Jody Daniel: Blog

Hi All.

I had some emails regarding the "...three red..." call of Olivia, when they took off with the Herc. Just to indicate to all out there that "THREE RED," means the wheels are up and unsafe for landing, here is a short explanation.

Blinking green lights or red lights indicate the gear is in transit and neither up and locked, nor down and locked. When the gear is fully stowed up with the up-locks secure, the lights often extinguish to follow the dark cockpit philosophy; some aeroplanes have gear up indicator lights, either amber, or red. It is NEVER green, as green indicates that the wheels are DOWN and LOCKED and SAFE TO USE. Red, Amber, or dark, indicate UNSAFE wheels. Some systems even support a sort of silhouette of each gear to indicate when it locks in the DOWN position. The lights are triggered by micro switches in the wheel wells or even on the wheel transition gearbox. When the wheels are UNSAFE, it is neither down and locked nor up and locked.

Some general aviation aircraft have only a lever, marked UP or DOWN. No indication is given if the wheels are SAFE, thus many an accident happened when landing, THINKING the wheels are down, but in fact, the wheels never LOCKED in place for a safe landing. This most often results in a lot of headache or tears, or both.

THUS:
Green = Good.
Blinking, Red, Amber = Not Good.
RED, AMBER, NO Light = Really not Good.

Hope this helps.

Another thing: I have no idea why the part of Dave saying: "... said the spider to the fly...." is in italics. The original upload was good. It must be something with the SOL converter. Sorry, it's out of my control. I'll try to upload a fresh copy.

Stay safe.
Bye 4 now.

Such a balmy day here. Temps going on19 degree Celsius, few stray clouds, but the day seems to be going like a Boeing.

A spite of tyre spiking occurred on the highway to the north, but the Metro Cops got one guy resting at ambient temperature and two or three accommodated at the local guest house for slime. Just wish they could get the ones doing house robberies going the same path. Oh, well, all can't be rosy and peachy. But the nine mill is cleaned and primed. Waiting...

Chapter 22 will be up around USA breakfast time, late after supper in Australia and for you guys in the UK, about 13:00 or 14:00.

So, let me get going with my day, and retreat to somewhere quiet and peaceful. The Pipers and Cessna's are running around here like crazy. Runway 11 in use, so they all overfly my place, and some of them has only free flow exhaust systems. NO baffles! Try to write or watch a movie…

Stay safe.

Bye 4 now.

After all the countries named, I got mails from Malaysia and Singapore. These guys follow the stories too. Thank you guys, that explain the "Other" in my stats. (Funny, this morning there is a 3rd one in "Other.")

Okay, I had an idea. A "what if" thing. What if Dave and Don wanted to upgrade the L-100-30 to L100J specs? Go check out jodydaniel28.blogspot.com for two new pictures and a video. Remember, if you click on the picture, it enlarges to near full screen. (Like Facebook.)

Bye 4 now !!!

A good day to you nice people! A little behind schedule, but Stray Cats Chapter 21 will be up on SOL later today.

I don't know it other authors does it, but I thought you would like to know who else are reading my stories and where in the world they are. Well these stats come from my other blog and gives me an indication of the hits, and not who the people are.

There was, to date, 3071 hits. USA leading by 500 hits! Does this mean to say, I must change my English from South African English to USA English? I think not.

These countries are as follows:
USA, South Africa, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine, Philippines, Croatia, Italy, and India. There were 2 or three hits from countries only identified as "Others."

For the Computer buffs out there, it is also interesting to see from what platforms and operating systems the hits came from. Windows, Android, Macintosh, Unix, iPad, and Linux leading the pack in that order.

Thank you for visiting my other blog. (SOL don't like me mentioning the URL, but some of you did find the reference to it. LOL.)

Thanks for reading, and stay safe.

Bye 4 now!

It's needless to say, but things needs to cool off a bit. There is so much excitement ahead in Stray Cats, that we need to relax a bit. There are some souls to sooth…

Stray Cats chapter 20, will be up later today. (Boy! Are we at 20 already?)

Enjoy!

Bye 4 now.