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  1. derekliston
    A lot of people might think of the Trident as a sort of British copy of the Boeing 727 but it was quite a quirky aeroplane. The nosewheel was offset to one side and retracted sideways and hence did not change the CofG. The last mark of the aeroplane had three and a half engines!!! It actually had a small boost engine mounted above the centre engine for additional power on take-off. It was the only airliner to my knowledge that was certified to activate thrust reverse before touchdown. When I worked for BOAC/BA at Heathrow we as a family often caught the Shuttle to Edinburgh, that was in the days before the new runways were constructed, and the landings were often more like ‘arrivals’ you definitely knew when it touched down.
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    Nev, just a slight correction. BOAC never operated Tridents, it was BEA or after the merger BA. Some interesting history with the Tridents but I don’t want to be responsible for thread drift.
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    If it is a recreational registered aircraft ie. numbers rather than letters I can’t see that it has anything to do with CASA, talk to RAAus if you are worried about it. Personally I think if you are temporarily clamping it to the internal structure and removing it afterwards, it shouldn’t be a problem!
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    A bit like asking how long is a piece of string? Hangarage on a country airfield about $2,400 pa, Insurance on a 2seat homebuilt around $2,000 pa, fuel cost for a 2200 Jabiru around 15litres/hr at somewhere around $2.30/litre on your average council bowser rip off. Maintenance on an experimental homebuilt, do your own, so oil, filters and plugs annually. Unless you are going to fly a lot of hours probably cheaper to hire but nothing like owning your own. Just don’t try to justify it!!!
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    Keep going. Haven’t been able to find any in my reference books lately, but still like looking.
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    Perhaps a Fokker, an ugly one!!!
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    Likewise. Only magnetic compass plus Skyview.
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    I only have a Dynon ten inch Skyview with back-up battery but no back-up gauges. I have found it easy to read in all lighting conditions and I wouldn’t swap it. What if it fails? I don’t know, I’ll tell you when I find out!
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    Yes, I also saw it at Coffs. I would be interested to know how they produce that fuselage with all the compound curves. Piaggio have always managed to be a bit different with their designs.
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    Found another weird one today, not exactly light though! Given that canard is French for duck, is this thing a lame duck or a dead duck?
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    Sorry, still think it is a stupid question! Just let me blow, or as is the new thing, just talk to it! Then, if it shows that I have in fact consumed alcohol, ask me when I had my last drink.
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    Last RBT I had, I was asked “When did you have your last alcoholic drink?” (Stupid question!) My answer “The Christmas before last”
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    I can go with that except for the hypothetical case of the pilot being physically incapacitated. Is the unqualified passenger then supposed to just say a prayer and wait to die? I’ve always believed that, wives in particular, should at least be able to put an aeroplane down safely.
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    Sounds about right!
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    Constellation! Oh sorry, you mean the one at the front!
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    Received notification from CASA today of a legislative document. The wording includes, at least ten times I think, DAMP organisations without any explanation of what they are! I guess those who need to know probably do, but I for sure don’t.
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    My contribution to the urban myths was as told to me by a wartime Sunderland mechanic. According to him, if they had been working on the engines they would walk inboard to the fuselage and forward to the cockpit hatch and drop through, then one day they had to work on a Catalina and a mechanic did what he was accustomed to doing, walked inboard, dropped onto the fuselage and walked forward to the hatch, between the two turning propellers, which as you probably know are very close together. The story goes that when he realised what he had done he collapsed.
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    Explains a lot though, doesn’t it?
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    No problem. I was wrong anyway!
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    True!
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    Just being picky really, but aircraft marshals at RPT fields do it all the time!!!
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    Totally with you on that one. I don’t believe in too many calls but I always call turning downwind and turning base because I never know who is around and not broadcasting!
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    Agreed that is a major problem with 126.7, around the Warwick area one can hear aircraft from miles around, even as far as Evans Head one day, sometimes difficult to decipher where they are. Fortunately Warwick has a discrete frequency so overcrowding not a problem. ( Okay, I lied, I said previously that was my last comment on this subject!!)
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    My final words on this subject. I have just read 166-01 and the wording is variously, require, must and should. My understanding of require or required is the same as must, as for instance if I am flying into Archerfield and say “Request runway 28R” the controller can deny that. However, if I say “Require runway 28R” then that is what I get, no argument. I agree that it gets a bit foggy when it is ‘required where the possibility of collision exists’ I am not sure how one can define that. In so much as, if no one gives a call then the possibility of collision must exist unless you can be 100% sure of seeing any other aircraft, I know I am not. I shall continue to give only the recommended calls, no more, no less, unless I do have to respond to another aircraft. Just a last question, I fly GA with a PPL and had to do a radiotelephony test many years ago. Is this still a requirement for RAAus or for that matter PPL?
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