Monday Mélange
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flying
Vacation is underway! I am safely in Shanghai, watching Da Shan on CCTV9 (gosh he is annoying!) This afternoon I was freaked out when a couple of the other flight instructors in our school informed me that we might be flying through the remnants of Typhoon Morakot, but luckily our flight was relatively calm. I [...]
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It’s the burning times in Linyi, but don’t worry, the witches are fine. The fields, recently emptied of their latest crop of wheat, are burning across the countryside. What have been beautiful days with impressive visibility are now hazy and smoke-filled. The smoke of burning fields is one of the major contributors to pollution in [...]
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It’s that time of year again – thunderstorms in the afternoon. I’m sitting at my desk, looking out the window at a sky that is a very unnatural shade for 2:30 in the afternoon. I wouldn’t mind a bit, except for the fact that the DH is somewhere out there in a tiny little plane. [...]
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The morning started out sunny & humid. I should have known something was up. “Thunderstorm! Thunderstorm!” I can hear our Chinese staff calling excitedly. Thunderstorms clouds are known as “CBs” here, short for cumulonimbus clouds. At flight schools in the US, thunderstorms are nuisances that shut down operations until they pass. Here, CBs are serious [...]
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Yea, yea I know I said I wasn’t gonna be here, but in between nyquil doses, this made me laugh and I had to share:
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What’s amazing to me is the calm and professional tone both Captain Sully and the ATC use here. I just read that the controller believed the Hudson ditching was doomed. You’d never guess that from the audio! This is such a great teaching tool! And is it just me or did this all happen in [...]
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Never happened before, never gonna happen again. What a bummer. Will be in Vancouver now possibly tomorrow or Monday. Lots of flights changed… More later…
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