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  1. Wayne T Mathews
    One of the questions from the career placement test given applicants for flight training and a military commission. "Rearrange the letters P N E S I to spell out an important part of the human body that is more useful when erect!" Those who spelt spine became doctors....the rest of us went to flight school....
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    It may well be David, that the problem is understood/accepted/recognised, but the cause isn't... It's a magnificent day here on the liverpool plains too, so I think I'll go get Ol' Jay Tiga outa the shed and fly over Sommerton way, in the sincere hope of driving David Isaac crazy with jealousy... I don't want to be childish about this DI, but NYAH NYAH na NYAH na... Ya gotta get the Auster going Mate...
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    I don't know if all SportStars have the same vernier throttle problems as the two I have flown, but I am not impressed with what I've seen on those two. During descent, closing the throttle by pressing the lock button and moving the throttle fully rearward does not close the throttle completely. The RPM can be reduced another 300 - 400 RPM by winding the vernier to the left. Trouble is though, if you wind it too far, it'll sudenly "click over the cam" and increase the RPM by about 600 RPM. Which can be a tad more than annoying during the flair, as an example...
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    Answer to Q1/ Yes Answer to Q2/ Nothing that I am aware of....
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    What Nev said, Ross... Do you have to run against Steve? Or can you run for one of the other QLD seats?
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    Hear hear...
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    The book of David, perhaps?
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    Jimmy Buffett, the singer who penned the lines, "I'd rather die while I'm living, than live while I'm dead" owns and used to fly an Albertross. In 1996, the "Hemisphere Dancer" (The aircraft's name) was shot at by Jamaican authorities as Jimmy taxied it in the water near Negril. The Jamaicans had mistaken it for a drug-runner’s plane. Today, the aircraft is parked outside Jimmy's restraunt in Orlando Florida.
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    Yep, I'm a lucky man to have had my old Dad as M'Dad. He was 15 when he joined #1 intake of RAAF apprentices, and he had over 20,000 hrs on aircraft ranging from my Cub through Vampires, Twin Pin Pioneers, C130s and on up to the 747 before he retired and came back to flying light singles. He knew a thing or three about aircraft, and how to keep them airborne. To this day, I still sometimes catch myself thinking, "What would Dad have done about this?" I reckon Facthunter and my Dad would've been mates if they'd ever met.
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    Did one of those "Maule departures" out of my cousin's farm down by the Murray many years ago . My Dad was flying it and when we were pointing almost straight up, the back of his seat collapsed backwards. Dad let go of the controls and said, "Your aircraft," as he fell backwards. I'm here to tell you, it got real exciting for a few seconds...
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    Well done Louis... Well done...
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    It's a long time since I read about it, but I seem to recall Dick Rutan, whilst flying "The Voyager" around the world, mistook Venus for what he thought was a fighter's gun light. And he put that down to sleep deprivation too.
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    Well built David. Your scenario demonstrates clearly that it is possible for us to operate safely in a circuit with a bunch of other people if we all keep to the rules. It's when people exceed the rules (in this case, expected calls) that we begin to have the problems David Isaac has portrayed with his examples of unnecessary calls. Turb's point is valid too. Operating at a comparatively busy airport will hone one's situational awareness and radio skills. I'm finding that myself now I'm instructing out of Tamworth and having to mix it with the BAE boys and RPTs. I have to admit though Turbs, 12 in the circuit would be a bit over the top for me. I'd be heading for a cuppa on the verandah until they'd thinned out a tad if there were that many buzzing around.
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    Well, yes and no David... (don't you just love that decisive step-up to the plate? We don't often get the opportunity to dissagree with young David, and it's not something I do lightly by golly) Given the traffic Red described at the time, giving ALL the "expected calls" could well reduce safety by increasing unnecessary chatter. My take on "the new" circuit calls is that we should make the minimum calls that achieves situational awareness for everyone in the area. I mean to say, under normal circumstances it just isn't necessary to make calls turning downwind, and turning base, and turning final, with a "for touch and go" or whatever tacked onto every one of the calls like some blokes like to do. I don't have a problem with my students doing it for practise when there's no-one else around, but not when the traffic starts to build up. It gets hard for the poor bugger coming in from wherever to give a 10 mile inbound call as an example, if there's 3 or 4 blokes in the circuit chattering like monkeys.
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    Yee harr... That would've made your eyes water if it'd hit you...
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    Ya reckon??? I might be wrong, but I reckon anyone who'd 'ave cut that big fellah off on base woulda been lookin' for a new ring gear, eh? Wouldn't matter where he landed, there'd be folks there waiting to chew on the butt of anyone who'd interfered in any way with THAT flight... And so it should be...
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    Well said, GG, well said... I also like your attitude Ayavner... No system is perfect, but in the main, the American one is bloody good... For sure, there are anomalies that we have to be aware of here in Ozland. But hey, I find I have to read the FAA stuff more carefully here than when I did while I was over there. Because now I have to be careful to find and recognise those anomalies so as to avoid having a CASA boot bruise my butt. And that's not a bad thing, if it works...
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    Thank you for sharing this with us Ayavner. I'd not seen this before...
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    Back in the days when I was a young flight fitter on helicopters, I remember my Dad said I should get off them for they were so hungry there was no money left over for the men working on them. I said, "But Dad, they're fantastic aeroplanes and so much fun to fly around in." My Dad said, "Son, helicopters don't fly. They flagellate. They're a confidence trick being pulled on gravity. And they're as similar to an aeroplane as a blow fly is to an eagle." It scarred me for live...
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    I agree with Tomo's take on this. Red, you said you saw the fellow turn off... Well, that being the case, you knew the runway was clear. So go. The circuit traffic doesn't stop because one bloke is slow making, or forgets to make, a clearing call. The 310's warning (for that is probably what it was intended as) was incorrect, because the traffic had cleared and you could see that. It is possible the 310 couldn't see what you could. A call you could have made after the 310's call along the lines of, "Yes he has," may have put the Cessna's mind at rest. But given the traffic you have described, I would have done what you did, and not cluttered the airwaves with the unnecessary chatter.
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    Damn it! You're doing it again David... You're introducing logic and reason into what could develope into an eggzillerating whomping...
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    It's really simple Teckair... If he can't/won't demonstrate landing without power, then don't sign the BFR form and logbook until he can/will...... It really is that simple.
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    Now this doesn't happen often... You brought one did you David? Where'd you bring it from??... Don't ya just love tipoes???
  24. Wayne T Mathews
    When I did the sums many years ago, I came to the conclusion that I'd have to fly 300+ hours per year to justify owning an aircraft. Any thing under that and financially, it was better to hire. And then a friend told me, "If you use your head, you'll never buy an aircraft. So use your heart instead." That worked for me...
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    Well done that man,,, Well done !!!
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