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  1. derekliston
    Haha, funny man! Chinook ultralight, but as I said, don’t quote me.
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    Not sure what book you use which says “ No radio calls required at all unless you want to’
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    That really misses the point Ken!
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    Mate, if you spend a bit of time at Warwick you would find the no radio call syndrome quite widespread. If I am on the airfield, working on the aeroplane or whatever, I have an airband receiver tuned to Warwick’s frequency and sometimes wonder if it is actually working and then someone will actually give a call which reassures me that it is! I don’t know if they are trying to avoid landing fees or if they are just more confident than I am of their ability to see anything around. In almost 50 yrs of flying I know how hard it can be to spot another plane for a multitude of reasons.
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    Yes Mark, I don’t believe in excessive calls, entering and lining up, turning downwind and turning base. Arriving from elsewhere, 10 miles inbound (at 60kts that’s plenty!) Joining crosswind or whatever and then again, downwind and base. Even the glider tugs which are up and down all day at weekends give a downwind and base call. I just don’t see what is hard about it. I want people to know where I am and what I am doing. If you have two people of like mind who don’t believe in radio calls, that is a recipe for potential disaster!
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    You are of course entitled to your opinion, but given that I was listening out whilst doing my engine warm up and checks and heard the warrior departing after having done a circuit with all the proper calls, I think I can fairly safely say he made no radio calls. Just sayin!!
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    Knowing that the down and forward visibility is not the best from those things and that it wouldn’t be the first time a low wing has landed on top of a high wing, I prefer not to assume and let discretion, as they say, be the better part of valour!
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    Might possibly be a Chinook, but don’t quote me!
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    Really not sure where best to post this, but I am getting totally pissed off with aircraft going non radio. Warwick this morning I was taxiing for runway 27. A warrior had just called departing the circuit and I called “entering and lining up runway 27” when I spotted a PC12 on mid downwind. Now, I know that I had time to enter and roll before he landed, but with nil radio calls from him and a massive difference in performance and no idea of his intentions, I called “traffic downwind at Warwick, I will hold and line up behind you” then I received from him, “have you sighted” which confirms his radio was working and on the correct frequency. Now, a PC12 is not a basic puddle jumper and one would assume a fair degree of qualification and professionalism from someone piloting one, so why no radio calls???? See and avoid is essential!!
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    I actually had a fly in it back then. Had one of the strangest control set-ups I have ever seen. I think there is also one in the HARS museum.
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    Interesting, if that is at Mareeba because the one I saw today still had the American registration on it! or are there two around?
  12. derekliston
    Chrislea Super Ace G-AKVF was Paul’s one! That’s better.
  13. derekliston
    I should know this one, a mate of mine, Paul Longthorp owned either it or a sister ship when I lived in England 35 yrs ago, but my brain has decided to have a senior moment!
  14. derekliston
    Never get bored, but not home to check my reference books and off the top of my head, no idea!
  15. derekliston
    Low wing, pusher twin????
  16. derekliston
    Here is one from me for any of you to identify. Photo not terribly clear, blown up from a phone photo taken from the fence at Mareeba airport. I’ll even give you the registration, N2811W. Google says Boeing 727 which it plainly (planely!) isn’t. I don’t have a clue!
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    I do have a weird sense of humour but this one is too obscure for me!!!!
  18. derekliston
    Thought it looked like a Zenith. What concerned me was that if it was the one from Warwick, it has a Jabiru engine, so more fuel for the Jab bashers! Apparently a Continental, so probably no derogatory remarks will be forthcoming.
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    Thanks for that. Looked like a Zenith on the television news.
  20. derekliston
    Bit upset that this site apparently censors a good old Australian expression like b....s..t!
  21. derekliston
    It is just more CASA bullshit. They say that the DAME can sign off on a class 2 medical now but because I had a heart attack four years ago I have to have a stress echo-cardio gram (with which I don’t have a problem because it keeps track of my health) and then they have to ‘audit’ my medical results. I asked my DAME are they then, suggesting that they are better qualified to assess me, upon whom they have never laid eyes, than my DAME who sees me every year?
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    Does anyone know if that is the Zenith based at Warwick? I haven’t been around the field for a week or so.
  23. derekliston
    As I said in another forum already today, from council activities countrywide at the moment it would be easy to believe that there is a concerted effort underway to destroy light GA in Australia. Personally I would be delighted to hear of someone with a private strip within a twenty kilometre radius of Warwick willing and able to accommodate another aeroplane and be thus able to give the proverbial finger to the council.
  24. derekliston
    I am a 71yr old retired LAME, in the years that I worked on aircraft in Australia (Qld) I almost never worked with an Australian born and trained engineer (there were a couple!) I was Scottish born and BOAC trained and I worked with Dutchmen, South Africans and Rhodesians. It was only when I worked at Amberley for a company on contract to the RAAF that I worked with Australian aircraft mechanics, all ex RAAF. Interestingly, CASA don’t accept that they are qualified to work on GA???? I have to wonder why anyone would want to spend four years training to be a LAME to then work for fairly ordinary money in a high stress occupation where you sigh with relief when, with news of a plane crash, you realise it is not one of yours. I looked after a fleet of up to thirteen aircraft as a sole engineer with help only when our Seneca was in for service. Most of us ‘oldies’ worked as much for love of aircraft as for the money. I don’t think there are too many youngsters willing to do that anymore
  25. derekliston
    Love Rocamadour, had lunch there several times and a cruise on the river once. (Sorry fo
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