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I have just changed over to Orcon. Been with Telstra for years but Orcon's offer of $70 for phone and 30 gigs with voicemail that emails you the messages, free caller ID and file sharing capability on the modem was too good to pass up. Telstra was $56.76 for the phone, plus $44.98 for adsl, plus $12.22 per 10 gig pack. That works out at $138.40 per month for 30 gigs. I've elected to have 50 gigs at just under $100 per month. Email address does not concern me as I never used a Telstra email, all my mail goes through Gmail. I have set up a redirection with...

QUOTE (toprob @ Aug 7 2011,4:27 PM) I had a chat with my son about this a couple of weeks ago -- he's not at all into aviation, but he was interested in the fact that some of the action sequences were shot using Canon DSLRs, which is his interest, as he is in Colombia making a movie this way at the moment. Canon 5D Mark II, a real masterpiece. It's not the first time 5D's have been used this way, in the finale of the TV drama House 5D's shot the whole thing, due to the space restrictions. Many doco makers are starting to use them because they are also very cheap in...

So what will they be converted to now?

Excellent blog, thanks for the link. I read top to bottom, just as you warned! I do find myself gagging on the topic of AF447, and in particular what the media do to the likes of "retired pilot and American hero, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger" There's an incredibly extensive Air Accident Investigation underway. It will come up with some findings, and when it does, that will be the time to comment. There will most certainly be revised training requirements for pilots of future airliners. Human-as-monitor-of-automated system, is very different from bugs-in-your-teeth...

The benefit of fly by wire. See the elevator in the hard up position all the way.

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Jul 31 2011,10:13 PM) Haha why not turn this into a 'Random Observation' thread? Other forums have them, just one place to put anything not really worthy of it own thread. Anyone agree? Isn't that called Twitter? /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif />

Ham , just testing the pilots metal /cool.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= B-) border= 0 alt= cool.gif />

Tom , Welcome to Christchurch , unfortunate we have done demonstrating EQs but decided to plonk a ton off snow on you , lot safer .

i just brought some li-po betteries for my rc cars too, and all over them the packaging had do not send by air, i have also noticed that rc battery suppliers have said that they will not send li-pos by air, as said above the biggest problem will be the consumer products, laptops phones etc, funny thing is i didn't know about this accident, haven't heard a thing, makes me wonder if it is going to take a passenger plane to be brought down before anything will happen, rip to the crew, lives lost that more than likley could have been avoided. Jason

On Flying Wild Alaska they had a short clip, only a few seconds long, of a 207. Must of been right on tipping point, because he throttled up and pulled back while parked and that was enough to get the front wheel off the ground.

QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Jul 29 2011,7:49 PM) Looks like a 767 flew up the bum of an F16 /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif /> That there is your 757 /winkyy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= ;) border= 0 alt= winkyy.gif /> in a way it wonder if they were practicing in flight refueling /tongue.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :P border= 0 alt= tongue.gif />

Looked like he was on a touch and go at the start! /unsure.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :unsure: border= 0 alt= unsure.gif />

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 28 2011,10:48 PM) /smile.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :) border= 0 alt= smile.gif /> well said....but that is some major heat shimmer......hard to tell if its all real...or has it been enhanced....who cares, its a great shot. I'd say it is real, you can mock up/inhance some pretty amazing things with a telephoto lens. /winkyy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= ;) border= 0 alt= winkyy.gif />

/ohmy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :o border= 0 alt= ohmy.gif /> oh my goodness......

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Jul 27 2011,5:34 PM) Mileage 3790 km Would be interesting to find out how much they spent in fuel in this time. /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif /> Would be interesting to find out how long it took them to drive the 3790 k's! /tongue.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :P border= 0 alt= tongue.gif />

Nice shot! everything is squished under snow over here /tongue.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :P border= 0 alt= tongue.gif />

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 26 2011,7:49 PM) Makes me laugh how you hear winter-folks talk on the telly saying how great it is, then you hear farmers and service folks saying how bad it is /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif /> That's a farmers life though, too cold in witnter, too dry in summer, too wet in spring, too windy when it's blowing nor'west, too busy when it's lambing season, to quiet when it's not, etc, etc. I'm sounding like my grandfather! /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt=...

QUOTE (cowpatz @ Jul 26 2011,1:32 PM) Emirates operating the Tasman is a sore point. They don't make any money on the route they just lose less. Rather than leaving the aircraft parked all day at Sydney and paying the huge parking fees they operate the Tasman. I was thinking the possible reason why only 168 on board , one flight on the Malay 777 the plane was empty .