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Postby Nickolas » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:23 pm

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Glenshee Ski area...........
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby 320psi » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:25 pm

Bugger ! :-o :-o
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Thumper » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:28 pm

Oh My God!! Was the pilot(s) ok? :-o
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Nickolas » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:33 pm

Thumper wrote:Oh My God!! Was the pilot(s) ok? :-o


It didn't crash you silly billy..................... =)) =)) =)) =))

That's how they fly 'em in Jockland.

Bit of Nape of the Earth.............

Not bad for fighter jocks too.
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Hungry Haggis » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:47 pm

You sure you never photshoped that one Nick haven't seen them that low and inverted for a while .And yes Glenshee is their favourite low fly zone
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Nickolas » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:59 pm

Hungry Haggis wrote:You sure you never photshoped that one Nick haven't seen them that low and inverted for a while .And yes Glenshee is their favourite low fly zone



No. It came out of the Daily Telegraph 8-1-10
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Gully » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:04 am

It's flying through the pass which doglegs at the summit... Skiers (and hillwalkers) very often look down on them! Nice bank angle though! :ymapplause: :D

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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Cluny » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:07 am

Its deffinatly has a Helen like lean to it ;)
Hopefully get some vid like this from the Mach Loop soon ;)
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Xplumberlives » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:51 am

It is a cracking shot!
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Thumper » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:28 am

It's a scary shot!!!

OK, well I am glad it wasn't plumeting to it's death, also surprised that skiier didn't impale himself on the ski lift after that experience :))
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Spitfire » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:52 am

Thumper wrote:It's a scary shot!!!

OK, well I am glad it wasn't plumeting to it's death, also surprised that skiier didn't impale himself on the ski lift after that experience :))


  
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Dan4th » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:25 pm

  
  actually, that is a T-Bar ski TOW, not a ski LIFT...  


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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Thumper » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:44 pm

Image I don't care, I just like this smiley thing, how do I do the red and black box with the text?
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby P.eames » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:51 pm

Thumper wrote:Image I don't care, I just like this smiley thing, how do I do the red and black box with the text?



  
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Dan4th » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:52 pm

Just {pedant} {/pedant} using [] instead of {}
with your stuff in the middle.......

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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Spitfire » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:30 pm

Dan4th wrote:Just {pedant} {/pedant} using [] instead of {}
with your stuff in the middle.......

D.


Awwww D4th - now you're giving all my new secrets away to the plebs :p :D :))
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Dan4th » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:55 pm

  
  Time Marches ON!  


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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Thumper » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:05 pm

  
  WOOHOO! :D  
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Dan4th » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:07 pm

  
  YOU TOO can be PEDANTIC!!!  
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Hungry Haggis » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:41 pm

Thumper wrote:It's a scary shot!!!

OK, well I am glad it wasn't plumeting to it's death, also surprised that skiier didn't impale himself on the ski lift after that experience :))

And I must have been asleep I just noticed it's a trembler from leuchars

  
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Mags » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:54 pm

That pic was on the front of the local paper a couple of days ago.
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Xplumberlives » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:04 pm

Mags wrote:That pic was on the front of the local paper a couple of days ago.




Curious, it wasn't on ours! ;)
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Saracenman » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:20 pm

that's because, despite your Northernness, you ain't a Sweaty! =))

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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Xplumberlives » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:22 pm

Saracenman wrote:that's because, despite your Northernness, you ain't a Sweaty! =))

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Indeed!

Or a porridgewog
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Re: On The Piste................

Postby Hungry Haggis » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:41 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:
Saracenman wrote:that's because, despite your Northernness, you ain't a Sweaty! =))

sm




Indeed!

Or a porridgewog


nuffing wrong wiff Porridge It's way better than that other stuff "readybrek for wimps" and those saaarf of the border .But Norf of Daaarset.
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