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BTW bill, Your RSL/No RSL post has some responses, but no explosion. Actually seems to be staying on topic. At least staying to AADs and RSLs. [English Major Mode]Note the lack of egregrious apostrophes in the sentence above. "An apostrophe does not mean 'Look Out, here comes an "s"' -- Dave Barry[/English Major Mode]

Thread "Oh My Fscking God" by Squirts. Not really any play on it, only one followup, mentioning how rec.dot gets so badmouthed over here. (Which I have never understood -- it goes in cycles, like any unmod group on USENET. There can be good things over there, Snuffy has calmed down and TT actually talks about other things than RN (hardly mentions him at all -- doing a good job of keeping his New Year's resolution).

Sorry to disappoint you, Chromey, ol' boy, but prostitution is not legal in Clark County (Las Vegas).

Actually, it is an astigmatism -- meaning a distortion of the eyeball. That is what the -1.5 cylinder in my other post meant -- a rather severe case of astigmatism. The best advice I can give is to go to a doc who has done lots of cases, esp. with astigmatisms, and make sure he is using the latest VISX tracking laser. They can handle that with ease and better results. Yes, there is more than one type of laser surgery, but in the majority of cases, LASIK will be the treatment of choice. The biggest thing is to ask lots of questions, don't proceed until you feel comfortable with the answers. Go to more than one doctor if you need to. Oh, yes, one other very major thing -- take your time with the pre-op refraction, it is far more critical with surgery than with lenses. When the doc or the tech refracting you asks which is better, A or B, take your time. I had one freind who had LASIK and was not happy with the results, but he realized he had been lazy at the refraction; he went back for an adjustment, made sure he took care in the refraction and was very happy with those results.

I would have killed for -5 correction pre-LASIK. My correction was -13.5 with -1.5 cylinder. ("Chart, what chart?" -- "The one on the wall!" -- "What wall?") Cost wasn't the big issue for me, waiting for the technology to advance to the point they could handle such large corrections was. I was lucky that the price drop and the advances in tech occurred at the same time. Needed adjustments six months later for fine tuning. Last week I went to get my driver's license renewed and for the first time have a DL with no restrictions! As for starring, I have less starring now than I did with either glasses or contacts. The one thing I got a charge out of before surgery was when someone saw me with glasses, they would look at the 1/2" thick edges and tell me that "You know they have new technology to make lenses lighter and thinner". My response? "Yup, this is it!"

We send our sympathies to you and all who will miss him, Chuck.

Amy, Thanks for your clarification and expansion upon my comments. The gist of your post is really the point I was trying to get across. Actually, I believe I did state that her ortho was the best one to give an opinion. My comment on the resorption was specifically about my case, but I felt I should mention it so that she would know the things to ask her doc about. (All my comments were about my case -- but that is what she had asked for, come to think of it).

Mine was! Thanks, Lisa. (Actually, I bought my first one -- still haven't decided what to do with the second. Will probably put it in Lynn's Mindwarp)

Don't do that! Go here http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/parental/shannon.htm to find out the truth about this.

I have all the hardware in my leg from '98. The doc said several things regarding this: 1) If I reinjure my leg, it could be a very bad thing with all that metal, but it would take a lot of energy to deform the steel and titanium -- just like it did to shatter my femur! 2) If it needs to come out, I'll know. I am finding out what he meant -- there are days it hurts real bad. 3) I I leave the metal in long enough, my leg will 'recognize' that it does not need to provide all the support and will leach calcium from the bone. Not a good thing. Bottom line is, it depends. Depends on what/where/how you have been repaired. Your ortho is really the one who can tell you best. If he says it's up to you, you will know if it has to come out; I would say unless you have problems, leave it in.

Cutaway a good canopy. Which way does it goes? Which way does the freebag go? Why do we bother to spot?

You might try reading my post again, I referred specifically to the VERTICAL stab (or tail), that has absolutely nothing to do with pitch, but controls yaw (left or right). Force coming from the left, working on the stab, will yaw the plane to the left; just as it does a weathervane or a tetrahedron.

No, he said it wants to turn into the wind. As for a canopy, with no other input, it will be blown with the wind (downwind), the design of the wing with its anhedral, will tend to turn along the direction of movement, hence with the wind (downwind). The higher the wind, the more like it will turn rather than simply drift. This can be proven by simple experimentation, no intelligence is required on the part of the canopy, that is, it doesn't have to "know" which way the wind blows.

Horse Hockey! It's called "weathervaning". The force on the aircraft's vertical stab will tend to turn it into the wind. The thrust of the engine propels the plane North, but put the stab in neutral trim and there will be a tendency to turn left. Drop a canopy with no pilot, just weight, at any airspeed/altitude and watch which way it goes after deployment. -- the tests I spoke of were with 500# of weight, from 250 feet, static lined at 125 knots, ground winds 15 knots. Canopy opened on line flight and immediately turned downwind every time.

OK, then 'splain somethin' to me: When I was doing groundcrew for Racer's tandem canopy overspeed/weight tests, if this is a myth why did the canopy turn downwind immediatley after opening on every run? Did the lead dummies somehow pull the toggles then reset them in the keepers?

I was raised Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. If that doesn't ring a bell to anyone, take Baptist strictness, Jewish guilt, German arrogance, Islamic zeal and Quaker prudishness, mix them all together with a Catholic love of ritual. Bake every Sunday for several hours (to prepare you for the fires to come?) and declare it the One True Way. Went to Lutheran grade school, and spent the majority of my high school years preparing for the ministry. My first year at pre-seminary I was introduced to the most bigoted, hateful, mean-spirited people I had ever met (yet to be surpassed to this day). and that was just the faculty -- don't even get me started about my classmates! This got me to thinking, "These are the ones God has called?" So I started reading about all these other religions and got seriously fscked up mentally. Years later I got my shirt together and have come to a semblance of what/who I believe. Now I just say I am spiritual, and try to let others do as they wiil, as long as they hurt no one. I do believe in the power of prayer, or positive vibes -- I have felt that power personally more than once, when I really needed it and others were directing such energy my way -- for all those who helped me after I bounced, thank you again. The one thought I'll leave this thread with is to be good to all, even those who seem to be your enemies, they know not what they do.

1:5:0 Thank you TK and the gang at Zhills. Nice weekend.

One of the main thngs they talked about in my training class as a Safety NCO in the AF was that there never is one simple cause for any 'accident'. There is a pattern of cascading events that lead to nasty endings. I have since observed that in most any type of activity -- even things as simple as a child knocking over a glass of Kool-Aid: If the parent had placed it properly on the table and/or If the child had paid closer attention to where his arm was when he turned around and/or If the glass was had not 'sweated' and become slippery and/or If there had been less Kool-Aid in the glass, making it lighter Then the glass would not have gotten spilled. This is a very long winded way of saying that your observation is spot on.

AHA! Someone is getting to the crux of the matter -- how do you exit a C182 with no relative wind? And no, it is not that trick a question, it can be done, and has been.

That's way too complicated, dude! If done right, any old ignition source will suffice, Zippo to a simple match.

Not even close...

Anyone else know how to light a cig after exiting a 182?

You have one that opens hard? Wow, that I have not heard with a Safire. Mine opens as nicely and slowly as my Spectre did -- in fact slower. Two out of three times I have to tug on the rear risers to get the slider all the way down and open the end cells. The only times I have been slammed it has most assuredly been pilot error (in a track, asymmetric body position, etc.)

It sure as hell doesn't help your case, grasshopper

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