Brownshoes Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Hi everyone, Great to find this site. I'm an old bloke who is new to recreational aviation and just organising some lessons now. I did clock up five or six hours of solo back in the early 90's at Bankstown in Sydney where I started a GA licence in an old Piper Tomahawk and was totally hooked - until life's complications and a lack of money got in the way of completing my licence! Can't say I remember too much about my training but delighted there is now a recreational licence category which may let me complete my goal of flying for pure enjoyment here in the beautiful South West of Western Australia. Please bear with my general lack of experience and understanding of flying and aircraft but I hope to be able to pick your collective brains from time to time. Cheers to all! 1
facthunter Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Welcome here, and I hope it turns out good for you, Bs. Nev
pudestcon Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 G'day and welcome Brownshoes. I'm also in WA, where are you/will you be training, and what type of aircraft? Pud
Brownshoes Posted January 9, 2014 Author Posted January 9, 2014 Thanks all for the welcome. Pud - I'm in Bridgetown and was planning on doing my training with Bunbury Aero Club - I think they use a Tecnam Eaglet for it. Whereabouts are you? I see you have a Thruster - I'd like to eventually get something similar once I get the rec certificate - thought the Quicksilver GT500 or maybe X-Air looked good - anything I can put a four-stroke engine into - though from what I hear two-stroke reliability has improved a over recent years!
pudestcon Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Thanks all for the welcome.Pud - I'm in Bridgetown and was planning on doing my training with Bunbury Aero Club - I think they use a Tecnam Eaglet for it. Whereabouts are you? I see you have a Thruster - I'd like to eventually get something similar once I get the rec certificate - thought the Quicksilver GT500 or maybe X-Air looked good - anything I can put a four-stroke engine into - though from what I hear two-stroke reliability has improved a over recent years! Bridgetown - nice part of the world and they have a Blues weekend there, coming up soon I think. I live under the circuit at Jandakot Airport - a suburb called Leeming, but I'm a bushie from way back. My Thruster is hangared at a mates farm out in the wheatbelt at North Gabbin, so I drive out there whenever I can, and the weather is conducive to flying. Keep us up to date on how your training goes at Bunbury Aero Club. Cheers, Pud
mAgNeToDrOp Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Welcome, enjoy your training at BAC, their tecnam eaglet is a great little aircraft.
reggie Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Thoroughly recommend the Bunbury aero club. Where some other schools made a simple conversion difficult, they made flying enjoyable again. 1
Old Koreelah Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Welcome aboard Brownshoes. You will find this site very stimulating; a big range of opinions, experience and locations. As I told the founder, Ian Baker: this site is the Wikipedia of the Air. Almost any question will be answered.
farri Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 Hello and Brownshoes! An old bloke,you say!.... You must be over a 100 then! Frank.
Guernsey Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 Hello and Brownshoes! An old bloke,you say!.... You must be over a 100 then! Frank. Depends whether it is Kilo years or Nautical years I suppose. Alan. 1 1
planedriver Posted January 12, 2014 Posted January 12, 2014 Welcome, good to have you with us, i'm feeling younger already. Just goes to show that once aircraft get in the bloodstream, it's there for life.
Phil Perry Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 Welcome, good to have you with us, i'm feeling younger already.Just goes to show that once aircraft get in the bloodstream, it's there for life. Hey Planey,. . . . My second Cousin Frank, out in Michigan, was hit in the guts with an aluminium propeller when a hand propping accident went a bit haywire around 20 years ago or so,. . . . ( although HE reckons that the prop was made Of ALLOOMINNUM.. . . .( ! ) he reckons he's still got some ally fragments in his body, so I guess that sort of fits your description of "Having aircraft in your blood" ? ? ? ? ? Phil
planedriver Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 I'd sooner suffer my version of it, than his Phil. He sounds like lucky guy to have got away that lightly. My old dad was involved in an accident on a police motorbike, and wound up with stainless steel plates and screws in his arm and leg as a result. He said "As I don't have much money to leave you kids, when I die. take me to the scrapyard, you might at least get a few quid for the stainless" 1
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