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Oh! dear...! you need an ASIC thingy at this aerodrome don't you?! Let's just hope the man in CASA have gone home for the day......:confused:

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Carefull there Ahlocks, you may end up the wrong way round......;)

.....but he hadn't. The CASA man positively salivated. He had a digital camera full of images of RPT aircraft being naughty and there was going to be a right dust up over that, and now here comes someone clearly flying without his R22 endorsement judging by the swerves, pirouettes and wild swings.

As the helicopter got closer he recognised the face of dotDash, and that made his day. Now he could grill him over a certain illegal flight at low level in and out of the trees conducted by someoine he'd been trying to ground for years.

It was going to be a good day for CASA today.

"Good morning", he said........

"It just depends what you mean by the wrong way round" said Ahlooks

yes, I liked the part where his check pilot was striking matches as he was coming in to land under extreme conditions - certainly built concentration for him!

It does rely heavily on the LAME being scrupulously honest, but most are.

However, there's nothing like geting your man to open all the inspection points and look inside the wings etc.

From memory the book covers ways of indentifying major crash repairs, and gives some examples of suspect aircraft.

Then Ahlow chipped in ..............

"Ah ten fower good buddie, that's a negatory, Locksy likes to invent his own syntax) I meant a howling south wind....opps Standby!, I'm just about to vacate the circuit for Dashy who might land this way, might land that way, or might have a check pilot with him" and eased pover into a half Chantelle which only goes to show how a dash a day stuffs up your whole constitution.....

DashDot was getting a lesson in Newtons laws...

So using the 2-way radio, he called up his 'ol mate tubz to see if he could come up with some brain whacking breath takin away fandangled idea......?

Dotdash to Tubblett are you on channel Tubz?

said dotDash, using the hopeless vernacular common to Drifting Pilots.

On this occasion he was mistaken for a Client by the local knock shop which rented tubs by the hour.

Turbo immediately realised the problem and the terrible experience dotDash would suffer if that conversation got going and said (in formal radio suntax)

"Get over to Wagga Wagga, lure him in then pretend to be a series of RPT's inbound, he'll fly around for hours and then run out of fuel. When that happens, quickly pull a gate across the end of the runway and he'll come down short into the abattoirs holding yards"

Turbo gave the mixture control an ever so slight twitch, and sat back to watch. He had wing tanks.......

....dotDash had been too late taking the good advice given to him, and a fantastic opportunity went to waste - a bit like the Bay of Pigs invasion dreamt up by President Eisenhower.

Now he was in real trouble because the R22 began to oscillate......

[surely we have an R22 pilot on this site - look at all the people who contribute to stories about aerobatics; although they may get those skills on FS where everyone's a winner]

He's lines up on the same altitude as Mr Mclocks, (having mastered the old R22 pretty good by this time) and with a big grin:big_grin: (whilist dodging bits of moisture coming from beneath the tin can's canopy) I carefully line up, open the window and throw the water bottle up into the rotors of the faithful R22.......... thwack! go's the rotor blade against the bottle, which in turn catapults it straight toward the slovakian piece of tin...............

Editor's Note: Tomo lines up for the Retort Hall of Fame, however a bit of advice - don't ever call him Mr, or he'll never get his canopy closed and he'll make our lives a misery.

They tried that with a dentist, but he pulled all the fittings.

They may be pleased to get export income. I just heard that a truck load of Americans had been caught trying to enter Mexico.

All's Dotdash could think about was getting this stabilized out and get some hight...(height rather!) so he doesn't hit nothing...eerr...anything! and that way he can fiddle around and get the gist of what it's like...... It's very similar to flying the thing on the sim, except my heart beat is probably I little higher!! remembering the human factors stuff, keep calm, other wise the memory goes out the window........ the attitude is looking a bit better, but the horizon is still spinning around........................

...it was at that moment that he forgot all about Flightsim, and applied just a touch of right pedal, the emus stopped runnning round and round Dalby, the ground came so sharply into focus that dotDash, who all in all would have preferred to be in his drifting, coul see the sheep droppings, and his heartbeat droped down from 253 to normal.

He looked around for his enemies, but heard rather than saw, the shrill whistling of a slovakian horror story, the inside of its canopy covered in spit, an exterior which would do justice to an outback dunny, oil globules handing down like dags on a sheep, and flying one wing low.

