Welcome to the new Help and Advice forum. You'll probably spot that many of the posts were in Non-Aviation, and some may spot that the politically leaning threads are no more.

The Code of Conduct remains the same…

Be nice, considerate and...

The Help and Advice forum has now existed with its current title for a little over six months. There is some fantastic help and advice given that really shows the collective knowledge of the forum and its members at its best. There do, however,...

Just seen some of this as it delayed the news half an hour. I can hardly contain my overpowering indifference :roll:

Well having scrapped our West Country escape, and looking at the forecast, I am guessing there will be lots of tele-watching in our house over the next two weeks.

Our preference is for serial scandi noir - there was a thread in which The Valhalla...

Mrs T is going to need assistance to hear soon..... I said she's mutton !

Anybody got serious or semi serious feedback (sic) on modern hearing aids and a cost effective method of acquiring them ?

Obviously looking at Boots and Specsavers, but...

So after a break of nearly a year I have found another Nissan leaf to soothe my needs to drive an EV.

But things have changed a bit on the charging front !

No longer does my Ecotricity electric highway card work in the machines at the motorway...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Not so much a thought experiment as a peek into the future.

Assuming that there's no useful vaccine, what's the exit strategy from this Covid mess for families, the economy, society, education, government... everything?

I have a fair amount of DeWalt stuff in the workshop, and yesterday I received a new DeWalt shop vac via Amazon
I tried to register in on the DeWalt website, but the model number wasn't recognised. A quick email to DeWalt and this is there reply...

Did a brief search but only found Milty to have posted a Christmas rhyme about it. ChatGPT is the most advanced ChatBot in the world, made by openAI - Anyway google or try it yourself and let it learn from your data and extract your soul...

Is the concept of net zero now deader than the dodo ?

Is this one for Ofcom?

For reasons that don't matter here, I've recently had to order an additional broadband connection for a specific purpose. It's ordered as a new (not replacement) connection, in a different name to the existing connection....

Just discovered British Gas have been incorrectly billing my MIL.

Only noticed it whilst sorting out her final bill after she moved out of her bungalow.

She's been billed in M³ but her meter is an older ft³ cubed one.

This has resulted in...

Serious question; Is it a thing that as you get older your threshold levels get noticeably lower? Yesterday I had a couple of pints of Doom Bar (so not exactly Gold Label) while waiting for a 7pm train and this morning I could still feel it a bit. I...

Having just watched FPV video of many RU strategic bombers get absolutely futt-bucked by a “bunch of teenagers” flying cheap drones probably via PlayStation controllers “far far away” - is this moment as historic as the SAS/Long Range Desert Group...

Upon reaching Milford.

Your turn.

Look up the podcast “The Wargame” from Sky + Tortoise.

Season 2 is absolutely effin brilliant.

The cast is - well - that would be telling…

The scenario is Oct 2025…

With the news that they won't be returning until 2025, a LinkedIn poster has suggested we have about six months to manufacture and distribute eight billion ape costumes for the ultimate prank.

Rob P V2.0

Help needed please. My current battery (pun intended) is, according to the recent service on its last legs and due for a change.

This battery supports a 'stop/start' engine facility on my Volvo which is the spawn of the devil and should be cast...

Until a while ago I used a service called Let'sEncrypt to renew the TLS certificates on my websites which was DoublePlusGood 'cos they sent reminders when it needed to be done and they did it for me which was handy as I didn't know how to do it...

I know a number on here are fans of Rammstein, or are at least familiar with their work.

If you are - and whether you understand German or not - please listen to the song “without video” please (e.g via Spotify or without watching the video on...

I genuinely appreciate the work of the journalists like this.

We don't have kids, however I have a godson and he is five.

We're concerned that he's behind with reading. As far as we can tell, he cannot read at all.

He has phonics-based 'sounding out' books from school (an expensive private one) that...

My 3 kids play, basically I’m a “hockey dad”…6 days out of 7 are hockey related.

I know it’s not a popular sport - it’s too feckin complicated.

Just curious if anyone else around here is into the sport, or I’m an “n of 1” in the parish....

There are some strange marks on all four wheels of my new (4 week old) car, which I only noticed 10 days ago when I washed it for the first time. The dealer are giving me a huge amount of grief - possibly more through uselessness than anything else...

Very last minute this but about to embark on our annual hols to mid France en voiture. This time we take a new route and we are arriving in Chantilly Friday lunchtime, staying over and then braving the Peripherique to head south on Saturday.

