scooter75

This newb must admit, i've been Youtubing and watching vids on Flying since reading this thread.. i've watched guys use Instruments to fly between airports at low level clouds, abort take offs due to shifting winds and dubious departure routes, read ATSB reports and sadly listened to ATC audio of those unfortunate enough to find themselves in cloud..some endings ok, some not so... In summary, i now have alot more respect for weather well before i've arrived at this part of my training. Further, my urgency to just get up there and go seems to have waned.. i need to be more aware of the risks in the weather rather than just focusing on an airworthy aircraft.. a comment my instructor made "it looks like we've run out of reasons not to go flying", now makes sense.. .. Finally, and scarily, "I'm that guy.. " i hadn't really considered clouds a big threat.. i'd never paid that much attention to them other than seeing them as a ceiling to ops... meaning in two years time, i was probably the guy inbound from the west in big clean air, who thought he would just "pop" over the mountains and land in the Sydney basin, ending in yet another vector, ATC Audio file, or worse, and ATSB report.... Conversely, after spending time in a glider, i can understand the desire to chase every bloody cumulus in the area... and so i don't sit on any side of the fence with this thread.. but i appreciate every addition to it by pilots more experienced than i, that are handing on knowledge and experience from which i can make a more informed decision about my own behaviour in an aircraft.. Cheers once again for the contributions to Recreational Flying..

no need to answer that guys.. i just gave up flying...

excuse the noob question.. a brief synopsis of the issues here is : Spatial Disorentation - visual sensory loss leading to physically piloting the aircraft away from Straight and Level flight IMC - very rough weather that may upset or damage the aircraft and further upset the instruments Potential for traffic collision.. Yes...? Just to sound very noob...but aside from flying into a front of weather, can't you see the base of a cloud and stay right the hell away from it? Is it impossible sometimes to stay away from a descending base?

Damn..thats gotta hurt.. take a while to live that one down...

I must admit, i'm a bit prejudice towards already built craft without the help of a decent LAME behind me upon inspection.. i'm a firm believer in the unconscious incompetence / conscious competence matrix. I would be forever worried about how well something was built and wether the builder did everything right in his own mind, but unwittingly built in an error that might come back to bight later on.. admittedly, from what i've read, the weakest point of most aircraft appears to be the motor, (which stands to reason with the most moving parts.). or dare i say, the pilot..

Its a very prudent post that one.. both time and financially... I've long been interested in seeing the Desert regions of Australia by air.. a STOL aircraft would be great for this kind of work.. so i imagine that i would want to be a flyer first, to build the knowledge banks, followed by a builder that knows the aircraft inside out by the time you are getting to remote regions.

Really very undecided on that front.. Quiet fond of the Foxbat....but a Jabiru is a lot more budget friendly to begin with...

Are we married to the same woman??? ..if so, I'm not selfish, just take over the payments...

Hi People, Being new to flying, i just wanted to say a big thankyou to all the contributors of this Forum. I have around 40 hours of flightime and am saving my church money for an aircraft (figure its a better way to spend a Sunday morning to!). ... a few times i have landed on this site to find the answers to my questions. The great thing is you get an answer from a few different angles.. which helps steer the way i want to go about eventually becoming a good pilot and owning my own plane. I must admit CASA had me almost beat , (and i've never crossed their paths).. i started to get really negative and think that their idea of safe skies is to have nobody in them. After a while i determined my resolve to ensure i wasn't on the wrong side of them by making sure all the checks and balances were in place.. which is kinda what you want at 5,000 Ft.. In the mean while, can all you guys with plenty of experience keep posting.. you never know who is listening and how it is helping them get to where they want with their flying.. Handing Over , your forum Scooter