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Introducing the QRamp .... basically a motorised gang plank. The manufacturer produces these for wheelchair access mostly but this appears to be the first implementation for airports. Not specifically for Dash-8s. The 'Q' appears to be an unrelated coincidence. http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/safer-access-to-planes-at-wellcamp-airport/2916618/ Has anyone seen a similar device at another airport?

Nice vid of the 2015 scholarship winner. 2016 scholarship is opening soon. Plus! If you are heading out to YCFN after a bit of rain, the field conditions (wet, dry, U/S flooded etc) might be reported there and save you a phone call. https://www.facebook.com/LoneEagleFlyingSchool

Meanwhile back on Planet Earth... http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/international-flights-card-2016-wellcamp-airport-g/2913440/

Bubstacle - a small child getting in the way of an adult trying to do something important

...and more than a little worn out. Life expectancy of a nylon envelope is between 400 and 800 hours. http://www.highbutdryballoons.com/faq.htm

Frozen river equals giant runway. So maybe the sno-mo was on a runway, the fun way?

Boomhaur only speaks English too... http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Boomhauer_King_Of_The_Hill

Rob Avery AV31 cyber practice exam 2015 version. PPL practice exam 2 question 41. Still in there as 1, 2 or 4nm etc. Wonder what the real CASA cyber exam will have in it...

I've nearly over cooked it a few times on that road. Still, corners = smiles for bikers. On the subject of open cockpits, because I already ride a motorcycle through Canberra Winters (and a few Darling Downs ones) I have some really rather nice clothes for the purpose. They work really well on a drifter too. A bit bulky for a J160 because you can't bend your knees so much and you get hot in there quite soon. I used to turn up the middle of winter with a hot water bottle stuffed down my jacket and leave it there until I'd finished flying. It used to frustrate Trevor because he'd be freezing in the back seat wearing ugg boots dying for a pee and I'd be going along nicely. Yes I have photos. No I'm not sharing because of what is written on the cover of the pink hot water bottle

Any relevance at all?

And the relevance to the thread title is? Tell us, we forgot. All of us, this time I think

That was QIC which is not the state government. Their job is to buy AND SELL assets. QIC has nothing to do with Wellcamp or the actions of councils. Also, if the councils don't sell land they don't need, they can't collect rates or pay state stamp duty. Have you cake or eat it. Pick one or STFU

The people at Oakey already have jobs and they are doing them all fantastically well. Please explain to the audience if the Oakey army aviation centre IS GOING TO BE redeveloped, sold or left where it is, as it currently is. Again, this thread is about W e l l c a m p

So now we know you've never been airside at Oakey too

Gifting state land (generally but specifically in NSW because I am looking at the crown lands act 1989 right now) is a big no-no. The NSW laws were further tightened to include community consultation in 2005. Regarding Commonwealth land: Read the DEQMS advice for yourselves here: http://www.defence.gov.au/estatemanagement/lifecycle/Disposal/Task2a.asp Here is the DOFD policy on land sale http://www.finance.gov.au/property/lands-acquisition/commonwealth-property-disposal-policy.html There will be no gifting. The rumour is a lie.

I heard a rumour that some poster who made a lot of noise about Wellcamp on this forum tried to donate his brain to science but the universities claimed it wasn't his to donate. This came from my children's day care manager's real estate agent and we know real estate agents NEVER EVER start rumours. The rumour says the universities all agreed the brain actually belonged to someone they know as Abe E. Normal. So that rumour seems legit...

Thread drift

When subsequent flight of your aircraft seems unlikely, limitations in the pilots' operating handbook become "suggestions". Did you want to land in the paddock and still be on fire or put the fire out? If it's the latter, my choice and the instruction I was provided was fly at VNE (therefore no flap). If that doesn't put the fire out, my instruction was to think about going faster than that. 7500 feet is quite a few minutes to be on fire AND descending. Put the fire out first, always. After the fire is extinguished I might be closer to the ground and in a better situation to judge the landing without smoke and flames. Caveat: Read your aircraft POH and talk to your instructor.

Trevor Bange suggested it was like a muscle that needed exercising. That means taking the time to fly circuits when the crosswind was within but at the upper limit of your comfort level for the aircraft at hand. At the end, your comfort level will have shifted higher (or lower depending on the scare factor). The idea is to be good and confident (at the same time) with the combination of location, conditions and aircraft. It only makes sense if the conditions are right for training. Some days the risks are just a little too high - gusty and increasing crosswinds are not my favourite. I have given it a rest after only three crosswind landings because the wind was clearly increasing and turning. But three was better than zero or a ground/runway loss of control. Answer: More is better. Lots is almost enough. I remember one dual flight where we could have done crosswind landings but elected to land across the grass strip not because it was super windy but because my landings weren't that great and it was entirely possible to land into the wind at that location and take off over an empty field on the other side. A bit later, well after my solo flight, I was faced with a pretty stiff crosswind so rather than land parallel to the runway I used the lack of obstacles to fly a track 30 degrees across the centreline from right to left. I lined up to fly between the runway gables. I landed right on the centreline and rolled between the gables on to the taxi way which was parallel to the runway. By then I was slow enough to turn back parallel, up the taxi way. If the wind was coming from the other way I might have had a go at landing on the taxi way and rolling on to the runway. Or I might have stayed home. The point being, I thought all this through before I tried it out and there were plenty of days I decided it wasn't worth the risk to practise crosswind landings. Other days (overcast, passing showers) it was pretty much the only flying I was going to get.

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No comment on the chartered plane load of scouts that left Wellcamp for the Sydney Jamboree last week then. http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/southern-downs-scouts-fly-jamboree/2891801/ Glad some of us aren't umpires...

I tried to land there from YMKT in August 2014. Wasn't my day because by the time I got there in the club SB Drifter the cross wind was up and gusting. So I headed back to YMKT and called it a day while there was nothing (no damage) to report. YMKT, Delissaville and Crab Claw should be on everyone's bucket list in my opinion. They were a quintessentially top end experience for me.

Lost? (Look on the roof of the hangar)

A bird's eye view