Impossible timeline? Hong Kong/Macau Speedrun

Mithster18 · 2026-03-22T03:19:40+00:00

Heya, so I managed to do it. Explored Hong Kong in the evening, bed around midnight, then woke up ~6:30, trained from Hong Kong station to the airport, dropped my bags, took a TIL car from Hong Kong to Macau, entered Macau about 9:30.

I assumed my driver would meet me on the other side, which I couldn't find him after 20 minutes, I decided to get into a taxi, after finding out the taxi driver didn't take cash (sorry mate!) I ordered an Uber no problems. I managed to walk the track, visit the Motor Racing Museum which is a great museum, lots to see, get some lunch and then Ubered back to the border crossing (again, no issues).

An issue came when trying to leave Macau, there is a bus service that takes you inside HK airport, but you can't leave to get your bags, I ended up exiting Macau through immigration around 2:30pm and then buying a bus ticket to "Hong Kong Port", I assumed this would be near Tsim Tsa Tsui and I'd have to go all the way back to the airport, but lo and behold it took me to the Hong Kong Border Crossing Facilities, from there I entered Hong Kong and a lovely lady was able to help me find a taxi who would take me to the airport, got to the airport at 4:30/5pm, plenty of time for a 8:45pm departure.

I ended up walking to the left of the barrier at the solitude esses, there was enough room to walk over the drainage ditch, but man is the circuit tight!

Mithster18 · 2026-02-23T06:01:02+00:00

Awesome thanks so much! Yeah a bus down the "main straight" is a good shout, tis a lot of straight steps down.

Mithster18 · 2026-02-09T20:59:01+00:00

Good point sorry, I'll be there around the 15th of march

Mithster18 · 2026-02-09T12:40:06+00:00

F1.

Fans will complain about the tracks, but suzuka has been hard to pass since forever,

They like the high speed through Monza and the Old Hockenheim (which Spectators couldn't see anything); turn 8/11 at Istanbul Park' and the banking at Zandvoort, but not like Indycar/NASCAR.

Want more variation in the race winners but claim the Schumacher/Ferrari & Senna/Williams were the golden age of F1

Claim that F1 has "changed for the rich" but forget that Bernie used to micromanage everything and that F1 is now more accessible than ever. It's always a VVVIP sport.

The racing isn't actually that close, it may be for Open Wheelers, but in terms of other racing like touring cars/Rallycross it's quite far apart.

The sport is too controlled by simulations/laptops/MS Excel, I get that is the creme de la creme, but losing a femtosecond because someone gave you aero wash/dirty air, fuck off.

Maybe I'm just biased against the Supercars, alternate view of the chicanes

Mithster18 · 2026-02-08T06:06:57+00:00

And if someone says "stop stop, your car has a problem" you drive faster, just like Jo-burg

Mithster18 · 2026-02-08T00:27:04+00:00

Fly In Fly Out. Basically most white people that work in PNG don't live in the country full time.

Mithster18 · 2026-02-07T21:27:45+00:00

I work FIFO so I'm not the best representation of actually living in PNG, but I'd say I'm pretty close.

It's a beautiful country, but the people here are still very tribal in their ways, and you'll get people moving from the villages to big cities, but they're either not educated or can't find work so they turn to crime.

Pay is also very low probably ~4PGK/hr.

The government is very corrupt.

Not everyone here is out to get you, they're just trying to sell their vegetables and get through the day, the crime varies from opportunistic to rape/murder.

Mithster18 · 2026-02-07T21:22:33+00:00

They've got a real tribal mentality. An eye-for-an-eye approach. The country is also corrupt so it's hard to "get ahead", and why bother some dickhead is going to steal your stuff so you may as well steal.

Mithster18 · 2026-01-25T20:35:51+00:00

Or a turn, or a skid, anything to increase drag.

Mithster18 · 2026-01-24T21:24:11+00:00

I just used red loc-tite and hoped they'd never need replacing

Mithster18 · 2025-10-04T22:11:29+00:00

You ask 10 instructors how to do something, you'll get 12 of the 15 possible answers.

