TAA Student Pilot

Some heavies do get a bit pushy :D

Sounds good to me

Did that bloke have a ponytail and nice eyes or was it a......................................girl? Fancy letting a girl fly a Tiger :D Interesting starting from the front, most start Tigers from behind the prop and beside the fuse. Lovely machine, open cockpit flying (Or no cockpit like ultralights) gives a whole new perspective, very enjoyable. Didja go for a burn in the Tiger Den?

Agreed, seems most now expect the incoming pilot to pay for all endorsments up to and including 737.

That'd be right Bas, anybody rated on a Jabaroo could step straight into a 380 :D People also rated on single Cessna's could step into say a 737? It'd be OK though cause they have two pilots, one could use the left engine and one could use the right :p Also best to use very low hour pilots, as somebody suggested they can learn as they go.

So says Louis, you think he might be a tad biased? Trying to drum up some business? Already have, or at least some are using it to suppliment the other side and as a good source of cheap employment. Even if the garanteed job is only handling luggage after paying $140,000+ for pilot training.

Ripper video

The same folks who were instructing in the military and the usual suspects UAV's are still hobby type stuff, even the military stuff worth buzzillions of dollars is limited. Same people that train a lot now, instructors who have just got their licence Not all Heli pilots come from mustering backgrounds, funnily enough the "Must work for peanuts 14 hours a day make a man outer yoo sunny" attitude of most mustering outfits isn't held in high regard in some circles. It won't dry up, while ever mummy and daddy are willing to pay big bucks for little Jimmy to become a "Captain". With the way things have been progressing in GA the period working for nothing or actually paying to work to get experience is getting right up to feeder airlines with people (Or their folks) paying to crew there won't be any shortage of patsy's. Only thing is in a few years there will be a pimply faced kid sitting in the left seat as well as the right. It's a wonder we haven't heard of the "Skill shortage" from major airline players with talk of imported labour (Read cheaper to employ) to cover the shortfall like the mining sector. It's unbelievable that somebody sitting in the right seat (Or left seat of the likes of a Dash 8) is only on much the same money as a capital city cab driver.

It's those same lawmakers who come from the legal industry, self interest. Making big bucks from parasiting and bottom feeding. From memory it was in the late eighties things started changing? No doubt you'd have been one of the biggest vocal critics at the time? Look at the outcome of the lawsuits from the black Saturday fires (Those that have finished), only outcome will be when it starts to heat up the power companies will shut everything off and everyone will pay double the money for power bills, it's OK though because some of those in the legal "Game" made several large fortunes out of it.

Everybody is running scared (With good reason) from bottom feeding parasite legal fee driven liability problems. You can't blame organisations for trying to protect themselves, blame the legal industry.

By the look of the tank on that high mounted one there'd only be enough fuel in the round tank for mebe 1.5 hours running :eek:

The crowd is standing very close, hope they have good brakes on that trailer. :D

Aircrash investigations is the best, with all that serious nodding and reinactments using cheap laminex lined sims ;) Having 250 hours sounds so much better than 200 :D I think a 1500 limit is realistic for somebody getting into the right seat of an airliner carring over 200 people.

Nice glasses in your avatar Davin, do they help get in touch with your feminine side?:D

I can't see how anybody with 200 hours has enough know how to sit in the right seat of an airliner, remember how good you were at 200 hours in a GA or RAA aircraft? Then multiply the workload and complexity by a factor of about 10 and see what happens. The safety record in the US is not that flash with low hour crews.

So you know what hard work is then :) My advice would be work for the money first rather than borrowing it. Then when you are finished you owe no dollars. The first few years usually these days there's not much money to be made in aviation till you get a few hours, it's purely just surviving. Unless your very lucky and snag a good job first up. GA these days is hard, with the over supply of pilots (Despite what your hear from the press and big companies) and people willingness to work for nothing or actually pay to work for some hours. The mentality goes right through aviation now through to airlines where some are willing to work for half of what used to be paid. Now it's considered normal to pay for your own endorsement on the likes of 737's or mostly they get their parents to pay for it. There are good jobs out there that pay well with good conditions (AG for me), the likes of RFDS and some instructional places. I'm sure a more mature bloke with a bit of life expirence like yours will have an advantage over a kid just out of school who had a gap year in Europe and then had his parents pay for him to become a "Captain" ;)

Might pay to kick around airfields for a while to see what's involved. If your that keen then money won't matter, you'll do anything to get dollars to pay for it. If after a few months of sweeping floors or washing aircraft AND seeing what crap people put up with your still keen then I'd say go west young man and earn some money for a year or two. A couple of years growing up working hard won't hurt you and if you put money away instead of drinking it or hangin round wuth loose wimmin you'll have enough to go straight through from go to whoa.

Yip, agreed. They are all fine machines Beech 18, Hudson and Dak, mebe it's the round injuns?

Loved the look of the Hudson cockpit, basic and functional. You can't really compare a Hudson to a Dak, mebe same engines that's about all. The Dak's load is a lot more but the Hudson goes a lot quicker (190 knot cruise compared to 150?).

Bewdy

The Neptune is just south of Dubbo, yoo gedun confussed wuth all those K's ole fella :)

In GA you can get a low level endorsment but you can't fly low level unless on AG work or Survey, a low level endo doesn't give you the right to fly LL. CASA has no low level syllabus or recognised course and is a very grey area. Back in the olden days you could only fly an ultralight below 500 AGL or over roads, what is the letter of the law now concerning RAA aircraft and low level flight?

Intersting the age of the pilots, most seemed older than younger.

That rego rings a bell, from the long foggy past I thought it had a similar rego. Why the interest in the chook roost? There are still a couple flying, mebe one in Tassie and two mainland?

No I think the production company bought the static one and has since been given/sold to a collection somewhere. Vagely remember that it could be in Bankstown? They claim that this was the aircraft flown in the movie but that is incorrect. EVY was repainted after the movie as part of the hire/rent deal.