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Thanks for the reply Derek, Could you send some more picks of the aircraft (Cockpit, Instrument Panel, Seats etc. to [email protected] Cheers, Shane. 0438 118 126

Whoops! sorry about that - Shane Austin Thank you.

Hi Kev, I'm back online now. My address is 60 Wearne Rd. Echuca Vic 3564. My no. is 0438 118 126. Please let me know when you have the correct bank details. Cheers

Thanks for the reply Kev, Would you take $50.00 including postage? I'm happy to pay via PayPal or Direct Bank debit if you like. I'm not a dodgy, shonky buyer. you can check me out on Facebook or whatever. Cheers, Shane.

Is this motor still available? Cheers, Shane.

What power plant is installed please?

G’day, is this still available please?

It is a very sad time for local aviators in Echuca. The pilot is a well known local businessman and unfortunately his brother, one of the pax, is in a serious condition. The back seater is also a well known lady pilot, a skilled FW & RW operator. Our thoughts for a quick recovery go out to the three of them.

Hi Geoff, thanks for your recollection! Some people (like Shotgun) just don't get it at times - I understand when the sector/Tower/approach get busy but, those are the times that it is most important to be precise and, because it is busy, the ATC doesn't have time to say things twice. That is when it is incumbent upon ATC to purposely slow down their delivery so the right message is delivered to the correct pilot! If they don't do that the result is lots of "say agains" or "I missed that" or "was that for me?" all of which takes up valuable time. For some years I worked the sector that encompasses Mangalore (YMNG) and as we have seen this year, it is a very busy and sometimes, a tragically dangerous bit of airspace. When the work-load builds up there the opportunity to repeat transmissions disappears - as well as looking after Mangalore this sector also does arrivals and departures into Albury (so co-ord' with the tower) low level traffic into and out of Canberra (co-ord to Approach) plus all of the traffic into and out of YSWG I have on many occasions instructed Asian students at YMNG to put the instructor on the radio (if there is one) because even though the students have supposedly passed the 'English Language' test, their skills are not really up to speed and I didn't have the time to repeat all of the traffic info etc. If you have more than 2 or 3 aircraft doing air-work overhead the field in addition to other aircraft taxiing at YMNG plus on top of that, any hazard alerts, amended TAFS, SPECIS or new NOTAMS that have to be passed you can just imagine the congestion on the frequency! So the "Shotgun" style of delivery is very self defeating! Fly Safe! Cheers.

Thank you for your service, crap conditions to be working in!

I reckon you're right there Garfly, when 9HU reported "holding short at Hotel" all the ATC had to do was acknowledge with the C/S or if busy - say nothing at all, the aircraft had stopped where he was told to and couldn't go any further without an onwards clearance. If I were to say anything else I would have reiterated "Hold Position" but as soon as the ATC said "Continue.........." the opportunity arose for an error and the pilot ASSUMED he had a clearance to continue taxiing (across the rwy) When I had ATC trainees I always hammered into them the importance of unambiguous phraseology! One of the classics with one student (fortunately in the sim') was an aircraft called up saying " Centre, Speedbird 249 maintaining FL320, request climb to FL 340" the student replies "Speedbird 249 Climb to FL 340........................ (student thinking whilst looking at opposite direction traffic at FL 330 ) Not available" I explained how this was sooooo dangerous! - All the pilot hears is "Climb to FL 340" the "Not available" 5 seconds later is missed!! I drummed in to students to NEVER (ever) mention a level that you weren't going to assign! Over the years have heard mountains of crap phraseology (and have been guilty at times of adding to that mountain!)

Hope you are recovering well in hospital, a frying pan to the noggin can be quite painful!

I took up horse riding to lose some weight; after 2 weeks the horse has lost 20 Kg!

Great little unit the KTI, takes up bugger all space and has a few good little extra features.