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  #11  
Old April 19th, 2008, 07:55 AM posted to rec.travel.air
Mr. Travel
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Chilly8 wrote:

I dont care WHAT the people from soc.culture.cuba who have
followed me up here say. Becuase I LIVE in Australia, I am NOT
SUBJECT to the travel restrictions on Cuba. I am ONLY subject
to AUSTRALIAN laws, regarding Cuba travel, and current Australia
law ALLOWS travel to Cuba.

And second, there is no POSSIBLE way they could make the
restrictions apply if you do not LAND in the United States.
The United Stats is NO jurisdiction WHATSOEVER in
either New Zealand, or Argentina.


Do you believe that if you ever go to the US, the US could prosecute you
for your prior trips to Cuba?
  #12  
Old April 20th, 2008, 12:27 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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On 4/19/2008 2:46 PM William Black ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

"Chilly8" wrote in message
...

Using X-No-Archive means that it will be erased from Google
Groups 6 days after it receives the initial posting. It simply
means that the post will dissapper from Google Groups 6 days
after it receives that post.


Switch off about 5 years ago.


Sorry William, but this actually showed up in Google Groups
When Dip****8 added his stupid little no-archive message to a post:

Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This
message will be removed from Groups in 5 days (Apr 24, 9:18 pm).

But then, if you were Dimwit8, you'd want your posts to disappear too.

Funny thing, though, is that Halfwit8 forgets to add that no-archive
request... a lot. So a lot of his lunacy still shows up.
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Old April 20th, 2008, 12:29 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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On 4/18/2008 6:17 PM Chilly8 ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

"dgs" wrote in message
...
Chilly8 wrote:


The law applies to Americans no matter where they
live. Whether or not the US authorities bother to track some
demented ex-pat idiot traveling between another country and Cuba
is another matter. I'd be delighted if you got caught, though, and
even happier if you got to spend some extended time in Gitmo.
--


No those restrictions DO *NOT* APPLY, beccuase

1. I do not LIVE in America
2. I use an AUSTRALIAN passport
3. I do not LAND in America going between Australia and Cuba


Yes, they do, you brain-dead piece of ****. If your flight was
inadvertently diverted to the USA, and it was discovered that
you were an American citizen, you'd be subject to penalties. The
laws apply, no matter how unlikely it is that you'll actually get
caught, but you're too stupid and delusional to understand that.
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dgs
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Old April 20th, 2008, 12:59 AM posted to rec.travel.air
William Black
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"d.g.s." wrote in message
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On 4/19/2008 2:46 PM William Black ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

"Chilly8" wrote in message
...

Using X-No-Archive means that it will be erased from Google
Groups 6 days after it receives the initial posting. It simply
means that the post will dissapper from Google Groups 6 days
after it receives that post.


Switch off about 5 years ago.


Sorry William, but this actually showed up in Google Groups
When Dip****8 added his stupid little no-archive message to a post:


I thought it got switched off when Dejanews folded.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.



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Old April 20th, 2008, 07:46 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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"Chilly8" wrote in :

If a flight gets diverted, it would obviously
go to th neastest alternate, that, being in Varadero.


More BULL **** by an asshole who doesn't know **** from shinola about
aviation.



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Old April 20th, 2008, 12:33 PM posted to rec.travel.air
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"Chilly8" wrote in message
...

.. There are people
who ONLY have access to newsgroups via Google Groups.


Why?

There are plenty of servers out there.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.



  #17  
Old April 20th, 2008, 08:27 PM posted to rec.travel.air
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Benjamin Dover wrote:

Really? Then why did the BA 747 on a LAX-LHR non-stop flight, after
loosing an engine just out of LAX end up diverting to Glasgow? There are
lots of reasons why one does not always divert to the nearest airport.



A 4 engine plane is not required to divert or land at nearest airport
upon loss of a single engine. The BA crew elected to continue because
they felt they could reach LHR safely. However, their fuel consumption
increased, and they were forced to land before reaching LHR because they
would not have had sufficient fuel reserves to legally reach Heathrow.

This is different from an aircraft wanting to land at Heathrow but upon
reaching it, finds Heathrow is closed and needing to divert to the
nearest alternate. (because at that point, they would be running on fuel
reserves).

For ETOPS aircraft, loss of one engine requires/required immediate
landing at the nearest airport with suitable runway.


are just too stupid to 1) think of them AND 2) understand them when you are
told what they are.


A plane intented for a cuban destination would most definitely find a
cuban alternate if its destination airport were closed for some reason.
If all of Cuba were closed due to hurricane, then the plane might divert
to puerto rico, dominican republic or miami or other caribean
destination depending on where it was coming from and at what point in
flight it was told all cuban airports were closed.
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Old April 21st, 2008, 07:07 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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Chilly8 wrote:


If this one NUTCASE from the Cuba newsgroups,


Pot, kettle, black
  #19  
Old April 21st, 2008, 07:26 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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Chilly8 wrote:


A flight between Buenos Aires and Havana is NOT going to
get diverted to the United States. Miami, the only airport
in southern Florida where a 747, DC10, or A340 can
land, is about 230 miles beyond Havana, while Varadero,
where those aircraft can land, is only 90 miles away.to
the east. If a flight gets diverted, it would obviously
go to th neastest alternate, that, being in Varadero.


Can you explain why you believe PBI and FLL aren't able to land a 747?

What about flights to Europe? From Cuba, doesn't Great Circle take them
closer to the US coastline than any other land mass for HOURS after take
off? What are they going to do if there is a problem, head back to Cuba?
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Old April 21st, 2008, 08:00 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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"Mr. Travel" wrote in news:y-
:

Chilly8 wrote:


A flight between Buenos Aires and Havana is NOT going to
get diverted to the United States. Miami, the only airport
in southern Florida where a 747, DC10, or A340 can
land, is about 230 miles beyond Havana, while Varadero,
where those aircraft can land, is only 90 miles away.to
the east. If a flight gets diverted, it would obviously
go to th neastest alternate, that, being in Varadero.


Can you explain why you believe PBI and FLL aren't able to land a 747?

What about flights to Europe? From Cuba, doesn't Great Circle take them
closer to the US coastline than any other land mass for HOURS after take
off? What are they going to do if there is a problem, head back to Cuba?


Not only are they closer to the US mainland for the first several hours of
their flight from Cuba to Paris, they are also closer to the US mainland
for the last several hours of their flight from Paris to Cuba.

Silly Chilly is desperately trying to come up with a scenario where a
flight to Cuba would not have any possible diversion to the US. What he
doesn't understand is that no airline is going to schedule a Tahiti to Cuba
non-stop unless there is sufficient traffic on that run to let them turn a
profit. Ever the moron, Silly Chilly just plays with routes on MSFS and
thinks that just because it can be flown, an airline will fly it.

Silly Chilly also has declared that you can't take off in a 747 unless you
have an 11,000' runway. He refuses to look at the airport diagram for
KPAE, which is home to the Boeing factory which does final assembly for ALL
747 and where every one takes to the air for the first time. The longest
runway at KPAE is less than 10,000'.

 




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