Tim_A

Chemical burns

Hammer and nails

No job site would be complete without the interference of Elfin Safety . . .

Brothers Grimm

There are lots of rules of thumb in aviation which make life easier. One "thumb" (from tip to 1st knuckle) is 10nm on a half-mil chart or sectional. The 1-in-60 rule: At 60kts, travelling 1nm takes 1 minute (so at 120kts, 1nm takes half a minute and so on) By the same rule, a 1 degree course deviation results in being 1 nm wide of track after 60nm. Again by the same rule, estimate your distance from a VOR by flying 90 degrees to a radial. The time it takes to travel 10 degrees (full scale deflection to full scale deflection) in seconds divided by 10 is

My suggestion would be to triangulate your position against another VOR. Easy to do on a paper chart - just draw a line to the VOR and read off the radial. Plan-G can draw radials on the map, along with distance rings, and no doubt so can other planning software.

Measure up.

Leonard Nimoy - Spock!

Pretty much what it says: they've pulled their free tile server in favour of the almighty buck. And of course the warning notice was prominently displayed in the back of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, 'Beware of the leopard'. I'm looking into their new API to see if it'll work something like MapBox (i.e. if you want to subscribe you can, but it's on your own dollar). I'm also looking at Thunderforest, which may be an alternative. But as we've learned so many times before, free lunches don't last forever. For now it's OSM or

Cohen (Sasha)

No need to shout!

Taking off (aviation content, sorry!)

Devalued

Wallet

You know I always wondered what that song was - it's great. Somewhere I have the box set.

Assist

Heresy

Gin

Largely

Horse dung

I imagine it was an intern keeping an eye on the screens à la "The Martian" Other than that they were probably running sims for the various burns needed along the way, practicing for different things going wrong etc. One thing NASA is very good at is training and covering all the bases.

Bosun's mate.

Aye Captain

Hard to get through the eye of a needle...

Wouldn't that be ironic! But, since according to the Internet*, the only person who knows why you celebrate 4th July is a random Italian tourist, in a crazy kind of way it might just work . . . *haha!