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....the "Creative" comment which he used daily as a shortcut for "this is the biggest load of unadulterated cr#p I've seen since time BEGAN!!!!.

 

Turbo quietly commanded GhostDog, who he'd fitted with NightSight, GPS, and FPV (FirstPersonVision) for all the 20th century slackers, to take a lump out of B12 any night soon.

 

He had originally modified GhostDog to go after Motzarella who'd taken up a position as CASA's favourite RCNazi to go after kids and hobbyists flying their model aircraft at 27 feet 6 inches, a height sometimes fancied as a flightpath by RA aircraft when ...........

 

 

 

.........Mod: several replies to the above thread have been deleted including the obscene explanation of the acronym, the one about size, the one from a young lady where an "Unhelpful" tag was applied in a manner never expected, and the eighteen arguments for and against water birthing, and ....

 

 

While this is entertaining it also gives us a good look at reaction times, from those people who reacted subconsciously, in some cases just leaning or turning slightly to one where the pedestrian hasn't responded and is standing still in the same position after the accident is all over. http://www.utrend.tv/v/lucky-people/

 

 

At least it should be reliable

This is the engine used in aircraft such as Cessna 152 and Piper Tomahawk, and I'd agree.

 

 

Nice to get a touch of reality.

 

 

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More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed

 

in major accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic, according to a year-long Washington Post investigation.

 

 

 

[insert Jabiru joke here .... you just know they'll come]

 

 

 

Not sure what defines a 'major accident' in the context of people not being injured in a machine malfunction. Maybe if you are paying for the drone? The potential risk is clear though.

 

 

 

A very relevant thought since our population is about 10%of the US

 

 

 

 

 

 

......his old aircraft back, so he could stuff up his landings, incurse, and get lost between the two Waggas and Henty.

 

"I'm desperate" he said, "I'd fly anything, even a Jab"

 

Madge thought about this for a wile and said "You......................."

 

 

....lustre, and have legs like locusts, and....

 

 

..............Andy shat up with a start at the word ambitious. "I've always wanted to fly an ambitious aircraft" he said "It would be wonderful to be flying along, see a large lake, and have the choice of ................."

 

 

How come we are reverting back to Latin or Greek or whatever. i.e. CV - curriculum vitae. When I last went for a Job I had a RESUME.Oh and SDQDI is right, spelling is one thing but what about Grammar/Comprehension, example - Me and Fred went to the shop. Ugggg - Hate it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Don't start me on Maths ...............................

He is indeed. In my post regarding the ten to thirteen year old period, I carefully suggested English books, then had a mental blank and forgot to add grammar and sentence construction, and I really meant studying the lot, and I don't think this would be a huge project since most people get most of each sentence correct, so they have a huge lead on a ten year old or thirteen year old, and the time taken to complete a very thorough study and practice and practice and practice, would be way under the four years it takes a child in school. The huge benefit is you come out at the end no longer having a disadvantage, and feeking much more confident.

 

 

dazza, many of them were children of itinerant parents or for other reasons missed that crucial sequence starting in about Grade 5; what I've given them is a way to do a reasonably small amount of study, so they are no longer locked in to that disadvantage throughout their working life.

 

 

I'm not sure whether cfm is just an alter-ego for trolling, but if not PM me and expect to be doing a lot of homework, but regardless of your rejection rate there is likely to be an employer out there who desperately needs you.

 

SPELLING

 

Others have mentioned it, some cannot spell because they are dyslexic or have some other genuine reason, most just were unlucky enough to be moved around schools by their parents, had bad teachers, or just missed critical English classes during the ages from 10 to 13 which is the period when the serious part of English is taught.

 

A whole generation of people were the victim of a line of thinking around the 1970's that spelling didn't matter; if someone could understand you that was good enough.

 

Don't believe it; nothing will be said in an interview, but if you are going for a job which is more than just manual labour and the spelling in your CV is bad, nothing will be said, but you'll usually be told the position was filled by someone else.