It did a chantelle and came straight for ditDot.....

Buy the book Airpane Ownership by Ron Wanttaja (Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more - about US$26.00)

His key piece of advice is to pay for a detailed inspection

Don't worry about the instruments - the biggest issue to look for is corrosion because that will cost you big money to rectify.

Last time I checked there were still heaps of cheap 172's across the US. Just google "aircraft for sale" or airplanes for sale". There are some on Trade a plane.com starting at US$36,000. Good Luck.

No they survived and grew up to become experts in extracting the last dollar out of their father.......

Councils are a good example. Almost all of them now post the meeting Agenda a couple of days before the meeting and the minutes a couple of days after.

If there's an issue coming up which affects you, you can talk to your representative before the meeting, and if something controversial comes up, the minutes kill the rumour mill.

No problems having passworded access, and not everyone will be interested, but right now most of the recreational aviation action seems to be taking place on this site and the RAA site is very lonely.

As far as assuming the people you elect are representing you effectively, history in Australia says its smart to check what's going on now and then. Those that don't frequently feature in current affairs shows.

That's not to imply that anything other than hard work is going on at RAA - just that we don't know and the solution is so easy.

Don't laugh, I had kids that did that.....and milked it for all it was worth.

There were 65 motions in the 3 days of the last Board meeting, as well as 10 items of Business tabled. One line gives no useful information, and members would be crying out for the full story - hence another 60 pages. That is why the President, CEO and others write articles in the magazine expanding on the Board discussions and decisions.Cazza

Very easily resolved Cazza - just print the 60 pages to a pdf file and post it on the RAA website after each Board Meeting.

Virtually every Council in Australia does that now, and the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Members concerned about where their money is going can be reassured, and in most cases people begin to realise just how much detailed work is required in order to run the Organization.

It also removes any doubt about which direction the organization is moving in, and makes it easier to decide on candidates at the elections (by that I mean retaining the members who are worth their weight in gold because of the good work they do).

Have you pulled "all" the head bolts out............?..........;)

Yes Tomo, in fact sheared half of them, which gets the heads out of the way, and battered the gap with a cold chisel for two hours so it now has a nice bevel all round. Sea water adds a new dimension to a laminectomy. Despite all that a marine mechanic inspected the outside, while he had a glass of reisling in his hand and said the engine is in well above average condition - now if only I could get to the broken piston.....

....dotDash had been dreaming again and had obviously never been told how helicopters were intrinsically unstable.

He'd pulled to much throttle and the R22 was rising fast, nose down, port side up towards a radio mast.

He jabbed right pedal, and the horizon moved. Now he was ass up and moving forward faster than he'd ever done before.

There was no problem with the mast now, it was the mayor's shiny new Calais which was front and centre.

dotDash hit the left pedal and the horizon spun again and now he was nose up and backing towards a wheat silo.

He cut the throttle..................................poor dotDash - he was about to become R2D2............

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Opinions on this site are not necessarily those of Turbo, since he knows that the LAME who reads these stories is always close at hand to give Turbo's aircraft that little tweak here and that litte touch there, and the Jabiru presents enough challenges without having to contend withj contra trim or the never ending throttle cable.

Dear Rat,

I'm sure you make a lovely receptionist "It's only $323.00 per night, plus breakfast and charges" gleam from gold tooth....

Fixing RipOffLocks is easy, just close the front gate and he'll sit there for hours.

One outboard is singing like a bee, but the wakeboard season is over, the other one is presenting a problem getting the head to depart the block.

Having paid a guy over $6000 to fox the 140 hp, I asked his advice for the 75 hp head removal. "You'll have to use the oxy" he said.

Doesn't it give you a warm feeling.

Yours ever in flying

Hatrack

Then he realised that his dislexic acronymia may have caught him out again as it wasn't an RAA aircraft, it was an R22, and Thomas was in the ............

..fan so to speak....

Yes, it's good, now get back to delivering breakfasts.

Love,

Gerry

Couldn't agree more Tomo - this book is a must for every pilot who wants to live a long life, or fly his aircraft at the highest level of proficiency.

these are probably too modern for the rat.........

Ahlocks, just one more reason to buy a Jabiru!

Well, well, well, I was just surfing and found Ahlocks in a corner.

Make a note of it Ken - he's usually as slippery as a jellyfish.