My other hobby

[calumscott]

Derbyshire... Hmmm...

Fancy setting a "must have been back in the water by" date? If it hasn't happened by then its the slightly less salubrious surroundings of Stoney? Say, this time next year?

Sorry Calum must of missed this when you posted!

Im closer to Dosthill quarry than stoney and you reckon Stoney is Salubrious :lol:

I will certainly be in the water before this time next year. Does the volume of water matter??

Stoney was positively cosmopolitan the last time I was there... swanky shop and everything! I never really understood the people who completely slate it, it is what it is and so long as you dive it with that in mind. Underwater city street is the mindset...

...never dived Dosthill. I'm off for a google.

The volume doesn't matter, the depth does... if your computer doesn't log it, it ain't a dive! :lol:

 

[Muddydisco]

I don't know but I'll try it out next time I'm in the pond cleaning it with my scuba gear on :lol:
We'll have to have a meet up one day talk beer, talk diving but never mixing the 2

 

[calumscott]

I don't know but I'll try it out next time I'm in the pond cleaning it with my scuba gear on :lol:

:rofl: I *might* have been known to wash cars in a wetsuit...

We'll have to have a meet up one day talk beer, talk diving but never mixing the 2

Indeed, drinking underwater isn't easy and brewing enough beer to dive in seems wasteful somehow...

They must be kept separate, diving first, then beer. :

 

[graysalchemy]

Indeed, drinking underwater isn't easy and brewing enough beer to dive in seems wasteful somehow...

He does hold the site record for number of brews in a day so why not for volume :whistle: :whistle:

I am sure you could dive in one of these

And before you ask about risk of infection you could sanitize yourselves, when I used to work on a salmon farm we had to be soaked in an iodophor before we were allowed to dive in the sea cages :lol: :lol:

Why you would want to though I don't know :wha: :wha:

 

[Moley]

We'll have to have a meet up one day talk beer, talk diving but never mixing the 2

They must be kept separate, diving first, then beer. :

Absolutely, don't drink and dive :nono:

I used to quite like Stoney and could get there in just over an hour, which was quite useful for someone who lives about as far from the sea as it's possible to get in the UK. Plymouth took a while longer, but that's where my Club kept a RIB, which was rather good fun.

It must be 10-12 years since I've had a splash and there wasn't much in Stoney at the time. Might be interesting to see if I can still get into my drysuit.

 

[calumscott]

Indeed, drinking underwater isn't easy and brewing enough beer to dive in seems wasteful somehow...

He does hold the site record for number of brews in a day so why not for volume :whistle: :whistle:

I am sure you could dive in one of these

:hmm: Reg recovery and mask clear drills could be fun...

"You narked?"

"nope... :drunk: "

 

[graysalchemy]

When I did my Part IV at Fort William we did a 50m chamber dive. Now when one person starts talking everyone starts p*ssing themselves with laughter because of the high pitched helium voices. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Best high I ever had without a hangover.

Reg recovery and mask clear drills could be fun...

You have not been diving in Loch Linney mid winter after heavy rain at least beer would be relatively clear.

 

[phettebs]

My other hobby:

This was from a 200 mile relay race where I was on a team of 12. Just ran a marathon last month. It keeps the beer gut off.

 

[calumscott]

When I did my Part IV at Fort William we did a 50m chamber dive. Now when one person starts talking everyone starts p*ssing themselves with laughter because of the high pitched helium voices. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Best high I ever had without a hangover.

:thumb: A few mates and I went and did one just for the hell of it down at the dive centre in Chepstow. Hillarious!!!

Reg recovery and mask clear drills could be fun...

You have not been diving in Loch Linney mid winter after heavy rain at least beer would be relatively clear.

Not Linnhe, no. I can do you Loch Fyne in March, the Firth of Forth every month of the year, Horsea Island in January (Rescue Diver course, brilliant fun, zero viz)

Diving is diving - warmth and viz are optional! :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

Not Linnhe, no. I can do you Loch Fyne in March, the Firth of Forth every month of the year, Horsea Island in January (Rescue Diver course, brilliant fun, zero viz)

I used to have to take all the dead fish out of the salmon cages. I say dead fish mostly pink mush :sick: :sick:. Added to that the danger of nets and ropes at your every turn and bounce diving 8 nets to 15-20 metres and not having shower facilities when we got back sure made it fun.

Diving is diving - warmth and viz are optional!

To true who wants to be a diver. :lol: :lol:

We ended up getting an idependent dive company to do all the work because of employee insurance and H&S. But still I went to fort William Dive school for 4 weeks all paid for and got paid for the privileged.

 

[critty]

One of my numerous hobbies, well besides home brewing and retro gaming lol. I like to play Flight Simulator and have done since the days of DOS. Here is a couple of pics of the Boeing 737 -800 NGX that I like to fly.





The EFIS on this looks amazing in the dark. And that HUD is brilliant for difficult landings. Means I can concentrate on hitting the runway. It also have a computer assist landing. But for the life in me I can never get it to work properly.

 

[Dieseljockey]

Bloody hell those flight sims are realistic these days, I thought at first that was a real bugger till I got the sleep out of my eyes... :lol:
I would have loved to have done my PPL, I had a few lessons over the years, and a friend has his plane at Wellesbourne, on the odd times he'll phone to say he's going up did I want to go, I'm there like a shot.

 

[critty]

just for you is some pics of my other favourite plane the Boeing F/A18 Hornet. The airport is Leeds Bradford. Thanks to afterburners I can take off on the small runway. Click through the links to the full size images. The are 1900x600 so big lol.

 

[TRXnMe]

Do Microsoft still do the combat flight simulator series? I first got into internet gaming on CFS1 in the late 90s, wasted hours of my life shootinng folk out the virtual sky, even formed a few real life friendships through it :)

I gave it up when CFS2 came out when the poxy intenet connection I had wouldn't support the on line side of the game.

Now of caourse I 'have a life', although my mounting obsession with brewing might be about to see to that...

 

[critty]

Yeah they are up to 3 http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... ps-sellers

Not a fan of CBFS to be honest. I like to Just **** around with the planes lol. Did a run to Frankfurt from Manchester and ended up doing a landing with only 1 engine. That was interesting in a 747 lol.

 

[TRXnMe]

I was never interested in the discipline of actually flying, just getting something off the ground, up to a good altitude and then go looking for trouble, always hoping I found it after I'd got the height advantage, rather than the other way round :)

I might take a look at the spec required for that, if my desk top can run it I might throw a few more hours into the bin :)

 

[critty]

Out of all the planes I have used on FSX the F/A 18 is the easiest. Its easy to takeoff with, easy to fly, easy to use and landing is a doddle especially with the auto brakes.

 

[TRXnMe]

Most of the modern jet fighter sims I've flown have been relatively easy to get up, pootle around in, and get back down, with the exception of the Harrier :) The Harrier sim I got hold of took me months to learn how to fly, it was OK in STOL mode, but try landing, or taking off in VSTOL mode and it got really challenging, it was the only flight sim that I played just to fly the thing.

I've been told that helicopter sims are a bitch as well, but never got hold of one to try.

 

[critty]

I have the Harrier for FSX but never got reound to installing it. I need a 64bit version of windows so I can use the 6gb of RAM fully. At the moment anything requiring lots of RAM is crashing the system. So the onboard computer systems on the Harrier are just too much at the moment lol. Also using GPS along side will make my system topple too.

 

[david88]

flight sim is awsome. Need to sort my desktop out so i can play again. It died.

Cant wait for a bit of eurofighter typhoon action.