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  1. turboplanner
    Fly through cloud?
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    The Cloud layer had been stable at 1000' for a couple of days, something I'd never seen, waited another day and it had moved up to 1300' flat bottom, good visibility to horizon so came down picked up passengers. had flight planned to Melbourne along the Sea Level colour, had opted for a zig zag course hopping from airfield to airfield, flying along at 500' and my first town was on a hill, so the ground came up towards me; The Sea Level sector is O - 600'; sat on the ground for a couple of hours, replanned, the cloud lifted again and no more rising ground.
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    If you're referring back to my post ceiling on that day was 1000' from SA to Mount Martha. Visibility was out to the horizon.
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    The good thing today is reports aren't needed for people who aren't qualified to fly or opt to "fly on instruments" through cloud etc. because we operate on self-administration these days.
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    Or those who've had formal training on Performance & Operations.
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    The bottom Map would be good if you were cutting a drain. The Ozrunways map clearly works for a lot of people. That area is covered by the Armidale WAC Chart, and I haven't got one to compare but the colouring looks like the underlying map could be a WAC Chart. What the WAC Chart has are Hypsometric Tints which show altitude in feet and metres. If you find during your trip that cloud has decended above you like a ceiling, the tints give a quick reference for a way out to be planned. If the bottom of the scale isn't visible here you can scroll to bring up Sea Level. Don't be caught like me once when I was watching that celing very closely and realised I could see individual sticks under the gum trees because although the cloud was level, the land was rising, and the sea level blue is anything from ground to 600'.
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    I'd leave that to the owner and lessees to sort out if and when the property is sold.
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    Is that in a Jab 160 or 170?
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    That was covered in very good detail in earlier posts. That's between the Landlord and the lesees (based on their conditions) It's not likely there'll be any public news until a buyer comes along with the right price and that could be months, and it all depends on what the buyer/new landlord wants to do, if the seller sells the leases as well. All of that could happen quickly or slowly so no point in getting concerned now.
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    It's go nothing to do with digs or insults. If you read over your past posts you seem to drift from being a licensed pilot to doing basic learning and even having given it away for something else. If you aren't a PIC then you aren't at the stage of needing P&O so the need to get more deeply into Metrice imperial mix isn't there. Apart from that IF ICAO has a mix and Australia has adopted that mix that's what we have to fly to so there's no point in raising alternatives.
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    If it's as easy as that, I would think the SA Training organisation would be doing it, but the last time any PR was released the problem was that they were not getting to the end of a full training session, where a changeover would be feasible.
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    In that case you don't have to get involved in it. The PIC is responsible for it. Training should have been done by the time you become PIC. The people reading US magazines and books often screw up. If you have a US aircraft or hire a US aircraft, you only have to write your notes with conversions once, thereafter using them. In the US they never completely finished their metric conversion program.
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    ........goat chops on a Friday night at the KPRVRACSF Clubrooms (Patron: King George III) The money rolled in and it wasn't long before they bought their own Drifter and started training pilots , then bought more for hire. The YIKP airfield was six feet long; taking off was a dream, you just dropped off the bottom and and had 6000 feet to get it flying. There were no overruns on landing but you had to get the hand brake on quick, and if you ...................
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    I'm beginning to think RA have missed out on teaching it. Interesting that the Instructors are quiet as mice, but they have to sum up whether not teaching it constitutes a reasonably forseeable risk.
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    In answer to your direct question about 1,000 feet altitude: For circuit flying learning to visualise 200 metres for rag and tube 70kt and under, 350 metres for RA above 7- kt and GA, 500 metres for high performance GA, that would equate to 587/1027/1467 feet, so visually not much different.
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    What we've got to comply with is what we've got. In answer to your question, when metric conversion came to Australia I'd just learnt Imperial, but realised the key factor was to be able to visualise the new measurements, so I started holding finger and thumb at 20 mm, 50 mm and visualising 1 metre and in building things, quickly adapted. I could pace yards very accurately for mesuring post spacing and wire measuring for farm fences and had a lot more problem pacing metres; in fact don't trust myself even now, I was luck enough (or unlucky enough) to catch the last of Full Reporting in cross country flying, and got to know exactly what 2 minutes to check point looked like, so converting, 5 km to minutes at cruise then practicing on every flight is not that hard, and gives you ample time to make a turn, and why would you wait to the last legal second anyway?
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    Clearly not for you; it's very elementary and the conversion only has to be done once then used as the base. I'm stunned that people who are implying that they are PIC are saying there's a problem.
  18. turboplanner
    Two dead chooks x 60 dead chooks / 40 dead chooks = 3 dead chooks.
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    I'd suggest you haven't done much W&B.
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    ......the Khyber Pass Spotters Association Ltd. This entitled him to ..........................
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    ....the bugler. "Play me songs of war" he said with full purpose" So the Bugler played Yellow Rose of Texas. There was silence in the Empire ranks and the Gungadins weren't making their usual noise either as both side tried to work out what the tune meant. The Gs assumed it foreshadowed a new secret weapon and ran but Gungadin OneLeg stood his ground, as diffcult as that was on the side of a near cliff. "You're a better man than I am, Gungadin" replied Gungadin Cooke who was running as fast as his little legs could carry him for the safety of ................. To those NES readers who have been sending in messages asking what Dak Runners were, these were the men who used to run all over the Himalayas and northern India delivering the mail in the 1900s. It was hot work so they ran without their Daks. It was said there was a mountain chick standing at every gate in those days.
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    .......wayward Colonel Unlocks, a distinguished member of the Unlocks family. It was General Shaun Unlocks that carried out atrocities on behalf of Lord Cumberland after the Jacobites had surrendered at the Battle of Culloden, and founded The Black Watch which was stationed at Fort William and chased Highlanders for years, so it was fair to say that the Colonel was not totally trusted by all of the Khyber Pass stalwarts which included the Jacobite Turbine family, and so on that fateful day which started with an unusual rush from the Khybers ....................................
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    Anyone else care to share how they do these P&O calculations?
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    "....bottle of gin and remember old times<" he continued. "This was before be built the 404. We haven't told people about it because it was designated Top Secret by His Majesty's army. We'd managed to scrounge bits frow war wreckage, old gin crates and tent canvas which our soldiers didn't need after they'd been shot. We constructed a small aircrtaft. We couldn't make an engine on the steep slopes of the Himalayas of course, so we employed Dak Runners to haul it up the Pass and Turbo or I or a former member of this site who declared "I tort meself to fly" would fly it off the clif and bring back vital intelligence to the General.Many decades later the aircraft was copied and given the name Drifter." Turbo nodded at the memory and ..........................
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    ....shot a couple of Drifter Pilots from Warracknabeal, then curried them in front of our eyes." "Remember how I sneaked across the line when they were sound asleep and poured six bottles of gin into the pot, and we were able to shoot thirty two of them because none of them could shoot straight?" mused Cappy. "We gained sixty three feet territory that day." replied Turbo "Our bet day in six weeks." Cappy swatted a big scorpion and said "Pity about Jack and Arthur, but at least the British gave the buggers some curry!" "We .....................
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