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That was awesome. So much humility from some extremely brave Women. The conversion to jets will stay with. "Is there anything I need to know?" Yes watch the fuel guage it goes down very quickly and you want to be on the ground when it gets to empty. And who would thought that the Spitfire was built with Ladies in mind. Excellent story thank you for posting.

I understood that Aldo. My comment was aimed at us the vfr pilots. Frank said we need to be aware of these things especially when visibility is limited. I agree but as rec pilots if visibility is limited then maybe we shouldn't be there. Stay home and go out when visibility is better.

If visibility is limited maybe we shouldn't be there.

That was why my question. To be a suitably qualified pilot to fly out of Archerfield in an RAA registered aircraft and not under direction of a CFI, you would have to hold an RPL as well as an RPC.

Tellerto. Do you have an RPL?

My wife keeps telling me that men do not know sizes, only Women know size.

Apart from a very short trip 2 weeks ago I hadn't flown for about 4 weeks. Many reasons for that. Work, weather, Ross's accident, my own mindset. On the few times that I ventured to the airfield with the thought of maybe going up the weather was unkind. Well on Friday the forecast was good and work was quiet so I told my daughter not to ring me and if it got busy find another Subbie and I ran away to go for a fly. Well I had a ball. Out over Moreton Island with the plan to head down to Q1 for a quick loop of the Gold Coast and then home. There was a rain squall over Straddie so I decided to just circumnavigate Moreton and Bribie Islands then a quick loop of the Glass House Mountains and home. All up about 2 hours. Well after enjoying myself so much on Friday I decided to repeat the dose on Sat with another attempt on the Gold Coast and Q1. Well the weather again smiled on me. So off I went. As I left Caboolture I noticed a huge number of aircraft about for that time of morning. It soon became apparent that Dunwich had their monthly flyin breakfast on. Well I had to fly straight over Dunwich to get to Q1 didn't I and a man has to eat after all so I stopped in for a very yummy breakfast before completing my trip to Q1 and back. As I gave my 10 mile call into Dunwich, there were 5 other aircraft that I was aware of inside the 10 miles plus another 4 or 5 in the circuit. There were 3 or 4 more gave 10 mile calls within minutes of mine, so it was not surprising to learn that there where in excess of 40 aircraft arrived for Breakky. Then yesterday afternoon at the local flying school Christmas party one of the guys mentioned a breakfast at Chinchilla today. Well as I already said a man has to eat doesn't he. So off I went out into the wide blue to support our country cousins with a donation to the food tin. Another lovely day with its own set of challenges. It is the first time I had been out that way and Oakey had been deactive so I decided to come back via overflying Oakey for a look then onto Toowoomba and home. So all in all 3 days flying for a shade under 10 hours on the clock. It was an enjoyable few days doing something I love and overcoming what appears now to have been a temporary block on my own confidence. Next time I go up I will concentrate more on emergency procedures and less on just fun even though I must admit I do enjoy practicing all aspects of flying including the emergency drills. The only shadow on a great 3 days was taking off from Dunwich on 15 with the heavily wooded hill climbing away as steeply as I was climbing. An engine out there would take serious concentration to land straight ahead, I had taken that into account on landing and mentally briefed myself before taking off on procedures more so than I may have a month ago. I am giving serious consideration to maybe looking into doing some unusual attitude recovery training in the near future, although I am not sure how I will handle that. I do not go on ride the turn me upside down so my attitude may become short lived once I get into the aircraft.

Or maybe not. The whole bike comes in at about 425kg or about 700 2up with 3 weeks of gear on board.

Really? So when did she retire?

A Drifter. What would I put in the Cockpit? My ar$e

Quite correct and this was the reason that the Japanese Fleet withdrew after the initial attck and did not press home the advantage. Loss of face at it worst.

Yes agreed. And by mid Jan Caboolture Recreational Aviation will have exactly that, as well as the Rotax powered J160. And a great bunch of instructors as well. No I am not biased and no I do not own shares in the company. I will admit I can't wait until the Vixxen gets here so I can test her out.

Yes it is but it is not in Adelaide.

I know where there is one for sale.

Yep Ian's edit of the OP makes my comment look a bit silly but when you run a site that is doing that well you can edit whatever you like.

:whistling:I am impressed but also curious. How can it be 4800 worldwide but only 8800 Australia wide. Does Australia have more sites than the world?

And does electicity flow -ve to +ve or vice versa

Looks like that should buff out without to much trouble.

I felt like that also until something happened to convince me otherwise. Just because it is factory built does not make it perfect. In fact I have seen some home builds that would put factories to shame.

Us lefties do have some things working for us it seems.

There must be a setting on ipad, because I have to double tap them to do a like etc. The other point is if you guys scrolled with the correct hand it wouldn't be a problem would it.

HIC. It is still taught where I learned to fly and I continue to do it for exactly the same reasons you outline above. I started using as instructed to clear the nose of other aircraft but have expanded it to include searching for suitable outland sites especially at unfamiliar airfields. I have always held the centreline on takeoff until 500 ft and the crosswind turn again as I was taught, however after a discussion I had yesterday and your post I shall consider other alternatives with the view to expandig my opions rather than just being aware of the obvious ones. Of course I will discuss them with an instructor before changing anything in the air.

If the weather doesn't play I think I will head out anyway on the Bike. So if you see either the Hanuman or a Goldwing then say gidday.

That would be better written as the members rights. Our is only applicable to members and really only their opinion should matter to RAA

Just think Deb. once you solve the parking problem and get your certificate, then you can fly to where the people are and you will have lots to talk to.