metalman

Point taken HITC , attitude has been wound down and put back in the drawer :-) Matty

Is that all you got out of my post, sorry to offend but so far all we get is retrospective whining about the old days, my post was my opinion based on my observations on the difference in the two groups , inspite of the talk I can't imagine how two very different organisations can just " join" , I guess I must be wrong ,cause the test for being right seems to be whether I was at mangalore in the early 80's, although I can read ,not that it gives me the right to have an opinion ,just means I'm informed!

Yeh perhaps that was more aspirational than factual :-) Matty

For me Brad every fly in in firstly about people and planes, I like to look at trinkets and new stuff but I'm not going to buy up big , mostly I don't have the room in the plane for stuff, so it's a social thing and checking out other pilots planes for me, I was keen to head up for ausfly but even if it ends up a well attended fly in ill still be keen Matty

Agree 100%,,,,,sadly it's hard to find people who will put aside personal goals for the greater good!!!not impossible but they're hard to find, Matty

Something that seems to be forgotten here ,SAAA is not at all like RAAus ,they don't administer registration, flying training or pilot certificates/ licences. RAAus is a bigger organisation than SAAA , and as the RAAus came from the SAAA way back when they didn't want anything to do with ultralights what makes us think they would want to be effectively swallowed up by a bigger organisation. By amalgamating the existing SAAA members would lose a lot of control with the sheer voting numbers of the RAA members , why would they want that? As for the success of the different events I was at both of them within a 12 month period, they were both okay , I enjoyed them both , there is a different focus at each event ,but they were both good! Something I did notice ,and this may be where RAAus can shift focus , the SAAA is a builders group, that's what they do ,build planes! The RAAus have shifted its focus, I believe , to administering factory built planes, there just doesn't seem to be the home building activity , and that is where the suppliers come in, if your going to an event that focus on building then it's worth the effort to showcase avionics, glass displays ,paint, coverings, hardware,etc,,,,,but if the focus is flight training then why bother , leave it to the aircraft factories ! That was the big difference in the events that I noticed , maybe a joint effort might work ,but joining the two organisations together would just bring up all the old reasons why they split , Matty

Going from fairly slow aircraft into something fast ,like an RV6-7 , was really difficult, took ages to get ahead of it and feel really comfy, oddly my aircraft is 80 knot cruise ,I went for a fly for the first time in 4 years in an RV7 the other day and expected to be really behind it but I felt no different than if I'd been in regularly , maybe once you get used to the speed it doesn't really leave you. Feeling a skid or slip is still something I have to look at the ball for, I guess I don't have a sensitive ars3, Matt

My wife went missing in a boating mishap , the police turned up a week later and said they'd found her , did I want the good news or the bad news first? "The bad I guess, " "she's dead ,we found her body stuck under a rock ledge 15 ft underwater" say the young copper, "What the hell is the good news then ?" ,,,,, "she had three good sized mud crabs and a lobster hanging off her ,we've put her down again till tommorow arvo"

Loved building models as a kid , I've got a few in storage for when I have time , nice work on the Cessna Matty

This is what I received, bit of a bummer, was keen to go

Good on ya mate, best bit of advice an instructor gave me when I was getting stressed out " look out the window, this is meant to be fun", what type of aircraft are you learning in? Matty

Believe it,,, :-)

Thanks for all the advice, had a look at how I write cover letters and made some changes, I'm still going for jobs a bit out of my depth ,but there's got to be a challenge to it all, :-) Matty

Interesting about the "handshake" I'm big on having a handshake that's "right" ,my sons were taught to shake hands well and interestingly since moving to Melbourne I've noticed a cultural thing with the Indians mostly, they generally have awful handshakes, even uncomfortable for both parties, I can only surmise it's not a done thing in their culture , maybe TAFE could do a course for them. Matty

Must have been flying in the last three years, I took some pics of it at lethbridge the first year we moved here, very neat, Matty

