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We have a car park at the back of our flat complex. A tree over-looking has been snapped in two and is now in car park. Part of an adjoining fence has been blown over.
I large conifer almost down in my garden lifted up a load of decking; my neighbour's shed roof partly blew off and smashed a hole in my out building roof
I had three aborted landings in one go at Kathmandu airport on a Beat up old Bangladesh 737, we'd gone from beautiful sightings of the Himalayas to pitch black tropical storm in minutes this was 3.00pm in the afternoon. The third attempt the screaming from the passengers was even worse as was the vomiting of people, (mainly kids). First two landings we hit the runway bloody hard, third attempt pilot pulled up about 100 feet from the ground just as the plane got absolutely drenched, (the noise was the worst). I was sat right at the front the female stewards looked terrified. Flew straight up and went back to Bangladesh.
Never did go back and do the Nepal hippy trail after all.
Wow-bloody-blimey, I don’t think I’d get back on a plane after that.
Kathmandu/walking in the Himalayas is the last thing to do on my travel itinerary. I mentioned this to my Nepali colleague, and when she had a few chums visiting her in Doha, she informed one ran a travel company. So we talked and when they described what I’d be flying in to get to the Himalayas, I already felt the bottling effect.
This was because I once did a tiny Cessna out of the Amazon to La Paz airport. It was the most petrified I’ve ever been: windows froze up on the inside of the plane, which the co-pilot de-iced with a bank card; we all needed oxygen; the plane - the size of a dinner table - constantly jolted with every bit of turbulence: and I had a panic attack.
I don’t recall disembarking the plane and my mates, who thought I was exiting with them, lost me and in a total fog I was walking away from the terminal toward the runway!
A380s and the bigger the better for me.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
Nous sommes L’occitane Rs!
he is over 200000 live streams now - I think a fair number from LFW
I started watching it after a live interview with the guy Jerry on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.
As you say it was compulsive viewing and I even used a plane finder App to track the approaches and go arounds when they failed to land.
The third attempt of the Qatar Airways flight was the most tense I've been since the Everton penalty shoot out earlier this season. Fortunately, positive results in both cases!
I started watching it after a live interview with the guy Jerry on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.
As you say it was compulsive viewing and I even used a plane finder App to track the approaches and go arounds when they failed to land.
The third attempt of the Qatar Airways flight was the most tense I've been since the Everton penalty shoot out earlier this season. Fortunately, positive results in both cases!
I work across the road from Northolt airport and watched one of these (or something very similar) try to land a few days ago. It pulled out twice and went back up to circle and made it on the third attempt. Scary stuff. Someone mentioned that it could have been practice or training.
I work across the road from Northolt airport and watched one of these (or something very similar) try to land a few days ago. It pulled out twice and went back up to circle and made it on the third attempt. Scary stuff. Someone mentioned that it could have been practice or training.
Stay with it for the landing around 1:05.
I haven't been on there for a long time to see if they still do, but Ryanair frequently had training flights running out of East Midlands Airport and on FlightRadar24 you'd be able to track the plane just flying around in one big circle, landing, then immediately taking off again, for hours at a time.
Re Heathrow it never ceases to amaze me when you see the planes lined up one after another going into land. It must be one hell of a logistical job to manage it all.
Wow-bloody-blimey, I don’t think I’d get back on a plane after that.
Kathmandu/walking in the Himalayas is the last thing to do on my travel itinerary. I mentioned this to my Nepali colleague, and when she had a few chums visiting her in Doha, she informed one ran a travel company. So we talked and when they described what I’d be flying in to get to the Himalayas, I already felt the bottling effect.
This was because I once did a tiny Cessna out of the Amazon to La Paz airport. It was the most petrified I’ve ever been: windows froze up on the inside of the plane, which the co-pilot de-iced with a bank card; we all needed oxygen; the plane - the size of a dinner table - constantly jolted with every bit of turbulence: and I had a panic attack.
I don’t recall disembarking the plane and my mates, who thought I was exiting with them, lost me and in a total fog I was walking away from the terminal toward the runway!
A380s and the bigger the better for me.
We flew from Quito to a town in the Amazon on a bigger plane, but I did have one proper scare. We're over dense jungle, the pilot makes an announcement in rapid Spanish and the wife turns to me and says "We're going down!". I nearly shat myself of course. Anyway it turned out what she meant to say was we were "landing" and she was surprised how short the flight had been. Language barrier yet again. I can still see the tops of those trees.
Had one aborted landing in La Coruna in fog - it was all fine but the pilot must have decided at the last minute that he couldn't see the runway. The scary thing was there was no announcement or anything, just a very rapid ascent - obviously they're concentrating on getting the plane back up at that point.
I work across the road from Northolt airport and watched one of these (or something very similar) try to land a few days ago. It pulled out twice and went back up to circle and made it on the third attempt. Scary stuff. Someone mentioned that it could have been practice or training.
Stay with it for the landing around 1:05.
Hello Mick, I was refereeing at Harrow School that afternoon and what I thought were 3 large planes flew over where I was to approaching the airport, now you've posted this, I realise it was the same plane!
Hello Mick, I was refereeing at Harrow School that afternoon and what I thought were 3 large planes flew over where I was to approaching the airport, now you've posted this, I realise it was the same plane!
That’s the one! It was a monster, wasn’t it? When it declined to land the second time my old knees started to go.
Calling Bournemouth Forest at 4pm is somewhat fcking disgusting.
Says it was after structural engineers carried out an inspection, these things a) take time and b) I expect there is quite a demand for structural experts on a day like today BUT why not announce the 'problem' in advance - like they do with horse racing, if there's going to be a course inspection they often announce it the previous day along with the time the inspection is taking place.
Done that here - " Due to damage to the stadium, a structural inspection is due to take place, we expect to announce the outcome of this by mid afternoon" - at least everyone would have had some warning.
We flew from Quito to a town in the Amazon on a bigger plane, but I did have one proper scare. We're over dense jungle, the pilot makes an announcement in rapid Spanish and the wife turns to me and says "We're going down!". I nearly shat myself of course. Anyway it turned out what she meant to say was we were "landing" and she was surprised how short the flight had been. Language barrier yet again. I can still see the tops of those trees.
Had one aborted landing in La Coruna in fog - it was all fine but the pilot must have decided at the last minute that he couldn't see the runway. The scary thing was there was no announcement or anything, just a very rapid ascent - obviously they're concentrating on getting the plane back up at that point.
I was on an aborted landing coming into Atlanta and after we levelled out from our bloody rapid ascent, the pilot comes on the mic and says: ‘you might have noticed we didn’t land there!’
Given the resulting yelps, screams and scared look on my fellow passengers, what I really needed was a pilot more focused on one of the key parts of his job spec and not a comedian.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
Nous sommes L’occitane Rs!
On or off, no way would I travel to a game today/tonight. Just not worth the risk. Even if the wind has subsided there's potential for trees to still fall, clean up operations trying to happen etc.
Calling Southend v Grimsby off just before 5pm even more so.
You can't get to Bournemouth today anyway. All trains are cancelled. In fact, i think almost all trains in the southern half of the country are halted. So, at least if you were intending to get there by train, you could not. That said, one hopes that the poor fans can get their money back for the accom which may be harder at this late stage.
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