Jerry_Atrick

Amazing what a passenger carrying endorsement (OK.. a GA licence) will lead people to do... I remember after I got my PPL at Moorabbin, I bundled two light friends (both about 62kg) into the PA28 and the difference in handling was noticeable..

Hmmm...

@pmccarthy- don't do it.. don't go to the dark side.... 😉 As yo and I now, whatever it costs today, it will cost more tomorrow!

That is one nice a/c

And to you, squire...

Sadly, 2020 and 2021 weren't great years for me.. While I managed to keep flying in 2020 (just shy of 100 hrs), 2021 was a rather bare cupboard. Apparently, while I classify flying as a staple, the Financial Director (aka wife) considers it at the top of the discretionary spend that can be cut. Well, you know the ol' saying.. happy wife, happy life. But, onwards and upwards, and I am negotiating a purchase of another shareoplane (TB20, again), and with the mild wx we have had in blighty; with a new medical I can only see another 100+hrs this year. Re hours aren't hours, well, it depends. I try and make each flight a learning experience... I have flown autopilot many times and used the time to brush up on visual and dead reckoning navigation. Even as a passenger of a light aircraft flight (or just operating the radio), I am going through the flight in my head, learning fro the other guy (sometimes, what to do, and sometimes what not to do). As long as one takes the approach that they can learn something from every flight, and they critically assess what happened (even on uneventful flights), well, each hour can be productive. Hope your 2022 flying is safe and enjoyable, regardless of the hours you fly.

Jack of all trades; master of none... (well, except for costing a small fortune)

An F35 ditched in the Med the other day.. That's about USD $100M down the dunny... and they have to either recover it or destroy it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59323895

Yes.. Self preservation brings out those traits...

Setting up a second retirement policy, Mr Perry? 🙂 A mate of mine form Melbourne used to go to Jo'burgh every year because of the wimmin... Ended up marrying one...

I used to fly form Coldstream and never saw it on any charts I had.. Do you know how old it is?

I did say, 😉

https://www.facebook.com/AOPAaustralia/videos/431995338291761

The first though that came to my mind was lucky fella that ended up with her... OK.. I am Aussie born and bred - moved out here when I was 30 (and a bit).. But, I have to say.. *cough and ahem, together*, at the risk of pitchforks greeting me next time I arrive at tulla.. er.. English women (or more accurately, women that live in England - even the Aussies).. are.. *ahem, cough*.. on a pro-rata basis, *ahem, cough* a bit more attractive that their Aussie counterparts (actually, when Aussie and Kiwi girls come out here, they realise they have competition and smarten up quick smart)... I think the sun down there does things... and Maccas doesn't help... Although, I have to be honest, London has a concentration that even competes with Sweden... In my last contract, I had to wirk in London 5 days a week. I ended up sharing a flat rental with an Aussie single lady about my age. Everyone asked my partner what she thought about it.. "Oh, she's an Aussie - no worries!" Sorry fellas.. though in Aussie girl's defence, they are effein highly strung here... Ask my how I know!

Not F16s, but at RNAS Yeovilton you can fly in with PPR and they have F35s now (in days gone by Harriers were the go). So in theory, you could be #2 behind one...

Really?!? They may turn off being responsive to you, but those phones and devices track your every move.. and I would not put it past them if they still listen to you. Remember, Google's chrome would clandestinely film you when you were surfing the web (if your laptop/desktop had a web cam). These tech giants amass petabytes of data every day, apply algorithms and either directly sell it or sell their advertising platform to make squillions. They are not going to stop recording what you do because you "turn off" their features. Yep.. People in the [positive] limelight always seem to get away with a lot more. This is [at least] the second time David Beckham managed to avoid speeding - this time only by almost 20mph above a 40mph speed limit - almost 50% faster... https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/david-beckham-dodges-speeding-charge-after-letter-gets-lost-in-post-a3947731.html The first time, it was well over 100mph in a 70mph limit- his defence - he thought the police were chasing him. If you or I used either of the defences he put forward, I wonder where we would be. Both Google and Apple offered up their tracing apps to the government here, and both were rejected. The contact tracing here was billed by BoJo as going ot be best in the world and it ended up a crappy phone app, and a broken spreadsheet operated by PA Consulting and some consultants being paid £7K/day - that is right - £7K (almost $14k). Aussie's track and trace system was being hailed by the press as the one we should have gone for... so if you think Australia's is bad... come here.. But then, we are getting 30-odd thousand new cases a day and over 100 deaths.. It is the new normal here.

Read my mind, Peter... I guess the cost might be prohibitive comapred ot the returns messrs Fox et al get...

OK.. So I am lost again.. The airfield's not closing; presumably the coffee shop has permission to operate at the airfield; and the council is not allowing the coffee chop to attract passers-by for their custom? I have to admit, I don't know that area too much, but looking at it on Google Maps, it isn't a small grass farm strip and has a warbirds business and a school by the looks of it. Why would a council not want a business to attract custom? It's not like it is competing with anyone. Also, isn't the government hot on road safety, one of the things being take a break to stop fatigue? Surely a convenient stop at a coffee shop would provide weary drivers one more option? Sheesh, Every time I try to finalise plans to return, someone finds something that makes me think twice!

Thanks Turbs for explaining.. I didn't realise the airfield was closing down..

Maybe I read this wrong.. .Are the council saying they can't attract customers from outside the airfield to the airfield? Even if they coffee shop was included as something that made up an airfield, how would that have changed the council decision/direction about what I guess is putting up signage to attract customers to the coffee shop from outside the airfield? If so, there is something very wrong - and airfield is, at the end of the day, just another industrial/commercial site to situate businesses and it sounds, well, just nuts.

Not a FB user, so can't see it...

Gard Darnit.. Never trust Google again.. I used to live in Melton and visited the airfield quite a few times.. Only time I have seen a tiger snake in the wild - well a half a Tiger Snake - presume the Kookas got to it.. Absolutely carp airfield when I visited.. But a nice C172.. No cafe, though!

Isn't YMEL Tullamarine? Bloody hope the runway's not in poor condition. I have to admit, the on airfield fayre is much better over here than in Aus - in general.. I still tell people who are going on road trips to skip the motorway (highway) services and head for local GA/Rec airfields. However, there have been a few where,unf., the on-airfield providers were not patronised enough... Don't use 'em, you lose 'em.

Absolutely agree.. The other bit to remember is to look at the decision of the High Court in the context of precedent, where constitutional challenges are brought (usually the full bench is the definitive interpretation). The ADF (like many other countries' defence forces) are often deployed for humanitarian aid. This isn't S&R, and isn't military operations (in the sense of war, anyway). The aid can be foreign or domestic.. https://news.defence.gov.au/topic/disaster-relief-humanitarian-assistance They even help with cleaning up afterwards: https://ajem.infoservices.com.au/items/AJEM-26-03-05