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Actually NEV, IT WAS JUST A PLAIN OLD JOKE . . . . . . I heard it when I flew in to Bendigo one afternoon with the couple I met when Wifey and I were on the Pommie convict immigrant ship ( £10 Pound Poms ) from England in 1970, and we met up by accident, and following my Aviation Tales, they agreed to fly with me from Casey Airfield to Bendigo for some snap and a cuppa. Whilst i the process of being told by my passengers what a GOOD pilot I had become. . . , I got distracted and landed downwind. . . . .Never saw any Swan Hill Marching Girls when I lived at BOGA. ( a suburb). Maybe someone with a new Falcon ute came along and "pulled" them away. NevWe met a local bloke named "Vince" who, apparently, used to be a pilot, he carried his logbook around, and if true, he had had a very long career. But apart from this, he was a REALLY good storyteller. And the "Mallee Roots" thing was one of his, I didn't understand it at the time.
It's amazing how a "One Liner" can create a thread innit ? . . . . . . . ! ! !
And . . . If you know him. . . can you ask Gibbo sometime what the hell "Roster" means ?? Sounds like it might be a masculine title,. . .? Because, I don't remember that bit of vernacular. . . . . I might need this information, when I finally get down to wrting my next book, entitled, "They're a weird Aviation Mob" ( with apologies again to the family of the late, great Nino Culotta ( or John O'Grady )
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Ahhh, . . . but doesn't that mean teaching students at a very early stage in their training how to "Think Ahead of the aeroplane " ?? I never found out how to satisfactorily teach that bit ! ! ! ! ! !It's a feature of the "simpler" tricycle gear. If the nosewheel is going to contact first , do something about it before it does.nevGood point though. Phil
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I agree most vociferously ( is that a real word ? ) Learning to fly in tailwheel aircraft helped me a lot in this regard, as most normal landings were either three point or at least a teeny bit of tail down applied. I didn't get into "Wheel" landings until a little further in training, so it got ingrained as the default attitude for landings. This "Nose - First" thing must be getting more prevalent though, as on my last re-val flight in a Pa28/200 Arrow 3, the young AFI in charge was really getting sweaty when he thought I might "Nose" it in at the end of a simulated engine off approach. . . even though I promised him I wouldn't. . . !!No NOsewheel is designed to hit first. The aeroplane is flared to a nose-up attitude and settles onto the mains and the nose lowered to the runway (quite carefully in the case of larger aircraft). The porpoising that gradually gets worse is more a thing of smaller planes where there is no real damping of the landing gear, and spoilers are not deployed. Quite a few "light" aircraft have been written off by this. (Mooneys are susceptible). It's usually caused by too fast an approach, or correcting a bounce by pushing the stick forward. I believe that by the time it has happened twice it is time to give it away and go around. ( IF not sooner). NevI have flown with an ex-Dak pilot of many years, who had not flown a light aircraft with trike U/C for over a decade, . . . ( for non - Dakkers, wheel landings are the norm as the fuselage near the tail will kink just forward of the fin if you get a loaded 3 point landing attempt badly wrong ) he was GOING to nose it in, as his normal, comfortable "Wheel - Landing" attitude was a little bit too tail - up, and the Piper Tipacer would not have liked this at all. . . . especially seeing as we were travelling at around 78 Kts at the time ( ! )
For the engineering - minded amongst you, have a GOOD look at what's securing the nosewheel in YOUR light sport aircraft, what it's bolted to, and how strong it isn't. . . and it all becomes clear. As another poster on this thread has already highlighted, it's for parking and taxying, and also to prevent the prop from hitting the grass, concrete or gravel until the flight controls begin to work their black magic . . . . Has anyone here done a nice, well flared "Gear - Up" landing. . . OOPS, Don't answer that, Off Topic. . . . need another thread.
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Just a very quick question Dave. . . . . .Hi guys, I've just commenced my new hobby.The wife gave me an instructional flight for my 40th birthday. Well, I'm been well and truly been bitten by the bug to get in the air. Lots to learn now and just completed my second lesson.Spent 1.5 hrs in the air within three days and can't wait to get back up there.
