Re: UseNet Health Check

On 17/09/2023 12:43, Magani wrote:

On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 11:43:44 pm UTC+10, David Brooks wrote:

On 16/09/2023 02:20, Magani wrote:

On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 6:23:16 am UTC+10, David Brooks wrote:

On 14/09/2023 22:41, Magani wrote:

What a small world!! Cheers, Magani

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(YBBN, YBMK, NFFN, OOMS)
In exchange for you telling me what those abbreviations stand for, I'll
give you this priceless item:-
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm73DLtwD0
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-- David

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That after-dinner speech is a real classic. I stil get a chuckle out of it.
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Rather than give the abreviations away straight up, here's a couple of hints.
1) They are ICAO (not IATA) codes for airports. They're the towers/centres where I've spent most of my time telling pilots where to go. :-)
2) 1st letter is the area of the world, 2nd is the FIR, sub-region within that area or country, 3rd and 4th are the actual airport.
3) In the 1st example YBBN: Y = Australia, B = Brisbane FIR, BN = Brisbane.
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Also, I left 2 out (YSCB and YBCG - both only temporary)

Thanks, Magani
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I thought that might have been the case. I've now looked and note that
you've enjoyed living in pretty warm locations! :-D
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Once I worked with an RAAF ATC officer who told me he'd cleared an
aircraft to fly VFR below 500ft from Brisbane to Sydney (example names,
I can't remember now)). The pilot complied.
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Later the controller discovered that it was actually a Boing 747!
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-- David

 One of the 'old and bold' ATCOs here in Brisbane once asked an F-111 for his 'best speed downwind for sequencing'.  The pilot's reply: ' Do you REALLY want that?' :-)
For the non-aviation fraternity out there, an F-111 had a top speed higher than Concorde and would have broken a stack of windows as he went through the sound barrier.
 Re the 'warm locations', NFFN was beautiful - our house was about 50 yards from the beach. 28-ish all year round. In OOMS, when it was 45C and sticky on the coast, it was generally about mid to high 20s at 8000' up in the mountains and a lot less humidity.  As for Qld, as they used to say in the ads, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next...'.  The ad writers had obviously never lived through a cyclone in Nth Qld or the hordes of mosquitoes in the Gulf Country.  :-)
 Cheers,
Magani
 

I've just been rereading posts here (r.p.d) and happened across this item:-
https://www.therundown.ai/p/anthropic-drops-worlds-best-coding-model
--
David
Shared with my chums in ACW!