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Watched Skyfall again last night. Bond is shot through the shoulder but continues to fight unaffected, is shot with a sniper rifle, falls off a train about 100 metres into a river, goes over a waterfall, etc etc.

Should have looked at the thread title, sorry.

Fueling up

Boeing Offers Near Zero Accomodation

A barbed comment.

If I was ever going to build it would be this.

Its a bit late for that now!

I once tried to arrange aerial exploration surveys in India. The answer was that the data and results would be classified and could not leave the country, and the work had to be done by an Indian contractor. At the time they were still using valve based electronics in the instruments and plotting the results by hand. Another time, in 1986 in Burma, I was working with an elctronics tech named Jeff Darwin. He was the only one who knew how to service the valve instruments in the Burmese survey planes.

Flight simulators, I'm told, have never been more popular. My 40+ son plays on one a lot. But he has no interest in real flying and I suspect most don't. It is hard to understand. One daughter told me that she intends to take up flying after her kids leave home.

I agree Alan. In the 70s I lived in Broken Hill, we had every type of club and sport imaginable. Sailing, gliding, GA flying, rallying, motorbike racing and many more. We all worked to the mine whistles and had ample leisure time. When I was on the staff we rarely worked overtime, never weekends, and when I was a union man the hours were 8am to 3pm day shift, etc. Flying and training was about the same cost relatively as now. My flying fell off due to costs of a growing family and more work committments when I moved to Victoria. It became intermittent for many years and I only got back into it with AUF and RAA in the 90s, then back into GA after retirement. My five children have all worked much harder than I did in my first ten years in the workforce, though probably not as consistently hard as I did later on. I don't think they would have the time to commit to flying frequently enough to stay safe. That was a big consideration for me, that I could only fly every six or eight weeks and was usually really tired when the weekend came along, I just didnt feel safe flying and used to get anxious the night before.

For many aircraft an autopilot is a cheap option. Some have a panic button that executes the 180 degree turn for you and keeps the plane right way up.

It was easier to stay current.

It’s like understanding the difference between series and parallel wiring.

I have have 51 years in GA and 28 years in RAA flying. Both are good and enjoyable. I sold an RA plane five years ago to buy a GA plane and am still ahead financially. But I will be buying an RA plane to escape from the demands of CASA AVMED next year. I like to fly, but I really like to fly to new places with family and friends. I am hoping that one of my grandchildren, at least, will follow in my footsteps.

70 is hardly advanced age these days (I hope).

Hi Lovetofly, there are not many USA pilots on this site. I hope one of them will respond for you. I take medication for blood pressure and heart rhythm, both are accepted here but as you say on a case by case basis. I understand that there are commercial pilots flying internationally with heart rhythm problems stabilised with medication.

I recently ordered a new RAA style aircraft with a sub 30kt stall. I considered the BRS option but did not take it. My only reason for doing so would have been for the passenger in event of pilot incapacitation. I am advised that sudden incapacitation without warning symptoms is highly unlikely. It is far more likely to catch me driving the family car on a highway or riding a motorbike, combined around 500 hours per year, than when flying for 30-50 hours per year.

Flight over Pyramid Hill, Victoria, 26 September. The hill is just to the right of the quarry, it looks huge from the ground but nothing much from the air.

South Africans use the word motivation differently, they call a commercial justification a motivation.

Keep us in the loop on how it goes!

Makes you wonder why, what advantage they thought this ugliness would give.

But why? You would have to be at or above 1000ft and experience a structural failure. Otherwise better to glide to an emergency landing. What is the chance of that structural failure?

What other country? We have members from around the world, but many are put off by comments like that and don't come back.

The EAA magazine always features ultralights often flown by airline pilots, the stories are inspiring. But not in Australia.

I landed on a big wide sealed runway today, 35 at Maryborough Vic, and a big mob of Roos scattered. I hadn't seen them from the circuit.