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Good pickup there Howard

Post it here mate, if it is to big or has pictures etc then email it to me at admin@ this site address. Also as Ultralights says, send it to the mag as they are always after great stories as well.

Sounds interesting because:

1. you have a Gazelle - as do I

2. You have it in a hangar owned by Ian - my name also

3. The hangar owner has a CTLS - I have owned 2 CTsw

Hmmm, I wish I could make The Twilight Zone theme into text ;)

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Last time I was at Scone I was very thankful to the aero club there who fuelled me up from drums they had in their hangar (prem unleaded).

The last time I was at Mudgee I had to wait 3hrs for someone who worked at the council to come out and fuel me up as they could only come out during their lunch break

Debra, please let me say that George is still with us here in these forums and he always will be - for those that didn't know george you can at any time have a chat with him by just doing a search on his user name browng

A friend that will always be here with us!

Welcome Pete, I am willing to bet that you are going to run into trouble with a name like yours "Portable Pete" as we have a guy here who is Pete of all kinds - have a read of the never ending story at:

http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/general-discussion/7398-never-ending-story.html

especially from about half way along when Pete or should we say allkindsofPete starts to appear.

Just joking mate, welcome to the site and hope you enjoy your stay

I can remember a great song and wish I could get a copy of it now but it went like:

Your Daddy aint your Daddy but ya mumma don't know

Whoa, is me, shame and scandal in the family

They were the figures as told to me by Steve

They were the figures as told to me by Steve

This is based on extensive scientific studies performed by the quiz author during his too many years as an FAA air traffic controller (tower).

Conclusion: 1) The control tower is a great place to watch bad landings, and 2) Pilots who insist upon landing nose-wheel first will bounce. Boing!

A tiny first bounce can be salvaged with proper pitch and, perhaps a spritz of power. But, should the poorly-trimmed, nose-heavy airplane smack nose-first a second time -- Bwa-Boing! -- the resultant bounce will be higher with staggering consequences. If left uncorrected -- by now the only out is a go-around -- the abused airplane will absolutely, no-doubt-about-it, smack the runway a third and final time. At this point the nose strut, plus all its delicate and expensive parts, will shatter, bend, and generally explode, leaving the PIC, who's not really in command, wondering, "Wha-happened?"

Remember: There are only two landing-gear wheels in a tricycle-geared airplane -- the left and right mains. The nose wheel is there to keep the propeller off the pavement; it's not for landing. One more reason to fly tail-draggers.

Hi All

I want to start a "Fuel Watch" part of the site where you can find the last known price of fuel at a specific airport but not exactly sure how to go about it.

The problem is how do we keep it updated and as current as possible?

No mate, just needed to use stopcock to override the auto filter, however in saying this, the auto filter is there for a reason - imagine if it wasn't and someone wanted to go for it and a young child who dreams of flying one day looks in and sees it - at least now all they will see is:

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ;)

- you've brightened up my day Maynard

basscheffers - there was more to it then that especially from my point of view being the fact that he is supporting one of the guys that tried to and are still trying to bring this site down - the cost would simply be to you all as I would just close this site and take a holiday but we know that 2,600+ users would lose out because of these few so and so's - I mean, think about it, if you are a member of this site and use its resources, get help from all the information here, benefit from all the work that is done here to provide you a great resource and much more, but you are not willing to help out everyone here by allowing a spreadsheet that you created to be downloaded from here - in fact the only place you can download it is from the site that is run by one of the people who is trying to bring these forums down and guess who's name and site address is in the file - you guessed it, again the person who openly said on another site that he just wants to bring Recreational Flying down - that should say it all - it has all the makings of a setup.

No time for these people and don't care about them or anyone else who wants to support them, and to those that do support them I simply say don't come here and use the resources of this site and benefit from all the hard work that is put in here - better to have 1,600 users who care then an 1,000 more that don't.

Creating and running the Recreational Flying site for you all has made me hard and I wish I could just go flying again and leave all this crap to others.