Why were you flying a Russian aircraft ( in your avatar pic ) ? ? ? ? had they got no AUSSIE ones ( ! )
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Fair Go Paul. . . .Tried that, trouble is I couldn't get it to fly, so back to spending hard earned cash on things with wingsWhen I wasn't gainfully employed flying guns, drugs and machine parts around the Indonesian archipelago,. . . ( ! ) my mate Gary and I decided to buy a cheapy old boat, and we went fishing off Brisbane a few times ( ! ) one day we caught something which was identified as a "Turbot" it was a right heavy little beggar, about a metre long and it took both of us to land it and drag it into our little ( 14ft ) boat. A local fishybloke said that the restaurants would pay a few bucks for one of those, and they weren't wrong ! We found a place that paid seventy bucks a fish ! Unfortunately. . .fisheries and wildlife caught up with us after around ten trips, and asked if we'd got a licence ( why do you have to have a licence for everything that's interesting, fun, and makes a few dollars ? ? ? ? ) He said our boat was under-equipped, insanitary and totally unsuitable, . . it had no refrigeration for fish caught, and we couldn't operate a commercial business unless we got a licence. . . . so that was the end of that little scam. Funny though, some time later, I tried grilled Turbot in Ujung Pandang, and thought it tasted rather like warmed up kangaroo doos. ! ! ! must be the way you cook it !( The Chinese and other asian restaurants used to LOVE it ! ! !
SO. . . . . . it was Back to flying. . . I had a licence for that fortunately. . . although some of those old cargo aeroplanes would NOT have passed a "Sanitary" test if you looked into the dunnies. . . .
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The pilot got into a "Cyclic" bounce on landing, ( for early learners, this is akin to "Kangarooing" the clutch on your car dddddriving lessons. . . .) which got worse very quickly until the noseleg collapsed, producing the result shown. Maybe a "Go Around" might have been a better idea ( just MY opinion, I wasn't there. . . ) There were, fortunately no major injuries. ( Pilot qualification not reported - - but HEY. . . .Everyone makes mistakes. . . ? )
Incident at Old Sarum airfield, Southern UK, early April 2013.
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I've just had another brilliant thought Stevron. . . . . . have you seen that Japanese guy who disguises himself with body paint to look like whatever he's standing in front of ? ? ? You could paint it like bush and scrub and noone would ever see you, . . . you could have the first STEALTH 610 on the register ??
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On a similar ( Graphics ) tack. . . has anyone seen the bright lime green airliner on the interweb, I can't remember what airline it was, but it showed a 737 with big printed labels all over it, indicating what part of the aircraft you were looking at. . . ? I rather liked the bit with the arrow pointing up to the front left cockpit window, labelled "The Big Cheese " ! ! No doubt one of you will locate the picture and post it on here,. . . . I will If I can find it again. . . . OK, come on everyone, let's find some good aircraft graphics, post them on here. . . and completely HIJACK Stevron's thread ( ! ) Might give the poor bloke some good ideas for his own plane ? ? ? ?
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Just a quick thought on the 912S exhaust manifiold bolts Maj. . . . . . . Are there any particular recommended torque settings for "Maintenance" checking of these bolts, . . .? I I don't own a 912s ) the reason I ask is that when I assisted in the rebuild of an engine in a fairly old Rolls Royce silver shadow, . . . I rang the factory ( bear in mind this was quite a while ago ! ) and asked what torque setting ought to be used on the head bolts, and the engineer guy told me to use a "Ten inch tommy bar,. . . .and apply "ADEQUATE PRESSURE" on the bar to tighten the bolts ( ! ) In my lifetime involved in various engineering projects, One man's "adequate" can often be another man's " GEEEZ MATE. . . . , FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, - whaddyer tryin to do ? Bust the bolt ? ? ? ? ? ?Thanks Maj, I've passed that advice on to all the guys on site with 912s engines.Phil
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The nuts are steel high temp self-locking, but will back off if not checked occasionally during normal maintenance. You must be very carefull not to do them up too much also, as there must be a gap between the steel pipe retainer, and the alum on the cylinder-head. If the steel bracket is in contact, it can over time, rub through the thin wall of the water jacket, and you will have a coolant leak. I check mine whenever I have the top cowl off, either visually or with a 13mil open-ended spanner. Additionally I'll put some silver anti-seize paste on the pipes themselve where the go into the cylinder-head. I tend not to do the nuts up too tight anymore and the whole system seems to be a bit happier with a little bit of movement......Just keep an eye on them .......................................................Maj...
