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  1. Student Pilot
    It's quite an experience having "Control issues", you don't know how you will handle it when things turn to poo. Trying to think clearly how to fix/overcome the problem/issue while also trying exclude all other thoughts is harder than you might think. SOK Turbo, just show's you human after all
  2. Student Pilot
    Twice to emfarsize (Emphasize) your point
  3. Student Pilot
    I'll go with my first instincts and say a Farman of some sort, not Longhorn or Shorthorn but F40. As usual a lot of Aircraft were copied by a few nations with minor variations. I have an old photo round somewhere with a Shorthorn in Melbourne I think. It is signed by Richard Graham Carey and titled "The oldest aircraft in Australia flown by the oldest pilot in Australia" Found this on Wiki
  4. Student Pilot
    I originally thought Shorthorn but this has a single fin. Look at the size of that prop!
  5. Student Pilot
    Many years ago there was an autogyro parked at Essendon, was there for years. I think it was a Mcculloch? Had stub wings, pusher engine and a powered rotorhead for windup I recon. There was an odd one used for mustering.
  6. Student Pilot
    My memory must be going, I remember full reporting being mandatory. Having a sartime was part of the plan and if you were at place with a flight service the likes of Coffs, Bankstown or Kununurra you submitted a plan for full reporting with a sartime, otherwise you had to ring a plan in.That was for a private flight as well as commercial. Full reporting was VHF if coverage or HF remote areas. Compared to normal life I wonder why aviation was so controlling. There weren't many accidents nor many fatalities compared to something like farming or even just driving generally in Australia. In 1969 the road toll was 3,500 and yet you could drive without plans or schedules. On country roads people have been running off the road and not been found for days. Why the difference with aviation?
  7. Student Pilot
    The pain was bad reception with HF, used to work fairly late and the HF used to go all squiggly. Back in the olden days full reporting was mandatory, changed in the early 80's to voluntary?
  8. Student Pilot
    Your kidding? What a pain it was, especially in remote areas with HF.
  9. Student Pilot
    You could take out the panel and mount something like an early Pacer one there, they have rounded edges and a lot lower. I doubt there'd be any paperwork needed because it was an earlier Piper panel, factory fit. Still enough room for ASI, ALT, T+B, Tacho and combination oil pressure/oil temp. Those along with a bouncy mag compass on the dash and your set. Colt is a very appealing aircraft, basic flying at it's best. We had a Tri, was a lovely little machine.
  10. Student Pilot
    Before GPS days I never used whiz wheels much, used to do a ground speed check if things didn't look quite right. Maps, either an out of date WAC of NRMA road map were good. The only time it got hard is bad weather.
  11. Student Pilot
    Just what Australia needs, another billion dollar defence project. Just imagine if half of the joint strike fighter and the sub contracts was spent on public health and education, what it would do for Australia as a nation.
  12. Student Pilot
    When are they talking passing privacy legislation with this app?
  13. Student Pilot
    :puzzled::puzzled: Where do you look? Hooly dooly that's busy.
  14. Student Pilot
    People would have to use maps instead of GPS, the trauma
  15. Student Pilot
    If fitted I used to do the same, you could usually get an ABC channel Never used for navigation
  16. Student Pilot
    David came into AG when Beavers were established as Ag machines, his early flying was in Callair's at Kununurra on cotton when it was tried first up there. While David is a very experienced pilot he might be the highest time Australian Beaver pilot still alive The likes of Doc Lynch/Kenny Beardon/Peter wood (Peter still going as far as I know) were flying well before David started flying Beavers. I forgot he has a Tiger Moth as well to add to the list.
  17. Student Pilot
    Working in AG I have only had maybe 3 permanent jobs in 40 years flying, they don't last long due to vagaries of weather and commodity prices. The last 10 years have been regular summer work on fires. I have friends that flew airlines and are now out of work, they are stressed. I usually go through that twice a year, once after fire season then after whatever (If I get work) work I can get in the winter here or Northern hemisphere summer.
  18. Student Pilot
    A long trail https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019
  19. Student Pilot
    One thing Clive lacks is a 40 year history of female sexual assaults, you have to hand it to Trumpf, he's the best He has even beat the world with the most corona virus Deaths, leading the rest of the world by a fair margin yet he still blames the Chinese for America's problems. He has even got his puppet Pompus Pompeo to say it was a Chinese man made virus released on the world.
  20. Student Pilot
    Onetrack, have you read "Jungle of Snakes"? A history of insurgency warfare, starting with how the Americans perfected the concentration camp in the Philippians. War is war, there are no rules contrary to what some of you say. If you carpet bomb whole areas of civilian villages then you have to expect retaliation. Not everybody has access to hundreds of B52's so they fight back the only way they can.
  21. Student Pilot
    I used to work for a company based at Bankstown, there was an odd controller that got a bit stroppy but the bulk were very good. I found operating out of Bankstown, Moorabbin and Parafield (They called them secondary controlled airspace) to be no fuss compared to "Primary's". Experience is completely the opposite with the likes of Tamworth, Coffs Harbour and Albury. They always seemed to make it hard and More complicated than it should be. Bankstown and Moorabbin in the hay-days of training were very busy compared to the likes of Tamworth and Coffs yet were so much easier to arrive and depart. A phrase that always annoys me is "This time", it's just fluff. If you are going to say that you might as well say the actual time, an example is "XYZ taxing this time". There is no reason to use it.
  22. Student Pilot
    Not bought for restoration, just to sit on the side of his airstrip. The fellow has a (All flying) Moth Minor, Beaver, 180, 170 and a Bell 47. He spent all his working life flying mostly Beavers on AG and now retired.
  23. Student Pilot
    Unfortunately that's the way workplaces are going now, divide, dominate and wind back hard won work conditions.
  24. Student Pilot
    Saw some flying at Jindabyne ages ago on fires. Very strange to see them operating. Big machine. Wooden blades that flex with servo tabs for control. Vague memory they had a 5000 L bucket, if they worked with that they would average more than the Cranes we have here in the summer.
  25. Student Pilot
    Snap or flick rolls are usually done just with elevator and rudder, it stalls and literally flicks around, a horizontal spin. That's big machines as well as little
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