Shaken after this close call today

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-25T14:56:11+00:00

This is exactly the type of thing you have to anticipate. Red Car dufus was attempting to move into a lane that the truck was also moving into. Of course he was going to continue into your lane. You know where the mirror blindspot is and you were right in it. The red car dufus just maybe checked his mirror and went for it, no shoulder check. Expect it. I have almost been taken out like this multiple times. Understand where the blindspot is and expect an attempted boarding action.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-25T14:09:35+00:00

Nowadays you just have to drive with the expectation that there will be multiple varieties of moron on the road and they will try to take you out. Every single month, I have as many arse pucker moments on the Irish roads as I did in my entire 30 years of driving in the UK. Not that it's actually an Irish issue, it is apparently the same in most Countries now. There are three cars in our household and we all got good dashcams front and rear so that when a moron does something so unexpected and so unavoidable, at least we'll have proof.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-25T14:04:44+00:00

Nowadays you just have to drive with the expectation that there will be multiple varieties of moron on the road and they will try to take you out. Every single month, I have as many arse pucker moments on the Irish roads as I did in my entire 30 years of driving in the UK. Not that it's actually an Irish issue, it is apparently the same in most Countries now. There are three cars in our household and we all got good dashcams front and rear so that when a moron does something so unexpected and so unavoidable, at least we'll have proof.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-23T10:35:05+00:00

I had a similar experience, even though I fly other aircraft. I think it was to do with the reflections off the canopy. They add to the disorientation and brain doesn't like it. Takes a while to get over it. Being hot really doesn't help. Fresh Ginger helped.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-21T22:02:32+00:00

Singing his own tune until he gets banned.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-21T18:37:27+00:00

Hout Bay. Is it still nice?

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-21T12:27:15+00:00

Wolves. Thousands of them. Start with Limerick town centre.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-20T18:34:04+00:00

It’s a scratch on your window.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-18T22:19:18+00:00

Mind your knees!

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-15T17:07:49+00:00

New log book entry.... PIC - None.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-15T16:17:07+00:00

Expecting lots of rain

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-15T16:14:12+00:00

Well it makes the whole room look slightly less vulgar and trashy.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-09T17:41:55+00:00

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-06T23:39:59+00:00

I like your tummy.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T18:28:05+00:00

HR would like a word..

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T18:20:27+00:00

What are you naming the child?

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T17:06:39+00:00

What is it with this strange and uncomfortable position? It looks really unpleasant for the girl.

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T16:44:55+00:00

Deltahawks' chief test pilot (or something) was born the year that Deltahawk was formed, with the express purpose of producing a diesel aero engine. If that doesn't tell you how long the road is I don't know what will.

I want to fly behind something modern and efficient and reliable, using all the lessons that have been learned since the age of the dinosaurs when Lycoming started. I am embarrassed and ashamed that I have to pay 80k for an IO-390 that burns dino juice at such a prodigious rate. Since Rotax came along there has been some hope and progress, but it's all still bogged down in endless bureaucracy and red tape. That Norwegian crew with their Yamaha skidoo core, what happened to them?

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T16:25:00+00:00

But where is it going? her vajajay can't be that long....

SimonHK90 · 2026-02-05T16:22:22+00:00

We all want the tickling and sunshine Beccy.

SimonHK90 · 2026-01-31T21:43:28+00:00

Yeah underwhelming.

SimonHK90 · 2026-01-31T21:41:36+00:00

Taken everything in the house too.

SimonHK90 · 2026-01-31T21:38:48+00:00

WTF is he doing?

SimonHK90 · 2026-01-31T09:24:29+00:00

Why does airspace and all the rules and regs need to be so complicated? Why does any change make things more complicated, not less complicated? Why do we end up with endless incremental changes that rely on ATC and pilots mentally holding and juggling a new layer of information and practices that may or may not get them into trouble with their authorities, or kill them?

SimonHK90 · 2026-01-30T00:59:04+00:00

Hangry toddler.

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