Thanks Maj, I've passed that advice on to all the guys on site with 912s engines.
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Dave,. . . . . . . I know everone has welcomed you to this extremely friendly and very useful site, BUT. . . .
DON'T DO IT MATE. . . . . . . This is the slippery slope to financial oblivion,. . . .not only this, but you'll be boring all your family and friends to tears with you exploits ! ! ! ! ! !
Pilots are a really WEIRD MOB. . . . Surely you don't really want to join them ? I've had expensive therapy, and I STILL waste loads of money doing it. . . . . ! ! ! ! I can't imagine how much money I've spent flying. . . . got to be more than a hundred grand in forty years,. . . .
You could buy a nice fishing skiff for that . . . . ?
Phil ( ! )
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Just another thought OME. . . . . .I'm going to stop reading this thread. It is frightening me, especially when my wife was on the computer last night looking at houses for sale in Broadway, near Evesham.OMEI cannot understand why ( and your movements around the world's geography are entirely YOUR business. . . ) you Wife would want to leave one of the best countries in the galaxy,. . . . I could understand it if she wanted to move to Turkey, where the people are absolutely lovely, and the language is not that hard to learn ( they all spik inglish ) with beautiful weather for most of the year round, and EXTREMELY GOOD beer, ( EFES ) . . . . a GOOD economy, . . . . ( I have some savings there, paying 13.5 % interest on a Turkish Lira account. . . . )I can easily understand why she wouldn't want to go to the Greek end of Cyprus, where a mate of mine who emigrated there a couple of years ago, has just had half his life savings nicked by the government to pay off a huge European financial bail out debt, and he might lose even more yet. . . . . Spain is knackered, and about to be bailed out by the EU, God only knows what this will cost the Brit expatriates who have moved there for some sunshine in their retirement, and E N G L A N D . . . . . . .YOU MUST BE JOKING ? ? ? I can only conclude that Mrs. OME has a tendency toward rapid financial self destruction on a monumental scale, unless she cannot cope with brown grass ( I rather liked that when I was in OZ . . . ) It IS, quite GREEN over here ( apart from the seven months of winter, when it's white ) However,. . . if. . .affter all this is understood, both yourself and Mrs. OME will be made very welcome by our local flying and Harley Davidson Riders community. ( ! )
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Here we go again. . . . " In the UK ". . . . ( I know,. . .I know. . . but that's where I is. . .) We don't have so much of a worry about litigation with regard to open days at our airfield, this is because we are listed in ALL of the published National airfield guides, and any pilot wishing to attend has to ensure that his aircraft can handle our Bijou runways. . . ! The longest of which is actually 545 Metres, plus a generous over-run at the end of 25L of around another 270m, in the event of a "whoopsie Doo - crap artiste - oh - my - god - I've - screwed - this - up - landing excercise. . " If the runways advertised don't equate with a visitors' aircraft POH specs. . . , then he shouldn't attempt a landing. If he does, . . . and screws it up, then it is his problem, and his alone, OK, we'll do our best to drag him out of the trees so that he is alive to buy one of Tracy's breakfasts. . . , but we are not legally liable for his mishap. ( we have two Very Good solicitors and a Barrister who are members of the Club, so best of luck in a lawsuit. . . .)
