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Sears Box Fan with Thermostat Control

Bought off craigslist for about $10-$15.Looks like the guy used the fan once then put it away.Think I may have screwed up temperature control when ...

Blum 04 - Fan Control

For this project, a motor was setup to be controlled via the arduino. Because the motor runs on a higher voltage than the arduino, it is necessary ...

PICAXE fan heater digital thermostat

demonstration of my fan heater which i have replaced the mechanical thermostat with a picaxe and associated circuitry using a precision 1 wire ...

Trane IAQ Comfort Control Thermostat Horizon Mechanical Plumbing Heating and Air Services Denver.MOD

The comfort control is your window to the level of comfort that your homes heating and air system can deliver to your home, it functions ...

No crew line at airports makes us look like asses

For the first time in at least 6 months…maybe longer….I flew to a new airport.

Sunday was my birthday….sat airport reserve that afternoon. Around 6PM I was called for 7:30PM departure for a long 17 hour overnight.

The inbound plane was already running 30 minutes late. The original crew was running 2 hours late. My Captain and I were both airport reserve.

I met the Captain at the plane. We were waiting on a flight attendant. Due to weather there were no reserve flight attendants available. Crew scheduling tried junior manning 3 flight attendants before they finally “hooked” one.

This particular flight attendant and I had flown together before. She is somewhat senior, been here about 7 years, and very sassy. She doesn’t take crap from anyone, but is very nice and humorous.

She had just come in from her fourth leg, 6th hour of flying. We were told she would be taking a meal break. Totally understandable as she hasn’t had a break since starting at 7AM that morning.

Yadda, yadda, yadda we didn’t push out until 9:26PM.

Captain’s leg. The airplane had one MEL….my FMS wasn’t working. Not a major deal as this plane had dual FMS units installed. There were a few things we had too do to comply. The most visual item was my “needles” were yellow instead of white. Normally the needles are white when using on-side FMS data.

Normal flight out. Due to headwinds we made up zero minutes.

The hotel van was waiting for us. Another flight crew was inside.

Things started nicely when the van driver passed back our hotel keys. Nice. This saves a few minutes.

When we arrived at the hotel the van driver told the other crew too stay put, but for us too get out. Hmmm. We soon figured out why.

We were in building “5″. The other crew was in building “4″ where the crew room was also located. Some hotels have crew rooms with of snacks, coffee, microwaves, a TV and a computer.

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