Jabiru7252

"A mind that's week and a back that's strong" should read "A mind that's weak and a back that's strong". But who cares anymore?

My other interests include electronics and computers. Spent the last 40 plus years in the industry. When I retire I'll dabble in chemical engineering and experiment with converting alcohol into urine.

Would be nice to know what was actually the problem. Booze, drugs, fatigue. Old age?

I work with quite a few from who come from India and Pakistan. Some of them say that the corruption is so bad back home that they are terrified of flying in their home lands. Much the same in many African countries apparently. I have also heard the medical profession has similar problems.

The %^$##@ CEO could take a pay cut.

Stupid is as stupid does. (I think that's the saying...)

Ten news at five reports teenage pilot and 70 yo grand father involved in the incident. Apparently the controls went 'haywire'.

70 yo pilot + teenage passenger I think. I do wonder what it was like weather wise.

In the old days before email, Aussie post would have truck loads of mail to deliver and thus be able to make a dollar. Now, can you really expect a truck to drive across the country every day with two parcels and a letter? They wait days, weeks, months before the truck is full. When somebody thinks of a way to deliver parcels via email, there will be no postal service at all. Imagine it, you order your bottle of stay-hard cream from Russia and thirty seconds later "woof!" there it is in your house, transported by the latest "Quantum Mechanics Incorporated" matter transfer device. Can hardly wait...

House call charges are a killer. Me, I work for the man but don't get out of bed for less than $50 an hour.

When I was learning to fly back in the early eighties, my instructor (upon arriving in the circuit) covered the panel and said "You can fly the circuit on sound and attitude". He kept saying that if I kept the horizon in the correct place on the wind-screen and the throttle about right then speed and descent would follow. If I kept the runway in the right place then I'd land okay. He was right but boy oh boy, I don't think I could do it these days. He could see the instruments and did mention that I was faster than normal until crossing the fence then got a bit slow.

When in high school a teacher asked the students what they would like to be when they left school. I said I was keen on electronics or biology. The teacher laughed, the class laughed. God bless the 70s.

Maybe folks should include in their posts what qualifications, experience and credentials they have to make some of their weird and amazing claims. A farmer for instance shouldn't make bold claims about the effects of missile strikes or burning skyscrapers. It's embarrassing.

Please please please tell me you do not doubt that planes crashed into the twin towers.

After 20 years dealing with RAAF pilots I'm under the impression that maneuvering is not at the top of the list when it comes to attributes of our jets because they don't get into 'dog fights'. The 'fire and forget' missile saw to that. However, I'm easily confused as I use a comb to eat my cereal from a shoe....

I'd say that inspector was expecting money under the table and it wasn't forth coming. That happens a lot in certain industries...

The treatment of all soldiers during WW1 disgusts me to the n'th degree. A lot of the poor souls had to take orders from imbeciles who were given higher rank simply because they weren't the plebs from the factory floor. And the clowns that never saw battle treating the war like a chess game. Makes my blood boil.

I'm 65 in September and pondering retiring. I enjoy my job very much and I know I'm very much needed at work. However, VOR, NDB, GPS or map & compass won't help me make that decision. I guess I'll have to bite the bullet some time, just need to find something meaningful that stimulates the brain cells as much as my work currently does.

Well, I am sure I was taught that flying to the right of track, only by a small amount, say 1/2 mile (depends on your altitude) would give you a better view of the track and anybody coming the other way will be on the other side. Traffic coming the other way technically should be 1000 feet higher or lower but below 5000 feet or stress of weather that's not guaranteed. I thought it was 'the done thing'. I've always done it. It's a hell of a lot easier with GPS.

One should always fly on the right side of the GPS track.

I haven't used VOR or ADF since the 90s, that's only because I no longer fly GA aircraft with that equipment on board. Used to be fun and gave one a sense of achievement when you got it right. Any fool can use a GPS and I still reckon many LSA pilots would be f***ed if their GPS died because they can't use a map and compass.

There's a mob in South Africa called Cape Shade. I think they do fabric hangars.

Maybe he's too old to fly safely? Many people think they are okay but they are not. I don't fly anymore because I'm getting sillier in my old age. Some start at 60 some much later.

Hangar

It's hangar - not hanger.