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Does being printed in the US mean that it'll have the US holidays on it, or is that part of the layout that the designer (ie you) do?
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That one of the Jab 5488 is excellent. Captured it beautifully.
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Why do we have to choose? I want to go to all those places (plus more!). Having been watching Le Tour all night for the last few weeks (and dragging around work barely awake during the days), I'd love to fly through some of those valleys. They are just awesome. Then again, who could go past Lake Eyre, Uluru and the Bungle Bungles for contrast. Hmmm... Then again, landing on a deserted beach in the Whitsundays wouldn't be exactly painful either. Oh, the choices!
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I'm presuming that it was a head-mounted camera? The way that the a/c was bouncing around on finals a few times there was made all the more obvious by the stability of your head! Who needs steady-cam when you've got a steady head! :)
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Lots of good answers here, but there's something else just as important as getting a good instructor; it's being a good student! If you don't understand something and you don't ask (again and again), then you're not a good student. If you dismiss something that you're told because you think you know better, then you're not a good student. If you go off in a huff because you've been ticked off by your instructor, then - you've guessed it - you not a good student. How do I know these things? Umm, because I'm not a...
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I'm the other way around I think. I'm not at all bothered by heights, be they cliffs or tall buildings or whatever, but the first time that my instructor tipped the plane forward and left (demonstrating incipient spin or something), I just about wet myself. Doesn't bother me now, but geez I got a fright at the time! Don't worry Jab. You'll be ok.
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What worked for me was a knee board from the Rec Flying shop. My instructor reckoned that they are a waste of time, but for the first couple of navs where I did things his way (as you would!), I had paper going everywhere. On the kneeboard, I keep the flight plan on the centre clip with printouts of the ERSA pages for all the airstrips that I could possibly get near (with things like CTAF, elevation, etc highlighted) sitting underneath. General notes in the clear pocket on the right. The relevant map sits folded on top of the whole shebang, or is slid off between my right leg and the centre console when I want to read the plan, and the whizz-wheel and other toys sit in the door pocket. Easy-as! Now all I need is two right hands so that I can fly the plane and write at the same time!
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Just remember Darky, it's always darkest just before it goes completely pitch black... Nah, seriously, what seems like forever now will seem like no time later on. (Geez. I'm starting to sound like an old man. Oh wait! I am an old man )
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Well, be sure to keep us up to date with progress (in between trying to actually make some progress, that is ).
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Yep, but that's on the east side. Anyhow, no matter. As it's CTA during the week, I can't go through there anyhow (unlike, say, the lane to the west of Williamstown). Thanks anyhow. Much appreciated. :)
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Thanks all for the quick replies. Bob, I couldn't find any reference to a VFR lane to the west, but as I'd most likely be going down on a weekend anyhow (think my brother would get a bit shirty if I dropped in while he was at work ), looks like it won't be a problem. Now I just have to work out when.
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I've been looking at the maps and satellite pictures for a potential flight heading south from Sydney - say from The Oaks to Moruya. If you come across to the coast around Wollongong, then how do you get past Nowra's restricted area? I can't go through the VFR lane on the coast and the land to the west of there looks pretty inhospitable. Alternatively, if you follow the Hume down to about Marulan before heading south, you still have to cross 20 miles of tall timber to the west of Moruya. What's the best way in, or am I just being too cautious? :confused:
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Fantastic photos!
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Hey! Who are you calling Heavily Weighted?? DJH, I almost went down to The Oaks this morning - I could have been there to see the great event. Just keep grinning :big_grin:
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flightygirls first area solo
sfGnome replied to flightygirl's topic in Student Pilot & Further Learning
Good on you Rach. On my first one, I just wanted to go sightseeing and I had to keep reminding myself that I was supposed to be training. Anyway, will I get in trouble if I suggest that this is the first of many last final frontiers?? :hittinghead: -
I wanna know what the MTOW is...
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Nev. I didn't mean the question in any negative way. Quite the opposite. I've recently seen an opportunity to do a tailwheel conversion and I've been wondering to myself whether there's any value in it - I mean, are there significant advantages (and disadvantages?) compared to flying a nosewheel a/c, or is it just a different skill and nothing more. Hence, when I saw your comment about tailwheel in the context of stability in rough air (and given that my wife gets very scared if the a/c moves any direction other than forwards), I thought I'd ask whether that was one of the advantages of that style of a/c. If a taildragger will make her more comfortable in the air, then I'll be shelling out the shekels for the training faster than you can blink. :)
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Can I ask a dumb question? Was the reference to tailwheel serious, or just because you like flying them and just threw it in? If you were serious, what difference do they make? (I'd actually like to know all the reasons why some people prefer tailwheel, but that'd be a hijack of the thread so perhaps I'd better start a new one :) )
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Casa big brother out of control
sfGnome replied to Steve Donald's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
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I was watching this video of an RV-12 demonstration flight from vansweb and I noticed a couple of things that seemed strange to me. The first was in a power-on stall (about 7:10 minutes in). The pilot says "There's full power... We'll just hold this attitude and let the speed bleed off... It takes almost full right rudder at this speed...". Why does it take full right rudder to maintain straight flight when it's climbing steeply? I understand the effects of precession and changing thrust, etc, but full rudder? (and yes, you can see in the video that it really is full). I've only ever flown a J-160 which only needs small pressure changes for that type of thing. Is such large pedal input normal for other a/c? The second thing was the stall characteristic. Every stall demonstrated dropped straight off to the right. I'm used to the 160 sort-of mushing down but staying level unless you did something silly. Given that this was essentially an advertising video, it seems odd that they were so unconcerned. Again, is that normal? Is it a low wing thing? The learning continues...
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Wow!!!!!!!!! (Erudite, ain't he?? )
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Have a look at the rudder work while he's running on one wheel & one wing - he's sure not taking it easy in there.
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If my models were anything to go by, it's important that he took the photos before the first flight... Wouldn't it be good if he could make a 1:1 scale model, Can you imagine flying around in that!? How cool would that be?
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Question about circuit givewayness
sfGnome replied to Tomo's topic in Student Pilot & Further Learning
A couple of times when I was practising glide approaches, I'd call "...glide approach 20 from 2000..." and my instructor would pipe up "... and Cessna ABC, we have you in sight". It struck me at the time as a very useful bit of information, even if it isn't in the AIP list of standard calls. :) -
Yep. Read it this morning while stuck in a Dr's waiting room. Made the time fly much faster than normal. I like Monty's regular column idea, so you'd better get your skates on and fly somewhere so you can tell us all about it!