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The speed with what electronics and software programming is scary sometimes. This is just a few guys at a uni playing around......what is the military up to?http://www.wimp.com/powerquadcopters/

It's guidance system doesn't come from the drone, but all the cameras around the room, so wherever you go you need to be in the room with all the cameras.

Great skills at mathematics though.

........Mox, from Jaspers Box when he mistook Ayers Rock for the Rock and did a boxed turn which put him on track for Lockbank and the Melbourne LAL [AR], whereupon he took out the notes he'd carefully made from an epic Bigglesworth flight, crossed Gippsland, turned left and made that chance encounter.

"Those chance encounters will do it for you every time" said Major, who had been lsoing the high profile necessary to win votes from people who didn't want to vote, and overcome the massive load of proxies and votes from Lithuanians which were arriving in Canberra in favour of ...............

.....was able to prove that Jock had lost his socks near The Rocks on one of his frequent trips to Sydney and a mule for the Bedlinen family, which had landed in Australia from Columbia as refugees, along with their pets which included 17 lions, 12 tigers, 3 anacondas (which they'd been using to put the squeeze on anyone who talked), a giraffe, and three women.

Uaeda-san had been operating undercover, making imbecilic jokes on the forum Recreational Flying, whenever anyone started a half reasonable thread, and this in turn led to him meeting.........

.......good readers this was precisely the image Turbo had cultivated for the heathens Rats Guts and the Scotsman (you read it here first!) Jock McLockland.

He's been wyly slatching them for the last few thousand posts, and had been able to deduce that they were in fact ASIO agents, and the architects of the ASIC Card with which they hoped to fight Al Quaeda, not realising that Al Quaeda wasn't interested in Australians because they didn't have enough money and very few went to church anyway, so....

Buy an old petrol pump?

It is always a problem on the NES when Hatshat has a coughing fit. It's almost as if all of last weeks news comes up with the carrot pieces.

Flying Visual had resorted to Code, which we hadn't seen since Ditdot sent us his alien messages, which brings back memories of his epic trip to the Antarctic in an R22 flying backwards. Unfortunately he mated with a human and departed for a lonely shore far away, home to other aliens such as Ignoramus and Bachatthemoon.

The thread historian has also slowed the meter and aviation references down with a crude attempt at self adulation for lurking until #8000 then crapping on it, leaving a trail of his tiny nuggets, which nevertheless smell outrageously.

Turbo, who had been washing bikes all day, was dreaming of the good old days when.........

Just received an email regarding this incident that rang some alarm bells -"Departed Lismore downwind.

 

 

 

Landed 06 Ballina, downwind and against existing traffic, ended up 1.8km from 06 threshold having taken out a 24 approach aid.

 

 

 

Ballina wind. 18/09.30am EST, Westerly 11 gusting 17, 18/10.00am EST, WNW 13 gusting 19. (Source BOM).

 

 

 

That equates to a tailwind of 12 knots and a cross wind of 15 kts.

 

 

 

Ballina by the way is a Jet Airliner airport, big enough to accept 737's which, unlike this bloke in an ultralight, manage to stay on the runway.

 

 

 

This is why your insurance is going up and why CASA are looking so hard at this end of the industry."

Good one Gandalph.What a good idea. Just the three ex tech managers would be enough, wine and dine with both ears open plus the very little occasional question just for verification of some points, you will the full story and gathered without a great ego.

Regards

 

Keith Page.

".........can email it too - watch this..........."

Correct. Stalls and incipient spins are permitted in RA, and are part of the certificate syllabus. Fully developed spins are not permitted.dodo

Well, a damn good point of reference! Rotax provides NO warranty as to the selection, use etc. of the 912. It is at the owner's risk as to the use it is put. So when the crankshaft comes into issue for multiple thousands of them, you're on your own.

For example, I'd be surprised if Briggs and Stratton don't have the same policy for their stationary engines, and I bought a Honda stationary engine which specifically threw the onus on application induced issues on me.

However they are all still bound by the legal Statutory Warranty they have to offer regarding manufacturing defects, which is a different thing.

FRP has a memory and can deform very substantially and spring back, but to deform, glass strands have to snap, sometimes by the tens of thousands.

As Major says, the part springs back and looks OK, but those thousands of glass strands snap or become delaminated from the resin, so repair is usually a substantial half lap sand over all the potentially weakened area and a new laminate at least at the weight of the old, sometimes heavier.

