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  1. Student Pilot
    Yours looks different to mine, what gives?
  2. Student Pilot
    How do you edit posts with new format? Can't find any edit button.
  3. Student Pilot
    The dog got my attention, some sort of poodle cross I think. I then settled down to watch what promised to be a very interesting presentation only to be bombarded with him advertising stuff. Stopped the vid at 1 minute, lost concentration and decided to look at kitten yootube. Can you give me a short review Gazza?
  4. Student Pilot
    The engine tone deepened and an increase in volume can be heard. The Herc drops I have seen (LATs have been used a lot more this year), their climb angle wouldn't be 10 degrees let alone 18 after dropping. Yes they avoid flight into smoke. The lead aircraft normally fly's the drop then when clearing the LAT for the drop explains what they want with the drop including exit and departure from the fire after the drop.
  5. Student Pilot
    If you listen to the video you can hear the engines powering up.
  6. Student Pilot
    Fire near Canberra
  7. Student Pilot
    Why was the video taken down?
  8. Student Pilot
    That video shows the aircraft clearly established in a climbing turn after the drop then appears to disappear into smoke, looks to have then lost several hundred feet and impacted. With 2 very experienced pilots they would have been established on instruments and should have continued to climb. Looking at it again there appears to be a very steep pitch up after the load was released. Normally you get a pitch up only while the load is going out, not after. The aircraft also appears to initiate a turn left at the same time. The aircraft impact site looked as though it hit wings level.
  9. Student Pilot
    The lead aircraft have been working with all the LAT's since September, I think they would have an idea of the capabilities of all aircraft. As I said retardant mainly used on bush, most fires have been bush this season. I would say 75% of my drops (SEAT) would have been retardant this year
  10. Student Pilot
    The LATs and VLAT in Australia do drop water/ foam depending on where the drop is. In sensitive areas just water is dropped, grass and scrub mostly foam and bush mostly retardant. SEATs do the same, choppers, medium and heavy mostly drop water/ foam very rarely retardant.
  11. Student Pilot
    I had heard the tailplane was intact, no sign of anything of any size in that footage. Absolute destruction.
  12. Student Pilot
    Crew fatigue is well looked after on fires. The bigger machines have multiple crew and change out regularly. I recon that front in NSW was the one that came though Vic on Wednesday. We went to a fire near Lake Bolac on Wednesday and conditions were very rough in the lee of the Gramps making flying hard work.
  13. Student Pilot
    How's your back country flying goen Gazza?
  14. Student Pilot
    I agree Red, my Malvern Star is a real thoroughbred and only those specially trained can handle it, not for your average Joe Blow.
  15. Student Pilot
    Cirrus used to target wealthy individuals with no previous flying experience then release them into the world with what some considered to be inadequate training for what is a high performance and complex machine, the result is reflected in accident stats.
  16. Student Pilot
    Cirrus seem to have a lot of landing accidents
  17. Student Pilot
    It's not a control tower only traffic advisory. Things have been very busy in some area's with the fires. In the last few months I have been Operating out of ordinary CTAFs with over 10 aircraft just associated with the fires plus GA traffic. Corryong, Mansfield, Hamilton just a couple. As long as you keep calls to a minimum and use common sense everything Ok, the 10 calls from inbound to clear are not welcome when things are very busy.
  18. Student Pilot
    Was the "tower" just an advisery or was it controlled airspace? If just an advisery seems all that would do would be to add more transmissions to an already busy airspace, just talk directly to any conflicting traffic. Broadcast your intensions and keep your calls to a minimum.
  19. Student Pilot
    Most NDB's are being decommissioned now. Never found them to be reliable, mostly because of old rubbish radios. Did have a King KR87 (To get it NVFR) in a little machine, it was mainly good for listening to the radio. Pretty amazing CASA still has reliance on 1920's technology, indicates how progressive they are.
  20. Student Pilot
    Normally laminar flow aerofoil sections are thicker further back, the thickest section of the aerofoil is a third or further back. The usual clark Y and a lot of NACA sections it's around a quarter chord.
  21. Student Pilot
    Couple of things, firstly I have been using GPS (For work) since they came out commercially available, only once has it stopped working, just after they first started being used, that was for half an hour. That's since around 1991. Next VFR flying is just that, looking out the window. If you are worried about flying into rising ground then knowing LSA won't have any impact, you shouldn't be flying that low. Yes I know weather can throw curved balls, training should cover this.
  22. Student Pilot
    Agreed, use maps as well. LSAT has no place in VFR really, if it's non VFR then no fly.
  23. Student Pilot
    Boeing will get rewarded for it's bad behaviour just like banks did in the last world financial crisis. Trumpf will step in and bail them out, one hand on the bible will make it all OK
  24. Student Pilot
    Never used 1 in 60, I look out the window and use maps before GPS. Now just use GPS.
  25. Student Pilot
    Hunsta, like your Avatar
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