Spooks

I think it'd be renamed the Jabiru 170 Harrier in the UK!

There's a F150 Rolls Royce aerobat at the local airfield. Lovely aircraft

The brother in law visits once a year from Oz. He usually looks like he is going snowboarding during the summer! I believe the difference between the 160 and 170 is the wingspan? Thanks for the reply

Don't be so sure. Sometimes we have a summer heatwave in the UK where it hits 15 degree Celsius for a week. It's so depressing

I've barely flown the past few months. Our airfield is closed due the runway and taxiway being ten inches deep with mud Regarding the D motor, I believe it is the engine of choice for the Sherwood light aircraft company who are now also distributors. http://www.g-tlac.com/news_blog.html

Currently looking at home build options in the UK and quite tempted by the Jab 160. Done a bit of reading on the uk forums, spoke to a few LAA guys and they reckon the engines are fine as long as they're maintained, updated and inspected correctly. There are quite a few UL, 430/230 and older models in the UK but very few 160s which makes asking advice over here a bit difficult! I'm primarily looking at hour building so cheap to run and cheap to maintain were my priorities (and the 160 seems to meet that seeing as the Jab uses automotive parts) but what are they like to fly? I'm aware they're used by flight schools in Oz so imagine they're pretty sedate? Current experience is on a C42 Ikarus and a C150 Cessna if either of those are similar. Cheers

Do you get the French Reims Cessna in Oz? (F-152) I believe they were corrosion proofed at the factory unlike those manufactured in the USA.

If looking at two-seaters, would an Evektor Sportstar be any good? Good on fuel, cheaper to maintain and very nice to fly.

Vegetables? Waste of meat space

I think meat in Oz was about 2/3s the price of that in the UK If the ad producers really wanted to be controversial, they could do a send up of liberating sheep from sexual slavery in New Zealand. Ended with a brash Aussie at his bbq saying "That's how you spit roast a lamb......filthy kiwis"

Was sadly untrue. As much as I dislike Cameron, it was a lie that has found 'truth' with the far left who are rarely concerned with facts. Produced some fantastic pictures though!

Are you chucking school leavers into university to drop unemployment figures too? We did this in the UK and have ended up with thousands, possibly millions, of sociology graduates whose degree description is "learn to be professionally offended". The trouble is that they command a lot of attention due to the noise they make

enjoy! Flying will be one of the best things you'll ever experience :)

Hope they're told to do something more worthwhile with their time! Like eating Lamb

Fantastic! We used to have humour like that in the UK until the dark times of everyone getting offended by anything possible. I had a similar expression on my face of "Vegan!?!?" when a tea total Aussie joined my old rugby club

"The picture above shows what we all dream about on a long haul flight (other than the upgrade to business)…the illusive spare seat! How do I get one of these you ask???? Well, I have this nifty trick that I use. When I choose my seats I pick a window for myself and an aisle for Randy, leaving the middle seat spare. Now we all know that no one likes the middle seat and we all avoid it like the plague. I have found that 90% of the time, if the flight is not completely full, that middle seat stays empty giving us the space we so crave on the 14 hour journey to LA. In the event that someone is allocated the middle seat I ‘take one for the team’ and move into it so that Randy and I can sit together, all the while making friend for life with the person who thought that he/she was stuck with that awful middle seat. Give it a go next time you fly, you’ve got nothing to lose and space to gain!" A couple on our last flight tried this. They ended up with a rather rotund individual in the middle who refused to swap seats on the 11 hours flight from Dubai to Oz

What's that strange glowing light coming from what appear to be holes in the clouds? I hate living in the UK

We're currently watching Dexter. Will try and find Spooks for our next series. My username comes from a childhood nickname when I was dressed as a ghost for a horse riding competition

Fantastic! Thanks for posting it up.

I've never seen it

Might look into those myself. Gets good reviews! (Also known as Groppo Trial)

http://capetocape.net Might be of interest too. A chap is flying solo from the tip of Norway to Cape Town in SA

Good effort regardless, but I was under the impression that she has a huge support team so not really solo?

I'll be disappointed if it didn't end up on a barbecue

Not sure if you can get them in Oz, but the TLAC Sherwood aircraft are folding-wing http://www.g-tlac.com The C42 Ikarus might be another option but they don't seem too popular over your way (even though it's a superb aircraft) http://www.comco-ikarus.de/Pages/produkte-comco/c42-uk.php?lang=en Zenith CH701 Or this from Aerotek http://www.aerotrek.aero/wingfold.htm