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  1. Student Pilot
    The old film of Fokker Triplanes taking off shows them airborne in about 50 metres
  2. Student Pilot
    And you expect a clear concise answer from CASA? Things must have changed if somebody in CASA will give you answer to a question, they will just refer you to legislation or onto somebody else.
  3. Student Pilot
    I must admit I've only been through there a dozen times or so, every time without exception they have made it hard, delayed and at one stage made me hold just north of Newcastle for 40 minutes till an inbound jet had landed. I don't travel that area now.
  4. Student Pilot
    Victor one a good quick way around Sydney but having to try and get through Williamtown buggars that up. Go west young man
  5. Student Pilot
    😁
  6. Student Pilot
    150 is one of the nicest aircraft to fly. I enjoy flying for flying sake to "slip the surly bonds of earth" whether that's in an 802 or a 150, it's all flying. Sometimes it can be a snobby thing, because people learned to fly in a 150 as a student pilot they think it's beneath them to fly one again.
  7. Student Pilot
    I find it best to just land the aircraft..............
  8. Student Pilot
    Be interesting with an uninsured aircraft what the compensation would be for crop damage removing the wreck.
  9. Student Pilot
    What about the Coriolis force? 😁
  10. Student Pilot
    You would have thought the denser air in the colder spot would have more push?
  11. Student Pilot
    I am not recommending this but I have heard of people doing it. Shutting the engine down in flight, stopping the prop. The glide is totally different (So they tell me) to the engine idling or "Simulated no thrust". The glide is usually longer, controls feel completely different. The prop takes a lot more stopping than what you would think. When I was training in the olden days the instructor (Ex British Army rotary and fixed wing) did air starts. He made me do a couple in 150 and 172. I have seen it done from very high up to landing, the engine was then warmed up to taxi back. I have seen it done so the aircraft rolls up to the tiedowns.
  12. Student Pilot
    I'm envious................
  13. Student Pilot
    During training we should explore all facets of flight. Once you get into a particular aircraft you should know what it does, how it handles various conditions of flight. I agree with OME on his first post. An aircraft with a stopped prop glides a lot differently to one at idle, it helps to know your aircraft.
  14. Student Pilot
    Was that Muz's machine?
  15. Student Pilot
    To the original question.......................................yes
  16. Student Pilot
    He must watch a lot of netflix with all those TV screens 😁
  17. Student Pilot
    Sheer luxury
  18. Student Pilot
    Nev, you have a choice with a forced landing between (All things being equal) water or timber. Where do you go?
  19. Student Pilot
    I have always planned direct no matter what the country. If the choice is water or timber I always fly over the timber. All single engine aircraft, piston or turbine.
  20. Student Pilot
    Some of us have experienced navigation without GPS and any navigation aids 😁
  21. Student Pilot
    From the Wright flyer onwards canards have been toyed with, none seem to have made a big impact of commercial aviation?
  22. Student Pilot
    Yes there is some truth to what you say but it's not a critical as is made out. Just as an aside I held a CASA approval for OXY and TIG with both 4130 and aluminum. Never used it much and with having to sit the complete test at considerable cost every couple of years gave it up.
  23. Student Pilot
    Depends how it's welded, I've seen fuselages welded with TIG, not stress relived and had no problems. Oxy/Ace stress relives it as you go, with any process as long as you don't do full long welds in one hit. There's a few old wives tales about welding.
  24. Student Pilot
    Didn't know 737 had a splitter gearbox? https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/rex-pilot-apologises-to-passengers-for-repeatedly-stalling-as-hes-not-used-to-driving-boeing/?fbclid=IwAR1M8KXg4RwDTSH56kfUfq8cn76isF82A20YHB3ec85bjyQtdPz_2c1ZLKg
  25. Student Pilot
    They might have changed, it's been years since I've flown around there. The way things have deteriorated with flying freedoms I would think it would only get worse.
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