Augustine

Welcome to the forum! Enjoy your time here.

Great to hear you've had a successful lesson! I've also done turning recently, my instructor demonstrated a spiral dive if one were to not keep the aircraft balanced during a turn. Exhilarating.

Welcome to the forums. Enjoy your stay here.

Welcome to the forum Phil! Best of luck with your flight training.

OK Augustine, I should have guessed that !We have a couple of guys on this forum who occasionally post from Sweden, but have not seen them for a while. One of them is "PolarDroid" Flies in the Antarctic a bit I believe, Can't remember the other one, but he flies from a strip very close to some family of mine near Herrljunga, ( Famous for it's CIDER - yum yum ) North of G'burg.

 

Being fairly well travelled, I tend to pick up bits of languages here and there, just enough to get myself into trouble usually !

 

Enjoy the flying Sir.

 

Phil.

That is quite interesting! It's always useful to pick up a few odds and ends. I've never travelled to any of the Scandinavian nations yet but it is definitely something I'd wish to do in the future. Met a few Swedes during my time in Muscat which is where I picked it up. They are all from Skåne so you could probably guess what my accent is like! Haha

"Fortune - brave - right / correct - details" . . . . ?My Swedish is pretty crap Augustine,. . . . and I can't be bothered to google it ! ! !

 

Welcome mate. Phil.

 

"I think the phrase is correct in much detail/circumstances"

Curious...... How tall are you?The photo of you in your profile dwarfs the aircraft and makes it look like a toy

 

Do you have any problems flying in it?

Not sure mate, so long ago. I was based on the border but worked all over the bottom half of NSW such as Goulburn, Cootamundra, Temora, Wagga, Tocumul, Deniliquin ahhh so many more but can't remember.I remember landing on a racecouse to take a whiz one day, the horse trainers couldn't believe what they were seeing.

 

Must say there were a few private strips that we landed on, landed at a strip somewhere in the middle of knowhere and this bloke was restoring some aircraft, the tedious fabric work but he was doing the best job I have ever seen!

 

The strips we landed at were on peoples private farms and I must say they were always welcoming and made us a coffee and in occasions morning tea, it is amazing how aviation brings so many people together.

What does an aerial survey entail?

Augustine,Forgot to mention that I did some flying out near Dalgety, flew aerial survey down there back around 2007.

 

Nice place and lots of ag strips to land on.

Great to see you getting back into it! Welcome back to the forum.

That explains it :)Sorry for jumping to conclusions, I gotta throw that tin foil hat out.

 

Good luck with your training, but I must warn you flying is very addictive and it loves to eat money.

Ahhh all good :)You just said your studying at Jindabyne where you reside but you are going to resume flying when you return to Australia, so was not sure what you were meaning.

 

All good, I take it you have emigrated to Australia?

 

Please excuse me if I am wrong ;)

You'd be partly correct. My father is from the United States but I was born in Australia. Although I'm entitled to an American passport I only have an Australian passport. Regardless, I have full European heritage.

I may be mistaken but isn't Jindabyne in New South Wales? I have never heard someone say there from "The Commonwealth of Australia"Hmmmm I could be mistaken but

I am currently flying with Alpine Aviation Australia.

I had my TIF in a Evektor SportStar, but will doing all future lessons in a Tecnam P92 Eaglet, first lesson "Effects of Controls" at 07am on Monday the 15th of Feb and the goal is to then complete future lessons on a fortnightly basis thereafter, weather, finances permittingMy Flying School: http://www.fly-now-redcliffe.com/

 

Cheers, Brent

Welcome Augustine,I to have just recently had my TIF, I will be also commencing flying lessons with the goal of achieving a RA-Aus Pilot Certificate very soon, so good luck to you as well

 

Cheers, Brent

Welcome Augustine and good luck with your training .... Bob

Welcome Mate,Sean

Good day gentlemen,

My name is Augustine and I am from the Commonwealth of Australia. I’m originally from Randwick, Sydney however I am taking the H.S.C. this upcoming academic year in Jindabyne where I am currently residing. I have recently become an aviation enthusiast as I have the opportunity to study aviation through my school. I also have a few family members in administrative and operational positions in various airlines whom have encouraged me to pursue it.

In regards to aviation, I am currently studying to complete the B.A.K. (Basic Aeronautical Knowledge) course and have intentions to achieve a RA-Aus Pilot Certificate which I could convert to a P.P.L. So far, I have had my T.I.F. which was a phenomenal experience for me! I am looking forward to resume my training once I return to Australia.

Thank you for reading my post and I look forward to meeting you all.

Augustine