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  1. Student Pilot
    Knowing your aircraft and it's systems is paramount to being endorsed on an aircraft.
  2. Student Pilot
    15 a very appealing aircraft
  3. Student Pilot
    The red machine is an Avid Flyer. A Dean Wilson design which was the first (1983?) of the light cabin machines, originally designed with a 503 Rotax. He copied the wing folding design off a 30's aircraft. It evolved up to the Avid Magnum. Dean Wilson was taken on as a partner in the early days, he left then started Kitfox, virtually the same aircraft as an Avid. Dean Wilson designed quite a few aircraft, Elipse, Global Explorer and Eagle DW1 Ag biplane. 28-482 was an Avid speedwing, a clipped wing version of the stol design. It cruised at 90 knots with a 582 Rotax. I think it was the first 28 aircraft on the AUF register.
  4. Student Pilot
    Always admired the Nieuport, how does it fly? What sort of performance? 503?
  5. Student Pilot
    There were 3? Flying around the New England with Konig 4 cyl engine. Robbie Beard was the butcher I think you were talking about and there were 2 others based in Armidale, I think one is still in Armidale, it hasn't flown in many years. The bloke built a Cygnet, it hasn't flown I think.
  6. Student Pilot
    Didn't feel comfortable in a Drifter, sitting out there on a broomstick 😛
  7. Student Pilot
    I was mistaken it was 28-482 I would be interested to know what happened to it.
  8. Student Pilot
    Thanks..
  9. Student Pilot
    Jack flew up to Bundarra in a C310 to test fly that one, I thought it had an English engine (Hewland?) in it? That might have been the 2 seat that Gordon was killed in. I think Jack was a lucky man to walk away from his test fly.
  10. Student Pilot
    Not a current member, it was AUF when I was a member. I will see if I can chase up the full rego.
  11. Student Pilot
    My dad built an Avid and registered it 19- I think it finished with 025. It would have been maybe 1999 or 2000. Onetrack, is there any way I can look up records?
  12. Student Pilot
    Have you flown a TigerMoth? It's been a while since I've flown a Thruster but I vaguely remember it felt a lot like a Tiger in control feel and performance, maybe a bit slower.
  13. Student Pilot
    That's not a good percentage Nev. I did 10,000 hours in 15 years in Beavers, only ever had one cracked head. Flown radial Droms and Thrush as well and never had a mechanical failure. The good old days....
  14. Student Pilot
    I like those single seat Thrusters.
  15. Student Pilot
    https://www.holbrookultralightclub.asn.au/training.html These blokes still going? Not that far away?
  16. Student Pilot
    Been years since I've heard a radial, only hear an aircraft every couple of months. Radials used to be used on AG a lot, mostly turbine now. Turbines are more reliable and usually more power/performance with pointy nose instead of blunt. Flying turbines is not the same, you switch them on and switch them off. Radials are all individuals, all have slightly different way to start. You coax them into life. When you shut down after a long days work the silence is deafening apart from the ticking crackling exhaust. I have only flown single row radials, I spose twin row are even more particular Nev? I do miss flying radials......😕
  17. Student Pilot
    I see on the net somewhere this B52 was a test bed for new Ai radar/control system, only aircraft fitted with it so far. Witnesses said it pulled up way steeper than normal after take off then tried a 180 and fell out of the turn.
  18. Student Pilot
    If the amount of commercial pilots I know answered the questions honestly they would be considered to have a drinking AND mental health problem. Attitudes are changing but there are still some dinosaurs out there who consider 10 beers or a bottle of spirits every night normal behaviour without any consequences. Anybody diagnosed with ADHD is ruled out for a commercial hence people omit some information.
  19. Student Pilot
    Nev, I would rather travel on a relatively new 787 or Airbus 350 than a clapped out 777 or 330 Airbus with a million hours on it. Pilots say they like flying the 787.
  20. Student Pilot
    I thought you'd be a metricated man Nev 🤣 you meant 1693 kg and 3206 kg
  21. Student Pilot
    I don't sign any petitions now, they usually want all sorts of information before you sign
  22. Student Pilot
    Well he obviously wasn't looking out the front 😆 Personally I find looking out the window is what I do, quick glance at a map or map screen then back outside. I am only a lowly VFR pilot and would prefer steam gauges, I find glass too busy with too much information for a quick glance especially the current crop of Garmin round gauges.
  23. Student Pilot
    I have found best to let them dodge me if I can, it's very hard to stop the urge to react. Wedgies if above you will usually drop past in front of you, they can still be unpredictable. I have hit 2 over the years, I really hate hitting birds 😥
  24. Student Pilot
    I was flying into Bankstown many years ago from the south, there was a low overcast and I was following the highway up on the Eastern side. I knew Wilton was there, I thought with the low overcast there would have been no parachuting activity. Some canopies popped out of the clouds just if front of me, had to manoeuvre around them. It would have been terrifying coming down through clouds hearing an aircraft close heading your way. Aircraft radios weren't flash and half the time people didn't broadcast intentions. I couldn't turn the radio (old Valve set) on too early going into Bankstown because it would overheat. Used to turn it on just before 2FC to get the ATIS. Parachuting folks were (still are mostly) rebels.
  25. Student Pilot
    Too busy playing with multifunction avionics? Auto pilot on and looking at their phone?
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