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There were two of these at Northam earlier in the week. Air Tractor.mp4 He used every inch of the 1248m runway.

Thanks. Yes with more experience I may have hit the throttle myself but by the time I realised what had happened we were in ground effect and never actually touched the ground.

My experience at Jandakot was similar however we were already much closer to landing when it suddenly dropped to what I think was less than 3m. I never had time to react but once we were there I thought we may as well land but my trainer wacked that throttle in as hard and fast as he could even though the crisis was over. All we had to do was cover about 100m of grass and we'd have landed nicely. I haven't seen the facebook clip, I don't think it's working anymore.

It's not such a huge step from timber to communications....

Politics is a dirty business so I must have had a lapse of common sense to make a comment on the subject. When I see reports that Ukraine is not allowed to use a particular weapon against the opposing force it reinforces my belief that the whole exercise is staged by world leaders and I can’t even take control of my domestic domain.

Isn't it pity we can't all work together sharing knowledge and technology.

I did most of my training in the Evektor Harmony and found it very benign in a stall, not that I knew any different as I'm only a student with my limited previous experience flying my microlight unlicensed. When the Harmony had it's engine change I briefly swapped to the Bristell. One thing I noticed on the pre-flight check was a big chunk of steel bolted to the gearbox, obviously a counterweight. Once in the plane my instructor informed me that we would be careful to avoid stalls. He said if we stall this plane we're not coming home, there's very little chance of stall recovery. I guess for those couple of days he was very careful to monitor my performance on take-off and landing.

I called my trainer tonight to try to get back to lessons. He was still talking a couple of months away but after an extended conversation he said he'll try to get something organised for a weekend at the start of September. I'm not too sure of his situation since going back to his trade and giving up full time training. I last flew his J170 out of Myrup but now he suggests he hires a Jabiru locally and we do a weekend out of Northam. That will suit me because it's only a six hour drive from here and after finishing my Solo and achieving RPC we can jump into my plane there for a few familiarisation flights. I have a friend who'll bring my plane up here if I want to practice before my cross country but one step at a time. I've started on my solo so hopefully I can knock that off in one decent weekend. I did like landing on the gravel strip at Myrup. It's a lot more forgiving than the bitumen if you don't get the landing quite right.

Ok, now I've got to watch it..... 🙂 Really well documented trip however I think I'd be happier diverting to Forrest rather than take and unnecessary long flight over the ocean with poor communication. There couldn't be a lot of time saving but he saved having to arrange for fuel at Forrest. Perhaps not worth the risk in the average single engined aircraft.

Ok, now I've got to watch it..... 🙂

Pretty hard to do that in Cue in a short period of time. All the big gold was taken many years ago but we can still find tiny pieces with the metal detector. Most people are just happy to go home with a bit of colour because it's not easy to find anywhere. These are from our trip away in May, enough to pay for the trip but it's found on our lease a long way from here. We have plenty of gold in Cue but it's deep, beyond my reach.

If you have the time and you're interested you might manage to find a little gold nugget or two to take home.

No Skippy my airstrip has been put on the backburner while I try to find a tip truck to move a few hundred tonnes of dirt. It needs building up to prevent waterflow across in a couple of places. Just a metre of dirt over a couple of hundred metres works out a lot of dirt, too much to move a few hundred metres with the loader. The Cue airport is just 3km away and it's a beautiful 2km of bitumen, no tiedown facilities but if I know you're coming I'll have some concrete blocks in place with anchors to tie to. I'll have a vehicle available to get about as well, a little Merc van or perhaps my van that is a bit more accommodating with a fridge, stove, bed, 240v inverter etc. What ever you need we'll make it work. There's no fuel at the airport but we have 91 or 98 at the bowser in town.