ahlocks

... found the RecFlying tent pretty quick :big_grin: and grabbed an emergency locator gizmo to keep the cottonwool commandos at bay and then set out seeking alleged dissidents, but it was soooo easy to get distracted by the aeroporn on display! Eventually found a certain rodent drooling over the Carbon Cub and not looking all that worse for wear. He said that ******** had been a ****** and that ***** needs a ****** session with a **** and that he wants to have Turbz's love child.... or something along those lines. That carbon cub is truly a good looking beast of a thing :drool:and seems to consider having to use a takeoff roll as optional! The Piper sport / sportscruiser looks the duck's nutz, but I thought I'd best not pay too much attention to them, or the Sportstar max, lest the beercan get jealous and chuck a hissy fit. Oh, and there might have been a few other types there as well... Hey Burbs...since when have I let the truth get in the way of a yarn? Where'd I get up to, ...oh yeah. As DaveC says, the crowd looked a bit sparser than last year's and the head count was definitly down by a couple of million as the locusts decided to give it a miss this year as well. The food court is a great innovation :clap:but search as I did, I couldn't find the grog tent or D(bloody)Isaacs for love nor money . (a phone call has sorted that out and we're on for a session of bulldust and pick nitting Sunday instead. ) Departure from TEM was orderly and well orchestrated with the ground crew and Unicom shooting us out rapid fire. What was disconcerting :hide:though was playing 'where'd the plane in front of us go' on departure. The beercan isn't the fastest things on two wings, nor a stellar climber, so I've not had to drop the nose to find the leading aircraft before - I really thought Jabs went harder?! Otherwise, the trip home was pretty straight forward and highlighted by the sweet aroma of burning stubble paddocks :yuk:and a included a bonus game of we'rethefarquarwie in the haze. Would have gone IFR but there's not too many B-doubles to follow out in the boonies. All in all, a great day and the child bride's first fly-in, but as for a serious political report ..... not from this little black duck...

Well..... after two bouts of solenoid chatter :blink:and a couple of “start pretty pleases”, the rotoraxe howled into life :cheezy grin:and the child bride and I taxied out and departed north for battlefield Temora. The flight over was smooth as the Riverland lass’ left one with just a few bumps here and there to keep us both awake. Flipped the talky box to Temora CTAF at 25 miles to nut out what the traffic was like and crossed fingers. The circuit was busy as expected :freaked:and there were a couple of inbound calls from traffic to the North and East. Unicom was sorting them out with aplomb :thumb_up: and although one go around was called, it sounded like getting in was going to be a milk run. Called twelve miles and started setting up for a leisurely decent and downwind entry for runway 23. Leisurely that is until Unicom advised a couple of minutes later that inbound traffic should expedite or expect a twenty minute holding :sad:owing to an exhibition flight that was pending. Time to rattle a few rivets and haul as:bye:s!. “Beercan on final for red parking” a few minutes later, followed by a spine numbing thump announced that we had arrived - Fire rescue were taking bets that we’d been shot down by the Stearman..:rolleyes:. Then there was this bloke waving his arms wildly like he was daring us to mow him into the grass, but we eventually worked out that he was one the ground crew so rather than hit him, we stopped just as the colour began to leech from his face. In all truth, the groundies were great in providing clear directions and a friendly welcome with a safety brief on arrival. Expecting to see clumps of bloodied rat fur blowing about the field and an effigy in bespangled uniform hanging from the windsock with a membership fee receipt jammed up its ginger , we were a bit disappointed by its absence :frusty:, so headed off for the static display area to find a rebel forumite to find out how good the rumoured stoush really had been……

...and came to pass that ***** was actually a secret code for the mystical alignment of stars that the Mayans had predicted, but it wasn't the world that would end on 12/12/12, but aviation as it had been known. "***** that!" cussed.....

...."I've never :ranting:been so insu....oh wait........yes I have.. " ============ was race to 5000 why noone else could get a word in this arvo.....Bloody mexicans...

Yeah, I think we'd all be found guilty as charged at some time. As an aside, would you be able to get one of those things down low enough be able to log IFR?

licked??.... This isn't that kind of establishment! ....is it?!

heh heh heh.... it's like shooting thylacines in barrel....

Yes indeed. I'd buried the nose into the act, regs and ops manual to find definitions of PIC and solo etc. to see if I could take a passenger for one of the navs seeing as I already had the pax endo. The definition of PIC as an RAAus student prevented it. That's why I think that Dave's comment that you can log PIC with the instructor onboard doesn't sound right. Cheers! P.S. Dave, the first post was a sorry not a sorry. (the ones are reserved for taswegians...)

http://casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/download/orders/cao95/9555.pdf 4 General conditions of exemption 4.1 The exemption given by subsection 3 in relation to an aeroplane is subject to the following general conditions: ..... (b) the aeroplane must not be operated by a person as pilot in command unless the person holds a valid pilot certificate and, subject to the other conditions set out in this section, operates the aeroplane in accordance with the privileges and limitations of that certificate; © subject to paragraph 4.2, if the aeroplane is being used for flying training, the person conducting the training must hold a valid flight instructor certificate; (d) subject to the other conditions set out in this section, the aeroplane must be operated in accordance with the requirements of the RAA Operations Manual;  Nev, Remember when we hashed this out with regard to nav training a couple of years ago? PIC for a RAAus student is solo i.e. no passenger. Cheers!

Sorry Davo, the above statement doesn't gel with the ops manual. Pilot in Command (PIC) - For RAAus student purposes - Solo flight time; http://www.raa.asn.au/opsmanual/Abbrev%20&%20Definitions.pdf If the Instructor is not PIC, he/she is a passenger, whom you can't carry as PIC until you have your certificate and pax endo. http://www.raa.asn.au/opsmanual/2-07.pdf Cheers!

"Mierda!" cried SiEfIcareZ , eager to show his prowess in languages other than taswegian, "Gaudi could be my hermano or padre!!".... ===================== Le Rodent is fortunate he changed the topic :doh:as his motobique was about to get a bucketing.... (and how did he get the font to default to arial?)

"It's the drugs.." whispered Nurse Trixie.:whisper:confiding why Tubz was having numeric difficulties. "Poor Tubz hasn't been able to count above one since the operation.... "

onya farmer!

Page 7 Part 1 - preliminary 1. Interpretation “the Act”: The Associations Incorporation Act 1991; http://www.raa.asn.au/admin/constitution.pdf

...outside the side door of the Bangholme pub." "I don't remember eating that??" mumbled mrHartist as he staggered back from his latest commissioned piece. "There's no way I could have swallowed a whole....

They are building career airline pilots, moulded the way they want them, from scratch - Not a bad idea if you think about it.

Why a rotty would be fitted with bells would have to remain a mystery :ne_nau: as the great post #5000 standoff began.....

..realises that animals can stutter too." "Why just the other day my new kitten developed a stutter when the next door neighbours rottweiler jumped the back fence!" continued Planey. "Fff!, Fff!, Fff! the kitten stuttered, but the dog got to him before he could finish.

..impressionist." "It's an artistic sketch of the Bangholme BovaBoy done in freehand!" :artist: explained AhPi(ss)casso. "Look there you can see the toothless grin and the beady..."

.."fine sense of balance and artistry!" Rat studied the pattern, drawn in neat script, on the cheetah wing and....

...shook the remaining drops off....

..."it was Planey's 4play that dunnit!"

... singing quietly to himself. 'lycra virgin... for the very first time...' as he recalled the night last week when he.....

deep furrowed brows after years of forgetting to duck.