Student Pilot

Indo maintenance.......................................

Me too, always been made about the Porters since I saw one in the late 60's I think it was. It was the Snowy one. The Army sold them at knock down prices.

You exaggerate Captain Gaz, only approaching 25 in my log book!

I think I have done maybe 10 good landings. By good landings I mean one where the wheels just start spinning up and you can't feel the aircraft contact the runway. Aircraft also has to be on the centreline and touchdown in the perfect spot where you just roll through to the taxiway without excessive braking. Every time I land I try to do better.

"Some plane" Plane

Always liked the Jodel's

Doesn't mean much in Indo, maintenance records are as fictional as their pilots experience.

PP

Doing an odd job, looks like a quiet summer

Some aircraft are approved for sideslips

Accountant, Freddy's machine

Don't start the debate about using flaps in a sideslip Nev 😁

You have an undercover swimming pool in your house? I met Chucky when he came out to Oz a few years ago, he was a "different" fellow, his wife Victoria seemed nice.

You watch too much Youtuba Captain 😁

I thought the idea was to fly balanced?

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All good advice, I doubt anybody teaches sideslips anymore.

Keep it tracking straight down the runway seems to work best, if it veers use rudder to get it back in the middle. Tailwheel, nosewheel works with either.

This stuff hurts my head.......................I don't understand the theory, does that make me a bad pilot? I know if you get too slow you get in trouble, I know how to turn low and slow is that enough? Protons and neutrons have approximately the same mass, about 1.67 × 10-24 grams, which scientists define as one atomic mass unit (amu) or one Dalton, Positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element. It weighs 1 amu. Discuss....................

What happened to the Replica you talk of Nev? Last I heard it was stored. The fellows that were flying it when the wheel fell off should have been given a kick up the arse. They held the wing as high as they could after it touched down on the remaining mainwheel. When the wing stalled it fell heavily and broke the spar. That machine would have landed about 45 knots, if they'd have let it down gently they mightn't have even taken any paint off!!

I'll leave it to you then Turbo to ask "clear and concise reasonable questions" to CASA. I have never "Sprayed" questions to the CASA PR department. If I've had questions (concise AND reasonable) they have always been directed to the relevant person. 40 years working as a commercial pilot and half of that time running an aviation business, I've had enough of Casa and have as little to do with them as I can.

The old film of Fokker Triplanes taking off shows them airborne in about 50 metres

And you expect a clear concise answer from CASA? Things must have changed if somebody in CASA will give you answer to a question, they will just refer you to legislation or onto somebody else.

I must admit I've only been through there a dozen times or so, every time without exception they have made it hard, delayed and at one stage made me hold just north of Newcastle for 40 minutes till an inbound jet had landed. I don't travel that area now.

Victor one a good quick way around Sydney but having to try and get through Williamtown buggars that up. Go west young man