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  1. pmccarthy
    It is the modern version of the v-tailed doctor killer, for the same reasons. More aeroplane than the wealthy buyers can manage.
  2. pmccarthy
    I meant Kyle's post, rebuilding a Sav and selling the Girlfriend.
  3. pmccarthy
    2016? I can't believe it was seven years ago. I remember this post like yesterday.
  4. pmccarthy
    It would not be NEWS.
  5. pmccarthy
    I've been on the pxss in Broken Hill many times.
  6. pmccarthy
    If you cannot get a Class 2 medical there is no other option. You are on a list of people who remain under scrutiny and have to satisfy Class 2. If you jump early, before questions arise, you can choose the simpler medical regime.
  7. pmccarthy
    I watched him in many videos. Now killed by the impossible turn.
  8. pmccarthy
    When time is stolen it flies…..Joan Baez
  9. pmccarthy
    I reckon this is better. My first proper calculator AFTER the slip stick. Used with 7 figure logs and trig tables for survey calculations.
  10. pmccarthy
    I had a HP9825 on my desk at work in 1977. It had a thermal printer, a pen plotter and data was saved on an audio cassette recorder. I had to write the programs in HP modified BASIC.
  11. pmccarthy
    Double check floats.
  12. pmccarthy
    At 25 LPH it would be 36,000 litres. They flew over a truck which pumped up the fuel. Probably dropped the poo bag on a string!
  13. pmccarthy
    I was in Toronto in 1995 and the Tower was draped in a giant banner that said Windows 95. We forget what a big deal it was.
  14. pmccarthy
    We were encouraged to crowd fund that project through a post on this site. I tried to do so but the technology beat me. Now am glad I didn’t contribute to the disaster.
  15. pmccarthy
    I would change t.he title if I could!
  16. pmccarthy
    I remember the good old trains where you could watches the sleepers flashing by beneath you.
  17. pmccarthy
    Quite impressive. The runway needs some work.
  18. pmccarthy
    Ok...here is the confession. I found it where I left it - in the aeroplane! Just as 440032 suggested yesterday. I decided to search everywhere again. Searched two cars, the home shed, my office, the caravan, the hangar and the aeroplane again, yesterday afternoon. The plane had been searched three times by me and once by my wife, and it is only a small plane. I had even released seat catches and flipped up the seat bases. So this morning I decided to go for a fly. Sitting in the pilot's seat, leaned the passenger seat back forward to tidy up the seat belts, and there it was in the seat back pocket. Black item against a black seat with a black mesh pocket. I must have actually leaned on it a couple of times it when I flipped the seat forward to search the luggage compartment. It is more than just domestic blindness, because my wife usually finds things when I get desperate. Anyway, thanks everyone for your suggestions.
  19. pmccarthy
    It was assigned 7C5E1D for my PA28. But I disabled ADSB out when I got the Vixxen as it has a Mode S transponder.
  20. pmccarthy
    Now RF has "come clean", this is my experience. Hot day in a PA28 with that floor vent blowing straight up. I left it to the desperate stage as I only had an empty coke bottle. Alignment with the neck of the bottle was not great, flow control was zero and the vast spillage blew up and across me and my very sympathetic passenger, SWMBO. Unfortunately, this was ten minutes before landing, where we were being met by friends. Fortunately, I have almost no sense of smell, so was less embarrassed than I should have been. It has never been mentioned again, and she continues to fly with me. Australia is much more than a large island; most of our flying is done in continent.
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    I still can’t believe it would be stolen. But I have searched several times. It was in its case, zipped up. I still think it more likely mislaid, but I had no reason to take it out of the plane. Then again, I lose spanners all the time.
  22. pmccarthy
    My Skyecho2 has been nicked. I don't know exactly when. Is there any way to track it down by its signal? I assume they have changed the aircraft code.
  23. pmccarthy
    Use a pickle bottle, not a coke bottle. My wife will confirm.
  24. pmccarthy
    Do others turn down the radio to do a run up? Is it taught?
  25. pmccarthy
    Looks like a paper plane I used to make.
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