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1 minute ago, BrendAn said:

On my last flight with an instructor about 3 months ago, something was said that I didn't understand.

In all the training I have done I have always been told to stay on the centre line when backtracking on a runway. But  on that last flight we had to backtrack and when I got on the center line the instructor had a go at me and told me to get off the center line because it was bad airmanship. I was doing what every instructor has taught me then this smartarse  raises his voice and has a go at me for it. We did one circuit and I was still put off from getting that rebuke so I landed and said forget it .  I felt like kicking his arse. 

Is he right. Why would it be bad airmanship to travel in the center line. 

Study the regulations.

.........language we can’t repeat here. staggering in the air at about 500” (AMSL) from the direction of YSCR. ........

56 minutes ago, Captain said:

..... bull, a good man with a disdain for capitals and a slight drinking issue, had mistaken what the tbensi bloke had said and bull thought that he was being invited to join in with consenting adults at the tbensi Friday night piss up, to get hammered.

 

Imagine his disappointment when he .....

............found himself lying on a pew  in a Uniting Church with a Presbyterian Minister about to give him the option of the last rites, or signing the UC declaration renouncing alcohol, marrying only Scottish women (that's how they finally got some married), and ........

.....a voice in with that squeaky, grovelling Perth accent, explaining as he picked up the nuts with the cable hoist; "We check them for correct axis of elasticity and granular direction". Using a 5 lb hammer he tapped each nut. Some needed just two taps, some needed three, and one needed five.

"Here you are" he said toi bull, "good as new", but bull knew they were better than new and resolved to buy a 5 ln hammer when he goy home. But .........

.... the nut problem.

What he didn't know was that EP had been short of students for some time after scaring half of them by lesson three. He wasn't prepared to lower his standard of training so he resolved the problem by importing cheap students from China. Of the ones he imported every second one didn't want to work and those who did often stopped halfway through the lesson, but they paid big monet and EP was able to buy a new Satin Blue flying suit every season, so he wasn't going to tip a bucket on the Country which had made this possible and he suggested the nuts had been poorly serviced, which ........

......bitten.

bull called in aviation expert .........

4 hours ago, onetrack said:

There's at least three things about the crash of VH-MDX, that numerous amateur searchers fail to appreciate. 1. The aircraft quite likely broke up in flight due to icing and tumbling out of control. This would mean a number of pieces of the aircraft fell to Earth, thus making the "crash site", multiple "crash sites". 2. The aircraft was way off track, and no-one really knows what track it actually followed. It could be 10 or 15kms away from the "calculated" potential crash positions. Even several kms off the projected track would make for a much larger search area. 3. Lots of very well-informed, competent and highly qualified people have spend a lot of time searching for the aircraft wreckage, and constantly come up totally empty-handed - with not even a tiny piece of wreckage or aircraft contents having been found. This indicates to me that the aircraft is well outside any area previously searched.

In the hundreds of online discussions, some highly skilled navigators pooled information from the radio transmissions, second by second, position reports, ATC records etc. and over time I think the area decided on is not unreasonable. The crash area has been described as double canopy, so when anything falls in the net view through the canopies is going to be pretty much  closed again. 

The ground parties have gone in well informed but the problem is they've only been able to search minute pockets due to the rough terrain.

......an understatement because the engines had failed, and bull had to tow it the last 63 Nm with a rope between his teeth.

When the mechanics checked the engines they found 32 big end nuts had cracked. The nuts had been supplied by Golden River Co, a subsidiary of Hoo Boi Co.

bull was not amused .........

......these people were a pushover, but bull........

The ships were each going to have a Wheeler Scout [avref] operating. The ships looked like Aircraft Carriers once the runnways were fitted and immediately .....

........increase the operations tenfold.....or even twelvefold.

Cappy raises a salient point here. All we ever hear about is Motherships, and this is just another nail in the road to female domination where us males will be rationed .........

There was a bookie on board with the day's takings.

2 hours ago, Captain said:

..... deflect this by having Barry Obama say "bull's prawns are safe and effective" and then by bull feeding his prawns Bovear to stop their methane production?

