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Jabiru7252

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  1. Why were the golfers hitting the trees?
  2. Hmmm, so the gravitron doesn't distort space and time which results in a turn?
  3. The man next door said his wife could hear voices coming from her Lowrey organ. Thinking she was going batty he was ready to call the men in the white coats. Then, he heard the voices. It was me! My Ham Radio transmissions were being picked up quite clearly. Wrapping the speaker wire in the organ around a ferrite rod cured the problem. (The speaker wire was acting as an antenna, feeding the RF back into the organs electronics)
  4. Was that today? (Sunday 22nd) because it was blowing madly and very nice flying weather around Parafield.
  5. Roscoe, is this an ongoing problem? I can remember times when at Parafield the tower would say 'unreadable' when replying to my taxi call but as I taxied to a different location things would come good. It's not something as simple as that is it?
  6. I started my career as a radio Tradesman in the early 70s. An AM transmitter is as simple as one can hope for and I am often astonished at the problems an aircraft radio can produce. To be honest, a lot of problems I have seen (heard) have been folks yelling into the mic or low voltage at the transmitter during transmit. I hope your problems is solved quickly. I jumped ship and got into I.T. when electronics got smaller than what my eyeballs could handle.
  7. Went for a quick blast then on landing, nearly copped a face full of bird... http://users.adam.com.au/kleb/welcome.html Scroll down to find the link to the video....
  8. What was the make and model of the GPS from Dick Smiths? Can you provide us a link to the WACs?
  9. You can always Google how GPS works.
  10. " I wonder why your GPS shows the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle site just north of Truro Flats?" We (at work) were there testing some model planes. I guess I could remove that waypoint from my GPS as I only added it so I could find the place by road.
  11. I use a Garmin Nuvi. It's just a car GPS set to off road mode. I enter my flight path (Say, Gawler, Murray Bridge, Loxton Gawler.) It draws a purple line between each town or waypoint and as I fly I leave a blue line. I can see how well I am tracking and the moving map shows the towns etc. as I approach and pass them. No airspace displayed (it's not an aviation GPS) and only miles or kilometres, but hell, it does a splendid job of backing up what all real pilots use, that is, a map and compass. I can upload the .gpx file straight into Google Earth and see how well I stayed on track. I can even replay it! See attached picture as an example.
  12. The chances of being caught under water with a jammed seat belt are about the same as having a shark attack in the Tod River. Your mate (with due respect) was a very, very unlucky man.
  13. I remember when folks said they wouldn't wear seatbelts in case they ended up in a river and the belt got jammed. Think how utterly stupid that is.
  14. unable to view the video!
  15. As dickheads kill themselves off, others will replace them. And a lot of dickheads truly believe they are not doing anything wrong. It is a difficult situation but I think that most of us enjoy the flying and aviation life style so much that the crap can (usually) be tolerated.
  16. We all complain about being regulated, or living in 'nanny states' etc. however, we continually prove that we need regulation and big brother watching because we behave like imbeciles otherwise. We cannot handle booz, road rules, drugs and a million other things. Imagine if there was no CASA or RAAus. Good God, pilots would be killing themselves and others through their own stupidity, ignorance and crap attitudes. (I use the term 'we' at the beginning of my rant, those of us who do the right thing please feel excluded)
  17. Have you looked at the TAFE Diploma? This link http://www.tafesa.edu.au/courses/engineering-transport/aviation might be useful.
  18. Holy moly! She's an angel! Congratulations....
  19. How many hours before that job has to be done?
  20. In descent the airplanes speed increases. Now I am confused.
  21. Aussie etiquette is when a checkout chick neither says please or thankyou when you're being served and then abuses you when you politely ask why she doesn't. Sad effing world.
  22. If some folks get their way these joke will see you in jail. Remember - political correctness was invented by the Nazis.
  23. All those current affairs programs are crap. One program once blamed Ham Radio Operators for a fake mayday call that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Why Ham Radio? - he (shame shame shame) could never explain. Dickheads on 27Mhz CB were the culprits. (I might add that Ham radio is now so dumbed down it is basically just CB but that's another story.) Also, same guy ran a story about a fellow who sold his mates caravan and pocketed the money. The program forgot to mention the caravan was abandoned on the fellows property and was sold after five years of trying to find his mate and get him to remove it. Do yourselves a favour, watch Southpark - it's closer to reality than any current affairs program.
  24. It's okay. Statistics is part of my job and unlike many who post here, I know more than most would realise. Let them flaunt their ignorance.
  25. Perhaps the pilot had a medical event? At 66 he is no spring chicken.
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