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The round the world ticket was available in the 1970’s when I first moved to Canada from the UK. It was the basis of a sort of scam against the airlines where a “business” called a Bucket Shop would sell you a one way ticket across the Atlantic (for a fraction of what the airlines charged) which was actually part of one of the round the world tickets. They somehow got a refund for the unused parts & the difference from the original cost was so low that they still made a profit. Had to use it once as a penniless student returning to Canada after a long stay in the UK. It involved some skulduggery where I paid cash for the ticket at the airport & they gave me a ticket with the coupons from all the other legs of the round the world trip torn out. They provided an explanation to use if anyone at check in asked where the other coupons had gone which I’ve forgotten but no one said booh about it.
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I caught the flying bug when I was stationed in Germany and got my private pilot's license there and then went together with my dad (a flight instructor) to purchase a used airplane. Now I am trying to build a low-cost avionics network supporting navigation (both GNSS and ground-based), ADS-B and airframe and engine sensors.
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playwude wrote: Now I am trying to build a low-cost avionics network supporting navigation (both GNSS and ground-based), ADS-B and airframe and engine sensors.
No student pilot will ever get lost again. 
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At least not without knowing he has engine trouble ...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: He and my uncle were greatly unharmed.
If they walked away from it, then it's a successful landing. I heard that phrase many times in flight school.
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Definitely an aviation fan. Started when I was 11 making rubber powered model planes, moved on to “control line” with small ‘nitro’ powered engines & finally had a 1 channel radio control plane (you pressed the one button once for left rudder, twice for right rudder, thrice for up elevator & 4 times for down elevator. The motor was uncontrolled! I soldered together the transmitter & receiver from kits. The Tx had valves whereas the Rx was cutting edge tech using transistors!) the year before I went to Uni in 1968. After that I had a long hiatus until I got back into RC in 2008 with electrics. The high point was competing in a couple of IMAC competitions where you fly routines of 10 aerobatic maneuvers over several rounds in front of judges who give points for how accurately you fly.
In the interim between ‘68 & ‘08 I did a lot of flying on business as a consulting engineer & vacations. Without a doubt the most memorable was a trip to northern Saskatchewan where we were doing baseline environmental studies for a Uranium mine. I flew Air Canada from Toronto to Saskatoon then next morning at 6am got on a 6 seater twin engine plane to fly 600 km north to Wollaston Lake where we landed on a gravel strip overlooking the lake. While the pilot unrolled his sleeping bag to have a nap under the plane, we walked down to the lake & climbed aboard a single engined Beaver on floats. We took off and flew 30 mins and landed on a small lake next to the mining camp. Finally two of us climbed into a small helicopter with the pilot and flew around to inspect four flow gauging sites located on small creeks in the vicinity. Once that was done by late afternoon we reversed the process & got back to Toronto the next day.
One last memory which I just thought of which I think equals the Wollaston L. trip. In 2010 I was building an RC model of a single engined bi-plane called a Fox Moth (very similar to a Tiger Moth but with a fuselage that can hold 3/4 passengers). Mine was based upon one which flew site-seeing tours from the beach at Southport in NW England where I was born. I discovered the plane still existed & was owned by someone in Northamptonshire so I contacted him & asked if I could visit & take pictures of the plane to use in building/decorating the model. The owner graciously agreed & so I went & got loads of pics. Then to my surprise he pulled it out of the hangar & took me for a 15 minute flight around the local area. An amazing experience to fly in a bi-plane built in the 1930’s which is covered in “doped” canvas & started life carrying passengers between various points in Scotland!
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Steve Raw wrote: I want to go hang-gliding, but it's super dangerous.
Letting the google AI agent due the search for me so no idea if they are right...
"60 deaths per year due to ultralight aircraft crashes"
"roughly 3.5 hang gliding deaths per year"
But it is what I would expect.
I notice you didn't mention wingsuits.
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I watch aviation accident reports all the time ... Mentour Pilot is a very good channel for that on YouTube - very professional.
My excuse for that is that it gives me a "exterior" view as a sysadmin on how well you need to be prepared for any disasters ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: The so-called Dutch roll, said to have been named after an ice-skating technique attributed to the Netherlands
according to a BBC article.
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Interesting.
Because I was under the impression that ice skating is prevalent in Alpine countries. And Netherlands is not one of them.
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I even see some of the figures playing a game of curling 
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A TV report said that a Dutch Roll is a side to side motion caused by application of the pedals that cause the nose of the plane to move in a figure 8 pattern horizontally. They said the passengers might not notice this type of motion but it would freak out the pilots if they were not actively controlling the pedals.
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So what is Dutch about that? (I guess that is what the OP really was curious about.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Shruggs: and Google says:
What is a "Dutch roll"? "Dutch roll" is a name given to the combination of a yawing motion when the tail slides and the plane rocks from wingtip to wingtip. It is said to mimic the movement of a Dutch ice skater.
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I take issue with the word "roll". I think it should be called the Dutch Yaw, because from what the (terribly uninformative) youtube / newscast(er) described, I believe it was a yaw and in no way a roll.
If I hear a jet-liner rolled I'm thinking serious stuff. But this was a yaw, like turning to the right and back to the left.
You think maybe they were trying to sensationalize the story a bit?
No, no, not the news. 
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The way I heard the explanation of the Dutch Roll is that it also involves the ailerons, so yes, there is a roll component to the motion.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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