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Could someone please explain how a fighter can crash land in Greenland during WW2 and get recovered 50 years later from under 25 stories of ice and transported over a mile from where they touched down on the surface?

Ian, any news yet?

Silly thing is, basscheffers. Thats what we have been doing since the first oil shock in the seventies. Coal fired stations are more efficient than they were in the seventies. Better coal feed, more efficient burning. Less particulates going out the stack. The ONLY thing coal can be picked on is CO2. Calling CO2 a pollutant is just downright shonky by some of these greeny types. Cars are more efficient, Jets are more efficient, the only engine that hasn't improved is a Lyconental!

Borolloola is not far from the Lost World, make sure you go for a quick circuit:thumb_up:

Peak oil as an issue is quite dead. If the intestinal fortitude is there. Australia has got 200yrs of natural gas resources up in the Kimberley. Using Gas to liquid technolgy we could have secure supplies for at least another century. The trick is to stop short term gains by selling the stuff for 2cpl to the Chinese. The green tinged socialists are against infrastructure like freeways. However, my view is that now is the time to be building more, better and long lived freeways and arterial roads whilst fuel is relatively cheap. For electric cars you would prefer to have nice flat even curved and slope roads to facilitate longer range for limited charge capacity. The next big thing is the hydrogen economy or rather, the WATER ECONOMY. A guy called Tesla came up with an idea for free power from the sky. Didn't get much traction. No one could exploit it. It will be the same for H2 from H2O. Abundent power but who controls the water and how can it be exploited? Scary thoughts! Fuel cells or H2 combustion. Methinks solar panels and fuel cells could be in a future for aeroplanes. If there is ever a way of making cells light weight every aeroplane has at least 15 to 20m2 of flat surface and normally flown in sunlight. Conversion of solar to electricity and light weight batteries or even converting H2 right out of the air itself. Technology eventually makes it all affordable. Cutting edge always costs a bit. But drag racing taught me that, eventually, even a group 3 racer will go as quick as a top fueler from ten years before at a fraction of the cost. So rather than doom and gloom, just do what we humans do best. ADAPT to the environment. The ultimate end is to adapt the environment to suit us. But, that is what upsets the green socialists.

Went last year and stayed over the northside of town. Once you are in town, it costs nothing to move around. The Cat buses as mentioned, even the race is free. We set ourselves up right on the beach for all the trials just between the start finish pylons and right in line with the chicane pylons. AWESOME! I had my backup VHF set up on the race frequency just to get a heads up on who was coming in. Get in early and plenty of fluids and sunblock. On race day and seeing it was my Birthday I shouted me and missus to a seat up in the stands. Was it worth the $100 each for the privelage??? Not really, especially compared to where I was set up for the day before. I want to fly myself over next time. The tube is cheapest and quickest compared to all modes of transport. But, it isn't me flying. Sight Seeing around Perth? Bull Creek is pretty good. Freo markets. I found the restaurant scene pretty good with plenty of choice as to price range as well as late feeds. Lot of pubs that I didn't get a chance to try. struck up a good convo with a knucklehead on the bus back from the race. All in all quite a friendly place. Enjoyed myself:thumb_up:

Came across this one in my weekly AvWeb fix. Weighs the same as a 914 maintains 105hp to 10000ft and uses 25% less fuel than the 914 appears a price around $15000US and made by a fellow ratbag dragbike freak, so it must work! Fits into the same mounts as a Rotax and propshaft is the same alignment as the rotax. Only down side that I can see is the reduction drive is a link belt. http://www.raptorturbodiesel.com/

Effects of power, aerodynamic devices and speed. best demo I have seen for effects of power. RAAF fast taxi DHC-4 Carribou. Fullflap, Power on and very nose down and only zot feet off ground at less than 40kts. Also used for wheelbarrow demo at airshows. Aircraft is set in attitude with nosewheel just touching ground, mains are about a meter in air to give an idea of attitude. Power is just trickling along. End of run, power is added and aircraft starts climbing whilst remaining in same attitude and speed. Quite visual demonstration of relationship between power and rate of climb or descent. Big old radials give out a lot of indication when power is coming on.

