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....Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhpppppppppppppppppppthettttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Why didn't you just call up the ATIS frequency?

 

 

Is this the one where the verification test is going to be applied to the answers Watto?

 

 

You know it makes ..............

....sense when Captain bursts into verse, and starts to sing.

 

Deccadent had tried to start off with an innocent story about statistics, but immediately given the game away by picking a name which inadvertently referred to too many nights down the pub with Foxhunter, who is a real high flyer.

 

Clearly this had excited El Ratster who had turned his attention from giving "Southern Outboards - Visa Cards Welcome" a beating.

 

"Maybe he'll get off my back" thought Turbo, grateful that the Rat still hadn't found that part of his carpet was missing.......

 

 

Duncan, I fly at a low traffic field - if we have four in the circuit we're sayijng "this is what it should be", but we also share it with sky divers, so we effectively only use one side, and we also have multi passenger Bass Strait helicopters in a very harmonious situation, you do tend to do a 360 degree scan and take a couple of seconds to unwind your neck when you hear one, but mostly they join our circuit at our speed and land upwind with us, si I guess we have Camelot.

 

At Moorabbin I expect there could be several helicopters and a LOT of aircraft in the twin circuits, so there's no time for a missed message or slow chatter.

 

A hyperactive eyeball becomes a must as part of the tool kit, and aircraft exactly on their allocated circuit height makes the "visible circuit" that much easier to judge.

 

At your hours (and on many occasions mine) it seems like an impossible task to maintain altitude, but in a few hours time you'll look own at the altimeter and see it dead on the line.

 

Plus or minus 100 feet would be a very very sloppy pilot, so I'd recommend you aim for +- 20 feet as your standard, as a matter of pride rather tah any compliance.

 

Simon, on this occasion the heat seemed to be Rotary vs planks, rather than GA vs RA - hope I wasn't one of the ones who abused you.

 

 

And Dr Dangler does have a ring to it ..................

 

 

..Dr Dangler munched on one of the sweets he'd managed to nick from the Cherub in the foyer of the Gentlemens' Lodgings at Wagga Wagga............

 

 

Just what do you CFI's tell your students?

 

Why do they continually come here with queries?

 

Why don't they talk to you?

 

Burbles:

 

"I'm getting close to taking my flying test for the Pilot's Certificate - but with the training I've received I don't feel quite ready for it, and I'm asking for more advanced and extensive training than seems to be offered as standard for RA-Aus requirements."

 

Burbles, in my opinion the RAA instructors, and the aircraft will give you a much better grounding in aircraft handling, reading a windsock, being sure you can get down from the circuit area if an engine fails than GA flying at City circuits where the action is dictated by the need to communicate, and position the aircraft for separation, someone elses decides which runway to use and you pretty much always land directly into wind.

 

You make a good point because flying at a city airport is a whole different ballgame, with rapid communication skills to be learnt, strategic positioning of the aircraft at all times, flying a circuit at the exact height, flying THE circuit rather than YOUR circuit, and above all else learning the judgement and skill of threading - fitting in to a moving stream of aircraft all travelling at different speeds and judging it so you don't have to go round and you don't cause anyone else to.

 

Having had experience at both, I see it as two separate skill sets.

 

If you want to build the second skill set, and that is commendable, I wouldn't suggest trying to find a crack in the system which would let you do it in an RAA aircraft, but put in a few hours in a GA Aircraft with a GA Instructor from that airfield.

 

That will build the knowledge you seemed to be asking for.

 

The RAA Pilot Certificate simply indicates you can handle an aircraft, and is really beginning to worry me so I certainly wouldn't have any expectation of being 'turned loose'.

 

 

"Dr Turbo, it has a ring to it doesn't it" he thought "perhaps I'm now ready to ask a question on Recreationalflying.net"

 

With the aid of QWERTY he began to type.

 

"If I wanted to fly a mate's Mustang, can I use Reg 95.3 which says that a PIC may fly any aircraft fitted with a transponder into a GAAP aerodrome?"

 

(I'm learning to fly on a Drifter, and have two solo hours, but I'm very clever)

 

 

On hearing this Tubb tear-ed up and in his acceptance speech said ".....

".....It's just wonderful to be rerwarded for all hat hard work.

 

"I was trained in Tasmania at a time when they didn't have outboards (l992) and it just shows you what a correspondence course can do.

 

"There's no doubt that persistence beats skill any day" Mr Turbo said to the assembled media.

 

"What a about all the wrecked engines?" asked a particularly astute journalist.

 

"you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" replied a very relaxed Turbo.

 

With the sound advice in their ears they all went away determined to repair their electrical systems, rebuild the Commodore's transmission, fix the leaking hot water system and so on.

 

Turbo, now recognised as an outboard expert, was a bit curious as to why professor El Ratte had mentioned a string of famous outboards (Turbo had one of each (mech will fix easily) in his backyard), but also included a Japanese tractor.

 

Probably smoked in school during the geography lesson thought Turb.

 

He looked at the new Honda hanging off the back of the Signature.

 

"If I change the timing slightly............"

 

 

Why is this thread in Laughter is the best medicine?

 

You aren't having a piece of us are you flying dog?

 

 

SShh! don't tell anyone that we eat Chateau Briand and Crayfish tails Decca - and all they have are those stale buns and cans of coke.

 

 

Well go out and buy one Decca, molst of the RC guys I know have at least one, and at our field one guy has a spectacular Hercules.

 

The electric motors are gettting more and more powerful, there's no messy oil residue and they are quiet.

 

Pretty much like a J170 to fly - very quick to take advantage of any wind disturbance.

