David Isaac Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 I am with you all the way Alf Me too. This has been a legal beat up out of all reasonable proportion. 2
David Isaac Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 I'm on the other team, should have locked this guy up & thrown away the key! I spent too many years in the RFDS to know that morons like this are oxygen thieves! Wasting resources! Thank God you are not a Magistrate Capt ... you would probably hang draw and quarter real criminals ...LOL
kaz3g Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 The older we get the more cynical we are, goes with thinning hair & a lifetime spent staying out of the authorities spotlight:laugh: I would have "liked" but then I saw the thinning hair bit. "Grey" I can understand...even my f****y is going grey! Kaz 2 1
kaz3g Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 Me too. This has been a legal beat up out of all reasonable proportion. Should I mention that someone else flew across the Pond some years ago with a double banger R&T? Kaz
David Isaac Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 Should I mention that someone else flew across the Pond some years ago with a double banger R&T?Kaz Ha ha why not Kaz ... how are you and that mighty Auster going ? Lots of people fly across that ditch in double banger two strokes. Drifters for example. So this kid made a couple of mistakes, was beaten up by the media, then beaten up by RAA then just for sport was beaten up by CASA. He was 23 FFS. He paid big time for his own mistakes. But that is not good enough, lets hang him out to dry and throw away the key. FFS lets get this in proportion and go after the real criminals shall we. 6 1
kaz3g Posted May 11, 2017 Posted May 11, 2017 A certain Ben Buckley flew his Lightwing from Mallacoota to NZ quite a few years ago but he forgot to tell anyone before he left. Can't understand why. Bit of a problem because he also forgot to go through Customs and Quarantine when he got there. Kaz 1
alf jessup Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 BB didn't tell the authorities because if he had the wouldn't have let him go And that is his words So he just left when he did Couple of my friends flew out with him first 20 miles and thought they would never see him again But low and behold he is still here
David Isaac Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 Yeah ... well I have always wanted to fly the Auster to NZ, im sure it could easily do it ... BUT, Shirley said ...not while you are married to me ... 1 1 1
planedriver Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 Yeah ... well I have always wanted to fly the Auster to NZ, im sure it could easily do it ... BUT, Shirley said ...not while you are married to me ... Happy wife, easy(er) life. 1 1
Oscar Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 Yeah ... well I have always wanted to fly the Auster to NZ, im sure it could easily do it ... BUT, Shirley said ...not while you are married to me ... David - my brother used to fly his J1 (G??) as a daily commuter from Mittagong strip to Bankstown (before your time at YMIG, but you may have seen his old hangar there..).. One time, oiled plugs forced him down on the top of Razorback. He arrived at Bankstown with branches from his departure still lodged in the U/C. How many croppie strips are there East of Mallacoota??? 1
Downunder Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 Yeah ... well I have always wanted to fly the Auster to NZ, im sure it could easily do it ... BUT, Shirley said ...not while you are married to me ... I've looked at flying north to Indo and beyond (Cape Leveque to Rote isl, over Adele, Browse and Ashmore/Cartier ). But to be frank, NZ scares the heck out of me compared to that!! 1
David Isaac Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 David - my brother used to fly his J1 (G??) as a daily commuter from Mittagong strip to Bankstown (before your time at YMIG, but you may have seen his old hangar there..).. One time, oiled plugs forced him down on the top of Razorback. He arrived at Bankstown with branches from his departure still lodged in the U/C. How many croppie strips are there East of Mallacoota??? Jeez Oscar, how the hell did you know I used to fly out of Mittagong, that was years ago. I used to fly Frank Bailey's Mustang out of there, one of the early 95-10 category before the AUF was born. I do remember that old hangar, pretty sure it was empty in the days I was there. Of course now it s wall to wall of hangars, a far cry from what it was back in '82.
kaz3g Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 David - my brother used to fly his J1 (G??) as a daily commuter from Mittagong strip to Bankstown (before your time at YMIG, but you may have seen his old hangar there..).. One time, oiled plugs forced him down on the top of Razorback. He arrived at Bankstown with branches from his departure still lodged in the U/C. How many croppie strips are there East of Mallacoota??? Just how far east are you thinking about? Kaz
biggles Posted May 12, 2017 Posted May 12, 2017 There's a strip on Gabo is. Kaz .... that's roughly East ..... Bob
M61A1 Posted May 13, 2017 Posted May 13, 2017 I have no problem with proper training, however, our current crap legal environment here in Australia is more likely to make people rigidly adhere to a regulation that might actually kill them, than think for themselves about a solution that will save them for fear of legal retribution.I work in defence aviation, and I see people all the time that are more worried about being crucified for not adhering to a process, than achieving a good outcome. In the past, I have had some training that was outside the scope of the regs, and I am in one piece because of that. Inflexibility is a killer, but all we seem to do is become more rigid. Appropriately, this has just showed up.... AVweb - Reaper Spins While Pilot Runs Checklist
The Baron Posted May 13, 2017 Posted May 13, 2017 2 strokes have been flying from Tassie to the mainland for a long time with out incident just ask Eugene 1
M61A1 Posted May 13, 2017 Posted May 13, 2017 Gee I wonder if the remote pilot will be taken out in the desert somewhere & remotely shot!:-)Humans always fail, am not surprised at this at all! Nah...'Muricans.....they'll find a way to make sure no-one is at fault.
