farri
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Shucks!!! I`ll just have to keep trying then. ...
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Flying a stretch of the Mulgrave river, in North Queensland, Australia! How about this music, then?
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Thank you Bob! Regards to Sal, for Fran and Me...All the best to both of you.
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Yeah! I knew it!.......... I only fly within gliding distance of a suitable landing area! always have, always will! that`s why I`m still around to enjoy my flying and make videos! I can talk from experience. What you don`t see in a lot of the footage, is all the farming land behind me that you could land a 747 on and I never point the aircraft where I can`t turn away, if the engine stops ...After all these years, I still practice dead stick landings, regularly! who else does? onetrack, I`m using a GoPro, Hero 8 black, with a wide lens and hyper smooth, stability! needs to be extremely turbulent to show it, in the video. Flightrite! at least I got your attention! Cheers. Franco.
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Flying some of our high country, this morning...We`ve only had a couple of weeks without rain and already the dust and smoke is in the air.
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Hi BrendAn, Don`t look at it as easier or harder, rather, just as a skill you need to learn, if you want to be endorsed on both tail dragger and tricycle (nose wheel)! I`m endorsed on both.
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R.I.P. KIWI. To call Quad Bikes well known killers, is like calling Ultralight Aircraft, well known killers. I used a Quad Bike for many years in my work as a farmer! I still have one and ride it regularly and like my Drifter (and other Ultralights I`ve flown) to date, I`ve never so much as been scratched by any of them! that`s not to say I couldn`t make a mistake or several and become a statistic. Investigate the accident and find the reals reason that caused it.
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Got Ya!!!
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35,000 feet?
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The earth certainly isn`t flat in my area and here`s the proof...I did this sunset flight, earlier this week.
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Absolutely Garry and there`s a spare back seat, just don`t bring too much luggage! you coming?
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Hey O.K. A mere cane farmer??? I stopped cane farming at 60, 13 years ago. Just started doing videos` around this time last year! pleased you think they`re O.K.
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This is a flight I did recently! I`m using a GoPro Hero 8 Black to shoot the footage, then I create the final video, with Shotcut, a free video editing program that I`ve downloaded from the internet. https://youtu.be/gP6hjN_2jzc
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The short answer! on an average day, at MTOW, (400 Kg) about 300 mts. Have flow the SB with the large nose pod and the Rotax 582! not as maneuverable as the WB with the small pod, which mine is.
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G`Day Nev, Yeah! conditions were pretty good... These days I`ve go 3 that I can use! the one in the video is 510mt from end to end.
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No shortage, up here, of people wanting me to take them up in the Drifter...Here`s a short video of my flight to the Atherton Tablelands, with Kim, yesterday....Franco. https://youtu.be/gLL0e79bn_g
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G`Day Garry, Thank you!!! I`ve just been a lurker, for a while! watching what others are saying and keeping up to date with the accident and incident reports. I did a couple of hours solo before taking anyone up! there`s been a few in the back seat since but my first passenger was my eldest Great-Grand-Daughter, 9 year old, Brooklyn, a veteran, , of the back seat of the Drifter, as I took her up for the first time at 4 years of age. Franco.
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Hey Guys! surely I`m not the only Drifter Pilot left on this Forum!!! I refurbished my Drifter, a couple of months ago and fitted a new Warp-Drive prop! I had to cut the blades to 60 inch diameter, then adjust the pitch, several times, until I got the best performance. From memory, the last time I refurbished the Drifter, was around 11 years ago, so if I can get another 11 years, I`ll be 84 years old and who knows! it might see me out.
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Vanoj, Live streaming the flight to his, wife, his parents and friends, in India.
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Sorry Guy`s, havn`t been able to upload the video that should have been with my previous post! any help appreciated.
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Well! I`m still flying and enjoying every second of it...Yesterday afternoon I took Vanoj Danturi for his first Ultralight. Vanoj, works at our local servo! he told me his dream was to fly so I offered to take him up! Vanoj was live streaming the flight to his wife, his parents and friends, in India! what better way to showcase the Drifter and our beautiful area of Deeral, North, Queensland.
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Boeing 777 engine explodes over Denver
farri replied to red750's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
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Nothing to see here [Mentour on Cat III + samples.]
farri replied to Garfly's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
Thanks Garry! I didn`t know about, Garmin Autoland. 👍 -
Hey! old buddy, old pall! I don`t sit around drinking coffee all day, like you! , you`d be surprised how much hand push mowing I do with my trusty Victa. It`s been raining here almost non stop for the last two weeks! cleared up yesterday and the forecast is, no rain for the next five days before it starts again, so I promise I`ll mow the strips.....I shot the footage for this video, yesterday...Franco.
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Hi Everyone! The wet season has come to North Queensland with a vengeance! on Monday, here at home, we just missed Kimi a category 2 Tropical Cyclone, that fortunately! stayed off the coast and continued heading South before turning into a low pressure system. Most years, after serious rain, I go up in the Drifter and take photos of our area, so it`s nothing new or an unusual thing for me to do, but this year I`ll be doing videos! I took the footage for this video a couple of days after the rain started. When the strip at the Drifter shed is too wet, I come up to the one at the house...Franco.
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