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  1. Bruce Tuncks
    Great news Jab7252. They sure are getting a good one. Mine is for sale too, at only 20,900 dollars so when all the disappointed would be-buyers for yours come to have a cry, please tell them about mine. Right now I am flying a 230D with autopilot and other stuff...
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    There was a powerline inspection helicopter here recently. They now just have a camera system so they just fly along the power lines. The very door of the helicopter would be worth than my whole fleet...
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    Good onyer, jackc. How about you use your eyeballs to see if there is anybody there and act accordingly? Just never admit anything to the bad guys.
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    yep turbs, that's the way i go for sure.
  5. Bruce Tuncks
    Hi Turbs, well the prevailing wind between Gawler and Edenhope would be a Westerly, with the knots being higher with altitude. But there can be easterlies, so you have to take it a day at a time. Right now, I think I have moved to Edenhope permanently. Today I flew down to Portland!
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    Anyway, you are on the side of might and therefore right with respect to that airspace submission I made. Actually, I was told verbally by somebody who was there that my submission was rejected because I was asking for " non-standard" airspace. And I would never consider flying from Edenhope to Gawler by going closer to West Beach etc. I go over Mount Pleasant instead.
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    We could argue all day here I see Turbs, but I gotta tell you of this medevac flight at Tonopah, ( USA) where I flew a glider from some years ago. The last medevac flight I watched was at Waikerie and the plane hardly stopped because the ambulance drove out to the plane on the strip. Not so in the US, the plane was there for nearly 3 hours ... they ( the locals) thought this was normal, on account of how negotiations between teams of lawyers who were making a contract which specified just who was responsible for what and when took time. Gosh it made me proud to be an Australian.
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    Turbs, you are just the right sort of thinker to prick holes in stupid ideas and I would like for you to be on the RAAus board. I still disagree with you abut the Adelaide airspace submission and wonder how many times that airspace has actually been used in the last 20 years. AND why could not an airliner in real distress use one of its radios to talk to us?
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    Turbs, you may remember how years ago I put in a submission about introducing a mid-step between the 4,000 ft and 8000 ft steps around adelaide. This would have had zero effect on the airlines coming into adelaide but would have greatly increased safety for those of us confined unnecessarily to 4000 ft. I never got a reply except from you guys here. The very word "submission" says why it was treated with contempt by the govt.
  10. Bruce Tuncks
    Motion sickness comes from stone-age times. If your cave starts moving, your subconscious may decide that you have eaten something poisonous and make you throw it up. Some people like me just don't have a smart subconscious and so we don't get airsick.
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    Yep, we need some forumites to stand next time. How about it FV and jackc?
  12. Bruce Tuncks
    Hi FZ. I voted as you suggested and we got the guys in!. Promise I won't hold you responsible for how good they are. After all, there was not much choice huh.
  13. Bruce Tuncks
    What about a flexible prop which automatically changes pitch in the right way? I've been trying to think of how you would do this, but I'm not smart enough.
  14. Bruce Tuncks
    If you pushed the idea too hard and flew at ten knots into a ten knot headwind, you will never get there.
  15. Bruce Tuncks
    I wonder how they knew all about the "no flight planning" stuff when the flight planner guy was dead. I guess they looked for paperwork? And yes flying into IMC is crazy. I hope I will have the guts to tell those guys on the radio to get stuffed and to detour all those imaginary planes around me.
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    While Facthunter is right, as usual, there is a case to be made that some fees are counter-productive. A couple of years ago, a group from Gawler were looking hard at a trip to Broken Hill. It did not eventuate, and the costs were a definite factor in our decision to can the proposal. The hard fact is that there are some among us who are reasonably well-off, and others who earn wages and hire club aircraft. Landing fees would definitely add to their difficulties. So Broken Hill missed out on about a dozen visitors, most of whom would have spent good money in the town. Personally, I would have been happy with visiting the secondary recreational airfield, but more wanted to land at the town bitumen strip. Dust and prop damage from stones would have been in their thinking. And , if we had come, what would this have cost the council? The answer is nothing, the airfield is bitumen not grass, yet by us not coming, a few grand was withheld from the town traders.
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    My old grandfather, who fought in WW1 , would have been aghast at the phrase "their airspace" . It belongs to us citizens... alas, this is a losing argument I know. But you did go to the root of the problem, which is that airspace people do get territorial ideas and begin to act like they own the airspace. Actually, I thought the incident was at Sydney, where the hapless pilots had to stay below 500 ft because they were not given an expected clearance. There was no conflicting traffic, and this was noted by the coroner.
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    I would have hoped that the killing of 2 by failing to allow them to use UNUSED airspace should have put a bomb under them... Alas, I don't think anything has changed.
  19. Bruce Tuncks
    Here's my idea... If you are busting for a pee, go to the outside of your plane and do it surreptitiously and certainly out of sight of snipers on the roof.
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    Getting back to incident reports... Why would you self-incriminate yourself by making one? I understand why they all say that you will not be victimized, but they have a record of being untrustworthy.
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    Don't go chasing dust devils in a glider... I have generally been disappointed in the thermal at the end.
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    The only people I know who have been in airspace trouble have had transponders foolishly left on. While they flew from or towards Gawler. Now transponders could be used to give us freedom, or they could be used for the nastiest policing around... like enforcing COMPLETELY UNUSED airspace. Guess which way I expect them to go?
  23. Bruce Tuncks
    Thanks Ibob, I finally found Drela's paper and followed the argument through. While it still seems counter-intuitive, I am forced to accept the logic. Well I have an electric bike and this can of course be powered by wind energy and go faster than the wind, but this is not counter-intuitive for me.
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    I sort of understand the energy argument, which says that the energy in the wind stream wake will be less than otherwise, and this provides the source of the energy needed to run the thing. It is just so contrary to my intuition that I can't understand what is going on. Just a bit like the mercury ring prop automatic balancer, which blokes whose brains I respect say works well, but I just don't understand it.
  25. Bruce Tuncks
    I tried to find the mathematics, but only got a woman explaining nothing much. I was more impressed with the story about the boat that could travel UPWIND, but I don't believe that either. (Tacking sailboats with angled sails excepted here, I am referring to a simple setup where a wheel or water driven propeller is doing the driving)
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