We always advertise our events ( as another poster has already said ) as an OPEN DAY,. . . . the PIC has to determine if he, and his aircraft can handle the constraints of the site, along with the weather on the day. . . and so it should be in my opinion, Don't blame others if you screw up. We have a system in the UK called PPR. Prior Permission Required. This means that, apart from regular visitors, who know the scam, any pilot wishing to visit for the first time must telephone first, stating aircraft type. If, in our considered opinion, the aircraft is a bit too big, or too fast in landing speed requirement,. . . for the site to safely accommodate, then we will decline permission. End of problem. It works for us. . . . the only Flying Displays we allow are 1) Model flyers ( when everything else is grounded ) or 2) Low Level Dispaly Authority Examinations, as our airfield manager is one of the few CAA Examiners in the UK who is able to grant / renew these permits. ( again - everything else is grounded during. )
Being a member of ANOTHER local Club, with a single grass runway ( 450m ) we don't have any events as such, other than fly-in barbecue days. . . . if someone gets it badly wrong, and bursts into flames, . . .at least we can save money on charcoal for the barbie. . .
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Hi Dave, and thanks for the response, YES, I know how quiet things can be on the VHF in OZ, if you have not seen previous posts of mine, then you won't know that I viciously attacked the blue skies in various parts of Australia between 1972 and 1983. . . . in fact I used to get so LONELY up there,. . ( ! ) I used to resort to chatting to the CFA, on smoke net, and even radio Hams on various bands, . . .depending upon what extraneous gear I could secrete in the aeroplanes and power with some crocodile clips off the overhead lamp or something without anyone noticing. . . .! I've been a radio HAM since I was 8 years old, getting my first proper licence to transmit when I was fourteen. . . So I have always been a "Yatterer" and get lonely if I can't talk to SOMEBODY somewhere ! ! ! I once ferried a battered C-170 from Darwin to Alice springs, and this thing had a MORSE KEY projecting from the instrument panel, with a 'pull out' plate beneath it to rest your wrist upon ( luxury ) I can still send morse on a standard up and downer key ( I never liked side-swipers) at around 35 - 40 wpm, but my receive capability is reduced somewhat due to lack of practice. I don't suppose itt'll be long before there will no longer be any beacons or navaids of any sort which use morse for Ident, what with all the current advances in technology. . . you'll just get a sexy female voice ( probably with an American accent. . .) for the idents instead. . .!! Dunno about you,. . . but I've always found that a Female voice on the radio makes me feel warm and secure, ( and NO, I'm not impressed with the way they drive cars but )Hi Phil,Radio procedures here in Oz are a little different to what you may be used to. I learned to fly in the sunny skies of South Africa and we were, like you, taught to give regular position reports, call inbound, overhead, downwind base & final etc. Here they keep radio comms to a minimum which has it's merits but can also be a bit scary at times when you used to hearing & giving position reports. I fly out of YBAF and frequent the VFR routes up and down the east coast and in the early days when I started flying around the Gold Coast, during holidays and whale watching season it scared the bejeezuz out of me. I have got used to it now, it is after all VFR and "See & be Seen".Phil
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Sorry Mark. . . .I just heard a foxbat testing. It must have been from inside the hangar or on the ground behind hangars although I would have expected a stronger signal. If you hear a lot of noise/static coming back with your voice that means you have a weak signal into the repeater. Once you get out on the runway or in the air the signal should be nice and solid if not then there maybe a issue with the antenna or the radio with output power or radiation. My base radio produces a nice solid signal the handheld produces a noisey signal from here at the workshopI didn't mean to make light of your efforts with jocularity. . . . and