Bandit12

It's not often you get to say to someone to come flying as it is a cheaper hobby!

once you finish your PPL, a NFVR rating is nice, you can do the harbour scenics at night!

There are lazy spellers, but I wouldn't put you in that category, and in fact I've been getting interested in how people who missed the critical years, could possibly get right up to the top standards of English quickly, and I mentioned this in a recent post, suggesting they go down to the local school, find out what spelling books are used for ages 10 to 12, and study those books. I would do spelling first, ten grammar and constructions later.

But then again, if it isn't causing you any grief, and you can still do the things you want to in life, I say just get on with living and don't worry about it. I have rarely had any difficulty understanding your posts Flyerme.

Self catheterisation should do it! Can you imagine that as part of the pax briefing.

"Today we are going to be flying for quite some time. In your seat pocket you will find equipment and directions for safe and hygienic toileting. I would like to remind you that is an offence to smoke anywhere in the aircraft, including while toileting."

Don't know if I can read any more of this for fear of wetting myself with excitement! Have reasonable plans now to spend the week next year after doing a Route 66 roadtrip, then on to Canada for a conference. Might have to arrange an Aussie meeting point!

Looks like I will be going to Oshkosh next year - very excited!

I assessed a kid once for learning difficulties. His full scale IQ (an outdated, almost meaningless measure but fine for illustrative purposes) was off the chart, and yet his written language was appalling and his spelling was at a level about 10 years below his age. Ask him to write and it was almost gibberish, ask him to answer verbally and it was unbelievable just how bright he was. One of my brothers builds truck trailers and is almost as bad in written language, yet can eyeball a trailer and tell you where it will fail and by how much and where it needs to be reinforced to prevent failure.

I think it is wrong to presume that errors are from laziness. How a person is approached regarding their mistakes will make a big difference to whether they even come back, and to be honest most people who struggle to spell probably already know that they struggle, and don't need a faceless person on the internet to tell them. If it was that simple, I suspect their problems would have been solved by now. My sympathy is lower to those who are representing a business and have mistakes in advertising - no excuses for a business not to appear professional. For individuals in social settings, as long as they can get their point across, I think that is enough.

I think Nev's thought of buy up some spares and build a good one is probably the easiest option. You might be able to find a secondhand one with low hours, but have no real way of knowing if it is actually low, nor how it has been treated/mistreated. Changing engine will mean new mounts and checking COG at the least; at the worst you will have to make new cowls and even add weight elsewhere to get the COG right again.

If you build a spare, or rebuild the one you've got, surely that is the best way of knowing what you've got.

Statistics ain't so bad - it's the agenda of the person running (or asking for) the analysis, or the complete lack of understanding about how to use them that is the real problem.....

But the internet, now that's definitely all bad

Yeah he could have landed in the large cake that was on the 19th :) I just caught the end of this on the news and apparently the wing came off prior to his crash landing! I love the news reporting :)

.......beat around the.....

You are getting ~12% of users looking without being either registered, or logged in. I suspect that this figure is not enough to substantially sway the distribution unless there was some rationale for it (eg CPL holders are less likely to want to be identified - probably a bit of a stretch).

What is says to me is that despite the use of the word "Recreational" in the name, the majority of users are "RA-Aus" users rather than "recreational" users. The majority of RA-Aus users explains pretty well the decline following the organisation debacles of recent years. If you want to attract PPL and CPL users, I guess you would need to work out where they currently are and deliver resources and content that would attract them to the site. At the risk of turning away the core of the users here already, of course....

Another thought leading on from Dayfdd's - perhaps mods could at least tweak titles of threads when they have the spare time (offer them a 50% payrise maybe ) to help with searching. Titles like "Another Jab Goes Down" is much more difficult to find in the future than "Jabiru accident 01/01/01".

Has RAA done any statistical analysis of the accident rate due to airworthiness causes, for RAA aircraft by type and number in the fleet?

we still have our guns bandithad to hand back the AK and M1 but we still have the 9mm's

 

We liken this to handing in a jabiru but being allowed to keep a thruster

Happened to the shooting fraternity in 1996 - aviators be warned.....

Looks like it Pete. Turns it out is French, and a contemporary of the Breguet 14 too.

Camera I'm pretty sure. The single synchronised gun at the front with the twin Vickers at the rear should help identify it.

Has it been proven that the aircraft ran out of fuel? A blockage (such as from contaminated fuel) can stop the fan just as effectively as empty tanks.

Looks interwar - more streamlined than WWI. Is it just me or does the observer look caucasian? Closest aircraft that I could find with the right sort of specs was the Breguet 14, but it has a distinctive flat cowling with cooling slats, while this one look more radial or rotary.

$340 isn't too bad for a Warrior. Aircraft are expensive to operate and too any instructors and schools have been starving themselves for too long. An advantage of Lismore is that one can get out to do circuits or the training area very quickly and the VDO time will not be much more than your airswitch time. A bit different to a major airport where a large proportion of logbook hours are taken up with taxi and wait times rather than flying the bird.

Didn't it have the engine and doors stolen off it at Logan before it could be recovered after the last incident?

.....accused him of being a tyre kicker."

Well, you can imagine what happened then. Cars screeched to a halt, mothers covered the ears of their children, as Andy drew himself up to his full height of 4 ft 11in and screamed..........

Curiously, the more pictures of Jabs after forced landings, the more I am impressed with their fuselage design. Not sure I would be wanting to fork out the costs of engines that aren't making time regularly, but from the perspective of survivability, it looks like there isn't much better.

I think it was 24-7984, just caught it on Channel 9.

Seriously, we are a real lovely bunch ... we scrap sometimes, but we still love each other in the morning (as they say). LOL

Welcome to the forum Ian