Mike Gearon

Yes. ☺️ I’ve missed the bloody obvious yet again. I guess you’d get somebody who wants to use their arm one last time to throw the rag at air intake.

Is the motor in your CAD a download? I work in Solidworks. Wouldn’t want to be drawing that up. Even a rough non spec would be 20 hours.

The joys of instructing as well! Motorcycle very different. Only similarity is power on can fix problems where it’s a trained response and not a natural one.

Checked the blog. Very cool. Will enjoy watching your progress.

100% agreed minus the part where I was the older brother. Younger brother still talks about me testing the electric cattle prod on his kidneys. Sorry...?

Did your survey. That’s a lot of work you’ve put in. I see the problem with the ladders in your survey pics that don’t go high enough on those really high wing planes. Good luck.

Motorbikes mostly fix themselves if you add power and that’s pushing from the back into whatever mess you’ve got yourself into. The props even better from the front.

The shocking parts are use of “elderly” and “pensioner” for a 64 y.o.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Seems the original poster would deeply regret the comments and would wish the post away if possible. That would make this post bullying. Haven’t seen it since school quite some years ago so I’m a bit rusty on bullying. Hence the question.

Most definitely the final word on lightweight flying. The rudder is still foot operated and hand /arm operated ailerons so it’s pretty much an aircraft ?

I googled fogging problems in boats just for the hell of it. Wouldn’t call it conclusive.... let’s go with interesting. Big difference when your boat conks out on departure and somebody tows you in or you start the 4hp backup to get back home. Here is a procedure others seemed to agree with. ‘Spraying it through the spark plug holes is not the way to fog an engine. It has to be running and you fog it until it almost stalls then throw a big rag over the carb to stall it. That way it coats the intake, valves and cylinders. Been doing it for years on the boat engines. Never had a problem’ https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/dont-think-ill-ever-use-fogging-oil-again-anybody-else-have-problems.2030033/

I’ve been graduating downward from GA to LSA to ultralight. No sure what’s lighter after this. Probably powered hand gliding. My own experience is it becomes more fun and more real as you get lighter and less around you. Especially the wind in the face Quicksilver flying I was doing in Philippines. Good luck and have fun.

It’s posts like this make it all (forum wise) worthwhile. Noted! ??

It’s nice to see your rationale expanded upon.Difficult enough with our/ my own internal dialogue without having to consider a fan club cheering on your potential misfortune. These would indeed be keyboard pilots that are nasty people. A note on that internal dialogue and the subject at hand..... I make a living as an inventor. I seem to pretty much the absent minded one portrayed in movies etc. Wasn’t going to take up flying specifically for this reason. However, I just have to do it better. At home and work it’s strict systems that make everyday life work. Transition points from work to gym to home and emails, invoices etc all have a disciplined approach or it’d be impossible. Living in 3 countries has its own nightmares we won’t go into. Anyway, to stay on track here.... I’m really disciplined in my flying procedures. Go through them in the car on way to airport. Plan carefully. Run checklists precisely. All the stuff we are supposed to do. When flying I’m running the numbers near the airport and ground manoeuvres etc and do allow a bit of relax time to just enjoy the scenery when safe to do so. Back to strict routine when required. I’m also on here looking at things that have gone wrong for others as a learning experience and trying to live it with the pilots that suffered the misfortune that ended up with us writing about them. It’s unfortunate that it’s easiest done when the accident is current and I absolutely get that we need to consider the families and friends. Incidents.... The terrible recent 2 plane accident made me decide not to do IFR training when I return to the USA. I have my GA training and I think I have the discipline if caught in cloud to fly instruments out. I’ve run this in my head and just like in the check ride I’d make very small corrections with a relaxed hand. I’d stick almost completely in the instrument scan while getting 180 degreees about and proceeding back and hopefully out of cloud. The way to pretty much guarantee a spiral dive in my mind would be to panic and stare out the window into the gray mist. I guess that happens and it was stressed and imprinted firmly that without recent training we have just a little time before spiral dive. Helicopter pilot in USA as case in point with IFR training. I’ll just stay clear of cloud and check weather as the main plan. The other theme running here is bloody forums. Still the same from when I used to be heavily involved in one.....A small number of prolific posters. A huge number of lookers (I’m not being critical and may return to onlooker) A number of trouble makers, politicians, practical common sense types and the obligatory comedians. I’m unsure about continuing involvement. My personal criteria is if things bother me as a poster and I’m taking them away to worry over then I shouldn’t be involved. The good still outweighs the bad here. The learning and community sharing is here in abundance And likely worth supporting.

