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...cat o' nine tails....

...closet BOARD MEMBER!

.....journalist!

........'s nose ................. with a gigantic .........................

"....set of futtock shrouds to keep him secure when he walked...."

...Congregational Parson...

wild about locksmifs..

What happens with stupidity on take off Sunfish?

Darky I've seen pilots struggle to get the Cherokee Warrior down when they were used to the Cherokee 140's rate of sink, and in terms of control in the landing phase I wouldn't classify a J160 as "similar" if you haven't been in one for months. The ground effect in the low wing Warrior is like a big comfortable doona which covers a lot of mistakes.

just dont do what i did on my first trip into YMMB many years ago.....................

"...was young, except when I took me teef out"

It was noticed that the Riverina Rat had posted at the daringly late time of 9.35 pm last night, and this was clearly AFTER he had taken JRMobile out on the town, which in Wagga Wagga would have consisted of a drive out to the Gumly Gumly Cafe and staying out of Senior Constable Doubtfire's way. (The clang when that poor man, who had fallen asleep in the street, hit the front wall of the divvy van is still remembered around the town, which is why a certain pilot only counts his rivets inside the hangar under a tarp.

Because weight and balance needs to be precise, slight COG/Wt changes can produce big performance changes.

eg in Australia and US the pilot and passenger can be 70 kg or 140 kg each

And I'd have a fair guess at how many people do P&O calculations on Recreational Aircraft

Well that's another question for the Natfly meeting

.....ear, although the ear is generally hairless with the exception of Rattus Waggas where they stick out like...

You've gone down the wrong track for the wrong reasons OME.

She has one of the toughest jobs around - like grading fruit on a conveyor belt. She has to ensure the right amount of advertising is in to pay the wages, argue over placements, and flog the journalists to post ANYTHING by the deadline.

Under normal circumstances she wouldn't be the one interviewing you, it would be a journalist if it was a boring story, and a journalist and photographer if it was a good one.

Also, take a tip, you can NEVER beat an Editor, they just lie in wait and get you two years later.

She's published your accusation that she has a bias against the airport, so she was probably short of material that week, and doesn't mind one way or the other.

Also, since you are competing for space in the Letters section, and you want to be sure of getting your letter in you are limited to about 25 to 50 words

My guess is she's not against you, just doesn't have space

The point of contact with most newspapers is the journalist, and if you look at their byline and read their stories, it often tells you which one is interested in mechanics.

Whinging residents have an edge because local Councillors are always looking for a way to support them, the journalists know that, and in the daily grind there's a loose network which has critical mass.

I wouldn't suggest you try to bet the Editor into submission, but choose a journalist and write a 150 word story to him/her. They get point from the Editor for exclusives, so I never cc the story to other journalists. In 9 time out of then though, they call me and ask questions then print their own stories, so you message gets legs.

The journalists really need to read your story before they'll commit to going anywhere for an interview. 95% of my interviews are over the phone or email exchanges.

If there's something interesting about a local person, just write a little story - it may well be published verbatim. Send a photo as well.

There's another barrier for the unwary, and that is that local papers are unlikely to write a story of State significance and State newspapers usually don't print stories of local interest - its just a journalist turf thing.

As for taking them up for joy flights, by all means if you've got the money, but in my town you would need to take 8 up to avoid making enemies.

Mostly they don't like people sucking up to them then expecting a one way story; they do like people who are consistently honest, and call a spade a spade even if they are wrong.

..... which is a pretty petit pitot, by any measure, according to the photos that Brine took in his barf room, where AhSox had conflatulated with his pet .....

Yes FD, the Training Course would be the first item, then you really know what you need

Ha! got the magic 5000!

So much for a gold tooth!

using his pitot tube

....bathroom which Ahsox had to clean up.....

...conflatulate (aviation term meaning to squeeze through a narrow space)

Pud, a lot depends on how long it was fired up, could even be an oversize piston.

Will get you a contact for a 2 stroke expert in WA

"Where's the QUOTE link" asked Turbo "Not that I want to quote the usual Rat Droppings, although I often pan them for gold"

"And the Taswegian Fakir is better know down there as FA" he continued without explaining why.

Many NESsers had followed the Ahsomuch "locked out" story, and there had been so many variations that it was no surprise that he was now Locked in Space with a calculator working out how to effect a re-entry without burning up too many rivets.

"You'd need a computer for that" suggested Bry One the local astronaut left out there for bad language.

"With my looks and this computer" we'll be fine responded Ahsox

"You better hope it's not your brain and the computer's looks then" said Bry One helpfully

I watched an Air Crash Investigation segment on the 2001 Air Transat A330 incident where a fuel leak to one engine caused some confusion and resulted in the aircraft running out of fuel at altitude well out into the Atlantic.

The crew then figured they could glide to a strip in the Azores, but there was no room for error. A long nail biting trip, even on TV.

They opted to stay high because it was only a tiny piece of land, came in fast but made the strip and just took out the landing gear.

306 POB, all survived.

Better to be born lucky than rich

...locked in space

We've had a few discussions on this, and we are not the only victims.

The Southern 80 water ski race drew TV attention with a dark comment that the future of the race was "under a cloud" after an engine fire occurred in one boat, another boat climbed a fallen tree after an apparent steering bale failure and a wanker in a helicopter followed another boat at an altitude of around 1 metre through the many sharp bends.

There was no comment from the race organizer, who could easily have defused this with some plain facts.

Every sport thinks it has to sell itself, but the task is too big. Firstly, have a look at your local paper and count the different subjects - you might get to a hundred or so. Then imagine that tomorrow there'll probably be 60 new ones, and so on day after day through the years.

The journalist's job is to write a story about every one of those millions of subjects, and he has to write it by the deadline.

There may never be an aircraft accident in your home town in your lifetime, so how is today's journalist going to write an explanation of a techical failure which caused a forced landing when all he knows is that aircraft "crash"

Add to this the constant turnover in local journalists, and you can see that it's a big ask that the journalist who receives the phone call about the "crash" from the local farmer is going to write anything other than quote him "I knew it was going to crash, I heard the engine racing before he hit".

Usually the pilot is standing there beside his aircraft giving the journalist the cold shoulder when he should be explaining how his training kicked in, what a forced landing is, amnd how he executed a perfect one with no damage to the engine, and "if you aim the camera here, you can show the component which caused all the trouble" It actually make a better story if it's done well.

Your idea is great Burbles because the journalist may file it away and use it as a base. What I would add to that is that a local pilot should be a "source of information" ready to comment on any event, or even email a journalist with a story about, say Pud and his current rebuild. To do that correctly you need to be watching the paper for bylines and keeping the contact details of the new journalists up to date.

I'd have to say, having done that for many years, that I've only ever got a couple of stories where I could have throttled the journalist.