Nico13

Be a real shame if that dies along with its designer because it's one very sexy little plane and if you can believe all the advertising about how it handles it'd be a dream to fly.

Nice one Marty, looks like you had a great day for it. Haven't been gliding for forty years, should go and do it as I loved it back then.

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The title was just a generic description really and yes I do admire them all from fabric to carbon

A little difficult for the newcomers like myself with only a year here. I did it anyway as there were a few relevant areas and as noted you could add your feelings in the other comments line.

Yes the Auction is being held in town and I have a copy of the Auction Catalogue, the details from the web site are as follows. Mossgreen Auction Calendar | mossgreen Auction Location Maryborough Cafe Gallery Maryborough Railway Station Station Street, Maryborough VIC 3465 Viewing Time (s) Friday 28 April, 10am–5pm Saturday 29 April, 10am–5pm Sunday 30 April, 9am–11am Viewing Location: Maryborough Airport Leviathan Road, Maryborough VIC 3465 Auction Time Sunday 30 April 2017 Time: 12noon

[ATTACH]32147[/ATTACH] I flew into Maryborough (Vic) yesterday on a Nav exercise and while there stretched the legs and chatted to the local guys who were in the process of preparing a very nice Chipmunk for sale by auction. I find out it is part of the John Fisher collection, Solo London to Sydney, flyer amongst other things who unfortunately died in 2012 after crashing his Tigermoth. For anyone interested this action of memorabilia and aircraft with lots of Tigermoth bits and even a Vampire jet is on the 30th of this month at Maryborough. Google Mossgreen Autions for details. Nico.

Now that brings back memories, I helped build quite a number of the fine old Nomads many years back.

Ah the red ones go faster but what is it? Looks RV3ish at first glance but the undercarriage amongst other things says it's not.

Always liked the look of the Mooney's they had a pretty good reputation as very nice plane to fly.

Nice one Yenn, I'd have to fly it solo to stay under the RAA 600 kg or hope they have a win with the new weight limits and that would be nice.

Ahhh I see what you mean about the Risen, very nice

This is from a male perspective and not intended to be sexist. As a new flyer but one who has admired and worked on a number of planes over the years there is a time that comes when you start considering, if I was to purchase a plane what would it be. Thinking LSA now, I've looked at a few and thought wow that one looks nice and then the practical side pops up and you consider a few others. A high wing perhaps, most practical. And then the low wings come past and the wow factor pops up again. And then, now this is the sexist part, the lady of your dreams rolls by and she is a stunner. Well we've all heard it and even from the lips of the lady's themselves "She's a real beauty isn't she" So what would be the lady in your life, forgetting practicality but not going silly with the dollars. Tell us about your dream. My recent aluminium dream lady came past the other day while surfing the web as we do and yes she's a stunner alright, well in my eyes anyway and she is an RV3, a hot little lady.

Congrats Rich, while I didn't watch all your vids the ones I did I enjoyed. You see I was busy making my own as I have only passed my flight test earlier this year on the 4th of Jan. I'm intrigued to know what Nev meant by the comment "Calling oneself a pilot?" I understand that getting your ticket is a license to start learning without your instructor beside you but that just seemed like a bit of a backhanded congratulations. I may have misread the intent but when do you get to call yourself a pilot?

I remember seeing an Air Crash Investigation of that flight some time back. The bit about using the jet wash of the plane in front to melt their own ice prior to take off jogged the memory.

Many years back I used to fit those to the Nomad N22 and N24 at GAF Avalon, brought back a few memories. The series we were fitting back then in the late 70's was 250 B17B, the chopper engine turned upside down.

Ian, my concern at this moment is for you. I know you started this thread and talking about depression but what prompted you to do it. What I'm asking is are you ok? I'm certainly no expert but just reading between the lines of your post I see you reaching out. If you are anxious about something please talk to your family.

I think elevator would be the worst to lose physically because that would take your trim with it and trying to control a round out and flair on power alone, well lets just say you don't get it right the most likely outcome would be a bounced landing so things would get very sticky very quickly. If you still had trim then it's a different ball game, much more survivable. Rudder if it's a tail dragger wouldn't be too good for a controlled landing either. A low wing with very little to no dihedral it would be ailerons that would give you biggest heart ache as rudder would have little effect on roll. Overall I think elevator on any configuration would be my biggest concern.

G'day Bruce, I had the same thing happen when I borrowed my daughters GoPro and there is a setting to put it into a continuous loop mode where it will then make 15 minute clips, sorry I can't remember the settings but it is there. I have since bought a Chinese rip off for eighty bucks that does a pretty good job, it did the same thing until I fugured it out. As for the sound I use my old iPhone with a recording app on it and an old set of the small ear phones from the phone with the actual ear plugs cut off just leaving the microphone which I just sit into my headset and dub the audio into the video later. Works quite well.

Just watching a bit more on ABC 24 with the sound off and looking at the video. It looked like they still had a left prop turning as you could see the cut marks in the roof top at the right sort of distance from the main impact of the fuselage. The marks resembling shark gills, exactly what you'd expect from a prop with power on. These are my assumptions from the aerial footage not what has been reported.

Hi Bernie, will the crew be around on the trade days as well?

Thanks for the input guys, yes the Willy Willy was something that crossed my mind and also I have struck a day there where thermals were quite something and just trying to get down to circuit Highton was a battle, a little more wing area and I could have climbed out at idle :-)

Sorry its taken a bit to get back to this, been a bit busy. This is a short video of a recent approach where I had a large air speed variation in turbulence on final. An uneasy feeling when your airspeed suddenly drops but fortunately returns as quickly as it dropped off. I think it was just a result of the turbulence from the tree line as I could see no other real reason for it but have a look anyway there is slow motion at the end to see if there was anything unusual and also because my fat head was bobbing back and forth due to the rough air, but as noted I couldn't see anything. Thanks for looking.

Good to hear the pilot is ok but disappointed as I was hoping to see it at Avalon this year. My favourite war bird, well along with a few others.

I was out in the School Tecnam on late Monday morning for a bit over an hour from Lethbridge and on returning while entering circuit I noticed the wind had picked up a bit but was still Nth West where it was when I'd left. Probably about ten kts with gusts so a bit of cross wind from the right on rwy 28. This is fine but you have to expect a bit of turbulence on final as you cross the tree line at the highway and also just before touch down from the hangers on the right. What made this interesting was just as I was about to come over the fence having already hit some of the expected rough air there was this sudden feel of a big drop in air speed. Now I'd checked only a second before as I crossed the road 60kts, a full flap approach and then this nothingness feel. Even before I could react with throttle as I glanced at the ASI it was wildly swinging up from below 60kts to 70kts and back to 60 again where it was originally, everything then continued on as normal with a right wing low touch down and a normal roll out. I had cockpit video and so I reviewed that few seconds, unfortunately with the turbulence tossing me around a little my head got in the way of the ASI and I didn't see how low it actually went but the wild swing back up was very evident. Not one I'd felt before but then I'm only a low hours pilot, have others experienced this sort of thing? Nico.