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52 minutes ago, Freizeitpilot said:

But they had apparently already lost control before they pulled the chute.

Doesn't matter; if the pilot had more experience he may not have lost control, so he wouldn't have pulled the chute.

BRS has become most popular in upmarket aircraft used by professionals who don't have time to learn correctly or stay current; they want a  1 lever solution if they screw up.

In this case the moment arrived and the equipment didn't cover the task.

On 30/05/2024 at 4:24 PM, Kenlsa said:

Re my above post there is a Grumman for group G for $65k on Plane Sales.

Depends on the moedel, some are not user-friendly

4 hours ago, Captain said:

...... then again, as Leonardo Turbine (my close & best mate, Turgid Plonker Turbine's brilliance and forward thinking so often reminds my of Leo) often lamented from Gwangju and from Padua, the angle of the .......

......isosceles is related to the base by a factor of three.” He had picked this up watching the isosceles being grilled over open fires in the Padua evening markets. Not only that ....

.....shows that you should never go down because it always ends in tears, and points to the Gimli Glider as the best example of ocean survival. "Flyin's better n floatin" she said.

The others raised their heads in surprise then went on with the conversation; Amelia wasn't the sharpest tool in the drawer.

Leonardo had moved to China to get the benefits of lower manufacturing cost but was suffering the disadvantage of language. When he ordered six ball joints he was given a plate of cat meat.

He was also learning the lesson of trying to build an engine without doing the drawings first. You can buy 4 dozen pencils in Draftsman grades for the price of a carton of milk in China, but Leonardo kept getting ahead of himself and when the parts came back nothing fitted.

He spent all day with an angle grinder trying to correct his mistakes, just like Turbo's neighbour.

As a result, in the meetings he could only talk theories which the others soon tired of.

"If it hasn't got a gearbox, how are you going to get enough revs?" Douglas (Bader) Turbine posed rhetorically.

"Was that what happened when you took off in coarse pitch in the Spitfar?" asked Kingsford Smith Turbine sarcastically, and a fight broke out.

Orville Turbine (III) said "Since none of you can agree, we'll go with direct drive.

And so Turbine 1 was built. As light as a feather, capable of carrying two overweight Turbines and their snacks and drinks over large distances and always easy to start. It didn't sound like the average recreational aircraft, but.......................

... be more reliable than the flat four Jabiru itself, and that's just for beginners.

OEHOR has been quietly sending advance drawings to his inner circle of friends of a V8 250 hp low revving engine made of magnesium from old Dodge Charger wheels.

It's based on the WANKER principle that a former WreckFlyne member had used without result because he was messing around on social media.

It's still only in the drawing stage, but when built would put the heavy Rotax, with all its garden hoses, out of business.

It's best feature is that mounts will match both Jabiru and Rotax so fitting one will just be a bolt on procedure.

Prop will be crankshaft drive, the way Orville always wanted it and ........................

Big heavy clean aircraft with the gear up; plenty of inertia to keep it going and probablt a few places he could have banged it down, but 29 years flying judgement paid off.

.........it was common for this type of thing to happen. Get rid of the bindiis and twigs, plant a few bushes and you had a Common, and they became common all over England. There's argument today whether this was because it got the activity out of sight of the little children or whether England was the originator of the greening and tree planting taking place all over the world today.

Meanwhile the Drifters were winched up, the Blueheads given a squirt of WD40 and SYB and they were off again (not like these poncy 4 cylinder .................................

.....quite surprised at this dismissive European type gesture from someone who looked so caring and mild from the outside so she called him a Wo.................

....something a little like water Polo as the CASA Js pointed at the Drifters sitting on the bottom, half without registration letters and others with obvious defects, and tried to stop the Bluehead drivers swimming up because they weren't carrying the correct documents.

After gulping gallons of water trying to yell at each other the groups resorted to sign language, the Bluehead Brigade confining it to the middle finger of the left hand and the FOIs using more expressive versions of what they were going to do with them. One finally broke the surface and gasped "We have deep pockets", but no one knew what he meant.

The newly formed Turbine Ocean Rescue Inc. raced in to action, descending on ropes into the water (there were still a few procedural bugs to be sorted out.)

The trouble started when bull chose the best looking female to grab.............................................

