I’ve been to st Anton, stubai, Innsbruck and soll. My favorite has to be soll. St Anton has a better advanced skiing area and brilliant après, but soll has a more chilled out atmosphere. Some nice pubs and restaraunt a and it’s very well priced. The ski area is quite low but when the snow conditions are good, they’re good. Not much vertical in the runs but the area is massive so you will be kept busy for the whole week.

I bet the summers were always hot and sunny, you played out all day never watched TV and didn’t worry about strangers.

Can’t remember. Too pissed on electric white round the back of the local industrial estate.

Black out blinds are awesome. I hate sleeping with things in my ears though.

The street I grew up on was very close knit so there was an informal agreement that on the weekends they’d leave the noisy stuff until after nine. You expect it noisy during the week with bin lorries and commuters leaving. Generally night shifts are easy for us as we both do them. I’m just crabbit and having a rant. I’m now thinking of subtle ways of getting revenge.

I worked with working springers years back and they were brilliant. Now have a 16 week working cocker. Love him to bits. Extremely intelligent. House trained more or less within 4 days using a crate. Recall, sit, stay and paw he picked up straight away. Thinking of field trial lessons purely to keep him entertained. Doesn’t chew furniture and has learned his place quickly. I’m trying not to exercise him too much because of potential hip problems later on. He gets a 15 min walk on the lead and free run of the garden every day. That’s where the only problem is! He has chewed everything in the garden to the extent ive fenced some areas off for the time being. He also has a nasty habit of hunting and eating snails. They can cause lung worm so making sure his worming is up to date.

He’s a proper lap dog and very affectionate. He’s not allowed up on furniture so he knows the minute I sit on the floor it’s cuddles!

I’ve got a 16 week cocker. We don’t leave anything below waist height that we don’t want chewed so only his toys are available. Thankfully he doesn’t chew any furniture but he does occasionally bring in a stick to work on but we take that straight back outside.

Our problem is he hunts out snails in the garden and loves eating them. We always take them off him but we’re struggling to get him to stop. He’s only young so will hopefully grow out of it so for the moment we’re making sure he is properly wormed.

I’ve seen from the tower this exact scenario. Aircraft was confused about taxi instructions and ventured into active runway. Inbound was given go around and confused pilot was reissued a clearance back on to the taxiway. Paperwork ensued.

We have a beeper sounds if a go around is given. Just like when someone drops a plate in the canteen, it’s usually greeted with a sarcastic muffled cheer.

I’ve lived in hamble, burseldon and now in bishops waltham. General rule of thumb would be north of the m27 which would be easy in your budget for a 3 bed. Also lived as far up as bordon (that is NOT a recommendation). Petersfield is nice, with main line to landan and qecp just round the corner. We looked at wickham but we were out priced but it’s got beautiful market square and a quirky music festival every year.

If driving the pig in brokenhurst. If you like burgers, steak and ales I always head to the rockstone. Coriander lounge is good. White star in Oxford street is hit and miss with me but plenty of other nice places in that area.

All depends if your driving. I know some brilliant pubs tucked away 30min outside of the city.

They want to support gay marriage. They are relaxed about immigration but they do want to be tough on those who don’t want to contribute to society. These mixes of views are not well represented by any of the main political parties.

Found myself agreeing with this statement. Good article.

Time off booked for the first week in feb. Here’s the fun bit. If the other half is pregnant by then, I’m authorized to go on a lads ski trip. If she’s not, I’m going with her. I don’t know what I want but I’m fine either way!

Managed zermatt at the start of last season and had a trip to morzine in January as well. Thinking back to Austria for this season. Missed the beer and grub.

Don’t know if they’re permenantly based there but they use lakenheath/mildenhall a lot which appears to be very busy today!

Another Norway here. 3 winters and my only complaint was its big and takes up a lot if Bergen space but worth it. Make sure you get the right size. I’m 6ft and before I got out I exchanged it. Store man **** gave me a small.

10 years ago we were on a large military exercise and I was based at Bicester with the recovery truck to help keep the A34 clear. We were camped alongside a workshop next to the prison and I slept under the wagon for 2 weeks. My my missus is from brill and drove past occasionally and even today she can remember the wrecker wagon with the basha on the side that I was sleeping under. We met 5 years ago in Bournemouth and get married next fri!

I’ve had two major career changes. Best advice I got was from my ex’s dad who said do what your happy doing. I know it’s vague but after ten years of unhappy employment, I put his advice to the test and it’s worked for me. I had to travel to do it so another bit of advice is don’t put down deep roots until you know you’re sorted.

Best bit of kit at my work? MODE S interrogation. :roll:

Some good kit in the work gym too.

Some of the writing in SOA is baaaaad. The Belfast stuff nearly made me give up, but it got goooooood again.

Me and the wife are working our way through breaking bad at the moment. Just started season 5.

We work shifts so I’ve been working my way through sons of anarchy on love film on my own.

Once it’s by, I’ve got the wire to work trhough.

Dan, I work LL buz/wob and bpk’s and lam/bnn inbounds. Don’t have much to do with kk.

Where do you fly from dan?

