alf jessup

Bit like motorcycles and cars, you look at the tree you head for it, it’s usually the way.

The government loves the word catastrophic as it scares the minions just like the deadly Covid conn did. shame the (CoNvid) killed far less than their vaccine did. its all about instilling fear in to people. Damn when I was a kid we must have had hundreds of catastrophic days over the summers in my youth, we were just not scared back then because we had many days nearing 45 deg or more not 35.

And the other 50% will know they are idiots.

A Highlander STOL bush plane, a river, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah I know don’t summarise but really? Biggest issue we have here in aviation is everyone thinks it always happens to someone else. Well someone’s surname changed instantly to someone else. A very sad outcome for the families of the deceased.

Powerlines have killed many in the past and will continue to do so in the future unfortunately. As in most pilots eyes it always happens to someone else. This is a terrible loss to the family involved.

Well for 18 years I averaged over 100 hours each year, last year only 45, this year only .9. My how times have changed for my flying.

Your on to it KG, Just missed the bit where a wheel caught the tree which pulled it down to the powerlines. What some will do to blame everything else but themselves,

Wouldn’t of mattered if the kid had his xcountry endorsement, he would have pushed on like many do and ended up with the same result.

7252, Maybe Loss of Consciousness?

Topped out at 117.7 for the year just gone. Time to start 2022’s tally tomorrow. Fly safe everyone for the year ahead.

I trained for my RAA in a 160 and learnt very quickly you have to keep the weight off the nose wheel for as long as possible when landing, I had one time early on in my training where I was trying to chase the yippy dance with the rudder to no avail, all was required was pull the stick back and the plane behaved very well. I have seen many instances over the years a Jab dance just after touchdown, it’s not the planes fault.

A more sensitive geometry alright, they do a yippy vippy dance real quick (160 that is) not sure on the 230 but I’m guessing so..

Never a truer word spoken FH.

100 hours again this year, my average over the last 17 years is just over 104 a year, best year was 147 back in 2018, not bad for someone who doesn’t have weekday access due to the RAAF activation and can only fly weekends and when the RAAF shuts down for a month over Christmas.

Thank you red750 for the heading correction as I did notice it after I posted it and couldn’t figure out how to change it. Much nicer.