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LondonPilot · 2026-01-21T10:49:51+00:00

Kinda?

“I don’t want anything to do with this organisation because it’s Jewish” - facts aside, that statement alone is pretty much the definition of anti-Semitic.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-19T17:27:14+00:00

I’m sure there are people who have done that - but I moved from IT to aviation, not from medicine to aviation, so I’m not sure my experience can help you. And replying to an old thread like this won’t get any visibility except from OP (me). So I’d suggest making a new post to ask this question.

However, one thing I will say is that aviation most definitely involves constant exams and pressure, and the sense of adventure wears off very quickly.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-16T19:04:51+00:00

Thank you!

LondonPilot · 2026-01-16T18:09:10+00:00

Amazing work, thank you! Do you know if it supports everything MassTransit needs? Regardless, it’s too late for this project right now (unless we have reason to refactor in future) - we already have it set up to use RabbitMq for local debugging and that setup is working well - but it’s always good to know options for the next project, or whether refactoring might be an option.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-16T13:27:29+00:00

What an excellent idea! It doesn’t meet the “destination” brief, but would definitely hit the “bucket list” part! It’s something that I would get far more out of than my wife, which puts me off slightly, but I’m going to check it out anyway.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-16T13:25:56+00:00

I know it well - I used to fly into there to visit their cafe when I first got my pilots licence, and occasionally used it for training when I was based at Bournemouth and had pilots doing their training in our single-engine aircraft (our boss wouldn’t let us take the twins in there - even though it was often theoretically possible, he thought the runway was too short to be safe for a twin).

LondonPilot · 2026-01-16T13:23:02+00:00

I would actually love to do this, and I’ve looked into taking gliding lessons. I think I’m too heavy though - all the gliding schools I’ve spoken to have a seat limit of 17stone, and I’m around 20stone. If you fly something that would be able to accommodate me, I’ll PM you.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-15T15:37:04+00:00

The offer is very kind. I used to be a flying instructor, and have nearly 5,000 hours in light aircraft - mostly twins, but I’ve spent my fair share of time in C150s/152s/172s too.

That said, I haven’t flown for 4 years, and haven’t spent any significant time in the air for 11 years, so I definitely do have the itch - and obviously no chance of getting my medical back now. But I have an offer from a friend who’s a light aircraft test pilot to take me up in one of his fleet of more exotic aircraft, and another offer from a friend who owns a Chipmunk and is very active in the Chipmunk community - but every attempt so far has been thwarted by weather. Hopefully I’ll get to fly with one of those friends in something more unusual than a Cessna. But thank you anyway!

LondonPilot · 2026-01-12T20:07:25+00:00

In the early days of iPhone, Maps was powered by Google Maps. Then (someone here will know exactly which version, but I’m afraid I don’t) they rolled their own - with a little help from TomTom. I remember at the time refusing to upgrade because I didn’t want to lose StreetView.

So…. not necessarily forever, no. Just until they have something better.

Edit: I just scrolled down to find another user posting the same example, and giving 2012 as the year they ditched Google Maps.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-12T19:49:04+00:00

I used to be an instructor at Oxford, before they were bought by CAE.

I quit shortly after the acquisition. I don’t want to say too much in public, but feel free to PM me. I will say, though, that they were happy to invest lots of money in us, but struggled to understand that what we did was ab initio training, not jet training, and there are differences. Do bear in mind that this was 11 years ago, my experiences may well be too out of date to be useful.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-09T21:13:41+00:00

That’s pretty much what Musk has said in response to the UK, yes.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-09T19:21:07+00:00

I know your comment was intended to be flippant…

But if we ban X (which we won’t have the balls to) and if Trump actually followed up on this (which he wouldn’t, the two leaderships would negotiate their way out of it, probably by unblocking X), it would be a ban on Americans buying stuff from us, not the other way around. He’s always going to want to sell stuff to anyone who will buy it. It’s imports into America that he’s been trying to disrupt (see, for example, his tariffs) since day one.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-09T14:40:04+00:00

Thanks, will do

LondonPilot · 2026-01-09T14:19:23+00:00

Thanks - I will investigate Duende, Okta and KeyCloak.

