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Do you know why dogs lick their ice cream?

It's not the primary role of a transponder to be used as an emergency locator. There's other apparatus that does that. Cheers!

'tis my understanding that the 'Standby' function brings the transponder to a powered state without transmitting. Originally it was to do with the old valve jobbies needing warm up time to stabilise the Tx section...or something along that line. It is still considered good form to switch the transponder to standby when entering a new code to prevent incorrect ones (like the top secret duress code) being accidentally transmitted if you have a fingerphart.

T’was Thomas Scott, of Cecil Plains, that caught the flying craze; He turned away the HQ ute, that served him many days. He dressed himself in flying clothes, no grease stains to be seen; And hurried off to Dalby field, to hire a flying machine. He drove along the taxiway, with a grin both wide and wry; The grizzled old instructor said “Hey Tomo, can you fly?” “See here old man,” young Tomo said, “From Dalby to the sea; To see the most, I cruise the coast, There’s few that fly like me.” “The perving’s good ‘round Gold Coast way, or so I have been told; There’s brown nose puppies everywhere, and they’re glorious to behold. But I’m a chaste and sober lad, so flying is my thing; So I just give a friendly wave, as they pass beneath my wing; T’was Thomas Scott, of Cecil Plains, who launched into the sky; Switching off his GPS, ‘cuz the luddites said “you’ll die!” He grabbed his map and old wrist watch, to give DR a try; and when East Kew came into view, he wasn’t quite sure why. He continued south to learn about, some claims being made in the NES; of secret coded messages, and stuff that rhymes no less. There was word of road kill undies, but he soon saw something worse; He found there’s now a story 'bout him, that’s been written in Mulga verse. T’was Thomas Scott of Cecil Plains, who turned north just time, He’s now considered accessory, to a heinous literary crime. The author ducked for cover, and headed off for rest, He’s guilty of murdering a classic, an example of Banjo’s best.

He changed his mode to a mother lode, of clues all contained in rhyme. He issued a taunt to southerner gaunt, "figure this out if you've got the time." Well, McLoch was smitten with what Tomo'd written, "The bugga's put out quite a bait!" But time will tell how I'll give him hell, for now ... he'll just have to wait....."

"There's a plot developing here!!" :uhoh2: gasped secret agent Ahlow. "There's key words contained within O'Dalby's post that formed a hidden message; Tomo would love to come up with something for the NES, but can't think of anything at the moment that would tickle Turbo's fancy... other than being Neutral.....! =============== Bwahahaha! :roflmao:Talk your way out of this one Tomo !!!

...the latest taxidermi-delicates on offer." "Ohh!!! Bayed Byron. "I simply must have this matching wombat ensemble. Where is it from? Rodeo Drive??" "Er, no." replied ChezPlanner's chief designer. "I was in the Nissan at the time".....

Here you go. http://www.raa.asn.au/docs/tech/MaintForm2.pdf

well, he did go away for spell just recently.....

"Where's your flash hat darks?" asked McLoch, as he got down off his anti, anti GPS highhorse. "It would've made a good compliment to DitDah's new black pointy one... ============== I'd better go read some general population stuff to help with finding the hidden reference...

WITCH! WITCH! Burn him at the stake!! :ah_oh: he wants to use 'today's technology!' to aviate!! He needs to hang.....

... and discretely adjusted his bearings (owing to a persistent rash picked up on a recent shore leave up north ) and bumbled on blissfully unaware , owing to his radio being jettisoned overboard :duck for cover:in an effort to save his failing eyesight :bmwrider:...

"...at least I wasn't using one of those dangerous Gee Pee Ess things!" he added in defiance. :patch: "You'd better rip the radio out too!" added typewriter. "They make your eyes fall out"...... ============ P.S the clock method failed....me watch battery went flat...

..."I'll join you in the Cafe'... I can hear your guts growling from here!".... =================== Hmmm...It's a bit scarey that el Ratto actually seems to understand such navigational methods....

"Oh that's easy!" interrupted Ahluck.:rolleyes1: "Just get up early in Dalby, takeoff and then turn until the sun is in line with your left wing. Then fly straight until your guts start to growl." TADA! Temora at lunch time!!" "See! who needs a GPS...or a map, watch and compass!" ====================== And if you detect a faint whiff of bulls:censored:t in the air whilst enroute, you've overflown Temora and are nearing Wagga.

"...so if the GPS goes tits up, I'm supposed to be able to figure out where I am with a watch and a compass?" pondered Ahloh , as he mulled over this new navigational revelation. "S'pose it'd work if you knew where you were going in the first place.":ne_nau: Tubz went instantly blue in the face as the veins in his forehead began to bulge. "Just how the hell do you find your way around?!" he demanded. "Oh, that's easy." replied Ahlo. "I just ask what time it is on the radio." "If the answer is '18:30 hours' I'm still in NSW. "Half past six" would mean I'm in Victoria. "Sunday" would mean South OZ and for Queensland,...."1978"....

