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We`ve been getting heat-wave conditions here in the Cairns area for the last week and yesterday it came to a head with a powerful thunderstorm! Here at Deeral by the damage done to the trees where it hit most, I guestimated the wind to be around a category 2 Cyclone, there was rain and hail also! fortunately for us here at home, most of the force of the wind went through along the Bruce Highway, just 2.5 km up the road... Another thunderstorm forecast for this afternoon but by far better than the fire`s that are burning throughout Queensland at the moment! After the storm comes the sunshine and this morning started with perfect flying weather so I decided to take Peter flying! Peter lives just a couple of hundred meters up the road, loves flying with me and I love taking him! Peter was born totally deaf and still is but he is extremely skillful at lip reading! once we`re in the air we communicate with hand signals, works just fine. Franco, Ps, I don`t know why I give him the headphones...

Thanks, Bill! Here`s a couple more for you!!! Well! They just coming!!! Pia and Ingmar are from Germany, back-packing through Australia! They`re staying just up the road with friends of ours, saw me flying and just had to do it, so this morning, I had the pleasure of taking both of them for their first Ultralight flight!!! Franco.

G`Day Callahan! Matthew is 103 kg or 227 lbs, at the moment! My current engine is a 503 DCDI, (purchased new) turning a Rotax E-type, 2.62:1 reduction gearbox, with an Ivo, 3 blades, 60-inch ground adjustable, Ultralight prop. The Ivo Ultralight prop is 72-inch diameter and has to be cut to size! the engine has now gone over 500 hrs without missing a beat, but I`ve pulled it apart, de-coked. honed the cylinders and changed the piston rings and all gaskets twice and the parts in both Carbies, once! Last week I fitted a new muffler can. I had that gearbox on 3 of my 582 grey head when I was instructing, it never gave the slightest bit of trouble so I decided to put it on the 503! I replaced the oil seals before putting it on and it`s still going strong with well over 3,000 hrs done. I`ve been using a Fuji Finepix 120 camera for a couple of years! I take all the photos of those in the back seat by holding the camera out to the side! Works fine for me.

Yesterday afternoon, we had a family get-together here on our property to celebrate our youngest Daughter`s 49th birthday and I had the privilege of taking my eldest Grandson, all 103 kg of muscle, flying! I`ve copied and pasted what Matt said on my facebook timeline! For me, there`s no better reward in recreational flying, than having family members and friends wanting to fly with me... I took the photo. Matt Cheetham 33 mins · It's been a while since I,ve been up in the air with Grandad, so yesterday I couldn't pass up on the chance to go flying. This is Franco Arri (Grandad) who's been flying for 39 years and still is doing what he loves. I've been flying with Grandad since I was just a kid and about 70kg lighter! I consider myself very lucky to have the chance to do this regularly. Franco.

Don`t you just love it!!! "No good can come from people flying themselves around in little planes".......

On the NSW Police Force facebook site! Macca Straede Glad they're ok but I think the government should seriously think about a light aircraft cull and putting nets in the sky. Tyra Basilicata No good can come from people flying themselves around in little planes.

Way back, a couple of guys turned up at home here wanting to use my strip to test fly this "thing" they`d made up! after they explained the concept, I thought it wasn`t a bad idea! anyway! they assembled "this thing", one of the guys strapped it to his back, fired it up, the Parachute inflated, he gave the engine full throttle, took a few steps forward then the "Big Bang" happened!!! They`d made a shroud around the prop out of industrial plastic mesh and it got sucked into the prop! These two guys were brave enough to try something different, fortunately, in this case, no one was injured and lessons were learned! "Do what you`ve always done and you`ll get what you`ve always got". Franco.

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Not sure where Emah is based! I`ll ask her. I`ve just sent her a message and a link to this page so she can view the comments if she wants.

I wasn`t sure where to post this! I`ve been in contact with Emah on facebook and she has given me permission to post here in an attempt to get some information that might help her catch this thief! If anyone has any information, please contact her... I`ve copied from Emah`s facebook page and pasted. For those who don`t know, Emah is the lady who made up the skins for Wayne Fisher. Emah Silberstein Today at 10:24 · To the low life scum who broke into my sail loft last night and stole the heart and soul of my aviation business, I promise you will suffer greatly for this. All my folders of instructions that I spent the past 6 years developing with painstaking precision and finite calculations. My tools, my sail making stock. My hot knives. I am not in this industry to make any profit. I was keeping the legacy of Wayne alive and assisting people’s dreams to become or remain airborne. This is a low life filthy act. I will find you! Franco.

Getting old is terrible, but the alternative is far worse!!!

A friend took up cycling when he retired! he was cycling on the highway, a Semi-Trailer going in the same direction passed him, he fell over and later died in hospital... An eyewitness in a car behind the Semi later said they couldn`t tell if the truck had touched him or not... I reckon just the displacement of air by the Semi could have been more than enough to knock him over!... we`ll never know.

Franco.

WOW! Does he have some stories!!! I have a few myself! I did the scuba diving to retrieve a Drifter from the bottom, 12 meters down, in Lake Tinaroo! The pilot had a passenger on board, got it badly wrong and ended up in the lake beside some of his mates in a speedboat... I think you`ll get the picture. Franco. No! It wasn`t me in theDrifter! The pilot came to me for assistance.