It’d be nice if that wasn’t true. When I was learning to fly there had been an incident at Tooradin somewhat recent past. The pilot bounced then proceeded to porpoise and screwed up the plane. I both distressed and then impressed my FI very early in lessons with a fairly decent bounce and power on go round. Had the pilots accident well learned and procedure ready. I’d really hope that is what’s happening here. Either learning or refreshing rules to fly by.

Homesick, I’d have enjoyed bogging that motorbike. Beautiful area ?

Good luck with that. My plans look shot. Which part of the prairies? The flat part?

Well said. I was upset seeing the post and wanted to consider a response/ give the forum away/ consider it more. I’m in a very similar position hours wise. I’m hopefully getting the right amount of worry into my takeoffs including a steady aloud or internal discussion on abort on runway, land straight ahead and 30 degrees or return with a visual map ahead of me as I go through. I had one FI pull power after take off. In cornfield country so it was a pretty easy decision on straight ahead. I thought it was real and did okay. So, the good part is obviously keeping these foremost in our thinking and this thread like many others could save a life or lives. The bad is well explained in the angry post. I’m new and trying to go slow and behave (believe it or not) I’d also not seen the note from admin. Missed it completely and surprised to find after flyboy posted and I went back. I’ll take this as a learning experience and try hard to be respectful of all involved. Hopefully the passenger in care will make a full recovery. My thoughts are with the family and also with the family of the pilot who lost his life. I’ll also apologise for my contribution as a keyboard pilot. As you’ve indicated (flyboy) the plane was turning left. I was a little hung up on the incorrect roads reported and thought that was contributing to speculation of a turn. Not the case.

That’s true. Cattle same. You look out for one on its own. It’s calving or it’s sick. You also see all the animals clumped around a trough and you know you’re out of water and in big trouble. Also.....we have the Asian examples of getting on top of this really quickly. China and Taiwan as examples. Not sure about China. Taiwan is transparent. Reports and updates are factual. Just a handful of new cases each day in Taiwan and almost all are imports. Once countries bring their own epidemics under control and stop exporting it we have the Asian examples. Normal really isn’t far away. It just doesn’t look that way right now. Well, I’d say normal based on my life here in Taiwan just involves temp checks everywhere and mask wearing. Not a big price to pay to get on with a relatively normal life.

Latest seems to be a flattening in USA and I noticed same in Australia. Just 54 new cases in Australia. Taiwan has just 1 new case today. Quite remarkable. I visited a factory, supermarket and Japanese restaurant today. All temp checked us and factory required mask wearing. Chefs and staff at Japanese masked and they even burn the corona virus off your food.

There is certainty in this case. Even if powerlines weren’t seen they are at tree height next to trees. Also, the multi line is away from trees and likely visible. Additionally this is right near the airport and the pilot would know them well. Unfortunately!

Well, from accident scene on the correct corner (not the news report corner) it looks like the aircraft departed that runway then within 5-600m ditched in. At say 60 knots that’s about 10 or 11 flying seconds. Unless the departure was a different runway that aircraft flew off the runway and directly ahead only seconds later hit the wiring and trees. It can’t have turned at all.

News report had the intersection wrong. It’s as you’ve indicated based on ABC reported roads ABC report.......As the plane made a right turn, it clipped an overhead telephone cable and crashed 25 metres from the intersection of Stapylton Jacobs Well Road and Cabbage Tree Point Road near the Heck Field airstrip. Actual intersection is really close to take off. 5-600m If it was as I’ve indicated with yellow line the plane was unlikely to have been making a right hand turn at virtually ground level. Looks like a take off and power loss and not sure how anybody could have improved on the outcome without a bit of luck.

That’s a worrying figure. The curve in Australia is flattering as a sign of hope. People in authority need to be held accountable for that shipload of virus cases. 600 of the 2700 walked off the ship with the virus and without even a temperature check. Ruby Princess/ Diamond Princess. You’d think that’d have raised alarm bells. Complacent, clueless or dismissive decision makers need to be held accountable. Yes, the Wuhan ophthalmologist was young and apparently viral load from proximity was part of the reason he died.

I’ve noted an ongoing interest in allowing the virus to run its course. Always interested in which family or friends are acceptable to lose with a strategy of herd immunity. The economy can and will recover with good governance and management of debt. The dead will remain dead. At the risk of reviving the Trump discussion... I note today that he only receives visitors who’ve had an instant test for the virus. No wonder he can be so cavalier about not wanting to wear a mask!