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  1. Student Pilot
    Sabre?
  2. Student Pilot
    Unfortunately no aircraft nor the likelihood of being able to afford any 😕I'll just have to learn flying somebody else's 😁
  3. Student Pilot
    I'm sure I could talk you into a fly in a 150 Captain Gazza......😜
  4. Student Pilot
    Didn't watch the vid, internet too slow. I'm sure this has been covered here before. I am very hesitant of ditching, I do work in some remote areas with quite a bit of water, maybe 50%. I would always go for the timber, the water here is usually below 10C. Combine that with an inverted aircraft and maybe some injuries and cockpit egress difficultly because of impact damage and it narrows your chances considerably.
  5. Student Pilot
    The old canvas one was good. Now there are 20 pages of guff with 3 pages left intentionally blank. I've lost count of how many times the licence has changed (along with the simplification of regs by increasing the word count 10X) over the last 40 years. The licence still has no equivalence to Euro or Yank and is a waste of paper and resources. I still get my checks signed and entered into my logbook (like the olden days) as well as the loosable loose leaf one that the checker/instructor/chief pilot (or mofo or whatever their called) takes a copy of and submits that to CASA to keep another 40 people employed in licencing.
  6. Student Pilot
    Always admired the Hurricane, would like a go in one.
  7. Student Pilot
    Space junk? Need to see what the make up of the metal is to get a better idea?
  8. Student Pilot
    Good luck getting an answer, they will refer you to some reg or other and you will have to sort through 9000 pages of legalese. I have never got a straight answer from CASA.
  9. Student Pilot
    Aircraft, they are aircraft.....................plane is what you shave wood with 😁
  10. Student Pilot
    Just had a look at the survey, first they want your name............. Previous experience with this body makes one VERY careful about putting your name on anything to do with CASA.
  11. Student Pilot
    Nobody is 😁
  12. Student Pilot
    The biggest percentage of losses was due to training/operational accidents, the Yanks seemed worse than other Air forces
  13. Student Pilot
    Agreed....... Know your aircraft and it's foibles at slow speed.
  14. Student Pilot
    Good luck if you can find anything to do with CASA that smells of roses, the stench of stifling over regulation, the stink of pilot persecution. No smell of roses......
  15. Student Pilot
    Rotary as in Clerget or Le Rhone? 😁
  16. Student Pilot
    To save me sitting through 40 minutes of monotone, why wasn't it? From what perspective was it reported on? Thanks Captain Gazza 😁
  17. Student Pilot
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cb-CF3UoeiH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Here is some skilful minimum flying
  18. Student Pilot
    It's an indicator of how GA has been treated, nobody gives a sh!t. Federal gov not interested, rich people vote libs anyway and they can afford to fly their rich. CASA being the biggest impediment to flying, you have to be a lawyer to read anything they release. They are actively discouraging aviation, I don't know how people maintain an AOC these days.
  19. Student Pilot
    Single seat Thruster for a tiny percentage of the price and you have some "Real" flying. Seems flying is way out of reach of ordinary folk who are flat out paying for food/rent let alone $3 a litre for avgas, $75 landing fees AND hundreds of thousands of dollars for an aircraft! There are still ways https://www.facebook.com/544160029/videos/780906566216285/ Back to basics, flying for flying sake. No glass dash needed.
  20. Student Pilot
    And only 160 K?
  21. Student Pilot
    You can see the curvature of the earth!
  22. Student Pilot
    Yes, very expensive fashion statement.
  23. Student Pilot
    A PT6-67F develops 1700 shp, most 802 Air Tractors are now fitted with them. Mkes. Huge difference off a short airstrip.
  24. Student Pilot
    It would appear Nev now they are the latest fashion accessory. You can't call yourself a "Bush pilot" (Whatever that is) unless your wheels rolling diameter exceeds your bank balance. The Super Cub mob are a good example, it seems more a statement than a capability.
  25. Student Pilot
    Not worth the time or effort, leave it like it was manufactured either tailwheel or nosewheel. There are no great advantages to either. There is virtually no performance increase from going from nose to tailwheel, no speed increase, almost non existent weight advantage. A well flown 182 will go everywhere a 180 will go. (Exception being an EXTREMELY rough strip which will damage either aircraft) A personal peeve is people calling a nosewheel a "Nosedragger", it is not. It pushes if anything, there are tailwheel (Used to be called conventional) and nosewheel aircraft. You don't have to be a skygod or exceptionally gifted to fly a tailwheel like some will have you believing. It is a learned skill, learnable by most. You can place your hat at a jaunty angle and have the "Ace pilot tailwheel swagger" should you choose. These options are not available to the poorly nosewheel pilot. Your choice.
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