Jerry_Atrick

Here is a bright young fermale aviator and the youngest to fly around the world solo.. In a Shark of all things..: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Rutherford I imagine the story will be on Pilot magazine's website (pilotweb.aero) sometime in the future. The article is in this month's magazine.

Who would have thought leasing out prime development quality land to developers would result in them wanting to overstep the mark and push the boundaries? According to this article, DFO at Essendon airport was built closer than Australian and international guidelines to the runway: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/dogfight-over-space-at-moorabbin-airport-as-users-fear-sidelining-of-aviation-20220418-p5ae57.html (if you don't have a subscription, open in private mode and it should be OK). Developers are there to extract every possible cent from their investment for the benefit of their shareholders and bonuses. As interviewees in the above article state, Goodman will do everything they can to squeeze out aviation - and when Moorabbin Airport is under-utilised, they will hope to present a case to shut it down in deference to re-development. Often, in these agreements, there will be some armageddon clause so that it can happen should income from the airport become unsustainably low (assuming the development company receive the income). This is what is now happening all over the UK. Google Sutton Harbour Holdings Plymouth Airport, and they let the airport fall into such disrepair that the then main airline there had to move to Exeter. If not for some resourceful private pilots, it would be a new housing estate by now. The ongoing fight has been hard fought, but the local council now are tiring of it, and are signalling their switch from supporting the airport (they ironically leased out) to sweeping it all under the carpet and allowing it through. Abermale was sold the lease to Fairoaks airport, which used to be my home airport. It has taken them a whiile, but they have now evicted all the tenants (with a twist of fate, they don't own the runway - but in their plan, the ruynway would be turned to a park). The land they do own is probably worth about £15m in its current state, but with approval for houses and a "garden" village, land alone would be worth about £120m - £150m. What really made me mad in my last trip to Aus was how over-developed Moorabbin had become. These are community assets, and provided a great place to take kids to do a bit of plane spotting, where parking was easy (no longer is despite the claim of more car parking spaces), and had picnioc benches and a dated playground. All replaced by concrete square buildings.. Unlike here, there is plenty of development space in Aus... Braeside is only next door, as is the stretch between Dingley and Noble Park...

I have only caught up on this thread as these days, I spend more of my time on this forum's sister (or brother) site. I think it is important we try and seek facts, which is a casualty well before a ware starts.. It is an ongoing casualty of the world's operations on both sides of the east-west divide. Until this war, TBH, I knew (and really still know) little of Ukraine and my only relationship with Russia was a Russian girl I dated when I was about 18.. who, by the way was really nice and had no outwardly megalomaniac tendencies. 😉 Neither the East or West have perfect, blemish free records. The west has perpetrated some nasty wars, too, and are indefensible. However, that does not detract from, nor justify the indefensibility of this war, which I see everyone seems to agree. @kgwilson has addressed the 13,000 innocent lives claim, and, yes, 3,500 (or thereabouts) innocent lives is that many too much. But how many are going to be killed over a very short period of time in the Ukraine. And how where the civilians killed by the Ukraine in the fight with the separatists? Were they sad collateral damage to attacking military/separatists, or where they killed by intentionally shelling civilian areas and infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools, etc (of course, it may all be propaganda and fake news... but). While 3,500 civilians have been killed in 12-ish years (so, < 300/year), how long will it take Russia to kill the same innocents in Ukraine, if they haven't already? Hmm. .Chechnya comes to mind to (amazingly, Chechnya is now pro-Russian).. I hadn't heard of the Maidan Revolution (also known as the Revolution of Dignity) until today. Yes, it was an illegal overthrow of a government, but when governments in the past have materially governed against the will of the people, there often have been revolutions. There were, in the end negotiations between the opposition and the government, after which the government was removed (or fled). That does not make today's Ukrainian government illegitimate - it it were and we were to extend that logic, virtually every European government, including Russia's, would be illegitimate.. and a good few others. In fact, you could argue that because of the wanton violent control the Kremlin exerts over its political opponents, it, today, is not a legitimate government. Russia was simply p155ed off that they were not going to get as much of the proceeds of the Ukrainian bounty as Europe want, and a Kleptocracy cannot have that. Russia funded a separatist movement, after which the fighting resulted int he Misk accords, of which are criticised for their complexity and fragility - brought about by the desire to appease the Russians to stop the fighting rather than confront them. By the way, I clicked on the bitchute link and got this: [edit] Going slightly off topic, I would commend a book for you to read (as I have on socialaustralia.com.au) called Kleptopia, by Tom Burgis. Quite inttruiging about the dirty money that was made in the East's transition to "liberal market economies" is laundered clean in the west... Khodorkovsky, in the video above, I believe, gets a few mentions (although it may be a different Khodorkovsky.. I am sure it isn't).

