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If you decide to go with seafreight, use and Australian based agent. An Aussie based agent will cost you more, there is a very good reason for that, he will save you more. Australia have very particular rules and overseas agents rarely understand them all.

This is just 3 of 9 laydown areas at Fishermans Island. The logistics behind this are huge, what I wouldn't give for 1% of the freight costs.

some of the Blades a collection of towers More blades with a semi alongside for comparison. That is a 45’ trailer on the semi.

The initial plan called for the blades not to be moved until after the new Toowoomba range crossing opened. However after a couple of trial moves they decided not to delay the project. So far I have seen about 6 shiploads come in dedicated to this project. 3 just with blades. I will try and get some photos of the storage areas tomorrow, they a huge. Every spare piece of usable space on Fishermans Island is covered with these parts.

I worked with a bloke who transferred to the Army from the RAN Fleet Air arm when it was disbanded. He often said that Women were alright for a change but you can't beat the real thing. I never turned my back on him.

Some of us are old enough to have bought an EH Holden or XP Futura in our youth that was not old enough to need restoring yet.

Now where is my popcorn, this could get interesting. ?

Looking at that diagram I would question the currency of the drawer. there are conventions being used in there that went out when I was an apprentice. I turn 60 in 2 months.

I am sorry for your loss Farri. Having seen your posts on facebook I see how much this loss is hurting you. Chin up mate and remember those good times. Thinking of you and Frances.

Hi Pen I learned in a Foxbat at Caboolture and have about 200 hours in one now. There are some very good and very experienced Foxbat instructors up there. If you are flying 3 degrees at Archerfield in a Foxbat, then you are going to be a world of pain if the noise stops. Many have already said get a good instructor, I would add to that get a good instructor who knows your aircraft. In the Foxbat if you can't glide to the strip from wherever you are in the circuit then I would be very worried. That simple fact almost forbids a 3 degree approach.

It appears that you are not looking very hard.

I thought the report was very thorough and said plenty. A lot to be learned from reading that report I would think.

Dave it wasn't actually an engine out but this is the link. Incident 13 May 15

David I have been watching you for a while, I enjoy the Vids

Having made a MAYDAY call, and seeing the response and then having discussed it at length on this forum and in other places, I would not hesitate to make a call again. If you are not certain of what condition the plane or you are going to be in when the dust settles, it is actually a relief and a load off you mind to know that Fireries and Ambo's know that you may need help and where you plan to put down. As for the cost of a callout, what price a life, you or your Pax. Even when I was to busy to respond it was comforting to know that Area were listening in. As for seeing professionalism at its best I certainly did that day.

Then there is the Orange grower from central NSW whose 100 year old Orange trees are dying. Maybe she should have sold them before the drought that she should have predicted hit. She could always restock later.

Drought through the eyes of a 16 year old. "Her family drink bottled water. The washing is done in town. "We only get a three-minute shower," she says. "And for the toilet we use dam water which makes the house smell when it's rotten." 16-year-old Zara King's family have two weeks before they run out of hay to feed their stock

As for farmers not helping themselves, I offer you the following example. 18 months ago on a Hay Run I delivered a B/Double of hay to a farm near Muttaburra. Now this farmer had 30,000acres they could in good seasons carry 15000 head. In anticipation of the drought she had purchased a 130,000 acre property 300 klms away that was almost all Mulga scrub. Now people in the know will tell you Mulga will keep your stock alive. Now this Lady moved 5,000 head to the Mulga property at huge expense I might add not to mention the cost of the property. She then sold 8,500 head at bottom dollar prices because everyone who had some idea of best practice could see what was coming. So lets look at this 15,000 head down to 5000 of starvation rations at the mulga farm and 1500 of the best breeding stock at home being hand fed. 18 months later instead of rain she gets a Premier sitting in an office in Brisbane saying she can no longer clear her farm. That means she has 5000 head on the Mulga property that where surviving now starving to death because she can now no longer push over Mulga scrub to feed them. This is a totally in flexible position and now the property that she bought to drought proof her farm has become a noose around her neck. So lets not for a second put all the blame on the farmers.

I know this is very simplistic, but that is the sort of person I am. I see no difference between any of the 4 following scenarios. 1. People living on the land suffering from the longest drought in living memory asking for help to feed their stock. 2. People who choose to live in North Queensland who get hit by a Cat5 cyclone like Yasi asking for help to rebuild a tourism industry or their Banana crops. 3. People who live in the South East corner of Qld who all live on natural river flood plains asking for help when their houses and businesses get flooded out. 4. People who live in Mountainous areas of Vic and NSW who ask for help when the inevitable bush fire goes through their regions. I have been lucky in my lifetime through different scenarios to be able to help in all of the above situations. My position in the Military allowed me to be involved after Ash Wednesday. As a truckie I was the first commercial vehicle into Mission Beach after Yasi with a much needed Generator to provide power to the Evacuation Centre. In the Brisbane floods of 1974 my parents were stranded in Brisbane trying to buy feed whilst my 12 year old sister and my 14 year old self were feeding starving stock in the longyard in Western Qld. In 2011 I was in Brissy and delivered a dozen generators and pumps to where they were needed. I have been privileged to participate in 3 Hay runs now, I had to miss one because business at the time was struggling and needed my time. What I have found in all cases were people who needed help. Yes I understand that in many cases they could have avoided the dire consequences of some of their decisions. But at the end of the day they just needed help and thank whomever you choose to pray to in all cases there was someone there in a position to offer that help. I well understand that some people could do better, but I also understand that HOPE can make you try when you should give up. I have lived through the worst phone call that I believe anyone could ever receive, the one telling me that both my parents had committed suicide. I think the only worse possibility than that is if it was one of my children. When I deliver Hay to a farm I do not ask myself if the farmer is a good manager I only ask that I can bring enough hope to the farmers that another little boy or girl never receives a call like I did on that day. If I can give a farmer, or a flooded businessman, or a bloke in the Dandenong Ranges enough hope to get up tomorrow morning and go on then to be honest I DON'T GIVE A FLYING F*CK what got him in the position I just care that tomorrow a little boy has a dad because someone somewhere cared enough to do something to help and maybe bring some HOPE.

Try standing on a chair so the next one doesn't go over your head.

When I renewed last year I opted for 5 years, I would have gone for 10 if that was an option. So with a $30.00 increase this year, that puts me $120.00 in front by the end of 5 years and that is if it doesn't go up again. A good win for me.

Was a post on their F/B page a few days ago saying the were having problems with their website and were working to fix the problem.

What the guys above have said, find a school you are happy with and move. You won't learn if you are not comfortable where you are. Your past training and file are transferable. good luck

So now I am confused. Obviously the flight into IMC must take second place to the correct spelling of Bastard/Barstard Google and Wikipedia agree with me. bas|tard [ˈbɑːstəd, ˈbastəd] NOUN informal an unpleasant or despicable person. "he lied to me, the bastard!" synonyms: scoundrel · villain · rogue · rascal · brute · animal · weasel · snake · [more] archaic derogatory a person born of parents not married to each other. synonyms: illegitimate child · child born out of wedlock · love child · by-blow · [more] ADJECTIVE (of a thing) no longer in its pure or original form; debased. "a bastard Darwinism" synonyms: hybrid · alloyed · adulterated · impure · inferior archaic derogatory born of parents not married to each other; illegitimate. "a bastard child" synonyms: illegitimate · born out of wedlock · natural