On Sun Aug-06-2017 18:37, Joe Delahaye (1:249/303) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 JD>   Re: Card trick
 JD>   By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Sun Aug 06 2017 08:24:04 

 RN>>>>> I like the JU-52, but never rode in one. When I worked offshore,
 RN>>>>> I did fall asleep in the helicopter that brought us in and out
 RN>>>>> and that thing made a lot of noise. Better than being in the crew
 RN>>>>> boat, though, because they wouldn't let me be the pilot. (-:

 JD>>>>> That wasn't nice of them 

 RN>>>> Well, that was just an example of you can't have everything.

 JD>>>> Be nice if you could have been co-pilot though

 RN>>> As much as I dislike seeming to be a bit stuffy, copilot wouldn't
 RN>>> have been good enough. (-:

 JD>>> They DO fly the plane though.

 RN>> The difference, in air force parlance, is the copilot isn't the AC.

 JD>> He's not a Air Conditioner?    No, you're right.  He is not the
 JD>> commander. 

 RN> And that makes a difference to me.

 JD> It takes years and many flight hourse to become the commander. 

In the military, yes.

...Is the opposite of stand down, stand up?


Regards,

Roger 
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