flyerme

Hi Rosita,sorry to hear about the outlanding. thanks so much for posting the info.Hope your healing well.

hope to out lamaroo way soon..

This morning I removed my lightwing from the hanger and descovered appox 1/2 the the right wing upper outer surface including the ailron skin was very loose? was crumpled and looked like 1/2 the wing had been in an accident? I emediatly inspected and found nothing? I then rang a Lvl 2 and whilst on the phone and less than 5 mins later ,my wife informed me the skin was back super tight?

The lvl 2 could not explain it . once it was in the sun it tightened almost emediatly. the wing is alloy.with coveing,looks like poly fibre

never seen this before? any ideas?

Wonder if thats a miss print (Pinaroo) and they mean Pinnaroo?My son and I were flying local here at the same time was nice flying weather.theres only 1 plane at Pinnaroo its a decathlon,Theres Trever in his 701 whome was here couple of days ago with a private stip but no one else in pinnaroo,theres parilla patatoes cessna at parilla then a heap of boys at lamaroo..hope to get some more info on the plane and pilot..

Wonder if thats a miss print (Pinaroo) and they mean Pinnaroo?My son and I were flying local here at the same time was nice flying weather.theres only 1 plane at Pinnaroo its a decathlon,Theres Trever in his 701 whome was here couple of days ago with a private stip but no one else in pinnaroo,theres parilla patatoes cessna at parilla then a heap of boys at lamaroo..hope to get some more info on the plane and pilot..

been thinking about this sort of thing of late.A USA airshow is ussually pretty spectacular now days ,but here? well it gets kinda boring! last few airshows we've been to were pretty rank,most exciting thing was the hotdog stand,unfortunatly its because of the lack of entertainment that the shows here are not drawing the big crowds,.I understand the liability issues but other than the ussual Chris Sparou doing some aero,s not much happens .I rarely bother going to them anymore,,seen 1 you seen them all... bring back SNOOPY im happy to sign a liabilty waiver (I have to to be operated on which I class as a higher risk and not as fun.!

Of course you had to ground the plane but were there no facilities to weld it there? One gliding club I was with had continual problems with cracked muffler on a Pawnee. Many mornings they had it pulled off and someone was welding it up. Talking about welding, I am restoring a boat trailer and have to do vertical welds and welding underneath which is the worst when "lava" dribbles down on you. Is gasless mig welding easier than the stick welding I am doing?

the bottom one looks like a R/C seems to have a receiver wire hanging from behind cockpit?

Using your diving analogy, nothing wrong with finding an experienced pilot to take along with you!

Ill second that.

As I've mentioned before ,If your NOT nervous then more likely your over confident ..over confidence leads to poor judgement in my experience,fear will keep you on your toes and out of trouble.I ALWAYS do 3 pre-flights that take around 15-20 mins,in doing this Ive found things that have been missed by other pilots,even found a crack in a wing box attatchment on a training plane and felt a little nervous telling the CFI,He was very appreciative and gave me a pat on the back, he cancelled the flight and... removed and replaced it .Since then I have ALWAYS spent extra time in pre-flight., have noticed a LOT of pilots, CFI included don,t even look for cracks and alike..

I didnt say stay away from ebay...Mark11 did.....ebay is fine...I bought a enclosed single seat thruster off ebay a little while ago..Sold it to a young guy from vic..He didnt have a licence at the time but did all his training in a t300 so he could fly it....(its on utube)..And he just recently sold it on ebay..He loved it but wanted to upgrade to a 2 seater.

,along with being innocent until proven guilty,

Met

good on ya Ian so where you doing your BFR?

what about ? if it can land on my strip it must be raa ,if runs into the trees at the end then its G. A (or me having a bad day with a tail wind) I do recall a jabi landing here 2 up!

def NOT a supercat or Bobat your right Plandriver they are built from wood..Ive,NEVER heard of a metal one!! I think it sort of looks like a volksplane? also wiyh the high cab surly it has to be a mid or low winger?

found this interesting

give them a little help to fall down safety:oops:

hope the rest of you south Aussies are holding up OK? We've lost x2 10 meter long corrigated fence pannels and a few tree branches. and stronger winds predicted later on?.. hoping at the end of this all the trees at the end of runway 06 have blown down? can only hope

Quote "then hobbled out ...."You hurt yourself Flyerme?

Did you say the plane was big and YELLOW?

not sure how you would go on the 300 meters in that beast but if you would like to try Ill charge the camera

spies?CASA? more concerned about 26knt wind blowin in the open hanger here,,time for tie downs me thinks.. take it easy 126.7

While eating my breaky 15 mins ago I heard what I thought was next doors loader back out extending my runway. awesome,quickly finished, then hobbled out to witness what I think? was a Kitfox?didn't get any numbers as I was surprised to see it climbing from my strip? It was all yellow with a red round cowling like a radial on the front.I waved and flapped but he/she/they didn't seem to see me... anyone know who it was? I was really disappointed they didn,t stop.pot was hot,could have had a cuppa and chat..I have a very good idea it was on the ground so not sure why they didn,t wait a little although the weather is deteriorating..really spewin it didn't stop,any one know whome it could have been? anyone on here? My wife in formed me that when Thirsty and I were fying home the local store counted 4 planes circle the strip in a 3 hr span..

Also get a lot of G.A traffic from the nrth/wst,they come over to a 180 around the property then head off.. I want to let every one Know the frequency here used is 126.7 If you fly out here I ask if you can use this frequency in the area,just for good "airmanship" practice.keep it under 10.000ft as the frequency is 125.?...Thank you and hope to see you here for a yak,,any ifo on the yellow plane much appreciated,,,

Just read this in another post,Not good, Why are so many small aerodromes vanishing? Development..Not good for us Newbies if we have No were To land or learn for that matter.

Good attitude Tim,Stay alive buddy, we are always learning, stick around to teach that 5 year old.

I'll have to drop in if ever I get that old Auster of mine flying, your 360 metre strip no problem for the old J1B.

 

I have a son on the Eyre at Tumby Bay, so it is only a matter of time and I will be down there.

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Flyerme - Great to see everything turned out ok and after the feeding frenzy you still have a sense of humour. Happy flying !!.

I was taught to always remove the cowl and do a thorough under cowl engine inspection as part of a daily. And I know others that learnt to fly at other schools have been taught the same. Personally, I think it's a good idea and plan to keep doing so.

is it different with a 4 stroke?

Is it normal to keep checking on your new plane every 5 mins,? fitted the new super fast red fluffly seat covers but have question? where do I hang the fluffly dice?