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I’m guessing Goolwa people Bex lol I’ll be passing through Adelaide tomorrow on my way back home to Mexico (Victoria) One day I might have the pleasure of meeting you

Not much can go wrong until you put a human in it, then it can go pear shaped as we have seen Yes not a good promo showing and encouraging low level manoeuvres

The Icon A5 flew perfectly fine right up until the pilot destroyed it and himself in the process Another hey watch this accident by the looks of the video

Nice work Bruce They should be confident as they produce fantastic looking aircraft with brilliant flying qualities

TP Windsock itself probably wouldn’t cause the crash but if it hit the support pole I’m guessing it could

Great read Peter Thanks for sharing your adventure Great photos also

Lovely fella that MartyG and his lovely Deb eh David Been friends with him since childhood and friends with Deb when they hooked up many a year ago He once was a Victorian for many years then went soft and moved to Qld But still in contact with them Glad you got to meet them both Alf

Always sad to lose fellow aviators in the pursuit of what most of us love doing Condolences to all families and friends of the lost brothers / sisters in this recent accident

Yes Marty It is a great zoo, the old jail in town is also an interesting place also to visit Sharon & I enjoyed Dubbo the 4 day’s we stayed there while passing through to Adelaide from Port Macquarie while in the van Flying to Adelaide Sunday hence why I’m not up there + the weather is not the best this side of the range Alf

That’s why I brought my own To use it when I wanted it Sacrificed 20 years of living away from home for 1/2 the year Owner of the plane should have the right to decide whether to hire or not

Coming home this evening driving the bus I seen what looked like a C172 sitting in a paddock between YLTV (Latrobe Valley) runway 21 and the freeway overpass Cows seemed awfully happy to have the company as about 20 were milling around it Gathering a possible engine problem put it there Anyone got any info on it Alf

Yes looked great as I flew by

A magic day it was to be aviating today Another 3.5 hrs in the logbook for a total of 5.5 for the weekend Opposite end of the state this weekend. Last Sunday it was to Stawell, this Sunday was to Mallacoota along the glorious East Gippsland coastline what Beaten my previous best for a year with 124.9 hours so far from the start of January this year Living the dream

Sorry Love to fly but I sortied off to Mallacoota today for something different Cracker day for it I fly out of West Sale

I used to pay $145 hr wet for a Tecnam Sierra about 5 years ago Then I went and bought one

Nice work Bob

Very sad That’s the 4th glider fatality in about a month Not good for the gliding fraternity losing fellow flyers Condolences to all the families and friends of those recently lost living out the passion of aviation for which we all love

Flew from West Sale today up to Stawell in Western Victoria to catch up with the crew at Stawell Aviation Services the Victorian Tecnam dealer Great to catch up with John, Val & Graeme Boatman and check out the new Tecnam Sierra MKII Comparing the 2 was interesting with a few notable changes like a slightly larger canopy/cockpit, full glass panel, landing light in the cowl where as mine is in the wing Rear side windows missing on the MKII The guys are just waiting on the rego to come through from RAA and will hopefully test fly it later in the week Great flight up to Stawell after calling in to YLTV to pick up my brother to join me for the flight, we were blessed with a 10kt tailwind heading up at 4500ft and a 17kt tailwind on the return trip at 7500ft Tracked via Port Phillip Heads both ways Must say the canola fields were in full bloom between Torquay and Stawell and it was as pretty as a picture as was Port Phillip Bay Total flight time was 5.1 hrs on the airswitch for the day and a great day was had by all

What's the bet a grey ghost gave him a parking ticket for being outside the parking bay

Hmmmmm maybe?????? The contents of the lavatories came back up through the opening from which they were recently deposited in and began flowing down between the seats changing the isle carpet colour for which in turn then mingled with the fresh foul smelling odour from all of the flight crew and every passenger onboard, this mind you included the seat decor changing from ocean blue to a off colour brown after the encounter with the sever turbulence. Was this enough for the captain to think the aircraft may have been over stressed

SDQDI I like your opinions so keep them coming

I hope you have a formation rating SDQDI with that squadron of yours Question, are they 2 or 4 stroke powered? Lol

Thanks Col for clearing that up I like the Greens now, Di Natale and Sarah Hanson Young are my faves now So what good do the Greens do for us Oh tha See Franco, The soot kept the crocs away!!!! Now that it's cleaned up they are back to eat you lot Was a positive out of all that soot after all

We are a minuscule polluter compared to Asian countries, do they give a hoot about polluting??? We are going to make a huge difference our little 24 million inhabitants to the world pollution levels while a majority of the rest of the world don't give a stuff We get cleaner while they get dirtier but we save the world, I think not I'm all for reliable clean cheap energy but until such time we can get it, keep our poxy little coal fired power stations running

Correct Old Koreelah you know me well. Don't like any church at all, don't believe in fictional characters or like tax avoiding organisations like churches And yes a hatred of lobby's that try to shut down coal fired power stations without a sustainable or reliable replacement