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................had been done by rainbowbullserpent back 59,860 years ago when he was a boy. It showed a warrior lying down, clearly sick, his spears and woomera beside him. He'd walked all day without a drink across a scorching claypan on the way from Hughenden to Prairie, but didn't make it. On the edge of the Prairie he'd found the cave with the almost perfectly round opening. The perspective in the picture, the only perspective ever found in an Aboriginal painter other than Namatjira, shows the warrior appearing to float into the cave. rainbowbullserpent had .........................

No logic in that; since it is the aircraft which is not trusted to be build without faults. That would go close to being a breach of duty of care by RAA Ltd.

Good point; too many instructors just tick the box on power off straight ahead stalls.

.....by putting into practice their 60,000 year old skills, even though cats hadn't been invented then. Morton, Turbo's ancestor who would have been 37, 742 today, had he lived, often said "It's not what you think; it's what you do", but at that time no one knew what the hell he was talking about. "He was a man before his time" said Turbo when cursing the Bank staff laying about on beaches, or grocers making you pick fruit and vegetables, take it to be weighed and pay for it yourself instead of sending an accout like they used to. It especially applied .....................

...............and speed. His flying as a result was always very accurate and he could place the aircraft very precisely whereas with the newer effeminate EFIS you wouldn't know whether you were approaching to land at DG International or Siberia. Turbo had begun trialling bottled cat gut as an alternative. It had the advantage of no odour, but so fa could only achieve an accuracy of about 5%, so ....................

.......have to be kept at a constant temperature of less than 20 degrees C and dosed in oil hourly or they get right out of control and that will cause you to .....................

On the other hand, Dear Readers, do we praise him for quietly overlooking one post, where Cappy was spearing a baby, in the interests of modern diversity where not even Barnaby can have a lie down on the way home from the pub.

...n Elders Cattle salesman in the buttocks. For the benefit of City people we should explain that there are thousands of these people around Australia, dressed in red checked open neck shirts, moleskins and RM Williams boots highly polished. They are tall with wavy off white hair, still wear watches on the left wrist with leather covers embossed with "RMW". They have big white teeth and smile a lot, and big booming voices. Before the sale they stand around in a circle with one knee bent towards the centre and the watch-hand resting on it, and the shoulders slightly turned, talking, and laughing together. About three minutes before the Auction the circle breaks up and they quickly redraft the cattle into the opposite order and start barking loud comments about the wonderful quality and breeding of each animal, sometimes receiving a horn in the rear for their trouble. After the sale they re-form the circle at the bar, the hand not on the knee holding a pot of beer until well after sunset when they go home. It was one of these, called Chris that Cappy speared. He grabbed the tail of the Jab and brought it to a stop, ...........................

........flew under the hooks through the local meatworks, and blew the netballers skirts up with a quick touch and go on the court. He was a legend down at the BoB, with his Wing Commanders moustache. No one could work out how he kept it so stiff until someone walked in on him and found him pouring a bottle of Red Loctite on it. The best times were always during the harvests coming in with the legs in the crop until the farmer turned the autonomous steering off then blowing cocky chaff all over him with the slipstream, or ................. [Note: the first photo in this "bridge series" was taken in the moonlight after his fifth pass; he can just be seen in the twilight.]

Pre, I think. I had the exciting experience of the rudder pedal blocks which locked the nose wheel, usually where your wing was close to another wing, and I had the free helicopter rotation when there was a strong coastal breeze and you were out of rudder authority......all fixed. Yes it did, there was never a long float.

Well that's very interesting because I screwed up and forgot to dump flap on a go round in an early J170 and it tried to climb on its back. I did what Facthunter said and kept WOT pushed the stick forward and ground out in ground effect before easing the 40 deg flap off. Another person in the same aircraft did much the same and died, destroying the aircraft. I suspect the 30 degree limit would have taken the sting out of my problem.

The "Catastrophic" broadcast from the day before and at 5 AM at Vic Emergency Headquarters with the signing person present was used for the whole State, not just the 2.2% which CFA had zoned. Technically the population of Victoria were told to move out. I'd call that ecessive, when the correct call would have been for that tiny 2.2% area, then "Severe" for a relatively small area which included Pomonal. The last "Catastrophic" for the high temperature was called just two hours before the hailstorm hit Melbourne. I'd been watching the Eastern Grid power mis to see how the renewables were standing up and the temperatures just reached the 37 predicted then started cooling ahead of the hailstorm. The trend Skippy is talking about has been occurring regularly in the last couple of years with calls to arms by the BOM to get ready for catastrophic/ severe flooding. In the Maribyrnong and Yarra Valleys and south around the Bayside suburbs and in the Carrum Swamp between Dandenong and Frankston and the Koo Wee Rup Swamp we can get flooding 3 metres high so "Severe" or "Catastrophic" means working out how you get up onto the roof. I always go to the BOM radar and for about the last four times these warnings have come through the radar is showing the rain moving well north for Melbourne towards the north east of the State, pretty much missing Melbourne completely. The issue is not so much whether they get the forecast exactly right as issuing Whole-of-State warnings when only a sector is involved. A lot of positioning changes have come in: We used to measure temperatures "in the shade"; the definition of shade has changed and records have been adjusted to match the new development. The Williamstown Tidal gauge has been moved, so our sea levels are different. Around the 1990s the CSIRO had hundreds of radio sondes floating around measuring the temperatures of our oceans; today ocean temperatures based on observation from a Satellite are used, so adjustments of old and new data have to be adjusted. Flood prone areas were surveyed accurately, but these days levels are calculated by trigonometry by Satellites sighting, and there are variations between the two.

