shags_j

If you haven't read yet everyone I suggest you do. This is truly amazing work.

I miss marching in the Brisbane anzac day parades. It used to be one of the highlights of the year.

With any luck I will get to march as a serviceman next year, fingers crossed.

I like the stories you get from the marches. We used to carry the catalina squadron banner and each year the squadron would march behind the squadron of which Ray Wilkie (ex ch 10 weatherman) used to be a part of. He would talk us deaf with all of his stories each year. It was great to be a part of that.

hard going to a dawn service these days. In Brisbane the last two years there have been so many people that you can neither hear nor see anything at all unless you get there first.

That said i still go along to as many as i can.

Grats to all who march in it I say. I used to carry the catalina squadron banner in the brisbane parade when i was in cadets. It was a real thrill at the time.

I would be somewhat interested in a two seater.

Stats aren't all that impressive. Nice looking machine though. I couldn't see a cost anywhere.

Looks like a fun little aircraft. Was it ever flown?

Let us know how you go. This isn't the best environment for those types of industries hiring and it would be interesting to know how you endup.

Wouldn't it be easier to listen to the appropriate atis in flight for qnh? Admittedly still pretty new to cross country flights but even on my short trips we find out the local atis' for areas we fly over.

had my arn for quite some time and no mag for me. Will send an email away.

Agree. Just grab a watch that is very easy to read with minutes marked. That's all you will need. Go to fancy and you will get very irritated.

Other than that just go preference for price, style etc. I can't handle metal or leather bands so I tried to find one with a rubber band. Found a tag huer on special with a fantastic dial and stop watch that was perfect.

I get my class two and one even though I don't need it yet. Just helps me to make sure I am staying fit enough etc for when I do convert.

I sooooo want to go. Damn work.

Good question:

I used to go GA training at archerfield till i ran out of funds (read bought a house). That pretty much rules archerfield out at that point.

I then started looking at ra schools and figured that either caboolture or redcliffe were the way to go. I just chose the school with the the cfi that was more approachable etc. TBH with the gateway it's not that far to caboolture.

Until i started in ra i had never really even known that ra was at dunwich. I though it was just a little private strip of some sort.

Never been to watts bridge or caloundra. I am planning a trip to watts bridge as tehy do a lot of aerobatic training out there and have practice days.

I did a couple of hours at cooloongatta airport. Coming back from training area one day "Cessna XXX enter circuit base ahad of the 727", Was a lot of fun at the time. Hate to have to do it now though.

Sweet. Well thanks to hopey and dopey (read krudd and swan) $900 should help me finish off my cross country endorsement. Should be able to visit some of these nice places. Just gotta find an aircraft to rent...

Yeah but it's right near my house. I used to pay that fee every time i had a lesson. Approximately $328 an hour to learn at archerfield. Chews up funds real quick. And that's in the dodgy aircraft identified in another thread.

yes but will be good for those of us who actually have a class 1, 2 and 3 medical and an asic card (yes pick the one who paid for the unnecessary stuff!!!)

It actually opens up a whole world of opportunity for me. Being able to land at archerfield will be fantastic.

Oh there's a c17 in the pic, I didn't notice!!

lol. So how do you get one of these flying models around gigs. I want one...

If you don't realise you're taking a risk then you're not knowingly doing it...

As per your calculation it shows a very minor amount of risk that has been calculated. We all take a risk every time we step into a plane. I think the discussion here is around taking risks that are of a larger nature.

Risk management i think is integral, wether that be insurance for when soemthing does go wrong or the management of the initial risk to make sure that you (or in some cases your loved ones) never have to claim on that insurance.

And that was GA. I've never felt safer than in RA aircraft. I think the attitude is completely different. RA Trainers are doing it because they enjoy it and want to. Therefore they take more care of their aircraft, safety breifs etc. GA TRaining schools seem to be about moeny. The instructors are usually just trying to be airline pilots and building up hours (in saying that my last instructor at that same GA School was fantastic, it was the schools fault with regards to teh aircraft etc).

Sage advice. Mine would be that if you don't feel safe in teh aircraft, don't go up. At my last school the aircraft were in aweful condition, seatbelts that didn't work properly, aircraft constantly breaking down (I did my first solo without a DG). My second solo oil pressure dropped to the red on my last circuit. I had shimmy dampner problems which postponed my solo. At that school, due to maintenance, I flew in three different types of aircraft.

Whilst this is all character building I wasn't going to keep on like that. That's why I changed schools. At some point your own safety needs to be more important than going up.

Something I've noticed, particularly in the LSA circles is that safety seems to be more paramount than in say lighter GA aircraft. I've been to probably 3 different GA schools and 2 RA schools (yeah I switch a fair bit) and until I went RA I never really felt safe in teh aircraft I was flying.

What's the caption in the top lefthand corner?

RAA should definitely step in in these cases. Training syllabus should cover all this information regardless of where you train. It's not hard to learn controlled airspace locations and procedures. There really is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.