Better to try and avoid getting a damaged back than trying to get it fixed! At 15, I got the chance to go horse riding with a mate who had a couple of horses, I`d never been on a horse but me being me, I couldn`t let the chance go by! Horse let me get on ( Yeah! had a saddle and bridle ) and almost instantly, it took off at full gallop, no amount of pulling back on the bridle could stop it, it threw me high into the air and I landed, upside down on my neck and shoulders! I got up, dusted myself and that was that! To this day I`m still amazed that I din`t get a broken neck or killed. At 18, I reckoned motorbikes were easier to control than horses so I took up motorbike racing on short circuit dirt and grass track! This day I was practicing on grass, I got a bad front wheel wobble and the bike threw into the air, this time I came down, upside down, on my head and cracked the Helmet, again, I got up, picked the bike up and kept going! Who knows what long-term damage was done but it didn`t stop me from racing... Believe me! flying Ultralights has been one of the safest things I`ve done. When I was instructing, a big guy who was a truck driver, came to have a fly! He showed me the scar on his back from the operation he`d had on his spine, but what was really bothering him was the operation he was supposed to have next, on his neck...He told me that even though he`d been told by old truckies not to jump down from the cab he continued to do it and he reckoned that was what recked his spine. Frank, Franco!!!

Nev, I`ve never let anything stop me doing anything I`ve really wanted to do in my life and I`m not about to change anytime soon!... Cheers...Oh!... I don`t own a motorbike anymore but I still hold an R class motorbike license and I`m still capable of riding! John, my neighbor up the road has 2 motorbikes and he wants me to go riding again with him, so I will.

Nev, if by use you mean eat, In fact, I eat very few tomatoes, I enjoy growing them though but give most away. I started my working life at 14 years of age and I`ve had back problems most of my adult life due to the heavy lifting I`ve had to do on the numerous jobs I`ve had, no workplace health and safety on any of them, just did what I had to do at the time! Then there`s been the lifting of fertilizer bags, for many years, when I was farming, made a decision though, years ago, not to have surgery because if it wasn`t successful it could have made it a lot worse... Life goes on!!!

There`s an old saying, "When the going get`s tough, the tough get going"! just 17 years of age, severely injured and she made it out!!!

I still believe! "It`s the dose that makes the poison"! This is not new but it has a lot of information... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-gene-discovery-could-lead-to-new-treatments/ Franco, Ps, I`ve just finished my cup of Coffee and it`s time to go for my push-bike ride! Back later!!!

Absolutely! http://www.obesity.ulaval.ca/obesity/generalities/genetic.php https://renewbariatrics.com/australia-obesity-statistics/ https://healthprep.com/weight-management/the-10-most-significant-causes-of-weight-gain-and-obesity/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=267593703&utm_content=1266637644955110&utm_term=obesity in england&msclkid=5f2edeca409a18caed338526a2d9b31d

My primary occupation has been Sugar Cane Farming and when I started out 55 years ago, you could be proud to call yourself a Cane Farmer! As the years went on Sugar became a dirty word and I became embarrassed to call myself a Sugar Cane Farmer! Eleven years ago at the age of sixty, I was able to just stop growing Sugar Cane without losing the property and so I did. I fully accept that Sugar in any form can be extremely bad for many people so for those it`s consumption should be reduced or discontinued altogether, however, there have been several products to try and replace Sugar, that could possibly be carcinogenic so it`s a good idea to get as much information as possible on any Sugar substitute.

I agree on both counts! The doctor at the Cairns Skin Cancer Clinic, where I go, told me he rides his push-bike, every day, from Machans Beach to his clinic in Lake street and back home in the evening! I told him he is a very brave man and all he said, "I know! I know! but you are braver than me" I have close to 3 acres of lawn to mow around the house here! over the weekend I bought a Toro 50 inch cut, zero turn mower but I still do a lot of the cutting around the gardens, with the Victa push mower... I try not to let the rot set in!... I often say to people, " I can still do what I do, because I still do what I do!" I often get asked by people I haven't seen for a for a while, " Do you still fly"?... My reply, " Yes I do! it`s the easiest thing I can do, these days!" ... Remember the old saying? " It takes all night to do what I used to do all night" Franco.

Following on from Shafs64`s Thread, "Lowering Your MTOW", lets take a look at ways of not just lowering your MTOW, but trying to keep it down and I don`t mean by adding less fuel or baggage to the aircraft. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to switch my Computer on then go and put the kettle on for my big cup of sweet Coffee (Yeah! I know! not good! but it works for me!), I then come back to the Computer and while having my Coffee I check-out my facebook site and this site! Once that`s done, I get on my Push-bike ( yes! a couple of weeks ago I bought a Push-bike!) and push my 70kg weight around by cycling down to the far end of my main strip and back, a total of 1.4 km! that`s not far but it`s all grass and at this stage, it`s really taking me some effort, however, it`s got a little easier than when I started! If at the end of the day I`ve still got enough energy left, I do it again! Over a lifetime, I`ve found that the hardest thing to do is getting out of the comfort zone! By cycling, I`m hoping to be able to maint my 70kg weight, strengthen my legs, help my sore knees, maintain my balance and improve it, something we all need as we get older! My goal is to cycle 3 times a day and continue increasing the distance. So! What do you do? Be honest now!!! Franco.