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  1. Student Pilot
    Looks to have a British look about it, Fairy or Hawker style. Could be a Westland but they usually used radials
  2. Student Pilot
    There is a working unit at the Nhill aviation museum. The table and tracker is all serviceable and usable. Getting an old Link that hadn't had any maintenance would be a big job to get serviceable. Very old electronics (Valves) and paper bellows for movement is what you are dealing with. I found the Link very similar to a Tiger to fly/manipulate.
  3. Student Pilot
    Superfluous really, there will be no GA left shortly to transit airspace.
  4. Student Pilot
    I have seen that before, I have some old English books that were pre WW2, it's in those. I still have my books stacked in a container, one of these years I get around to unpacking.
  5. Student Pilot
    Looks English, should be illegal to use google pics for identifying, iz cheating 😁
  6. Student Pilot
    I have flown a couple of Jodel's, they are a lovely machine to fly, light and responsive
  7. Student Pilot
    Looks like he couldn't get the mains to retract? Surely nobody would land with just the nose wheel retracted. Whatever the problem they said he was a hero 😁
  8. Student Pilot
    You called? 😁
  9. Student Pilot
    Looks pretty good Gazza. A trike that outperforms most tailwheels is a Zenith 701, not much can take off and land that short.
  10. Student Pilot
    Perspective. Yes if you fly in and out of VERY rough areas a tailwheel is stronger. The biggest percentage of strips that most operate out of (not nosedragger as it goes first before the mains) a nosewheel aircraft is just as capable. I have flown a few tailwheel hours, I have a bit of an idea how capable they are. I have changed an aircraft to a tailwheel just for looks. It was no faster and no more capable, take off and landing no shorter than the trike. But it was pretty
  11. Student Pilot
    There are some aircraft that do look betterer in conventional gear configuration I must admit. The poor old Tri Pacer being one!
  12. Student Pilot
    I have to disagree with that
  13. Student Pilot
    Wonder why they changed it to a tailwheel? Too much control with the trike? Landings too good? Need the "Tailwheel swagger" when you enter the aero club bar? Like feeling superior compared to the also-rans who fly trikes? This is tongue in cheek of coarse but there might be a grain of truth to the way some tailwheel pilots like to carry on 😁
  14. Student Pilot
    At a guess from 20C to 40C I'd say nearly double the distance.
  15. Student Pilot
    Looked good, did he shut it down? He didn't try a restart. Mellow music pretty good.
  16. Student Pilot
    Just ease into it, if you feel your getting crook stop. Only do it for short periods to start, building to longer as you go. Do it at the end of a flight (after circuits or just flying around getting comfortable) so when you start to feel off land straight away. Remember your doing it for fun, when that ceases you should stop. Flying sick or uncomfortable you will not learn anything. Make sure the instructor knows what you want and is the right man for the job. I have had aero instructors who were only interested in showing how good they were, they are there to help you not show off.
  17. Student Pilot
    Usually weather limited with clouds and terrain. Ruling out those there might be maybe 20 days a year you could fly in perfect weather?
  18. Student Pilot
    M Coates said "I have been through Coffs Harbour control area at least 100 times, never had anything but polite and courteous controllers happy to do anything they could." I have been to and through Coffs many times, the times ATC made it easy were in the minority. I have struck that with most areas with ATC. The only times ATC make it easy is when I'm flying a Bomber on fires, they can't do enough to help then.
  19. Student Pilot
    To travel coastal past Coffs you still need a clearance. They used to be very hesitant to issue clearance coastal, if there was any traffic within a bulls roar they would deny. I have even been given a verbal bollicking for landing long at Coffs. I landed long into the North to avoid taxing, They preferred I landed on the piano keys and spent the next 15 minutes taxing back in the hot sun. The easiest way to transit Coffs is wait till the tower shuts down.
  20. Student Pilot
    Yes he did a lot of things he shouldn't, fact remains if he was let through some quiet airspace at the higher level he would not have flown into the ground. The airspace around Coffs/Tamworth/Williamtown is very safe when you don't let people through, plan or no plan.
  21. Student Pilot
    There will not be any general aviation in Australia shortly. CASA, controlled airspace and local councils greed are all working to keep GA out of the air.
  22. Student Pilot
    Watch an AG pilot for a while Nev, somebody doing solid fert
  23. Student Pilot
    .I like the Alpine in the background. The cockpit section reminds me of a factory auto gyro from the States a few years ago. McCulloch?
  24. Student Pilot
    Or a few Kangaroos short in the top paddock
  25. Student Pilot
    I disagree nev, if you put them on the spot you want then buggar all distance difference. There is very little difference in speed between tailwheel just above the surface and touching. People flying tailwheel aircraft for a living usually tailwheel low landing, generally try to spare the tailwheel. One reason for a full three point landing would be if you were VERY limited in your landing distance. Not as if runway distance is limited in most cases.
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