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Getting a hairdryer through customs... A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, 'Father, may I ask a favour?' 'Of course, child. What may I do for you?' 'Well, I bought an expensive woman's electronic hair dryer for my mother's birthday that is unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?' 'I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie.' 'With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.' When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her. The official asked, 'Father, do you have anything to declare?' 'From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare.' The official thought this answer strange, so asked, 'And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?' 'I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.' Roaring with laughter, the official said, 'Go ahead, Father. Next!'

Ben’s New Guinea bound in an ultra light aircraft Councillor, football umpire and legendary aviator, Ben Buckley, has again taken to the air in an ultra light aircraft, this time bound for New Guinea. Ten years ago the now 73 year old crossed the Tasman Sea in an ultra light and landed, without entry documents, in New Zealand. He has assured the Bairnsdale Advertiser that this time his papers are in order and the aircraft while categorized as an ultra light, is a sleek and fast flying machine, not an oversize coat hanger. Together with 74 year old friend, owner and co-pilot of the Italian made Alpi Pioneer 200 aircraft, Bruce Hammit, Ben joined the Papua New Guinea Air Safari with a group of other light aircraft. The aircraft all rendezvous at Horn Island off the tip of Cape York before flying as a group over two weeks to Madang, Karawari, Mt Hagen, Tari, Bensbach and Daru in Papua New Guinea. The aircraft then return to Horn Island before dispersing to their various Australian home ports. Ben said this was the first time an ultra light aircraft had been included in an air safari. “It was allowed to join because it is a modern, high performance aircraft with high equipment levels,” he said. “It is well up to the task of the short over-water crossing and flying in the tropical New Guinea conditions.” Regards Bill

Altar Boy's Confession: 'Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl'. The priest asks, 'Is that you, Dicky?' 'Yes, Father, it is.' 'And who was the girl you were with?' 'I can't tell you, Father, I don't want to ruin her reputation.' 'Well, Dicky, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later, so you may as well tell me now. Was it Mary Walsh?' 'I cannot say.' 'Was it Teresa Brown?' 'I'll never tell.' 'Was it Margaret Doyle?' 'I'm sorry, but I cannot name her.' 'Was it Anne O' Neil?' 'My lips are sealed.' 'Was it Catherine O' Tool, then?' 'Please, Father, I cannot tell you.' The priest sighs in frustration. 'You're very tight lipped Dicky, and I admire that. But you've sinned and have to atone. You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself.' Dicky walks back to his pew, and his friend Tommy slides over and whispers, 'What'd you get?' '4 Months holiday and five good leads'

Hi and Koot. Where will you be flying from? Foto has it right there is certainly the fun factor when flying a trike :thumb_up: Regards Bill

HPC: High Performance Coatings PTY LTD 6 Watsonia Road Industrial Park Leongatha Victoria Ph 03 56624719 Regards Bill

**** I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes you just get soooo stressed and Little things just seem funny? Yeah, well I couldn't believe it ... He was a DWARF!!! He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, 'I AM NOT HAPPY!!!' So, I looked down at him and said, 'Well, then which one are you?' And that's how the fight started ...

O.K everybody, I want you all to get up early tomorrow, at 5:45 am tune to the ABC radio for the next installment in the exciting adventures of Hop Harrigon. You can then log in here to critique his flying skills, radio technique etc. He is currently flying a Catalina to a secret mine somewhere and a DC3 :devil: is trying to follow him :ah_oh:. They have just popped out of the cloud thinking they have lost the DC3 only to find it in front of them and the mine almost in sight! Edge of the seat stuff:laugh: Regards Bill

Hi Len, I started nearly 2 years ago but didn't log many hours in the first year because I had to travel 2.5 hrs to train and could only sneak away from the farm ocassionally. I have just over 40hrs now and I'm looking forward to getting a hangar built at home so I can take advantage of every flying opportunity. :thumb_up: Regards Bill

Hi and Len, There are plenty of trike pilots on here, some very experienced, a huge bank of knowledge to draw on if you need it. Have you been solo yet ? Regards Bill

Thanks Guys, I think Brentc has the right idea Dexter, I agree with you in that I'm not prepared to bet my lifes work on whether somebody or somebodies family will or wont take a lawyers advice where money is involved. Yenn, I think the third party thing would be if their property/actions caused damage to my property not the reverse. Mc Guyver, I hate it when I'm driving down the road and there is a forty kmh sign with a prepare to stop that lasts about three kilometers and you look around to see what it was about and there is a surveyor over in the scrub somewhere 20 meters off the road, then they wonder why traffic doesn't take notice of their signs. The same would apply if people start putting out meaningless white crosses.