It seems Singapore Airlines underestimated the number of people who wanted to know precisely what happed.

What's out there seems to be Unexpected CAT, aircraft goes into mormal descent after, to 6000' lower allocated altitude.

bull had not been heard of for three weeks. Turbine tracking had his trawler out in the middle of the South China sea. There were plenty of raw prawns there, and must were trigger-happy, so there was some concern since bull's trawler had that sleek military look and was painted grey.

A closer look would have hurt the ears with a constant rotating of cassetts playing Dire Straits music on loudspeakers, but you never knew when the Chinese were going to turn inscrutable.

They had been scrutable for 40 years, but you never knew.

[Turbo has been careful to match the Millenial "Executive Summary", which can include anything and are often a shopping list, the body of text and the End Note, all with Oxford commas.]

........vertical climb followed by a vertival dive followed by a vertical plunge over water, a display becoming more popular but frowned on by CASA who had decided to step in and ................

Mahmy, who was out shooting tiger in the Corbett National Park again (in return for a refresher supply from zoos around the world who fell for his "I will very much appreciate execess tigers which I will give a very good home and very happy in out National Parks for free very much thankyou sir").

On his return he invited Cappy up for a shoot, and thanked Turbo for his marketing of the tiny jar of waste yeast mixed with powdered walnut and Castrol sewing machine grease. Thanks to the subliminal messages and icons, they were selling like hotcakes.

.......airabatics as the yanks call it this year An odd name, but they are the grand kids of the hippy era.

They bought the 135 hp Blueheads from TurbOtCapTbull Conversions Inc. (formed late in the night at a Christmas party), lightened the Drifters, reworked the controls to give something like a BYD control sensitivity (straight and level every fifth time), and started flying inside the box.

This .............

5 hours ago, Captain said:

All NESers, and particularly those couple of hundred new members, should be aware that this has been the modus operandi of the Turbine Clan, ever since the well documented Turbine Ides of March affair was recorded near the Pizzarea in downtown Rome.

It is also rumored that Turbine Pontius Pilot/Golgotha were behind that bit of an enduring story in Jerusalem, ....... where Turbine Carpenters and Woodworkers built the cross after having constructed a Manger for a little tacker some 32 years before, ...... so what would be the odds for Turbo's ancestors having made a few sheckles on that little kiddie's arrival and also on his departure? (They must have been well paid as if the latter is true, they must have had crews working through the leadup to both Christmas and Easter, so it would have been hard to get good tradies).

 

Even as of a day or so ago, Turbine CIA have been rumored to have been involved in some chopper prang in Iran.

 

So, a warning for you all not to cross Turbo, as his stratagem may sometimes compensate for his lack of talent (so he then hires other people that know what they are doing), but with a lack of talent, Turbo has demonstrated that you are, or will be, screwed.

Turbo compliments his dear friend Cappy's outstanding work of fiction in this fun story about his ancestors. His family did indeed own a village of 600 just outside the castle which bred the soldiers who ran out of the village and were issues with weapons when they ran into the castle for protection.

This model lasted for years until a careless Charles Turbine left the gate open one night.

Cappy knows full well how Turbine operate since he is hired to play a gin soaked  beggar lying on the street with a placard "$5 and I won't sing a song", his hidden camera recording careless conversations, designed to catch careless trollers who can't keep their story straight.

Only recently Turbo warned against flying into cloud where you can't see a stinger coming the other way. Of course he didn't mention the stinger because he thought everyone would be aware of the obvious.

"Board" (which wasn't a Board but just  board board).

The battle-hardened Cappy, with an afternoon of gin, offered to give them all a good smack in the teeth and they withdrew to the lower altitudes.

Without the UWD around on a Saturday afternoon, it became quite boring so Turbo, Cappy and OT pulled their Blueheads down, bored them out to the max, ground the ports over 180, filled in the squish chambers and tuned the exhausts, getting peak power up to 135 hp right on rpm just under VNE.

Many people know about the USAF taking the crashed Roswell spacecraft to Area51 out in Nevada, and discovering Kevlar, the Transistor and sun tan oil, but only a few know that Turboy's father Chuck Turbine got in first, finding what he called Kevlar B which when hardened with the B Resin became lighter and stronger than carbon fibre which was a NASA copy.