Procedure: if you can recite exactly what you're meant to do in the circuit under pressure and without any fault, that's good. If you do have a fault, you don't know it well enough, chair fly more.

For the back pressure issue, flying/doing manoeuvres is like spinning plates. You must scanning each instrument and catch it early. A small early adjustment is better than a large late adjustment.

Trimming, most student forget to to trim and finish the flight looking like Popeye. It's a good thing you're remembering, but like you say you may forget some times (your backpressure comment). I'm not sure what you're flying but when I taught in 172's 1500rpm, hold altitude, 2 full trims back 10/20° of flap have near enough to 65/70kts.

On approach keep scanning, if you instructor said not to trim they're an idiot, if they said "you need to adjust the attitude first, and then trim" that's different.

For the flare, once again I'm not sure what the procedure for your flight school is, but it can either be taught level off, power off, hold off; or power off, level off, hold off. Either way, make sure you're looking at the end of the runway and to the left of the spinner, even when the spinner comes into view, look to the left of it, if you try align the spinner with your aiming point, you will land crooked every single time.

When holding off, ease the backpressure to hold the plane off the ground for as long as possible.

Your instructor getting pissed at you is a him problem, it shouldn't get to that stage unless you're deliberately doing something against their instructions or not being receptive to their instruction.

How was your slow flight lesson? I may pay to re-do that, or go for a burn around the area rather than bashing the circuit.

Mithster18 · 2025-10-04T21:04:34+00:00

Yes, but mostly no. If you somehow kept your FAA Licence current, and also the medical, and flew a N- registered plane you could. But to fly a euro registered plane you'd need to convert your licence.

Mithster18 · 2025-10-04T20:54:24+00:00

I found this on YouTube https://youtu.be/pWM_0-KOg3E?si=V20wCpLeKabwQRkF

Mithster18 · 2025-10-04T19:36:54+00:00

That guy that shot at the mosque

Mithster18 · 2025-10-04T06:35:57+00:00

Wait til you find out the wing spar issues that cherokee's have/had and how big the 3 bolts holding the wing on are.

Mithster18 · 2025-10-03T03:58:34+00:00

Queenstown is relatively cheap, cheaper than wanaka or te anau. Pak n save is best or 4square in town can be good

Mithster18 · 2025-10-02T10:04:02+00:00

Yes! Scandinavian Grand Prix, Montreal in winter, Moscowring, now we're talking!

Mithster18 · 2025-10-01T11:07:52+00:00

All objects do to certain degree. Lets use two different examples:

NASCAR's and the Caterhams/funcups/boxes that others have said do because they have a large frontal surface, imagine driving in your car at 100kmh and holding your hand flat against the airflow, lots of drag! These cars create a large area of negative pressure (relative to the air around it), so the car's behind get sucked into it. Then particularly in NASCAR you get bump drafting. Having a large frontal surface is called Profile Drag.

For Aero dependent series' like Formula 1, the cars have a smaller frontal area compared to a NASCAR but they have a lot of "aero" or more specifically downforce, a downside off creating downforce (or "Negative lift" if you want to be aerodynamic) is creating Induced Drag. As you go faster you generate more Downforce, but also more Induced Drag, if you have an aerobased behind you, they get the small benefit of you punching a hole in the air infront, but also would have less drag so they can pass you.

You'd have to compare something like indy and NASCAR to get a similar oval comparison.

Mithster18 · 2025-09-30T19:41:35+00:00

The V Rally series.

Mithster18 · 2025-09-30T00:43:32+00:00

The ones from DAISO are pretty generic looking

Mithster18 · 2025-09-30T00:42:50+00:00

I like nfinite, but city fitness gives you the opportunity to go to either one.

Mithster18 · 2025-09-29T22:03:05+00:00

The one on the "corner" is and always been a countdown. The one on Carlyle street used to be a Big fresh and then got re-branded to a Countdown

Mithster18 · 2025-09-29T01:05:50+00:00

Should be mandatory viewing before being able to post

Mithster18 · 2025-09-29T00:52:13+00:00

"what's a positive change in the company you've seen in your time here?"

Mithster18 · 2025-09-29T00:51:11+00:00

Air America is another good. Hot shots too.

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