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Part of the transition to the new hosting servers Doug. Bear with us. There are a few problems still being worked through.

"It's my puppet and I'll wash it as fast as I want to" said slartihalfamindtobaneveryonefast.

You bring the large gold brick, I'll supply the lemon.

Here mon Capitan.

Right thread. Tomo said, "I see, so that's what your uncle calls a garden?" coz I said that's where my uncle's trike was.

Tomo, votre Français est meilleur que votre anglais !

Yep - Thursday looks the go at the moment - and you're welcome. Et Michelle, je suis désolée. Bien sur, la tricyclette.

Total rubbish. Trikes have a very good safety record. The only real option for Canberra is Peter Wilson at Tumut (AirEscape). He is a very good instructor and it's a great place to fly from. Welcome to the fora.

The security on this site is very good, and we take it very seriously. We don't believe he got this list from us. The list had too many discrepancies. It was probably a collection of aviators from somewhere else. Your information is in good hands.

Once you start packing cups and plates for a fly away, you'll never get off the ground Linda. I pack the bare essentials - tent, sleeping bag, lightweight self-inflating mattress (I'm getting old) and a few clothes (I count on getting a few T-shirts there) and toiletries. And of course a towel. A traveller must always know where his towel is. I drill out the excess plastic in my toothbrush to reduce weight too. There is enough there to get by for the weekend. There's usually a line in the clubhouse for meals though. The Lions and other mobs do good BBQs during the days. Coffee is free to members at the Rec Flying tent. PS - I don't really drill my toothbrush. See you there - I'll be wearing shirts with this on them: [ATTACH]7556.vB[/ATTACH] Ross

Finally got a chance to post these pics. Had a great flight there and back, met some forum members for the first time, and experienced some excellent hospitality from the local club and from Anne and Peter McLean in particular. Even caught up with my uncle unexpectedly. He flew his trike over from Benalla. Cool weekend. [ATTACH]7510.vB[/ATTACH] Some early morning fog to port, but it was lovely to starboard [ATTACH]7511.vB[/ATTACH] Mostly beautiful [ATTACH]7512.vB[/ATTACH] Toward Lake George [ATTACH]7513.vB[/ATTACH] Tumut [ATTACH]7514.vB[/ATTACH] The Murray [ATTACH]7515.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7516.vB[/ATTACH] Corowa [ATTACH]7517.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7518.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7519.vB[/ATTACH] Approaching Lake Mulwala [ATTACH]7520.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7521.vB[/ATTACH] Spatless Cheetah [ATTACH]7522.vB[/ATTACH] Ahlock's Sportstar and Captain's Jabiru [ATTACH]7523.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7524.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7525.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7526.vB[/ATTACH] Le trike de mon oncle (dans la jardin) [ATTACH]7527.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7528.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7529.vB[/ATTACH] Ahlocks and son departing [ATTACH]7530.vB[/ATTACH] Captain resting on his laurels [ATTACH]7531.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7532.vB[/ATTACH] A nice RV7A [ATTACH]7554.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7533.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7534.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7535.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7536.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7537.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7538.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7539.vB[/ATTACH] Uncle Kel on my wing [ATTACH]7540.vB[/ATTACH] Yarrawonga [ATTACH]7541.vB[/ATTACH] Late afternoon over Lake Mulwala [ATTACH]7542.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7543.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7544.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7545.vB[/ATTACH] Saturday night's trophy winner for the build on this Sonex [ATTACH]7546.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7547.vB[/ATTACH] Towards Shepparton - flat and dry [ATTACH]7548.vB[/ATTACH] Ex-Lake Mokoan [ATTACH]7549.vB[/ATTACH] Lake Hume [ATTACH]7550.vB[/ATTACH] Staying low under the steps around Albury [ATTACH]7551.vB[/ATTACH] Lake Hume billabong patterns [ATTACH]7552.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7553.vB[/ATTACH] Lake Burrinjuck The very rough track - right on 500nm. Flew further than this though - obviously didn't go right through Albury. [ATTACH]7555.vB[/ATTACH]

Good one. You're well on your way now.

Try this one. [ATTACH]7504.vB[/ATTACH] They had to add a 6 foot section to the fuselage to accommodate the turbine.

So that's where it went. It had been sitting in front of my hangar at Goulburn for the last 18 months getting damaged. Improper restraint of prop and wheels saw some nasty things happen. I arrived one day to find it had travelled 50 metres backwards until stopped by a star picket fence. The wire had cut well into the elevators. John and I cut the fence away and chocked the plane to prevent further wandering. It was ex SA, and last I spoke to them was headed to jump ship duties at Bankstown.

I can see I'll have to do that drawing after all. There is extra workload, but the controls are so light you don't have to move far anyway. Plus the Cheetah doesn't need trimming for different phases of flight, although I'm still not sure how that works. Once the all-flying tail is set at an attitude, it wants to stay there. It's more a trim for weight changes (pax, luggage, etc.).

Hey Doug. Check the pic in your signature block. Sportscars?

Hey Bec. Congratulations. I sense a whole-of-school field trip coming on. Don't go back to being grumpy - it's not good for you. Try another dwarf - perhaps Sneezy. Wait - Happy would be better.

Yeah - it was great to catch up at last. I would have liked more time to chat, but when my uncle Kel unexpectedly turned up in his trike I had to catch up with him first. I haven't seen him since mum died. I've processed the photos and I'll try to get time to post them tonight. Anne and Peter at Lore of Flight actually gave me their divan to sleep on. Extraordinary hospitality and much appreciated. I expected to sleep in my tent.

Here you go. I converted each of those files from .kml to .wpt I have not verified them all, but the ones I looked at were great. Nice collection. [ATTACH]7458.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]7459.vB[/ATTACH] Cheers, Ross OziALAs.zip OziWaypoints.zip OziALAs.zip OziWaypoints.zip OziALAs.zip OziWaypoints.zip

I went over Shepp too Ben. It was very busy. Someone on the radio compared it to Bourke St.

Today? Wish I'd known. I flew over Nathalia this morning (a few miles east anyway).

Nope. Taralga is about 50k north of the highway.

I have landed in the spare block next to one of the pubs, but that was in a rotary. Don't think even Biggles could pull that one off. I haven't even seen a strip at Taralga, despite looking many times.

Slarti thought that this might be a good time to find a way to offer technical support to a fictional character in a virtual environment via a third person perspective and a second rate attitude. "It's a PEBKAC issue Tubby", he opined pointedly, having always wanted to be that rude while giving technical support to the technically challenged. "You must be using 'Quick Reply' instead of 'Reply' fool", he continued, warming to the opportunity. "Click on 'Go Advanced' or use 'Reply' in the first place". "Failing that, find the box your computer came in, pack it up, take it back to the shop where you bought it, and tell them you're too stupid to own a computer". That should do it slarti thought. He'll never again be asked to help with anything. Or invited to parties, except perhaps in Shun City. "I wonder what the CTAF frequency for Shun City is?" he thought to himself. "I bet they don't have ATIS." So, off went slarti into the self-imposed (and recently reinforced) hermitdom from which he slunk. The last thing he was heard to mutter as he re-entered the Cheetah cave was, "I hope there's some feature like a 1,200 foot hexagonal spire like that one in Wyoming they used for Close Encounters of the Third Kind so I can navigate there VFR, otherwise I'm stuffed".

I have to agree with Mike. You can do better than that Geoff. I've had a couple of Bings on my BMW for 32 years. It roars just as well up in the Snowy's as it does down the coast. The constant velocity carburettor's altitude compensation works if the air line is clear and there are no holes in the diaphragm. Works really well on my plane too.