I just did my first formal 777-300er flight!! A simple ferry flight to KDFW and wow is this aircraft exciting, confusing, frustrating and familiar all at once! It takes soo soo much more work to prep the aircraft for flight and then so much work enroute with it requiring checklists being completed. I love it! The flight was over in a flash. Im going to need to learn so much and rewire my self to fly it proper. <scree>
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I am upset. I was a member in good standing with a model radio control aircraft club for nearly 30 years. I joined in high school as a freshman and that was 97/98 school year. We as a club would have our dues come up in July at the meeting. Well as we know July is just days away. I was getting concerned that I had not yet seen the newsletter for June which would have the notice for the July meeting and when/ where it would be. I contacted at first the officer in charge of membership over a week ago and then a few days later having gotten 0 reply. Then yesterday I reached out to the vice president of the club seeking information. I finally got a reply back informing me the club dissolved. No word was sent out to members not on social media or not receiving the electronic newsletter or at the final meeting the dissolution occurred at. Im frustrated that this happened. Nearly 30 years dedicated in dues and loyalty to not be given the courtesy of being told the clubs gone before nearly spamming the entire leadership wanting to just be a good upstanding member.
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I just experienced what could be the most astronomically implausible thing EVER! It would come to no ones surprise I am an av geek and enjoy plane spotting or that I fly (i am a licensed rc pilot) rc aircraft or that I fly flight sim or make and collect models. I have a model of a then Continental Airlines (now repainted and updated as United Airlines, but still the SAME EXACT aircraft) 757-200 registration N14118 by a company called Skymarks. Why is this relevant?
Scrub to 17 minutes. That aircraft landing? That is a 757-200. A Continental Airlines 757-200. Its registration? N14118. The odds of seeing a video recently posted containing an hour of plane spotting from around 23 YEARS ago containing an aircraft of which I have its model counterpart is so astronomically implausible I have better odds of going to vegas and turning a single dollar into a billion dollars with out losing or pushing a single hand of black jack in consecutive hands starting with $1.00. I am beyond floored to have this happen. Yes I took pictures of the video of the aircraft in full and its registration number, and of the model and its registration number AND of the two together. I think I need to buy a lottery ticket tonight.
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