Mine had one trick. After about three questions on forcast currency at an aerodrome for arrival,I was aked about wx at a point en-route. The answer was at the time on the forcast. As everyone says, do the easy ones first and go back to the hard ones. Watch your time if you cannot go directly to the reference for the question. If you have to start flicking about it will cost you time. Best do another question and come back to it. Panic not, as long as you get the pass, your ATO will give you some more fun with your KDR (Knowledge Deficience Report) so make sure you know your mistakes backwards come time for the flight test.

Bugga, another of my supposed original ideas thought of by someone else.

Nup, good day for sitting in front of fire with a hot chockie and TV. Unless you are paid to do it, plenty of reasons to stay in bed today.

Teenie2 Exactly, tis easier when the two halves of the molds are apart than trying to find munchkins small enough to apply it after you get the aeroplane. Do not want to start a serious debate about whether or not I want to take on the weather or not, to be turned into a wether or not by a stray bolt from the blue:laugh:(I've been waiting years to put that in a serious conversation:thumb_up:) Seriously, it is a cost point that will not be free. I am sure of that. The insurance is to eliminate as many safety variables as possible and keep within certain cost parameters.

The link to the UK site needs the entire line to work- AAIB report hope this helps. My personal opinion? I do not want to get anywhere near these suckers. However, the reality of nice hot summer Cu out on the plains of our brown land occassionally do produce the odd spark. Having seen them with my own eyes, they ARE a reality. Sometimes with virga present, sometimes with absolutely no rain at all. Virga is a giveaway and should be avoided all the time. Turbulence squared! But, those nice Cu with a razor sharp base can be a catchout too. Hey its a rare event, but why not look at protecting anyone that flies with you. Low hours and have flown around sparky clouds with other pilots flying but luckily haven't seen even a close strike and want to keep it that way! EDIT- aljuminium already provides the protection as does rag and tube so why not just add a bit whilst laying up and there you go. Its only a question and will come at a cost that I am prepared to pay for.

Will be excellent to see one in the flesh and see how it actually performs. Weather should be just starting to improve for the late spring. Blue Skies Ian:thumb_up:

In recreational flying, as in all flying, prevention is far better than the results of no protection. There is no way known that I am advocating flying anywhere in bad weather. However, one lightning strike into a non protected glass ship and it goes BAANG! Lightning is also known to spit out of growing CU that never turn into storms. The question was if it can be fitted into the layup at point of manufacture. It is only insurance not an underhanded way of building a ship for IFR. Do some research on a glider that was struck in England.

Ian, can the brothers install micromesh ligtning protection into the mold at the factory? just been doing some research and, granted, we are supposed to be fair weather flyers, I am just a tad worried about the rare chance of lightning strike.

Easy, time, money and a change of attitude of management. Better pay than what is being offered overseas..Our guys are the best in the game and are highly regarded, unlike how they are treated here. Retention and training new blood. Improve the lifestyle a bit. Change the roster a lot so something human comes out of it. and Bob's your uncle. More money, more people and more respect. Simple:thumb_up: Now if you believe that, Ive got a deal on a bridge in Sydney that you are really going to like:cool: There is going to a world of pain to bring about serious institutionalised change for the better. A lot of people are going to get hurt before this is over. I just hope it is only egoes and not aluminium confetti.

The worst he has seen in 58 years of sailing the arctic. Love it! NOVEMBER, 1922. which fits with the warming period up until the forties. GW is going to brake development and greeny attitudes to water could well see the mass depopulation of the Murray-Darling basin. If the greenies were so serious about the man enhanced lake alexandrina they should pull up the barrage at the earliest. This idea of using up the storages as environmental flows is vandalism. I would go as far as saying a crime against humanity! I have just finished watching Landline and am encouraged by the official opening of the meander dam for agricultural purposes. There has been a total change in think about our water over the last three decades. My Dad puts it down to all those free thinking greenie environmental studies students from Monash of the 70's have now secured high positions within the DSE Department of Scorched Earth. To see the likes of the Dartmouth empty out over just three or four bad seasons is just crazy. Australian hydrographers used to fully understand the storage must withstand the standard seven year drought. Eildon was deliberately dropped to allow works on the wall and spillway to withstand a 1 in 10,000 year flood??? right before this drought we have now. Great going guys:censored: Landline just informed me that the pollies thought it a national disgrace in 1981 that the mouth of the murray was closing up for the "First Time" in memory and that there hadn't been a flow since two years before. lowest in 13 years. Pretty good drought that year. I am singularly amazed that environmental scientists can say our rivers are stressed with hand over heart yet the river of my birthplace flows strong and clean. The Ovens as it passes through Myrtleford and how two little puddles fill to overflowing every year yet a valley across the puddle doesn't fill and is in distress. Politics is stopping the raising of the Buffalo to its designed height and can still prove there is so little water in the Broken to justify demolishing a storage system. The lunatics are in charge of the assylum! And we are too dumb and complacent to do anything about it.

