metalman

Where were you in 1982/3 Metalman? If you were at Mangalore you would have seen just how much effort the SAAA put into the "Ultralight " movement back then.The "Takeover Paranoia" has been generated via the RAAus. I doubt the SAAA would want to have anything to do with the current mess that is the RAAus.

Yeah all 100 RAAus voters will definitely be an issue!I agree with you just think that the "sheer voting numbers" is something we aspire to, not something we have today....except in theory!

 

Andy

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

Seems to me people guarding their power and control is what has ballsed up RAA, sad that humans stuff everything up for their 15 minutes of power.

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

Study the theory inside out and know your speeds, don't let the aircraft get in front of 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

Unbelievable!!!

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

what about a pinhole in the static line?

A waiter walks up to a table of Australians and asks; "Is anything OK?".

Matty

This is what playing with UAVs does to your mind Motz.How about you' re traveling and you book an aircraft hire at a strange place and when you get there you find out that around each end of the strip is a Forest of 600 mm diameter Mountain Ash about three metres apart.

This is a really interesting thread and I have learned a lot. I am not good at quick mental arithmetic under pressure, but I think I can tell whether the aeroplane is in a bad configuration (too steep + too slow), or at least know enough to not go there. It is like taking off - in a light aircraft you can tell when the plane wants to fly, you don't have to watch the ASI for a rotate speed. I agree with all the theory but will stick to a 1000 foot minimum for turn back and trust my flying ability to not get into a slow, steep turn that will lead to trouble. This doesn't give an answer for EFATO at some airstrips. For example, a northerly takeoff at Bendigo or Maryborough (Vic) is over an extensive box ironbark forest. Thirty degrees either way doesn't get you out of it. I don't have a plan for this, just need to have a reliable engine. If I can fly Bass Straight I can fly over box ironbark forest for a while, and accept that an engine failure will probably have a bad outcome. I would like to know if anyone has a plan for EFATO over a forest, other than land as slowly as possible and pretend the trees aren't there.

Matty

Nor have I, this guy was killed by power lines at 29'6"

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

Ok, so at your home strip, especially, I'm sure that you would have a plan of action, something you have rehearsed, so that you have prepared mentally and physically for any foreseeable eventuality?? Something that you don't need to think about, because it was decided before you even got in the aircraft?

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

Wide open throttle at 6000 ft (in km/hr) for 'normal' cruise, and stalling speed with 10L fuel and a jockey as pilot, (in kts).happy days,

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

It depends mostly on whether you're flying somewhere or selling the aircraft, ;-)