Tell us about your last flight

[skippydiesel]

4 hours ago, BrendAn said:

What

".....had one hand holding that shut and the other working the throttle and stick........nearly crapped myself when the door opened, sudden loud noise and the plane yawed left."

 

Sounds to me like an incident  ie nothing ".....a bit silly" about it at all.

 

😈

[facthunter]

Loud noises would make my sphincter tighten too, IF you are not sure of what the cause is.  Nev.

[BrendAn]

i am a pretty nervous flyer . i haven't even got one hundred hours up yet.  keeps me alert though

[facthunter]

Being a bit nervous is better than being overconfident , You take less risks that way. You have to believe you can do it though. Just make sure you  get the basics right and keep the plane in control, right up to the crash IF that's the way it has to be, Wherever you, are HAVE a Plan. That's good Gen. Nev

[Moneybox]

On 21/6/2026 at 10:01 AM, onetrack said:

 

I have personal experience of this, I nearly fell out of my brothers '48 Chevrolet sedan, when I was about 9, thanks to trying to close an improperly shut rear "suicide" door at speed. Childish inexperience at its best!

 

Brings back memories of my first car, a two door Fiat 600 with suicide doors. It ended up having matching arcs impressed into the front door skins that fitted the rear wheel arches.

 

When the exhaust broke on the Zenith I smelled the fumes right away. I didn’t hear it until I landed an hour or so later. Now I have an RAAus CO detector that hopefully never has a reading.

[Kiwi]

My RAAus CO detector sometimes goes off when taxing with a tailwind, and the door is ajar in the Cherookee (when the weather is hot), as soon as I face into wind, it goes back to 0.

It has also gone off in the Rans when the doors are open while taxing. 

I've never tried it in the Drifter......

Edited June 22 by Kiwi

[danny_galaga]

17 hours ago, Kiwi said:

 

I've never tried it in the Drifter......

 

😄

[BrendAn]

On 20/06/2026 at 7:37 PM, skippydiesel said:

Jesus! Whats happening with this web site ? - just lost a second posting.😈

yes. i replied to you a couple of days ago and that one disappeared too.

[skippydiesel]

16 hours ago, danny_galaga said:

😄I've never tried it in the Drifter......

Tell the truth, a Drifter can't climb to the fabled 1 mile high 😈

[danny_galaga]

2 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Tell the truth, a Drifter can't climb to the fabled 1 mile high 😈

Funnily enough, I was actually referring to the fact the Drifter engine is high and behind, and there's no cabin, so CO poisoning would be pretty unlikely 🙂

 

But the way my comment was misinterpreted is funnier 😄

[red750]

Popping a door in a Bonanza is similar - cold and loud. Did it once doing solo touch and goes at Moorabbin back in the 70's. Made it a full stop, closed and latched the door, back to the holding point and off again. The door sat about 3 inches ajar during the landing.

[facthunter]

No need to crash because the door is Ajar Just some extra drag and some noise.. Don't be distracted.  Nev

[Flightrite]

I’ve had 3 doors pop open during my career driving planes, a PA28, a C310 & a PA31, the latter was the lower half of the clamshell cabin door arrangement. A woman pax sitting opposite the door made more noise screaming than the Lyc donk in close proximity! 😂 The PA31 did handle differently at App speed, I could feel a slight buffeting. The secret is to fly the plane, some just lose their priorities!

[onetrack]

The worrying part would be - what goes out that open door! Important stuff from inside a cockpit, going byes-byes into the slipstream, could be more than just embarrassing.

Things like logbooks, expensive electronic devices, etc. Not tied down, they are candidates for being sucked out.

[Kiwi]

19 hours ago, danny_galaga said:

Funnily enough, I was actually referring to the fact the Drifter engine is high and behind, and there's no cabin, so CO poisoning would be pretty unlikely 🙂

 

But the way my comment was misinterpreted is funnier 😄

 

Years ago I was flying my Drifter at my friend's place and smelt smoke, and as I quickly looked around at the engine I thought "you dickhead"

I was flying over a small fire on the ground.....

[Kiwi]

22 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Tell the truth, a Drifter can't climb to the fabled 1 mile high 😈

I had had my Drifter up  10,000 feet (1.894 miles)

But not the time I joined the mile high club....... solo.

[facthunter]

Things only get sucked out IF the Plane is pressurised. Nev

[Kiwi]

10 hours ago, onetrack said:

The worrying part would be - what goes out that open door! Important stuff from inside a cockpit, going byes-byes into the slipstream,

 

I lost half a page from the ERSA I was reading. The half that had the runway numbers and CTAF frequency. 

[T510]

Couple of big days training to complete my XC endorsement.

 

Great fun flying around doing touch and goes at a whole lot of different airstrips. Really enjoyed the theory, doing planning on paper and using OzRunway.

 

Got to say I prefer navigating with out following the magenta line. I just ended up using OzRunway as a digital map and working off my flight plan notes, landmarks and the time.

[pmccarthy]

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

Things only get sucked out IF the Plane is pressurised. Nev

Sounds like a man familiar with the mile high club.

[facthunter]

Supposed to be a serious topic affecting safety. Nev

[BurnieM]

"Come on train"

 

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, BurnieM said:

"Come on train"

 

From a mile high? You've got good aim.

[BrendAn]

Perfect day for a flight today. Very calm. Ocean is like a mirror.

 

 

[Thruster88]

Was almost the last flight for my Thruster last night, a narrow mini tornado demolished the old wool shed and 100 ton silo. Picked up a mobile field bin and set it down with minimal damage where 12 trees used to be. Thruster was in the black shade cloth door hangar only 30 -40 metres from the destructive path. Sheets of tin went over a kilometer down wind. Feeling very lucky.