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Well done mate!!! enjoy the adventure, who is your instructor there?

here are a couple of interesting concepts that I have found

Great, well done Mate and YES, you are now a member of the club - a day that many years after the grin has left your face you will remember with pride!

No, not the temp, the wind yes - I got very sunburnt on the bald patch and face - lesson: next time take my Rec Flying hat.

I hope to get the time to upload all the pictures I took from the fantastic day - well done Mate and congratulations on bringing it all together

Sounds great Tony - crikey you are dedicated - please, post some pictures

Bye the way Ian, it was'nt St Peter-------------It was St Knickerless:laugh:Kind regards

 

Planey

With Christmas coming up and with it will come all the jokes so that is what this thread is all about.

2008's First Christmas Joke

Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.

"In honour of this holy season" Saint Peter said, "You must each possess something that symbolises Christmas to get into heaven."

The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. "It represents a candle", he said.

"You may pass through the pearly gates" Saint Peter said.

The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, "They're bells."

Saint Peter said "You may pass through the pearly gates".

The third man started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women's panties.

St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, "And just what do those symbolise?"

The man replied, "These are Carols."

And So The Christmas Season Begins......

The news

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Big congrats Ron and some great advice from Bill (thanks Bill)

Please Ron, take us all along for the ride through the build so others can learn and offer any help as well by posting...oh, and with pictures :big_grin:

I am also trying to get my GA at present but it is being compounded by working o/s at the moment, with under 3 weeks at home then 5 weeks away. When I get back next time it is also Xmas / New Years, so less time. Oh well.Good Luck

I'll try and compile a post on our capabilities if the Admin would like me to about our services and recommendations of what to take so we can find you quicker!

Hi all

I am planning on going down to Lethbridge for the day - they are having a toy run day should be great.

Anyone else going?

Guys, some advice if I may - when putting an email address in a post always disguise it in a way like this:

email me at "john at bigpond and .com.au"

I am sure we all know what it means but it also helps to stop the spammers from getting it through automated means now that the posts are open

Hi All

Please bear with us whilst we undertake some changes to the News Sections.

We currently have an International Aviation News Forum - this will be deleted

The Australian Aviation News Section has both a forum with the latest news on the home page. The problem with this is that it contains both recreational flying news and commercial aviation news like items about Qantas etc - basically all aspects of aviation in Australia.

But, not everyone is interested in such a wide spectrum of aviation so we are going to just have all the "commercial stuff" in there removing all the news items that are at the recreational level of aviation. We will also be changing the display of this section on the home page to a side box that will display the latest news items for those that are interested in that level along with its own separate forum.

We are also creating a "NEW" news section called "Recreational Flying News". This section will contain all the news items that are at the recreational level of aviation from all around Australia plus we will be adding similar interesting recreational flying news from around the world as well. This new section apart from having its own forum, will also have the latest news items displayed on the site home page as the main news as well.

Basically we are changing the split from being geographic i.e. Australian and International, to a split of aviation type i.e. Recreational and Non-Recreational.

We believe this will provide a greater reading pleasure to a wider audience in the area of aviation news and we hope you enjoy it.

Hi Ken

Can you please turn off the caps when making a post - thanks (capitals means YELLING on the internet)

I should moderate this but it is just so darn funny

You are referring to the first picture.....aren't you Yenn, because if you aren't, then Houston, I think we have a problem ;)

Looks like my secret is out hey DressUpPete!

Clearprop has them - currently 2 in stock

Finally picked up my new plane and had no where to put it...soon learnt all about the high costs of ownership of your own plane....

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had no choice but to find somewhere else to park it...

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We will look into it and thanks!

Actually looking at the new registrations for about the same period we can see how the site is working for everyone - see attach

No Nev, not that I can see - given the huge traffic numbers, hits, unique visitors etc the site is going extremely well for a database driven one in terms of speed.

I am

I think the way that the database was redesigned for version 4 has really helped although we did have some initial teething problems didn't we

There is still so much more to do though

Hi all the IT nerds (I am one so don't knock us)

Last week I turned on the stats reporting for the site just out of curiosity as the traffic bill is so high I thought I would see why - low and behold I was surprised to see that Recreational Flying receives around 120,000 hits per day ...that's not per month or even per week but that's PER DAY!!! and that doesn't include the search bots like google etc - see attached screen shot.

That's over 3.5 Million hits per month - not bad for a little Aussie site for all Recreational Pilots - this is why our traffic bill is climbing every month - but it's a good bill

The target now is to get it to 150,000 hits per day (4.5m per month), why...because that means more and more recreational pilots are helping each other more and more...oh, and maybe I could sell some advertising space

JayKay, Recreational Flying will be expanding the airfield data in the Airstrips section http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbgooglemaphse.php?do=list soon. However, in the mean time you may wish to add any waypoints, airfields etc in that section including anything that anyone knows about each airstrip. A great tool to use

Guys, just thought I would pop in and say that the way that ahlocks has done his images allows the page to load faster for users that are on slow internet connections as it create thumbnail versions of the images for the user to click to see the bigger ones - also if the user comes back to the thread to read a new post they don't have to wait for the large images that they have already seen to load again

Hope this helps!