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[duluthralphie]

@duluthralphie how can you watch Aussie-TV in Minnesota?

And i have a Weatherdork living inside me too! He just learned more letters of the Greek alphabet this year…

Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing... we can watch Tv from anywhere.

I have a commercial pilots license, after I finished school I had a part time job teaching aviation at the University. Weather is a huge part of aviation and I happened to like meteorology so I took extra classes in it.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing... we can watch Tv from anywhere.

I have a commercial pilots license, after I finished school I had a part time job teaching aviation at the University. Weather is a huge part of aviation and I happened to like meteorology so I took extra classes in it.

And he is afraid of heights

I still find that extremely funny.
A pilot that is scared of heights.

 

[rjohns39]

Good Day, Afternoon, Evening, Night or Morning everybody, wherever you are!

Good morning Hillbilly, have a great day

And he is afraid of heights

I still find that extremely funny.
A pilot that is scared of heights.

Good morning Shaw, have a great day

 

[duluthralphie]

And he is afraid of heights

I still find that extremely funny.
A pilot that is scared of heights.

Not afraid of them, just don’t like them and won’t do them.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Not afraid of them, just don’t like them and won’t do them.

sure sure.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

And he is afraid of heights

I still find that extremely funny.
A pilot that is scared of heights.

Sounds funny! - But, i am afraid of heights too and have learned to overcome that fear.
Looking down 100 meters (~300') still frightens me but looking down 10,000 meter (30,000') does not. I assume my brain just cannot process the image in the correct way, so it doesn't realize that i am that far away from the ground. It is more like looking at a model of the world not the real deal.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Sounds funny! - But, i am afraid of heights too and have learned to overcome that fear.
Looking down 100 meters (~300') still frightens me but looking down 10,000 meter (30,000') does not. I assume my brain just cannot process the image in the correct way, so it doesn't realize that i am that far away from the ground. It is more like looking at a model of the world not the real deal.

I really can understand it.
It just sounds absurd.
Kind of like I enjoy riding roller coasters and things like that but standing near the edge of a high place or something makes me feel like gravity is calling to me over the edge and gives me vertigo.

 

[duluthralphie]

Sounds funny! - But, i am afraid of heights too and have learned to overcome that fear.
Looking down 100 meters (~300') still frightens me but looking down 10,000 meter (30,000') does not. I assume my brain just cannot process the image in the correct way, so it doesn't realize that i am that far away from the ground. It is more like looking at a model of the world not the real deal.

Yes and no.

I can fly nap of the earth or hover at treetop level all day and I love it. I can cut the power and do autorotations to the ground or recover at the flare and have the best time.

I can be in the soup at FL250 and life is grand, I can do maneuvers or spins and be totally relaxed.
Whether it’s 5 ft or 25,000 ft as long as I have working controls and in an air craft height makes no difference.

Flying off a cliff or into a river ravine is exciting...

But.... there is a tree stand some idiot put up on federal land, it’s maybe 20 ft in the tree. He has sign on it saying use it if you want to.

I climbed about 2/3rds of the way up, started feeling the need to poop. Realized there is no way I am dumb enough to sit 20ft in the air in this tree...so I climbed back down and the need to poop was gone..

I hate heights.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

That reminds me of my first thunderstorm i experienced in Texas: I was driving from Houston to Fort Worth when i saw a similar looking cloud-wall rolling through the sky towards me, somewhere around Waco. Then it started to rain so hard that i could not see the end of my own car in the outside mirrors and i decided to leave the highway at the next exit and wait it out. Found a little bridge on a county road and stopped under it, just before hail-stones, the size of baseballs started to fall from the ground.
I later learned from my concerned colleagues that this storm sparked several tornados…
Do you have tornados in Australia with those super-cells?
Glad you got spared this time.

Tornadoes have only been in Australia as long as video cameras in phones it seems. Unless it is captured on video the BOM (bureau of meteorology) will state no such thing happened and it was just a trick of the eye. But ours are more like water spout size, not those monsters tornado ally gets.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Weeelll - according to the Bureau of Meteorology it is spelled Tornado/Tornadoes, but i am sure the pronunciation will be very different…
Tropical storms are called »Willy Willies« down-under.

No! The little spiny things that occur just on a normal day in the breeze are called willy willies in the east and west and wurly winds in the middle. The tropical storms depend if they are a cyclone or just tropical. Then they are a cyclone named something like Shazza or a tropical