I appreciate the return humour. . .!!! LOL ( I hte tht abrviatn, bt it sets the mood !. . ) I Am guessing that YCAB is Caboolture ?. . . From previous posts where you indicated your approximate location ? I guess there is going to be a list somewhere on Tinternet of all the Aussie 'Y' codes. . . . I have not yet looked it up as I probably won't need it for a while anyway ! We used to have a pretty good repeater on a hill not far from Brisbane, on 2 metres, which had an incredible range, . . . it's been a while so I can't remember where the thing was situated. . . .and then when UHF CB on 400 odd Megs happened, the Phillips Company financed a repeater for that as well, ( Although this was in the Melbourne area. . .) and I was regularly employed doing mods to many Phillips FM 320 CB radios so that the good buddies could use the repeater, I think it was something like channel 1 input,- - -ch 40 output, by using the squelch switch for duplex operations,. . . but this was a bit of a long time ago. . . I wonder if UHF CB is still around ?? 450 Megs CB never happened in the UK, but they came up with CB on 934 Megs ( ! ) yes I know. . . . and this didn't really take off, rather like helicopter flavour potato chips ( now they only sell "Plane" ) as the cabling and antenna technology was beyond ( apparently ) most non - geek people to get their heads around . . .! But the Aussie 430 meg stuff was really good, and outstripped the Ham repeaters by a long way in vehicular mobile range at that period in time. ( I know that there are now some really GOOD international comms availbel on the Ham bands on Vhf / Uhf though, just have not got involved. . . . Phil ( G4 OHK )
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Curses Riley . . . . Foiled again. . . how did you know, . . ? was me dog collar on crooked ? ? ?Boys , Perry's pulling yer pissers!Phil
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Hey, there's a really NICE little airfeild there mate, just next to teh A435 road, off junction 4 of the M42 freeway ( well, Motorway, but you knnow what I mean ) nice big grass strip,I'm going to stop reading this thread. It is frightening me, especially when my wife was on the computer last night looking at houses for sale in Broadway, near Evesham.OMEGoogle "Studley - Warwickshire - England, " then identify the A435, move slightly South of the town and the airfield is on the East side of the road, and the runway is parallel to it, and don't forget, in a 90 Kt aeroplane, you're only 40 minutes away from my airfield at OTHERTON nect to the M6 motorway just 1 Nm North and on the East side of Junction 12 where the old A5 Roman road crosses the M6.
Studley is only about ten minutes by car from EVESHAM. . . . ( if there's no traffic ! ! ! ! ! )
See ya SOON ! ! ! www.othertonairfield.co.uk
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Oh My goodness,. . . . . is this something to do with physical sex, oh dear, that is a little outside my remit my son.Phil,Consider this. A bloke who visits a lady for dinner; then engages in some horizontal calesthenics with her, and departs is known as a "wombat". A wombat eats, roots and leaves.OME
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Wow !!! You met old Vince in England... Crickey, the old bloke has been threatening to go over and teach the Poms a thing or three for ages, and now you're telling us he's finnally done it? Wow !!!In the old days, when the mallee country (Google Mallee) of N - NW Victoria (which is where Swan Hill is) was being cleared so the land owners could grow wheat, the roots of the Mallee scrub trees had to be grubbed from the ground. Because "Mallee roots" would burn down easily, and with tremendous heat, to a fine ash that resembled talcum powder, they were a prized fuel for the wood burning stoves people had in those days. I've seen photos of train loads of "mallee roots" being transported to Melbourne for that purpose.
Now, in the Australian vernacular, "root" is as "screw" is to Americans. Does it make sense now?
ERRR,. . . . thanks Wayne ( I think, ) so,. . . .you mean that a root is the same as a metal device with some sort of helical thread cut into it to enable a suitable piece of machinery to rotate it into a solid object,. . . ???? I'm still confused . Sorry to sound a little thick.
