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    My "WAKE UP GUYS" was in response to forumites heaping praise upon the video pilot for his actions in response to his partial engine failure...which to my mind is exactly the actions that kills experienced aviators. You can bet your bottom dollar that a pilot with 50 hours in their log book would have crash landed straight ahead with wings level... perhaps with a different outcome...but with practically zero chance of a stall and folding the aircraft into a soccer ball shape. The reason I am off the opinion that Ross' accident was not a typical turn back was the photo showing the projected flight path off the aircraft posted on another thread. He had less airstrip behind than he did in front
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    None in my opinion. It appears to me that Ross was going for the cross strip. Manoeuvring in a way that we are taught to avoid in training...in exactly the same way the pilot in the above video does.
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    I thought he was incredibly lucky...and nothing else. Remember...nose down...30degrees of heading only. Here we are just a few days after another extremely experienced pilot and friend is lying in a mortuary after trying what the above pilot was lucky to pull off...and we have experienced people claiming the above was somehow an example of good piloting and he was "unlucky" the field was a little rough!!!??? WHAT THE FXXK GUYS!!!! WAKE UP!!!
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    I'm not anti-Western...Not one bit. I am anti some Westerners and their idiot ideas that got the world into such a mess.
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    Its like Christianity Mk2 (or is it Mk3?)
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    Just for a bit of factual discourse....The whole "72 Virgins" thing is a load of baloney thinly veiled as propaganda. Good only for a bit of a laugh for the sorts that laugh at that sort of thing...and great for ISIS recruitment.
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    I wonder which Western company sold them to ISIS...and I wonder who the shareholders are?
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    Easter 2012...
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    There is going to be an awesome Lightwing on the market in due time I presume...
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    How lucky was I Robbo? I jumped in at Marian airstrip near Mackay and we headed inland picking up what was the old inland ferry route used to take WW2 machines from South to North... visited the Birthplace of Qantas... overnighted at the airstrip where Nancy Bird started her commercial flying career... flew over the Dish... just to name a couple of the highlights.
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    This was the most memorable part of the flying between Mackay and Temora... Ross had the biggest sxxt eating grin on his face flying over "THE" Dish. I will never forget this moment in time.
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    Ross meeting other Rec Flying Forumites at Temora...
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    Ross taking off in his Lightwing at Chinchilla
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    SORRY FOR THE CAPS BUT THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WINNER. ROSS WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS.
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    The one above is either "THE" one from the Qld Museum or there are two early metal prototypes. Anyone in Brisbane know if the Rouseabout is still hanging in the entrance at Southbank?
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    And this was something that I know Ross was passionate about. How ironic.
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    Just found this on E-bay... price is optimistic. It should be an a museum collection. In fact there is one in the Qld Museum hanging in the entry at Southbank in Brisbane. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Seabird-Rouseabout-aircraft/272057986777?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140117125611%26meid%3D07038d910fec406393921c8aed6b716c%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D272063091469
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    Oops! (I reckon we just shouldn't take any of this too seriously...it is just the inter web thingy)
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    That is why you avoid crashing. This is Ultralight flying...remember. Known in some jurisdictions as "MINIMUM" aircraft.
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    I reckon he would prefer them well versed in the ways of the karma sutra...
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    Perhaps we should just fit ballistic chutes to all aircraft...?
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    It's as simple as this IMO. I've heard all sorts of experienced pilots tell me about the time they safely landed an aircraft back on the strip after coming up against problems in the air...and I now know all sorts of experienced pilots who are dead. The one thing they had in common... A SIMPLE BELIEF THAT IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME TODAY. The same simple belief we all have.
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    I thought Woodstock was a different airfield to Starke?
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