 

Someone mentioned you should ask why you were not selected, but most companies will refuse or will give you a whitewash version because they are not allowed to discriminate against you on this disadvantage.

 

Lazy English like cos, thanx etc is worse because it's a clear indicator of laziness, and employers are looking for the best value for money.

 

I've done a lot of thinking about the current decline in spelling, and the billions of dollars it must cost our community, and it seems to me that people could improve their spelling out of sight by going down to the local school, finding out what the current English books are for ages 10 to 13 and spending 20 minutes per day going through them (there's "a rat" in the middle of separate etc)

 

CV

 

It's very much as Facthunter says, tricks don't work. An employer is making a large investment. If a company car type job is involved, the company's all up costs will be about three times your salary, and that's a serious investment these days - one where an employer has to get a return on shareholder investment, so it should be factual, checkable, with no gaps where there may have been a negative period. Most companies will phone previous employers and be given an accurate summation of the good the bad and the ugly. This can hurt you if you haven't had a good record, or if you haven't performed, but you can learn to perform by matching your ambitions to your skills, learning new skills etc.

 

And it can help you; on three or four occasions I've been phoned as a reference by employers who clearly were just going through the motions and didn't want the person, and the information I gave completely turned the situation around when either skills that I pointed out, or spectacular results I mentioned hadn't come up on the CV or interview.

 

Before doing the CV it's critical that you spend some time, several hours going back over your life and employment history and make up a list of your strengths and weaknesses. Weigh very carefully what your previous employers have said about you.

 

I read a saying recently which is unfortunately true "People don't leave bad companies, people leave bad managers" So this is the time to decide whether they were right or wrong in the way they treated you; often where there is a breakdown they will be wrong and it's worth the self-analysis to decide whether this is the case. Err on the blaming yourself side rather than the "I'm perfect" version.

 

Having done that you are in a position to sell your strengths and admit your weaknesses. All the best salesmen around the world, the ones who can point to spectacular results don't hesitate to point out to the customer any negatives, and that's how they build loyalty which the glad handing bag of wind loses customer by customer, because crap starts to smell after a while.

 

So let's say you've got three good strengths but you're not so good in arithmetic, but you have just started some private maths tutoring - that shows someone who is self motivated, and where the minor deficiency will be gone in a few months.

 

CLOTHES

 

It's important to dress at the top end for the dress code usually worn by the employees, so some quiet research is required, parking out the front in the morning or afternoon if required. A black sheep in a white mob can be seen from the other side of the paddock. If you can't afford a suit you can hire one, or buy one from Op Shops where the quality is often as new.

 

APPEARANCE

 

If you arrive needing a shave and a good haircut, the reaction is likely to be the same as spelling - nothing will be said, you will be thanked for your time, but the position has been filled.

 

INTERVIEW

 

Every employer is different; some, like djp have a feel for the situation in the first few seconds.

 

Rudi Giuliani, former Mayor of New York, in talking about public speaking said the audience will make up their minds about your message in the first 12 seconds.

 

What he didn't say was dragging out the interview with a whole lot of crap will turn the customer off.

 

In an employment interview the employer will be expecting to control the interview and won't thank you for taking over and bombarding him with your exceptional talents, because he knows that's how you'll behave in corporate meetings where you should be listening.

 

It's worth distilling down your strengths ready for those 12 second bursts, which could come up several times as he asks questions. A good example of how effective this can be is if you held a 357 magnum to someone's head and say "Give me your money" - probably not something you could do in an interview, but you can see it would beat explaining calibres, loads, firing mechanisms, grip etc until he went to sleep.

 

RESEARCH AND REASONS

 

Many people have difficulty getting jobs because they aim for jobs for which they don't have qualifications or experience, and the success rate can be increased by studying the Position Description (PD) very carefully line by line and making notes on what is required. Always respond to the PD item by item, before going off at a tangent, however in some cases put, as an attachment, or at the bottom, other skills which are not asked for but which could be useful for the company if they have another position vacant, or coming vacant.