Phil . . . ( Catholic Priest - St. Augustines Church, Rugeley Road, Hednesford, Staffordshire, WS11 5xb )
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I only ever went Full Reporting once mate,. . . .( sorry, don't know your personal handle ) I used to use SARTIME which worked for me over the longer distances when ferrying aircraft about that gorgeous, but sometimes terrifying country of yours. . . BUT I ALWAYS carried HF, and made sure that it worked before takeoff. It saved me bacon on a couple of occasions, where general VHF comms were still unable to do the job due to the simple law of of rf propagation physics. . . . . even then, I couldn't understand, and no one ever explained to me rationally, WHY they had NDB stations with a transistorised TEN WATT TRANSMITTER ! ! ! ! this was about as much use as a bloody chocolate fireguard. the range in daylight hours was fairly pathetic, as any old Aussie pilot must agree,. . . . and at night, when the 'D' layer in the ionosphere wasn't being blanked by solar radiation,. . . there was that much other crap on the MF band that it was virtually impossible to positively lock on to a ten watter amongst all the foreign interference due to 'Skip' propagation. VORs were then only available in the main city areas, and coastal points, unless you could climb to many flight levels fifty. . .and even at FL245, I've seen pilots lose the Madrid VOR at a mere 230 Nm !! this is a piddling distance in a land as big as Australia. . . and what bloke who wasn't completely 'Troppo' would ever risk flying small aircraft outback in the dark ? ? ? OK, nowadays, ( If you are a brave man, with a very reliable twin engined light aircraft,. . . you could possibly fly at night in the bush using the ubiquitous GPS system, and be, well, REASONABLY safe,. . . ? and might even get to where you're going if the power supply didn't go on strike. But, I still don't think that I am now brave enough to risk it, even if I was flying IFR in airways, which ( incidentally ) have daft reporting point names which don't equate with anything on the ground over here as well ! ! ! ( They are simply designe d to make VFR pilots feel inadequate ! ) it's OK for the RFDS, I guess they have to, to preserve life, and I take off every hat I own to those pilots.Phil,You've hit the nail on the head with this comment. Except for a relative handful of airports in our Capital cities, and a few larger regional cities, the majority of our flying is in uncontrolled airspace,so we don't have as many controllers as your country does - and we have low aircraft densities throughout the rest of our airspace.
It is a long time since we could go "Full Reporting" on a VFR flight (though I always enjoyed the challenge to be "on track-on time"). I fully agree that a Short Position Report is a good call to make within the vicinity of an airfield, even if you are just overflying it.
OME
You're right though, we DO have an awful lot of airports and ground radio communications stations that we have to speak to in the UK, so this is possibly why Pommie pilots who move to OZ, get perplexed with the apparent laid back ( or certainly argumentative ) attitude towards aeronautical radio comms . . . . Phil
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Hi Bryon, I wish they'd adopt a simpler system here as well. . . .! After all, that about says it really, but in our busy airspace, they'd panic a bit if you didn't tell them what Height / Altitude / Level you were cruising at, and most of our students would be confuddled with a simple mnemonic like WWW !!!!!! A lot of newer pilots get confused between Heights. ( AGL, AAL, etc. . .) and Altitudes, Qnh ( ie vertical displacement above mean sea level within the defined area of the station issuing the QNH. . . in other words, we only use LOCAL QNH. . . I remember in the distant past, that when I flew in OZ, I'm sure they used to give an AREA QNH because your country is so implausibly, enormously bloody BIG, but I would have thought that this in itself wasn't a good idea, as the pressure gtradient between two stations 800 miles, ( oh, sorry, I forgot, it's feet for height and Kiiler ometters for distance now isn't it. . . ) Apart, when we get pressure differentials of as much as 25 Mb ( or Hectopascals, as the Euro fanatics now want us to name them. . .) over quite modest distances, but this is one of the problems of flying at 52 degrees North,. . . we don't get the sort of wx stability you get there. . . .Who, where, whatWho you areWhere you are
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Then we have RPS, Regional Pressure Setting, within an Altimeter Setting Region, ASR on the charts, ( there are 20 of these around the British Isles , a couple of them are ALL over water, so the QNH and the Bloody QFE is exactly the same. . . ! They have silly names like Barnsley, Petrel, Shannon, Skerry etc. . . the RPS is an arbitrary calculated figure, derived from long term monthly means ( averages ) and the LOWEST forecast pressure within a region, but this isn't very sensible either, as you COULD bust controlled airspace by flying close beneath it on the RPS, which can indicate a lower altimeter reading than the level you are actually flying at in some circumstances . . . ( my brain hurts ) and then most small airfields will give you a QFE ( altimeter indicating zero feet at their airfield ground level - and very useful. . . ) setting after you have called them and asked for a landing approach. . . !
