Barefootpilot

Nev, I couldn't agree more! Bean counters and desk flyers should stick at what they are good at (god knows what that is but i'm sure they have some talent!!) Some restictions that they place on line pilots that they believe will improve safety actually cause more problems that they cure! Adam

Nev, It wasn't a shot at you! and I appoligise if it seem that way! Its just that its easy to jump on the band wagon of pilot bashing!

All modern RPT aircraft are monitered very closely by Ops to point where they know exactly where they touch down. They are required to touch down on the 1000' markers +- a certain amount depending on company policy. If they do not they are required to go around or they will have a please explain phone call from the boss. Just think if you flew 8 sectors a day 5 days a week you will eventually have a bad landing if not a run of bad landings so please be nice to these guys they can't be perfect like you every time!!!

Glass houses! Just because they fly for a living doesn't mean they don't have bad days!

A good rule of thumb is add 2kts per thousand feet so 5000' you add 10kts its rought but not to bad to get a good idea.

I have to agree the EAA magazine has taken on the place of my favorite mag now. Great artical about some seriously cool machines.

I'd ask the question if they mean total time or PIC some insurance companies want one others want the other.

A sensitive altimeter is one that gets upset when you don't fly it for a while or tell it you love it enough.... Sorry it is Friday!

I'm still managing to keep the bottom bits wet and the top bits dry so all is good! Hows QLD?

Bugga Andrew must not have checked his e-mails otherwise he would never have passed you with the photo's I sent him!!

Just to let everyone know, the final touches are being put in place for Matt Hall to conduct a 3 minute aerobatics display in Rose Bay, Sydney Harbour for the start of the Red Bull air race. The display will be down to 100' and should be pretty good to watch. Matt will then land at Bankstown before being flown back to Rose Bay by Sydney Seaplanes. Details - Thursday the 11th of March Time - 0700 to 0710 Matt should return to Rose Bay by Seaplane by about 0830. Cheers Adam.

Faults with the questions. IFR flight rules mean that you track either from aid to aid i.e. ndb to vor or ndb etc. OR you use RNAV (gps) so you are always heading to somewhere and always know where you are. Secound. Unless you are private ifr you will have standby instruments so if your vac pump fails you will have back up electric instruments. If your van pump fails and then you have your elec system fail (really really bad day) your battery will be able to maintain the instruments for a suitable time to get you somewhere to land. Thirdly if the HSI is working you will know your heading so you would work out an intercept to get yourself back on track. Fourthly if you are in rain and ice in an aircraft that isn't approved for flight into you shouldn't be there! So either the person who is flying the plane shouldn't be flying the aircraft or you are really making yourself work hard on flight sim!! All the other situations would have been avioded if the crew had of acted appropriatly ie one flies the plane the other person sorts out the problem. It works for single pilot ops aswell - always make sure someone is flying the plane!!!! Adam

It was a good event and nice to catch up with a few people from here. I'm lucky to have a good boss who doesn't mind me borrowing the aircraft occationally!

What you haven't finished it for me yet? I''m expecting the next time I show up there you to have it all ready to fly!!

I'll be there with the Caravan we should be pretty hard to miss! Adam

Ah great we only found out about the festival a few days before it happend so we had other commitments with the aircraft and didn't get there until about 11 so we missed a few of the more localsl but we will be at wings over illawara so might see you there!

Was that at the Catalina festival? I must have missed you that day we got there a little late and missed alot of the action.

Hey Tomo, How heavy where you? I thought the take off was pretty long but I've never flown a J-120 before and thought they'd go a bit better?

I looked at it at oshkosh last year. Its a nice concept it would be good to see it get off the "water" I'm not a big fan of folding wings on something like that but it does make it a bit easier to store.

Yep this is me Maj, Got to keep running and changing names before they catch up with me!! Cheers Crezzi has been a few years since I've been there and used to take the old Thruster in there No-coms... it was alway interesting and I always sent a couple of txt messages to find out what was happening when I was inbound! YCAB is great for its varity but pretty intense for a newby!

Its been a while since I've flown out of Cab but on that runway the centreline used to be very very rough so we used to takeoff and land on the grass..... hmm maybe thats what they expected him to do?

Gday Andy, A gear down landing is very different to a crab pot. On landing in a 185 or 206 which is the video you have seen the aircraft is touching down at about 60kts. The main wheels grab first and pitch you forward which is possibly surviveable (ie it won't flip) but when the nose wheels touch thats when the aircraft goes over. Now the aircraft that crashed was a straight float aircraft ie no wheels, so basically there is not alot for the crab pot to get caught on (except the water rudders but i will get to them shortly) Also I'm not sure how much crabbing you've done but I have never seen a crab pot that is more than a couple of kgs! Unless the thing is made on concrete it wouldn't not effect the controlability that much! Look at what they do in Canada and Alaska with canoes on the side of the floats! And if the aircraft was doing any sort of speed (as it must have to go right over) Now back to the water rudders. For all operations other than taxiing the aircraft the water rudders should be up. As you can see in the photo's they are not although that could be have happened as the aircraft went over. I think its a great media spin and I'm glad everyone got out alright but sometimes people XXXX up! and I think this could be one of them! Adam.

Crab pot making an aircraft crash.... hmmm thats a good story.... I would say more likely misjudged the takeoff and ran it up on the sand bank. Glad everyone got out Ok... crab pot I'll have to remeber that one!

I'd agree with Matt. Beacon on before start strobes on when entering an active runway unless you do not have a Beacon and then the strobes should be on before engine start. My 2cents

It appears some of my shots did hit your aircraft last time I saw you major! (the bullet holes on the side window) I'll be sure to finish you off next time I'm up your way! Adam.