Taurion
Mischief-maker extraordinaire
Tech & pop culture blerd
Defiantly chubby.
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Upon receiving my long overdue Honeycomb Charlie Rudder Pedals, I threw together this SUPER QUICK unboxing video. Apologies for the wind screwing with the audio. I was really excited and just wanted to get this out.
Rewatching this absolute banger of a story. That it didn't do well upon its release let me know just how many born without taste actually walk among us.
Soooooo, Picard has 'engage'. Janeway has 'do it'. Burnham has 'let's fly'. Pike has 'hit it'. If you were the captain of a starship, what would be your goto phrase to get underway?
Bonus question: what would be the name of your starship?
I would command the Sovereign Class USS Hypatia and go to warp saying 'let's roll'.
Taking the VSKYLABS Tecnam P2006T for a quick spin from my living room, while wearing pajama pants and a honey badger hat.
VisualXP for GA altitudes is pretty snazzy. Still learning it's settings, though.
The sim continues to teach.
Heavy wind shears reported at my destination but I figured they'd dissipate by the time I got there (Ron Howard voiceover: "They hadn't") and took off for it anyway.
Three approaches, three go arounds. Should've diverted but tried a fourth time. I nailed a landing all right...at the top of an NTSB investigative docket.
If I didn't respect wind shear in the real world, I sure as hell do now.
The perfect time to do loops in a high-performance aerobatic jet plane through breaks in the clouds and my dumb ass is stuck on the ground at work. FML.
Starfleet has become to Star Trek what the Skywalker family has been to Star Wars: an existential threat to the galaxy posing as a savior.
TorqueSim's Cirrus SR22TN for X-Plane, the gold standard in Cirrus simulation.
Pics 1-3: Just boppin' around western Oregon en route to KPDX. Some of you oldheads might know what I mean when I say that the clouds and coloring remind me of Fly!/Fly! II (Plane: vFlyteAir Arrow III; clouds: Enhanced Skyscapes; scenery: Oregon by Orbx and Portland Intl. by Flightbeam).
Pic 4: On final KPHL Runway 26 with downtown Philly and the stadia off my right wing.
The rules of engagement are to not fire unless fired upon but, after evading the missile, the aggressor has closed to within visual range. It is then that you decide to handle the situation using the greatest economy.
Leaving Seattle for a zippy, low-altitude hop to Portland in TorqueSim's Cirrus SR22TN G3, basically to appreciate the Orbx TrueEarth adventures of both Washington and Oregon. Come for terrain, stay for the mountains.
https://youtu.be/RGDvoAOUxJc
About to watch some porn the way our grandparents did...in a dark theater surrounded by total strangers ;)
Fire me, one of the most satisfying Star Trek moments in the entire canon...when Captain Kirk was officially fed-up with Mr. Scott's shit.
Taurion
Mischief-maker extraordinaire
Tech & pop culture blerd
Defiantly chubby.
www.amazon.com/dp/B076JKPCXW