International Airports don't do this though,. . . they just give you their QNH. . . . ( easy isn't it ??? ) well, it IS for the RPT blokes, as they have a feller in the right hand seat who looks in the manual and sets the QFE on one of the OTHER altimeters. . . .! ( Luxury. . .! ) So you have to dive into your airfield manual to check their elevation AMSL, whilst steering with your knees and furtively looking all around you for other competitors like a nervous Dunny rat on speed, so that you can assess the difference between their QNH and QFE, ( or Nautical Height versus elevation ) so you know where to normally turn base and final, based upon your inbuilt, ingrained and well trained height estimation skills ( ? ) otherwise you have to just take a good guess, especially if you can't hold on to the stick with your kneecaps because it's too turbulent. . ..( especially when you come to drop the dunlops and interface at too high a speed with the three miles of concrete,) to fly at a vertical displacement given by Approach control, that won't upset all the Paraffin Budgie crews full of pissed holiday makers going to Benidorm on their hols. . . . See ? I told you we had a much easier system here in the good ole UK !! Usually, most light aircraft drivers are so shellshocked at the end of all this stuff that they don't really notice the handling fee of fifty quid, and the landing fee of a hundred and a half. . . . they are just happy to lie on the ground for a while . . .whimpering. . .
Yes,. . . . I reckon that W W W is a far better idea Bryon. I shall suggest it at the next meeting of NAPAS. . . ( Nervous airline pilot alcoholics association ) Phil
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Tried it Mark. . . . . can't get into it from here. . . . . . ( ! )
Deucedly good idea though ! I don't think that the Radiocommunications Agency would let us do that here in Blighty,. . . . . No imagination at all ! ! !
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Whilst on business in London recently. . .I went to an Australian "Theme Pub" .
Even the bar staff appeared to be Genuine Aussies. There was one old geezer, parked on a stool in a dark corner who introduced himself as "Vince" from Echuca. Being a nice sort of bloke, I bought him a beer ( as you do ) and he recounteed some old Aussie stories, bursting into uncontrolled fits of laughter after the punchline in each one. . . . . The one I remember best goes like this, but someone will have to explain it to me, as I didn't understand the vernacular. It went like this. . . .
Me and me mate were working on a farm up near the Murray River. . . and the owner told me mate to go out and get a trailer load of Mallee Roots. .
and the silly beggar came back with the Swan Hill Marching Girls . . . ." ( ? )
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Hi all,. . .
I Watched a pilot taxying out for a flight in his part owned aircraft yesterday, and called him on the radio to tell him that the engine just didn't sound. . . . Right" ( I wasn't i the tower as there was very little going on due to the strong wind, so I was out and about with a hand held radio. . . ( otherwise I wouldn't have noticed ! )
The young pilot had only just purchased a share in this syndicated machine, and had only a couple of hours solo in it thus far. . .
He returned to the parking area and left it running at idle for a short while, and I could hear a sort of faint "Ticking" sound that just shouldn't have been there.
Just at this moment, one of the other syndicate owners arrived and and I pointed this out to him. The engine was shut down and we found that two of the exhaust manifold nuts had come loose, and there was a stain around the loose manifold area. The nuts were torqued up later, after the engine had cooled for about 2 hours. The rest were also checked. I wonder if anyone else has had any experience with this ? the aircraft by the way ( Not that I would think this all that relevant ) was a Skyranger, about five years old.
I wonder if anyone else has had any experiences with loose nuts ? ( no comic answers please )
Phil
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Mind You. . . since it's been 30 years since I have graced your shores with my effusive presence,. . . . I dunno how far fifty bucks would go towards a smorgasbord dinner and a couple of three schooners in the local hotel nowadays. . . . . . .
Phil