Hi all, I'm about to start work setting out an airstrip at home, I read here of people with a home strip inviting others to drop in any time, something I would like to happen at my place. My concern is what if someone has an accident on your private strip ? What if someone you haven't invited identifies it as an airstrip and needs to land for a toilet stop and has an accident ? If they think it is O.K to land but the strip turns out to be too short for their aircraft is that my problem ? Given that if a burglar enters my property to steal my Plasma T.V and cuts his/her arm off on the broken glass that wasn't broken till he/she broke it apparently I'm liable even though I don't have a plasma ;), then I think I'm gonna have some problems . Do people have insurance for this ? Does your normal public liability insurance cover this ? If you can get cover is it expensive ? Regards Bill

And if you wanna see if anyone is on final before you enter the runway - just tilt the wing up and have a look :big_grin: Regards Bill

Hi Michael, Contrary to what Crezzi had to say, about a year ago while I was sitting in the hangar a former student arrived, the CFI took him for a check flight then let him go on his own in a school trike. I talked to the bloke later and he said he was doing it to log some hours to keep his license current. Crezzi has way more experience than I, but I don't see the difference in that to people hiring aircraft in the 3 axis world and I think that goes on all the time. The school I'm talking about often has trikes for sale and could probably arrange flights with the owners for you, but I'm not sure how that would go if you where only kicking tyres. Regards Bill

Tomo, Thats two things you have back to front 1) They are behind us in W.A 2) You think Drifters look better than Trikes mate I just couldn't resist Regards Bill

Hi Michael, There are plenty of P&M trikes in Australia, although I don't know why we don't have a dealer here, there is a nice one for sale here: Trikes - Recreational Flying There is also an Apollo advertised on the same page. There are DTA trikes available here:Montpelier Microlights I would be interested to know which brands are certified for Australia and what it takes to achieve that. Regards Bill

Try here:clayart - thread 'how to use plasticine' Regards Bill

Hi David, Have a look here: http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/announcements-notams/4073-how-insert-images-your-post.html?highlight=post+images#post22234 :thumb_up: Regards Bill

BOB & THE BLONDE Bob, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 pm...He sat down next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV The 10 pm news was coming on. The news crew was covering the story of a man on the ledge of a large building preparing to jump The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?" Bob said, "You know, I bet he'll jump." The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't." Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, "You're on!" Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to Bob, saying, "Fair's fair...Here's your money." Bob replied, "I can't take your money...I saw this earlier on the 5 pm news, and so I knew he would jump." The blonde replied, "I did too, but I didn't think he'd do it again." Bob took the money...

With humour like that Nev you'll have to change your signature to 'never stop laughing' ;) Regards Bill

Pretty pleased with it myself considering it was taken with my nokia e 51

My view, It doesn't matter what you are doing there is a degree of risk involved, the risk has to be balanced with everthing else associated with the activity, economics, fun, convenience etc. I think the powers that be have a pretty good balance at the moment ie. where they perceive the risk warrants it a transponder is required the same with a radio. I do like the radio though, today there was a Gazelle heading into my area it was a little smoky and I never saw him once but I was always confident that we weren't in conflict because of his excellent use of the radio and I hope he felt the same way. Regards Bill

Hmm. Not much response to this. Today we had four aircraft flying around the Bairnsdale / Lakes Entrance area then another one passing through worrying about potential conflict with one of those four and we have to fit our transmissions in with Yarram, Leongatha and even one from Apollo Bay........ got a bit crowded sometimes. :confused:

Hi all, Heading out for some flying this morning when I saw something I haven't seen before. I took a pic then as I headed off to the airfield I turned on the radio to hear a lot of people ringing in wondering what the airliner was doing. Eventually a weather man from West Sale rang in to say Melbourne airport was fogged in so the aircraft was in a holding pattern waiting for conditions to improve. Regards Bill