planedriver

As a quick diversion to the person nominated, together with his assistant, we wish to point out that with due consideration, the proposed cat photographer would not be a suitable applicant, and i'm sure no offence was intended in suggesting so.

He would be too busy photographing Cheeta's,Tigers and the like. (Phew!! Captain you owe me, for saving some bacon to go with your eggs in the morning).

Would you like some french-fries with that order Sir, or, maybe a couple of hash-browns?.

Meanwhile, with a sobering thought, the story follows that............

...go with darky instead...

A big Winston.

Like most of us after their first TIF, I bet you were on a "high" when you went to bed last night, re-living your experiences earlier in the day. I think we all did.

As a young bloke, starting out to work with very little money, but always having been interested in model aeroplanes, I used to save up and book a TIF with a different club each time just for the fun of it, just to get in the air. This was 40 odd years ago, and the local airfield had no less than 13 aero clubs to choose from. Over about about a three year period i'd tried 11 of them. It gets you that way.

Many years later I started training on Piper Warriers which I enjoyed, but had difficulty keeping up with financial side.

If this is of any concern to you?, you might also want to consider going down the RAA path which can be quite a bit easier on the pocket than GA, although there are some restrictions where you can fly, and you can always convert to GA when finances are a bit less of a burden to you.

Whilst quite a few of the guys on these forums have vast airline backgrounds and freely pass on their knowledge which is absolutely priceless, the greater majority here choose to fly RAA, but still manage to fly all around Australia if thats what you'd like to do.

As far as safety is concerned, good training, good habits, and being well prepared for the unexpected can cover many of the risks involved, so I understand your initial feelings.

I like to go boating which also has certain risks, but I am always well prepared and never ever push the boundary's of what I consider is as safe as I can possibly make it. The same goes with flying.

I would suggest that at this stage, it might be wise to also try the RAA path as well, and then decide which path you feel comfortable with, and one which also suits your pocket, to fulfill your desire, that we are all famliiar with.

Keep us posted.

Kind Regards

Planey

Yeah, I should re word that, a guy opened up under him. Anyway Its not a good position to be in.

Hi Pete, The difference is thats one's in the primary catagory and the others in light sports.

Edge Aviation at West Sale now have two J160D's' son line.

Kind Regards

Planey

if any of you even try to touch my mum[/b], you'll have a ton a bricks to contend with....

Gees he doesn't muck around said someone in the back ground...

No worries there Tomo, us gentleman of the forum, will take care of that in your absence, for sure.

Decca is ok too, don't worry about what others may say. If he offers to give your mum a glass of red to be friendly, he's only bragging and wants to show off a special aviation corkscrew which someone gave him for Christmas. So even a a couple of glasses there's no chance that anything can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong!

Shhhhhhhhhh! Tomo.

Our Maj is more careful than that.

Hello tangocharlie 123I received a lot of practice of wet rubbing with running water.

Painting the Terrier is a task of terror, mine was a night mare.

 

Filling the little pin holes in the green fibre glass was a task and half.

 

On the wings I used a high build paint and sanded that back to bare just leaving the pin holes filled with the high build I had to do that three times before I had a satisfactory result, the fuse I squegied west sytem 411 all over and then sanded that back to bare fibre glass,, If I ever had to paint a Terrier again the 411 trick is the way go and there is no need for a photo finish for the ideas.

 

Regards,

 

Keith Page.

Anyway, remember, you should be the expert in filling cavities:laugh:

The Europa used to be supplied in green fibreglass originally as I have a video on it, but I think it is now supplied with gelcoat which would save so much construction time.

Pity yours is'nt the same

Remember----A slow job takes a long time, but it will be all worthwhile in the end when you proudly show it off to the world, and us of course.

Don't spend all your spare time in the Lightwing, we want to see the finished job too.

Kind Regards

Alan

Welcome Ralph and good luck with the Savanah.

So you did'nt buy one of the locally made Foxcons?

Regards Planey

At the speed he was travelling, it was good that he only hit the canopy.

Fortunately it had a good outcome, which they can both look back on at a later date.

