jim8flog
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Random Irritations
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rulie
Head Pro
But think about all the community stories and gossip both of you missed by not visiting barbershops and hairdressing shops! My mother was a hairdresser and knew nearly everything that was going on in our community of 7000.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Realising why the bananas I bought in Tesco often looked a lot worse when getting home.
I took a good look round and noticed they use additional spotlighting on the display to make them look brighter.
I took a good look round and noticed they use additional spotlighting on the display to make them look brighter.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Try Fatface or White Stuff. Very nice, especially from the sale.M&S jeans, chino's etc
I used to walk in, grab my size, walk out.
Now I'm battling through slim fit, skinny fit, rigid fit, stretch fit, regular fit, loose fit
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Having to be at physical check in for a flight 8.5hrs before your flight time and at a totally different location to where you’re taking off from! Genuinely the most pointless and frustrating way to travel 
To top it off the coffee shop shuts and hour before we had to be here and none of the vending machines work this is gonna be a long wait….
To top it off the coffee shop shuts and hour before we had to be here and none of the vending machines work this is gonna be a long wait….
NearHull
Well-known member
All part of the ‘sitting on a bus looking at an aeroplane and then later sitting on an aeroplane looking at a bus’ ?Having to be at physical check in for a flight 8.5hrs before your flight time and at a totally different location to where you’re taking off from! Genuinely the most pointless and frustrating way to travel
To top it off the coffee shop shuts and hour before we had to be here and none of the vending machines work this is gonna be a long wait….
Neilds
Assistant Pro
I know the painHaving to be at physical check in for a flight 8.5hrs before your flight time and at a totally different location to where you’re taking off from! Genuinely the most pointless and frustrating way to travel
To top it off the coffee shop shuts and hour before we had to be here and none of the vending machines work this is gonna be a long wait….
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Sad fact is it’s not even that interesting because where we check in is an hours drive away from any planes or any form of airport
It’s a pain many will never experience. Check in wait 8 hrs with zero food or drink available to get a bus to a terminal where the food and rink facilities are also shutI know the pain
8hrs after my original post we’re still waiting
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Could be worse, at least the transport fleet is more modern and (potentially) more reliable than my day when it was VC10s and Tristars- both types about 40 years old!Sad fact is it’s not even that interesting because where we check in is an hours drive away from any planes or any form of airport
It’s a pain many will never experience. Check in wait 8 hrs with zero food or drink available to get a bus to a terminal where the food and rink facilities are also shut
8hrs after my original post we’re still waiting
NearHull
Well-known member
Worst journey was three days in the the back of Herc staging 4 Harriers out to Malaysia ….oh and the three days back, hitting CAT over Indian Ocean, rusty tufty types all shaken up from the 800 feet drop.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
Then I think my wife and I will call that, "Money and time well not spent."
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
I remember the VC 10 flew on that from Germany to NI! Seats all faced the back of the plane rather than forward, the worst take off and landing I’ve ever had facing the wrong way.
Loved the Herc, sit up the far up end, sleeping bag out and curl up in the corner to sleep whilst everyone else sits facing each other.
A400M is the worst for me whoever designed those horrid seats that have you sat at 5° angle whilst sitting sideways wearing full rig for 8hrs is an idiot.
Anyway 9 hrs later time to board!! Enjoy the golf people.
The Squirrel
Well-known member
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Just like BA’s old business class seats then innit? Luxury.
Not much Luxury in a VC10 or Tristar
It’s just a step up form flying in a chinnook
Slime
Tour Winner
I've never had the pleasure, would love to go up in one.
Their noise is magnificent.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
It is great fun , been in a few flying though places like the Mach loop , avoiding things being thrown up from below in the desert - most thrilling time was sitting on the tail lift going around the Balkans with aid drop offs
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Apart from proper seats, windows you can look out of without breaking your neck, you don’t fly with the tail hatch open, you can’t see the working parts of the Aircraft and you don’t get battered by the smell of AVTUR yeah not much of a step up
I can assure you it’s quite a dull experience and the novelty quickly wears off. Sitting sideways staring at the person opposite you isn’t thrilling. You need to crane your neck backward to see out the windows . Unless you can get a seat in the tail hatch then it’s quite cool as you can see everything and you’re literally sitting hanging out the back of a helicopter.
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cliveb
Head Pro
Many years ago I often used to go skiing with Silver Ski, who chartered a Tristar.
I vividly remember how it rattled and shook on landing - the overhead luggage bins wobbled around and you were waiting for them to fall down.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Sounds like you had one of the more serviceable ones
I would always get worried when the rattling stopped
the best time was when they chartered planes back from the gulf - last time back from Kuwait ( Herc from Basra first ) it was a 747 - all the RAF guys upstairs in first class
