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Hence I think there should be a lot more slow speed training......

Once I thought I was wrong, I was mistaken 😁

I don't think there is any need for much more than a couple of spins in training. A lot more should be done on slow flight and slow manoeuvring so you know the aircraft and how to avoid stall/spin.

Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it

Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it

Maybe it was reading wrong before? Nil wind the airspeed and GPS should be close.

This is a valve! Very tactile object.

Maybe the ailerons were rigged down a touch to try and allow for reflex once flying? If they were rigged lower that would make for slower flight and mebe slower stall speed. Rigging an aircraft is not a black and white thing there are nuances and very individual to each particular aircraft. Can take quite a bit of experimentation to get right. An aircraft (especially light/ultralight) can be flown easily out of trim just by a bit of different pressure on the rudder. Always good to test fly a few circuits before departing for your home field. How did the controls feel? Firm, like approaches before? Headwind not going to make any difference to your indicated airspeed, only groundspeed.

Believe it when it actually happens

CASA doing something that benefits GA and RAA? Never going to happen. A good start would be to acknowledge the injustices and bad behavior of the past, that will never happen either.

When you start flying ASIO open a file on you (also with a firearms license, powder ticket and a swag of other things), how many security checks do they want?

There are (usually) no "Beaches" in that sort of country, the shore is a 125' row of pines then steeply sloping into the deep water. As I've said previously I would go for the timber every time, the water is VERY cold and any injury when ditching would increase your chances of not getting out of the smashed wreck. The aircraft must have stopped on top of that tree and slid all the way down, the pilots legs must have been roughed up with the bark!

Vege doesn't light up in turbine exhausts, even if it did in recip's it could be a true afterburner. Ignites after 😁

Just used vege oil

Those Iskra's accelerate VERY slowly anyhoo

Complicated for us old farts who have been flying a while too Jack, it's nearly getting too hard.

I would have loved to have flown a Boomerang, above all other aircraft..........😔

They have worked out what does it now, I don't mind wearing the glasses it's shaving palms I don't like 🤓

I did a good landing once 😁

I have thought about ditching, I do a bit of flying over remote areas where there is heavy timber and only flat areas are lakes. My choice would be go for the timber every time. One aircraft I fly has ditching instructions in the manual, they state just before stalling to drop a wing into the water so the aircraft spins around on touchdown to try and stop overturning. Most fixed gear aircraft will overturn when ditched, usually violently collapsing the windscreen disabling the occupants.

Don't rush a forced landing........pretty hard to think clearly. Nobody knows how they are going to react in an emergency situation till it happens.

All too hard........just give up

The first solo has changed a lot over the years, olden days it wasn't unheard of to solo with 3 hours. When I learnt about 10 hours was the norm, now 20? When I learnt the instructors were hour building for airlines and not interested in in the students progress, one of mine used to read a book and smoke most of my training. It's also common now to milk the student all you can, 40 or 50 hours before solo is also common. As usual there has to be a middle road, find a career instructor who cares about the job rather than just adding hours and maximizing the flight school income. Are they still around? Solo is a step in many towards gaining a license, an important one yes but just another step.

Watch a person who flies a tailwheel aircraft for a living, they always wheel them on. A tail low wheeler doesn't use anymore runway than a three pointer. Yes a good three pointer on a grass runway feels pretty good. Every landing I do try, I might just be a bit slow at learning 😁 I try to land on centreline, on the spot where I'll roll through to taxi off without braking. Last of all I try to get a smooth touchdown at the slowest possible speed, a tailwheel low wheeler. At a guess I'd say maybe 175,000 landings, maybe six what I'd call perfect landings. Maybe I need some dual with you Nev? 🤓

Right again Nev, the Sabre wuzza bewdy engine too! H pattern 24 cyl sleeve valve. With all those moving parts what could possibly go wrong?