planedriver

IF it turns out to be drone? as a responsible drone pilot myself, I hope the offender gets the book thrown at them if they can identify the culprit.

Looks like a great weekend away Graham.

Life's good eh!

The name "Galloping Ghost" reminds me of the first radio control system I built, using acorn valves from WW2 walkie-talkies purchased from government disposal stores.

For those not as old as me, who'd like a quick history lesson,it was a "rudder only" system where the rudder was constantly flapping a bit in the neutral position. By moving the control stick left or right, the mark-space ratio was altered so the rudder flapped mainly to the left, or to the right. It was primitive, but worked reasonably well on the old slow-moving models. Then along came the transistors which made things a lot better.

I was young and very fit in those days due to partly to all the running I did. Fly-away's were pretty common back then.

As of this mornings news, Air Asia will ban all passengers boarding with a pet parrot on their shoulder.

When you see documentaries about migrating birds and the altitude that they fly at, it's a wonder there are not more bird-strikes. There's plenty of instances where it occurs at lower levels and gets the PIC's full attention.

Not something you'd want to stuff up a nice day's flying.

Just be wary if you see an elderly lady with a hand-full of coins about to board your flight.

Coins thrown into plane engine by old lady for luck cause delay

You would think that the excessive vibration would give the pylons and airframe structure a real workout if it continued for 1 1/2hrs.

Hope it gets thoroughly checked out by Airbus, which i'm sure it would.

The last thing you want is a fatigue fracture to come back and bite you some way down the track.

Air Lingus the Irish airline, used to have a priest bless the flight before take-off.

However, that's going back a good few years.

Thanks, feel better now Alf. $1287 return to London attracted me.

I will not fly on any budget Asian or Middle Eastern airline ever, flew once on Air India on a dirty rattling 737 from Singapore once to Mumbai (companies fault) and never againIf QF32 was flown by some of these airlines I'm betting it would have been the first loss of a A380 as the culture is totally different, they cannot question the captain, they are afraid to override his authority, lot of them are not stick and rudder pilots just automated trained, quite a few accidents over the years where the pilots were confused with what the plane was saying (Aerolingus out of Peru, Air France off the African coast just to name a couple)

I think Western trained pilots have a far better culture and understanding when it comes to problems)

I'm flying to London in a few weeks with Qatar. Mate can you find a few comforting words for me?

Tea-towels, mats, Will update,or anything that may help me?

Rgds planey

Mate, that's "priceless".

"Good-on-yer" as they say, so happy you had a very memorable flying day.

He really looks the part, and I wonder whether it was actually flown from the r/h seat:cheers:.

Rgds planey

Blonde moment eh Planey haha! thanks for posting mate, brings back memories for me also, although I wasn't a pilot when there.

It's probably hard for us in Oz to realize that the people in this village took 14yrs to make the clearing for an airstrip.

Certainly not the place for the inexperienced, or those lacking the necessary skills to fly into, but i'm sure it means the world to those locals.

The pilot looked happy with the chook's, though they didn't ask whether he'd like "fries" with them.

Boof-head me, forgot the attachment.

Here it is

One Crazy and Dangerous Airplane Landing

When I saw it, I thought it would bring some memories of when Tomo was in PNG.

Those that have not been around as long as me and others on these forums, our mate Thomo spent some time in PNG, so I thought this may bring back a few (hopefully) happy memories for him.

If you dig back through old posts, his experiences there, were a real interesting read.

Hi Tomo.

This ones for you mate, and might bring back a few memories.

By the way, how did the chicken taste?

Kind Rgds planey.

Maybe it's me in the box

That's real sad outcome for such an iconic aircraft.

This say's it how it really is.

Do you want to rephrase that or do you have a death wish? Kaz

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I remember looking over an HP42 at Croydon Airport as a little fellah, though I never flew in one.

From where I lived you could hear them warming up the engines for ages before they took off and climbed out, normally going over our house.

The majority of the flights were with DC2' & 3's and a few DH82 Dragon Rapides.

In those days they flew direct London to Paris etc: I'm told that when radar and flight corridors were introduced, if an aircraft went missing, it narrowed down the area where they had to look for the broken bits. Probably not true, but that was the story going around at the time.

I remember Croydon well, and as a kid when they had an open-day was talked into doing a simulated parachute jump off the top of a hangar where a tough-looking soldier controlled the brake of the fixed line after I jumped. When I got home my Dad asked me how my underpants were?

Reward. What my wife gives me if I have been a good boy..Alan.

Be thorough with your pre-flights, don't extend the envelope or your capabilities, keep the family and loved ones in the back of your mind, and fly safe.

We want more posts from you.

Last Sunday (Mothers Day) I was finally able to take my mum up flying. She has been waiting for this since she help me start flying 21 years ago....Although it was a cloudy day, so my planned flight to the Glasshouse and then over Bribie became just a 1100' flight to Bribie and then over water where I could get up to 3500' at least and back. She really loved it.