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.....Hilux drivers.

"Why do you need Hilux drivers" asked one of the Vicpol members.

"Because Big Dees here has smashed up every one we had" replied a NSW Constable furtivley backing for the door, but he was too slow. Doubtfire lashed out with her TMW and kicked him fair in the Kimberleys.

Acting Senior Constable Thespian Gale remonstrated with Doubtfire, saying  "...............

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.....jump on board.

and he took them to Wagga

Wagga.

Doubtfire.....

7 hours ago, Jaba-who said:

And now to add some actual discussion of the facts rather than bashing people because they have money.  

I have read another commentary that says of the small number of M600s built ( if I recall it’s less than a hundred built  about 10 % have had runway excursions in crosswind landings some with pilots with thousands of hours. 
Apparently the linkage of the nose wheel is such that in a strong  crosswind performing a crossed  controls crosswind technique  landing ( ie. wings into the wind and Rudder DOWNWIND) the nose wheel is linked to turn the same direction as the rudder will take the aircraft. No surprise there it’s a common set up. However, the M600 apparently has a greater angle of the wheel than many other aircraft. When aircraft touches down using cross controls technique unless you are into it quickly the wheels are lined up to take you off the runway in the downwind side. 
So required technique is when mains are on the ground keep the nose off and then with immaculate precision judge the dynamic situation of applying opposite rudder to counter the effect of the wind without the balance of the ailerons. Apparently a really tricky feat in that aircraft. 
 

he apparently transitioned from C172s  where the nose wheel doesn’t have this effect at all. 

Piper training technique is Crab into wind coming down, flare, boot it around straight as you touch, and you can land with the nose wheel straight 10/10.

.....loose with their cash, having found the BoB. They turned their spellcheckers off and put their money in the p.o.k.i.e.s. 
Loxie was charging $5 for a ride in a real fire truck and the Indians piled on, not wearing their masks. 
The Gumly Gumly complex bid for some of these rich Australians by sending Madge and Gert down the street to do  a line dance but Madge mixed up the instructions and the two women were followed back to GG by five hundred Indian men.

Into this Soddom and Tomorrow dropped the WAPol PC12 and a dishevelled Constable Doubtfire heading for her favourite Hilux cruiser.

Cappy had been hanging around the Airporr and sold the PC12 to a couple of Wetbacks while the pilots were having a coffee. As the new owners were shakily trying to taxi the door flew open and Glennis & co jumped out. Mistakenly thinking there was safety with a fellow Cop based on the blue line brotherhood they headed for the Hilux. It was later said that......
 

.....get them over the Murray River undetected. Thousands have even braved the tiger snakes and swim it - we call them wetbacks.

They make straight for the Wagga Wagga RSL, put their savings in the polices and order schnitzels from Jess, but ......

.......Beton Bro?" But Bro was out cold so he had ti run after Doubtfire who made it to the station where the Senior Sergeant was just having his morning cup of tea.

"You XXXX!, you give me a XXXXXX job to do in an unroadworthy XXXXXXX vehicle from the last century, and then you XXXXX turn on me!" an then she went out and gave every vehicle in the compound an unroadworthy sticker.

Two hours later a PC12 [avref] came in from Perth after picking up four burly constables from Kalgoorlie where men are really men. Their names were Glennys, Jacqueline (Jack), Heather and Joan, and Doubtfire, cuffs on hands and feet was on her way down to Perth.

Meanwhile, Wagga Wagga had gone to pieces without Doubtfire, there were drunks lying all over the streets, Loxie was out of control at the BOB in his leather shorts, The Gumly Gumly RSL was running a wet T Shirt competition with Cappy as the judge. The Mayor sent an urgent email to Perth.

Back in the PC12, they were halfway to Perth when the pilots noticed some thudding and yells from the back then it was quiet until they received an urgent HF message from Perth, and diverted, bound for Wagga Wagga in the East where ....... 

.........Great Red Desert because Victorians know that Sturt's Stony Desert is waaay up near Birdsville.

However let's not tell Cappy, or he'll eant to rename it Cook's Stony Desert. So far he's been  able to fudge 347 places around Australia to show that Cook discovered them rather than Sturt.

He's even had an area of Australia renamed Cook's Great Inland Sea after starting to read Sturt's Journal on his trip up into the corner country in search of what some people believed was a great inlands sea. These people thought Australia was a Pacific Atoll.

Cappy fell asleep from boredom after the Journal entry covering the Expedition replenishing their stores at the Tibooburra IGA, and didn't realise that Sturt became stranded at Depot Glen and had to turn around admitting there was no great inland sea.

Doubtfire was greeted by two local indigenous Constables at the Airport.

"Git en the Van" said one "I think we'll put the pedlock on for this one Bro" he said to his mate.