Flying with a mate who's around the 23000 hour mark the other week really got me thinking, his preflight ,pre take off briefing, downwind checks were all precise ,no short cuts ,no feeling of "let's just fly it" , it really made me look at my own behaviour to see if I'd allowed slackness to creep in, Matty

Interesting how things change, I've never even had a CV till recently when I decided to apply for some jobs that are a bit bigger than I'm used to, some even require a suit( which I had to buy) ,I've been in interviews and really though I'd done well only to get a rejection letter/email,,,,kinda makes me think about how I could do things differently , the suits a cracker so it might be me ,,,,although I did discover when asked about my expectations answering in such a way that sounded like I wanted to be the interviewers boss probably wasn't the smartest thing. I don't know if "tricks" is the right word, maybe "tactics" would be a better one, either way it's quite a learning curve to be mid forties and having to sell myself , Matty

That would be "perforated airspeed" !

Mmmmm,,, sounds about right,,I don't think we've always been thought of like that,,,but lately ! What will really hurt is if we take the whinging title off the poms Matty

Lol, so you're going to suggest to the owner " hey I have a trailer handy ,let's rip the wings off and take it up the road a bit,,,really hehehe:tongue in cheek:

Some things can't be planned for, YHBA your almost over water by the crosswind turn ,so for me I would stretch the turn a bit more than the thirty deg off the nose, tall timber is always a worry , even Coldstream is a bit limited off 17 Matty

Going into private strips can be a hazard ,( even when your not doing a beat up) a mate took me up on a hill near his place just after I flew in to show me the pwr lines, I was well above them but due to the terrain I fly a pretty tight 500ft circuit and the valley was just next to his strip, thing is even parked in his ute looking right at the lines you could hardly see them ,too hit them you would've been ridiculously low , but not if doing beat ups was your thing! I knew this guy , very sad but it brings it home that pilots rarely get hurt while doing the right thing, mistakes happen ,but often it's behaving badly when things go wrong Matty

Yeh already mentioned it, up to 1000agl I land 30deg either side of the nose, at 1000agl ( or downwind ) I turn and land on the runway, this works at every airfield I've been to on the east coast, some slight modifications depending on terrain and conditions but a turn back before 1000agl isn't on the takeoff brief. The question here is the wrong one, the vibe here is "can I do it?" ,but it should be "should I do it?", the other problem is the calibre of pilots on the internet , they are awesome, accomplished and highly skilled,,,,,sadly I'm not , so I have to use procedures that I hope will help save my sorry a*se if things get nasty, I tend to want to learn from all pilots the living ones are great to sit and listen to ,fly with and absorb their experiance! the dead ones have pretty good lessons as well! I like to learn from them as well, Matty

A salesman is born, good luck on the future sales of the latest 180 knot RAA plane with an approach speed in the low forties

What we're talking here is turn backs, if I'm on downwind the strip is a goer, but ,let's just say we want to practice turn backs, firstly we can do it at altitude, but that is very different to low level, so maybe we get to the point where we think we can turn back safely,,next we need to practice it down where it matters, that means taking off, then pulling the power ,turning against the circuit ,executing a low level turn and then if, IF you get back to the strip, a downwind landing,,,,,,all this as previously rehearsed in your mind before you even pull the power. My field I would be very limited as to when I could do this, and even more limited as to practicing it, and even if I did it successfully what's to say three months down the track the conditions are the same as when I'd decided that YES I can get back at 500 ft, there is just so much that can go differently ,but now we've got a height in our mind that we consider doable. I was taught turn backs from 500 agl at YHBA ,2000 metres of runway , in a C172 we could've taken off and landed three times, it made a turn back manoeuvre look really easy,,,,,but there's been plenty of people killed in C172's trying it for real . I'm totally agreeable to practice ,all the time, I'm always changing how I fly a circuit( within the regs of course) and giving myself challenges or scenarios ,but there's things that need to put away mentally before you start the engine, I believe this is one of them, Matty