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Posts posted by octave
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yep very cool, wont get to see that again, end of an era!
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Took my 7" flying yesterday, it performed very well. Thanks Ian
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I spent 12 years in the RAAF as a musician, now a musician and music teacher
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the flying account will have to recover before I go to far but I am looking forward to some long trips, maybe not tassie but we could compromise CFI , how about Flinders island?
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Thanks all, very glad to finally get it done!
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yeah ignition I had to squeeze in before you next fortnight:hittinghead: not even enough time for me to exercise my new privilegesAnd other people booking the Gazelle out every weekend for the next month and abit.......- 1
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Hi all,
got my x country endorsement today. :clap2:
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I have a Nav Aid, I don't really use it in flight, although I did find it useful as a learning tool. It would be fine to use in flight although space is a little tight in the Gazelle and I don't like to have too many bits and pieces rattling around. I did make a table of distances and correction angles which seems to work ok
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couldn't agree more!I would rather be roughly right than PRECISELY wrong. -
Little degrees now make big degrees (and Nm) later
That's why instead of using the whole 90nm to get back on track I would use a checkpoint 10,12 or maybe 15 nm down the track, that way once back on track I would still have my original checkpoints to monitor my progress
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I didn't round the .66 until I added it to the 2 degrees to parallel, that's how I got 3 and not 2.66. I would neither try nor recommend reading .66 of the sort of compasses we use.
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looks right to me, -2 degrees to parallel and -.66 degrees to converge with destination. Rounds up to -3 degrees therefore 007. If you did not apply a correction (and if nothing else changes) you would miss your destination by 4nm.
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My understanding of using the rudder to make a minor change of heading is this, I notice that I am flying 185 instead of 180, I briefly apply a small amount of left rudder, right wing lifts due to secondary effects, aircraft gently rolls left. We are still using roll to turn but as a secondary effect of yaw.
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OMG motzartmerv your a trekkie
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I was taught by this CFI and earlier this year I did my BFR with him, I have always found him thorough and fair. It is a great responsibility for a CFI to sign off on the BFR, it would not be good for a CFI to sign off a pilot who went on to be involved in incidents or poor behaviour or worse still a serious accident due to lack of skills or attitude. Perhaps this CFI would be much tougher the next time this pilot presented himself for a BFR.
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I agree with Ingnition, also our CFI with over 19500 hours also taught aviation at the university of NSW and prefers 6 minute markers, good enough for me
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Last fortnight - forced landing practise, stall and a couple of steep turns
Today circuits.
To me practising these skill is a big part of the joy of flying. After I got my pilot cert I think I probably did not practise these things as much, just happy to get up fly around and get back safely but as my confidence grew I started to practise these skills more often. Of course during my first BFR I had to demonstrate these skills to the CFI so it would seem foolish not to keep these skills up to date .
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My advice is Give it away old man
actually Lloyd is my brother in law and I guess it is my fault he wants to learn to fly, it was the couple of hours in the Gazelle that did it!
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well done!
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well done! a day you wont forget,
must have been 3639, 3519 is still not back!
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Hang in there Darky, I am sure it will all come together soon!
Airsick Pax
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are particularly fond of this boyfriend?
but seriously the only thing I can think of is very short flights in perfect weather and then gradually increasing the duration. I went through a stage during nav lessons where I would start to feel a bit off, I think due to looking down at maps, I found that ginger tablets provided some relief without side effects.