Brokers!!! :baldy: My experience with a broker that advertises in the RAA magazine has included; 1. Insured for only eleven months instead of the twelve months quoted. 2. Insurance cover being nearly a grand dearer than the competition when it was eventually disclosed that the invoice supplied was for six months and not the full twelve months as requested. 3. Coverage cancelled without prior notice rather than explain themselves. Recommend contacting QBE direct - At the very least they're honest. $135K @ 2% hull /$1m CSL @ $500 + taxes = $3072 and No Broker fee.

Nah, having to wear Hi-Vis cloaks spoils the asthetics.....

Hey Geoff, Is the rumour that you and the two cirrus jockeys were having a video conference while enroute true? Cheers! P.S. Tubz needs a smackin' around in NES too. He's taking liberties with the truth.....again!

Rocker will take you out to a couple of private airstrips he uses for training, so you will get plenty of practice with precautionary, simulated forced and actual landings into a couple of tricky airstrips. Watch him though! He tells jokes, then cuts the motor to idle while you're still laughing.

....it's over there somewhere.:ne_nau:" he added as he set about practicing his usual mode of navigation. :clown: "We'll just sail westish, south eastish until something familiar comes into view and figure it out from there." :bmwrider: This was all too much for Dika! :Disappointed: (all round nice guy and lady Killa :ilmostro:) "How's a bloke supposed to meet new young lovelies :killen:, while you lot are floundering about using waterspouts as waypoints?" ....

Brought the GPS home do to a firmware update afterwards, so I've downloaded my track. (Being a lazy bastard and prone to cheating, I did take some liberties with the lie of the river.) [ATTACH]9277.vB[/ATTACH] The white line is the approximate ten mile straight in approach path for 23 and guess who was going to be right in the way of an inbound RPT. So, seeing as how I'm allergic to SAAB enemas, I overshot the turn at Wantabadgery and kept tracking overhead the river until the RPT called established at ten miles. (Thought he was sounding a bit grumpy about all the traffic on the CTAF too.) Turned Nth West at Mundarlo Bridge and then climbed to 2500 for the run to the Junee Hilton. [ATTACH]9279.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]9280.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]9281.vB[/ATTACH] (Taken on previous runs out that way) Thought about taking a couple of short cuts as the chatter on CTAF started to include the front runners entering the circuit back at WGA....170 knot posers..."Nah bugger it!" Decided I'd keep slogging along, as I could hear a RAT in plastic up ahead somewhere and he'd probably catch me out and dob me in. The countryside has certainly dried off in the last few weeks and it certainly was a tad warm under the plastic bubble. The aforementioned RAT, with his tricked out Jabarooter, told me that the OAT was 32 degrees at 2500 according to his dashboard TV. And there I was thinking that there was something wrong with the beer can's air conditioning. Getting back to the CTAF chatter. It was as funny as with a couple of the go fasts trying to figure out just who was downwind Federation at the same time and who wasn't. Kinda glad I was the tail end charlie. The Junee to Wagga leg at 2000ft included an approach and right hand circuit onto 02 at Federation with a missed approach and then south to overhead Wagga city. All pretty straight forward until I remembered that I hadn’t done a right hand circuit since, ummm,...never that I can recall.... All good though. Climb out and track to Lake Albert via overhead the city and then on to the airport. Simple aye? Wrong! The RPT wanted to depart for Sydney. The last couple of the aeroclub guys and El Ratto were either in or entering the Wagga circuit and I was overhead the city about 8 miles to the west. They got in OK after sorting separation out with the SAAB, but I wussed out, diverted and held over the north of town while the SAAB backtracked and lined up, then track inbound for midfield crosswind as the SAAB climbed out. [ATTACH]9283.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]9284.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]9282.vB[/ATTACH] Must be something I like about midfield joins as the GPS tracks usually show nice tight and square circuits when I do join that way. Not yesterday though. One of the Bank runners wanted to get away for Bankstown off 05. Not a problem. Slowed down, tracked a bit wider and extended downwind so he could get away. A bit embarrassing that dogleg on the downwind track though. All up. A great way to spend an hour in the air.

Me thinks that Wagga council is all starry eyed about the new airline training setup and can't see the woods for the trees at the moment..... On the brighter side, apparently the golden hair child doesn't want CTR either so class E above and CA/GRS seems the most likely.

Darks, I've had a few issues with Bose headsets and flakey batteries that have been fixed by using FRESH lithium batteries in them. The batteries aren't really under load until the ambient noise picks up, so they'll test OK at startup and then go belly up when it gets noisy during the take off. The crackling noise can also be caused by poor ear cup seal owing to glasses, hair (.....top hats ) and from dirty ANR pickup mic(s). To save having to buy an adaptor, try plugging the headset into a home stereo with a 1/4" headphone jack and playing something while giving the cable a wriggle to test for a cracked or broken conductor in the lead. Seeing as how the set has been in for a repair, check that the DIP switch settings are correctly set and have a look if the serial numbers on the control unit and headset frame match the original packaging. You may have had parts exchanged.

Stop baggin' me socks and me old Bonds breeches, you nasty, troublesome, NES creatures. :patch: The yarn's about subs and trains and flying, not socks that smell like something's dieing. :yuk: But here's a twist* to get back on course, Ask Hidey 'bout short landings** .... and what he did with the horse*** =========== *Undies reference **aviation reference *** never let truth get in the way of a story reference