Cappy, the only person ever to fly under the Wagga Bridge. He did it in his J230. "I had to grind the fin off because of the low height" he said afterwards and I just scraped past that hill. Afterwards, Constable Doubtfire .................." The photo shows the Eskys of two fishermen who had been quietly dropping a line in.

I agree, it's getting way out of hand to the point where we now need a Catastrophic 1, Catastrophice 2, Catastrophic 3 system based on what happened this week: Feb 12 “Victoria braces for worst fire conditions since Black Summer Bushfires.” “catastrophic fire danger” Feb 12 16:33 CFA map showing just 2.2% of Victoria zoned Catastrophic. Feb 13 5 am “Victorians are warned of a catastrophic summer”: Rick Nugent at VicEmergency headquarters. Feb 13 11:47 “Victoria facing fire danger” “Catastrophic” Feb 13 14 :00 (2 hours later) Hailstorm, major temperature drop, trees uprooted, power lines down. “hundreds of thousands without power”. The CFA Warning Zones for Victoria are: Moderate: Plan and Prepare High: Be ready to Act Extreme: Take action now to protect your life and property Catastrophic: For your survival leave bushfire risk areas. Of course, for the people of Pomonal out in the Extreme Zone it was catastrophic, with 24 homes lost, but all lives saved. The “Catastrophic” warning may be intended as the key signal for people to leave regardless, or it may be a key word triggering some elevation of action in the Council EMPs, but I agree that on that day it misled the people of Victoria. How many people know that Catastrophic in the CFA ratings means leave the bushfire areas Very few apparently or the whole of Victoria would have been exiting to SA or NSW. Why was the word used when the CFA Catastrophic area was only 2.2% of the State and in one district.? Since 2010 – 2013 in Victoria we’ve had the technology to send a phone message to every resident in Victoria. The government could activate an “Evacuate” order whenever they wanted wherever they wanted instead of the signs on the side of the road indicating “Catastrophic”.

....spellchecks. As we now however they will only have to wait because both GA and RA will always provide those larger than life characters who come unstuck flying through railway tunnels or attaching a 200 litre drum of diesel to the 172 with ratchet load straps, to "take down to the tractor", or break the current record of five in a J230, 13 in a 172. These are the adventurers .......................

Just about every instructor teaches something different. Some might demonstrate a short field landing but require a clean up before the round out, others don't say a thing. All in all its a mess.

....."people disussing this subject as if it were about people, when in fact the whole word knows that its about the High WHEEL Pants of Cessnas. Those of us who actually fly Cessnas (I fly a Caravan) know that high pants have a distinct advantage in the wet because they don't get muddy, and cab be taken off in ................................. [the person in the blue braces above is a well - known forum dweller who is always banging on about what CASA is doing wrong. One of the reasons he has so much trouble is that CASA don't have to send photos out to FoIs]

Have a look at the heading..................................

As it turned out the BOM has some serious explaining to do. Not only no catastrophe in the North West but a hailstorm and high winds knocked down trees and knocked power out to a lot of Melbourne. Power will be out until tomorrow so frig food destroyed. This one really backfired on BOM.

squealer sent you that; not me.

Yes, The story applied ”catastrophic” to the whole of Victoria, but green grass doesn’t burn. Later there was reference to the North West which might well be dry.

In fact we should be congratulating Bas Scheffers, the Co Founder and CEO of Ozrunways who was once a member of this forum who reached for the stars and succeeded.

Too late, it's on display for the world to see.

going a......................... [Mods: what happend to the post from Squeal a few minutes ago where he said ....."breaking the Lift cables:]

As mentioned a few times, it's a separate issue but you can get it now if you comply with (a) the aircraft equipment required and (b) the training and proficiency required. In your case, if you're hiring you just have to hire a qualifying aircraft, which just leaves your training. Flying in and around Sydney I'd recommend you do the training if you'd like access, and if you do it at a school with a certified aircraft or two, you're building their confidence to hire to you for cross-country trips.