..... ProtectivePete took her arm and said "Come over to the Rec. Flying tent and let's have a couple of hotties and as .............

Tomo's Mum had a job to keep up with him as they ran towards the tent arm in arm.

Whew!!! she gasped, you have the fitness of a very much younger man (I admire that). I spose you also train hard for the Chooka egg-n-spoon race and bale tossing contest:question:.

She was really impressed :thumb_up:with the consideration shown to her, as she was worried that her dear boy was possibly spending far too much time with a bunch of "riff-raff", who were not respectable Queens landers.

Planey assured her that whilst we occasionally get a bit carried away and say things we regret, we were mostly a league of gentleman, who have a distinctive handshake which is normally a bit greasy, but ok, after giving visitors a welcoming pat on the back.

Young Tomo negoitated a discount for a manicure for his Mum, by submitting his most -posts posted points, while the boss was busy flogging his aviation stuff, and throwing half of the money in the under-counter tin with Millenium something written on it;).

"After the manicure, come for a quick spin with me" said the smooth-talking Captain, "you'll just love my Jabby. It's a special 230TT version.(Twin Taipans) It's got a conversion with a 1.5 Taipan fitted to one wing, a 2.5 on the other and can really leap off the ground like a homesick angel". When used as a tri-motor on short take-off's, the buzzing sound is a bit like the electric flycatcher in the local fish n chip shop on a hot day, but its getting off the ground quick that counts.:big_grin:

Meanwhile..............

i think that some of the military transports Hercs etc can back up by reversing the prop pitch. I'm sure some one on here more informed than I can advise.Davidh

I have seen them demonstrate that capability at airshows, along with the Caribou doing their famous wheel-barrow act. Flying with just the nosewheel on the deck using full flaps and heaps of grunt from the engines. It's spectacular to watch and very noisey

Regards

Planey

Three Australians and three Maoris are travelling by train to a

Rugby match at the World Cup in England. At the station, the three

Aussies each buy a ticket and watch as the three Maoris buy just one

ticket between them.

"How are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asks

one of the Aussies. "Watch and learn bro," answers one of the Maoris

They all board the train. The Aussies take their respective seats

but all three Maoris cram into a toilet and close the door behind them.

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around

collecting tickets. He knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket

please."

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket

in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The Aussies see this and agree it was quite a clever idea. So after

the game, they decide to copy the Maoris on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that).

When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the

return trip. To their astonishment, the Maoris don't buy a ticket at

all!!

"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed

Aussie.

"Watch and learn bro ," answers a Maori .

When they board the train the three Aussies cram into a toilet and

soon after the three Maoris cram into another nearby. The train

departs.

Shortly afterwards, one of the Maoris leaves the toilet and walks

over to the toilet where the Aussies are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket please."

Hi Steve, welcome to the forums.Recreational flying certainly has some cost effective answers, it just depends how many seats you need in the aeroplane (and a few other options) to decide whether to go ppl or not.

 

Regards, Decca.

Welcome to the forums Steve.

That Decca fellah has many of the right answers, even though he's younger than me:big_grin:.

If you only want to take the mother-in law for a spin, there's a multitude of aircraft of aircraft to choose from.

However, if you need something larger? He may have the right contacts for one of his old 727's.

Keep us posted.

Regards

Planey.

Then I really set a cat amongst the pidgeons when I cam home to announce that I had bought a Tecnam Sierra ultra light aircraft. I was then asked (by my wife), what about my kitchen? Cheers, Doug McCullough

Mate, I reckon you made the right decision.

With the aid of the Technam, you can fly her around the country to source the best kitchen possible for her, as and when funds allow.

Be happy, and with a big smile on your face, knowing that you did it in her best interest.

What a kind considerate man you are!!??

Regards

Planey:thumb_up:

Whatever, I prefer to be well upwind in either case.

Hi Crazy,

Bankstown prices on Warriers, not forgetting the landing fee and time wasted on the ground, got too dear for me years ago.

Why not take a ride down to The Oaks one weekend? You will find a very friendly bunch of guys there, who all love their flying.

