Phil Perry

I know the sort - as soon as they enter the cockpit they make a grab for the four ringer's joy stick.

I've met a few Male flight attendants . . . and whilst I would not be so disrespectful as to suggest that they were all bright and gay, . . . . . . they were definitely on the HAPPY side. . . .

 

 

I can understand old mate committing suicide but I cannot understand him taking 149 people with him.

He was "reported" to have said to someone that he wanted to be "Remembered" for something . . . . well, THAT worked I guess.

 

 

BREAKING NEWS- all Australian airliners must now have two people in the cockpit at all times as of now.

Do they have to be Pilots Dazza ? or will a couple of flight attendants do ?

 

 

Hey Phil...roll it in Vegemite I am sure that would slow you down a bit

I roll almost everything in Vegemite, and it's UK mate Marmite ! ! ! plaster it on toast, . . although I'm having difficulty getting Veggie, now that the local corner shop had been taken over by Poles,. . .what's Polish for Vegemite ? anybody know ? ? ?

 

Probably ends in "Ski" . . .woops,. . .don't want to get labelled a "Wordist" . . . .

 

 

The tug pilot told me the same thing the second time I flew in driving a powered aircraft mate,. . . . He was an ex-croppie from up Nhill way. . . . he couldn't understand the attitude either, said he didn't know where it came from., but that it was seriously non productive to have a wedge driven between gliding people and those who chose to fly with engines. . . .It's still prevalent here. . .we have a gliding club around 2.5 NM South West of a site I use regularly, and sometimes act as a volunteer radio op,. . . they NEVER phone and tell us when they are active, so that we can advise incoming pilots. . . . their attitude being that "They should be looking out properly " and they have a superwich, launching gliders up to 2000 ft. What sort of bloody stupid attitude is that ?It's almost as though they actually WANT a collision, so that they can then say "See,. . .told you so.. . " Told us WHAT exactly ? ? ?

 

Don't understand it at all.

 

 

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HMM - bored fighter pilot from the RAF base? 'You can tell a fighter pilot... but you cannot tell him much..."

Yeah,. . .we have TWO of those in our flying club. . . . . . . . ( well,. . .that's what they tell us anyway. . . .I've flown in a microlight with one of them, and if he was defending my country,. . .well,. . .I'd be somewhat worried. . . . ) We had an Albanian guy a few weeks ago who wanted a flight, but was a bit despondent when we told him that our aircraft were not capable of aerobatics. . . . . I sent him to Halfpenny Green Airport to see a guy who owns a Yak 52, and is an ex-Russian fighter pilot. . .that will, hopefully fulfill his dreams, or make him very airsick. . . .

 

 

Not really relevant to this thread, but it's a US advert for guns. . . . .

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qKHeXC7L85s?rel=0

 

 

Last Sunday, whilst I was duty radio op,. a sailplane appeared, no radio call ( bloody typical ) and did a roaring low pass at what looked like around 90 knots, and I mean REALLY low, along the duty runway, then pulled up to at least 1000ft, dropping water ballast as he went, and buggered off back to RAF Cosford, some 15 miles distant . . . .I really wish they wouldn't do that . . . . . the farmer's wife will no doubt blame US for the damp washing hung out on the line. . . . .

 

 

DID YOU KNOW. . . . .

 

I read recently in the interwebbythingummy ( so it MUST be true ) that if you regularly eat a fruit called a Guiania , known in the British Isles as "CUSTARD APPLE" that this will cure many types of cancer ? ? ? ? I've heard of them, they have various names in different parts of the globe, but My Mum remembered them and said they taste a bit like coconut,and are all green on the outside, shaped like a lime / mango, but having more mass than an average Orange ? ? ? ? My local fruiterer says he can get them, so I'm waiting to see what they actually taste like. . . . .aparently, if you de-juice them they are really GREAT when mixed with vodka. . . . . .

 

Happy days. . . .

 

 

I've been a smoker nearly all my life ( started at age around nine Y/O ) but it never,. . .excuse me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . salright,. . .just coughed up another piece of lung. . . . . .

 

My Avmed doctor said recently that my cancer was all gone,. . .I said "How. . .? " he said,. . .you killed it with smoke. . . . .

