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He’stheleftbackremember said:
I recently stopped 2 adult swans and 4 grown cignets from kicking the crap out of a young swan that had obviously got into their patch of canal in Skipton. They were very determined and not scared of me. Thankfully I managed to give it a few minutes to escape. 100% they would have killed it.
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They are nasty bastards and like you say they're not easily scared. We had a gite in France last year and there were a couple roaming about - major planned expedition to put stuff in the recycling bins!
 
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This is what an absolute dogshit night of flying over the North Atlantic looks like for a trip from Chicago (KORD) to Milan (LIMC) on a preflight planning weather map! Doesn’t get decent until we reach Scotland!

As you can see, most of the turbulence is affected by the jet streams, especially where the Arctic Jet (northerly one) starts to run into the Tropical Jet (more southerly one). Where the streams of air start to clash, or run in parallel, their disparate airspeeds greatly disturb the air, thus turbulence. Also, where they buckle and change direction (big curves, often turning back on themselves), this also creates significant airflow disturbances. It’s just like a fast running river…of air, hence jet “stream.” The turbulence is running the rapids, and we have classifications, just like rapids (Occasional Light, Ocnl-Continuous Light, Cont Light-Ocnl Moderate, Cont Moderate). This is probably where one’s flying experience stops, because we will go to almost any altitude to get out of Cont Mod. It’s called “Moderate” but it is strong jolts, both horizontally and vertically, often including minor altitude and airspeed deviations. Beyond Moderate comes Severe, which is temporary loss of control of the aircraft, both altitude & airspeed, and required aircraft inspection when you get on the ground!

- The route is the magenta line.
- The green shaded areas are areas of predicted turbulence from Govt Aviation Weather sources.
- The orange areas are areas of predicted turbulence based solely on a mathematical calculation of wind direction and speed.
- The big thick blue arrows are jet streams, with the boxes telling you the altitude of the jet core and its wind speed.
- The red boxes are areas of thunderstorms.
- The white circles with 4 letter identifiers are en route and ETOPS alternates for the flight.
- The big box across the top is an altitude slider, so I can try to plan the best altitude through all that shit. That often means climbing and descending and climbing again along the route, which burns more gas, costs more money, but allows the cabin crew to do service and passengers to try to enjoy the flight, all while probably adding time to the flight. A balance of all of those factors that have nothing to do with weather are included in the weather analysis when it comes to safety, efficiency and customer service.

George doesn’t read weather maps, unfortunately, but with AI, he soon might!

One last nugget: Above a certain altitude (18,000 feet in the USA, but much lower, maybe 5,000 to 7,000 in many European areas) aircraft DO NOT fly an actual altitude, they fly a specific PRESSURE “altitude.”

In short, all aircraft set their altimeters to the same SET pressure and then fly the altitudes off the altimeter, even though it is not an actual altitude, either Above Ground Level (AGL) or above Mean Sea Level (MSL). That pressure is 29.92 inches of mercury in the US and 1013 Hectopascals in Europe and most of the world.
 
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This is what an absolute dogshit night of flying over the North Atlantic looks like for a trip from Chicago (KORD) to Milan (LIMC) on a preflight planning weather map! Doesn’t get decent until we reach Scotland!

As you can see, most of the turbulence is affected by the jet streams, especially orally where the Arctic Jet (northerly one) starts to run into the Tropical Jet (more southerly one). Where the streams of air start to clash, or run in parallel, their disparate airspeeds greatly disturb the air, thus turbulence. Also, where they buckle and change direction (big curves, often turning back on themselves), this also creates significant airflow disturbances. It’s just like a fast running river…of air, hence jet “stream.” The turbulence is running the rapids, and we have classifications, just like rapids (Occasional Light, Ocnl-Continuous Light, Cont Light-Ocnl Moderate, Cont Moderate. This probably where one’s flying experience stops, because we will go to almost any altitude to get out of Cont Mod. It’s called “Moderate” but it is strong jolts, both horizontally and vertically, often including minor altitude and airspeed deviations. Beyond Moderate comes Severe, which is temporary loss of control of the aircraft, both altitude & airspeed, and required aircraft inspection when you get on the ground!

- The route is the magenta line.
- The green shaded areas are areas of predicted turbulence from Govt Aviation Weather sources.
- The orange areas are areas of predicted turbulence based solely on a mathematical calculation of wind direction and speed.
- The big thick blue arrows are jet streams, with the boxes telling you the altitude of the jet core and its wind speed.
- The red boxes are areas of thunderstorms.
- The white circles with 4 letter identifiers are en route and ETOPS alternates for the flight.
- The big box across the top is an altitude slider, so I can try to plan the best altitude through all that shit. That often means climbing and descending and climbing again along the route, which burns more gas, costs more money, but allows the cabin crew to do service and passengers to try to enjoy the flight, all while probably adding time to the flight. A balance of all of those factors that have nothing to do with weather are included in the weather analysis when it comes to safety, efficiency and customer service.

George doesn’t read weather maps, unfortunately, but with AI, he soon might!

One last nugget: Above a certain altitude (18,000 feet in the USA, but much lower, maybe 5,000 to 7,000 in many European areas) aircraft DO NOT fly an actual altitude, they fly a specific PRESSURE “altitude.”

In short, all aircraft set their altimeters to the same SET pressure and then fly the altitudes off the altimeter, even though it is not an actual altitude, either Above Ground Level (AGL) or above Mean Sea Level (MSL). That pressure is 29.92 inches of mercury in the US and 1013 Hectopascals in Europe and most of the world.
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I am amazed you can make such an appraisal after sniffing all that glue.
 
bavarian blue said:
When I was cabin crew pilots seemed to exist on cheese trays alone.
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Too funny! I don’t eat cheese myself, but it is amazing how many guys need a bathroom break and come back with cheese and crackers and a few grapes…repeatedly! ;-)

Tbf, my snack of choice are the Salt & Pepper crisps and a banana on the way TO Europe, but they have shitty Cheese & Onion Walkers on the way home!!
 
Muhammad Ali's star is the only one that is not placed on the floor of Hollywood Boulevard's legendary "Walk of Fame".

When Muhammad Ali was offered a star in 2002, he accepted purely on the condition that it would not be placed on the sidewalk.

Since he was named after the prophet of Islam, he did not want anyone to step on his star and thereby disrespect the prophet.

Officials with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which administers the star awards, granted his request and installed the star on a wall in the Kodak Theatre.

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The copper to gold ratio is currently 0.000095 the lowest level in 4 years and in line with the covid era low point. Pre covid you have to go back to 1986 for it to be this low.
 
The perfect Christmas present doesn’t exis....

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"A must-have for anyone with a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors.In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings.
These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

Working in the naturalist’s tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted.

The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found."
 
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