turboplanner Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 Have you read the book "Yeager" where Chuck, Bob Hoover and mates used to chase each other along the sand tracks in the desert, just missing the brush each side and leaving prop marks in the sand, with their Mustangs.
Guest Brett Campany Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 I had a look at your blogs Brett and Bob, nice work both of you! now that I have more time on my hands I may even start one myself, you have inspired me.Watto Definatly do that mate, it's a great way to keep the memories and to tell everyone what's going on! I look forward to reading yours!
Yenn Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 He may have left school at 14, but he had no trouble finding Rodds bay, even though his GPS put him out over the ocean. Pity he arrived before me and I couldn't pass comment on his landing. We were overcome with other aircraft having another Jab from Bundy arrive later and a Savannah on its way to Yeppoon, with father and son both pilots. Good to see family flying and the young bloke coping very well with the gusty conditions. Typical Summer. I spent more time mowing than flying.
Tomo Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Typical Summer. I spent more time mowing than flying. So what you need to do is invent a flying mower...that way your doing two in one.
Guest watto Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 Well, I have taken the plunge and the learning to the test and flown to Brisbane with my wife Susan and had a great flight, we have landed at Jacobs well (Heck field), a narrow gravel strip but very easy to negotiate and due to the bog some inches below the gravel because of the low lying postition surrounded by sugar cane it was a very soft feeling when you touch down. these guys at the coast have a very nice facility and are very welcoming with drinks and pies available at the club house. The trip through the sunshine coast hinterland and across to the Bribie bridge was especially scenic and then across to Tangalooma and down the inside of Moreton and Straddie at 1500ft was wonderful, low enough to be below controlled air space but high enough not to get a parasailer stuck to the windscreen!!!! The view of the Gold coast was spectacular, I am not a big fan of the place but from high and far it looks great. Watto
Guest Brett Campany Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 Sounds like it was a great flight mate, did you get any photos?
Guest watto Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I will make sure I get some photos and post them and my son has taken a small amount of video. We are still here and plan on heading back to Rodds Bay on the weekend so that will be interesting as well!
RetiredRacer Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 Being your first trip like that you would have been a little nervous I would think, so you may not have enjoyed it as much as you will when you have more experience. But it must be a great feeling to have done it. Well done Watto. I'm looking forward to the day when I can head off to somewhere that I want to go.
Guest watto Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Hi guys, well we made it back safe and sound but I will have to get my son to email the photos to me so I can post them. We got the 230 so my wife could shop and well shop she did (a bloody sauna heater and 20kg of granite to go along with it) so we then had to arrange our weight and balance keeping the heavier stuff as close to the back of the seats as possible and strapping it all down. Even with that process carried out I was surprised at the difference it made to the ac to fly, in particular take of and landing! as it made the controls far more sensitive and when I came in to land at home and rounded out I ballooned and finished up going around twice before making a very average touchdown, I can see I will need to actually put weight in the ac and practice the different tecnique required with the change in responses (all good experience though) and I am propably over cautious with my go arounds at this point but I would rather be safe than sorry. I took my son for a fly down to the Gold coast for a scenic tour and found the controlled airspace relatively easy to avoid by using the appropriate charts and having a good study prior to departing and that in conjuction with the GPS it was very managable and although there were other aircraft on the route we all managed to stay well clear and my chief spotter and copilot did well spotting a number of gliders on the way home wich was spectacular to observe. And you are correct in saying that nerves did take away from a little of the pleasure Bob but I now feel better equipped for the next trip and I have a few things I will do again, a few I will do better and a few that I will not do! that is the best part of learning first hand, things are implanted. A fellow I met told me that in getting your pilot certificate you also get 2 buckets, one is empty and that is for experience! the other is full of luck, the Idea is to fill the experience bucket without running out of luck and although you may use a lot of the luck bucket in the early days you will also fill the experience bucket at the same rate, then as you become a better pilot you will not be dipping into the luck bucket but will still be gathering valuable experience. Anyway guys I hope you all enjoy your flying as much as I am. Watto
Yenn Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Tony, the experience bucket is getting filled nicely and it was good to see you doing a go around when it was apparent that you would not get in. I can vouch for the weight of the rocks, if I put them in the Corby it would only be good for use as a mower.
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