old man emu

Phil,

I've never, ever had to censor anything on this site to protect the feelings of Old ma Emu, but I've had to block that picture of your car, because if she sees it she will get all weepy and want me to take her back to the Cotswolds next January. And I can't afford to get from there to Cannock just for her to get her nail in-fills!

OME

So sad to hear about Dave Squirell's passing. I knew he had been ill for a long time.

Strewth, the queue at the Pearly Gates must've extended almost as far back as the Gates of Hell last week. People were dropping off like flies in a Mortein commercial.

OME

Simple way to get an ASIC card: Go over to Indonesia; jump on a leaky boat, and sail back.

OME

To my way of thinking, these lamb ads produced for Australia Day are beginning to become traditional. I was looking for Sam in the ad. I wonder why he's not there.

I suppose, too, that it's a bad thing that $22M was deposited in our Economy?

OME

Merely pointed out the aims as listed for the site. Just I don't come to this site to read rubbish having no revevance to aviation.

OME

I bet the pilot of the radioless plane had a Smartphone.

OME

So are aircraft still being flown that DO not comply with the engine installation manual NOT being followed ?Are you the owner off said aircraft ? neil

OME

Frank,

As a prime contributor to non-aviation topics, I accept fully that a lot of the posts here wander off topic. These are the threads that usually get a lot of activity for a short time, then die. Like a flash in the pan. If you note the tones used in most of these wandering topics, you will see that most of it is friendly banter, most of the time. Like blokes sitting around a pub table talking bull over a few beers. However, there is also a lot of gems amongst the spoil. The topics that stay on track usually are taken seriously by all.

Following this site is like choosing your TV shows. You ignore the ones that you don't like, but fight tenaciously to see the ones you do. You have been a major contributor for longer than most, and I don't recall your having lowered to tone in any of your posts. Perhaps we show a lot more interest in your final point than in the other three.

Please don't you go wandering off. You are needed here.

OME

Oscar,

Thanks for your very informative post. I suppose I'm relying on my experiences from before the days of OH&S and its progeny WH&S.

I was in now way trying to deny the courage and devotion to duty of all Emergency workers.

OME

Victim: "Help! I'm hanging from this cliff face, holding on to the roots of a shrub, hoping they won't give way resulting in my plummeting to my death on the rocks below!"

Rescue Worker: "Don't worry - I'm coming to the top of the cliff now."

WH&S Inspector: "Before you go near the edge of the cliff, fill out this multi-page risk assessment. Forward the original to WH&S; the duplicate is to be filed at your usual workplace, and you keep the triplicate for three years."

Rescue Worker: "But the victim is weakening, and is likely to fall before I do this paperwork."

WH&S Inspector: "Rules is rules."

Victim: "AHHhhhhhhhhhh! (Dull thud)

Rescue Worker: "Don't bother - it's too late now."

WH&S Inspector: "Yahoo! Another life saved by WH&S rules."

Rescue Worker: "Life saved???? He's dead!"

WH&S Inspector: "But you are not. Our goal is to prevent workplace death and injury, and we've done it here today."

Rescue Worker: "Well, we had better go recover the body."

WH&S Inspector: "Before you go near the edge of the cliff, fill out this multi-page risk assessment. Forward the original to WH&S; the duplicate is to be filed at your usual workplace, and you keep the triplicate for three years."

OME

Anyone who complains about that ad needs to be lamblasted!

OME

Hmmm. Getting back to topic.

I had a thought this morning while mowing my grass.

Do fire fighters carry out a risk assessment relevant to each fire they attend before they roll out the hoses and start squirting water?

OME

Jeff,

Welcome to the place to be. I hope that you read up on how to post pictures here so we can all see your Celebrity.

Old Man Emu

I'm pleased to say that one of my grandson's favourite places to go with Poppy is Camden Airport. Especially as there are no ASIC restrictions on movement, so we can wander all over the place. He loves walking along the lines of parked airplanes out in the open, and scampering under wings in the hangars. The grand finale is to sit outside the glider control caravan and watch "Dusty" pull the gliders into the air. He doesn't care that this "Dusty" is a Pawnee and not an Air Tractor.

I appreciate the kindness of the owners and pilots we might meet who invite him to sit in their airplanes.

OME

As I said initially, those wings were very heavy. We had to get elk to unload them.

Nah. They were the cheap moose variety.

I just did the grandpa thing today with two of them jumping on me. Dad won't let them fly with grandpa so, for these kids,that's as good as it gets .

OME

Nah. Mice turds.

Seen being uncrated from a seatainer at Camden today was Mark VI Auster, Serial Number TAY297V, formerly registered in Canada as C-FLOE. It has very heavy wings. It took 6 men to carry each wing half from the container to the hangar.

It is believed that the aircraft will be based at Camden after being placed on the Australian Register. It has been said that this plane is a war veteran.

OME

I am surprised no Jab basher has come along and said, "There is no difference, they both land without a running engine."

OME

"coitus interruptus" is an Anglo-Roman term first reported by the Roman historian Tittilatus in his documentation of the 1st Century AD (c 83AD) campaigns of the Roman Governor Agricola against the Caledonians of present day Scotland. It is believed to be an translation of a Caledonian battle cry similar to the modern day phrase "f*ck off". Other authorities suggest that the phrase was commonly used in domestic situation and that the correct translation is "Not tonight".

OME

And across the East China Sea, northeast of Shanghai is the famed Japanese aviator, Awa Tanasiam.

When did you last do a driving review for your driver's licence?

OME

Isn't Wun Wing Lo the brother of Wun Hung Lo?

I think that for safe flight, if it looks right, it probably is. How many of us get all anal about avoiding the edges of the doorway when we are driving our cars into our garages? Sure, we take it carefully for the first few times, but after that we instinctively know if our approach has been good.

Same applies to flying a circuit. We do them ad nauseum before our first solo and up until our first flight test, so we should know by then the visual inputs that tell us that we are flying correctly. How hard can it be to fly a good circuit? After all, at how many hours' experience did you fly your first solo? The best advice for EFATO? Nose down and fly as far into the return to earth as possible. Preventing inadvertent stalls? This is what flying at the slow edge of the envelope looks like. Don't go there.

For Joe Average, flying at some distance from the edge of the flight boundary will ensure an incident-free life in aviation.

As for knowing the numbers - Who can say with any precision the speed from the left hand seat with the throttle to the wall, at what speed the plane actually began to fly on each and every occasion? You can only say that the speed was in the region of ...

OME