Louis Moore

Looks like you're getting used to it there Tomo, so when we meeting up at pittsworth?

Also how was the stall, looks like it has a bit of wing drop there?

Ride a bike, memorize the motion, repeat learnt foot work on landing!!!

Just like any other endorsement, it takes finding a T/W airplane to be instructed on and doing the hours with the instructor. Not a difficult one to get, but harder to become really proficient than most other!

I want a go in one!!!!

And ends in tears.kaz

PULL THE BRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No seriously it has happened to me about 5 times in the past (and I will ad NEVER due to pitot covers, well actually once it was but that was an automatic cover opened by the wind like on early 150!). As you get more familiar with aircraft you can really feel the stall coming on and get used to how it should look/feel/handle etc on the approach. To be honest my landings where the best when ASI was out!!!! And it was not as stressful as I thought it would be

I don't like guessing these things but I'm sure that is a fairly high mast/transmission pole I can see in a couple of the photos so that may have been the initial problem or a compounding problem for an emergency landing.I have a real phobia about wires strung around the landscape, and especially SWIR lines which are so commonly strung in rural areas between widely spaced high poles.

 

More than 30 years ago I was a much younger pilot when I had a rather scary experience. I was driving an RF5 Fournier motor glider along Lake Eildon from Bonney Doone towards the boat club when I saw a couple of little microlights on floats down below me and obviously having heaps of fun. I thought I'd join them.

 

I began a fairly steep descent from around 3500' and focussed my attention on the littlies. At some point greater than 2000' from memory, I caught a momentary glimpse of a bunch of bloody great cables in an indecently close proximity to my wingtips as I passed them. These cables are suspended across the lake, at a height of around 200' AWL at their lowest point when the lake is full. They run from towers on the mountain tops on either side of the lake and the span is probably a couple of kms or more. I was lucky http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/1357105/ar-2009-041_avoidableaccidents-lowlevelflying.pdf more at http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2004/aair/aair200400437.aspx.

 

Just how lucky came home to me some years later when I heard of another wire strike incident involving the same RF5... a more tragic result this time http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1990/aair/aair199001174.aspx I knew the guy well.

 

So I have a real phobia about wires and anything resembling low flying that might bring me into contaact with one of them. I'm happy just being an old pilot.

 

kaz

 

There are bold pilots

 

And there are old pilots

 

But there are no bold old pilots ...

I lived in Mansfield for years (family still does) and have done many a "trip around the block" looping from Mansfield, out over eildon to bonnie done and back via the highway to mansfield again. I know those now infamous wires very well, problem with them is there actually a lot higher than you would expect to find wires. It would be easy to clip them while not actually flying low over the water, so it is doubtful pilots are even looking for them!!! Nothing like that false sense of security!

Lots of people do check for active airspeed on the gauge as soon as they roll. Problem for people like us is Kaz, by the time your eyes shift from runway to ASI, you're airborne!!!!

Personally I try to glance over RPM, ASI and Oil Px quickly just to make sure all is still good. Thats 90% of my gauges too so it's about all I can do!!

That statement alone proves itself to be untrue!! If Vic is so good (like all the people that live in cairns from vic tell me) why are they all living in the other states telling everyone they can how good it is?

Didnt they use porridge to taughten the fabric on a glider at Colditz Prison camp during WW2?

you are far more likely to forget to remove your pitot tube cover than accidentally deploy your chute...

By the way.We delivered 3 thrusters to Collie W.A. 1988 reg no 250177 was one.I still have the guys name.One got grass rash before we got there as the guys tried D.I.Y training . Doesnt work.

I never knew how much the nose wheel version of a thruster looks like an xair (Or maybe xair looks like a thruster!!!)

BRS Con =

Although having posted that video I feel I should also add I am neither for nor against BRS fitted to aircraft. Like every safety device available there are situation when I would LOVE to have one and it would save my life and others where it could possibly cause more damage then it could prevent. Proper use is key and that takes avoiding using the deploy handle as a panic button!

I do not own a trike, but I am going to go with Victoria because it is the best state for EVERYTHING!

Although not a state, NZ would have to be an awesome place to go trike flying to!!!!

And it's cheap. So lets go ahead and flour up a cake ..... I mean an aeroplane!

Let's hire a warrior Tomo and see if were as good as him! I'm game if you are!!!!

If you're like Tomo once you have your GA ticket you get invited to fly ALL TYPES of aircraft. That alone makes it worth while!

Not so cheap conversation to an RG aircraft!

Or want to fly with lots of bag, golf clubs and in a twin!

Great looking aircraft, hope she flies as sweet as she looks.

We are all waiting for your contribution now Louis!!Pud

Why no shots of the actual aircraft and only computer gen models?

Pete,

Drop around here one day and I will give you some old bed sheets you could use. Hell I will even through in some flour for you to mix up and use a dope!

Maybe just don't fly in the rain when it's done and you'll be almost, maybe, nearly, sort of, she'll be right, okay!

Well done Tomo, looks like it is a neat little machine! Now you're all good to fly out to pittsworth!

I will have to go get some shots of a thruster to ad to this thread!

Love the paint job