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  1. Student Pilot
    Snoopy, you'd probably have no trouble now with a bit of flying under your belt.
  2. Student Pilot
    When I was at school in the early 70's the vocational guidance person asked what I wanted to do, I said pilot. He looked over his glasses at me then at my school record and said "You would be better being a laborer, digging ditches is for you". Left school at 16 and went on to do 5 years panel beating but the urge to fly became too much. Went through from first lesson to commercial and AG rating in 18 months. I might not be too bright but the folks in vocational guidance at the time didn't take into account on how much effort you will put in if it's something you want more than anything. If you really want something you will put in the effort.
  3. Student Pilot
    An airline job has never been my dream job, I went Ag flying because I like to fly. I have friends who went airlines, only 2 I know are still with their original wives. Airline flying will not be back to anything like it was for years, if ever. The reality of airline flying is brutal, constant checks, flying mostly at night (international) and absolutely no respect from those running the airlines. Now nobody has much of an idea when airline jobs will start, airlines will be asking pilots to halve their wages to get a job back.
  4. Student Pilot
    Chopper pilots have to have one in bothhands ? Stick feels more natural but if your flying who cares, stick or yolk, left, right or centre.
  5. Student Pilot
    One of those starred in a movie about firebombers, Allways I think it was called.
  6. Student Pilot
    Douglas A26 Invader, they used quite a few as Firebombers in North America.
  7. Student Pilot
    That one an ex fire bomber, is an A26
  8. Student Pilot
    There is a couple in Oz I think, Murray Griffith did one for the AWM and I'm sure there was another as well. Maybe that other one might have gone back to PNG as a deal for the AWM one?
  9. Student Pilot
    You would think a Boston would have carried more and been a better machine for maritime work than Vengence or Wirraway?
  10. Student Pilot
    I take it served overseas not in Oz and the Pacific?
  11. Student Pilot
    Didn't know we had the Defiant
  12. Student Pilot
    If that's the class of people in first class (wide seat spacing) the mob in cattle class must be rough ?
  13. Student Pilot
    Wuzzit a Fighter?
  14. Student Pilot
    Try another B, Bell Airacobra?
  15. Student Pilot
    Brewster Buffff.............
  16. Student Pilot
    The peer group pressure is on to drink....................
  17. Student Pilot
    Get your tinfoil hats out fella's, somebodies getting to you. Are you near a 5 G tower?
  18. Student Pilot
    It's good to see so many of you giving advice of your immense medical knowledge about infectious diseases. I'd recommend the US if you want open slather, I'm sure Donny would welcome with open arms another Trump voter
  19. Student Pilot
    The drinking culture is still strong in NT.
  20. Student Pilot
    You can still design and build a very basic aircraft as was the case when the AUF was first established in in the early 80's.
  21. Student Pilot
    The term gets blurry with the way people talk about it. An amateur built aircraft can be built under RAA or CASA rules and registered accordingly.
  22. Student Pilot
    Either reflections from long rock structures or refraction from the camera lens?
  23. Student Pilot
    Sean came from Halls Creek where he owned and ran Halls Creek Air Taxi's, along with the 300's he ran a 172XP for mustering, 206 and Baron for charter and freight. He also took a manager with him when the 22 went down. He was funny bloke to work with, flew very well and good company. When mustering season finished he used to travel, in his office he had a picture of the Mach number in the passenger compartment on a Concorde. He just went from London to New York for something to do. Don't know what happened to him after I left, I did hear his wife Ruth died of brain cancer. Peter Luitineger used to fly for Sean before he went Derby way and set up on his own. I meant flying every day for 2 months straight. It was the late 70's/early 80's, aerial mustering was just starting to get full swing, VRD had a few 47's and the only thing at Kununurra was a flight service and Craig Muir's hangar (Craig was an engineer and was only working on other peoples aircraft). Stewy an old one armed Yank Ag flier had a Pawnee, Kenny Patton had an old A model 300 there as well, there was no tourist industry, the Bungle Bungles were those funny looking hills you used to fly passed going up to Kununurra for maintenance.
  24. Student Pilot
    Martin Hone built one with a Rotec I think?
  25. Student Pilot
    I worked for a contractor in the early 80's, it was considered normal activity. He ran half a dozen 300's and a fixed wing mustering. The bloke I worked for was the first one killed years after when a blade pulled out on his 22. It was considered normal to at least double TBO's. It was also normal to fly 2 months straight every day. The ringers had entrenched behaviour of drinking and it carried through, aerial mustering was no different you were considered a ringer and treated accordingly.
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