"He doesn't look as bug es they sid" replied the other, and Doubtfire did a slow burn sitting in the back of the Van. Her red eyes could have burnt holes in a D7 dozer, and ...........

......struck by the thought that he hadn't asked for Doubtfire to be seconded, and WAPOL being the internecine politics capital of the Police world he called a meeting of his closest allies, Acting AC Hefty and Acting Senior Sergeant Boxcutter. After 30 minutes they figured out who had sent her across and why, and Boxcutter made a call to OT and said "............

56 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

It should be easy to tap a tread and install a drain valve.

I've done that on race cars to get rid of methanol after racing, and it was easy, but on a race car everything is checked prior to the next meeting. I wouldn't recommend it on an aircraft because there's too much chance of the nut coming loose on the thread and starting a leak.

..........teeth.

Doubtfire did, biting him on the hand. The teeth met adhacent to the second digit, so this was a decent bite, and The AC's effeminate English squeal brought half the force ( which in this era of Diversity) consisted of 50% women) running with guns drawn.

Disregarding Police Rule No 1 - Collect ALL evidence before drawing a conclusion, the men held back and the women all sink the boot into the AC, who squealed even louder because Doubtfire hadn't let go. Two male officers who hated Poms gave him a smack in the teeth, and it was obvious ..............

......be placed in the Perth Museum which specialises in forgettable trivia?

NES readers can breathe a sigh of relief because even half-asleep he wasn't going to miss out on his mid-morning gin and just as the Morris was about to hit him he sprang up towards the house and stepped through the fence.

The Morris careered on careering through a corner bedroom where a baby had been asleep last night and finising up in the master bedroom of another house where a couple usually slept, but this day were watching a re-run of the Coronation on Channel 2.

Doubtfire was left to explain the damage to the newest vehicle in the WA Police force and the Assistant Commissioner, a Pom wasn't very ...............

....is this the end for Cappy? Is .........

........back alleys of this picturesque town (by WA standards).

Constable Doubtfire revelled in throwing he weight around, as we all know, some from past experience, and any Northamite moving slower than a fast walking pace quickly felt a big hand on his or her shirt collar and opening the cam lock with one hand she'd sling him or her along the floor to hit the front wall with a thud. Once inside the Van body you only hung around the front wall for a non-second because soon a drunk would skid across the floor and hit the spot with a "CLANG!".

Cappy had been holidaying in Northam and was stretched out on a banana lounge on the vacant block next door, in his mankini, taking the rays. He'd just finished the newspaper and drifted off to sleep when around the corner came the Morris Commercial using all the Dauphne's power. Doubtfire stepped on the brake pedal, but brakes weren't one of Mr Morris's strong points, and the truck headed straight for Cappy with doubtfire stabbing at the brake pedal with her boot.

Cappy was still asleep as the truck came rushing on, and next .......................................

ADF Soldiers across the road reservation, rifles at the ready. Stopping mouse smugglers was the very reason Premier McGowan had kept them on long after Covid had died down.

The drivers brought the trucks to a stop.

Looking down, Constable Doubtfire yelled to the PC12 pilot "Land on the road, I need to stop those smugglers!", but the pilot said "The mains [avref] are wider than the road", so Doubtfire said "Give me a parachute [avref] then" and the pilot said WAPOL PC12s never fail so we don't carry them", and the conversation went on and on.

The ADF Sergeant called up Bungarra Police, and the old Sergeant who was down at the pub watching a football map said "Call Constable Doubtfire, she's right in that area" This situation would be known to computer programmers as a "circular reference".

Cappy saw his opportunity and said "Look, we've just been cleaning out some wheat silos of mice and we're taking them well away from town to burn them."

That sounded logical to the Sergeant who was billeted in Bungarra and wasn't keen on the smell, so he said "Continue on, and ..............."

[It's not a well known fact, but people who eat Weet Bix every morning are eating an average of an eighth of a mouse - just sayin]

............ears and tried to get his trucks turned up a side road but Doubtfire was fast and raced the Morris Commercial Police Van, with bell ringing up  dirt road, cutting the trucks off, but they accelerated around her and the Morris was left behind............

.........the Esperance Progress and Darts Association members caught the PETA members lying in wait next to the highway and tagged them with cow tags so see if they liked it and there was no more trouble from PETA, but Constable Doubtfire had been seconded to WA Police and was drinking a cup of takeaway coffee from the Bungarra Roadhouse when she heard the trucks coming. Cappy was riding in the lead truck and had given instructions they were to stop for no one. Doubtfire had they eyes of a hawk and recognised Cappy's misshapen head; Cappy recognised Doubtfire's two ....................................

......sword ceremony, but it's more likely he'll be nutted than knighted.

ot thought back to the time he was knighted for services to the agribusiness communitit when single handedly he ended a mice plague in New South Wales by buying a welder at an aution and bringing it back to WA.

