Flightrite

I don't think I could. So much of what happens is out of your hands. Like golf, you putt for sheep stations. At each end is the unknown where you lose the points. Get someone on final when lining up or some so and so is backtracking SLOW. I've had it done on purpose and got sent round " I elected to" because it was too close. Not ALL pilots are gentlemen. Nev

So true Nev! It's a game to some pilots, I've seen it first hand with the SkyGods, they take great delight in playing the man whenever they can!

Here's my last fast one. You'll be relieved to hear.

ADL- MEL chock to chock 47 minutes This is brakes release for push back to brakes "on, engines cut "at destination. You don't set out to do these things. They just seem to fall in place and with a little assistance, happen. I took off to the east from Adelaide after a "ready for immediate" rolling start, 330 knot indicated climb, then got a good tailwind to top of descent. Descend at 350 Kts and we didn't have the 250k? below 10,000 restriction and got a straight in to the east at Melbourne straight to the finger. As simple as that. I doubt it will ever be beaten as a few things that helped then don't happen today. The current scheduled time is 70 minutes. This included an inflight replanning back to Adelaide. passed over the radio. It might sound exciting but it's just another day at the office, but you are not just sitting there, fat, dumb and happy. Nev

Been there done that, gotta do better than that???

Might be the Uniform effect . so I'm told. . Police, soldiers etc. Are judges cross dressing when they wear wigs .? They have ball bearing hosties these days as well. Everything is changed. Nev

Nah the trolley dollies these days come in both flavours and are 20 years old with their heads stuck on social media 24/7! Relying on them in an emergency these days would be like getting the Govt to help you!?

Never really had that 115 ponies all at once unless you ran it flat out in level flight?Got about 98 of those ponies working together at any one time?

The Navigator and I made a nonstop to Goolwa from Lethbridge in the Citabria 95 knot machine about 18 years ago. About 4.5 hours and could have made Adelaide direct if we had to. Somehow, I think things have changed.. Nev

I loved the 7ECA, taught you how to manage its staggering HP?

Hopefully the lessons of the current pandemic will be applied widely; we became too dependant on imported medicines, PPE, etc. There is now pressure to ensure our nation has the capacity to produce basic stuff at least.

How many pilots would be able navigate when (not if) our internet and GPS systems get clobbered by solar storms?

Funny you should say that! Many moons ago the GPS system went down and I was in the FL's between Kunners & Broome, navigation by looking out the window with a map was 'challenging', we sure do rely on those Sats these daysM

I used to work for an Aeromedical outfit years ago, got plenty of 'customers' from the crazies on bikes! The saddest part was witnessing the parents of said crazy mourning their brain dead sons!

Navigation by Constance was used for long distance navigation. It used ADF but did not fly from or to the aid. It used rate of change of bearing to the aid. The Mooney that I owned was flown across the north Atlantic Ocean using the system I'm the 1980's. Not VOR but interesting. Very mathematical but I love applied mathematics. Including Full SAR.?

Geoff

FullSar was the best??

Around 40 years ago I was part of a group of 4 planes and pax heading for the Birdsville races out of Melb. ( did it for many years back in the good old days) I had the slowest plane (C172) that coupled with at times a 30 knot h/w I got as far as Swn Hill cause the girls I had onboard (the lightest, lucky me!?) had to go! Airborne again and you guessed it Pooncarie for another 'rest stop'! Finally made it to Broken Hill for fuel and yep more 'relief work' for the girls! Again airborne and passing Moomba rumblings where heard from the back seat, this time I said can't stop now or we will run out of fuel! When I got to Birdsville LATE that Friday the others in the group where talking to the ATC guys there (yes back then the Dept had a temp ATC set up at no charge (imagine that now?) My friends where getting worried that we had crashed! No Mob Ph's then or OzRwys just a lot of WAC's! Was a looooong trip! Coming home days later was a whole other story!?

Christ how did we old codgers ever get thru school and make something of ourselves??I've got a headache just reading that???

Multi eng flying machines are all about getting more HP and more blade swept area as well as redundancy without having one large powerplant. Today's modern high bypass jet engines produce well over 100000 lbs thrust, enough for a single powerplant to push a large airliner thru the air on its own, they don't do that cause of redundancy (and a host of other issues) There is a growing amount single engine turbines both prop and jet available these days but the redundancy is mostly removed, all expensive and complex, something we don't need in our basic Sunday flyers?

Someone is nipping at the red wine too much here??

Insurance is a personel thing, optional (mostly) your choice! I have my main assets insured, minor things I am happy to accpet the risk. Each to their own?

I use this form in RA.

If you fly around with a maintenance logbook you are stupid. For GA it is illegal to carry the maintenance log in the plane. Reason being that if the plane crashes the logbook will possibly be destroyed.

You want the logbook to survive longer than the aircraft.

Stupid?

If you fly around in yr A/C with log books that are not up to date then you do so at yr own risk!

Do you mean the highest premiums Flight? I reckon the important thing is the payout ratio, that is the % of claims settled without a fight. Of course they won't tell you this figure but they sure know it themselves.

Yes sorry, highest premium sorry, never made a claim in my entire life....phew!?

A good insurance broker is your best bet against dealing with dodgy insurance companies.

Good advice. I go thru a broker but I do a quick search around when renewal time is up myself, QBE are the worst!

The words 'trust & Boeing' are an oxymoron!?

You guys are amazing!?

You're using the words "often known/called", so it may hjave been called that in your area, but FULL REPORTING it SARTIME were different reporting processes, and should have been taught as such. It was always the Sartime people who were making the news.

You believe what ya want!! That's the way it was portrayed for me over 40 years ago!

Another thing to remember there maybe some issues where some light A/C engines aren't designed for neg thrust on the crankshaft.

Got a long time pilot friend of mine (Pvt pilot) who was a Chippy all his working career developed a brain tumor, dropped like a bag of spuds one day, Fortunetly he survived but after two brain Ops he's been given 18 mths at best, it's 12 mths this month. He retired, bought a van grabbed his long term partner and hit the road, best thing he ever did he says, he was 64 at the time of the seizure. Life is so precious don't waste it all just working!

......."full reporting was a series of Sartime flights", spot on, that's exactly why it was often known/called "FullSar"?

That's a Cessna, just ask any journo!?