 

The hand/eye skills of the indoor guys are on another level though.

 

 

and of any thing staying in your system

 

 

 

 

another friendly message from greening victoria

 

 

Qwerty, we shouldn't get to the ridiculous, but be aware that most of the queries (a) could have been answered by the person's Instructor or CFI, (b) could have been answered by studying the material they were supposed to be studying for their qualifications.

 

That leaves motive, and I suspect some queries are to get support to do what they know they shouldn't do.

 

And if that's not enough there are the slanted questions designed to provoke people.

 

It certainly helps if you can provide a link, but you often wouldn't get on the trail of an answer if everyone had to qualify everything they said.

 

No one should ever make a major commitment to safety or expenditure based on what they read on a forum - it may well be true, but it's better to check it out at the source.

 

 

We all have to use the one circuit so it makes sense - what did the CPL-H say?

 

 

Eat plenty of pies - that'll clean out any chance of swine flu getting into your system.

 

 

As part of our training, we would fly into Essendon, and could fly into Tullamarine, and I guess you guys could have trained into West Beach.

 

 

Depends; 15 years ago, did they make it up as they went along as they do now?

Not sure about the timing, but no they didn't. It was much clearer with a lot more certainty and it was simpler. I had all the applicable documents for the whole of Australia - too many to carry with you, but they didn't fill a single drawer of the filing cabinet. Some time after the mid '80's Dot pulled the pin on areas where they wewre obviously exposed to Public Liability - full reporting etc (where position accuracy was down to 2 mins and realy kept you on your toes with navigation skills). The pilots screamed that this would cause a massive increase in fatalities etc

 

and certainly there's a healthy volume per year, but I've never done the comparison myself.

 

Incidentally the cause of it all in Australia was a double fatality at a South Australian kindergarten (where the teachers were ultimately found to be innocent).

 

 

I suspect you've also saved a few lives since. Maybe one day we'll get together and I'll tell you some things - can't right now.

 

 

.... and confidentially, if you thank that a 3/8 UNF is erotic, you should try a 5/16 UNC .... Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh .....................

.....Turbo's eyes watered...then he realised Rat must have detoured on his way back from Geelong. He wondered who that was in the Lexus with his head down - never mind, Turbo still had plenty of ammunition from his visit to Wagga Wagga, although the Rathaus was superbly located next to the Murrumbidgee. Turbo made a note to take the yabby nets up next time - the in-room cooking facilities were excellent, and you didn't have to stretch your waders or carry slopping buckets up the stairs becaise there was a lift. And where else in the world could you shoot ducks from your own balcony as they made their way up river in the early morning mist.

 

While Ratto had been absent, presumably having his gold tooth polished, QWERTY, a flying typewriter from Tasmania (south of Australia, not the other one with two islands and people with tattooed faces) had hatched a plot to take over Australia by using reverse psychology to suggest that radios might become mandatory.

 

There was an immediate gnashing of teeth and a debate so huge, Ian's site almost melted, until Mazda (the Japanese word was Matsuda, but Australians mispronounced it, and the Japanes copied our spelling) defrocked QWERTY, at which time the thread collapsed.

 

However QWERTY has disappeared...or maybe his radio is on the wrong frequency...

 

 

On the other hand FH, at least they had brakes which didn't require an extra 500 feet of runway.

 

 

....there it was again.....a persitent tap, tap, tapping from the south - could it be aliens?......

 

 

Depends how far back down the nostalgia path you want to go.

 

In the old Humber days you got to do that more often because the engine life of a typical 25 hp Austin was about 65,000 km.

 

My grandfather had a horse team, and ploughed the foundations for the trams in King William St, Adelaide, then put them on a ship and worked in the Karri forests of WA.

 

He had to get up at 3.30 am to start harnessing, but was always finished after dark.

 

He never had a flat battery

 

He never had to buy replacements because they reproduced themselves.

 

And if things got really bad he could eat them.

 

 

Sorry Watto, I've got bad news for you - the days of repairing your own vehicle are probably over. I recently did some training on a truck which had 22 computers, all able to talk to each other.

 

There is a TAC safety Ad in Victoria urging people to drop 5 km/hr in speed because it takes 51 metres to stop from 65 km/hr in the average car.

 

One of these new computer equipped trucks stops in 42 Metres....from 100 km/hr......at 3.5 tonnes weight.

 

And by about 2010 the computer systems will allow trucks to run so clean that they will be cleaning the ambient air in many of our cities.

 

The present generation of motor vehicles has given us a learning curve - with earthing problems, and also our favourite pastime - adding extra gadgets, lights etc because the wiring C Bus systems read resistance in the circuit, and when you change that, the communications hierarchy gives all the wrong messages.

 

Also, at present the diagnosis is based on bringing your vehicle to the authorised outlet where their reader can diagnose your problem and produce a series of code responses not unlike our acronym weather reports.

 

The good news is safety and reliability are rapidly imporving, fuel consumption is rapidly going down, and hopefully the computer capacity will soon allow self diagnosis where the screen will say "Tighten up that screw just behind the battery, old Son, the engine's about to cut out"

 

 

Cost time, money, and for a dead end.

You were probably the victim of a "Break Point Change"

 

Because of computer technology, these days its possible to re-engineer, re-plan, re-source in live time, so when a production fault or adverse customer reaction emerges, it's possible to update the vehicle rather than riding it out to thje end of the model run as they used to.

 

This is a positive for the customer, but as you found out a new-age drama.

 

Today the best move is to take your VIN Number along to the parts department. Most of them can punch it in and get the exact version of the part required.

 

It's certainly no longer safe to ask for a part to suit a 98 Commodore etc.