"My problem now is hopw to get rid of them in WA" and he .............

53 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

The Menindee lakes are overflow lakes, as is the Anabranch an overflow for the Darling. They naturally filled in flood times. A campaign began in the 19th century, later supported by Henry Lawson, to make them artificial reservoirs. This was done, with weirs and the Copi channel, so when I was growing up they were always full. I sailed on Lake Menindee and we camped alongside the lakes never thinking that they might empty. The decision to run them empty was based on concerns about the evaporation loss and salinity which affected downstream, including the Murray into South Australia. I am in favour of keeping them full whenever possible, but I don't understand the big picture. I suspect that irrigation elsewhere is a much, much bigger problem.

The Menindee Lakes had been supplying Broken Hill's water.  A couple of the Lakes (can't remember which names) were notorious for wasting water to evaporation because they were very shallow, albeit a huge area. Broken Hill has been expanding in recent decades, so to kill two birds with the one stone; 1. Secure reliable supply to Broken Hill and 2. stop the massive losses, a new pipeline has been built from Broken Hill to near the junction of the Darling and Murray, so Broken Hill can pull water from the Murray when the Darling runs dry. Theoretically, the two lakes causing the problem can now be shut down for a big gain in useable irrigation water.

8 hours ago, John Robert said:

Thanks for the great pics & description. Sad to remember the fish kills.  I have flown the Darling but as you said there was only pools. For anyone contemplating the river flight there is an extremely good bitumen strip easy walking distance to Lake Meningee.

Don't worry too much; in the original FB photo were 1 million dead fish were claimed, I counted 95 fish. The story got traction and eventually the claim reached 3 million, but no one produced a photo anywhere along the Darling of more than a few hundred. About every decade the conditions are right somewhere along the thousands of km for a blue-green algae bloom and that kills all the fish in that stretch, but during the floods the fish are washed out overland and plenty live in the resulting billabongs until a flood washes them back into the Darling.

The locals stitched the City people up with a lot of good stories; Two aboriginal woment from Wilcannia got their photos in the newspapers carrying a couple of slabs each on their shoulders and said they'd had to drive all the way into Broken Hill to get water to wash in. On the same day the Murray Darling Basin Authority flow gauge at Wilcannia showed the Darling flowing at 1 million litres per day.

Others claimed the Menidee Lakes had been "run dry", but the MDBA electronic monitoring showed 16 Gigalitres of water sitting there.

....catch, Turbine Maori Security stopped him at the door. "We know hem Bro" he said "Don't lit hem un", and omce again Cappy waqs forced to watch through the fence, and hope that .....................

.......You would be most welcome Achilles, will you be bringing the girls, and Cappy,eavesdropping as usual, ...........

........phone call to Greece.

Δεν γνωρίζουν πολλοί άνθρωποι ότι υπάρχει ένα ελληνικό τμήμα της οικογένειας Turbine. Το Turbine Fish and Chips είναι μια βασική διατροφή της Ελλάδας και η Achilles Turbine προσφέρεται σε ........

[It's not clear whether Captain is referring to his previous post #unnumbered, or an earlier one, #Unnumbered, or indeed the current one #unnumbered; he has just achieved his 700th full stop. However, we are in the Diversity age, and must give him the benefit of the doubt. Like the French novel Beau Geste where a French Foreigh Legion comes across a Fort with guns as every embrasure, but not a solider to be seen, we don't know what happened in the CAP household when he posted. Perhaps he was about to continue the dots when his wife gave him a belt across the ears with her riding boots. perhaps nature called or perhaps he just ran out of dots]

2 hours ago, RFguy said:

A blade of grass would do it on some LSAs, getting into the wrong place, just blowing around while the caps are off during refueling. 

 

 

 

 

 

You'd be surprised what comes out of a Jerry Can without a gauze funnel screen. most of it works its way through the carb at full throttle, gets burnt. I have filter bowls on the JD Mower and tractors and that picks up a lot of sand/mud. The JD Mower tank  has a white interior and with a torch you can usually see half a forest sliding around on the floor. Most of that can be sucked out by a 6 mm syphon hose with enough drop to create strong suction. Then there are the things like you mentioned which drop in when the cap's off, from a hose, from the cap which you sat in some dirt, from dust on the hose/funnel, Spiders, ants, spider web etc from the Jerry Can/hose /funnel..

Then there are the kids and accidents, when a solid object falls into the tank and is sucked up the suction pipe.

That's why I think thruster's finger screen is so good it would still alow supply with most big objects in the tank.

...wear a scarlet sash on special occasions such as Natflys.

"They pushed out the people who used to organise them" said Salty, "and now no one knows how to organise one."

An idea formed in Cappy's head.....................................................