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  1. derekliston
    Good to hear from you. As I've said previously, because I am retired I can fly weekdays and I usually fly early for hopefully smoother air. I avoid weekends a bit but I'll be there for Wings over Warwick on the 9th. I'll be wearing a Zenith STOL tee shirt. Trouble is I might be wearing a coat over it if past years are anything to go by! Might see you there.
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    Unbelievable but one would have to say that there was a fair bit of brass involved as well! Fact of life though, if you turn up quite openly and look legit, no one will bat an eyelid. Back in the UK a long time ago I was asked by one of the local churches (I had a 30cwt VW van) to pick up from a solicitors office in Windsor, a safe that had been donated. Well my brother-in-law and I turned up, parked my white van on double white lines, went up stairs to collect the safe and managed to drop it down the stairs such that it got stuck in the stairwell. Well, in the hour that it took us to move it multiple people came up and down those stairs and climbed over the safe. Not one person queried our right to have the safe and I didn't even get a traffic ticket!
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    That would be good, I was a LAME there for ten years and had the definite impression towards the latter years that the management, after privatisation, would have preferred to close the runways and build warehouses!
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    I thought the norm was aircraft type followed by reg? I am never quite sure what to call my CH701 on the radio, I use Zenith but that could be misleading because a Zenith can be doing anything from 60kts up to 100+.
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    Thanks for that Ian, as I said in another thread, I learn from these things. Most of our sport/ rec flying around here takes place at strips like Clifton, Watts Bridge, Boonah, Clifton, Coominya, Kilcoy and Gatton as well as Warwick that I fly from and is about 12kms from the township, so I am quoting from my knowledge base but I am happy to stand corrected. When I first arrived in Australia our capital city GA field (Archerfield) was a very busy field with parallel runways operating and on weekends very busy circuits and probably a hundred or so aircraft on tie downs. A very different place now on any day that I've been there (34yrs later) and without flying school traffic there wouldn't be a lot left I think. Once again I stand to be corrected as I am really not familiar with Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin, Canberra or Hobart in sport aviation terms.
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    Again someone may tell me otherwise but, since most sport/recreational aviation takes place in rural areas and I believe the rules for flying experimental over populous areas say high enough to glide clear (Not sure what recreational rules are) then there is very little risk to the general population. When I was in the UK there was a Cessna 152 at High Wycombe suffered an engine failure and came down on a house, in a fairly level gliding attitude and it simple ended up perched on the ridge with it's main wheels through the tiles.
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    Love it when we can have these discussions. It is good that no one gets overheated or abusive. I don't claim to be a fount of knowledge so it all helps my learning process.
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    Might have been ex RAF aircraft because I believe they were configured that way.
  9. derekliston
    Since I started this thread am I to consider that Yenn considers me nit-picking? I simply like to glean the opinions of others on various points. It has been interesting to read all of these responses. So Yenn, it must be nice to be perfect but I assure you that I am not a self-proclaimed expert on anything. I sincerely wish I was!
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    Just a footnote, I am happy to comply with medical requirements because it keeps me au fait (as far as is possible) with my state of health.
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    I have to agree. I had a heart attack a bit over three years ago. I can't claim that I was young 67 but I can state categorically that I had none of the risk factors. I am a lifetime non-smoker, only drink maybe six alcoholic drinks a year (if that), have perfectly normal blood pressure and have never been overweight. Why? Who would know but I fly again courtesy of modern medical technology (a stent) and a stress echo-cardiogram and class2 medical every 12months. Crazy thing is that before the heart attack and presumably I was a heart attack waiting to happen CASA were happy for me to have a biennial medical but now that it is presumably fixed I have to have all this every year which increases the cost of my hobby quite considerably.
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    And that was presumably the instructor!!
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    On CTAF fields using 126.7 I'd probably agree with keeping calls to a minimum but at Warwick for example, with a discrete frequency, I'm happy to call downwind, base and final. Never know at what stage incoming traffic switch to that frequency.
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    I always call downwind, base and final also, then clear of runway. The other day there was a Cessna Citation flying touch and go circuits without radio calls. Now that could be a worry!
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    Warwick has the gliders every weekend too and being a careful (read nervous) pilot and being retired and so able to fly on weekdays, I tend not to fly when they are around. They don't use their radios much usually and are bloody near invisible unless you see the sun glint as they turn!
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    Interesting and probably true but I do like to hear at least a downwind call. If you have two aircraft not transmitting because they have not heard any other radio traffic then surely the potential for a collision exists?
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    Went out to Warwick airfield this morning for a circuit or two, as I was on downwind on 27 for a full stop I heard a Piper Archer calling 10miles inbound, so I thought I would sit and watch some landings. She called joining crosswind for 27 and virtually nothing else in six circuits. Not one single downwind call, two turning base calls and that was all. I thought she might be a solo student but on the last circuit I heard the engine throttle back and she turned base at about the downwind threshold. I thought Ok, glide approach, no radio call and then as she turned final, a male voice, presumably an instructor transmitted as follows "Warwick traffic Archer (callsign) close approach for 27 Warwick" no notification of glide approach, no downwind call, no turning base or turning final. I thought that was pretty slack and probably a breach of radio etiquette if not the rules. I'll be interested to hear some opinions.
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    If I recall correctly from one of my childhood aeroplane books, the Hawker Seahawk was originally designed to be catapult launched off a dolly and to land on the rubber deck. After several bounced into the ocean the idea was abandoned. Quite a surprise that, that they would bounce on a rubber deck don't you think!!!
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    Thank you for that.
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    I might be being totally obtuse but why can't I read the Google News items on the home page? All I get is the headline and a big blank rectangle. Do I need to sign in to google or something and if so, how?
  21. derekliston
    Just a couple of pics. Radio antennae on each side and Skyview GPS antenna in the middle and further back and then panel with Skyview and dual radios.
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    As I said Mark, radios work fine, no problem, only with two headsets plugged in. Both headsets are identical ANR types bought from this site and as I said noise only happens when I do a ground power check. I can live with it, I just don't know the cause, almost sounds like amplified feedback.
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    I don't have cross linked transmitters nor are my aerials 1metre apart, probably about 900mm and I have a transmit select switch so I can monitor both radios and transmit on either. Touch wood as they say, it all works well. Problem I do have though, is if I am flying two up and we are both wearing ANR headsets I get a lot of noise in the phones at full power run up on the ground. Goes away at anything less than full rpm so no problem for taxi calls, enter and line up, rolling, downwind or anything else. Not there with single headset so it puzzles me.
  24. derekliston
    I have two radios in my CH701. I use two antennae one on each side of the fuselage above the baggage area and just behind the skylight. Works well.
  25. derekliston
    Back to the original thread. Latest email from SAAA says Airventure definitely on now. Let's hope all problems now sorted.
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