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i had a good laugh at that.

ha. problem is i could see my local council actually doing that...

h i freedom, sorry i cant help you with amphib but welcome anyway.

My brothers German girlfriend is immigrating to aus in two weeks. I wonder if she will like this ;)

That's so wrong. I love it.

Probably should be in a seperate post burbles

Don't know if anyone has posted this before or not: A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in New South Wales when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?" Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASApage on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany . Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" "You're a senator in Kevin Rudd's Labour Government", says Bud. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ... Now give me back my dog.

I think Dunlop missed the point that that is what we are after. A more "united co-existence". In answer to your question, while it is RA focused, I think there are almost as many GA ppls (or ex) as there are RA pilots

Why not a nokia? My N97 has a handwriting input on any text box. OS is Symbian. You don't need itunes and can sync using either ovi or pcsuite (I prefer pcsuite, less automated). If you are happy with your plan you can pick up an unlocked phone (which is what I did). This Nokia Mobile Phones | MobiCity place is where I picked mine up from. They source them from o/s (so you get a convertor for the charger) but it means they get the benefit of the awesome exchange rate at the moment. Unfortunately the n97 is about $150 more expensive than when I bought them (picked mine up for $540) but you can keep an eye out on their website. The price changes fairly regularly. Don't know about aviation apps. Haven't really looked to be honest but there is a crapload of symbian apps (some for free, some to pay) so have a look and see what you find. I only use it for GPS while flying (Awesome gps software AVTrack). Good luck with it.

I guess it will mostly be trips away.

Bloody good choice of apps there.

Congratulations. I didn't catch you at ycab (had a crappy flight so went straight home). You must have had a hell of an adventure.

Gotta say I'm a big fan of the new n900 coming out. Ipad? I don't see the point personally. Nice to put on your coffee table so people can wow when they come in. IT's really just a big iphone. In allseriousnes though, it doesn't really matter what smartphone you get. The reason I chose the nokia is for the free nokia maps (with navigator). Is the best navigation suite you will get on any system.

Dazza I tried that argument but the boss wouldn't have a bar of it. Don't know why ;)

Thanks Sue. Just got to see if he accept the offer.

Difference is apple is very limited in what it lets you do. So long as it's an app on istore you're fine. Want to add anything else and you run into issues. With my N97 I can install software by virtually anyone, write software myself for it if I am that way inclined, it has ALL the features of an iphone (with a qwerty keyboard to boot which is the main reason I bought it) and for $250-$400 less. I say go with an android or symbian system and you can't go wrong. Apple has produced a product that's like 4wheel drives for soccer mums, every middle age housewife in suburban brisbane says that need one and will give a million excuses why but in the end they just want to look cool. (guess who is anti apple ;) )

Don't be an apple sucker. Apple force you to do things their way. Go for a smart phone that you can do whatever you want with. I have an n97 mini and it is awesome. The n900 is coming out soon if you want soemthing a little bigger and more web based. Android is ok too. DONT BUY APPLE!!!!

Spin, I would be willing to come and give you a hand. Seems that my plans have been put on hold for a bit (just signed on my first home...)

In the words of the great(?) monty python: "You lucky bastard"

My problem with it is, if you are looking at the manual and it refers to score section f or somethign else with funny wording your average Joe might not understand. How do you learn those bits.

Check the previous couple of pages slarti, definitely note cheetah free...

for bad punnage. :hittinghead::hittinghead:

Someone said it: Why are we using MTOW as a guide? Maybe we need to think out of the box and change the regulatory guidelines to something else (size, # seats, speeds etc.)

Can we have one month without a picture of a cheetah????? Great pics guys all. Scottw: Love that second one with the smoke.

Lets get down to the crux of the matter. Am I correct in saying that our LSA type ultralights and RA in particular deals in, basically 1 or 2 seaters where CASA really doesn't want a bar of it (excluding of course high performance one seaters, warbirds etc). If that's the case wouldn't making the weight limit a little higher so the two seaters are safer be more pertinant? Why are we putting a solid weight limit on it? Or am I being way too simplistic here?