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  1. Student Pilot
    Some of you blokes don't fly for a living then?
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Student Pilot
    Telecommunications? Electricity? Water? Better service compared to what, post war Europe?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Student Pilot
    Depends.........................what do you do if the aircraft doesn't have a stall warning? Safe slow flight can be achieved without reference to an audible warning or an airspeed indicator.
  12. Student Pilot
    Maybe if the world started doing something now then it would not be so catastrophic when it becomes a problem? Alarmist silly talk.......yes?
  13. Student Pilot
    Could be but usually pilots of Lead aircraft, VLAT and LAT's don't go backwards to fly single engine aircraft. As I said, SEAT pilots wouldn't be flying the stuff that school is training on.
  14. Student Pilot
    Overcrowding not a worry then?
  15. Student Pilot
    Yep, used to be a few Ag aircraft there. Eastern have a Dash service there from Sydney that is twice as expensive as a flight to Bali, still rather go to Armidale though.
  16. Student Pilot
    25T sounds a lot, 250 sounds a bit more realistic. If we ever get around to recycling in this country (Instead of sending overseas) we will get better.
  17. Student Pilot
    Wasn't saying the oscillations were a risk, just a bit annoying. Depending who was flying as to how bad they were, some would let it wallow others would keep on top of it until turbulence set it going again.
  18. Student Pilot
    You get a for that
  19. Student Pilot
    Here's an example of why general aviation is going the way of the Dodo https://www.armidaleexpress.com.au/story/6669536/airport-rent-takes-off-for-armidale-aero-club/?cs=471
  20. Student Pilot
    Australians who fly firebombing aircraft are agricultural pilots to start with, they get experience flying AG before they go firebombing. As opposed to Canadian and American pilots who can get into fire bombing without any previous low level experience, we have fire pilots who come from North America to Australia who have never flown AG. That link you included showed they train with Callair and Super Cub, firebombing pilots usually fly Air Tractor 802's. The fuel load in an 802 is more than the gross weight of either a Super Cub or Callair, then add 3 ton of retardant and just over 3 ton of aircraft. I'm a bit puzzled why a fire pilot would go to a school to fly those aircraft unless it was for nostalgic reasons.
  21. Student Pilot
    according to news channels, that would be a "Cessna"
  22. Student Pilot
    No to nuclear, taking into account decommissioning nuclear is vastly more costly than alternative sources. Storage of waste another major issue, seems those in favour of nuclear say just bury it and let future generations worry about the problems. Talk about temperatures 8000 years ago, they are talking 500,000 year half life for nuclear waste. Short term gain for a few, long term pain and annihilation of our planet in the long term. We also have to stop digging uranium from our ground, only real use is small amounts for medical use. The amount of humans on our planet is the biggest issue facing our future.
  23. Student Pilot
    Except the oscillations from that V tail
  24. Student Pilot
    Lab might have been seeing eye dog Either that or it was Doctor going for a run
  25. Student Pilot
    Depends what job you are going for, as a pilot in GA (AG and fire) work has dropped away to virtually nothing. Weather plays a big part but it's a very mercenary profession, a lot of AG pilots now go overseas for employment. Might be different this winter with the rain they will be screaming for pilots shortly but as I said a lot of pilots have organised work away. When AG work is on your expected to fly 60 days straight then as soon as the work dries up your gone. Summers are a bit different on fires, if your on contract work that means work for at least 3 months. Last winter I decided not to go away and stayed and worked locally any work I could get, clearing native forest of weeds and pines/planting trees and welding/fabrication. All casual work (No sick pay) with no guarantee of continuing work past the weekend, pays enough to keep some groceries in the cupboard and that's about it.
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