 

Having already written out your strengths, it's easy to look at the PD and strengths list side by side, and you might find that jobs come up regularly where you need a particular qualification which you can do a TAFE or Uni course for, and with that qualification be a much more marketable product.

 

APPLICATION

 

Should always be typed (in some cases it shows that the person seriously wants the job.

 

Should always address the PD descriptions clause by clause noting where you comply (and listing your strength), and also noting where you do not comply (and listing any on-going training, or willingness to undergo training)

 

In may cases someone who shows self-motivation, attention to detail, or neatness/efficiency in operation will be trained by the company.

 

That beats bullsh$tting in your CV and the company having to wait 12 months or so before there's an opportunity to fire you, which upsets your ongoing CV record no end.

 

This is by by no means a comprehensive list, but hope it helps.

 

 

Very interesting comment FH, and I assume that's for RPT pilots. It's a mirror for the theme of the book "The Killing Zone" by Paul A. Craig aimed at private pilots which look in great detail at what causes accident from after the pilot is out of the clutches of his training regime to about 300 hours, and one of the best books in understanding aviation safety I've seen. It instantly cured me of some nasty little habits I'd got into, and that same complacency.

 

 

.........which is quite different to a square wave or a sine wave, in a quantum physics aspect. The lee wave tends to created a sonic effect which in turn sets up a frequency vibration in the through.......

 

 

............unfortunately readers Turbo was unsuccessful in his bit to get an injunction to prevent this photo being shown, and while it's never a good idea to make comment on a Judge, even after you've actually seen him cross-dressed in a red robe and a wig, Turbo couldn't help but notice his oversized right hand, and wondered whether he might be related to Madge, although he now knows for sure the prick's parents are not married.

 

Turbo's lawyer Cash4 has issued this statement "My Client denies strenuously that he has ever fallen asleep when someone is talking to him, because..............."

 

 

Interesting that people would be suggesting there's whinging going on still.

 

 

A Formula 1 driver react in about 15/100 to 20/100 of a second and is on his way.

 

 

We have the same issue on our roads, everyone is working to reduce injury, while completely ignoring the concept of "Don't Crash".

You'd be surprised what we are working on and how pissed off we are that things like geometrically correct suspensions which absorb jounce and don't have bump steer (marketed as "radial tunes suspensions", and braking systems that are light years ahead of where we were are not as recognised as they should be.

 

 

My policy in Speedway was that it was a sport, not work, and you not only shouldn't expect to die enjoying it, but you also should not return home injured.

 

It's surprising what happens when everyone starts to think that way; for a few years the only injuries we were getting were green stick fractures from steering lash when hitting the fence and the odd broken leg.

 

 

A great example of how you can escape even in seemingly impossible conditions the branches on these trees are reasonably substantial) when you land at control speed

 

It could have been much worse; if the Pilliga Man had got them we'd never know what happened.

 

 

Relax Cherk, he could teach us all tricks we never knew.

 

 

And damn lucky he knew how to sideslip !.............

I'll teach you if you're not sure Madge.

 

 

 

Was this an EFATO Ultralights?

 

He apparently glided between two hangars when he found he was too low.

 

Have a look at the strength of that undercarriage!

 

 

Ho ho ho, I'm not the trailer guy!

 

Getting back to topic if someone can find Facthunter's brilliant assessment of the turn back issues and Motz decides to break the big story about his psychiatrist/psychologist this thread nearly beats the other two or three.

 

 

Well, lets hope theres a trailer around hey?

This is what playing with UAVs does to your mind Motz.

 

How about you' re traveling and you book an aircraft hire at a strange place and when you get there you find out that around each end of the strip is a Forest of 600 mm diameter Mountain Ash about three metres apart.