I’ll say it again, there is holes in my fire scenario but a small fire wouldn’t effect structural integrity but the fumes created could incapacitate. The Swiss flight over the North Atlantic was a case study at college (6 years ago so rusty on the detail) about team resource management. There was a fire above the cockpit. If you look at the search area it’s a nearly a reciprocal track of the outbound route to Beijing so IMO it’s been a conscious decision to about turn. This gives me the impression the captain took the decision as it was a left turn. If the pilot had been trying to isolate the root of the fire he will have systematically turned off the systems and may have not been able to turn them back on. This is the biggest flaw in our theory. I can’t believe the crew had no ability to communicate.

Hey, I didn’t say this is what happened, but by deduction we found that this was a likely scenario, albeit with holes in it. As for the hijack scenario, there is a list of things such as cockpit access, ability to aviate, no demands etc which made us disregard this scenario quite quickly. Plus, the media have a track record of creating hysteria that turns out to be false.

After hours of discussions at work (still winter schedules so quiet), the most plausible scenario we’ve came up with is this;

The A/C has experience an electrical fire. As per the aviate/navigate/communicate rule, the pilots immediate reaction would be to isolate the cause and set course for the nearest diversion airfield, which for the pilot, would be a known airfield in Malaysia. In the confusion of dealing with the scenario and because communicate is last on the check list, power was shut down before the a May Day, or squawk change could be given to alert ATC to the problem. The pilots have been overcome with smoke on the flight has continued until it’s ran out if fuel.

Being devils advocate I can pick holes in the scenario but balancing everything up this seems the most plausible. As for the hijack or unlawful interference scenario, we think it’s a lot of media hype and fantasy.

My supervisor is ex-raf and through ex workmates still serving, he has been told that all the nations in the area have been very guarded with their radar information as they don’t want capabilities known. The Thais and the Vietnamese being the worst. This is why there was a lot if confusion early on and why instead of the Malaysian aviation authority taking the lead, it was very quickly given to ICAO to deal with as they have more authority.

Now we know acars and the transponder were switched off, we’ve came to the conclusion that it couldn’t have been hijacked (no hijack squawk) and that one of the pilots has went mental. He’s offed the other pilot and tried to make his way to afghan for some good smack.

Well the smack bits a lie, but if the pilot is suicidal, the above scenario is plausible. Passengers wouldn’t know a thing about it so no one would be trying to phone relatives etc.

Wrong trousers I work at one of two air traffic control centres. My company has spies everywhere!

Re the radar returns. I regularly ignore primary radar returns (think ww2 type radar) as there are always many on the screen caused by anything from weather to building site cranes etc. Once the identity of an aircrafts primary return is lost, it is very hard to re identify it unless you are in contact with the pilot. Normally we are using secondary surveillance radar which “speaks” to the plane but if the pilot turns off his transponder, all we have is primary, ie the problems above. If the primary radar coverage between Vietnam and Malaysia is poor, it could be impossible to track the aircraft.

As I said in a post earlier, there is a counter argument to every point raised, which is why we’re all scratching our heads at work.

I’m baffled to be honest. So many overlapping systems yet still no answers. This is the ultimate Swiss cheese scenario. Many years of aviation experience both at work and up home yet every scenario we’ve came up with has a flaw.

I’ve stipulated no nazi fancy dress or striped PJ’s.

Old military OP on the Solent shoreline between Victoria country park and hamble. Does the Portuguese fireplace in the NF count?

Weathers looking good. Dry but chilly. Been there with the other half and loved it. Got a beer bike for sat. Other than that I’ve been kept in the dark!

I’d also be interested in an explanation of different touring bindings. I’ve just stuck with my 7tm tellie bindings with a touring attachment. I keep seeing loads if different set ups but never go up and ask how they work.

If be interested to know about the dyna fit above.

I found RT’s description of the heavily armed, no insignia uniformed troops who arrived in a massive convoy of Russian trucks as “concerned ethnic Russians who are protecting government buildings from extremists”, very accurate.

Finding the differences in the reporting by the BBC and RT curious……………….

Started night shift at 10pm last night. An “eastern european” budget airline from sofia to luton diverted to liverpool in the afternoon. At 11pm he made an attempt to get back into Luton. After 2 attempts he gave up and diverted to…….Sofia! Poor bugger! Busy night!

I hate you all. In all fairness I did get one powder day in morzine 2 weeks ago.

Still hate you though.

Old Canadian woman barged through a smoking area up on whistler, complaining loudly “can’t believe you smokers ruin this mountain air for us!” To which a local replied “well don’t walk through a designated smoking area you clown!”. I nearly choked!

I’ve since stopped but even when I smoked the Austrian thing annoyed me. I smoked outside regardless as my mates were non smokers.

the boiler is inside the house just off the kitchen.

Thanks for the offer but I’m miles away in hampshire. The hot water is set to come on roughly the same time as the CH so it’s not on permanently. I’ll see if I can track down a new programmer and swap them over. That way I should be able to narrow it down.

I’ll dig out the fluke! Problem is it has been intermittent. It started doing it last autumn but then stopped. Just got back from a weeks holiday and its doing it again. Grrrr.

I thought that but the boiler is lit up and the house is like a sauna. Can’t touch the radiators they are so hot. Thankfully no kids to burn themselves.

Morzine tomorrow. Thankfully the conditions look better than they were last week!