 

 

i took up and still do tai chi it certainly helped me with everything even weight loss but of course i had to cut down on what i ate and drank plus eat food that was semi respectable .am also thinking of dropping in and buying food from the local farmer stalls.cant get much fresher than that.and of course im still learning to fly so what other incentive do u need

I wish you luck with your flight training Jeff,. . . . not that you'll really need LUCK, just a good instructor. We ( I say, we, as several of us, in microlight trikes ) used to fly around 25 miles ( wot's that in centimetres,. er,. . dunno ) to an RAF training airfield which was used by Hercs for "Off Airfield" landing practice for trainee pilots. It is called Chetwynd, and it is basically a rather large, circular site and is all over grass, with a control tower at one edge. It is closed and decomissioned as an RAF site every weekend ( dunno why ? ) but this is why we were able to fly into it wiothout any permissions, and setup throwaway barbecues on the site. We noticed, on one of our forays that there were some huge mushrooms growing around the windsock in the centre of the field,. . .we took a load of these and stuffed them under our seats and took them home. To this day, I've never found better tasting mushrooms than those we stole from the RAF. After a few months, we were told that if we landed there EVER again, we would be prosecuted. ( ? ) why, they didn't say. . . but the mystery was cleared up a couple of years ago, after a parachute club started operating from the same site ( with permission ) on weekends, and one day found that someone had cut their Cessna 206 into bits with axes. . . .aparently, the locals had been trying to get the site shut down for years, as the RAF used it all night in the week, and the Hercs were making an infernal noise ! ! !

 

So that was the end of mushroom central. The field is still there,. . .the RAF still use it, but only in daylight hours. Any idea whare we can find some decent mushrooms ?

 

So I wonder if you've ever landed to pick wild Australian flora to take home and eat ? ? ? ? or would you need Les Gittings ( the Bush Tucker Man ) to tell you if it was edible ? ? ? ! ! !

 

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My neighbours' wife has this weird behaviour also.

Er,. . . . .Skeptic,. . . .do you get that close to the poor woman that you can smell the Onionus Australianus Strongtastius on her breath ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I'd better not ask any more searching questions. . . . . .

 

 

Ah, well, trying to fly in Victoria, eh? Brave lad..... Looking through the logbook, my longest flight in a Blanik is 54 minutes, off winch, at Forbes; it was pointedly remarked to me that there were other people wanting to fly, so bringing it back would be appreciated right about NOW-ish....

Ah, well, now,. . . that there is the problem with hiring aircraft isn't it. . . ? When I was travelling sixty miles odd from Boronia to Bacchus Bloody Marsh on weekends, I don't think it was the time WE WERE UP that annoyed anyone, it was a really relaxed atmosphere there,. . .unfortunately the Earth's atmosphere was a bit too relaxed as well,. . .and we couldn't find any lift ! But as you sayk THAT'S VICTORIA if you don't like the weather. . . .wait a minute !

 

I've flown a 170 Mile triangular course in a high performance sailplane in the UK. . .( again - not solo ) but that brings with it other problems, like,. . ."Can we land so that I can have a wee ?" . . .

 

And hiring Cessnas and Piper appliances from club airfields is a minefield as well,. . .the clever ones, fly right up until five minutes before the next booking, then jump out and say " Hey mate, . . .I'm real sorry I didn't refuel it for you, but me mam's had a heart attack and I've gotta run. . . . so you dutifully queue up at the bowser behind a half dozen twats who don't know how to connect the static lead and FINALLY. . .you get your turn to fill it up to the tabs . . .go into the office and sign for it,. . . and by the time you've loaded up and briefed your victims,. . .er, sorry . . .your PASSENGERS and got yourself lifted into the luft,. . . oh dear, . . .we can't go and photograph the roof of your house today because we only have 35 minutes left before Mister Smither's booking at three o clock. . . . . . what a crock of carp.

 

**Edited to add** When I had the temerity to borrow a C-150 from Berwick and actually FLY into Bacchus,. . .well,. . .I got treated like a bleeding leper for having a windmill on the front end. I tried this twice, and although it saved me time and trouble driving through Melbourne and back, I never got a Glidder flight. THAT was when I found out that there's THEM. . . and there's US.

 

Phil

 

 

Welcome Harry, you couldn't have come to a better place,. . .I mean, some of these Aussies have actually FLOWN AIRCRAFT in the bush ! ! ! ! !

 

Seriously, if you're talking about the Rockwell Commander, well that IS a nice aeroplane Sir. Bit of a weird cruciform tail setup, but I wouldn't hold that against it. They fly quite nicely just like any other aircraft of their size and weight. I've ferried one from the North of Scotland down to the London area in 1992, I had not flown one before, but after five circuits with a competent pilot, it was a breeze.

 

As for requirements in OZ,. . .well you'll have to ask the local aborigines, and I'm sure they will help.

 

I missed out on a trip around Australia a few years ago, when I became quite ill,. . . and have regretted that ever since, two of my friends flew a couple of Weightshift trikes anti-clockwise around the country and had a ball ! ! !

 

All the best anyway mate. Good luck and good fortune with your tour,

 

Phil

 

 

I wonder if he will really learn but claim that it was not his fault.Alan.

He has already Alan. . . . .