@Garfly - apols, squire. Didn't mean to implicate your post - as the thread had moved on to vortex /wake turbulence, picked yours text to bring context to my post.. I should have been clearer... JA

I have absolutely no photos of my flying in Aus.. and only a handful of those flying in the UK.. Mainly my son as a (sometimes bored) passenger.

Hah! If Heathrow getting a 3rd is anything to go by, it's at least 2 generations away... And it was approved 2 years ago! Who on earth would want to save Gladstone Park? (Only joking). Does Tulla need another runway.. Outside peak hour runs to Sydney, it has (or had) a steady, but not congested stream of traffic... and that was both before and after Avalon.

Since I almost always wear denim and cotton, that is about it. Avoid polymers like the plague.. Leather runners or shoes with a rubber sole. Though, once in a hurry for a flight lesson as the light was fading and they airfield didn't have runway lights, I did the lesson in my motorcycle trousers and boots (jacket was in the back).. Never again!

True-ish.. In straight and level flight, thrust = drag at that angle of attack. At normal angles of attack, when you raise the nose, you will have an increase angle of attack and thanks to inertia, the airspeed will hold for a bit. With the increase angle of attach and the same air mollecules going past, you will enter a climb. At that angle of attack (assuming a small increase), you may have excess thrust and be able to maintain the climb, although likely, to maintain the climb if pulling back the elevator at cruise, you will have to up the throttle or reduce the AoA slightly. Of course, you can be straight and level with a nose high attitude and the throttle rammed to the firewall.. I wouldn't pull back the control column at this stage, and I have no more thrust to apply - so to climb, counterintuitively, I have to ease up on the control column slightly and reduce the AoA. Of course, I am talking fixed pitch props.. In the PPL syllabus (and I am assuming the RAA), you are taught when entering a climb or descent, power, attitude, trim.. and when levelling off, attitude, power trim I try and follow it, but don't always.. but invariably the change in AoA of lower powered a/c means at some stage you have to adjust the power. But power is the rate of ascent/descent control, and elevator is the airspeed control (within normal parameters of flight in piston engine aircraft, anyway). Moral of the story - don't bleedin' well use the elevator for the climb or the descent - use the power first.. then get your airspeed with the elevator, then trim.. or at least that's how I have been taught.. (of course, minor deviations in height/altitude - yeah go for the elevator). Re wake/vortex turbulence - the aircraft in front doesn't have to be too much bigger. Unfortunately, the PPL theory alludes to them aircraft having to be a lot bigger. I believe I suffered a wake turbulence problem on very late finals into Moorabbin while I was a student - and in a PA28 from memory (could have been a C150/152). I was bang on my speed (for once!) and there was a twin in front of me. No idea what type; bigger than an Navajo I think, but smaller than a king air (maybe a small one??). Well, I must have flown under its flight path because out of no where, my left wing decided it couldn't be bothered flying anymore and scared the living poop out of a solo-ing student. I was landing from the north ont rwy 18L, so coming on over the park (Kingswood park??) on a mild day with very light if any wind. So thermals or shear should not have been a problem. Scared the living carp pout of me, tbut thankfully, I read a book called "All About Stalls and Spins" by Everett Gentry (a book I recommend) and forgot turning the control column and used rudder and judicious amounts of power.. I am sure it was wake turbulence, but thankfully not intense enough to spin me into the ground like this - which was in front of an AN2.: [Edit] BTW, I don't blame the pilot for using aileron.. if you have used up all your options.. try something else (no matter how unlikely it is to get you out of the situation.. The state of mind at the time is such that what have you got to lose.

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...