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  1. Student Pilot
    You take too much too seriously Turbo, cut a bit of slack for some throw away lines ? The foreign students are a worry at times, with unintelligible calls and questionable circuit procedure's. On the other hand they are learning a new complex career in a foreign country with a second language, must be very difficult so I try to cut them some slack. I do blame some of their instructors for bad habits. They always join "Midfield crosswind" no matter where they are in the the circuit or inbound. Lighten up Turbo
  2. Student Pilot
    True ^
  3. Student Pilot
    Photo of painting doesn't really do it justice
  4. Student Pilot
    Best to avoid parachute ops anywhere, law unto themselves.
  5. Student Pilot
    If you pay a lot more for one of those good Chinese ones, the difference is night and day
  6. Student Pilot
    Have yoo thought of a drone Spaceman? I didn't fly for a while and it was the next best thing to actually being in the aircraft
  7. Student Pilot
    Depends your interpretation of "Good work". I read somewhere today they have stopped operations for a while, dunnooo how those natives will get on without the latest bible delivered.
  8. Student Pilot
    True enough but...............................................it has been said a lot, a device to stymie any criticism. You keep saying it and it becomes a cry wolf situation. Look at the North American model of how not to tell the truth and use everything for your own (And your mates) monitory reward..............now is not the time to criticize/for the good of the nation/don't listen to them it's fake news. At least our federal opposition are working with the government in a bipartisan way.
  9. Student Pilot
    Casa working towards that, have been for years
  10. Student Pilot
    If you mean by "Normal" most out of business then yes.
  11. 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)
  12. Student Pilot
    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.
  13. Student Pilot
    Looks like a Kitten derivative, Jessie Anglin design originally.
  14. Student Pilot
    Protec?
  15. 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.
  16. Student Pilot
    What about Wedderburn? Used to be lots of activity there a few years ago, be surprised if there was nobody training there.
  17. Student Pilot
    It might appear on the surface but no
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. Student Pilot
    Spacesailor, have you got a build thread on your hotrod?
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Student Pilot
    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?
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