"..........declare Le Defacaruer en Hauture reallocated to the WA electorate, where he will be classified with Gavuan de Throbenharden."

"En...Meeseures, apres thes hes bin darn, I mais...................."

They can be a handful with an upwind landing if there are gusts.

Well Andy, you're the glass half full guy.

Now, I'm not for a minute suggesting the following is or has occurred, but imagine I'm and official sitting in the office, eyeing off that basket.

What you are missing is that by having a membership number on the outside of the envelope, I can find out who the voter is.

When I see it is Handy Andy, I know him, and I know who he'll by voting for, so I know I have to rustle up another vote to beat that one.

If the potential is there for a problem, best it's eliminated.

If people were told to make sure they put their numbers on an envelope sealed for anonymity and they didn't, that's another reason

Glass Full

Which border, NQ or SQ or PNG?

If it's a Cessna, some wanker has given it a Jab vertical stab and painted the "Jabiru" logo on it.........

....and also rendered speechless because in one fowl swoop he nemesis had become totally reliable, and the ride was much quieter as well.

Not only that, but they'd solved the fuel supply problem by not needing any, so when pilots dropped into godforsaken out of the way places like Montpelier Park and Townsville, they didn't have to worry about being stranded waiting for fuel to come from Victoria.

Madge was desperately campaigning against strong opposition for .....

It's stopped working FMe, try searching for the story wasn't much, just video of them pushing a 230 along the taxyway.

The tilt on that one "if" the tech manager is not suitable.........

Wayne was pushing to have everyone working up to a standard where the Association could avoid the ultimate failure of never catching up, and in my opinion his suitability is not the issue, the suitability of another individual is.

...........new Jabertoo all electric aircraft where in a brilliant example of lateral thinking the designers changed the starter motor gear ratio to produce an engine which can operate permanently on the starter motor only.

"It is much easier on the environment, and needs less replacement parts", said the designer.

Madge, who had been standing nearby welding up and exhaust pipe was caught with his pants down.........

Today's update : ......Wed 18th Sept......Recieved a call today from the GM Mark Clayton, very friendly and we discussed the problem at length...seems the NQ election may be put back a month (subject to some approvals) and next months magazine will have another round of amended ballot forms in it.Mark said many of the vote envelopes already Recieved at the office have no Member number on the envelope , so therefore they are invalid votes.

I assume the new envelopes will have the usual member number box on the rear of the envelope. So to those who have already voted..THANK YOU ...but you may have another chance yet !..............from bad sometimes comes good, and we may actually have a record voter count the way things are going.....Cheers, Ross Millard

DSJ didn't get a lot of use at the Flying School, and I sat in it a lot to practice my checks and procedures, so this one brings back a few memories.

Aircraft radio wasn't all that old at that time and most aircraft had sets and microphones which were different in design.

DSJ had a little round microphone about 15 mm diameter and about 75 mm long, tapering down to the cable end which you operated delicately with thumb and forefinger, speaking into the end of it. (you'd press a button with your thumb to talk).

When you'd finished using it you just dropped it into a tapered receptacle with a slot for the cable, and it just sat there held down by gravity.

I can recall the day after Fred's disappearance, the CFI adamantly ruling out the popular theory that Fred was disorientated and flying upside down looking at the reflaction of his own lights, because the mike would have fallen out of its socket and been swinging backwards and forwards in front of his face.

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Well I'm very sorry to hear that; what a bastard of a thing to happen, and an immediate loss.

Depth perception is the thing most talked about, but I know quite a few one eyed people who perform tasks requiring depth perception, including a number of semi trailer drivers who reverse on mirrors through doors and up to docks, so there will be a way to adjust.

I have a friend who lost a right eye and he does have some difficulty judging traffic passing him on a highway and coming from the right at intersections, but he adjusts for that by using his head to scan to the right.

The only serious problem he's had was when riding his bike, nearly being cleaned up by a Toyota Prius turning left on its electric motor. In one of the design groups I'm in, I've recommended a sound device for all electric cars, although I might not get the Chev 350 sound I asked for.

If when you try out with an instructor you have any difficulty, let us know and I'm sure a few of us can hit the books. One possibility, which I was trained on in the Cherokee was to land looking out the side window (there is a technique to this so I don't want people taking this as how to advice), but it greatly reduces the depth perception requirement.

....often as bad as a blowfly around the CWA Hall in mid afternoon, with his unusual call "............."