dunlopdangler

It is Hildy...good to see you knew that.. I hope you got my point though....

 

 

Welcome to the forum Hildy. I guess by the comments so far you may have guessed that we are mostly bewildered that you would be doing circuits only after a couple of hours and being a little self analizing in flying such an accurate circuit so early in your flying...that will come with practice and you wont need a GPS or even your instruments to tell you that. By all means review your flight as you are doing with the GPS if you choose to carry it with you...but forget about it until well after...You are on a learning curve and at this stage all is in front of you as you have alot to learn. Don't have the GPS plotting to become a distraction for you to dwell on too much. Your primary task thus far is to learn to AVIATE-COMMUNICATE-NAVIGATE..the finese you can muck about with later...enjoy the journey and happy flying:plane:

 

 

As Sloper has rightly pointed out...it is illegal to supply to anyone away from aircraft use without an appropriate permit to do so and the consequences can be expensive..so Darky my advice is to tell your friend to buy premium 98!!

 

 

I know a lot of us will be keen to hear more about this Yenn...hope it comes together.

 

 

I had the pleasure of doing an accelerated freefall course years ago over in WA and the first jump was at Lake Clifton....what a blast...after the jump we had a nice session at the pub there and my wife reckoned it took at least a week for the smile on my face to disappear...

 

 

Well done Win

 

 

Great for increasing recognition, you can get either a landing light with a strobe function included or a flashing relay wired into the landing light circuit..when you have two alternating light sources you hardly notice the pulses on landing...

 

 

when you are at Birdsville, make sure you take in "Big Red"...it will more than likely be chockers with 4WD adventurers and they all wave when you fly over.

 

 

4G...I still haven't got a full grasp on 3G yet...I've got a new phone with all the bells and whistles that I haven't taken out of the box...happy using my old LG TU-500 which I find very handy to stick between my headset and ear and chat away to my hearts content if I want/need to... I am not a total dinosaur though as I am willing to try new things, for instance, in the bundle which included the new mobile phone, Telstra sent me the T-hub and handsets...what an absolute useless heap of garbage that turned out to be (and has been returned since). Lets hope the introduction of 4G is done with due care as it wouldn't be the first time telstra has stuffed up..

 

 

#By the way Evinrude, who pioneered etec, have an aviation pedigree of sorts, the original engine in the Rotorway Scorpion homebuilt helicopter was based on an Evinrude V4 of around 125hp.#

 

Of course you guys do realise that Evinrude and Rotax are manufactured by the same company (Bombardier Recreational Products) and that there is some discussions about loop charging (ETEC) the two stroke aero engines so see if they can meet the emission guidelines otherwise the end is near for the two stroke aero engine and I think we have had a thread on this already..

 

 

These stories have been around for years and remember similar stories about the same hidden aircraft so there must be some truth to it, surely. Wouldn't it be great if it ended up being true? A similar yarn was around about the waterhole opposite Archerfield having a similar cache (Mustangs etc) and I was there when they pumped it out when the water table got low, it was full of scrap and rubbish....what a let down that was.

 

 

At the last Avalon airshow, the kiwi airforce did just that and it was awesome to watch, no doubt they will be doing something similar this time around...(that is if gillard doesn't stuff up across Tasman relations in the meantime!!)

 

 

I have a particular favorite memory of flying through amberley control zone dodging CBs busy talking to approach with vectors etc and my youngest son who was about four years old sitting in the back singing "How much is that doggie in the window" which he had learnt at kindy earlier, into the mic of his headset.....nothing much has changed, many years later he is still singing...now in his own band and this year lead in his high school's musical....

 

 

Ditto as with the others comments, I wouldn't even trust that repair on the handle of my garden rake!

 

 

I know a few guys who have driven on the roads in India so I can understand why Mr Vishwanath wants to get his family car three dimensional...however if they fly the way they drive...there will be http://www.recipesindian.com/south_indian_recipes/curries/Goddu-Kolambu.html everywhere:drive:

 

 

hope it doesn't get washed out.............should be there otherwise

 

 

An interestig a/c is the Mk26B that featured in Charlie Borman's "By any Means" journey.90% scale, with the V8 motor, flying two up doing aerobatics, with 19-5410 register, on film! Wonder what HQ think of that one!

How can that be legal under 19-certification...obviously someone in the RAA registration is taking a kick-back or looking the other way or could it be an honest oversight (cough-cough) whats worse of course is that the owner operator would be knowingly breaking the rules and this could have negative consequences for the rest of us down the track...

 

 

Kupunn (near Dalby) based R1820 radial 1200hp Bull Thrush ag plane flown by Robin Thompson...all in a days work apparently.

 

 

Mick is right, privately owned strip 1nm from agnes water, Landing charge up to $50 per engine, contact: Les Woodall 0428 661434 for permission and operational details, strip is bit rough, pointing 15/33 and 1000metres of length...

 

 

maddog, I once saw a guy use his mower as a hedge trimmer..at head height:yikes:

 

Between the floods and cyclones up there, we sure having a lot of cleaning up to do...:yuk:

 

 

yep....watching it....

 

 

 

Not one of the greatest shows on TV...but they put crooks behind bars with the help of their trusty Cessna 310 "Songbird"...SKY KING

 

 

I live in Toowoomba and for years the council has avoided doing anything to the airport, the main reason being, I think, that locals don't want jets flying in. I can see now with the advent of emergency services using helos, there isn't a lot of justification for community airports.

I don't know where you got your info F_T about the airport in Toowoomba, but the council does a pretty good job at maintaining and there is an approval and funding in place to extend 11/29 to take larger RPT aircraft.

 

Further to my earlier post, I would like to add that I pointed out a fairly important issue in regard to insurance and risk to council. Apart from that, I don't have a problem with multi use at aerodromes.. The advantages having "toxic" sports such as motorsports and aviation together far outways the disadvantages. If controlled properly can be of a huge benefit to an aerodrome's continuing viability. The other thing we found was that the young blokes who participated in the burn outs etc were very quiet in the months afterwards because they had to save up to get some more tyres... also a few of them actually started learning to fly since..

 

 

Stop it dazza..you are making too much sense

 

 

I organised the wings and wheels at dalby and we married aviation and car events all in one quite well although we did suffer a little in regard to access by both groups on the taxiway. The runway was used the first year for drag racing and it was evident that the bitumen was not designed to take traction forces from the rear wheels of high horsepowered cars so we quickly canned that in subsequent events. The council engineer (Graham Cooke) can testify to that. The other thing is that drag cars are hard to hold in a straight line and as all sealed runways have a camber to desperse water in the event of rain would increase the risk of a car loosing control and perhaps hitting spectators causing a big risk to council, as the council would have more money than the car club and their insurance companies would try to duck for cover and then the money trail would go to the owner of the aerodrome for allowing the event in the first place..that is the council..this is a very real risk to them and your strongest argument.