Darknight

Blue Bayou -- Roy Orbison

I feel so bad Ive got a worried mind

Im so lonesome all the time

Since I left my baby behind on blue bayou

The Chicken Song - Spitting Image

Air Traffic - Time goes By

Mmmm,

As the "self" is not limited to one body or state, i don't see why this should be weird. (only to an scientist :-) )

The "Self" has occupied many forms in his development. I sure don't regard my body as "mine", more as a vehicle for ...

must get post count up, must get post count up.

Better hurry then

shaken as a leaf

i'm a dumbass/? maybe i am but i know i must be smarter than you cause i have a better credit card. copanies signe agreements to accept credit/charge/debit cards. they have obligations to customers; why are you so jealous of me cause i know what my rights are? you probably can't get my card. i mentioned it was "by invitation" from a bank. even still if you have an inferior card, you still have some rights. sorry i dont understand "the real world" like you do.

What you don't understand is that if you keep behaving like this in a place like "patters" you soon end up "within your rights" on a 50 foot drop from your condo balcony

Now for some music

Whilst I admire the moderators on TV I do sometimes wonder why they do it?

I presume they do it for free and provide a valuable service to newbies and ex-pats alike but the question I'm asking is why?

The ad revenue must be substantial on a site like this and in my opinion they deserve a small piece of it.

Whilst the vast, vast, majority of mods provide relevant info on a number of diverse topics I get the feeling some (small minority) like the power the role holds and conduct their duties like an online version of the tourist police - (ie. no real influence but a bit of power goes to the head nit noi)

Have any mods had their applications rejected by the Tourist Police and decided on an online role instead?

This is by no means meant to cause offence or flame anyone but the question still remains why?

You should of just said who would be an "Internet Moderator" There all the same. As there is no wage for it, I would turn down such a duty.

I don't profess to be a forum expert but as this is TV and really the only one I ever look at it is relevant to this forum. As for 'turning down the duty' I dont think people actually get headhunted for the job they just volunteer which is why I made the OP.

You volunteer , or you get asked..... having lot's of spare time is a prerequisite

You do it for the best of the community, no pay involved.... maybe george would buy a beer sometimes :-)

Darknight "former TV admin"

if you look smart , you can get any girl to notice you anywhere in the world.

The more uglier you look, the more money you need for the women to notice you.

If you are a stunner , but also a bum without cash , they will leave as quick as they've noticed you.

If you are quasimodo, with a feww million in the bank, they will stay with you and get a lover for the rest....

This is true everywhere in the world, not only in asia...

Been there, tried that, doesn't work ... back in europe making big cash again. will come back to retire ....

Same situation, IT consultant , thai wife , no jobs to be found and if you find one , it pay's a pittance....:-)

Unfortunately mobiles dont interfere with avionics - big misnomer.

As a computer engineer of 20 years experience I tend to agree, even more so since no convincing evidence specific to mobile phones has been established beyong the fact that radio waves can interfere with electronics.

I can recall from experience one computer system which would crash every time a navy ship turned on its weapons system within 1,000 metres so the link between radio interferance and it's effect on computers is real enough in my mind.

But the radio energy of a naval weapons system is many more times that of a planeload of passengers, probably even on an A380. Even the plane's own systems would probably generate more radio energy than all the passengers could combined.

So why airlines persist with this dogma is a mystery.

Glad to hear the plane landed safely. Three cheers for the pilots.

Edit: after re-reading the original post I apologise for assuming Jai Dee sent the sms in-flight as it appears it may have been sent after landing.

The reason why they ask you to switch a phone of is pretty straightforward.

When cell phone go out of reach of the transmitters (who's beams are positioned horizontally over the earth not vertically.) They tend to start ringing but when you pickup you get no connection. this is probably because the phone receies mixed signals.

Basically a lot of phone start ringing at the same time and this is really annoying for other passengers , as they have no connection, try to ring back etc....

I always switch my phone off as well when i go gliding , and my glider has no worthy electronic avionics to speak off :-). otherwie the dam_n thing just starts bugging me and i can't reach it.

DK

I never fly within a country in Asia. Its expensive and I don't trust local pilots. A jet will drop like a rock without power. You at least stand some chance in a prop.

Wrong. There have been several cases of jetliners gliding substantial distances to safe landings (Air Transat 236 for example). Jets generally are more aerodynamic than prop planes.

If my memory serves me right (and ny english not too crappy) , while gliding , 1 km down means about 15 kms horizontal travel.....Is that right ?

Hi as CDnvic says, it depends on the aircraft, weather conditions, wing loads etc... Basically the L/D (glide ratio) is a theoretical number of how an airplane glides at certain speeds. This excludes possible weather influences.

Basically if your L/D (glide ratio) i 1:40 you can fly 40km's far when you are 1 km high. However when you encounter sinking air all the time in glide this ratio goes down drastically. when you encounter thermals the ratio goes up. On average in long final glides the ratio is mostly accurate as your encounter about the same amount of sink and rise when crossing large stretches of land.

For a big heavy aircraft of course the glide ratio is substantially lower and situate is indeed somewhere in the 1:12 - 1:15 range.

The reason why jets glide better then props is that the prop when stationary (not turning) induces a lot of drag on the airplane thus decreasing the Glide ratio.

By the way i'm a glider pilot , We never have engine failures

And your point is?? Yes every pilot once had 250 hours.... but is it wise or sane to put them at the controls of an airliner with hundreds of peoples lives in their hands at that point? At 250 hours these guys had only seen a single engine recip engine with a propellor out front. You logic amazes me - but then...... maybe not.

Is your name Khun Udom?

