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  1. Student Pilot
    :puzzled::puzzled: Where do you look? Hooly dooly that's busy.
  2. Student Pilot
    People would have to use maps instead of GPS, the trauma
  3. Student Pilot
    If fitted I used to do the same, you could usually get an ABC channel Never used for navigation
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Student Pilot
    A long trail https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Student Pilot
    Unfortunately that's the way workplaces are going now, divide, dominate and wind back hard won work conditions.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. Student Pilot
    Hiho Arthur, can you give some details on your BM conversion? Howiz it go? What sort of revs are you cruising with? Sorry to say I liked the Stollite yellow, it sort of looked military somehow How high you flying in that piccie?
  15. Student Pilot
    KR, you on bookface, twitter or Instagram?
  16. Student Pilot
    That Hamilton 47 is an interesting aircraft. I haven't come across that one before, one of the companies that merged to become Boeing. With a 985 Pratt it would have been a pretty useful load hauler.
  17. Student Pilot
    Not going to the US
  18. Student Pilot
    My original point was phones are constantly searching for signal (Sparse coverage) lowering battery life, an app all the time on in the background would further degrade battery life. I agree that most people on social media are giving away all their private info anyway. I hope to be going to the Northern Hemisphere for work early next week so no point me downloading the app.
  19. Student Pilot
    Which is most of rural Australia, unreliable coverage at best. We used to have full signal and had no trouble 2 years ago, now intermittent when it's there. Complained, they said we are in a black spot. How can that change? The loss of signal coincided with putting NBN through the district, the signal went from then. Are they reducing transmission power? Privatizing telecommunications has made it worse for rural dwellers, Telstra now couldn't give a sh!t and Optus don't want to go where there is no population. We are unucky our local member is in Federal Guvmint, it's such a safe seat they just don't do anything unless your a private or religious school then they can give you all the dollars and help you need.
  20. Student Pilot
    If it's that critical they will make it compulsory, if pollies don't think it's that urgent then you can't go crook about people not downloading the app.
  21. Student Pilot
    From reports you have to have the app running all the time otherwise it won't register proximity. In the bush the phone is searching all the time (because of not enough towers and low signal strength) for signal lowering battery life, another app running makes even less battery life. Privacy issues are real but a lot of people have all sorts of rubbish like bookface/twater which is just a mine of information for the app providers. In the west of the state we have virtually no cases, if there was it might make more take up the app.
  22. Student Pilot
    Not all commercial pilots work for nothing. There are some sectors of GA that still have employment.
  23. Student Pilot
    Even the early Piggaio's weren't handsome aircraft. Is that a Suzy air one?
  24. Student Pilot
    Old "Bone Spur's" can't wait to order Americans into another war, if his numbers drop a lot he will want to deflect attention away from his bad management. South China sea and anywhere in the middle East are areas he'd flagged. The US aren't the only ones who treat veterans badly with a big percentage on the streets, Australia is a known abuser of Vets. Look at the nuclear test debacles, Vietnam Vet treatment, the de-seal and seal crews that did the F111 fuel tanks and the current major PFAS contamination problems throughout Australia. Australian military and it's penny pinching funds provider are negligent in their duty of care.
  25. Student Pilot
    KG, hang gliding is THE most basic flying, should be mandatory for anybody who wants to learn to fly ? Another of flying's pleasures is to see actual fungus like mushroom rings, certain times of year you can see grass of slightly different colour where the fungus is in great big rings. Plenty of Goldtops around here now, some of those hippies get high on them ?
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