Gnarly Gnu

Welcome Geoff! Do you fly out of Canberra?

 

 

I have never liked the word "Mental". It has such stigma's! I think if they called it something else it would not have such a stigma attached to it. I think it goes back to the old days of Mental Institutions.

The old days were very non-PC. Did a job in a psych facility recently, it seems that on the file of one old man I was told it states his condition as "congenital idiot". We might use such a term jokingly (when talking about Wayne Swan for example) but this was the official birth description in that era. On the other hand if they diagnosed a problem back then you definitely had one. Now the psychs have come up with so many thousands of possible conditions we should apparently all be in therapy or on happy pills.

 

 

Great Eric! Yes the 170's are kinda floaty. I like to pull the throttle back at the end of downwind (maybe 1500 - 1800 rpm) and use the base turn to loose speed prior to extending flaps but with a turning call also this is perhaps slightly more involved than slowing first by raising the nose then flaps and turn. Wondering what GPS system you use to track your course on Google Earth?

 

 

It's all one sided. I demand comprehensive psychological profiling of all politicians with annual updates - and yes I'm serious. Why should we not know more about their state before they have the controls? (Seeing the Julia smiley used in the first post reminded me).

 

 

Presumably only if it is very charred?

 

 

Yep, Wayne is kind of a local legend.

 

 

Naturally Tony Abbott was not mentionedHee does not believe in flight

Sounds right. I heard he doesn't believe in spelling and grammar also.

 

 

if I eat bread, or quite starchy carb products I often literally bloat out

Yeah, I find bread / wheat based foods the worst also & avoid them (which is a pain as I like bread).

 

Another bad thing (at least for me) is diet soft drinks, stopped drinking soft drinks & fruit juice too. Interesting article - The strange reason diet soda makes you fat...

 

 

Howdy Ragwing, D7 fantastic - is that one of the Airdrome Aerodrome kits or something else? What will the engine be?

 

 

From Wired: 10 of the worlds most impressive paper planes

 

Greenies will love this new innovation - wow, wind powered fully biodegradable cellulose based aircraft!

 

 

300 meters, trees one end,fence the other

300m! Any chance of making that a ah.... folding fence?

 

 

This 100kg talk is scaring me!

 

 

 

Did you complete your list OME?

 

How about 55kg, fly in an LSA55?

 

 

Are you extending the length?

 

 

Can I suggest not limiting your defence force attention just to the Airforce - the Army & Navy also employ pilots although to a lesser extent of course. A good friend of mine is currently in a non-flying Airforce career & wanted to learn to fly Helos, he found out that for him it was going to be quicker and easier to jump across to the Army for this. Met a couple of ex USAF pilots (highly skilled middle east veterans BTW) who now fly B747 freighters internationally for FedEx and UPS respectively, these are contract jobs; not as fancy as Qantas by any stretch but still rather nice.

 

 

Going through Uni is not cheap. A quick look at Swinburne's Bachelor Aviation (3 years full time) HECS fees = $24,150 + $88,720 minimum to get you to Commercial Pilot's Licence (CPL) but not the full ATPL (you get theory only). That's $118,000 (allowing for inflation & texts) and all the costs of being a student for 3 years.

I was under the impression that the uni degree path was not necessarily highly regarded by the airlines over a non-uni CPL route, but I may be wrong on that? People are starting to wake up about young folk taking on massive higher education debt, it doesn't always pan out well (sorry we sound such a negative bunch Solomon):

 

 

- I so much wish I could draw like that!

 

 

noticed a passenger with a large suitcase strapped into the seat next to him, he told me that the extra seat ticket cost less than what the excess baggage would have been.

Yes you can purchase an extra seat. The 2nd seat costs less as the taxes are not applied and on QF at least you earn FF points and SC's for the extra seat also.

 

 

Want to earn good money in Aviation without decades of training and hard slog?

 

Get a job with CASA.

 

 

Re: odour-eaters

 

Would that work?

I dunno. Please could you slap one in the depends and report back the result for us?

 

Sorry Wayne, had to say it! Carbon tax day has gotten to my head.

 

 

Via the Dvice website.

 

With the 'carbon tax' coincidently starting tomorrow it's useful to know that carbon can apparently absorb the methane and hydrogen sulphide gasses occasionally emanating from our tailpipes.

 

 

Most absurd thing I remember was some chap with a pulled apart chainsaw as carry on baggage...

Provided there were no fluids I'm not getting this was somehow a problem?

 

We seem to have gotten unbelievably pansy.

 

 

Now the 'plastic fantastics' are great for winter, no cold drafts and all, but they are rather cosy in size. This product - and yes it does appear legitimate - could be just the ticket if you suffer embarrassingly odoriferous leakage at times in a tight dual cabin! Also potentially useful in a Jab if the engine ceases at an inopportune occasion! OK, perhaps more serious issues at stake in the latter instance. They also make activated charcoal chair pads deodorisers for the heavy artillery gas producers or 'big polluters' as Gillard would call them.

 

But the funny part is the comments at that link, really cracked me up. Ladies may not get it (well the cultured ones) but this subject is difficult for guys to discuss without at least some degree of mirth seeping through....

 

 

 

Yep same here - seems to occasionally de-activate the page you are looking at (any website) requiring you to click on it.

 

 

Maybe 95kg would work for an Aerochute / PPC (guessing) OME?

 

For me activity makes little difference (already reasonably active at work) and if you do the math - exercise vs kj - it is easy to see why as most food is extremely energy dense and more exercise makes you hungrier to boot. If I tank out on fat and protein with very little carb (basically an all-meat diet with no bread, potatoes & sugar etc) I loose weight really fast with no hunger. So bacon & eggs for breakfast, some cream for smoko, fish & salad for lunch, big roast with veg for dinner. The most recent studies are inverting decades of dietary theory - a high fat diet including lots of saturated fat actually lowers cholesterol & blood pressure also for most people; saturated fat / butter / cream is high in vitamin K2 which in now known to reduce atherosclerosis. The folk in the old days that ate lard, dripping and cod liver oil turned out to be smarter than most no fat no salt dieticians today.

 

 

Fantastic, heh also noticed the barely-existant OHS in that factory, fagging on the job and all.... yet managed to work so efficiently & turn out a great product.