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Student Pilot

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  1. Another one that's annoying is people giving excessive calls, example being somebody inbound and giving 8 calls from inbound to clear with no other traffic in the area.
  2. I was taught to give accurate concise calls in the circuit and elsewhere. For instance calling crosswind, I was taught to call as you enter crosswind flying over the runway or inline as you fly an extended centreline. Gives me the irrits when people call crosswind and are still 4 miles from the airfield. Your looking around where expecting the aircraft to be and their still miles out! Another is calling final, other day I heard somebody in an RAA aircraft call joining final then giving an estimate of 8 minutes before they arrive!!!! Some of the less professional (Not Eastern) RPT call final 20 miles out and expect priority over somebody doing circuits. Not so good is also people keying the mike then thinking what they have to say with great pauses between information. Another variation on that is the "Release under pressure" call with words blending into one long continuous unintelligible blurb.
  3. I heartily disagree, reading any CASA rules/recommendations/regs will only confuse
  4. Hence I think there should be a lot more slow speed training......
  5. Once I thought I was wrong, I was mistaken 😁
  6. 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.
  7. Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it
  8. Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it
  9. Maybe it was reading wrong before? Nil wind the airspeed and GPS should be close.
  10. This is a valve! Very tactile object.
  11. 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.
  12. Believe it when it actually happens
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. 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!
  16. Vege doesn't light up in turbine exhausts, even if it did in recip's it could be a true afterburner. Ignites after 😁
  17. Just used vege oil
  18. Those Iskra's accelerate VERY slowly anyhoo
  19. Complicated for us old farts who have been flying a while too Jack, it's nearly getting too hard.
  20. I would have loved to have flown a Boomerang, above all other aircraft..........😔
  21. They have worked out what does it now, I don't mind wearing the glasses it's shaving palms I don't like 🤓
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. All too hard........just give up
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