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An awesome day! Thanks to RNAC for professional coordination to ensure the action kept coming. Good tucker and facilities. Only a small downside: (besides the cold wind) it wasn't ideally set up for fly-ins, with taxiway blocked.

...The Gozleme for lunch was superb!...

December 6th, 0.00 am....and still illegal under US Federal law.

 

And since we're serious, weed was made illegal in the US when Edgar J Hoover became a major shareholder of Dupont. The biggest competitor to Dupont's new nylon rope was hemp rope ..... Hoover demonised weed for the sole purpose of eliminating hemp, i.e, the competition.

And there are still millions of people who are not cynical.

Nice one Don. Looks like a close relative. I prefer your paint job- it will be cooler on a hot day and easier to see.

Our mate's last plane was a P200 and very impressive.

Keep that timber frame for future use.

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Looks more Czech than Italian - Bristell?Very stylish whatever it is.

I've been offered a seat in a nice Italian sports job. Might get there after all.

Frank your interpretation makes sense of what I have been observing. Having an altitude reading in terms of your own height is more useful than AMSL.

OzRunways traffic opens up a whole new topic of conversation.

Couldn't find a tutorial on Traffic so I assume the following: the little blue icons shows direction of travel, altitude, rego and whether the aircraft is climbing or descending.

If a flight plan was made and "Go Fly" selected it's shown, along with the aircraft rego. If not, it's "unknown".

(Open to corrections) Altitude seems to be shown as FL above ground, rather than AMSL. Wonder why?

I've been underwhelmed by one or two dodgy Australian aircraft dealers, so it's nice to report that I've always received good service when phoning the Jab factory. Ian Bent has also given me mobs more time than he should have. A bit of courtesy goes a long way.

On Saturday we had organised for a few friends to come over for a bonfire in the evening so first thing I was flat out getting things sorted, but by 10:30 I was finished and had nothing else to fill in time so I decided it was a good time to ring up my cousins down the road and see if they wanted to go for a fly...

Just got back to work and a CT-4 trainer flew over and did a series of aeros. Lucky buggers!

Phil how do you Poms fit all them hairy planes in such a little island?

We need a bit of light relief occasionally. Who does that anyhow? Nev

Ki-61 gear retracts inwards, 109 retracts outwards.

...I wouldn't be surprised if the Ki-61 was a ME-109 since I do know the engine for the Ki-61 was a german design and only one plant was making it until being bombed into pieces. Whereas the Japanese radial fitted to make the -61 a -100 was made far more widely as it was a common fitment to Jap planes, like the Merlin in England.

All this discussion has convinced me to dig our bread maker out of the cupboard.

Now that we have PVs on the roof we can have freshly baked for lunch without burning coal.

Kawasaki Hien

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ki-61

Go for it. Broaden your experience, it can only help your appreciation of the differing flight characteristics of different types. One minor problem is documentation if you don't happen to have your logbook with you.

Some good points Aldo.

Remaining current is important, but many of us get very little airtime. In recent years I spent hundreds of hours building and realised I was letting my modest flying skills ossify. A couple of flights with instructors in different aircraft helped a little.

A training approach I picked up yonks ago with the VRA was to have a fair dinkum honest debrief session after each activity. At times a bit like painful group therapy, but it sure is useful when you get told the truth about how crap you performed. Not sure how this could be adapted to flyers, but there is a crying need for it amoung some pilots; maybe I'm one of them.

Thanks for that Planey! Best viewed with decent headphones.

Now I have some idea of the sound my mum heard in the darkest days of 1942, when she watched 52 Kittyhawks fly over heading to New Guinea. They weren't in formation, but it must have been a stirring sight and sound after months of bad war news.

Complacency? After the first hundred hours or so we feel proficient and may cut corners in preflights, overlook checklists.

Impulsiveness? Doing something on the spur of the moment on a motorcycle might cost you some skin and money. In the air we cannot afford to act on impulse.

Preparation? My plane spends much more time being prepared for flight (and repaired afterwards) than it does in the air. It isn't as complex as a Space Shuttle, but it deserves the same level of care.

I can see where you're coming from, Bruce and agree with most of what you say.

Elsewhere on this forum it has been suggested that RAAus get more involved in training. This idea has merit and your suggestion of using simulators might fit in here.

Our national body might be able to assemble some training resources that few if any FTFs could afford. They could be kept at a central location or shared around the Fly Ins.

How do we exit an upturned aircraft if we land in rough or boggy ground?

We need a training airframe or two that could be flipped over to give us some preparation for that very real situation.

...We could seriously drop the road toll with an IQ test, culling out the bottom 10%. ...

What is intelligence? There are many different types. I score pretty well in most written tests, but that has little bearing on my ability to concentrate for long periods or react to emergencies.

Downstream of the Carby is the go. Oil in the carby could affect it's calibration. Nev

I don't want to install the CAMit system until I have a major overhaul due. Meanwhile, it would be nice to have a pump and proper jet nozzle.

One of the posts mentioned an oil that doesn't produce smoke. That's nice for the environment, but I have relied on a smoke plume to tell me the oil is getting into the engine.

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