planedriver

Could be right there Ian, but in my case since the last election, it seems more a case of "meagre bucks" and "go-go" bucks.thumb_down

:welcome:Nathan, you're probably still on a "high" from your TIF.

Personally I prefer a/c with a fan on the front.

Good luck.

What mizerable bugger put this on the forums???

I was trying to sort it out, and the dinner I was cooking is burned to a frazzle.

I'll be knocking on your door soon Doug for some of your leftovers.:hittinghead:

:welcome:buttsy,

This is a great site, you're judgement is spot on.

Keep us informed as to how you're going, by the way, what a/c are you learning in?

Lots of nice guys here to learn from, don't be afraid to ask for anything (except money). There's pilots here with experience ranging from 767's to broomsticks:laugh: who will be very happy to help you.

Ian, so as to enlighten you with the requested information.

Here are the fact's which just goes to prove that you can not only converse with nice people on these forums, but can get edumikated too. How goods that!!

Planedriver (Alan)

Million, Billion, Trillion...

© Copyright 1999, Jim Loy

People sometimes ask me the names of the large numbers. Here is a table. The system used in the U.S. is not as logical as that used in other countries (like Great Britain, France, and Germany). In these other countries, a billion (bi meaning two) has twice as many zeros as a million, and a trillion (tri meaning three) has three times as many zeros as a million, etc. But the scientific community seems to use the American system.

Number of zerosU.S. & scientific communityOther countries3thousandthousand6millionmillion9billion1000 million (1 milliard)12trillionbillion15quadrillion1000 billion18quintilliontrillion21sextillion1000 trillion24septillionquadrillion27octillion1000 quadrillion30nonillionquintillion33decillion1000 quintillion36undecillionsextillion39duodecillion1000 sextillion42tredecillionseptillion45quattuordecillion1000 septillion48quindecillionoctillion51sexdecillion1000 octillion54septendecillionnonillion57octodecillion1000 nonillion60novemdecilliondecillion63vigintillion1000 decillion66 - 120 undecillion - vigintillion303centillion 600 centillion

How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual

manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax

money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency

did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its

releases.

.

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our

government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New

Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress

for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it

mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man,

woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home

gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C < HELLO! > Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Permit Tax

Gasoline Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),

Liquor Tax,

Luxury Tax,

Marriage License Tax,

Medicare Tax,

Property Tax,

Real Estate Tax,

Service charge taxes,

Social Security Tax,

Road Usage Tax (Truckers),

Sales Taxes,

Recreational Vehicle Tax,

School Tax,

State Income Tax,

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),

Telephone Federal Excise Tax,

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,

Telephone State and Local Tax,

Telephone Usage Charge Tax,

Utility Tax,

Vehicle License Registration Tax,

Vehicle Sales Tax,

Watercraft Registration Tax,

Well Permit Tax,

Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most

prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the

world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to 'press 1' for English.

I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times

What the heck happened?????

Don't forward to Kevin Rudd in case he's missed a few of these taxes.

Careful what you say guy's.

He has close associates that tend to "bob up and down" in the most explosive manner!! and we don't want him to have a seizure.

I must be a simpleton, all this time I was thinking it was Icarus who did it.

Did'nt realise there was really an Irish connection.:hittinghead:

We learn something new every day.

Tony died and was sent to be judged. He was told that he had cheated on his income tax returns, and that the only way he could get into heaven would be to sleep with a stupid, butt-ugly woman for the next five years and enjoy it. Tony decided that this was a small price to pay for an eternity in heaven. So off he went with this woman, pretending to be happy.

As he was walking along, he saw his friend Carlos up ahead. Carlos was with an even uglier woman than he was with. When he approached Carlos he asked him what was going on, and Carlos replied "I cheated on my income taxes and scammed the government out of a lot of money." They both shook their heads in understanding and figured that as long as they have to be with these women, they might as well hang out together to help pass the time. Now Tony, Carlos, and their two beastly women were walking along, minding their own business when Tony and Carlos saw their friend Jon up ahead, with an absolutely drop dead gorgeous supermodel. Stunned, Tony and Carlos asked Jon how is he with this unbelievable goddess, while they were stuck with these awful women. Jon replied "I have no idea, and I'm definitely not complaining. This has been absolutely the best time of my life. There is only one thing that I can't seem to understand. After everytime we have sex, she rolls over and murmurs to herself, 'Bloody income taxes!'"

She said one. While he was hoping it would be two.

Fantastic!

Bloody good effort, and with determination like he's got, he deserves to succeed against all odd's from the few knockers.

Wishing him the same progress for the rest of the trip.

Good on him and thats an understatement!!!

Keep going Jerry, were proud of you mate, and you should rightly be so, for what you represent.

Good one.

Only true words, spoken in jest in this section

Collecting back taxes from 1776 sounds good on the face of it, but i'm not so sure that their debts are quite so appealing.

