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  1. derekliston
    Must be old age or something. I could have sworn the wings failed downward, certainly doesn’t look like it in the video!
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    I remember seeing the same thing (wings breaking) on a C130. Looked like it exceeded negative g when it released it’s load, ie on the video it appeared the wings failed downward.
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    Personally I’ve always thought the ideal water bomber is a Canadair amphibian. It can fill up on the run over a lake or I imagine on airports with much less runway than a 737 requires. Always seemed to me that it would be cheaper for insurance companies to unite in ownership and operation of a couple of those rather than pay out for bushfire damage, but then, being insurance companies they can find a reason to renege on payment. (Cynical? You bet!)
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    Warwick Qld can be the same. Mostly good but sometimes interesting. Nature of the beast really, sometimes they misjudge and have to vary join. Pawnee is generally very good, might call ‘high downwind’ or ‘long downwind’ but they do call!
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    What airfield? I’d like to avoid it like the plague!
  6. derekliston
    Sometimes wonder if pilots even read their ERSA. YWCK (Warwick) has a dedicated CTAF 127.85. I monitor that and 126.7 whilst flying locally and often hear pilots call Warwick traffic on 126.7.
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    My sons, now in their forties, used to know that movie word for word, they had watched it so often!
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    This just keeps on happening, helicopters the name of which I can’t recall Seasprites were they?, Tiger helicopters, Wedgetails, Tanker and boom built by Airbus or EADS who have no previous experience when Boeing has been building them for half a century. I believe that, although the F111 was eventually a great machine, it had a lot of problems. Seems to me that Defence procurement have no idea what they are doing with the taxpayers money. I admit that somethings they get right C17 for example!
  9. derekliston
    Amazing how often thread drift moves totally away from original topic! Not a complaint, just an observation, I am probably just as guilty as anyone else!
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    Ain’t that the truth!!!! (Rhetorical)
  11. derekliston
    Just curious about a previous comment about dimming the panel after dark!
  12. derekliston
    Do we even know whether the Brumby had glass panel or steam instruments?
  13. derekliston
    Totally agree with the oxymoron statement. There is cheaper flying but no such animal as cheap flying!
  14. derekliston
    Absolutely mate, I would never advise anyone to rely on this panel, for my type of flying it is very much overkill. I only fly for fun, say that again I ONLY FLY FOR FUN, I like blue skies, light winds and at about 60kts cruise, not particularly long distance trips. I have been flying off and on since 1968, but due to all sorts of higher priorities over the years I am a low hours pilot, therefore I remain well aware of my personal limits. There is nothing that I need to do that can’t wait for another day, week or even month!
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    Don’t know how it works, might just as well be magic, but if I ever get into a sticky situation (unlikely because I am your archetypal wussy pilot!) this is what I want in my cockpit!
  16. derekliston
    I have all of that and more on the Dynon Skyview in my CH701 including something called ‘synthetic vision’ I have no idea how that works but when I line up on the piano keys I not only have the view from the windscreen, but the runway, piano keys and runway number are displayed on the screen.
  17. derekliston
    Just enjoy it, don’t ever try to justify it. We only have one life that anyone has ever been able to prove, enjoy it to the fullest!
  18. derekliston
    I believe that just in sheer numbers there are more accidents with Robbos than any other helicopter. Conversely, I believe there are more of them flying than just about all other makes of small helicopters combined. I have flown in Jetranger, Hughes 500, R44, Bell 47, Squirrel and another Bell of which I don’t know the number, up on one of the reef platforms. If I ever could have afforded it, I probably would have got the licence, as it is I have to stick with my little fixed wing CH701. Do I worry about dying in a helicopter? No! but I figure if you have to go, a few minutes of sheer terror beats months of cancer!! (Doesn’t mean that I want to go that way though!)
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    Very old fashioned, also very stupid, loyalty nowadays is very much a one way street. The employer would get rid of an employee in a heartbeat and not even blink. Cynical? Yes, but true.
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    Employee/s!!!
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    Bit strange really, they appear almost to be trying to become unemployed!
  22. derekliston
    Get yourself a copy of the Country Airstrips Guide. I have a Qld one but I’m pretty sure they are available in the other states.
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    Another example of my favourite gripe. Sitting watching gliders this afternoon at YWCK Warwick. Glider tug called final for 27, Cherokee 6 called turning final for 27 but was actually final for 09. Tug pilot queried and Cherokee pilot said Oh, sorry I am on 09, but went ahead and landed anyway. Tug pilot orbited until runway was clear and landed. So potential catastrophe avoided, don’t understand this, check compass and also the bloody big number painted on the runway. Slightly different, but same place, same time. A departing Baron asked where the gliders were, tug pilot (I think!) said “ six gliders in the air within probably four miles of the airfield and probably between four and six thousand feet but I don’t know where” That is why I don’t like flying when there are gliders in the air, they ar white, skinny and bloody near invisible and could be anywhere. Fortunately, being retired I am not restricted to weekend flying!
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    Back when I was working for Personal Plane Services at Wycombe Air Park (Booker) in England I worked on the restoration of an original SE5a. Don’t know where it is now.
  25. derekliston
    Back then I was an apprentice with Ferranti, the company that built the radar equipment. When the project was cancelled, they had to complete all of the contracted radar sets, then they were taken out and destroyed. All governments are brilliant at wasting taxpayers money. At the time they were cancelled I believe the idea was that they would buy the F111. Don’t know who got the backhander from the US for that but I would take a bet that someone did. In the end they didn’t buy the F111 either because of design delays with the swing wing. American consultant at Ferranti at the time said they wished they had never heard of Barnes-Wallis.
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