Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:05:35 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.48] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b1) with ESMTP id 2085071 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:56:21 -0500 Received: from sdn-ap-008watacop0327.dialsprint.net ([65.176.73.73] helo=f3g6s4) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18xZvX-0007B9-00 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:56:20 -0800 X-Original-Message-ID: <000401c2f250$3d5e7060$4949b041@f3g6s4> Reply-To: "Dan Schaefer" From: "Dan Schaefer" X-Original-To: "Lancair list" Subject: Re: 320 nose gear hyd. cyl. attach block X-Original-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:54:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 To Bill Harrelson, (and others planning to fly the north Atlantic) Sounds like you're planning a north Atlantic crossing. If so, may I suggest that if at all possible, you find a recent Scotch immigrant and spend some time getting used to the accent. I had a friend do the crossing some years ago and he said that the only folks (ATC types) he had problems understanding were the Scots - and he flew across Europe and even down into Egypt! He said they (the Scots) not only were almost impossible to understand, they got quite p----d off and hard to deal with when he had to keep asking for repeats of instructions. Might also be a good idea to carefully check out how to declare yourself non-hostile if necessary, too. My friend needed to fly to Israel when leaving Egypt (his Piper needed an annual [why he didn't take care of that before leaving the states, I'll never know]) and he ended up being escorted by Israeli Airforce fighters the last hundred miles or so, even after much radio palaver with Israeli ATC.