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Must admit, I'm more interested in what people are flying than what qualifications they possess.
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Microair transmit issue in new Jabiru
sfGnome replied to Roscoe's topic in Instruments, Radios and Electronics
Years back I walked around the transmitting station at Shep, and you could hear the program they were transmitting because it made the metal around the aerial cables vibrate. Then again, as a teenager, I had a mate who lived next door to 2CH's transmitter, and their oven played the radio all day and all night. As 2CH was the 'old folks' station in those days, it was a bit hard for us 'cool' teens to cope with... -
Sorry gents, but you're all missing the main point. What the hell was Planey doing looking at Flightradar 24 at 5am?? Go to bed man!
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He He. Lots of years ago, as an experienced project manager, I put together a project plan for the house extensions we built. Bearing in mind that we'd already done it once before on our previous hose, and allowing for all sorts of contingencies and very low worker availability (ie me), I confidently forecast a 12 month project. It only took 5 years, and there are parts of it still waiting to be finished when I retire.
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I used to fly a Jab160 and found the seat to be rather uncomfortable on a long flight. After an overnighter, I put the self-inflatable I'd been sleeping on the night before onto the seat (slightly deflated), and had a much more comfortable return trip. Even if you never camp out, they're well worth buying just for the Jab seat.
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O.K., that's brilliant. I'd like to pretend that was what I meant all along, but that would involve bending the truth well past the elastic limit!
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My brother used to have a farm at Crookwell. He was mustering sheep one day when an F111 came over the ridge, very low and very fast. He said that he didn't hear it until it was passed, and then he had to go and regather the flock from the four corners of the paddock...
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Yeah. The pictures in question were carved on a cave wall!
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Reading about Louis Blériot's flight over the channel, looking at the pictures and thinking "I could build that!"... Must have been about 8 at the time, and the thought has never left me.
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My vast(??!!) experience of the younger folk is that they're all different. (Amazing, really). My younger son is simply not interested in coming aloft. My daughter came up once to keep me happy. My older son was keen, but after a bout of airsickness his keenness diminished somewhat. Just about to give up on the lot of 'em, when recently I took my son in law up. "Wow. Awesome! This is amazing. My dad is going to be soooo jealous". Looks like I finally found one with the nascent bug... :)
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I had an 'interesting' moment fairly early after getting my X-country endo. Heading north into a strong headwind, crossing an east-west mountain range, I only left a bit over 500' ground clearance. Approaching the range, she started descending at a fair rate of knots. I was on the edge of chucking a U-ey when it flattened out and I could climb again, but I've always approached mountains with a lot more respect (and a lot more clearance) since then.
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That's a pretty impressive "least impressive"... :)
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A little learning... and a new item on my checklist.
sfGnome replied to ExJourno's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I generally include a comment in my briefing about some "really stupid" passengers who've let their feet get near the pedals. That seems to do the trick... :) -
Thanks for asking the question. I'd given up looking for it. I like OzR, but geez I wish they'd just write a few sentences of instructions on each new feature. It doesn't need to be big power points or anything, but saying "We've got feature XYZ" without explaining how you access it (or even what it is on some occasions) just isn't helpful.
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No, GG. What he said was to wait for an announcement from the people involved rather than going on rumour. Didn't look like 'scoffing' and 'ripping' to me.
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Saw Robert Redford's latest flick tonight ("All is Lost"). Now *there's* a bloke who could have used an EPIRB...
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I've had two flights recently on quite warm days. One was lovely and calm and relaxed and made me fall in love with flying all over again (apart from having to manage the temps on climb. Ah well), while the other was so turbulent that I hit my head on the canopy 3 times in the last 5 miles. Very, very glad to get down on that particular day!
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Nup, it's not Mt Beauty (I think!). Now if it's the next valley down, does that put it somewhere near Bright?
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Took a flight in a glider today, courtesy of the good folk at Mt Beauty Gliding Club. Just a half hour (couldn't afford longer) to experience the feel of a very different aircraft. Much fun, but I think I'll stick with my motor for the time being... :)
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The best part about this photo is that you can ignore the ugly sod on the right and concentrate on the beautiful bride on the left... ...And a merry Christmas to all!
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Just a few test flights for a faulty - now repaired - Altitude Encoder. Of course, I had to take it up to 7,500', didn't I? Never bothered to do that over the home field before. Nice view.
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Robots are how Google et. al. know all about everything on the web. Their computers, commonly known as robots, 'crawl' around the web, following all the links on a page and all the links on those pages and all the links... etc.
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Mostly PC, but only because I can't get the little pop-up preview window on the iPad.
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I can't think of a better purpose for my flying than visiting my Daughter in Vic.
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Thanks to you both.
