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The Quiet Loss of an Old Habit Can a Head Massage Soothe the Modern Mind

 I am 45 now, and as the winter chill settles in, a simple act—oiling my head after a shower—triggered a cascade of memories spanning three decades. When I was a boy in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, the ritual of a weekly, sometimes daily, head massage with oil was as common as breathing. My favorite was the potent, earthy scent of mustard oil . I remember visiting our local vaid ji (traditional practitioner), who stressed the importance of this practice, lamenting even then that fewer people were keeping it up. Fast forward to adulthood, and my simple habit met the sharp reality of changing cultural norms. My wife, from a different background, and her circle found the idea of oiled hair "un-stylish." Even when I switched to the fragrant, dark luster of amla oil, the gentle teasing and continuous pressure to conform chipped away at my resolve. Now, my cherished ritual is relegated to an occasional, quick application, washed out within hours. Where Did the Oil Go? As I drov...
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Learned Stall Recovery and Troubled Elevator Emergency Landing on Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator

 I played the jumbo jet flight simulator today and I cleared two rounds.

One was the stall and recovery round of the Lockheed Tristar L-1011 airplane.

The second was to make an emergency landing after the left elevator malfunctioned.

In the stall and recovery training round

I put in full power and pitched the airplane up. As a result, the airplane started to lose airspeed.

At 160 Knots indicated airspeed the stall horn started shouting, but I held the nose up attitude and the airspeed continued to bleed off.

At 130 KIAS I gently released the back elevator pressure and started to pitch the aircraft down gently.

I also reduced the throttle initially to reduce the load on the wings and aircraft body.

I checked the turn coordinator and made sure the wings were level. All the movements were going in a smooth transition.

Within a few seconds, the aircraft had recovered from the stall.

The Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator showed that I had cleared this round of stall recovery training.

The next stage was to make an emergency landing with a troubled elevator.

This round was based on the event that happened with Delta Airlines Flight 1080 on April 12th, 1977.

I was able to clear this round in two attempts. 

In the first attempt, I was able to put the airplane on the runway but I was not able to stop it safely and it ultimately crashed. 

It was probably due to more speed and that I was high initially.

So this is how the whole episode went.

Take off from the airport, flaps full, full power, and brakes release.

The Lockheed Tristar L-1011 started to roll on the runway 

At 160 Knots Indicated Airspeed the aircraft asked me to roll so I pulled back on the yoke slightly and within the next few seconds the aircraft was in the air.

Just as I left the runway there was a malfunction of the left elevator.

There was an airport on the right, so the Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator made it easy for me to land the aircraft.

In the second attempt I was right on the target and with a little bit of tussle and juggling with throttle and joke I was able to bring the aircraft down safely and on the runway.

I am surely not as good as when the incident actually happened, but then that was controlled by professionally trained pilots.

This is a gameplay and walkthrough video of the two rounds that I cleared in the Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator.



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