TI had kept the Kevlar B specifications and instructions for mixing the B Compound so turbo threw away the rag wing and made two shorter solid wings and a more streamlined nose, and the trio started racing their KB Drifters around the mountains mapping out a route which took in all the big peaks.

Every Saturday afternoon the three Blueheads would scream around the valleys scaring the crap out of the Khybers; it wasn't easy on the goolies either.

The race attracted buyers for the KB Drifters, so a Cup was produced and the race called King of the Mountains. 

Years later it was copied by another race called King of the Mountain at Bathurst in Australia but that was just a hill.

Eventually the Maharaja of Mysoras ..............................

2 hours ago, Captain said:

...... Jitmaa was despatched in the tried and proven manner that was taught to them by the battle proven tactics of Turbine French Foreign Legion PLC, which......

 

Turbine Industries had taken over the FFL when France found it a bit expensive to run, and had made good use of them ever since to achieve policy change and policy "development" around the world. 

......consisted of a swift knife in the back. Anyone who has worked in Industry would be familiar with the process whether on the A side or the receiving B side. IASA was the better for it because a gentle warming always focuses a group, and the remaining FOIs were easy to spit because they all had rear vision mirrors taped to their necks. The flyers got more and more out of control until one.......

paid by the slow and cautious.

That was before IASA's FoI, Jitmaa Singh arrived.

He could see the problem so he decided to do some ramp checks and began bailing up people at the top of the airstrip.

Soon most of the runway was taken up by parked aircraft with red "Prohibited, Oh my goodness!" stickers.

Take off was a hairy experience where you dropped 1500 feet before the aerodynamics kicked in, but landings now had a barrier to parked aircraft to stop you.

A couple of pilots crept up behind Jitmaa when he was ramp checking a Drifter and ...........................

16 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

my mistake. i thought you were a commercial pilot

No doubt you could spin this out for hours.

21 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

why would you be flying passengers around with a 1000ft cloudbase, i thought you would go above the cloud.

Fly through cloud?

38 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Why did you get so low then.? Nev

The Cloud layer had been stable at 1000' for a couple of days, something I'd never seen, waited another day and it had moved up to 1300' flat bottom, good visibility to horizon so came down picked up passengers. had flight planned to Melbourne along the  Sea Level colour, had opted for a zig zag course hopping from airfield to airfield, flying along at 500' and my first town was on a hill, so the ground came up towards me; The Sea Level sector is O - 600'; sat on the ground for a couple of hours, replanned, the cloud lifted again and no more rising ground.

28 minutes ago, facthunter said:

What about maintaining the visibility forward?  Ceiling is cloud base. Used  when taking off in conjunction with RVR. (Runway visual range) forward of the aircraft.  Nev

If you're referring back to my post ceiling on that day was 1000' from SA to Mount Martha.

Visibility was out to the horizon.

1 minute ago, BrendAn said:

yes i did find it after much searching.   i am only a dumb truck driver.

i bow to the mighty one  once again. don't tell raaus how dopey i am when you do your report, it looks bad on my logbook.😁

The good thing today is reports aren't needed for people who aren't qualified to fly or opt to "fly on instruments" through cloud etc. because we operate on self-administration these days.

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

only those who crack the turbo cryptic code understand.

Or those who've had formal training on Performance & Operations.

2 hours ago, Garfly said:

Regarding units, I appreciate the 250k Topo charts, available in OzRwys, for the extra detail

and clearer depiction of where flatlands lie. But care is needed since it ain't an aviation map.

 

 

The bottom Map would be good if you were cutting a drain.

The Ozrunways map clearly works for a lot of people. That area is covered by the Armidale WAC Chart, and I haven't got one to compare but the colouring looks like the underlying map could be a WAC Chart.

What the WAC Chart has are Hypsometric Tints which show altitude in feet and metres.

If you find during your trip that cloud has decended above you like a ceiling, the tints give a quick reference for a way out to be planned. If the bottom of the scale isn't visible here you can scroll to bring up Sea Level. Don't be caught like me once when I was watching that celing very closely and realised I could see individual sticks under the gum trees because although the cloud was level, the land was rising, and the sea level blue is anything from ground to 600'.