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Your right! Live rounds in the Urban Security eye are capable of being fired accurately with deadly force........without a gun or rifle.

Just got home from work.Flew out of Roma this morning. The security x ray machine is all set up and is being used.(Security Peeps where under training).I even had a explosive test done on me.Simple test, a wand is place on your clothing, then it goes in a machine. All Clear:smile:Dunno-what will happen when one the peeps from a mine, that packs explosives into the drill holes will register when the wand is put into the machine.

That's not the news reporters motto.

Imagine in sequence what questions you'd ask if you were allocated tomorrow morning to write pieces on:

• a house fire in which an elderly person with dementia was resuced
   
   
  
• a surprise release from the Minister for Education on proforma introduction of TAFE training into schools (30 pages attached)
   
   
  
• a note to interview a campaigner on faulty speed cameras following a successful court case
   
   
  
• a Police release on drunken behaviour by 16 yo's outside nightclubs at 3 am, and what steps are needed to fix the issues
   
   
  
• a car crash involving a pedestrian and a donkey
   
   
  
• a note to attend the State flower show and make comments on the judging
   
   
  
• a an analysis of a new cure for brain cancer using cells from midlight lily
   
   
  

All to be done in the next three days.

As you can see there's a lot of technical detail, industry terms, laws, sensitivities and investigation to be navigated, and that's just the next three days.

Like politicians and GP's the daily journalists have to deal with all facets of the community, so they often get industry jargon wrong - we just notice aviation terms, truckies just notice words like "lorries", medical people notice mistakes in medical terms and so on.

Keep going, because there must be hundreds of gyro pilots since the 1950's Bee days who don't need back surgery because they expired, for a number of reasons, so the more education, the better.

My ancestors built windjammers on the Clyde, so knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation.

The Captains always had a ship's cat.

They were great at plugging leaks.

You had to replug the leak in the beginning and your hands bled a lot, but it settled down after a while.

Perth to Sydney? They'll need three garbage compactors to pick up the cans

Firstly, what were you doing up at 12:06 am

Only one PAX - agree with you, after all the pilot will be healthy, if not quite meeting the criteria established in Florence Nightingale's time, and not being inspected by a dame.

CTA - why not - look at the photo of Moorabbin, named after Harry Hawker who used to go rabbiting there.

• You can land on the runway you landed at last week (they don't mind)
   
   
  
• You can land on a runway which looks cute
   
   
  
• You can land on a north south runway if you like crosswinds
   
   
  
• You can even use 04 and try an EFATO between the factories built by someone who got a 99 year lease
   
   
  

Plastic fantastics might have more gadgets than the old Austins we've seen lately, but most people have now bitterly found out that there's glass and there's GLASS, and GLASS costs more than their aircraft, so they put up with over reading/underreading/delayed response and the occasional blank screen.

Take a look at a Cherokee Arrow and it's a different story with wall to wall instruments which work, Constant speed prop, retractable, 130 kts cruise. (Mind you I might by 5 Nm behind the aircraft at all times including taxying)

The hire cost of an Arrow is around 39% more than a Jab 170, but it's a true touring aircraft, ideal for the odd holiday. (Cost per pass per Nm)

Personally, I'm staying with the PPL for as long as I can, because this made me realise that the attraction of those high speed tourers is not as good with only two people. With four people, the Arrow costs 30% less than the Jab per person.

Facthunter is just going to have to stick to throwing his leg over the old Indian

For myself working in the cabin, the least amount of baggage space in the overhead lockers the better! Not meaning to be negative but cabin baggage (especially on LCC's) is starting to boarder ridiculous. Unfortunately the A320 has large overhead lockers and it's amazing what passengers perceive as 'cabin baggage'. For myself, inflight comfort in the way of refreshments and a positive, energetic cabin staff (especially on long-haul flights) is priority.

Part of this may be because passengers became frustrated with long waits at the baggage carousel, but the penalty was ruining many passenger experiences when their carry on items were squashed, or delaying their exit trying to find belongings which have been relocated, usually by late arrivals.

Recent years seem to have produced an increase in baggage damage, which may also be pushing this trend. We've had two new suitcases badly damage (one apparently run over) in the past 18 months.

There's a great opportunity for someone to develop an alternative logistics and security process for cargo hold luggage to shorten pickup time, and then carry on could be substantially reduced.

If only everyone accepted that Teckair

TV reporter asked him how he felt.

He said "Broke!"

Looks like he just had an engine failure and it landed without power but bounced onto its side in the mud.

Pilot was fine and wisecracking on TV, trying to scrape mud out of it.

So it sounds like a piano?

So true.

Put an ad on here, I might even buy a copy

This all sounds very positive and a step forward.

That would be a great experience.

I'm the publisher of Aviator Magazine and as we are just in the middle of adding more recreational content, I thought I'd swing by and check out what the industry 'Bible' is covering so we don't duplicate topics when I came across this thread. I considered it for a while but felt I had to chip in my two cents' worth following the comment above that print costs were $410K in 2010. Any of you who have seen Aviator will hopefully agree that our print quality and design is easily the pick of the aviation magazine crop - we deliberately produce it as a glossy coffee table style publication (that's not to say it is any better than the others at all: it's just an in-house style decision we have for all our publications). Anyhoo, the moral of the story is that our print costs are by far and away our largest cost and we pay a hefty premium to get it to look as flash as possible. Our print run is similar to RAA Aus and the rest...BUT, without divulging anything overly confidential, our annual print costs for Aviator are almost HALF the figure quoted for your 2010 print cost audit. I really don't think that figure given can be correct. It must be for the overall cost of production and distribution, particularly as the 'publisher' back then was also the printing company but even if it was all inclusive it seems mighty high...

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That looks like some trip tanaz. Where did you take them to?

So, you looked it up

We're talking about older Vimanas - they didn't need no gas

Thanks John - see my post #10

We've all come unstuck at some time or other.

Why don't you just open a thread d, you'll soon see if it expands or sinks like a stone.

We don't have an energy shortage; we have over consumption.

Your pretty much right on every count dutchroll.

The simple solution for the Australian Government would have been to introduce motivational laws to get us to minimise high CO2 producing activities and maximise low Co2 producing activities.

Both Parties thought that would be political suicide, but that if the fat cat big companies were charged for CO2 we would manage our own efficiencies and no one would blame the politicians.

Because they thought we were too dumb to know what CO2 was they called it Carbon, then they failed to take account of the way fat cats got rich in the first place - by passing on any cost increase, with their margin added of course.

So now we have crazy things going on with some prices increasing by 40% and no one understanding what we were supposed to cut back on in the first place.

Went flying today in a Jab 160 at my flying school. Due to cross winds we used the rough grass strip for circuits. I checked the aircraft prior to flying and all was good. When I started taxing on the grass the nose wheel steering became really heavy and I had to push very hard on the right pedal. I put it down to boggy ground and rough ride. I did 8 circuits before stopping for lunch. When I pulled up at the hangar and got out the left tire was dead flat. No wonder I was having trouble holding the aircraft on touch and go. I have never used that runway before and hope it is a long time before I use it again. LOL