Starting the day by looking up the definition of “bonafy”. Winning... :)

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NOTE: Off colour joke follows. And no, I didn’t make it up.

One handed operation on the bigger screens is catered for with iOS’ “reachability” function, which allows you to “pull down” the top of the screen with your thumb. Super-useful and quite intuitive.

Indeed. This was the big draw for me.

The all-encompassing bidding systems so pervasive in the US are less common, or at least less important, in the rest of the world. The narrowbody to widebody divide is much less apparent

CPL can indeed be done for less. However if you include travel and accommodation costs for those of us who don’t have affordable training in our home countries, the equation changes. Either way it isn’t a cheap endeavour

Don’t believe the hype about that accident. The pilots put the plane in an untenable low energy situation close to the ground. The outcome was inevitable regardless of type. They definitely did not do a proper job

Certainly this is an one option. However the major energy expenditure for an orbital launcher is accelerating to orbital speed, not getting up to orbital altitude. A subsonic aircraft only does 500knots or so. Not that big a dent in the grand scheme of things.

Very country dependent. The 1500 hour rule is a US thing. I was hired by a major airline with a CPL and 275 hours.

Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance is one of my favourites. It is full of heart, and hilarious.

All the stars for Tom Lehrer reference. :)

Make an offering? ;)

That movie was all kinds of weird, but it did have some memorable moments. Like when he split the beer atom, and when he said “If you can’t trust the Governments of the world, who can you trust?”

Fair dinkum. Then again if you take reasonable precautions to avoid the “piss everywhere” you shouldn’t contract anything nasty.

I do not sit on toilet seats covered in piss, but not because I’m worried about infection. I don’t want to get wet and I’d rather not smell of pee.

The rest of the Martini must count as a serving of fruit also, as the vermouth is made from grapes.

“Big Lemon”

If you use a Dyson dryer (either model) in the recommended fashion it is unlikely to spray you. You shouldn’t just shove your hands in there. You should move your hands slowly past the airstream in such a way that droplets are deflected away from you.

“Piss” is sterile when it comes out of the bladder. It typically also sterile “on exit” unless you have something like a urinary tract infection.