farri

21 hours ago, facthunter said:

Looking Good Franco. Have a good Christmas. and safe flying.  Nev

Merry Christmas to you also, Nev.

43 minutes ago, Yenn said:

Yes Farri, but you are not a high tech geek, looking for the greatest technical udate at whatever cost. Just a practical bloke. Have a great Christmas and may you make even more people enjoy flying.

I hope you got, I was kidding... I will continue to try and make even more people enjoy flying, Drifter flying, that is! for as long as I can! I have two ladies coming to fly with me, for their first time, tomorrow morning...Merry Christmas to you also.  

I can do it all with 48 hp and a hell of a lot less money!!! 😁 ....😘.....Merry Christmas, Garry!

I did this flight 3 weeks ago and enjoyed every second of it, but then! I enjoy all my flights...Franco.

https://youtu.be/ZRvPXCjxC_4

The old and the new.... Yesterday I met and got to nurse our nine day old Great-Grand-Daughter, Sadie Jayne Cheetham, for the first time. Our Grand-Son, Matthew Cheetham and his wife Keah also have a son, four year old Nate, so now Nate has a sister and Frances and I have five Great-Grand-Daughters and three Great-Grand-Sons...Franco

Thanks Guys! I appreciate it... Here`s another solo flight I did around three weeks ago...Franco.

https://youtu.be/ZRvPXCjxC_4

All`s well at Deeral! no Kovid-19 up here! I`m still flying once a week on average, people still asking me to take them Drifter flying, so I do! life`s good at Deeral.

One of my recent solo flights to the Atherton Tablelands, I did this one a couple of weeks ago and another one since and I`ll post that one also, if anyone want`s to see it....Franco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5qNcipV3e4&feature=youtu.be

On the weekend these guys turned up to see what Drifter flying is all about, so I showed them! I don`t know why the video screen is black but footage is there once you start it.

Second Drifter flight for my 4 year old Great-Grand-Son, Deacon Theurillat.

I regularly do some landings on my North-South strip to maintain my ability, this was yesterday...Keep in mind, I`m flying over my own property and I only do it solo.

Franco.

13 minutes ago, ClintonB said:

 Would love to try it if we are ever allowed back to QLD. cheers clinton

 

G`Day Clinton, if you`re ever in Cairns area, look me up and we`ll see what we can do....Cheers.

Some footage I shot and put together on a solo flight I did with my Drifter, last Friday, from our property here at Deeral... I started learning, from the internet, how to put a video together about 3 weeks ago and this is my second video... Franco.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRSVL-Xgc8&t=3s

Terrible bug this flying bug and now I`ve caught the video bug. Last Friday I was working with the excavator, here on our property, I needed a break so I went flying, shot some footage then put it together.

In the afternoon, I took up Rachel Platte and her father, who is up here for Rachel`s birthday! Rachel lives a couple of hundred meters up the road and has flown with me previously but for her father, it was his first Ultralight flight.

Just a side not! a while ago, Rachel brought a lady friend of hers here, for her first Ultralight flight! the lady was so impressed that she said she was going to learn to fly a Drifter so I gave her the information she needed! last Friday, Rachel told me the lady is now taking flying lessons, up in Darwin, where she lives.

Franco.

Something went wrong with my post, I`ll try and correct and post again as soon as I can fix it.

On 8/22/2020 at 5:44 AM, skellywelly said:

Hey everyone, Any Kitfox flyers down under ? Cheers, Skelly.

Don`t know if I`m any help but there`s a KitFox with a KFM engine in it, sitting under a house, not far from here! the guy built it himself and he flew it from our property here at Deeral for several years! he`s now in his 80`s, not in good health and hasn`t flown it for a few years.

If you are on facebook I can put you in touch with him! you`ll find me here, on facebook https://www.facebook.com/franco.arri

A couple of better photos!

On 9/21/2020 at 12:40 PM, Old Koreelah said:

Interesting; the camera moves a little in relation to the screen, so it must be a flexible mount.

It is interesting because the camera can`t move so I`m assuming it was just the Drifter moving around, there was turbulence! apparently the camera does have some inbuilt stabilization so it could be the camera making adjustments.

I`ve just started using the GoPro Hero 8 Black and I`ve got a lot to learn! by the way! in the photo the camera looks much larger than it really is due to the way I took the photo! it doesn`t impair my vision at all because I`m actually looking over the top of it. Oh! it can`t come off either. 

Ha! It appears the youtube censors have quite rightly deleted your filthy aviation porn!

? Seems to still be there!

Frank that's a pretty awesome video for a first effort! What was the camera mounted on?

G`Day O-K, It really is my first video! I just started a week ago by downing loading, 'Openshot' and 'Olive' both free programs, then spending the required time with online tutorials. This morning I worked out how to upload to youtube and that made it possible to post the video here.

I have several adhesive mounting bases (for want of a better word) so I stuck one to the front, in the center of the wind-screen, about 10 inches from the top! I can see the screen and I can reach over the top to start and stop the recording... Because the recorded files can end up so large I took several short videos then narrowed it down to what you see.

Franco.

G`Day guys! I now have a 'GoPro hero 8 black' and I`ve just started learning to use a couple of programs to create and edit videos`.

This was some of my flying yesterday afternoon and my first attempt at creating a video and posting it to youtube.

I saw an Air-Bike for the first time at Donnington Air Park, back in the early eighties! loved it and I certainly would fly one, given the chance.

Franco.

G`Day Charles,......... I fly from our rural property at Deeral! I`m 11 nautical miles as the Crow flies and about 15 klm by road, south of Gordonvale.

When do you plan on arriving here and how many aircraft would want to land?

Franco (Frank)

Absolutely incredible! Thank you Garry.

Martyn, I`ve just remembered that way back I test flew this AC for a guy who`d purchased it but hadn`t flown it! I recall it as a Pelican (?)! could your AC possibly be this one?...That`s me in it.

Franco.

Hello my name is Martyn - just joined today. Live in the deep north of QLD in a little village called Kuranda just west of Cairns.

Hello Martyn, welcome! ...........I live with my wife on our rural property at Deeral, 45 klm South of Cairns... I`ve been flying Ultralights from our property since the late mid eighties! currently fly my Drifter but started flying by scratch building my own and have flown numerous different types.

You`re welcome to come and say G`Day! if you`re on facebook you`ll find me here, Franco Arri

Franco.