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By contrast another station not that far away had a cocky who used to get you to sweep way back for a couple of hours (this was in 100,000 acre paddocks) and start mobs moving, bring them together into one, but very loose, then drop him off the helicopter on the tail about 6-7 miles from the yards. He'd then send me off to do other work for the day and the next time I'd see him I'd fly afternoon smoko to the yards by which time he'd yarded the lot - sometimes 5,000 head - doing little more than walking quietly along behind, well back out of sight of any beast, tapping two sticks together. When I'd get there they'd be quiet and watered ready for drafting. That fella could've even taught Temple Grandin a thing or two I reckon, shame he was such a mongrel in every other way.

.........."go home Turbo YOU $#@!""

Turbo responded with a war dance and then all.........

So how would you two go in a Cherokee 6 with all that weight momentum, that long nose high in the air, coming downwind at high groundspeed, into an upsloping runway, and having to make your judgements by looking out of the left window? All that when you have some of the best brakes in the business.

Would you have landed downwind/upslope, or upwind downslope.

There are two ways to herd stock - move them or scare them. Once you scare them the adrenaline comes up and you are in the hands of the most skittish animal in the herd. That's when breakaways occur - in any direction, and that's when people pull helicopters and aircraft into excessively tight manouvres, with fairly regular and predictable results.

I've never checked ATSB to find the highest crash aircraft, but wouldn't be at all surprised to find it was the R22.

As far as using them for sheep, if we had any inkling that a ram supplier was doing that, he'd be an ex supplier - you walk sheep, you don't run them.

Thanks to the skills and teaching of my grandfather, I'm able to herd sheep without dogs, and in any country, which is why I'm a bit doubtful about this "mustering" comment. Not saying he wasn't doing it because although he owned a number of properties, I've seen a lot of big landholders doing very silly things with stock.

Wanganella was the centre for some of Australia's best Merinos and we used to buy from the area. Flat open country so the "mustering" comment confuses me. It's certainly a different aircraft to what the guy has owned. A little early yet for any clear result. For all we know the previous pilot could have stressed the frame and this guy may have just been flying between properties.

"....enjoy mixing with fellow Aussies, and drinking, dancing and telling unbelievable stories. Ret me introduce you to my friends, Muhammad Bahsee, Gunar Singh, Sally Bok Choy, and Jakob Nugyen."

" I'm a little concerned that you are right here next to the Bidrman Rally" said Turbo.

Nobu gave an inscrutable little smile "See that Car Carrier Ship pointing downstream? It going to Tokyo; Tonight's fireworks display will be two rockets short, so should make deck!"

Walking further along Southbank, late in the afternoon he had to step around many people who had passed out from the effects of alcohol, and in the distance he heard "More Vodka, more Vodka" - it was a pathetic sound, and as he approached.....................................

2014 Moomba Birdman Rally, led by W2 Gold Rat, and representing a number of expert rag and tube flyers. It definitely shows that two strokes make the difference.

Because the bike riders would go around to the deserving folks with a tyre lever and take them back.

Especially drunks.

You have your answer there Ultralights.

"Pull the power and they sink pretty fast"It certainly did.

Boom boom Kaz .....

".........melting down and resale as 'Hospital Grade' steel for Operating Theatre instruments, which was another side line doing well until..........."

.......ear. He'd been under there looking for a spanner, which was one of six which had dropped down into the technical maze as he was doing a minor tune up job.

"I don't worry too much if I can't find them, he said, they eventually fall out on to the road, and..................."

"........You're bloody lucky. If Ben owned you, you'd have a poncy white paint scheme, white walls and the skinniest tyres he could buy"

The Vette just sat there looking smug, and just the slightest drip of oil dropped.......

Looks like Ahlox at the wheel of Ben's car.

.....but Benny Tley, who actually drove a 1956 VW Karmann Ghia, which had all the power he could handle sometimes got his facts mixed up with his.............

.........in tent oh, but....

Alert NES readers who were watching the Today Show this morning and saw Stevie Jacobs having the first drive in Australia of the new Ferrari 488 GTB may have noticed Stevie leaning out of the car and yelling "Turbo!" as he revved its head off. Turbo had received a call from Channel nine telling him to watch the show, but advises readers he has no time for that small engined stuff

..........next french fries night.

"I have a lot of appeal!" bristled Madge, who, as usual, misheard the statement.

"How are they swingin up your way!" yelled Loxie, who was never one to..................

It cost him big time from memory. Turbs might remember. It was on this forum when he was sentenced.

RAA and HGFA are the self administrative bodies for this Class and will probably cop it over the next couple of years, however this is problematic where someone breaks away or a splinter group breaks away.

These people, without the restraining force of an Association often cross over into the civil offense/ crime area.

Major outlined one of the problems for the self administering body trying to round them up, but you have to do it, and in the past I've enlisted the help of Police. However they have their own difficulties where behaviour is beyond regulations they don't administer. In this case it seems to me that CASA will be the ones to deal with this.

lunch with me, because I squelch when I eat t.........................

Yes, engine failed to put out the 200 hp needed to escape. You can hear him open the throttle way too late.

Made the Melbourne channels too; this could have as big an effect as the Hume Weir beatup.

That's about one a month

What you posted was about ppc's commonly doing the wrong thing. A lot of aviators assume that they (ppc's pilots) are breaking the law, when, in fact they legal, simply because they had a different set of rules.I am in no way suggesting that this pilot's actions are in any way excusable, just suggesting that some of the things you thought were being done illegally may have actually been legal.

Have you checked horse riding regulations Bruce, or was that just a thought bubble.

I got sick of all the regulations at one stage and decided I would rather go farming and supply boutique restaurants with meat.

I was stunned to find there were more regulations there than in the transport industry, tagging of animals, stamping of carcasses, bar coding of food portions, so if someone got a bad steak they could trace it to me. Decided the transport industry was a breeze after that.

Until recently (if I understand correctly), for foot launched PPCs, the rules about lowest altitudes and separation were very different from other aircraft. With the disclaimer that "yes there are some dills out there", just because you saw them low and slow doesn't necessarily mean that they were breaking rules at the time.

The other example I gave was a PPC landing on a radio controlled MODEL aircraft strip, where the strip length, width and fencing was never designed to be used for manned flight, then taking up an unsuspecting passenger.

I certainly didn't post about any foot launching and I didn't post about any low and slow flight, so throwing in a couple of red herrings isn't going to change the situation.

The report says this incident has been reported to ATSB so there will be more grief than if it was just RAA that found out about it.

I didn't say all, I said the behaviour was not unusual. If you think that's too tough, get on the websites and You Tube and see for yourself.