Hi :wave:Pete.

Welcome to the forums. My first flight across the English Channel was also a bit of "an experience". It was in an old ATL-98 Carvair if you remember those,(the DC4 or to be more precise the C54 conversion) taking us from Southend to Ostend carying 5 cars and 22 pax. Everything possible shook and rattled, even worse than grandma's teeth, then they had to shut-down one engine which was spewing sparks and smoke.

We arrived OK but needed a change of undies.

After that trip I chartered an old DC3 a couple of times from Biggin Hill which was closer anyway for the short trip to Ostend. About 16 or 18 of us from a diving club used to go to Brugge in Belgium for the weekend and it was cheaper that way.

Fun Days.

If you ever get to build a Fisher R-80, come take me for a fly. I've got the proper leather-bound RAF Mk9 flying goggles so I can at least look like "Biggles"

Rgds Alan.

Some nice shots there lazarin.

3.41am post,hope you got some sleep afterwards.

Good luck when you start your training.

I agree with AVU.

It's very nice in WA. Spent some time there at tail end of last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Can quite understand why you'd be into flying, everywhere we wanted to go, involved an 8 or 9 hr trip on a bus. The locals seemed very lay back after the rat race of Sydney,and the millions of flies at The Pinnacles Desert were by far the friendliest we've ever had the misfortune to come across;)

If there was a prize for the best report, you'd certainly get my vote.

The captions were very interesting to read.

Thanks for sharing it with us:thumb_up::thumb_up::thumb_up:

The small island off the coast of Australia is called New Zealand, i am sure there are some maps around showing this place although not many people go there. Most of the people are relics

Sounds like you might be better off with a boat, as many of the Islands don't have airstrips, plus some of the natives might not be overly friendly.

Seriously though, I'd suggest you call into your local flying clubs for a coffee and a chat and take it from there. They would be able to advise you where the local pilot shops are, where you can buy the maps you require.

Good luck

The motor is pretty basic and has been around for ever and a day. I find it hard to think that it could'nt be properly sorted if you know what you are doing, and work through it thoroughly in a methodical order. Maybe the guy is better at other things, than he is a motor mechanic.

Thanks for that info Yenn, it was very interesting to read.

With figures such as you quoted, I can now quite understand there being a problem.

That much drag could also cause a few problems on finals if the front engine had died. I imagine you would have to try and keep the approach speed up a bit and lower the gear once over the fence.

poor old planedriver in his ignorance thought he'd take an extra dose of "ENO's" and save the guys on the forums to achieve the same result (less wind). The increased Butter's tax threat was feared to be a bit of of a bummer, however the majority carried on un-deterd (spelt wrong) which just go's to prove that "it's an ill wind" that

You surprise me with that at post Yenn.

I'd always thought that the Cessna 337 was the ideal combo. with both fans in line. Surely you would not have the adverse yaw problems that one on each wing could cause, if one engine turns it's toe's up.

I'm here to learn, so look forward to some facts to dispell the faith I had in the 337.

Ever since I watched Alby Mangles fly one in his movie which had been covered with chicken poop and straw after being left in a barn in NZ for years, I was convinced that if ever I was to own a twin, it had to be a 337.

I undersood that he flew the thing back to Oz so it could be done up and sold.

Can't believe all you see in the movies?

I'm surprised I don't see more about the Terriers on these forums.

My own personal opinion is that they're a great looking aircraft and for me it was love at first sight.The latest 200c looks even better, and would have expected it to have great appeal to anyone wanting to minimise the costs involved in weekend flyaways.

The jabiru seems possibly a bit more sturdy than the early Terrier 100 I was able to inspect, but that was quite a few years ago, and no doubt they've improved a lot since then with it's fibreglass-skinned wet wings etc.

I sometimes wonder whether it's because Foxcon have smaller production facilities to enable them to get more out there, or, are the majority biased towards the jab. because it's a better product?

Both seem to have their occasional problems.

..... and this demonstrates that while Big Pete certainly hasn't had a "full-frontal lobotomy", he has had a few "half bottle in front-a-me's", (not that there is anything wrong with that) which just goes to prove what a good bloke and great pilot he is, and ........like running redex through the carby years ago, some pilots to this day, still benefit from running some red stuff through themselves to clear out the cobwebs. Other advantages include

Brilliant!

was naturally feeling very despondant, but, he was fortunate enough to find one of his fiddies still wet and stuck to the side of the washing machine. He took it into his office and decided that the ultra-violet light in his new fangled Cannon printer would be a far gentler way of drying it. He stuck it in the machine hit the copy and repeat button for extra drying, and before he knew it there was a great heap of new fiddies piling up before his very eyes:big_grin::big_grin::big_grin::big_grin::big_grin:. WOW! he thought, maybe, there's a chance I