 

"I was checking the strip for any obstructions when an enormous and unexpected gust of wind hit me and forced me into an uncontrollable turn, causing my wing tip to contact the ground"

 

Birmingham Airport ( EGBB) which is 25 miles down the road, were reporting that day: wind 250deg @ less than 10Kt, condx calm. The local pilots using the same strip said that there was NO WIND, ie, the sock was asleep.

 

Pretty much as I'd expected from that particular bloke. . . . .it's always something elses fault, can't be ME,. . .I'm SUPERPILOT.

 

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UPDATE on Luscome Silvaire incident.

 

I have received three photographs of the aircraft described in this post. The "Witness" aircraft in the overhead at the time of the incident described a sharp RIGHT turn, and then the aircraft stopped moving. WELL. . . .the pictures seem to disagree. Unless the right wing impacted lightly first,. . .there is visual eveidence of slight deformation of the right wingtip, but the major wing impact damage appears to be on the left side.

 

I have posted all three pics anyway. The aircraft has been surveyed and the fuselage is twisted, with some other damage and the insurance company have decided that it's a write off. ( Psst . . .anybody want some Luscombe 8A bits ? ? )

 

The flexwing (Quik 912 Trike ) aircraft incident mentioned in my original post was described as a fenderbender,. . . ie, the student unexpectedly released pressure on the foot throttle on climbout and the engine retired to idle revs. , The instructor admitted that he did not react quickly enough on the hand throttle, but then rapidly ( not smoothly ) applied full power, at which point the engine hesitated, so he pulled the machine around very sharply to land in the flat area alongside the runway resulting in a damaged nosewheel fork and some cosmetic stuff. No photographs available of the red faced instructor, but since the student was the Owner,. . .I wonder who is paying the bill ( ! ! ) Not worth an insurance claim aparently. . .

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking news. . . .

 

On a recent vist to Tasmaina ( Geez,. . .I always thought that was the name for a tropical disease . . . ) Mr Tony Abbot PM,. . . was seen to pick up an onion and eat it as you would an apple.

 

One reporter stated that " He didn't even peel the dry skin off the outside of the thing before eating it ! !". . . Mr Abbot later ate yet another onion, stating that he . . . . . liked Onions. The onion farmers will be delighted about this.

 

Well,. . . . so what ? I've been eating onions like apples for years, although it did create some consternation at my infants school when I took one in my lunchbox every couple of days,. . .and I don't mean those wussy mild Spanish onions either. . .I like the real strong ENGLISH variety ( don't know the latin name for that but it probably has one,. . maybe something like, . . . ONIONUS POMMIUS STRONGTASTIUS or something. . .I dunno )

 

Do any of you other colonials eat onions I wonder ? ? ? ( Come on Marty,. . . you're a Taswegian, . . .you must have crashed in a few onion fields in your time and had to eat your way out . . .? )

 

 

What's wrong with a brisk 15 minute walk + a 100 metre dash = another brisk walk back home?before you reach MTOW! OME

Hundred metre Dash ! ! ! 15 minute brisk walk ! ! ! ! Geez mate, I'd be in the cardiac unit before that. . . .

 

 

Good for you, I think him and many others in the entertainment industry are over paid. If people want to be a bunch of sheep and support that then so be it, I don't have to agree with it.

Got to take issue on that one Teck, . . . SOME "entertainers" are certainly well overpaid, . . .but what about company CEOs ? a large amount of them in the UK have been lambasted this week for salaries of 3,4 and 5 million quid, PLUS bonuses, for heading up companies which have severely under-performed. ( But it was in me contract Guv. . . .! ) Some of which were bailed out by the taxpayer during the financial crash of 2007/08 and are still partly owned by the same taxpayers. . . . who are, in effect paying part of these disgraceful salary packages. Yet they still get away with it. There's a bloke on UK tv called Jonathan Ross,. . . who got sacked from the BBC for his part in humiliating on TV, the actor who played Manuel the Spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers. . . .he got re-hired at a salary of £5 Million per annum. The bloke is a complete . . . . .well it rhymes with banker. Just a really poor talk show host. ( and a complete waste of BBC License tax payers money )

 

Just to keep things in perspective, JC writes very popular and best selling books as well as the Top Gear shows and other DVD sales, and is followed worldwide. The aforementioned company CEOs and Jonathan Ross and his ilk are not. But OF COURSE that doesn't mean that YOU have to like the bloke, or AGREE with him being overpaid for what he does, which he quite possibly has been, although bringing in many times this cost into BBC coffers.

 

Just a thought ( don't wanna fall out, cos he hates LITTLE planes, ESPECIALLY "microlights" and that's another thing I don't like about him, he knows that but doesn't give a carp )

 

Phil ( LLOL )

 

 

Blimey, Phil, yer a hard man... a 300K in a Blanik is on, on a good day...

