alt Hacker NewsNot in the least, I still love the outdoors.
I've "retired" to argriculture tech and labour support for W.Australian family grain production. We've almost finished harvest and I've been doing a lot of scrolling and posting here while hanging about near idle "on call" fire tenders (we had a hundred fires, mostly from lightening strikes, in a single week just recently)
* https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-bus...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulvSvtFVqc
^ Further south than I'm based, and a header fire, not a strike. Okay when caught early - life and town threatening if not.
Oh, yeah: Songhoy Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY
The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh.
> The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh.
Datums can get dull fast but there's adventure inherent in surveying. You should write a book, or at least a chapter or two. "Nadir Point" has a nice ring to it...