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  1. Chocolate
    Thanks for posting. They are really interesting. Also interesting to see how much they look outside the cockpit checking for traffic.
  2. Chocolate
    I have found Aviation Insurance Archerfield good to deal with and they will work with you to come up with an insurance that you can afford.
  3. Chocolate
    Go for it Rosemarie. But...Be prepared to have to battle attitudes of peers. (“Surely it’s too hard at your age)”; and attitudes of younger instructors. Keep going to different instructors until you get one you are completely happy with spending money and time on. I had three different goes before I found the right instructor and that’s a common experience for women learning to fly.
  4. Chocolate
    well the office is good to deal with for getting a card. i have always been given a lift to and from town by motels and there are good pub bistros so i dont mind stopping there. i did get caught with inverell recently. it was the long weekend so they went away. (!) so glad i phoned beforehand especially as it is so far from town and so bloody cold at this time of year. goondi is quite interesting as i sometimes see the rfds there from roma for a run and circuits. i left roma same time as them and they were there in a wink and i got there more than an hour and a half later to find them doing circuits. after my five mile call i think they got in three circuits! .. a bit of a laugh.
  5. Chocolate
    you need a Lowes card. Not difficult to get one. Just phone them. good to deal with.
  6. Chocolate
    Always phone ahead.
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  8. Chocolate
    I have a helmet for sale. 0409224605
  9. Chocolate

    Multicom

    Chocolate replied to Yenn's topic in Governing Bodies

    G Garfly... That is exactly why I thought my safety was worth $5000 odd and I put in new mode s transponder and new radio with monitor facility. Good clear radio and there have been times it's obvious rpt have been told I am in the vicinity.
  10. Chocolate
    Google maps. To have a look at unfamiliar airport s. Windyt. I use a Garmin aera as backup. I just don't trust the iPad when it gets hot.
  11. Chocolate
    Thanks for letting us know about the problem. This is one I usually didn't phone beforehand...will now.
  12. Chocolate
    There is no 'active prohibited '. Prohibited is prohibited. Restricted has activated, not activated. Might be wise to look up the aip. I was taught 1 m from boundary.
  13. Chocolate
    Welcome.
  14. Chocolate
    First gold nugget of information I got from the hangar person at my school...don't bother comparing yourself to anyone else. You will be good at some parts of the training and not so good at other parts so just enjoy yourself.
  15. Chocolate
    That's the nub of the problem. Being up on the great divide in a bit of a valley I can't hear you when on the ground making my call. So I am more than likely interfering in radio traffic when making a call. Sorry.
  16. Chocolate
    YEP.
  17. Chocolate
    I am full of admiration for this pilot. Well executed auto rotation with not much height to boot, Scotsman. Why oh why even think about going past top of green with rotor rpm. Risking failure of parts imho Making your situation worse. By the way what do you think about the news reports. Maybe are a bit confusing..pilot said loss of power and hydraulic failure rather than engine stopped. Fuel starvation? I understand no engine no hydraulics. Anyone like to speculate on the causal part?
  18. Chocolate
    The thread has been very informative for me as a low time pilot. And I certainly took on board Ian's comment about a pilot being judged by others by their radio calls. (Some of my fumbling half wrong calls would certainly alert others to my experience level. ). I would not like to venture into changing the order of the phrases. It has the Swiss cheese effect. It's called a 'normalised violation of the rules' in the safety experts field. The real problem is, from my point of view, not treating the radio for what it is...it's a radio..speak slightly louder and slightly slower. So much of what I hear is completely garbled because it's just said too fast.
  19. Chocolate
    It's an aid to situational awareness. Used when necessary. OCTR. One example..A regional airline taxiing to the other end might have a heli request to cross the runway behind them. In my experience they all have said yes. As they get to the end and turn around they would want to know that the helicopter is not still within the runway area.
  20. Chocolate
    Thanks...made me go look up the aip. You make a good point there. I will say " all runways vacated" in future. Gen 3.4-51.
  21. Chocolate
    I comply with the standard calls as much as I can and practice them driving as I have messed them up going into unfamiliar places due workload. As a low hour pilot I know it's about practice. If there was any change I would Prefer to hear the "place traffic" repeated twice as the alert to others to get over the clipping problem. Mostly radio is treated like its a telephone...it's not! Talk slightly louder, not quieter, and talk slower.
  22. Chocolate
    Shouldn't that be runway vacated? Rather than clear of.
  23. Chocolate
    Can you explain what Bowden type is like? Mine appears to be a cable within a woven outer casing also steel. I have used wd40 but it seems to take any grit with it to the lowest point and gets gunky there rather than let grit out through the woven outer. Warm day no problem..cool morning..not so good.
  24. Chocolate
    What products would you recommend to keep this cable free moving within its outer cover.
  25. Chocolate
    Ahha..so yours is the friendly voice I have in my area.! What about 126.8 pashendale..yours too?
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