IanR

Sorry to hear that, Ian. But I hope the new paint scheme softens the blow.Were you on the ground when the hail struck?

 

As up in Bourke then Renmark a few weeks ago and got in some good thermal practice for summer.

 

Kaz

ABA had a "slight" issue with hail a few weekend ago up near Scone. Wings are currently stripped and being recovered. I am taking the opportunity to repaint it in the original RAF colour scheme so will look somewhat different when it flys again early in the new year.

Something different today, hitched a ride back from Maryborough in the Seamax. Weather was perfect so lots of splash & goes along the way. Great fun!!!The SeaMax will soon be on line with ProSky Maryborough for water training & endorsements. The Sandy Straights between Maryborough & Fraser Island are an ideal place to enjoy this type of flying.

And a Stearman

I have always just used the New button when in the forums - and it went straight to things that had new items. Now you have to press New and then select Forums - is there any way to make this a one selection thing again ? If you are viewing forums I think it should assume that when you press new that you just want to see new forum posts ?

Hi Nev,I had a 1937 empire star BSA 250cc, with foot gear change, & it still had the bolt studs on the tank for the hand gear.

Was offered 1000 pound and any new BSA in the BSA dealer's shop.

 

Shame, my mothers boyfriend took it for scrap to pay his gambling dept.

 

spacesailor

Hmmm - bit far to come in the Auster for a day - but must visit sometime

I bought my Auster from one of them - glad they are OK !

The only way into Camden Airport was by air. Did you get caught in the traffic jam on Burragorang Road? I went through The Oaks, but not past the airport. I wonder how it faired.OME

The wet weather in Sydney made it a bit hard to actually get to Camden Airport this morning !! Its about 25 years since I last saw this level of flooding here.

I have been having fun looking back at tracks on OzRunways - one from last weekend attached when we did an arrival into Camden via the river at 500AGL. Tower is happy to approve if you ask.

When we went way to Echuca my wife rather liked the general tracking page where she could follow our progress tx.ozrunways.com

There is a guy at Camden who was setting this up with the intention of using 5 Harvards - not sure where it got to

IanR. The answer is that they can go out and run the risks on their own. When they can demonstrate that the risks are lower, then they may get to carry a passenger.

Some pilots have personality or physical defects that are likely to make their flying high risk.For this reason, I have been known to delay or refuse to issue the endorsement.

Awfully murky around the ranges to the East so I hope everyone got home ok.I saw your Super Decathlon there, DJP, looking very nice as usual.

 

The guy with the Acrolite (?)(baby biplane)(Denis) mentioned he was very grateful to you for assistance given at Lilydale a while back.

 

Kaz

Jealous !! I was looking at importing one a while ago but the dollar tanked and made it un-economic !! Love them.

Depending on exactly where you live, Camden isn't that far and has a number of good schools

Went to the Auster/Short Wing Piper rally over the weekend at Wentworth. A very long flight in an Auster for a tall pilot ! - Camden to Wentworth was about 6 hours flying time. Of course we had a headwind in both directions. Was good to meet up with old friends.

The pictures are interesting - for a motor that has only done 5 hours seems like quite a lot of vertical scuffing and the deposits on the cylinder walls look like rust ? Is the scuffing normal for this type of motor ?

Missed the first episode - hopefully it comes on again sometime

Just bought his autobiography on Kindle. Its jumped to #1 best seller in military history !

Just caught up with the news. We only live a kilometre away and got the storm but nothing like what the airfield got.

There is a guy building a full size one at Wedderburn that sounds similar

Such a lovely day today had to go for a quick fly - local round Camden and back in the scenic way (via the river at 800 feet) followed by a few circuits. Youngest son was doing the flying so I just went along for the ride