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Wasn't the Quicksilver just two axis? The GT had a yoke type control with teflex cables for controls, made for pretty ordinary feedback. As Nev suggested, go Thruster. The single seat Thruster is a great machine with a control feel similar to a Tiger Moth.

When the police say "No suspicious circumstances" usually means self inflicted. 

Guidos old machine or ex Toowoomba? Stearman a nice sedate flying machine  

Guidos or from Towoombaold machine?

25 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Well OK,  That's two pilots.

 

It just happens that I posted the researched statistics on another thread today and there are:

 

 6,300 RA pilots

10,804 RPL/PPL

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17,104 total

So 17,102 left to go.

Ask most of them who have had much to do with casa and they will tell you what bastards they are.....

5 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Really? You need to be running an AOC to apply for a Class 5 Medical?

If you had been involved with casa in such a capacity then you would know what a bunch of bastards they are to deal with. They condone some companies flagrant misuse/abuse and obvious disregard of regulations and rules while pedantically persecuting others. Why are you such a casa sycophant? Smacks of self interest or trolling?

9 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

That's correct.

If did you would know what CASA are like to deal with

20 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Good point; when you read that ongoing saga it takes care of itself.

I take it that's a no then about ever having an AOC?

14 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Agree, you identified the problem as an IT issue rather than a decaying CASA out to get anyone they can.

Read the Glenn Buckley thread on prune. What's your honest opinion on CASA's actions?
Have you ever held or do you hold an AOC?

23 hours ago, rgmwa said:

Is CASA planning to let you know when their system is working properly again, or have they gone quiet.

 

The system will never work properly again...........CASA is making flying safer by making aviating harder. The more costly and complicated, the happier they are. 

GA has lost its sheen. You can call being truthful and passing on your negative experiences "running it down" but it's just really passing on how the degradation of GA affects us. Most of those who used to fly just cannot afford it anymore, driven out by over regulation, over zealous regulator, greedy airport owners/councils/operators, compounding costs of maintenance/liability and hull insurance/fuel and cost of aircraft. 
 

Turbo, you can talk it up all you like but the reality is different to all the statistics you quote. 

What

2 hours ago, Area-51 said:

Its important to use the correct terminology; "weather" is no longer valid word; its now all referred to as "global warming" 🐖

What you refer to is a point for much disgruntlement, it's entirely the BOMs and the Labour government's fault for storms, too much rain, not enough rain, too hot, too cold along with there should be more coal fired power stations, no wind turbines, rainbow flags, trans people, cat litter trays in school toilets and how Abbot should still be prime minister. Gives much joy, endless conversation to the enlightened elite. 🤪 

6 hours ago, turboplanner said:

As it turned out the BOM has some serious explaining to do. Not only no catastrophe in the North West but a hailstorm and high winds knocked down trees and knocked power out to a lot of Melbourne. Power will be out until tomorrow so frig food destroyed. This one really backfired on BOM.

Time for the bottom feeders to get involved then 😜 They will be able to "seek compensation" for wrongful predictions. Either the storms didn't arrive or they were early/late......It's the same as farmers blaming BOM for declaring an El Nino, weather varies, farmers know that.  

 

On 7/11/2023 at 6:43 PM, RFguy said:

no transmission reported.

They were high, has hypoxia been ruled out ?

There were radio transmissions, it's been mentioned on prune control questioned the pilot about pressurisation. The pilot referred to oxygen rather than pressurisation, he was a very experienced ex military pilot used to pressurisation, it was thought an unusual comment. 

Was just watching a couple of Wedge-tails, both circling anti clockwise. I'm gong to be highly controversial here and say maybe most thermals and not all air movement rotates? A thermal is a bubble of air moving up, why is it rotating?  

I think exiting that modified machine would be more than difficult after ditching. 

I have never noticed any one direction, I would think they would circle into the highest lift either direction like a glider.

Issued by a third party contracted to gov? 

How many times has the aircraft been "found"?
Needs a History channel special along with the mandatory tattooed expurt proclaiming what if? Could it be? Along with lots of blurry shots of sediment obscured seabed with aircraft shaped coral. 

How many truck drivers have to have security checks? Any person with a heavy rigid truck licence can drive a truck with a 15 ton load, a truck driven into the right target could be devastating. 

There are still airports in Australia where Dash 8 or Saab passengers do not get searched or x-rayed. 
As stated before ASIO have a file for every person with a pilots licence along with the associated security investigations. Don't trust ASIO? Some private contracted company can do a better job by supplying a plastic card and checked by the bloke who mows the grass on a council airfield. What a joke.

On 27/1/2024 at 2:58 AM, turboplanner said:

If people just bought their ASIC cards and got on with it there would be no need for discussions, but they don't, and we get this endless moaning about them. In the group I posted there are ISIS people, and anywhere Jihads are a part of the arsenal, there's a safety threat.

Yes and a $2 pair of sidecutters will overcome not having an asic

It's hardly a mystery what happened. Got too close, misjudged. Hold my beer and watch this.......

For the price this will retail at you will be able to buy a Bonanza and take 4 of your friends with you.

I remember seeing a Mustang with a RR Dart in Canberra more than a few years ago, I recently read it had been converted back the Merlin and an ex Apollo astronaut once owned it. 

They've had VHS and CD's since then 🤪