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A true Australian ghost story This story happened a while ago in Brisbane, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. John Bradford, a Sydney University student, was on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door, just to realise there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on! The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. Then, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel. John, paralysed with terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve. John saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength, jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and asked for two shots of tequila. He then started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realised he was crying and ... wasn't drunk. About 15 minutes later, two guys walked into the same pub. They were also wet and out of breath. Looking around and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other, "Look, Bruce ... here's the ...king idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it."

John, Congratulations 20 odd years ago did the same thing on 36R what a feeling. The next best was solo around the training area around the hills. Congrats and keep going.

Hey does that mean I can fly under the Sunbury sign heading for riddles creek?

Airsick one more post to make 500.

See I don't make a good advocate.:black_eye: I tend to agree with everything you have said. He looks like he is after the money. As I said if he was open and complete in his comunication we could judge him more fairly:chuffed:

Women who know their place............ Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul , Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms. Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom. Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?" The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land mines."

Just to play the devils advocate:devil: If your goal is to be the best aviator at any stage then learning everything on the ground before you fly is desirable. I know I try to study each lesson before I arrive and get "real" feedback after the lesson. I would not want to do it this way as I was itching to fly but in the long term it may have been quicker to learn on the ground rather that in the sky. It is possible that this instructor had that in mind. (I actually doubt it as he was charging for 1.2 hours) I know at Penfield there is always a brief before a flight to cover what is to be covered while flying. Although I have not flown for a while there (or anywhere) I think the greatest positive is they treat you as an individual and let you know what to expect. I was told at the start before handing money over that I would get around 15 min ground work for every hour I flew. In fact this was closer to 15 mins per 45 mins flying. They also have paid for ground school days that are recommended but not enforced so long as you are getting the theory. Every school is different I just don't know what is best.

If you can find a copy of Kent Passers book "Speed with economy" he worked through a series of Exhaust modifications, some that cooled the under cowl area. All his ideas were completed and compared over many years on his own plane.

The 100 feet was mentioned in: http://www.auf.asn.au/students/advanced.html#endorsements or Ops manual Section 2.01 - 2 "Close proximity Flying" Hint: to search all PDFs open Adobe Reader, click on search, tick the option to Search "All PDF Documents in"

I sent this to an older friend and he suggested that you shoot with what ever you had handy at the time>

DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS Two blokes were discussing popular family trends on sex, marriage, and values. Bazza said, "I didn't sleep with my wife before we got married, Did you? "Leroy replied, "I'm not sure, what was her maiden name?" ---------------------------------------------------------- A little boy went up to his father and asked: "Dad, where did all of my intelligence come from?" The father replied. "Well son, you must have got it from your mother, 'cause I still have mine." --------------------------------------------------------- "Mr. Clark, I have reviewed this case very carefully," the divorce Court Judge said, "And I've decided to give your wife $775 a week." "That's very fair, your honour," the husband said. "And every now and then I'll try to send her a dollar or two myself." --------------------------------------------------------- A doctor examined a woman, took the husband aside, and said, "I don't like the looks of your wife at all." "Me neither doc," said the husband. "But she's a great cook and really good with the kids". ----------------------------------------------------------- An old man goes to the Wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 40 years. The Wizard says, "Maybe, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you". The old man says without hesitation, "I now pronounce you man and wife." ---------------------------------------------------------- Two Reasons Why It's So Hard To Solve A Redneck Murder 1. All the DNA is the same. 2. There are no dental records. ---------------------------------------------------------- A blonde calls Virgin Air and asks, "Can you tell me how long it'll take to fly from Sydney to Adelaide?" The agent replies, "Just a minute..." "Thank you," the blonde says, and hangs up. ---------------------------------------------------------- Moe: "My wife got me to believe in religion." Joe: "Really?" Moe: "Yeah. Until I married her I didn't believe in hell." ---------------------------------------------------------- A man is recovering from surgery when a nurse asks him how he is feeling. "I'm O. K. but I didn't like the four-letter-word the doctor used in surgery," he answered. "What did he say," asked the nurse. "OOPS" ------------------------------------------------------------ While shopping for vacation clothes, my husband and I passed a display of bathing suits. It had been at least ten years and twenty pounds since I had even considered buying a bathing suit, so I sought my husband's advice. "What do you think?" I asked. "Should I get a bikini or an all-in-one?" "Better get a bikini," he replied. "You'd never get it all in one." He's still in intensive care.

Matt, Why is it I can never get to a Penfield meet & greet!!! Have a good day and say giday to Rod , Terry and Tony for me if you see em. Chris Hird

A teacher gave her class of 11 year olds an assignment: To get their parent to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. Ashley said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs got broken. "What's the morale of that story?" asked the teacher. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!" "Very good," said the teacher. Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, "Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we had a dozen eggs, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched'." "That was a fine story Sarah." Michael, do you have a story to share?" "Yes. My daddy told me this story about my Aunty Sharon. Aunty Sharon was a flight engineer on a plane in the War and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands." "Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?" "Stay away from Aunty Sharon when she's been drinking.

I was reading a previous thread an in no way want to question the writers actions as communicating in any situation is the right thing to do. My question is when is a Mayday call appropriate and when is the less known PAN call to be given. From 20 years ago a PAN was given when declaring a possible problem and a mayday was only to be given when lives were in danger. Any comments?

KFowler, try this site http://www.kr-2s.com/index.html Darren has machined his own but the sources may work. I currently have a boat stage KR2s in my shed but I bought it that way. I can supply other contacts but would rather do this via personal eMail as I can not vouch for them as yet. If so try me on Chris.HirdATBigpond.com

Dracer, Ive been off line for a while but have a chat to the guys at Lilydale. i have not flown RAA with them but their GA school was very friendly and only hired competent instructors. They have been offering RAA for a year now so give them a go. As far as I know there is only GA at Coldstream at the moment, although they have aircraft that could be regersted RAA.

Bigglesworth, sorry for not fully appreciating your creation as well. Both of you have done great work and produced machines of beauty. you are inspiring the rest of us wannabies

Fantastic work, Congratulations from a Lurker.