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  1. 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?
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    KR, you on bookface, twitter or Instagram?
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    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.
  4. Student Pilot
    Not going to the US
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Not all commercial pilots work for nothing. There are some sectors of GA that still have employment.
  10. Student Pilot
    Even the early Piggaio's weren't handsome aircraft. Is that a Suzy air one?
  11. 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.
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    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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    To me the most basic flying is the most fulfilling. Having an open cockpit maximises the experience, something like a Thruster, primary, basic flying at it's best.
  14. Student Pilot
    Mebe one of the schools still operating, they either run worriers or 172's
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    When a system is designed to be convoluted, complicated and very expensive it rules out representation of those without financial resources. There is the legal aid program, ask anybody who has worked in that as to it's success. Seems wrong that if you can make an argument more complicated and take longer then you get rewarded accordingly. Also seems wrong if you muddy the waters with mega dollars from one of the biggest companies in the world and pay enough money you can get a convicted criminal off on a point of law. There's law and there's law, one for us and one for...................
  16. Student Pilot
    All of the above are good, any reason to fly. Pawnee great little machine, coastal picnic great, any view from above is triffik. he changing 3D The countryside from lower (Legal) altitudes is mesmerizing. I'm lucky enough to do this stuff
  17. Student Pilot
    How is the virus situation making more work for CASA? With a lot less people flying, less maintenance and hardly any airlines flying what are they so busy with? Has CASA stood down a lot of staff?
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    Is it worthwhile trying to get any sense out of CASA? There are some good people there. The main trouble I've had is nobody will make any decisions, they just quote regs and say put the question to somebody else. If it's anything like the rest of of their changes of regulations that are supposed to be interchangeable or direct replacements to FAA or JAA stuff, never happens, look at part 61. What a disaster, all it's done is make anything to do with a licence a lot more expensive and complicated.
  19. Student Pilot
    Had a close look, it looked Italian so I googled Caproni, came up with similar aircraft but not the same.
  20. Student Pilot
    Fokker derivative? Ford produced his own copies after inspecting a Fokker, only his were all metal I believe. The tail/fin in that photo looks very Ford.
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    I usually go on memory, haven't seen that one. Looks like a metal version of a Cirrus or something it was based on. Just had a close look at the photo, looks like it's in Australia at Latrobe Valley. Has a bit of a Gippsland Aero look to it.
  22. Student Pilot
    Blackburn Kangaroo comes from a long way back in the brain.
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    There will be jobs but as of the last aviation crises in Australia (pilot strike/Ansett collapse) there will be lots of competition for limited jobs. I would imagine the same as last time wages will be considerably less than before things stopped. Lots of pilots vying for limited jobs, just what predatory companies like.
  24. Student Pilot
    Wimmin always like a whine
  25. Student Pilot
    Fibro or fibrous cement was used a lot in cheaper houses especially commission homes, still a lot of older places with internal walls built from it.
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