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Wait, you made a whole topic about a f**king laptop?

Just take it? Initially take it in a box so they don't know what it is, then after that you can suss out the security, it will probably be a lot more lax or at least circumventable than you think. If they do complain then you'll just have to be more sneaky...

Iirc at the start he made it sound like she had never played the piano, and only showed her in her hypnotized state unable to play, so teaching someone with no ability to play that piece would be very impressive. However a music college student with the relevant skills would be able to play that piece straight off if they listened to it constantly for a week like she did, after I watched the show I listened to the piece a few times and could play it straight away, it's a relatively simple piece and is in C major so the easiest key to be able to play it by ear in. All of those flashing colours on the laptop and other stuff was most likely just a placebo effect, you're going to have more belief in being able to do it if you think somehow he's drilling it into you with amazing software.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the split screen trick, the camera has a lot of wobbling which could be added as an effect to help hide any flaws with the split screen, he'll probably come up with some incredible sounding system on friday to make it sound cleverer than it is though, I wouldn't believe all the explanations he gives on tv. Personally I've found a lot of his tricks dissapointing, in his truth or dare series I remember being unimpressed by all of them, the only one I can remember right now was when he claimed to make some girl with no piano ability able to play like a concert pianist without ever touching a piano, yet at the end he revealed she was actually a music college student, that's just lying He's undoubtedly very good at what he does though and very clever.

AFAIK the earlier ones were supersonic in a dive and the later versions were supersonic in level flight. Either way it's pretty trivial, I was just demonstrating that if you want to go supersonic you can...

The maximum range is 1150 statute miles. It's still supersonic travel for a modest budget though, even if it's not the most elegant solution it'd still get you a good distance.

As an example link, does mach 1.3, at a guess would use about £500-1000 of fuel an hour. Not exactly comfortable or luxurious, but if you wanted to get somewhere very fast... There's also a few supersonic light transport planes knocking around for under a million iirc. Not exactly cheap, but compared to other aircraft prices it's not bad at all.

I do. Until I move tomorrow, lol. Joe Rothwell + a few telford riders are kicking around, but there isn't a lot to ride. Train to Birmingham is your best option for good riding round here.

~Never, unless it somehow compromised the safety of other aircraft/ people/ buildings. Without going into all the boring rules you can do pretty much whatever you like with a non airworthy aircraft on the ground, it's essentially just a jet dragster with wings, no regulation. It sounds very much like a pub tale to me, especially seeing as to start it you'd need a sizeable ground crew and several thousand euros worth of fuel each time. Is supersonic airline travel gonna happen again? With the current technology I doubt it, unless an airline wants to use it as a loss making flagship. All the development in commercial aviation at the moment is focussed on economy and reducing the environmental impact, supersonic travel is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly... Supersonic personal travel is already a reality though, and can be done at a relatively modest cost.

Why do they need permission? A plane doesn't need to be airworthy to do ground runs. They do them often in this country and they are poorly regulated, an example being when they accidentally took a victor off the ground a few months back (Which weirdly appeared in the mail today for some reason link).

There's no errrm no about it, it'd work, and it'd work well. Some of the side knobs may be left, but hey, it's a stupid concept as it is.

How come it's taken two pages and nobody has suggested going out and doing mad skids for an hour? It'd be far more fun and would result in a smoother finish.

Don't play it with baileys, it makes such a mess it's untrue...

The melon-off is a personal favourite of mine.

9 days to go... Hurry the f**k up.

That makes it sound like there's more than one ex... And from experience, if it's anything more than a shag; Or perhaps that's just me, once i've fallen out with someone I can never forgive them

Seriously, this flight school you're using sound utter balls, they're taking you for a ride. Tell them to f**k off and find somewhere that isn't going to charge you £150 for ground school... A CPL won't really allow you to do much in the way of commercial flying except charge people for pleasure flights in cessnas, without an instrument rating you can't fly in class D/ B/ I should really be able to remember the rest/ airspace or fly out of sight of the ground so you are essentially useless. Even if it did there are so many redundant ATPL holders that they'd get picked over you. A frozen ATPL is not an extra rating that you have to do, it's something you acquire once you have a CPL and an instrument rating and all the ground school/ possibly some other shit that i've forgotten. Even then to get a job you'll probably need your jet rating/ multi crew cooperation etc, and you'll quite possibly have to pay to do a type rating. Fitness for the medical isn't a problem at our age, and judging by the size of most old pilots it isn't for them either... I've done the commercial medical, it's not hard to pass as long as there isn't anything medically wrong with you and it's very important to have good eyesight (Including perfect colour vision and good peripheral vision). If you're actually considering doing the commercial license then before you even start the p.p.l you should get a class one medical done (Bye bye £400...), as there may be something wrong with you that you had no idea about or that may make you fail. Either way don't start flying 'til you're say 15.5 at the very earliest, otherwise you're gonna get to solo standard within 5-10 hours then realise there's nothing more you can do, then once you're 16 you'll have to go over exactly the same lessons again...

Plus all the other shit you have to add on to an atpl to actually get a job you're looking at 90k... My friend completed it by getting literally hundreds of credit cards and getting more and more to pay each other off, thankfully he's got lucky and is now earning enough to pay it off but you'd be screwed if you didn't get a job, he knows plenty of people with ATPLs working in tesco to try and pay off the debt...

Started on a cessna 152, then a general avia F22-A and now my own streak shadow (class A, not a microlight). Also got around 25 hours in those shit heaps the cadets fly

Hah, if only it was that simple. As mentioned by borat, I have my own plane, it's a f**king beast lol. I have around 40 hours flying so don't actually have my P P L yet, it'll be next summer at the least before I get the license now due to uni. If anyone is considering doing their pilot training themselves i'd advise doing it later in life, you have no idea of the sheer f**king financial hell it can cause even if it does look viable on paper, blow it on pills and coke instead and have a good time and worry about flying later... A few years back it was possible to fund it yourself at a young age, I don't think it's possible any more now lending has seriously tightened up. That said, if any P P L holders fancy flying my plane then let me know, it's very cheap per hour and currently sat in a hanger feeling lonely...

In four hours time, My train to London departs; Sleep is for the weak.

They're good keyboards, but yamaha, roland and kawai are generally considered to be the most realistic. In my opinion the sound and the feel of the yamaha is far superior to roland and kawai, the speed of a yamaha's action is almost as good as a real piano and certainly fine for practising even very high level pieces on, and technologically they are 10 years ahead of everyone else.

Get anything by yamaha, their cheapest full size (88 key) digital piano will last you forever. Also consider roland (overpriced/ don't sound very good) and Kawai (Though i've never liked them much). The other brands don't come close, don't bother with anything except for those three. I know a lot of people who seem to learn pop tunes with great success off youtube, but if you have ambitions of playing to a higher level then lessons are essential in order to learn a solid technique.

You're over pedalling quite a lot, which makes it sound quite "muddy" and dischordant in places. Try very quickly releasing and reapplying the pedal while you've got the bass notes pressed before any kind of harmonic change, by sorting that out a bit it should make the playing sound a lot crisper and cleaner. Don't worry too much, it should come with time and experience. As another top tip really try and analyse the sound you're producing at any one time and constantly think "How could I improve this sound", if you start doing that now it will give you very good foundations for the rest of your playing career.