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    Lakes Entrance Airstrip

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    Hi Pete, my strip is about 20 km inland, you can use it for nothing if you like.I'll P.M you my number, you can ring me if you're interested

    Hi & Thanks Skeptic, that is very kind of you. I am planning to come with a mate who also has an Aeros & ideally we would like to be able to drop the wings & have them under cover overnight, but please pm me your number

    Pete

     

     

    Lakes Entrance Airstrip

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    Hi all,

     

    Thinking of taking the Aeros nanolite trike to Lakes Entrance to fly the 90 mile beach. Does anyone have any info on the strip at Kalimna, just West of L/E. I don't particularly want to use the other strip just North of the town as they want $60 landing fees for ultralights!! Also happy to use any decent paddock if anyone knows of a friendly farmer down that way. Thanks in advance...Pete

     

     

    Sky 'typing'

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    My instructor tried this in Melbourne many years ago. I remember seeing his first attempt, it was like dot matrix printing & was pretty impressive to watch. So fast compared with normal sky writing. The only reason it failed was because trying to organise 5 pilots to be at Moorabbin at the same time & date proved to be near impossible.

     

     

    New to Melbourne

    in Student Pilot & Further Learning

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    I hold a PC and a PPL with CTA and am about to relocate from country Vic to Melbourne, probably the western suburbs.Does anybody have any suggestions regarding a facility where I can refresh my controlled airspace procedures, learn how to operate out of Moorabbin (I guess?) and all without being completely looted?

     

    Also, a reasonably close facility with RaAus a/c?

     

    Cheers

    Try Lethbridge Airpark both RAA & GA & 1 hour 15mins from CBD, less from western suburbs

    Rgds Pete

     

     

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    The sky is falling, the sky is falling

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    Copy of my email:

     

    As a recreational pilot I find your article ill informed, sensationalistic & offensive. I belong to a website that promotes & supports our freedom to fly. We are in general, a very responsible group of pilots numbering in excess of 7000 in Australia.

     

    We receive extensive training, including human factors, before we are granted the privilege of flight. I don't know about the rest of the pilots but I undergo a fairly rigorous annual check up with my GP who has known me for the past 30 years. We fly for pleasure, mainly well away from controlled airspace. If, as has been suggested, we should undergo psychological or psychiatric testing then this ruling should be applied to bus drivers, truck drivers, hell, just ordinary motorists as they have the same opportunity to injure & kill others as we do.

     

    As for Ron Bishop's claim that a third of us would probably lose our licences after these tests, give that the credence it deserves, exactly where did he pull that supposition from.

     

    I have copied & pasted a few of the responses from my fellow aviators on our website:

     

    Rather a stupid argument. The German Wings pilot who killed so many people would have to have gone through all the supposedly efficient at weeding out medical checks. He still committed murder suicide if the reports are to be believed.

     

    Maybe he did it because he knew he was going to fail his next medical.

     

    Sophie Henshaw doen't seem to be very bright, subscribing to the argument she uses.

     

    The comments reported by this Journalist obviously knows bugger all about aviation. It would have been better if the Journalist reported on some issue that they knew something about rather than going off half cocked. According to the Journalists knowledge of aviation ( which is bugger all) then the Journalist could even have suggested the all Pilots be grounded forthwith & of course this is neither logical or practical worldwide.

     

    Oh bugger! Thought I was going to be the first to bring this to everyone's attention. I have just spent the last couple of hours typing out a very angry rebuke to this garbage which also found its way into the Advertiser, (South Australia).

     

    Basically I had a bit of a hissy fit and suggested that the trash pedlar Matthew Benns should be forced to print an apology and correct the fictitious claims which he made. Perhaps everyone should send emails or letters to the editors of any publication that prints this crap.

     

    My C1 medical has had bugger all to do with psychometric testing... Hows also not doing psychometric testing of RA guys going to help? Idiots.

     

    I am sure there will be many more similar responses

     

    Peter

     

     

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    Interesting drill

    in Student Pilot & Further Learning

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    The 2 cited situations were very well executed, but there is another you may not have heard about. I can't remember which aircraft or which airport it was, but the scenario gaes as follows.Passenger jet on long final, suddenly all power is lost. The pilot got the plane onto the end of the runway and safely landed.

    It was later re run in the simulator and even with the foreknowledge that the engines were going to fail, nobody could better the actual pilots performance.

     

    I think that was a great schievment, but have no idea who the pilot was, nor even the airline.

    Yenn,

    I believe you are referring to a BA 777 in 2008 that had ice crystals forming in the fuel lines on final to 27L at LHR. They manage to just clear traffic on the perimeter road & landed on the grass about 300 metres short of the runway. Only one serious & 4 minor injuries. Aircraft was written off.

     

    Pete

     

     

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