny new roofing nail.

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

It took him 2 hours to pick up a phone in order from chills that is 3 miles from my house, TWO HOURS!

When he went to get lunch from the local Sonic drive-n, He WALKED. My hamburger was cold and my milk shake was melted by the time he finally got home with it. He actually complained that his milk shake had melted.

Is it me, or does this sound stupid?

Rick V · 09-10-2012, 01:51 AM

Galvanized?

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Yep, galvanized. No telling what it picked up while in my yard. The infectious diseases doc said it was a combination of both strep and staff infection.

Rick V · 09-10-2012, 01:56 AM

So other than the desire to be an only child how are you getting along?

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

My foot keeps picking up a rash and swelling from being kept warm and moist (the requirement for the pixie dust stuff). It is healing very slowly, but with the secondary bacterial infections is painful. I don't understand why the doctors doing keep me on the antibiotics that keeps the secondary infections away.

slodave · slodave's Garage

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Originally Posted by Noah930

You would have enjoyed (don't know if that's the term) the flight I had to ORD. It was uneventful until the landing. It's often bumpy dropping through cloud cover, right? Particularly if there are thunderstorms. So as we descended through the cloud layer over Chicago it was bumpy. OK, no big deal. But it was also equally bumpy all the way down. Maybe even worse. I could see the rain out the window. As we approached the runway I could see the pilot crabbing, and then heading straight, and then crabbing again. Wingtips were rolling back and forth. I was reminded of one of those videos of F-14s landing on a carrier deck in inclement weather. And we were still bopping up and down by what felt like a good 10-15 feet at any second.

But we got lower and lower. We passed over the runway and the pilot even flared the plane about 10-15 feet off the ground...and then throttled back up.

We very slowly climbed back into the clouds (almost like the plane was struggling?) before the pilot announced we were heading to Indianapolis. ORD was now closed and the weather would be there for about half an hour at the least. 60 mph winds, big time windshear, etc. We didn't have enough fuel to circle for that long, so we were off to Indy to fuel up and return. And when we got to Indy, we sat on the tarmac for about 30 minutes waiting for them to open up a gate for us, because apparently American only has 2 gates there and they were both occupied by planes parked for the night (well find the freakin' keys, then!).

We got into ORD 3 hours late. And when I got to curbside at 2:30 in the freakin' morning, there was a line of about 40 people....for 3 cabs.

Yes, flying through clouds can be bumpy, thunderstorms would pretty much guarantee that.

As the pilot is trying to land, he is probably getting a lot of "wind checks" - tower is giving wind speeds and directions. If the pilot can't get it on the ground the first try and the conditions get worse, you get diverted.

Airports are ringed with devices that detect windshear, but can't get it down to the millisecond. Things happen.

Those jets don't have keys! Shhh!

Jim Richards · 09-10-2012, 03:15 AM

Have a great trip, Dave!

Jim Richards · 09-10-2012, 03:20 AM

Quiet weekend for me. Went for a morning drive in the garage queen yesterday, and bought some 7 & 9x17 Cup I wheels in the afternoon. When I wear out my tires for the stock 16's that are on the garage queen now, I'll finally upgrade to the 17's. Unfortunately, that may be a while.