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Amazing. The over-ocean legs scare me.

so you don't think that will buff out?

The retractable undercarriage system on some Cessna types can be problematical. David Squirrel told me a story about a C-210 in the 1970s, which had a partial gear failure. There were three persons on board, and one bloke held on to the trouser belt of another bloke,. . .

my relative's father, now deceased, flew rocket-firing typhoons extensively and to great tank-busting effect in WW2, and when he was offered a ride in the 210 said 'I never fly with amateurs".

Jetjr - I'm aware of all above and how Steve nearly lost the front of his plane testing the Bolly on the 2.2 engine.

Gee, I don't know what's going on in the aviation scene lately,The eyewitness accounts make this one sound suspiciously like a simple stall in a banked turn.

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altitude and airspeed: both are life insurance for pilots.

no scrape marks that I can see in the turf.

there was a low level aerobatic death, at the field I fly from a few years ago, that seems to have similarities with this. Aerobatics close to the ground (or water) strikes me as dangerous, altho' I hasten to add that I've never done it.

south of that airport is surrounded by nasty dense bushland, not a good place to have an efato. Hope both of them have a complete recovery. Is there any update on their progress?

oh yes, indeed!

I rang them once to complain about a problem, I said 'I'm not happy with the telstra service", no epithets or rudeness, and the woman said "I don't like being spoken to like that" and hung up!

ah, melons, everywhere, that's summer in Russia

His split from Amber is obviously bigger news.

yes, only in russia

First Solo today!!!!Whhhhhooooooooo Hoooooooooooo!

I've heard there's some in Burma ......I kid you not, I would make Merlins (reasonable facsimiles) in a heartbeat if the right person came along and asked me, my city is setup is setup for it. I was watching some 1 meter long conrods getting nitrided just last week for example. this is large engine manufacturing heaven here.

my grandmother had a huge collection of the WW2 at war books, collected by father (AIF, Darwin, New Guinea) and uncle (RAAF, New Guinea), both teenagers at the time. I spent hours reading them as a kid. I recall a photo of an Australian tail gunner, taken from the cockpit of the following plane in formation. This gunner would have been 18 and looked sh!t scared, and who could blame him. All those books were thrown out decades ago. My uncle who flew Beaufighters said he was terrified for the whole 2 yrs he did it, and my father refused to talk about the war, apart from a few terse recollections, eg: "you wouldn't believe what a direct hit with a bomb does to a man" "a bloke's remains were being hosed out of a Liberator tail turret after it was hit by a cannon shell". Mainly he just said it was bloody awful.

I heard about a fraud in which an employee took over $250k, and the Vic police weren't interested: "get in line, we're busy chasing people who've stolen $20m" was their attitude. It eventually went thru the courts, perpetrator was bankrupt, no funds recovered. The message is: keep a close eye on anyone who is signing cheques for you.

The building industry is notorious for this stuff, usually it's materials siphoned off.

Knowing the Further Effect of Controls can save your life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAEyZ25qfU

 

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How many would have turned the wrong way? Bit lucky because at low speed the trajectory of the small plane wouldn't displace it much in terms of degrees or actual distance. We don't teach avoidance to any real extent. OK on a head on situation BOTH aircraft turn RIGHT. That's fine in theory, and in this case it worked and legally that's what you must do, BUT It might just cause you to collide where you would not have if you kept on the path you originally had, OR improved it. IF the object is stationary at any spot in your windscreen you WILL collide if you just continue with nothing changing. If it's moving in some direction including an up or down component if you move OPPOSITE to that direction you will make it move faster across the windscreen, and you will avoid a collision. Check it out for yourself. ( not in a real situation though) Nev

Never stop learning and critique your performance honestly . Nev

Well there's an answer to my question, the people who can afford them is always answered to be someone else, no one ever posts "$60K, phhttt, that's my emergency cash I keep under the bed Mate".By the way, the people who sell houses usually have to buy another, status quo. My Brother has a run down old fibro cement house on a small block in Merrylands Sydney, worth close to a $1 million, but where does he go then?

I saw that when the show was on SBS. Brilliant. Jeez you'd want to make sure your engine was purring though, there's no convenient fields in those mountains.

I've only flown a P2002 once but I loved it. it had a great feel and was easy to land.

that's great. It must have been terrifying landing in rough seas at night. Also note the lack of hearing protection.