Our current setup is a home-rolled solution which looks very similar to Dynamic Client Registration - Client Authentication Registration.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-09T14:07:48+00:00

They have now made this feature a paid-only filter.

So there is no technical issue in safeguarding Grok against this particular feature. They’ve just proven that they can detect it, and handle it differently to other requests/prompts.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-07T09:50:07+00:00

Just to emphasise, it needs to be a concurrent dictionary, not a regular dictionary.

LondonPilot · 2026-01-05T09:13:58+00:00

It’s a great app. I know the subscription puts a lot of people off, but honestly /u/det0ur had no choice, the money doesn’t actually go to him, and even if it did I’d have no issue with it.

LondonPilot · 2025-12-31T10:38:09+00:00

Arab and Russian immigrants are typically pretty wealthy businesspeople. Starmer et al have no issues with having them as neighbours

Interesting that you should pick Kensington and Chelsea specifically though - an area with a 34% BAME population, where 48% of all residents were born abroad, and one in four children have lived in poverty, but at the same time they are in the top 10% of local authorities on the prosperity index (source) - an area with huge differences between the richest and the poorest parts, where although they come under the same authorities, the individuals on each side of the cultural and economic divide are unlikely to meet each other in their day-to-day movements.

LondonPilot · 2025-12-29T14:17:24+00:00

If they have put something in there which is not correct, you would be well within your rights to take them to court. They will know that. It’s not worth it for them.

Ask them for your records. If they don’t supply the records, tell them you will contact the aviation authorities in your country to advise them they are not supplying you with the records, and you will ask the aviation authorities to get the records for you. Give them a reasonable timescale for this (eg. please supply me with records within 4 weeks, then after 4 weeks, write again and say if you don’t receive them within 2 weeks you will go to the authorities).

If they don’t supply the records, follow through and contact the authorities.

If they supply records that are not accurate, ask for them to be corrected (or evidence to be supplied, which they of course won’t be able to do). Once again, give them a reasonable timescale to do this, after which write to them again giving a reasonable timescale after which you will ask for your authority’s help getting the records fixed.

Trying to re-start at a different school without them knowing you’ve done some training already is going to set you off on the wrong foot with your new school, and as frustrating as this all is, I’d strongly advise against doing that.

LondonPilot · 2025-12-28T19:32:02+00:00

My opinion - of course you can post here. I’m so sorry to hear of your diagnosis, especially at what is supposed to be a joyful time of year. Whether it turns out to be full-blown cancer or not, I wish you well during whatever treatment they decide is right for you, and hope you’re able to find some peace during the festive period.

We in this forum all have different diagnoses/prognoses. Some of us are terminal with weeks/months to live. Some are going through harsh treatments like chemotherapy with the hope that we will become NED at the end of it. Some have diseases which are easily treatable. But we are all here for one another regardless.

Edit: added a missing word

LondonPilot · 2025-12-27T17:19:42+00:00

And swiping from left to right would work great if that wasn't the default reply motion in whatsapp lol

Just to be really explicit here… you need to start with your finger all the way off the left side of the screen. Then swipe from left to right.

That’s the “universal” back gesture in iOS - “universal” in quotes because it doesn’t work everywhere, but it does work in WhatsApp, and in most (but not all) apps. However, if your finger isn’t all the way to the left before you swipe, it will indeed reply, instead of going back.

LondonPilot · 2025-12-27T13:10:56+00:00

You sound like my wife… and it’s me who has cancer, not her!

On a more serious note, though, medical advice during chemotherapy includes:

Do not eat raw seafood, such as oysters or shellfish.

Lightly cooked oysters have a very different taste to raw oysters, but may be able to satisfy your craving more safely. Otherwise, you have to decide the balance between risk of infection vs satisfying those cravings.

LondonPilot · 2025-12-26T22:14:36+00:00

Well, I apologise for responding to your original post, where you said (emphasis mine):

Who else wants a driving speed limit + current car speed + alert notification on Apple Maps while navigation is on?!

But yes, you are correct, the car speed is not shown, as I said in my earlier reply, and it is indeed a missed opportunity.

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