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I'm no new member, so I'll post here about my return.
Wow, three weeks without LPSG and my friends here, and I survived. Hard to believe, but it's true.
I can really recommend vacations at Europe to everyone here. The short distances are very handy, if you arrive somewhere central it's never more than a day trip to the pleasant places. But still, I have some questions. Maybe you know the answers?
ONE - (Why) Do German middle-class guest houses look like cheap porn sets? These trashy white veneer furniture, stark white walls, no decoration except for maybe a trashy flower photography: Is that comfort? Really, if you don't have someone with you who's good in bed you could climb the walls.
TWO - Why is it that German and Swiss Air Traffic Controllers actually speak a better English than their American colleagues?
THREE - Do French drivers make a national sports out of ruining/decaying their cars? I haven't seen so many relatively new car models in such a state (dirty, beat-up) anywhere, except maybe on Cypriot streets.
Those questions aside, I've great days. The stations of my travel were Munich and a village nearby, where I've had some great fun at an oldtimer fly-in; Basel (Switzerland), where I've spent nearly two weeks training intensely to add another plane to my "Look, I've been behind the stick of this"-collection (A wink to 13x7); and last, after the recommendation of my tour companion, guide and interpreter, Frank, a few days at Pedhoulas, a mountain village in the Troodos Mountains (Cyprus), where we have spent some more great days, very relaxed most of the time, and at other times with very strenuous physical activity. Have I mentioned that sex is a great workout programme, confirmed by scientific evaluations?
Maybe I should raise some envy with the fellow aviation affic's here. Frank has some great connections, don't ask me, but he must have shot and hidden a number of adverse wives to be done such favors. So my means of travel to and from, and in between, was a Gulfstream G-450 (G-V), powered by two RR-Tay-6118C (+FADEC, max. applicable thrust 61.5 kN to 68.4 kN), fully equipped with Honeywell Primus EPIC, EVS Night Vision Enhancement system, PiC HUD etc etc. That fucking thing even had a CURSOR CONTROLLER ON A SEPARATE STICK!!! As a member of the old analog-design cockpit fraction group, this gave me a lot of discomfort, I mean, even the back-up instruments were on-screen, I hope they are at least on a separate circuit. You can give me the brightest-colored, three-dimensional, animated graphics of the aircraft systems state, and I still say that I was very happy with the way it was on the KC-10. If you were able to get your cash at the ATM, then you were also able to handle the FMC, with learning some additional details on how to interprete the lines on the screen.
So, I'm back now. My butt is very tan now, and pretty sat on (after 12 hours and some on the trip back), maybe it's time now to flaunt it into the sun some more, at the pool...
Wow, three weeks without LPSG and my friends here, and I survived. Hard to believe, but it's true.
I can really recommend vacations at Europe to everyone here. The short distances are very handy, if you arrive somewhere central it's never more than a day trip to the pleasant places. But still, I have some questions. Maybe you know the answers?
ONE - (Why) Do German middle-class guest houses look like cheap porn sets? These trashy white veneer furniture, stark white walls, no decoration except for maybe a trashy flower photography: Is that comfort? Really, if you don't have someone with you who's good in bed you could climb the walls.
TWO - Why is it that German and Swiss Air Traffic Controllers actually speak a better English than their American colleagues?
THREE - Do French drivers make a national sports out of ruining/decaying their cars? I haven't seen so many relatively new car models in such a state (dirty, beat-up) anywhere, except maybe on Cypriot streets.
Those questions aside, I've great days. The stations of my travel were Munich and a village nearby, where I've had some great fun at an oldtimer fly-in; Basel (Switzerland), where I've spent nearly two weeks training intensely to add another plane to my "Look, I've been behind the stick of this"-collection (A wink to 13x7); and last, after the recommendation of my tour companion, guide and interpreter, Frank, a few days at Pedhoulas, a mountain village in the Troodos Mountains (Cyprus), where we have spent some more great days, very relaxed most of the time, and at other times with very strenuous physical activity. Have I mentioned that sex is a great workout programme, confirmed by scientific evaluations?
Maybe I should raise some envy with the fellow aviation affic's here. Frank has some great connections, don't ask me, but he must have shot and hidden a number of adverse wives to be done such favors. So my means of travel to and from, and in between, was a Gulfstream G-450 (G-V), powered by two RR-Tay-6118C (+FADEC, max. applicable thrust 61.5 kN to 68.4 kN), fully equipped with Honeywell Primus EPIC, EVS Night Vision Enhancement system, PiC HUD etc etc. That fucking thing even had a CURSOR CONTROLLER ON A SEPARATE STICK!!! As a member of the old analog-design cockpit fraction group, this gave me a lot of discomfort, I mean, even the back-up instruments were on-screen, I hope they are at least on a separate circuit. You can give me the brightest-colored, three-dimensional, animated graphics of the aircraft systems state, and I still say that I was very happy with the way it was on the KC-10. If you were able to get your cash at the ATM, then you were also able to handle the FMC, with learning some additional details on how to interprete the lines on the screen.
So, I'm back now. My butt is very tan now, and pretty sat on (after 12 hours and some on the trip back), maybe it's time now to flaunt it into the sun some more, at the pool...
Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne... and all the other big cities tend to go for that 'functional' approach. Five-star hotels are for comfort, guest houses are for functionality; it's a definitional difference, with the latter akin to some of the less-inspired motel decor one sees in the States.
