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Chasing rainbows with the Drifter, this afternoon.

 

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Hey Frank, look at your phone messages to see what I've been up to. Rhonda and I will see you 2 soon. Don

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Hey Don! Our phone line was out for a while last week, no messages from you! looking forward to seeing you both, in the meantime, here`s another photo I took when I was chasing rainbows the other day!

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Just got back from some solo flying over the water! at all times at a legal height that I can easily glide back to my home strip.

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From the Drifter this afternoon and one from yesterday!!!

 

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Franco.

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From the Drifter this afternoon and one from yesterday!!!

 

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Franco.

Gee you guys are brave!?

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Rub it in . Nev

 

:whisper:Well! Litespeed told me to! :wink:.

 

Gee you guys are brave!?

 

Who, me?...Nah! I`m a wimp! :wink:, I only fly within gliding distance of a suitable landing area. :yes:.

 

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Franco, does that 582 of yours ever get cold?? How many hours a day are you flying?

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Often wondered what Pvt drivers out there are doing hours wise?

Most I know do around 50-100 hrs a years, anyone?

Stunning scenery there?

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Franco, does that 582 of yours ever get cold?? How many hours a day are you flying?

 

G`Day O.T! I don`t let it get cold for too long! :wink: ... I went through 4, 582 grey head, when I was instructing! when I retired from it, I went to the 503 DCDI and it`s now getting close to 600 hrs on it, has never missed a beat but I`ve had it apart 3 times for maintenance, the last time was 2 weeks ago! I do the work on it and fortunately, I can still get parts for it from 'Burt Flood Imports'.

 

As for the hours I do, well! I can just drop what I`m doing and go flying so I do, but I don`t fly every day! I do a lot of short flights so the engine doesn`t sit idle for too long! some times it might be just half an hour other times,1.5 hrs.

 

Often wondered what Pvt drivers out there are doing hours wise? Most I know do around 50-100 hrs a years, anyone? Stunning scenery there?

 

I`ve been averaging around 70 hrs a year for the last few years and yes! it is stunning scenery and I never tire of looking down on it.

 

The area inside the red line is part of our property, where my wife and I live and where I fly from.

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:whisper:Well! Litespeed told me to! ...

 

 

My pleasure. Now repeat.

 

I can make that a order if needed.?

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Me being Me!!! I`ve got a lot of lawn to mow here at home and this afternoon, half way through mowing, I`d just about had enough of it so off the mower, fire up the Drifter and go for a fly!!!!

 

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Franco,

Ps, finished the mowing when I got back! life`s good!!!

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Out flying the club Drifter on a beaut winters day. Went exploring the valleys near Cunningham's Gap, western side of the Main Range Escarpment (west of Boonah).

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G`Day Wayne, nice country you`ve got there! I notice you`re not strangling the control stick!...Cheers.

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Only for more "gripping" flight events. In Carpentry It was "Choking" the hammer.. Best time of the year up there. now .Make the most of it. Yeah rub it in. You'd need electric heated gloves down here now. for "driftering.". Nev

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Talking about hammers`! when I was in my teens, I landed a job with a company, building living quarters, for the Army, at Cowley beach.

 

I could hand saw a straight line and hammer a nail in without missing or bending it! the carpenters were so impressed, they called me their apprentice and let me do most of the sawing and hammering, until the foreman told them to stop it, before he had a strike on his hands.:yes:

 

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Fairly familiar story. You are not allowed to upset the Applecart. We are weird people in our teens, don't forget. We think we have a lot to prove and the survival instinct has yet to kick in. to bring a balance to it. Could you live your whole life like that?.Nev

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The only way you can fly a drifter in leper colony Melb would be to put a mask on the air intake, ya never know what ya gunna get down here!???

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As you all know by now, I just can`t stay on the ground for too long so this afternoon I just had to do it again! Thought I`d show you all what I look like.

 

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