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......expose him”. So they dragged him out to the old cab. Look at this you XXXXXX who liked playing the gangster. “Well bugger me!” said Turbo, I’d forgotten all about the Yeller Terror. I used so sit at the lights on Woodward Avenue, Detroit and wait for the Mustangs, Camaros, and Chargers to come along and then blow them away.

Hop in and we’ll go for a ride.”

Forget it, the battery will be flat for a start”, scoffed the Captain, who fancied himself as a car expert. “It has a Solar Charger” replied Turbo, and HiHo, a secret greenie, especially since the bushfires broke out, swooned in admiration at Turbo’s amazing foresight.

So they got in and heard a soft while as Turbo hit the starter. He  pulled it into a 3G climb (avref), levelling our at 9000 feet after Cappy had difficulty breathing.

”Did anyone check the fuel...........

....Roswell space ship which I use regularly to fly from Miami to my Golf Course in Miami, where............

I brought a new level of civility to the Upper Gascoyne...the white lady wasn’t so popular then.

 

and that’s the Birdsville Pub which I first saw 8 years earlier in 1969 when it was Still wild and untamed.

 

It's pretty tame now - like the Mooroopna Pub

Up in the NW it was rum!

 

More likely metho and Sal Vital

...........and the answer came back; "You.......sweetheart"  Trump smirked, then realised the voice was very deep, with masculine tones.........

....fired both barrels at once, one being his own so to speak. A brown mist filled the air, and the Quds began screaming "Gas!!!!!!........Gas!!!!!!........Gas!!!!!!, and gas it was. They were all looking up and holding their noses and while Vlad was in that position bull hit him hard, knocking him out with the one blow. The Quds fled to their caves and had to wait a week for the air to clear enough to fly again.

In the meantime, as we know, Trump took advantage of the situation; "We got him" he said smiling, but looking at no one in particular except........

Well he's saying it's not about the landing fees.

Humans have repeatedly lost knowledge throughout their history. We're down to a tiny number of people who can operate a steam engine today.

I'd recommend the book "We the Navigators to everyone that flies" it gives the very basics, even before the arithmetic.

The reality is that since GPS, all this real navigating is mainly for fun. Yes I know that the GPS might go down and we should be map-reading all the time too. But even maps are old hat now. 

 

My son looked with horror at my maps one day and went out and bought me an iPad and Ozrunways. So now navigating consists of keeping the plane icon on the pink line. It's so easy it gives you time to worry about things like the CHT's.

 

The Ozrunways actually has the old Garmin $200 yachting GPS as a backup, where you only needed to keep the line in the middle to fly direct to wherever, with clever "go to nearest " emergency provisions. 

 

Actually,  there was a lot to like about the time when men were men and navigated by mathematics and maps and compass. They would arrive to be admired by simpering women. I always wanted a simpering woman.

 

Anyone who has qualified for a Pilot Certificate or Pilot Licence will, or should have, demonstrated safe, manual, navigation, so no one should be forced into a Precautionary Landing, right?

And that possibility is quite likely with the quality level of GPS instruments we use today; I've read several pilot reports where the primary gps went down, the backup couldn't be made to work, and even one report where the primary failed, the secondary failed and third was being carried but had a flat battery. And then there's the situation where you are in turbulence, the country is featureless, but you haven't been worried about that to keep a record of your last fix (or probably never keep one), and under that stress you are trying to get a back up GPS out of a briefcase, only to drop it on the floor/find out you forgot the cable/realise you have nothing in the aircraft to plug it into etc.

As Pilot in Command you've put yourself in a position where you may experience a fuel exhaustion before you find an airfield just by flying around.

And as we've seen on another post, without doing something very simple, like marking your 10 minute intervals on your track, whether you're flying around storms or not, you also can't give an immediate endurance fuel time if ATC try to help you, and you're more likely to fall victim to some of the vagaries of aircraft fuel systems.

.........almost touched the roof, but then it stopped and slowly started to rise on the stream of hot air that always came from the Captain wherever he was., but the crisis wasn't over yet, the encabulator ran out of hot air and arced down towards........

[Turbo was very proud of his Shafting Award, which was a Spicer 1800 drive shaft twisted up into knots, and he commends the Truck Axle Association (TAA) {avref} for its research. Years ago Turbo had loaned a Prime Mover to the Federal Government department responsible for road safety regulation to use on a tilt table. The Academic who tried to drive if off after the test didn't realise the spring brakes had been applied and put his foot down harder. The Cummins engine responded with a roar and twisted the driveshaft into history. Turbo will be chrome plating the Award and sending it up to the National Road Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs] https://roadtransporthall.com/

This happened in the US so you'd have to check US regulations.

...encabulate, leaving a wet patch on the seat of the Drifter, but he got the engine started and rose sluggishly into the air, but.....

