jackc

Many simply say, I missed the ‘boat’ 🤩

Big bonus was those noisey Twin Wasp engines drowned out the guttural moans and groans, of the participants 😁

Thats WHY I love meeting people personally, or at the least having phone conversations, which was our only choice, in the Jurassiic era 🤩

I found it in East West Airlines livery somewhere? I remember I did a school excursion in one of their F27 Fokkers back in the middle ‘60s

This is my friends old aircraft, since restored from his charter service days VH-AGU, has flown under many different colours, in its life https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9648250

2 aircraft I want to fly in, in this life time are a LOCKHEED Super Constellation (which will never happen) and a DC 3/C-47. Buffalo Airlines in the U.S.? have some. Getting a right seat ride would do it for me, before I leave this Earth. 😁

One of my best Aviation friends is retired now, close to 80 years old, owned flying schools, charter airlines, managed airlines in New Guinea. One instance of note, he operated a charter operation 40 years ago, flying his own Dakota C47. I know him personally, have seen his pile of Logbooks, a Kangaroo could not jump over. He phones me every week for a yarn. This guy is a true Aviator with many thousands of hours, in so many different aircraft For me, his knowledge is gold…...

I spend a lot of time on phone discussions with people more knowledgeable than me. I have quite a few Pilot friends out there that I can spend a couple of hours talking to. Those people know exactly where I come from, IF there is controversy……I am usually in the middle of it. But the difference is, here you can be attacked by Moray Eels but phone discussion, is more considerate and negotiable. I used to be on Mailing Lists 25 years ago, better than the Forums or SwampBook in todays World. How about that, for thread drift 😁

I spent 90 minutes talking to an experienced Pilot this morning, asking question, opinions. on various aspects of Aviation. I learnt quite a bit from our conversation. Learn more keeping ears open, mouth closed.

You don’t need the permission of the Forum to PM someone? No wonder you piss people off…..

Well I went there, incentivised by Ben talking it up all the time. The moment I mentioned FAA FAR Part 103, it would appear I unknowingly had Leprosy in their eyes, so the $159 renewal went in the bin, when the time came……. Aviation is Aviation, why discriminate?

Your first line says it all, Australia is run by people who are dumb as a box of rocks. Aviation, like many segments of life here, is a total mess. Just look at your beloved transport industry Turbs? Lately I see nothing in the media Bur B Doubles and other combinations with wheels in the air, everywhere and a landscape of dead bodies? Have all the smart rules fixed that? Have our Los Angeles sized phone books of rules and regulations stopped our Pilots from falling out of the sky? Everywhere I look, I see violations of logic and commonsense 🤢 Aviation is no different……

FAR Part 103 Medical? What medical 🤩 They don’t even need a freaking Licence 😁 How smart are they? A whole lot smarter the us 👍

Turbs, wants to live in a perfect World, that will protect him against anything, including end of life 🤩🤩

Yes, unless you suffer an SCA, which can happen to ANYONE…….