 

The methane, pre expulsion, makes them float to the surface so that the Chinese can vacuum them into .....

.....plastic bags and sell them in the markets in competition with conventional trawlers like bull's. However bull had issued a world-wide press release explaining what Bovear does to the reproductive organs of little children and men. Withing a few weeks bull was needing the trawlers he'd ordered plus another six, and ......

NES News Item: The current fad in the Cattle and Dairy industries where feeding the animals with Bovear to reduce CO2 production has passed on some nasty diseases from the milk and meat and will be yet another headache for Albo to deal with in 2025 along with Tania P.

2 hours ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

What's the chance if there was recoverable cash on board that the wreckage was possibly found, the cash taken by actors and they keep quiet for 40 years. This is the first time I heard there was cash on board and it would have predated plastic money

If you want to do a little searching, you'll find the reports from several well organised and financed parties, where they went and what they found (but not MDX).

.....interest was the recent story in the British magazine “The Lancet” which had discovered that the extended veins were a symptom of a type of cancer that was transferable to anyone who ate the prawns. Sales had dropped and bull started to worry about his $6 million order for another three CAT powered trawlers. Could he.....

2 hours ago, Captain said:

Side Comment - It is a sad fact about Wreck Frying, and an even sadder reflection on our white Caucasian privileged skippy background, that we all tend to think that those behind the Forum names are white Skippy blokes that we would like to meet for a beer down the Rissole.

 

Well Turbo has obviously assumed & fallen for this about Onesie, who alluded to the following in a recent post, and whose real name is Tuấn Minh Trang Phương Nguyễn. This is why he remembers the Mekong leaches so well and is why he looked exactly like the bloke that shot may mate, & forward scout, Jimmy .... before J was Dusted Off.

 

Tuan came to Aussie on a leaky refugee boat and landed in NW WA, then gravitated initially to Perth to open a French Bread Shop (yeah sure, it really was French), then changed his name initially to Won Tlack, which became onetrack as he achieved "a full blown Michael Jackson" and bleached himself white, then went 100% Skippy, even to the extent of becoming a good old Aussie Rascal (after quitting from being the boss of the Vietnamese gang that controls Freo) and going on to run his great CAT Spares Scam.

 

I am proud to call OT a mate, but I never take my dog when I go to visit him, as he makes a great Bun Bo Hue.

 

Side Comment to assist Cappy to put a  follow on statement after "up,";.

We are lucky on this site to have such an accurate recorder of history, stickler for the correct English of that time, and story teller of unparalelled skill. Cappy brings it to us as it was, warts and all (and sometimes more than warts.)

.... who was three at the time the Vietnam War broke out, but spent the duration of the war in Canada in case he was called up, decided to drag Turbo through the courts for inserting the Mekong leaches in whiskey.

In a landmark case, Turbo's lawyer, the Hon. CT Barnum showed the court a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica where the species Leachus Mekongrious was defined as an Animae Ferocii ("Wild Animal" for those whose native tongue is not Latin).

 So Turbo had no control over these wild animals, and as everyone could see the bottle was securely sealed.

OT lost the case which turned the slug in the bottle case on its head and was last seen doing aerobatics in his Extra 300 over the cities of the world towing a gin bottle around.

The case attracted the attention of bull who had extended his fortune by building a chain of restaurants called the raw prawn, and he thought he could increased traffic with a drink called "Prawn Bite", but it was failing because of the constant lines of smelly people asking for bait and ............. 

......he finally had to face up to it that at the end of the war they were all paid a $50 bonus and bought scrap materials which they welded into products like engines and sold them to gullible Australians.

”This better than training XXXXXXX Vietnamese to dig tunnels” said

Lu Sbar Ing, the manager.

OT.....

“Ni Hao............”
OT fainted..........

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Our ministry was donated a 230. I noticed these areas on the empennage. Can anyone tell me if theee is common? And the best method for fixing these type issues.

Send those photos to Jabiru and ask for advice.

The issue may simply be filler shrinkage over the rivet heads, or it may indicate movement at some stage due to hinge binding.

