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Hi Michael, probably not many.Most 17 years are too busy playing X box, chasing the opposite sex and/or playing with themselves. Welcome aboard.

I'm 43, just over a year in, and likewise wish I had started when I was your age. Good onya and welcome aboard!!

does this mean you get to paint racing stripes down the side IanR?

this month's entry;

http://morerightrudder.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/progress-has-been-made/

Think I nailed it guys... had a STOL lesson this weekend, and I think it finally clicked :)

3 metres past the numbers on the first go, then right on em after that! :)

sign me up!

And you'll always remember the correct answers for the 16% you got wrong from now on too.... Yes?!

Hehe, he'll go over them and get the list back to me, for now all I know is the score. Thanks everyone :)!

Was supposed to do a Nav today but the weather looked a bit iffy (though in the end it would have been OK, better safe than sorry...) so instead we stayed local and drilled on STOL techniques, which I am pleased to say I took to fairly well I think. Since we still had a fair block of time left, having allocated it to the Nav, I decided to take a crack at the Nav/Met exam - and passed it! 84%, not the best in the world, but being mostly off memory and common sense I feel like it was a respectable showing.

So that is the last RAAus test I need to complete, now its just more hours and a few more bits in the syllabus to learn. Still waiting on first solo, but that has been weathered out for the last 3 attempts... but I am sure like one's wedding day it will come and go like that and it will all be a blur.

All in all, a great day!!

f**kwits.... there's always someone....

Hi UL - that was really good - not usually a fan of sped up video OR music in aviation vids, but this one worked really nice! What was the music? Reminded me a bit of Deep Purple or similar. Good stuff. Do you happen to have an un-sped-up version of the Victor 1 flight?

Oh woops, sorry!

One comment on the video editing - instead of a lot of short cuts you can run the video at much higher rate.It's something I've picked up from one of the videos posted here.

Especially if it's a cross country flight, where there isn't a lot of things happening - run it at 8x or even 16x normal speed and you'll be able to show the whole flight in reasonable time and keep the people watching it interested as there will be a lot of scenery changes.

 

Obviously if you're doing some complicated maneuvers or aerobatics that won't work, but a normal joy flight should be good enough and you can always slow the more interesting parts down.

 

One problem I'm yet to solve is my GoPro fogging up after some time flying.

 

Edit:

 

This is the video I was referring to: http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/video-sydney-victor-1-flight.29759/

 

or just:

 

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hehe i remembered that Top Gun scene when i was doing Circuit Emergencies.... CFI idled engine and I turned and glided it right past the tower, and thought how silly it would be if I could edit that into the coffee spill scene somehow.

ahhh love Crowded House... nice one! Love that little circular rainbow that appears for just a second, i'd love to glimpse one of those.

I think it might just be the culture of the day, with all of our warnings and disclaimers and focus on health and safety, as well as the focus *away* from personal responsibility... even if there was no heritage and we were starting from scratch here and now, I doubt it would look like it did then. Also yeah, what FT mentioned. I just think its a consumer-driven ethic, and the push for MORE MORE MORE and bigger/better/fancier in almost everything we do. This is no exception I guess, but I think you are 100% right. Sad beyond belief.

good thread, i've often thought about this although I haven't done any XC yet, that is supposed to change soon!

how about

* a few flare sticks for attracting attention

* spare tube and hand pump (in case you pop a tyre on landing but otherwise OK)

* boots or slip-over rubber shoe covers (in case you are in your thongs and land in snake territory!)

Thanks naremman... did my second one this Sunday past, young gentleman with Cerebral palsy and his mum. I can only hope in my wildest dreams that I can one day join those ranks.. i'm working on it!

thanks again :)

I think they'll BE the snags...

Thanks aro, yeah probably stated that poorly... i didn't exactly mean "land on my aim point" but more "land where i should land for the aim point I chose". Great advice though thanks!

and cscott - exactly what I am looking for, your "hallway exercise"... great mental exercise that doesn't cost $200 an hour!

Next lesson is saturday, i'll definitely report back here on how i go!

Well.. that's fair enough. I'd still like to hear opinions and thoughts, and I promise I am only looking at this as mental exercise, not a substitute for doing the hard yards with my instructor.

He did recommend a bit of Flight Sim time to help program that tendency out, so think i'll get onto that tonight!

Yup, all good Nev. To be clear... my CFI and I have been and will continue to work this out. not really expecting to sort it here, but you'd be surprised when someone says "yeah that used to happen to me until I started thinking of it this way..." then it clicks. Sometimes your instructor is the one to say that, sometimes it just comes up in conversation here. I think of it the same as walking into the club house and saying, "gee i had a devil of a time with X today..." - don't think everyone there would just say "sort it with your instructor" and walk away.

Yup that's it... my CFI and I will work it out, this is just a discussion, you know to get other people's thoughts and experiences. Believe it or not, I have learned TONS in just this way, sometimes someone will say something here that clicks in a way that it hadn't before when explained to me by the instructor. Then when I go back next time, he's happy to see i've finally gotten my head round it. Some of you guys might not realise how wise you are to someone such as myself to whom almost everything is new!

hi Motz, 70 on final, 65 over the threshold. Normally full flaps unless its quite windy.

hi Sapph - yup you have nailed it! though, its not enough of a pull up to stall, more of a level off - would look great if done at the right spot lol. I figure it out pretty quickly, but as you say it chews up alot of runway even in that period of time. I'd like to be able to plant it right where i am aiming.

hi Motz, its the Jab 170

Hi David, thanks!

OK, so once i do get down to flare height I seem ok with looking at the end of the runway and the actual landing... whatever this is seems to just be something that happens 10-15 mtr up, so really well before flare height. Then speed actually goes down, then by the time i get it sorted I am back on slope and speed but a bit farther down the run way. I've asked my CFI if we can do some STOL lessons, thinking that might help.

Hey all,

Just hoping for a bit of discussion on how to get over this tendency to level off rather than keeping the aim point in sight?

From turning base all the way through short final, my speed-aimpoint cycle is great, then for some reason right about 10 metres off the ground, i tend to slightly level off such that i start overshooting my aim point for no good reason. I still make it down ok, just 1/3 down the runway.

Its like I am still subconsciously afraid of ramming nose first into the ground, though I *know* there is no danger of this as my flare judgement is usually OK.

I have read about gradually shifting your focus away from the aim point once you are getting closer, so that the ground does not suddenly appear to be coming so quickly all of a sudden, could this be what is happening?