Mrs...

I am always amused by corrections to grammar, apostrophe abuse, spelling, use of acronyms and phraseology which is weird as I left school at 16 so have no English mastery whatsoever.
However, it has occurred to me in aviation that some errors are...

A genuine question, not merely speculative.

On the stretch of the M25 near me there has been a 50 mph speed limit imposed for at least 2 months, even though there are no roadworks, there has been light traffic and the weather conditions have been...

“Boy meets beer, boy drinks beer, boy falls in love with beer” explained Norm Peterson to someone asking why he frequented a now legendary bar in Boston Mass.

One has to be of a certain age and comedic leaning to be affected by George’s death....

I don't have much hope, however no harm in asking.

I subscribe to OS Maps and run the app on my Samsung S22. It over reads by 10% plus on mileage covered.

Whilst it is easy to assume it is all down to the phone's GPS, peculiarly when I record...

Tragic loss of life especially after all he's been through after last two years.

But are the Italians serious in thinking survivors may be alive in air pockets after over three days? :(

I read this with interest and I'll certainly try and see Ocean

Like many on hear I suspect, Attenborough has been a significant part of my education throughout my life. I also remember Cousteau, serious pioneers of getting people to think...

Hi all,

They always seem to be in the middle of fields or ludicrously out in the open.

I’ve presumed that either the landscapes have changed since WW2 and they used to be in hedgerows, or they were diversions to draw fire away from the actual...

I'm going to be in Italy for an extended, and indefinite, trip in the autumn -- and my insurance only gives me 35 days extendable to 90, which won't be enough. Has anyone got any recommendations for providers who offer annual EU cover (Sterling and...

Just seeing that 50million people affected by power outages in Spain and Portugal over the weekend. Absolutely no electricity. We reply on Electricity for so much in our lives.

Various theories.... everything from Russian/Chinese hacking to solar...

…. until 2026.
How sad that a premier (albeit ex UK) manufacturer with its long history have more or less given up on the UK for now.

At least you now own a piece of history @RobP
:wink:

For quite a while now we have been receiving junk phone calls, not from e-on (our provider), saying your electricity meter life expired so please choose a date for a smart meter to replace it (present meter is not smart). Today we received a letter...

...with the family and friends of the victim.

Police statements about murders and such always contain this phrase.
I find it enormously irritating. It's trite and sickly, and in any case I'd very much prefer it if their thoughts were very much...

Topics on the new Pope merged. You’ll find it in the Politics area!

I've got a friend who is clearing a relative's house.
They've got lots of retro technology from ~ 1970s/80/90s - from 4 track cassette players, through to Mac Classic computers. We suspect being deliberately collected, rather than just old junk in...

I binned my Flyer club membership a couple of months ago principally because trying to log in on any device was a complete pain in the ar se; but also as an ex-pilot none of the freebee landings, seminars on how to maintain my ragwing, reports of...

I have used skype for years to send SMS messages and make voice calls when out of the UK/EU without voice roaming, especially to institutions such as banks that don't do Whatsapp.

I've managed to transfer my existing credit to Microsoft teams to...

Been here on and off since 2003 or so and got to wondering whatever happened to:

Adam
Rupert
Pilot H
Scuderia
…amongst others?

Amazing (or frightening) how some names still remain. Any other regular posters back then no longer posting?...

Right, so - my house here in Belgium is from the early 1950s.

Concrete was still a bit scarce after the war, so the ground floor at my place has half concrete floors & half wooden floors, latter supported by rafters (for lack of a better...

Hello people, does anyone out there know anything about this place? I live really close (relatively anyway) and would like to make contact with whoever owns/runs the place as my dream is to hangar there one day.
I'm sure some of you have this...

It’s chocolate side down…

The high-res image is quite stunning…

Navigo is the App for buying Paris transport tickets. I was 'lucky' enough to find its bug. If you buy a day, week, month ticket in advance, you are given the usual sort of calendar to tap 'start date', which you can then check before pressing pay....

Hi all, after a bit of advice.

When I run Skydemon, my iPhone battery drains in a matter of a couple of hours. I’ve done all the usual things, such as turning down screen brightness, disabling apps from updating etc, but still the same.

I have...

We are in a village oil club.

they run country wide, you register on the oil club website.

Just got an email, this week’s price.

49p a litre.

I’m pretty sure others here are on oil, just thought I’d mention it, I’ve not seen oil that...