Perhaps it is time for another one of my breaks again - this time a long one

THX1137 - that's what I thought - it had no distribution or limitations in it, nothing to say it couldn't be put here but after I did I thought I had better just check so I tried phoning him a few times. Eventually got hold of him and he said no and had made a post here so I deleted his post and deleted the file from the download section - crikey, I thought we were just on about helping each other here but it seems some people want to just take but not give

I had uploaded a file by Tezza (Terry Mann) who uses the resources of this site for himself but has asked that it be removed as obviously he does not wish to contribute a resource to you all from Recreational Flying.

I now also know that he supports a guy that set up a site and then openly stated on other sites that his intent was for his site to try and pull this site down - it seems like this has been a big setup by them so they can now go and get lost and no doubt they will try and discredit this site yet again - I am really getting sick of these people

Point taken there Ken and on the other side of the coin is the fact that especially in this industry we are always learning and that also goes for instructors - pilots need to keep learning how they fly and instructors need to keep learning how they instruct.

The problem is how can it be done nicely so it works as an advantage rather then the opposite i_dunno

Along with the free flight planner that is available for all to use on this site we will also create an Excel file version that will include google earth links to the airfields and much more for you to use.

It will be free in the interest of supporting all Recreational Pilots and the Recreational Flying industry which is what this site is all about - everyone here helping each other in any way they can. So as it is being developed I will create a thread where you can all become the testers and even joint developers if you have any knowledge in Excel and VBA - I prefer VBA instead of Macros as it is far more powerful.

I also have the MS Access runtime file distribution licence so once we finish with the Excel version we can then look into expanding it further in Access for everyone to use.

what Ian said, just a whiz wheel, protractor, and rule, and of course, current charts and ERSA. oh, and you can also cheat a little by downloading the current ERSA pages from the Airservices website free of charge, which is handy if the new ERSA update is a month or so away.

Personally I would only go for a standard ATC protractor, standard ATC 180nm ruler and a just a wheel. Oh, don't forget your ERSA and WAC/VNC maps - the maps needed are just for your area at this stage.

With the wheels there has always been debate which is better but you really only have a choice between the plastic Jeppessen CR2 (or 3 - different sizes) or the E6B which is metal.

Don't let anyone tell you need anything more as it would just be a luxury - feel your way first and always consult your instructor and what things he says you need - if he says you need more then what I have said above then ask back here. There was a story where one guy had to spend $600 or so because he was told to.

Email from Steve:

Hi Ian

I can't get into the forum at the moment so can you post this for me.

Currently the CESSNA C152 cannot be registered with RA-Aus, even with one seat removed. The 152 is substantially heavier than the C 150 and cannot safely get below the 600 kg MTOW. Currently a C150 with the seat and yoke removed can be registered with RA-Aus at a 600kg MTOW, which means that there is a decrease in the amount of fuel that can be carried.

When the weight increase to 760kg MTOW becomes law then the 150 and 152 will be eligible for RA-Aus registration as a two seat aircraft with additional fuel, just remember though that the requirement for a stall speed in the landing configuration of 45 kits or less remains.

I hope this has cleared things up. Contact me at RA-Aus 02 6280 4700 if you have any questions.

Steve Bell

RA-Aus Technical Manager

07 November 2008

Email from Steve:

Hi Ian

I can't get into the forum at the moment so can you post this for me.

Currently the CESSNA C152 cannot be registered with RA-Aus, even with one seat removed. The 152 is substantially heavier than the C 150 and cannot safely get below the 600 kg MTOW. Currently a C150 with the seat and yoke removed can be registered with RA-Aus at a 600kg MTOW, which means that there is a decrease in the amount of fuel that can be carried.

When the weight increase to 760kg MTOW becomes law then the 150 and 152 will be eligible for RA-Aus registration as a two seat aircraft with additional fuel, just remember though that the requirement for a stall speed in the landing configuration of 45 kits or less remains.

I hope this has cleared things up. Contact me at RA-Aus 02 6280 4700 if you have any questions.

Steve Bell

RA-Aus Technical Manager

07 November 2008

Geoff

That wasn't really Pete who posted that above...it just couldn't be...he didn't use the raining icon for the thread and with him being a smiley kinda guy that uses them to death it would mean that he couldn't have posted that - it's a story that never ends