johnm
-
Posts
1,074 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
5
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Downloads
Blogs
Events
Store
Aircraft
Resources
Tutorials
Articles
Classifieds
Movies
Books
Community Map
Quizzes
Videos Directory
Everything posted by johnm
-
OK you blokes ? ........................... out in to the car park and get this sorted
-
good anecdote kaz3g I was flying with and instructor in a piper tomahawk one day ...... a warm day ........... after a touch and go the tomahawk was not climbing out to well ........... probably a minute or 2 upwind we found the plane went a lot better with carb heat off we both made the same mistake at the same time - but, I'd still call him a good instructor
-
Yes facthunter - instructors don't have to be your best mate ................ but from 0 to 75 hours (I was a sloowww PPL)the relationship is close - probably for the student than the instructor During training, I believe that even if you have found the bestest instructor ................ you need to fly with others - you need different ideas, techniques etc On the subject of who hogs the controls - these days I always make a point of letting the instructor fly the plane, at some point - they never say no ........ and its good for the cockpit interaction
-
Instructors ........ touchy subject I've always believed instructors are regular pilots just like the rest ........... they are just more current - and they have the ability to teach .............. some probably don't have liberal lashings of this ability The only instructor that's given me the hebbie gebbies - without exaggeration - NZ - PPL flight - 1 to 2 mile finals - say < than 1000 feet - controlled airport - C152 (probably an aerobat) - he took control ........... full tit - did a loop - handed me control - continued on final to land ! ........... the instructor probably had to break out of the chains that held him - pity he had to involve me in it !
-
I like the one that goes roughly ................... 'I aim to enjoy my life as best I can - if I fail ........... I'll at least die, trying'
-
Whhooooooooooooops - summary is - Rotax with 1500 hr (or 2000) life - You can use air switch (take off to landing) to calculate this 1500 - for maintenance its engine time - tacho anyone want to argue - come on then ............ lets:bash: john m - jabbies are different (those without Rotax) - don't go cheating your hours in your log book - all that other stuff
-
I heard about the unplanned gliding - I was just going strange about the variance in the replies I'm gunna summarize
-
? .............................. ! = ?
-
Kiwi's murder the vowels ...................... Australian's strangle them ............... !
-
thanks techo's from the above .................. looks like the majority say you can log airswitch time - lift off to landing - for Rotax 912 that's good news ! - the finance ministries budget sheet looks healthier the difference between tacho and airswitch over 1500 hours would easily amount to ..................... (guessing 150 hours)
-
I know its been discussed before ................. but just tapping into the huge think tank:book: For a Rotax 912 is the engine life (or for some 2000 hrs - whichever) is it Tacho time only ? (in other words you can't use air switch time .......... has to be tacho) Is this correct ? thanks
-
lets be fatalistic ................ lifes a sexually transmitted terminal disease ! how and when you get to the big landing strip in the sky ................ is to a degree ......... your choice the following won't apply to most of us ?; but any coroners inquest or investigation report - concerning you - won't have any bearing on your own, one way trip, up top - however .............. for the sake of those left behind it would be good that such an investigation says ............................ (don't know how to finish that bit)
-
Standard pilot/passenger weight ???........................
johnm replied to a topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I live in Gympie and the average weight per person is 85 kg Nearby Noosa the average weight is 72 kg -
Jabiru's lawyers said that, as far as the company was concerned regarding this particular engine, its commercial business was complete when it shipped the engine to the distributor. They also said the Australian company never had reason to expect it would end up in Arizona and never did anything to cause it to enter the state. See above ........... from the article ozzie posted - the law at work ?? - more like the law of deception - could be any aeroplane .............................. BUT I'd say the distributor wouldn't be to happy with Jabiru trying to throw the raw prawn their way
-
thats a bit tough bushpilot ? I'm more interested in what some one has to say than how its spelt .................... in fact storchy neil seems surrounded in litigation and hopefully at the end of it - with his result - he can educate / warn ALL of us ............................ so we all benefit
-
good work ! .............. at the time he lost a wing or 2 (presumably) ........................ the glider probably was then a land vehicle and I reckon he did an excellent job at parking it - off the street and paralell parked
-
yes ......................... and 99 % of all lawyers give the rest a bad name JM
-
aaaaaaahhhhhhhh ........................ politics (Confuscious say politics is an enevitable argument beetween any group (s) of individuals) You are all being a bit tough on all the current .................. and prospective candidates But then, I like the comparison that Australia is currently such a great place to live, safe, friendly, healthy & wealthy that 'snow white and the 7 dwarfs' could probably run Australia - so why the current complication ? MY GUESS ANSWER: the over enthsiastic efforts of individuals putting their aspirations before the good of Australia ............... a more cooperative approach would stop the bonfire .................... currently and always fueled by taxpayer dollars
-
thanks OME - I think it was a new one for $ 1,000 In any case - I just thought - I'm an Australian taxpayer - I'm getting fleeced all the time JM
-
I might have got fleeced ................ OME:bad_mood:
-
Yep - chinese altimeter costs say $ 350 replacement - crap Good one with calibration - or whatever the word is - costs $ 1000 ? Replaced crap with good one jm
-
re the chainsaw I could just imagine 'in flight' the airline hostess saying ..................... 'Sir you can't start that up in the chainsaw in the toilet - the toilet is fitted with a smoke detector'
-
I thing a light hearted scrutiny of airport security does no harm ......................... however, other places you'd be shipped off to the gulag for doing so My latest venture thru security - I was contemplating what would happen if security did find a back pack of explosives ! Oh boy Chances are the terrorist / idiot concerned would then attempt to detonate the device ............... which would probably make a mess of all the clean airport terminal windows Can we get some 3000 x 3000 x 3000 concrete boxes - say 500 thick reinforced concrete installed in the terminal buildings - they could do bomb tests in there ?
-
Tomo - if you could walk thru without being asked you might be recruited by some Columbian cartel - be careful When being tested for bombs - I asked the bloke and asked if the sensor senses 'drugs' - he said no - its purley a test for explosives - so I'd say a traveller with 'medicinal marijuana' ............ would pass - no questions asked
-
to be sure to be sure - Dazza 38 - Roma will get a X ray machine one day - you can bet on it - Emerald just recently got one Boingk - at Emerald when they were going thru my pack .............. looking for sticks of TNT (no doubt) - I had my ASIC card on me and showed them - they said 'it don't matter - you are not exempt from the search even with an ASIC card' - security kept on looking for 'the bomb'