Daves Flying School have Jabiru, Lightwing and Bantam

Contact details: David Rolfe. Airport 02 4657 2771. Mobile 0414 740 766

or, Sydney Recreational Flying Club 02 4657 2604 (Normally only weekends) Mob. 0425 251 939 They have a Lightwing and a very nice Foxbat A22.

Either way, you could go flying for little more than half the Bankstown prices.

Hope this is of some interest to you.

Kind Regards

Planey

You know what they say JRMobile, "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good"

That's also a big relief to have just have advised you of the facts.

Rgds

Planey

Necessity 'is the mother of invention", they say.

I found it interesting, so thought i'd share it.

Kind Regards

Planey

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape...

Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and

accurate

map

, one showing not only where stuff was, but also showing the

locations of 'safe houses' where an escaped POW could go for food and shelter.

Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you

open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

Someone in MI-5 (similar to America 's OSS) got the idea of printing escape

maps on silk. It's an ideal material as it is durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise

whatsoever.

At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk. The firm was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.

By pure coincidence, Waddington's was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular

American board game, Monopoly. It was also a fact that 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of the Waddington's factory, a group of 'sworn-to-secrecy' employees began mass-producing escape maps, designed specifically for each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were situated.

When processed, these maps could be folded into such a minute size that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.

The clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:

1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass

2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together

3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, which was cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the "Free Parking" square.

Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government considered that they might want to use this highly successful ruse in any possible future war.

The story remained a secret until it was declassified in 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honoured in a public ceremony.

It's amazing to think that so many played that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card for real!

The sharing of marriage...

The old man placed an order for one hamburger, French fries and a drink.

He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife.

He then carefully counted out the French fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.

He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them . As he began to eat his few bites of hamburger, the people around them were looking over and whispering.

Obviously they were thinking, 'That poor old couple - all they can afford is one meal for the two of them.'

As the man began to eat his fries a young man came to the table and politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple. The old man said, they were just fine - they were used to sharing everything..

People closer to the table noticed the little old lady hadn't eaten a bite. She sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink.

Again, the young man came over and begged them to let him buy another meal for them. This time the old woman said 'No, thank you, we are used to sharing everything.'

Finally, as the old man finished and was wiping his face neatly with the napkin, the young man again came over to the little old lady who had yet to eat a single bite of food and asked 'What is it you are waiting for?'

She answered

'THE TEETH.

..."Sweet as, aye?.. but dude, that wouldn't look cooool,.... l8r" .. and off strolled TomYshouldI, jeans flopping around his knees. :DirtDOG:The rat thought to himself.......

Bugger the young-uns said The Rat, this is real serious business.

Whether they wear they wear their cap with the peak at the front, or the back, is not really the issue.

I'm not Really Rapt either way.:ah_oh:

Look said InsulationPete, I've got a heap of this foil insulation to off-load from the now defunkt Government Insulation Swindle.

Forget about having silly RAA stickers weighing your aircraft down, so the Gestapo can read your Rego at two hundred paces, and see if your RSL membership is up to date.

To get rid of this stuff, I suggest we make a rule that says----------Every RAAA pilot who's really "Fair Dinkum", should buy some of my inferior insulation foil and glue a stripe to the peak of their cap for every 20hrs, no, make that 10 hrs, they've flown (even on FlightSim counts), just to offload it at a small profit.

It may only be a small gesture of goodwill to some, (but it all counts in the popularity stakes) and for others with minimal hours, makes them feel like real pilots.:thumb_up::thumb_up::thumb_up:

ElRatto felt Rat-trapped at this idea, but said nothing.

Tommo was gob-smacked at the thought of of being considered a young-un, with all this insulation on his cap as he struggled to to get his Drifter to release from the surly bounds of earth------"It's just like Nanna has jumped in the back seat with her lastest conquest"-----------

I am aware that my sense of humor is a bit off beat sometimes. Cheers, Qwerty

Bear in mind that some folks just don't have one.

You'll be right mate, just let the dust settle.

Regards

Planey

Take your camera and post some pic's with a report. They're always good to see by the less fortunate amongst us who aren't going.

Have a safe trip.

Kind regards

Planey