Old Koreelah

The Moodies made grand, timeless music.

Wonderful to hear so many kids are getting to experience real flying. They'll thank you. Sam's doing his bit in Qdi.

Yeah. The pictures in question were carved on a cave wall!

When wool was a Pound a pound there were a lot of cockeys with aircraft. Tamworth had Rollers everywhere...

A shame that most of us think each boom will last forever. Instead of rebuilding roads and railways, we spent the windfall on new cars and the like.

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/country-by-country/australia.htm[/url]

Kaz

 

Fascinating memories, Kaz. That database has me intrigued:

 

Aircraft entered high speed dive duringlimited-panel training.Pilot recoveredaircraft and returnedto base9 nm east ofStanthorpe,Qld

 

Is that a misprint, or was there a base near Stanthorpe? (I grew up just east of there)

We need to reward the enterprising people who drive our economy. Many of the wealthy deserve their riches because they worked damned hard to get there- and can't see why everyone else shouldn't. Many resent having to pay taxes (even the low taxes in Australia) and justify tax avoidance schemes by claiming governments would just waste their money anyway.

What the Ginas of this world won't admit is that without the infrastructure paid for by the tax pool, they'd be nowhere. If they resent making a fair contributiion, they could move to central Africa, where there are lots of minerals, and start again. They would quickly find how expensive it is to establish and maintain viable legal, educational, training, health, transport, communication and governance systems.

Those go straight to the pool room. Keep them coming!

Reading about Louis Blériot's flight over the channel, looking at the pictures and thinking "I could build that!"... Must have been about 8 at the time, and the thought has never left me.

I saw few aircraft, none up close, but used to watch a strange-looking freighter on its regular flights over our farm, climbing to make it over Acacia Plateau. Almost fifty years later I got talking to an old flier who turned put to have been the pilot.

You wild old bugga flying that close so your fin was in the hole ... lucky you didn't get sucked right up in that damn thing.I had a mate in a C206 tell me a story way out west flying between centres when he got caught on the fringe of a large CU. He said he will never forget the experience. He said when he realised he was being caught in the up draft he closed the throttle and pointed the 206 down, he said he was right at VNE, throttle closed and still climbing. He doesn't know to this day how he got out of it but said he was absolutely sh!tting himself.

Our sailplane training was well-flavoured with stories about people who stuffed up; including the pilot who bailed out after his sailplane got sucked up into a CB.

Bits of aeroplane were seen to fall out of the cloud, then much later the frozen body of the pilot, tangled in parachute cords.

Have you considered standing for election John? This sort of clear insight coupled with positive solutions is what we need on our board.

... I also know that the flat bottoms are very flat and who from the ground would have thought that?...

Always a surprise in the sky. While it's often possible to predict the weather by reference to the chart, sometimes I get it totally wrong. The chart only shows what's happening on the surface.

What I did on Sunday.

Trials is potentially a very dangerous sport; a bit like flying, bikes need speed for stability. I have come off at 130 without injury, but broken bones at walking pace.

I was told that if my BRS was launched there'd need to be 80mm of polystyrene foam under my seat to absorb the 10.5G impact of a vertical arrival. I nearly got there; my fibreglass seat is moulded to my butt and it sits on about 50mm of foam mounted on webbing. It might work, but in a prang I'd still prefer to be travelling forward under control.

... in the event of crash, an unfired airbag is recognised by safety organisations ( e.g. SES, RFS, Ambulance etc.) as a major hazard for recovery personnel working inside the cabin area of vehicles and there are very strict guidelines about occupant recovery procedures - hence the common occurrence of the vehicle being cut open before the occupants are removed. A small aircraft is a far more difficult cabin area for recovery personnel to work in than most vehicles. I believe the same goes for unfired BRS installations.

Would airbags increase survival rate and reduce injury in jabs during forced landings? It's cheaper than a chute. I am just brainstorming…

Great, RG, but lets use the picture of a Real Pilot: Jimmy Stewart.

http://www.danielsww2.com/JimmyStewart.html

We all draw the line at different places.

Ozzie, the SAAA has around 2500 members to our 10,000 or so. We do have an agreement of cooperation with them, and there is good feeling and assistance between the two like organizations..........Maj....

Deadstick has a point: CASA should provide evidence that there is a need for more regulation of repairer and maintainers.

If they don't even investigate fatal accidents, how are they going to gather that evidence?

Storchy Neil's bad experience may not be the only case of dodgy repairs, but how would CASA or RAA know without some form of research?

Has our sector escaped the Federal Government's drive to cut regulation and abolish mobs of agency and authorities?

Good on you for throwing your hat into the ring, Andy. You have contributed much to this forum, so the Board should benefit from your input.

A few questions voters may want to throw at you: Being a fairly young bloke with, presumably, business and family responsibilities, can you afford the time and energy that being on the Board requires? Does your co-pilot realise the extra workload and time away from home you are committing to?

If the answer is yes, then go for it. But remember; you only have your kids at home for a few short years. Those years are when most of us are striving to build the house, the business or the career. By the time we get it all set up, our littlies have shot through.

I think there will be more to this than we are told, as per usual. The search might be something just to appear to be doing something, right? Is there anybody happy with the way our taxes are spent?

Given the gains in training and operational experience (and to our international relations) it's not a big outlay, especially when compared to the billions spent on recent wars.

Never heard of a Fohngap. I do know what the fohn effect is and what causes it. maybe someone could explain the fohngap. Or is it just a renaming of something old to fool us old codgers?

Anyway, for the information of anyone crossing the range, our club has a safe haven for those who decide to turn back until conditions improve.

http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/did-you-do-it-over-the-weekend-who-with-tell-us-about-it.115029/#post-426504 #20

I taped a cardboard cover/hood onto the top of the iPad; just lift it to see.

Awsome, HITC! Exactly the sort of condensed wisdom I was looking for. I can sure identify with several of them.

Mate you are on ... I just luuuuuuvv those Hornets .