Tex

No time for me and planning a trip out west in May.

No worries LM... nice thread and I have been wanting to discuss different equipment in this regard. Not a fan of the hexamine stoves either, terrible in wind and I always seem to infuse my food with hexamine taste...

Over the last few months I have slowly been adding to my collection of lighter weight camping gear with a view to doing a few camping trips. The light weight good quality stuff is bloody expensive... so have been adding to it all slowly.

Here is my Tent, inflatable mattress, Sleeping bag, Rain tarp and tripod stool.

Total weight is 6.2kg for this kit... of course a few items are missing: pillow etc.

Tent is 2.5kg (just under actually) and includes poles, stakes, ropes and even a floor saver which is not really needed. It is not a very big tent and you can just sit up straight in it, just long enough for those around 6'2" and plenty wide for one person... 2 if you are desperate. It is an Alps Mountaineering Mystique 2... I actually have two of them if anyone wants the second one (Brand new unused) I will sell it... $160 posted.

Sleeping Mat is 1.1kg; an Exped SynMat UL 7, expensive but very warm (insulated) unlike many sleeping mats, has a built in hand pump

Sleeping bag (1.1kg) is a Mountain Designs 'Kashagr 150' on special ATM for a reasonable price. I like this one because you can open it right out and use as blanket/doonah and with my sleeping mat that is the way to go...

Rain tarp/fly is just there for a shade cover while outside or to cover the pod, it is .7kg and is an ENO Profly

I still want to get a small cooker stove and am contemplating the Kovea Booster+1

Not much love yet going by the last person to ask (post #23) http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/oil-for-503-drifter.33458/page-2

Have another look at the video and pay particular attention to the main rotor blades angle!I'll say no more.

.The things we have seen.... oh the things we have seen...

Flew out west on Wednesday: Boonah - Dalby - Tara then Tara - Boonah on Thursday. 5.5hrs 85.3L

Looking Nth after crossing at the Gap

Looking South

Nth towards Toowoomba from near Maryvale

Cambooya foreground and Toowoomba way back

House and crop patterns

YDAY

Private Airfield...nice hanger

Too busy to take photos! Lots of socialising and plane porn to check out. Get down here if you want to see whats going on!Scotty

TTIUWIP

Google it... it's true!

From talking with some very experienced trike pilots they are saying a few people finding the SST pretty slippery, they are detuning to make it a 'feel more comfortable', which defeats the purpose of the strut brace. However I do not think there is any relationship with that and second sales at all... you don't need to sell the base AND the wing together after all.

Further, Airborne are continuously developing, upgrading and assessing their wings. That is the beauty of the flex wing, they may have just changed the cut of a few panels, different hardware set up, new sail making technique (rim and fill), different camber control systems... ALL sorts of tweaks and tricks to make a better wing. just look at how many wings they have already... through out the range they sell and historically.

My bad I suppose, previously flying in Amberley airspace I just spat out the info they required, then it becomes habit... cheers

From memory the cheat sheet had listen to ATIS then ready call for take-off - in between you need a taxi clearance to the holding point.

Initial taxi call?

Not familiar with Bankstown or surrounds, but you would add the clearance request you are after... ie "request airways clearance"in your example. Also proactive to state POB in the call. ie. "POB 2"

Nice, do a blank one, laminate it, so you can add relevant details with a china-graph pencil etc when you travel elsewhere.

Very easy to do, hard to do very well.

OH boy... I was thinking when he was in and around some of those buildings that he would have very little idea where and what rotor was hiding there ready to bite. Then at the very end he was honest enough to show it.

SWEET!

600mtrs is actually 60,000cm... but I won't let the truth get in the way of a good story *Tex knows that I'm sure, but just incase anyone else thought he was serious...

Psycologically (hope I've spelt that right) 1800 ft is longer and therefore a confidence booster.....I wonder how many centimetres that is. ??? Alan.

Looking forward to your comments.

Alan.

54864cm give or take a mm

I don't think you did anything wrong FD, but I don't think the twin pilot did either

It would seem I have opened a can of worms here, and am more being told what REALLY HAPPENED by people who seem to know better than me.From a very early post here is something I wrote:

"Seperation now told to be about 600m horizontal 400m vertical"

If you are talking about me, I haven't told you anything, I was just asking a question to clarify, as you state you are 'educating people with a story of what happened'. I asked because your explanation of what happened is somewhat unclear to me, understandably; as it transpires it appears it is only now becoming clear to you. I was just trying to highlight the pertinent details so I could understand what happened.

Not sure why you keep going on about where you have gotten this information from, no one seems to have asked or even mentioned it, except you.

Regrads,

Tex

Fair enough... tough crowd in here, that's for sure

Tex,There is nothing flat about those, look at the longitudinal axis of the aircraft relative the ground and compare that with the horizon position, that is a good nose down spin.