Old Koreelah

...Maybe airlines would do well to forget "standard passenger" and just charge per kg being transported, as long it doesn't exceed the actual seat limitations.

http://www.samoaair.ws/index.php/booking-2/pay-by-weight

Adopt the precautionary principle: assume every prop can bite you, that each hand-turned rotation can start the engine. Stand behind the prop holding something substantial, with mags off, brakes on, throttle closed, door open. Make allowances for Murphy Law.

I flew in and out of Brisbane twice this week on Virgin....that airport is so under capacity...cant see how it can be economic to truck people or freight that far...

Wings appear to be largely intact but hangar demolished?

I'm trying to relate this to the old "drop an egg off a building without it breaking" challenge.

I've toyed with inventing a built-in weight and balance monitoring system based on pressure in the aircraft's landing gear hydraulics. The total could tell the pilot how close to MTOW he was getting, the third wheel could be calibrated to display actual CoG.

Amazing that P-40 got home with half the wing shot off. Maybe it's true what they say: the wing is just streamlining for the spar.

it would be easier to just crashyour car into a tree

Hi "Old Koreelah", very nice Moto Guzzi motorbike! :spot on:surely you know where this motorcycle was built...

You know how they have those metal frames at the check in, that carry on baggage has to fit inside, a kind of go, no go gauge. Well maybe they need a similar set up for people.

Damned by faint praise!

When I saw the name Lario I got all excited. Here is my Lario:

How in hell did it get into that position (did it drop in backwards?) and what bird laid that egg?

...politically correct committees of greenie vegetarian fat lady sociologists so that we ignore common sense and we charge a light person excess baggage and subsidise obese people.

I would love to pay by weight, especially having twice been sandwiched beside enormous humans who nonchalantly requested a seat belt extension; I didn't know there was such a thing.

...was landing back at YCNK which I would have given it a generous 5 out of 10. Nothing broken :cheezy grin:but if it had been any worse it could have been exciting. Of course, there must have been a freak gust of wind just before touchdown, just like in all the incident reports you read.

Last landing at Cessnock I copped a bit of extra side wind opposite the gap in the trees half way down the strip. Pushed me off the tarmac, so I gave it a handful and went around. Must add some more area to the rudder.

This one was found sitting under a tree not far west of Currabubula. The most interesting feature was the 1600 Jab engine, the first I had seen. After years out in the weather it's bores are likely to be a tad rusty. Perhaps a good kid's playground item.

Cheeky bugger!

At last! Some one else who remembers one of the best shows. Marty Feldman was unique.

Okey ewes blokes! I have corrected my cruddy post so it makes sense.

...Fortuitously the big jets are responsive to corrective inputs over a wide CG range...

The obvious solution; from a part of the world that needs it:

http://www.samoaair.ws/index.php/booking-2/pay-by-weight

Little OT...I'd admit I'm probably one who this wisdom is lost. The message is lost in the volume of content I'm afraid.

 

We had an email drafted to be sent to staff by our internal communications people. The email was instructional and informational so quite long so before we sent it, we offered a prize towards the end of the email. Suffice to say that no one collected...Ak

DLL : Remember, the definition of a pessimist is - an optimist with experience.

When you wake up in the morning and find you are still alive, you know it is the start of another good day.

... Remember, the definition of a pessimist is - an optimist with experience.

DLL : Remember, the definition of a pessimist is - an optimist with experience.