Downunder Posted May 13, 2017 Posted May 13, 2017 Nah...'Muricans.....they'll find a way to make sure no-one is at fault. Probably bomb some poor 3rd world nation as retribution..... And the pilot will be reprimanded, for not completing the checklist....
Oscar Posted May 14, 2017 Posted May 14, 2017 Jeez Oscar, how the hell did you know I used to fly out of Mittagong, that was years ago. I used to fly Frank Bailey's Mustang out of there, one of the early 95-10 category before the AUF was born. I do remember that old hangar, pretty sure it was empty in the days I was there. Of course now it s wall to wall of hangars, a far cry from what it was back in '82. (Thread Drift Alert!!) Aah, David, some of the old lags here haven't forgotten you, and some have even forgiven you! No, more honestly, you mentioned it in a thread maybe a couple of years ago and I filed it away in my usually unreliable memory. When we built that hangar, was I think 1967; YMIG hadn't been used for years and we negotiated with the bloke who owned it for access. His condition was, that no movements were ok when he was running his trotters on the small oval track at the South end.. We trundled the MF35 with the post-hole digger down from near Hill Top where we lived (and I still do) and dug the holes for the uprights in one of the old Mustang ( P51 variety) bays, then cut the timber for the hangar from our place and hauled it there on top of the Chevvy '52 ute! All el-primo Stringybark, dropped and stripped for the job. I flew out of / into YMIG quite a few times in 1968-69 in the Auster (as a passenger). Learned to swing a Gypsy Major into life.. Have flown up the channels from Bargo looking up at the edges when the cloud base was sod-all.. or slightly less than that. In winter, the runway lights for an after-dark arrival at YMIG were the twin Cibie Super Oscar spotlights on the Peugeot driven by my sister-in-law behind the Auster as it landed. Not that any of us would ever admit to that. 2 1
David Isaac Posted May 14, 2017 Posted May 14, 2017 (Thread Drift Alert!!)Aah, David, some of the old lags here haven't forgotten you, and some have even forgiven you! No, more honestly, you mentioned it in a thread maybe a couple of years ago and I filed it away in my usually unreliable memory. When we built that hangar, was I think 1967; YMIG hadn't been used for years and we negotiated with the bloke who owned it for access. His condition was, that no movements were ok when he was running his trotters on the small oval track at the South end.. We trundled the MF35 with the post-hole digger down from near Hill Top where we lived (and I still do) and dug the holes for the uprights in one of the old Mustang ( P51 variety) bays, then cut the timber for the hangar from our place and hauled it there on top of the Chevvy '52 ute! All el-primo Stringybark, dropped and stripped for the job. I flew out of / into YMIG quite a few times in 1968-69 in the Auster (as a passenger). Learned to swing a Gypsy Major into life.. Have flown up the channels from Bargo looking up at the edges when the cloud base was sod-all.. or slightly less than that. In winter, the runway lights for an after-dark arrival at YMIG were the twin Cibie Super Oscar spotlights on the Peugeot driven by my sister-in-law behind the Auster as it landed. Not that any of us would ever admit to that. Yeah, sorry for the thread drift ... Yep, We had the same restriction, no flying when he was trotting. I suppose the old bloke has long passed. Is that trotting track still there or did the runway get extended into it? I remember he had a really old vintage car abandoned in one of his sheds on the farm. Sigh ... I digress ... I'll have to get my J1B in the air and come on down to Mittagong one of these days, but then again, I have been saying that for a while too. 1 1
facthunter Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 Back in 82 ...Geez that's recent .They had radios and all sorts of things then. Only went to Mittagong once in a Beech A 36. around 64-65 There were bushfires everywhere and someone had to get there urgently from Newcastle. Talk about sacred smoke.. Everywhere. Not that easy to find at the time, or maybe it's just me...Nev
Oscar Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 Back in 82 ...Geez that's recent .They had radios and all sorts of things then. Only went to Mittagong once in a Beech A 36. around 64-65 There were bushfires everywhere and someone had to get there urgently from Newcastle. Talk about sacred smoke.. Everywhere. Not that easy to find at the time, or maybe it's just me...Nev Probably 1968, Nev - that was the worst year for fires here, we were all but wiped off the face of the earth, then the wind changed.
kaz3g Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 There's a strip on Gabo is. Kaz .... that's roughly East ..... Bob Hi Biggles I've been there and seen the strip. Not well-maintained since Parks took it over, unfortunately. Used to be some wild cattle on the island that were left over from when there was grazing occurring. The pink quartz is spectacular and was quarried to build the lighthouse and keepers' cottages. Kaz 1
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