Doha Taxi's

I was recently in Qatar and had to take a taxi back to the airport. they have a great, albeit somewhat big brother, taxi system. the attached screen is in all Qatar Taxis. it has the name and picture of the driver, where you are, where you are going to, how much the fare is.... so far so good.  what makes this different is that the taxi is using GSP to know what the speed limit is and tells the driver to slow down if they are speeding. it also puts up a big red flag on the screen. if you exceed the speed limit again they you get a second warning. I don't know what happens the third time he backed off his speed after the second time.      

The coolest job in the world.....

this is a brilliant picture of a C130 taken in the low flying area in Wales. they would be down below 500ft off the ground and flying down a valley. its an essential part of the special forces pilot training that they should be able to Manoeuvre this 45 tonne aircraft at low level in difficult situations. but they don't have the best job in the world, they would be working hard..........

in my view the loadmasters have the best job in the world, these guys are responsible for loading and unloading of the aircraft. the special forces load masters need to be able to do LCLA (Low Cost Low Altitude) and LAPE (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction) drops which require them to move about the aircraft when its flying like this. they are held in by a strap but on training missions like this they can just sit on the back ramp watching the world go by ........ that's the best job in the world  

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human traffic lights

one of the bars was down a very tight passage, fortunately the bar has installed traffic lights to control the flow of people up and down the passage

carefull what you drink

A recent visit to Prague allowed me to test a few beers, this one was particularly nice but you would not want to, or be able drink to many of them.