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  1. rankamateur
    I was thinking of Wayne Fisher with the VH under the wing. It did stuff we are discouraged from doing under RAA. Numbers were a bit hard to read under muddy water. Little more obvious in the later posted photo.
  2. rankamateur
    Could be GA.
  3. rankamateur
    He walked away from it. Helmets will be compulsory before you know it.
  4. rankamateur
    The Savannah ditching at Conway Beach had the problem that the doors would not open until the cabin nearly filled with water to equalise the water pressure. The plastic bottles would have been much more use than deflated air matresses, the blowing time had nearly elapsed by the time they got out of the cabin.
  5. rankamateur
    Nicely played! Troll proof.
  6. rankamateur
    A lot of repetition in these AI generated clickbait stories both in the photos and in the dialogue
  7. rankamateur
    https://www.regosearch.com/aircraft/au/GUM on the news footage. No effort to conceal the rego.
  8. rankamateur
    No way anyone would spend all that time polishing just to make the paint hard to keep on. I think he meant it when he polished it!
  9. rankamateur
    Also reported that someone from the plane company came out in a boat and got the passengers into life jackets. Good job they landed nearby.
  10. rankamateur
    So 313 knots projected on the flight radar track may have been two and a half times that given the sudden altitude loss that is accompanied? That being the case, why would you fly on for your destination rather than divert to Roma or return to Toowoomba?
  11. rankamateur
    The something happened north of Dulacca much nearer to Toowoomba than to Mount Isa, which may have been a better place to limp to. While they reacted to the something, they maintained near perfect track while losing a whole heap of altitude and airspeed rising over 300 knots.
  12. rankamateur
    Its logged speed was over 260knots but it didn't seem to exceed 223 in the later part of its final flight. Are you suggesting that it was limping to its destination?
  13. rankamateur
    Given that it was doing 223 knots at 28050 ft in a straight line then suddenly decelerated less than 100 knots while losing 4000 feet doesn't seem like normal fire monitoring activity. It had a return flight to Townsville logged for later that afternoon.
  14. rankamateur
    This shows VH-ATF as BD 275 so that could be where the confusion came from.
  15. rankamateur
    370 appears to be VH-ATF though!
  16. rankamateur
    This was one of six 737 in their fleet so if the premium was more than 17 percent they would still be in front.
  17. rankamateur
    https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/i-thought-we-were-going-to-drown-plane-crash-survivor-shares-story This article shows a photo of the wreckage. Would be interesting to know it the under carriage inverted during the ditching or the recovery. I could also have impacted the ability to open the doors inverted like that.
  18. rankamateur
    I find my old favourites are ok but anything half decent squeeze my feet and make them go to sleep about an hour into a long flight.
  19. rankamateur
    Incident involving a plane and a train on a road. NTSB will have to draw on all the areas of their expertise for this investigation.
  20. rankamateur
    How to convert to bus bar?
  21. rankamateur
    I saw about 8 cropdusters working between Boomi and Boggabilla yesterday. It was quite remarkable that half the country was underwater and the rest was highly developed irrigation diverting flood water, business as usual. Two working at 90 degrees to each other, when their runs coincided, turned into the same space. Must have been uncomfortable even for the pros!
  22. rankamateur
    There was a lot of radio traffic around WeeWaa and Goondiwindi this morning. Sad to know one of us didn't get home.
  23. rankamateur
    With a systematically disarmed population sparely distributed, and an underfunded defence force we will be powerless to stop them stepping off from their string of Pacific naval bases and taking what we have!
  24. rankamateur
    They are NSW rural fire service bureaucrats. The blokes who do the actual work wear blue or yellow shirts and yellow coats!
  25. rankamateur
    Did you try in an adjustable seat model or the original seat layout. I am a long bodied 189cm and fit quite comfortably in the standard seat. We fitted a 6' 9" bloke in an XL at Bundaberg airshow. He had more head space than I do but was a bit tight around his knees under the dashboard. Adjustable bucket seats are a whole different story!
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