HEY GUYS Whoah ! . . . . I didn't mean to upset anyone . . . I had nine rides in Blaniks ( winch launched ) and none of them went beyond about 15 Mins, . . . the locals at Bacchus said "now This ( Blanik). . is a Glider. That over there, is a Sailplane. . . ! My only gliding experience up to then was many weekends over 2 years in the Air Cadets at age 14, spent at RAF Ternhill in the UK flying Slingsby T31 tandem trainers, and Sedbergh side by side machines, winch launched to 1000 ft and just about managing a circuit most times, unless it was GOOD gliding weather, then we got 1.5 circuits !

 

 

Well I`ll be.........Yeah! Missed that...Thanks Phil... Did a quick Google search and rest assured, I`m told the guys are well trained in using a gun.....Didn't mean that reply to sound "Curt" mate ! . . . but I thought Dutchie's "Lady Cabin Crew member minding the pilot" cockpit scenario was hilarious but had a good point !

 

I used to be a serious gun enthusiast, even making my own ammunition years ago, but my mind isn't changed re: guns in aircraft cabins much by new bullet design philosophy I'm afraid, and Marty got there first with his "What about inadvertant damage to control circuits" comment . . .

 

Yeah! Originally, I thought that too!

 

Solution???........ No pilot???........Computers already do the flying, anyway.

 

Frank.

Re tasers: they have a pretty limited range, you need to be reasonably close to the intended target. No point standing up in row 34 and trying to taser the guy battering at the cockpit door.Good for taking down one person, but you need a second taser and a second set of hands for an accomplice and a third taser........etc etc.

Tasers are not always effective on all people, some have a lessened response to tasers and some drugs seem to render the target immune to their effect.

 

Re marshals with firearms. A 9mm automatic pistol with a 10 round magazine gives a Marshal a chance of managing a multi-perpetrator attack. Quick headshots are the stuff of Movies and T V programs. Centre body mass is the preferred and safer target (for the good guys not the perpetrators) Not saying there aren't people who can manage a 20 metre headshot Daz, but that's not how enforcement officers are trained.

I really don't want to appear pedantic here Gandalph,. . . . but a nine millimetre projectile is designed to be a very high velocity round, skin and bone do not present much attenuation to such a projectile . . .this velocity means that it is more than likely that someone struck by that calibre of projectile would, probably be killed or seriously slowed down by the impact, but in all likelihood, the bullet would continue on it's merry way, hitting something / someone else, or penetrating a fairly thin pressurised aircraft hull, with the obvious possibility of explosive decompression and a whole new can of worms.

 

If guns ARE going to be used for security / passenger protection on aircraft in the future,. . . and I sincerely hope that they never are. . . .since you've shot down my Taser suggestion. . . then the weapon MUST use a low velocity projectile, with fragmentation upon penetration a certainty. .38 soft nose lead is out of the question, if it misses the intended target, it will certainly penetrate an airliner hull or window very efficiently.

 

Just sayin' . . . . .

 

Phil

 

 

Here's a couple of links I got from Owen Bray, showing some gliding activity at Sunraysia Mildura.

 

 

That winch launch brought back some memories,. . . . although the only gliding I did was at Baccus Marsh, on the Ballarat side of Melbourne. . . . In Blaniks. . . . glide like a streamlined manhole cover, and not a sailplane by any stretch BUT nice aircraft to fly ,. . .had a really good time but didn't get to fly one solo . . I went there about nine separate occasions, but flew with a different bloke each time . . . I didn't get my thirteen engine failures until I came back to Old England and got into MICROLIGHTS . and out of 13, I would say that at least five of them were something to do with Pilot Error. !! I've been watching some of Owen's vids on youtube as well,. . . .under Jabiru 170d . . .theres a few of them there. . . although I'd have my Ar$e twitching a bit flying at fairly low level in a Single Engined appliance. . . .for a couple of places on those videos,. . .Tiger country isn't a good enough title ! ! ! Getting a real cowardly type in my old age mates. . . . But the BUSH . . .it is oh so starkly Potentially very Dangerous to aviators, but beautiful nonetheless. . . . and I miss it !

 

Phil

 

 

Good point Phil, I guess that's another anomaly, but anyway I know I don't have one ...... Bob

Well this is GOOD. Glad to hear it Biggles . . . unless the anomaly you don't have was a mnemonic anomaly, then of course you wouldn't have one. . . ."Doc, you gotta help me,. . . .I can only remember the first letter of all my sentences. . . . ." And Geez,. . .that's a really BIG Jabiru in your Icon,. . .oh, hang on, . . .I just zoomed in,. . .you're kneeling down,. . .sorry.