Flying Officer Kite

The BEW of my Legend is 313kg, that leaves 287 for payload. Fuel capacity is 130lt which translates to 93kg, that leaves 190 odd kg for pax and baggage. AND the Legend is the LSA Cessna should have built

-Mike

Was cheesed off by the 7 news story and lead up ads decribing it as a helicopter crash. On seeing the vision and realising that it was a well controlled auto with what appeared to be little if any damage, I shook my head everytime they said it crashed. Then there was hope in the main news story they went on to describe how the engine power was lost then the heli entered an auto rotation descent............To a controlled Crash!Wayne.

- Mike

German language certainly is very strictly governed by rules, like just about everything else in German culture. However the grammar gets pretty complicated. There are literally 6 different ways to say "the" (der, die, das, den, dem, des) in accordance with 16 different rules and that's only starting with the basics!

. . . Everything has gorn maaaad and changed, with EASA rules ( European Legislation ) and I am reading thru reams of Bull$hitspeak at the moment, to see if I can sign off ANYONE. . . without actually taking an examination myselfthe complexer the better it seems. . (.or maybe I'm just being sinikal again. . .) to do this. . . .EU paper warfare, . . .they Lurve paper warfare. . . .Euro regs increase, whilst CAA ones reduce, particularly with regard to medical requirements. . .

-Mike

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While this does not have the empremata (how is that really spelt?) of the United Nations, .......

- Mike

Hi Brett, tried to download from your ' Button' and get an 'error' report.

Mike

Dunno why you would want one on a Foxbat. Nev

Seen one on a Foxbat and possibly a Sportstar.......

You beat me to it, Dr Z!

Another detailed report here: Solo student pilot makes emergency landing at Archerfield Airport in Brisbane .

Not often a pilot gets a standing ovation from assembled emergency crews and onlookers, but this guy deserved it.

Thanks, is that for FSX or XPlane? Any suggestions where there is a link?

- Mike

Thanks mn - I'm sure you're right! I had settled on using a Cessna 150 sim, but my pc (or at least the inbuilt graphics card) is so slow that I've temporarily given up on the idea. That's after buying a GeForce gtx 550 ti card with intention of upgrading, only to find that it would also need a bigger power supply to run it. Looking for a used gaming pc instead, but no hurry - I'm still enjoying learning in the real thing!

Mike

Hi Young Richard!

You're going to love it here, and "Up There"! At 75 I started my RPC training a few weeks ago and am enjoying every minute of it, even if the old brain takes a little longer to soak up the info than it might have done 50 years ago, so I say, "Go for it"..

... Mike

Most of the above is good advice.Think about and rehearse what your are going to say BEFORE you press the button.

I have a 'cheat sheet' of the common local calls I get students to use for the first few flights.

 

They generally read from them religiously for the first few flights but fairly soon become familiar and comfortable with the calls and the 'cheat sheet' is rarely consulted.

 

Here is an example of the example calls - just amend the numbers to suit the situation.

... Mike

All great advice above. The thing to remember is that the format is specified so that what is said is predictable to other pilots who also have a lot on their mind. The radio calls follow a cadence that you get used to in time and are able to filter out the important ones from those which don't concern you. Case in point is 126.7 . When you're operating into an airfield that uses that frequency, there WILL be other airfields that use the same frequency within the range of your radio and you will hear pilots doing calls at those fields but you can ignore them within a couple of words of the start of the transmission.For example, if I'm overflying Kilcoy, and I hear "Gympie traffic..." my brain switches that call off straight away.

In any case, don't get too heavy on yourself, it will come with practice and time.

... Mike

As a complete novice, approx 15 hrs and no sign of a solo! I am glad to hear its not just me. My biggest problem is understanding others in French over the headsets, it really is a test of your hearing.

Mike

Practice talking to a post, talking to the dog, talking to thin air, talking to the missus (oh hang on I already said thin air)Seriously though practice practice practice.

Mike .

The main thing to remember is you are only talking to other pilots, you are not doing a public speech so don't wind yourself up too much about it. At the end of the day all you are doing is letting likeminded people know where you are and where you are heading.

... Mike

I still seem to get tongue/brain-tied a bit on the radio. There seems to be this odd side-effect of depressing the transmit button that significantly decreases your nervous system's ability to function.How long was it for others before the words started to flow naturally after pressing the button?

Hi all!

Well into my basic RPC training and would like to be able to practice a few things on my FlightGear simulator, but FG doesn't have an Aeroprakt Foxbat simulator package listed in it's own hangar, nor does there seem to be one on their Third Party hangar list. Does anyone here know if such exists?

-Mike

Thursday sounds like a better day for a flying Kite:whistling:Welcome to the forums. You bought back memories of numerous flights I made with British Eagle in Britannia's via Perpignan when holidaying in Spain, until Gerona Airport opened..

Climbing out of Perpignan in the Pyrenees Mountainson a hot day, the mountain tops seemed a bit too close for comfort. One aircraft had the seats facing the rear of the aircraft, but that idea never really caught on.

 

Enjoy the Foxbat and tell us all about it.

 

Kind regards

 

Planey

Ah, the Britannias - beautiful, dependable and noisy! Most, if not all, were ex-BOAC and were for years the mainstay of the Eagle medium - longhaul fleet, along with the Viscounts on domestic and short-haul routes, prior to the acquisition of BAC 1-11s and Boeing 707s. Pretty sure there'd be some members of this forum who would have migrated to Oz on a Brit during the years EG held the immigrant contract. Those configured with rear-facing seats were occasionally used for holiday flights, but were actually configured that way under a contract for flying scientists and military personnel out to Woomera. One of my last assignments when I worked for EG was preparing a glossy sales brochure to assist in disposal of the by then outdated fleet. Unfortunately, they didn't sell and not long afterwards Eagle collapsed, and the whole airline industry began to change forever.

- Mike

Good day for flying a Kite. Nev

Oh yes - it was a bit windy, come to think of it!

A Yellow Foxbat, brilliant weather - what more could you ask for!

So true, IBob. We also have the advantage of personal computers and devices to make calculations, information collection, communication and even simulated flight easily accessible. Unheard of when I first looked at learning to fly!

Everything I've seen and read (on the internet of course) about the Foxbat makes me confident that it's a great choice for an ab-initio student, as well as being highly regarded by experienced RA flyers. I like the look of the Savannah too, but, as I've mentioned elsewhere, it's wiser to confine my aircraft building efforts to plastic model kits!

Mike

Mate, your timing's perfect! As someone else wrote here, RA is the new lawn bowls...)And here's another thought: you're about to embark on the first hours of a wonderful experience. After that, you and others may accumulate 100s maybe 1000s of hours...but each one of us only gets to do those first magic hours once.

 

Enjoy 'em Mike...I surely am....)

Mike