This may be inexpensive to repair but let Jabiru see it just to make sure its not a structural issue.

Have read a few thousand words on this.

Night VFR flight, another aircraft went through before him, had uneventful flight.

He deviated towards the Barrington Tops, wanted to save time.

Picked up a lot of ice, aircraft not responding as well as it should, lost VFR a few radio transmissions and that was the end of that.

Not found in the official searches. Many people contributed their knowledge from the known radio times and positions narrowing down the search area.

Teams experienced in the area went up there in their holidays but no one has been successful.

The terrain and thick bush mean that you would have to be very close to the wreck to sight it.

14 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Hi All,

 

I need to replace a hot air duct. The critical dimensions are ID & length.

 

ID 61.6 mm x Length 550 mm

 

Fitting over existing structures/supports is the reason for the ID (could probably get away with a little bigger, but smaller would be problematic). Original tube had an aproximately 1 mm wall thickness.

 

I think OD is going to be around 2.5 in, in the Devil's measurement system that most suppliers seem to use.

 

Note: measuring device (& operator) not as precise as might be hoped.

 

Have tried all the aircraft suppliers of tube, that come up on Google - no joy.

 

Tried a few commercial aluminium suppliers - min wall thickness 2 -3 mm in this size pipe, making ID way to small .

 

Currently corresponding with a custom intercooler builder but not holding out much hope.

 

Suggestions welcome

Laminate an FRP tube; make 2 halves bolted together.

47 minutes ago, Captain said:

.... Kurdaitcha slippers and his proven favorite bone, made from a sliver of either the jawbone of an ass or the arsebone of a jew, Cappy can never remember which, and OT headed for ...

 

........what turned out to be the Print Shop for this Construction Equipment knock off shop. He knew it was the Print Shop because it had a CE sign in 18 out of the 387 languages spoken around the world. They couldn't understand him so they passed him on to the Coal Burner Manager who looked after the heaters (if you ever have a problem with a Chinese machine, this is usually the best guy to ask for).  "Looter?" he asked showing some amusement, and OT had to walk nearly half a kilometre before........... 

3 minutes ago, T510 said:

I have only flown tailwheel since I started doing my RPC and ended up travelling up to Wings out West from Victoria. Can't recommend them enough. Great instructors and the Legend Cubs are a pleasure to fly (not that I have anything to compare them to)

 

When I spoke to RAAus about flying schools offering tailwheel training they said Wings out West was the only option, I couldn't find anyone in Victoria offering tailwheel training through RAAus and I called all the schools listed on the RAAus page. A few other schools that listed tailwheel training said they no longer had a tailwheel aircraft available due to lack of demand.

 

Flying with Grace at Narromine offers tailwheel training in a Legend Cub and it's good to see Sport Aviation and Adelaide Biplanes have a couple of options too. I'll have to do some travelling and get some flights in other aircraft so I can have something to compare the Legend Cubs to. I'm keen to fly as many different aircraft as possible

Pity RAAus didn't seem to know which other schools to recommend.

 

 

With regards to the people offering training in a Decathlon out of Moorabbin, my understanding is I can't fly VH registered aircraft under my RPC and no flying in controlled airspace unless I convert to RPL.

Is it possible to do endorsements in aircraft I can not fly solo?

You can fly anywhere as a student with an Instructor.

.....haemorhoids, and there are handy medical packs in little red boxes along the way.

Paris Match, Newscorp and a few other perverts have temporary shelters at the worst places waiting to catch that SNAP! and bounced of a freed bra worthy of Page 1.

There was the Rooter, sitting in the sun on a log. It was painted CAT Yellow and had a little pussy on it as described in earlier posts.

OT walked up and gave it a kick to test the Chinese quality. There was a loud CRACK! and a piece fell off. OT wondered what would happen when it was coupled to a D7 and the hydraulics pushed it into the ground. "This one really would finish up in China" he thought.

As many people know, you don't DO this to OT and get away with it. The Great Boulder graveyard is testament to the many smart alecs who tried to take him down.

His eyes narrowed as he saw the sales manager coming towards him in boiler suit and thongs.

He reached for his ..........