41 minutes ago, Captain said:

 

Your delighted Captain is pleased to share the below video from his personal library.

 

It shows Turbs during what the girls all call his "Rockwell Years" when they all thought he was hot, and swooned over his detailed technical descriptions.

 

It is irrelevant that his fly was partly undone during this recording and the little bird was close to falling out of its nest.

 

Rockwell was a great experience with some great forward thinkers. The Encabulators were ahead of their time and didn’t take off so I was moved to the truck axle department.

.......strap an encabulator to your back and fly yourself out.

And so began the encabulator phase of human history. They were immune from CASA because as son as an FoI sidled up, they sidled out, but before long people were crashing into each other and falling on McDonalds at night because they didn't have lights and beacons, and there were so many people flying in so many directions that it took considerable skill to..............

While I have been practicing for my nav test, I  have learnt to either fly a heading OR proceed visually. I am tempted to half fly a heading and twist it a bit to make up for unexpected winds. 

 

 

the advantage of flying a heading and then correcting it is that you can fly a/the second more difficult half of your trip with more accuracy. 

 

You are best to do what your instructor taught, because that will be the basis for the Nav Test.

Whatever happened to paying what you owe to the airport operator like the rest of us?

.......opened the throttle without reading the instructions. What happened next.......

"........carry out Commercial operations"

Turbo, who had sat through many presentations like the video, knew the the presenter had been preparing that short video for six months, searching through the entire history of the Industrial Revolution, Machinery's Handbook version 96, the book "how to be an academic", and the Star Wars series to make sure he had every term industry-perfect; the equivalent of briefing a journalist that the crashed aircraft in front of them was an "A43366 Version 6, but built under licence to the B3780 Flying Tornado specification" which took up the entire word-allowance of the editor, so was abbreviated by agreement with the International Journalists Association to "Cessna"  

He knew exactly what he meant by each inter-locking term, and so did Turbo.

"It's just an inter-active bolt on module to turn lineal forces into magnetorial reactions" he said "I should have thought about it myself; it does away with the hydroghen bags, and.....

......and that was that.

However.....

...........frenzied activity as the directors of the AUFCF staged demonstrations, and glued themselves to the Board Room chairs.

This to some extent showed up their management skills because the Sheriff just ordered his team to carry them out in the rain; as they walked along like bettles with the chairs stuck to their backs one of them summed up the general opinion: "Where's Scomo" he yelled, but......Scomo had learnt his lesson and......

5 degrees off track is all you are allowed in CTA and on one engine you have to maintain better than that on the climb after the initial swing. Nev

 

The danger in these discussions is that in some cases PPL students are reading the posts and can be badly misled when flying standards they require for a pass are played down by people thinking the only audience is local flyers in RA.

Good heading keeping is still the basis of accurate navigation over featureless terrain or holding where offsets for wind effect must be done, at the onset and be corrected when information shows it's not allowed for enough. The only difference with very fast planes is If you are going the wrong way you are getting lost faster.

 

 I think the term is Gyroscopic precession where you get heading indicator drift and you reset to the compass when it's steady. (which it rarely is when in "live air. Nev

 

This is the benefit of drawing in your 10 minute checks. You adjust the DG at regular intervals so precession is all but eliminated, and if you stuff up matching the compass in some rough stuff you can have as many goes as you like to get a match, and you'll still be way better off than just trying to use the compass for navigation.

Sometimes Apen seems to be going down the path of over-thinking things.

The erro he's shown probably has it's converse in the  "?" track you'll follow if you just fly with the ADF needle pointed at the destination. Navigation is best handled in a class so the instructor can sttle you down if you get too excited about the parts that don't matter.

The 1 in 60 rule is only appropriate for small deviations off track. It is good to see this proved mathematically.

 

Well you only want to be screwing up in small ways, otherwise you're out there in the ether like the Wackett on the Nullabor, or the RAAF Sabre that set his DG 180 degrees out before taking off from Hobart.

....motion that "some people should be kicked out for being Motel Operators, and everyone knew they doubled their prices every time a rich Drifter owner walked through the door" which was interrupted by some dumb bunny saying "but then they might not let us in and we'd have to sleep under the wing", which then led to.....

Using Turbo's information, 0.5 nautical miles is about 925 metres. Since VMC visibility limit is 5000 metres (approx 2.5 nautical miles). Blind Freddy could see that far.

 

And if you can see the 5000 metres and see you're off track, why not just adjust your heading slightly to intercept the next on-track feature, then make another small adjustment to have yourself running on track.

The 1 in 60 had much more relevence in the pre 5000 metre days when it was popular to get above cloud layers and hopefully down through a hole here and there, and still has relevence over featureless country of which Australia has plenty.