Effective TAS reduction??? How does the aeroplane know it is flying in a crosswind?

Interesting rumour. Wonder what is happening to their other satellite school up at Lillydale?

Once I am beaten sensless I am supposed to regain my composure and fly the bloody plane. Euphamism for nagging me into doing the right thing:thumb_up: A fate far worse than actually being beaten sensless:laugh: Its a marriage thing. Just to add for Bushpilot- Yes, terrain awareness AND the graphic display that goes with it would show in an instant they were not heading in the right direction

I have a thing with my wife. She is under strict instructions to beat me sensless if I ever attempt to turn back to the field after an engine failure. When the time comes I will teach her how to read an approach plate to make doubly sure that I am where I am supposed to be and at the correct altitude for the sector. If she finds me outside the parameters she must refer to rule one and beat me sensless. A briefing goes a long way as does a checklist. GPS is a great tool but is a victim of the the computer maxim. GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT!

People, my two cents worth in what I think happened at BLA. Aircraft on this route almost every week. YSBK to YBLA. DCT takes you over AY and WGT aids to line up on BLAED the northernmost start point for the Benalla NPA. What we know, a diversion down to Ulladulla cleared DCT BLA from around that position. Numerous alarms in ATC to show aircraft is off course. Witness statements that an aircraft was heard overflying Myrtleford heading SW in very heavy cloud. The crash site just to the south of Mt Bellevue at a height of some 1700ft. Radar data has been said to be very unreliable in that area. My opinion in what has happened. Friends of family on board, including a very capable helicopter aviator. Two pilots up front one regular, one not. One 'not' may have input the data into the trimble. Could a "BLAEG" be mistaken for a "BLAED" or "BLAEE"? Starting from a non normal position a DCT is given from position to BLA. No aids on track to verify. If BLAEG is input then the cheese lines up with the reported sighting near Myrtlford Ulladulla and the crash site. A straight line! The altitude at the crash site is way below the NPA until way inside the final approach fix. I believe this may have been the case due to the pilots believing they were heading for BLAEE and expecting the command to turn right to head for the FAF. The track from "I" to "F" is over low ground, an assumption could be that pilot having flown this trip hundreds of times before knew that ground clearance allowed you to be lower than profile. If pilot was challenged by ATC to ask if ops normal I am sure the pilot would have replied in affirmative. UNLESS the specific question was "Confirm tracking for GOLF" ATC now have these waypoints showing on their screens where before they were not. The information was not available to ATC to even warn pilot. A terrible tragedy. As always, the disaster averted at any time if the pilot was alerted to his error. I fear the pilot "knew" where he was, a shame it was in the wrong spot. GPS is a fantastic device, just make tripple sure you are being taken to where you want to go.

Agree with you, FactHunter. Something I am trying for when I finally get flying again is a specific checklist for each individual type I fly including V speeds and normal ops on my PDA. Using EXCEL I have modified a few checklists I have found on the web to be more specific for the types I am rated on. As I go through the checklist I hit the down toggle on the PDA down to the next line. That way I am hoping I will have a easy setup to ensure I haven't missed anything important. My biggest error is I learnt before transponders were a common item and I am ALWAYS forgetting to turn it on or turn it on STBY at the appropriate time. Lights Camera Action is helping in that regard.

I am not going to get started! If the radicals would just get out of the way and let the science have a go, everything would settle itself out. LIES, DAMN LIES and STATISTICS!