This policy is almost world standard now with ALL major airlines in the UK for example taking Frozen ATPL applicants - all beit not all are successful. I am not saying I agree with the recruitment of these guys however I have flown with some on airliners who are very competent operators.

I guess the problem here is the training facilities / instruction of the new atpl holders is not as high standard as some other countries. Am I concerned when I fly with a frozen ATPL holder with 250 hours - actually no I am not - in can at times increase the workload but not to a dangerous extent. Indeed my own airline just recruited a 250 hour onto the airbus here in asia - however he was trained in europe.

Hoy,

Please let me remind you that even the best pilot, when struck with freak weather conditions, can not save the airplane. When it stalls , it simply stalls. when you are at that time 30 or 100 meters over the ground there is nothing more you can do about it.

My gutfeeling is that the accident was caused by either extreme windschear or a Microburst (hard downdraft that is very localized) which was due to the CB / stormcell(s) that were present. This made the airplane smack into the runway just when he wanted to go around.

Also,

Due to people wanting to fly more and more and at cheaper prices , Boeing is predicting that from now untill 2025 the world will need 17.000 new pilots yearly !! only to accomodate the order book for new airplanes that are ordered.

For this reason a new type of Pilots license has been created MPL (multicrew pilot's license) which does away with the older emphasis on Flight hours ( from small to large aircraft) and uses more flight simulator hours and practical training. From this you can become Second in command after only 240 Hours of wich only 65 need to be on the real aircraft. The first batch of pilots has graduated from this year. Even though some pilots associations are weary about this approach and say it would endanger safety and quality in pilots, once they have their license they can operate anywhere in the world.

So,

Next time you hate to get diverted due to bad weather , etc, this is done for your own safety!

By the way for the comment about pilots not wanting to divert for reasons of saving face. I think this is total bull. Your best insurance in an airplane is that the pilots don't want to die!!

an international calling fee of between 10-30 baht a minute is still outrageous.

well then you're probably an american.

national carrier fee's in Belgium. Even Togo is more cheap then thailand

Thailand (66) eurocent per min peak 106,13 eurocent per min low hours 91,26 connectioncost 10,60

Togo (228) eurocent per min peak 71,11 eurocent per min low hours 52,00 connectioncost 10,60

As the exchange rate is currently around 43 bath to the euro this telephone call sounds rather cheap to me ;-)

by the way

1.06 EUR = 1.43764 USD

Euro United States Dollars

1 EUR = 1.35626 USD 1 USD = 0.737321 EUR

Views and standpoints that's what it is ;-)

well i'll give you an update soon, will be arriving in two weeks.

hoy looking for a hua hin hotel , end of august.

Price range below 1500 bath/day.

Any ideas ?

thanks

DK

And, to those who answered the question, do you consider yourselves Buddhist? I mean, I know its not something you "convert" to like Islam or Christianity or Judaiism. But, I imagine, if you follow the tenets and consider yourself a "practicing Buddhist" there comes a time in your life when, if people ask, you might tell them you are a Buddhist. Do you?

Hi SBK,

I would say i was born a buddhist, although i was raised and received katholic indoctrine for the first 12 years of my life. I even was a altar boy when i was 12 doing latin services on sunday, i soon realized that this was not equal to the religous feeling i had inside. I was merely a theatre show performed in group to confirm to a communal identity. soon after church everyone was back to their old devious selves again

I instantly broke off my catholic upbringing causing untold problems with my mother who was also brought up a strict catholic. when i refused to go to church , she didn't speak to me for three weeks

I've had a longing for Asia since i was a child , and went there through a job on a cruiseship when i was 21. When i arrived in thailand i immediatly felt at home. Now twenty years later other things have unfolded and i can say i've had several inclinations of lives in Asia before. As such i would consider myself a buddhist , leaning more to zen buddhism then to the other brands.

But i'm as unfamiliar with the religous/ceremonial aspects of buddhism as the ones from muslims, catholics etc... i also see the same pitfalls in the religous branding in buddhism as i did in catholicism. For the masses it's still: "my parents thought me to behave in a certain way, so i do this , and indoctrinate my children."

It has nothing to do with spirituality or buddhism in particular. Indeed "Buddha" probably didn't mean to start a religion. I would not even describe buddhism as a "PATH" as it implies you need to ascetain a certain goal. It only provides you yet again with another identity, "i'm a buddhist student/teacher"

The hard thing is to put this concept i feel into words, closest thing would be: " "

DK

not true ,

Belgium is 5 square kilometers smaller

As an experienced IT consultant designing a vista/longhorn system at this time , i can tell you that pirated copies of vista will be almost impossible.

The os will degrade when it's not activated , shutting out the possibility to start programs, untill only the activation tool and the Ie browser is left. Activation will only succeed for a few times on different hardware.

NO Open licenses are available anymore , even large company pc's need to be activated.

If i were you i would start investing in Microsoft Stock

the solutions lies in the shoes you're wearing.

Try using a pair with rubber soles.

nice to see you back darknight.

Seconded.

Thanks guy's

Just had a time to jump in from my busy work at another forum

@ doc

explain slowly or write slowly doc ?

Cheers

DK

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Say, would Suicide Tours to Pattaya work?

Base jumping tours might

When I see that someone can post 83xx post in any section of this forum in less than 3 years, it looks like a spammer. Should be called a spammer IMHO.

I wonder how that kind of people could have so valuable advice about this country when beeing most of the time in front of his keyboard ?

Oversized ego maybe ?

Well me wallalai , i can confirm that britt is a very nice person, extremely well informed, going out of his way to help people. He sure has been more valuable then your postings.

I don't need to write here, waste of time.

Well best thing you've said all day.

Don't let the concrete hit you in the face on your way down

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Hi g,

Thanks will do tonight,

need it for something important