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This week we play catch up. Last week we had to re-release one of our favorite ye olde podcasties due to Simon being late from a flight and not being back in time to record :-(


SO, this week Greg regales us with stories of fun times at, you've guessed it, the Cohiba store, where he seems to have taken up semi permanent residency....wonder if they give out citizenship for regular visitors?


Simon fills us in on his most recent flying exploits, of which there have been several due to actually having a week of decent weather. 5 weeks off due to a semi perpetual down-pouring of heavenly waters, lead to being grounded. On Thursday, he had to fly his wife to South Los Angeles...Yikes. So, this led to him doing that flight on Monday, since LA is some of the nation's busiest airspace, as he wanted a practice run. That was done in an old, but fast Cessna Turbo 182RG. That thing moves pretty decently, but since it's old, it's loud, vibrates quite a bit, courtesy of having only a 2 blade propeller, and it's cheap....it's a good choice for a practice run. Here's the video footage. The shaky stuff was when the camera was mounted on the side window directly. The non shaky stuff was hand held. The clouds and snow capped mountains were gorgeous, esp from 11,000 feet. Since there was not a cat in hell's chance of him taking his wife down in that plane, he needed to re-acquaint himself with the one he would be using since he hadn't flow it since Christmas! It was a relatively new Cessna T182T, with full Garmin G1000 glass cockpit. Tuesday, he nipped down to Hollister with a couple of buddies and did just that. Thursday, the big day, Simon flew his wife and a colleague for a meeting at UCI. The sky was clear and the flight was just about 2 hours, with lots of vectoring around LA airspace. Here's the footage. The flight was into John Wayne Orange County. Yes, that's right....they names an airport after John Wayne!


Then we get grumpy, talking about the lousy drivers we've both been experiencing this week, and question what the hell has been happening with Transocean......huge bonuses being given out to their top executives for exemplary safety in 2010? So, that BIG accident in the Gulf of Mexico didn't happen then did it?


Then we ask, why is there a record hole in the Ozone layer? Didn't we solve that problem 25 years ago? So what the hell is going on here?


OK, so curmudgeonly grumblings over for the week. Catch you all next week.


BMSMA


G&S