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  1. Student Pilot
    Yoo a bit late Gazza or maybe I was, I only just saw this This bloke's story is credible Richard Pearse : New Zealand Pioneer Aviator (1877 - 1953)
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    That's the second MAF one in a month. I wonder did the pilots thank God for being saved or wonder why he failed in his duty of care by allowing them to crash. The MAF mob flying for Jeezuz must not be training the sprogs like they used to. "Minor" damages? Close to 500k if there is not too much damage to the port wing.
  3. Student Pilot
    Looks like a Kitten derivative, Jessie Anglin design originally.
  4. Student Pilot
    Protec?
  5. Student Pilot
    Make sure you have a 50 year lease signed before you start building. The Armidale Aeroclub put a lot of time and effort in building and maintaining a clubhouse. The rent went from peppercorn rent to $1000 a year then before too long to $4000 a year, they were trying to question the last increase when the lease ran out. The council then threatened them with eviction for non payment. The airfield is run as a purely commercial enterprise to maximise income, community doesn't enter the equation. I haven't heard what the outcome is, it appears the council will evict them and rent the building out commercially. The Mayor is a really decent bloke and also a member of the Aeroclub, hopefully he will be able to talk the council round to sense. As with most councils now they are run by the CEO not by the people.
  6. Student Pilot
    What about Wedderburn? Used to be lots of activity there a few years ago, be surprised if there was nobody training there.
  7. Student Pilot
    It might appear on the surface but no
  8. Student Pilot
    You can get paperwork to run a 985 on mogas, never used to like it. It stank and used to vaporise In hot weather. An optional electric pump mounted near the rear tank would have helped. Wouldn't run ethanol fuel in anything, not even a lawn mower, it buggars up any older fuel lines. If you don't run an engine for a month or 2 it clogs up carby bowl with green gunk.
  9. Student Pilot
    More power, longer overhaul periods and reliability are reason turbines are used, they are also lighter than pistons. The smaller engines in the likes of a Jet Ranger only use 120L/H for the equivalent power in a piston you would need something like a 720 Lyc. Fuel flow with those would be similar but the Allison/RR would be a third the weight. Once you get bigger in turbines they start using a lot more fuel, a PT6-34 uses (Approximately) 220L/H for 750 SHP. With PT6-67F you are looking at anything up to 420L/H for 1700 SHP
  10. Student Pilot
    Hence the employment of so called "Contractors" which really are just employees. If blame and liability can be shifted to the last link, to the one actually doing the service or work then the higher ups don't have to deal with it. As I said if pilots went to ANY authority with complaints, they would not be pilots anymore, once word is out they would not be employed anywhere. It's reached that level.
  11. Student Pilot
    Sounds like you need to brake it up a bit, as I said just do half an hour (If your schools not too busy) then have a talk about how you went, what mistakes you made. Then go and do another half hour. Learning a new skill is taxing both mentally and physically. What trouble do you have, is it rounding out and flaring?
  12. Student Pilot
    Spacesailor, have you got a build thread on your hotrod?
  13. Student Pilot
    I agree, things should be safe for any industry, it's not so. Just take something like health care, Doctors working 90 hours a week in hospitals, half the number of nurses needed, plus nurses help with the hospitals profits by having to pay for parking at work! Don't expect help from CASA, if any pilot does come forward they will be the ones worse off, not the company they work for. I have come across people in CASA that were helpful, they are the exception. Nobody wants anything to do with CASA, they are poison. With most work being casual, expect the pressure to operate with illegal practices to get worse. That's what happens when employees lose any bargaining they had, no choice but do what your told (illegal or not) or no job.
  14. Student Pilot
    A Dash34 PT6 burns 200L/H, twice the fuel flow to a radial 985 of 100L/H werking, I'd hardly call that economy Turbines do perform better and the pointy front helps as well.
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    Binghi, you can rail and spew all you like it doesn't change anything. Nobody wants to build a coal fired power station in Australia. There is pressure from some for the Government to build a couple then hand them over to their mates, that going to happen?
  16. Student Pilot
    Some of you blokes don't fly for a living then?
  17. Student Pilot
    Don't stress Grant, that only makes it worse. Do you have a different choice of instructor? Not saying the one you currently have is no good just that all people are different and some work with a different approach that can work. You could try maybe just stop at 5 take offs and landings then goen have a debrief and cup of coffee, relax for half an hour or so then go and do another lot. You can get what is called skill fatigue, learning a new skill past a certain point you just make the same mistakes. Not everybody is the same. How much experience does your instructor have?
  18. Student Pilot
    What a grand Aircraft. Mr Binghi they were not a truck to fly, light well balanced controls. A very capable working machine, carried the bulk of Australias topdressing industry (along with the Fletcher) from late fifties till the mid 90's when the last of them was sold overseas. The only bad point was visibility wasn't brilliant on climb in the hills.
  19. Student Pilot
    Minor problem most of Australia's power stations are at the end of the life or some cases past it, none of the power companies want to build new coal fired power stations, bad investment. When the major feed went down to SA wind and solar were the main power feed to SA for 3 weeks to a month. That was also powering the aluminium smelter in Portland Vic. They said because of the better quality feed incorporating the batteries they had less trouble with power fluctuations. That was just on wind/solar and the new battery pack with some assistance from a couple of gas fired power stations. By "gold plated" do you mean something that was built after 1962?
  20. Student Pilot
    Indonesia has better internet in the middle of Kalimantan ( Borneo to us old farts) and for about the equivalent of $20 Oz a month. Why do Australian providers charge so much? Because they can.
  21. Student Pilot
    Surely you jest. A mean spirited government changing the definition of NBN to using the 120 year old copper network so they can do it cheap, then getting contractors/con-men/shysters to do everything from selling to installing. It might be a semi government body but they are renting out all services to private enterprise. Consequently worse services and coverage. Doesn't help selling access to publicly paid for infrastructure to private companies to try and get competition. Private enterprise doesn't mean cheaper, it means they charge what they want because they can. Look at power, it's a long way dearer now than 20 years ago and there has been nothing spent on hardware/infrastructure. In fact power companies are talking of government upgrading major supply lines so they can sell more power. It might have been less efficient but when power was sold through County Councils it was a lot cheaper, most towns had depots running maybe 30 vehicles, employing 100 people (Local). Now one vehicle services many towns, any work done on lines/poles is just minimum.
  22. Student Pilot
    Real world GA is there is always commercial expectations and operational imperatives, you wouldn't get or keep a job without that. People working for nothing or very little don't have a choice but do what their told.
  23. Student Pilot
    Telecommunications? Electricity? Water? Better service compared to what, post war Europe?
  24. Student Pilot
    In working tailwheel aircraft normally you wheel it on and depending on the aircraft and strip sometimes actually pole forward to keep weight off the tailwheel. As usual there's no one way of doing things, whatever works for you.
  25. Student Pilot
    For me it's a compilation of a few things, aircraft attitude, noise and feel of controls. Don't really think about control column position but I suppose it might be part of it. The only time I look at airspeed is in something a bit faster and heavier to make sure the aircraft is OK for flap extension.
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