New Silhouettes

[RodBearden]

Thanks, Vonsmalhausen.

Emergency laser eye surgery was required but I should be fine now - check-up tomorrow :-O

Rod

[CoastGuardJon]

Hi Rod, sorry to hear anyone's been anywhere near a hospital, but very glad to have you back with us.   I hope and trust all is good with you.

Edit and addtion.   Hi Rod, only just picked up on your 2127 post, I recently (last Oct. and May) had left and right cataracts removed and new acrylic lens implanted :- 12 - 15 minutes each one, fully conscious, and so-called anaesthetised, could still see everything and feel my eye being prodded and fiddled with - a very unpleasant experience, but apparently not one that can be done so easily under general anaesthetic as the surgeon needs you to move your eye where he wants it.   Absolutely superb results, can see stuff on the horizon clearly again - possibly better than when I was 18 - still need reading glasses though, but that's the trials of old age.   Although a distinctly unpleasant experience, definitely very worth tolerating.   I made need to have eye lasered at some later date, as rejection cause the eye to "fog" up the new lens, but only a 10 minute job and OK for the rest of your life.    If you've got cataracts, get a referral to the ophthalmologist and push to get the job done asap for road safety/ driving purposes - anyone need any tips to get accelerated treatment let me know by PM - about 10 weeks wait for the first and 7 weeks for the second on the NHS.

[RodBearden]

Hi Jon - thanks for that, but mine was an emergency caused by drops to dilate my pupils for examination - I suffered an "Angle Closure Glaucoma" attack. I've never had glaucoma, and have had the drops before with no ill effects, but apparently with age, there is increased risk.

Apparently a Glaucoma attack can cause lasting damage, but if treated soon enough, that can be avoided - and I seem to have got myself to A&E quickly enough for it to be treated in time. The laser surgery to cut holes to reduce the pressure in the eye seems to have worked a treat - the hospital pulled out all the stops to get me treated ASAP - ambulance with flashing blue lights, consultants called from their beds and golf courses to get me sorted, and, though I've got a check-up tomorrow morning, I can at least see well enough to create logos and silhouettes, so that ain't bad!

The treatment was deeply unpleasant (I don't think I had any anaesthetic), but never actually very painful (unlike the attack itself, which was agony at least as bad as an abcess), and you can tolerate quite a lot when you think that the alternative is to lose your sight. It does help concentrate the mind! The "fireworks" while the laser was firing were actually quite pretty! So don't worry about the laser treatment - it sounds like it's nothing worse that you've been through already.

If I can't drive, I can't work, so here's hoping the check-up goes OK!

Rod

[RodBearden]

Check-up went fine - I can drive again!

In celebration:

COY2 - RANS S-6 Coyote 2
HB21 - Brditschka HB-21 Hobbyliner
HDJT - Honda HA-420 HondaJet    

Rod

[EK01]

Rod,
Just seen on the network, G-ZZSG given as a Eurocopter EC25 with a c/n of 2714 belonging to Bristows. Having checked my silhouettes folder, I don't appear to have a silhouette for an EC25 unless I have overlooked it being posted. Can you oblige please ?

Thanks,

Ian

[RodBearden]

Ian - I have already done it, but here it is again.

Rod

[EK01]

Cheers Rod. I must have missed it when you originally posted.

Ian

[RodBearden]

In response to a mention in the logos thread, here's the R722 silhouette. A big advantage of these photo-silhouettes is that they can show a very different image compared with the B722, where the standard profile silhouettes would look identical.

Rod

[RodBearden]

Just noticed that we haven't got a photo-silhouette for the Van's RV-12 (RV12) so I've done one.

We get the occasional ICAO code of ZZZZ which is officially "Aircraft type not (yet) assigned a designator" but which the database updaters have also used for "Various airframes" for Airbus (and perhaps others?).

I've been using this "obscured by clouds" silhouette for this code - thought you might like it too.

Rod

[Northern Watch]

Hi Rod,

Sorry to be a pain but please could you do a zip of your photo silhouettes since the last update as I think I have missed a few.

Thanks in anticipation

keith

[RodBearden]

Hi Keith

Here's a zip as requested - all the photo-silhouettes since the last zip. Ther are only 23 of them, so this isn't the official update zip, and I won't be adding it to the "master" zip on my downloads page. I'll wait till I get more before I bother doing that.

Rod

[Northern Watch]

Hi Rod,

Thank you for the Zip, much appreciated.

Regards

Keith

[RodBearden]

Glad to be of service :-)

Rod

[Team Spirit]

Hi Rod,

ANRB aside, I wish you well with your treatment and although you're 'back' working on this fine program really think you're a 'top' bloke working so soon after your eye treatment. Keep well my friend and best wishes.

Cheers Dave.

[RodBearden]

Many thanks for that, Dave. The laser treatment that I received was supposed to be an instant cure, and it did do the job within two hours.

I  just hope it stays that way!

Rod