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ScreaminJimmy

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About ScreaminJimmy

  • Birthday 14/10/1984

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  • Aircraft
    Skyfox Gazelle
  • Location
    Cessnock
  • Country
    Australia

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  1. Just had look in the log book and looks like it was JH
  2. Know this is probably a moot point now as I see you have completed your solo, but thought I'd share anyway. Back in '01 or '02 I did a 2 week flying school with Scouts at Camden. I had a bunch of different instructors but one in particular used to bust my balls every flight, which at the time, would frustrate the hell out of me. But at the end of the day I'm glad he did. Towards the end of the 2 weeks I was doing circuits with the aforementioned instructor when pretty heft windstorm came in, which meant we had to switch to the grass strip (I had never landed on anything other than bitumen before). Despite that, and the fact that we still had a diagonal cross-wind, I managed to get the Cessna 150 on the ground without any assistance from my instructor. His words - "Right. First thing tomorrow you are going up for your solo". Honestly one of the proudest moments of my life. And the solo flight the next day went mostly according to plan, despite the change in weight in the aircraft making the effects of the hot summer air, and the cool air pockets above the river just before the strip, seem much more dramatic. Beyond that time and money got away away from me, and I didn't really fly since, until I started my ultralight training in a Jabiru-120 last year, and I'll tell you what, doing circuits again (basically from square 1) and sucking at them is a whole new level of frustration (especially after such a big high the last time I was taking lessons). So my advice, keep it up as much as you can. Nothing worse than putting a stack of effort into something only to have to redo it all over again because of your own tardiness.
  3. Awesome. That's my pop's old plane. Did service in Vietnam and New Guinea (the 180, not my pop). Great to see it's in pretty good nic, considering the hours it would have done.
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