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Mack

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  • Birthday 03/03/1948

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  1. Hi Nev, Thanks for your tips...always good to have a bit of a heads up before starting another adventure. I have applied to join AAA and it seems my quest may well lead me to him. If so I will pass on your greetings....48 years...you must have known each other in infants school! Cheers, John.
  2. Hi Kaz, Thanks for your suggestions and I will join up with the AAA and at least get in the loop. Regarding the (tempting) aircraft at Wedderburn: Before wasting any vendor's time I really need to explore the realistic running expenses, especially fixed costs, to ensure it is comfortably achievable and further, to learn the questions to ask. I have taken Nev's suggestion on board to have an expert check any potential purchase out. I saw a picture of your 'plane in central Australia (I think)...looks very nice. Thanks again, John.
  3. Hi Nev, Thanks for your reply. Certainly I remember Keith Robey from my Bankstown days and I believe he died a few days ago. Your not the first to mention Luskintyre and it seems a good place to start…thanks. I am most interested in your experiences as a Tiger instructor. This is a “how long is a piece of string” question but I am curious to know how difficult it is for a relatively low time Cessna 152/172/182 pilot (such as myself) to convert to the Tiger? Further, what were the main issues with pilots converting? Thanks, John.
  4. Hi This is my first post in this forum and indeed forums are a fairly new concept to me so I hope this is not an inappropriate use of this particular facility. I have a PPL earned at Bankstown in the eightys, stopped flying when my status went from carefree bachelor to family man, and having now popped out the other end, somewhat wiser (perhaps), and certainly older, I have resumed flying. I trained as an electrician at Hawker de Havilland (Lidcombe andBankstown) in the sixtys and progressed through their drafting office to Electrical Engineering as a career albeit with other employers. De Havilland sewed in me a seed of their history and many of the old boys were still around in those days. I especially remember standing outside Sid Marshall’s hanger ( age 19) in awe at the stuff in there when Sid come out for a breather and asked what I wanted. I was allowed to go and look and touch many wondrous things, it was my King Tut’s tomb! Since those now distant days I have had a latent thought of flying and perhaps even owning a de Havilland Tiger Moth but never thought it ever achievable. It may be now within my grasp and here is the reason for this post. I notice that it may be possible to buy a Tiger Moth for something less than $100K and whilst this may be within my capabilities I have no idea of the associated costs of aircraft ownership, Tiger Moths in particular. Is the purchase cost likely to be the least of my financial considerations? I have a few vintage cars and have restored some early cars (1904 – 1929) so have some concepts about old machinery and the mechanical sympathy required when dealing with them and am willing to accept this, no doubt sometimes unpredictable, aspect of vintage aircraft. If any of you could help with the benefit of your experience I would be most grateful. It may well be that such information will preclude me from pursuing the idea at all. I especially don’t want to waste the time of potential vendors in what may well turn into what appears to be a tyre kicking exercise (for them). With thanks.
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