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  1. turboplanner
    ......"floater". This caused Wally Jing Lee to lose "face" and he went berserk in the Drifter, attempting to crash into the Hobart Clock Tower, but like all Chinese when berserk, pulled it to the left every time and eventually ran out of fuel and making a ditching in the upper reaches of the Derwent where a former WreckFly-In member and NESer, QWERTY waded out and dragged the bedraggled pilot and Drifter to shore. QWERTY had been knighted by the Tasmanian Governor for his services to Aviation and given ............................
  2. turboplanner
    Don't get carried away, for circuits from your home field you're not going to be landing a couple of thosand feet higher are you? but if you do tow the aircraft to a higher altitude airfield it will perform differently so you have to sum up whether you can take orr and climb out.
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    In the AUF days RA got their exemptions from CASA on the basis of flying in paddocks, below 300 feet and from memory at least 5 Nm from the nearest airfield, so you wouldn't have needed tables and calculations. Then manufacturers got involved and built bigger and faster aircraft and even though RA was founded on affordable budgets they wanted to include cross country flying, at least with relatively short distances. Orville didn't do that so it didn't matter. If you're flying from Airfield A at seal level to Airfield B in the mountains you have to know how to calculate the different heights and runway requirements and whether you can get out again. Same applies if you are travelling from a cold airport to a hot one or starting on a cold morning with frost and ice on the ground and landing 4 hours later in 40 degrees. The environment we fly through is far from static.
  4. turboplanner
    However, it seems to me that training and theory training could do with a massive boost Keith.
  5. turboplanner
    That's why we have training; to learn those principles. Yes, the calcs are easy, yes you could get an app or make an app, but (a) if you don't understand the principles and input the correct figures or (b) You don't recognise when you need to, you're going down. That's why this Flight Instructor> United Airlines pilot > 5,750 hours > 130 hours on type slipped up. Another classic example is this one: The runway looks dead flat, probably just like his home strip. Why would you do the calcs here? Would you have check the strip for height at the takeoff end, then the end of strip, start of treeline against the aircraft capability? Maybe spent some time in a climbing circle directly above the strip to provide a forced landing point? The pilot here didn't just have 1, 2, 3 No Go points - he had about seven - the longest failure to act that I've seen. You won't get that on an App.
  6. turboplanner
    Experienced pilot; this was a tricky one because of the focus on photography. Density Height will be important in some of the areas you intend flying, because if you just get in and go like a local flight, the ending can be very different. If your instructor teaches PPL you'll learn all about it in Performance & Operations before the NAVEX phase of training. ( haven't heard anyone on here say that RA teaches it.) That includes calculations for: Pressure Height Density Height ISA (International Standard Atmosphere) Pressure decrease with Altitude increments Temperature decrease with Altitude increments Take Off and Landing Charts QNH > ELEV PH > OAT > DH > Takeoff Distance > Landing Distance > Takeoff Speed > Landing Speed > AUW > Wind Component. Armed with that you'll handle flights from airfields with different altitudes and flights from cold coastal airfields to hot inand airfields, and vice versa.
  7. turboplanner
    $104 million is not enough development money.
  8. turboplanner
    I think the Idle speed would be 17 rpm.
  9. turboplanner
    Rod Hay died at Katoomba Airstrip in bushland, 200 metres from the strip when his Jabiru engine failed while he was doing circuits. These days we don't get the option to take small risks, big risks or any risk. Today its Go or No Go. If there's a reasonably forseeable risk it's no go.
  10. turboplanner
    The thrust lines can be measured on the finished aircraft using plumb bobs and datums.
  11. turboplanner
    OK, saves me checking for possible safe routes.
  12. turboplanner
    What airfield do you fly from?
  13. turboplanner
    You don't fly there then, especially in RA.
  14. turboplanner
    You know the ones from Samantha or Sally who loves flying and would like to be your friend.
  15. turboplanner
    ......the local sewerage farm, and this became known among the in-crowd as an "outlanding" (derived from "Outhouse, or Dunny"). Outlandings could be "easy", when the drying pond was only up to your knees or "tough" if your head went under, or .....................
  16. turboplanner
    Wasn't the RAA Ltd specific for the process?
  17. turboplanner
    ....stop the engine turning over, after many failed versions he added a solenoid (note, a solenoid not a relay) which pushed a blade out into the prop's path. When he was just about at the bar he pressed a button and the blade extended and sheared the prop blades, and he was the new record-holder, but .........
  18. turboplanner
    ......full of exaggerations, but the sales of the Turbine Aviator Gear, such as "Aluminum" threaded gowns and "Featherweight" prayor mats just flew [avref] out the door. One of the new Fly-Ins events was the Limbo Championship. It was introduced because everyone was getting bored by over-cooked steaks and hard-yolk eggs. bull in his Jacka was leading the points system with some very low passes under the bar which these days started at 1.5 metres, which required the tail fin and undercarriage to be cut off. While this wasn't optimum, bull's 1.2 metres was the record and records are there to be broken so ..............
  19. turboplanner
    Aircraft has no spin recovery etc.
  20. turboplanner
    .......because blaspheming was not a thing that AUF aviators did and not only that but .........
  21. turboplanner
    ......bitcoin. Besides his Extra, Wally flew a modified Drifter with long range tanks (two milk bottles) and......
  22. turboplanner
    It's not compulsory to comment.
  23. turboplanner
    ....ing Lee. Wally had been an aerobatics champion both here in Australia and all over Europe. It was said that his snap rolls were better than what you get at Maccas, his Cuban eights left you smoking for life, but he got on the turps and ....................
  24. turboplanner
    ......Press Gallery's swearing money jar where the DirtMouth champion was announced every day, the most frequest winner being W..........................
  25. turboplanner
    ........being caught .................
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