Jump to content

alf jessup

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,927

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    35

 Content Type 

Everything posted by alf jessup

  1. alf jessup
    Brendan, Hence what you have said are some of the reasons I sold my beautiful Tecnam Sierra and no longer fly. 1. RAA don’t give a sh!t about West Sale RAA members. 2. RAAF have made West Sale their second base. 3. Council are happy the RAAF are using it. Hence the runway upgrades to suit the RAAF 4. Council are greedy having landing fees for RAA members considering we could only take off and land on weekends. 5. I actually don’t miss it, the hangar fees, the RAA rego and membership and the insurance, I’m actually saving 5k a year to be able to only fly on a weekend. 1860 hrs over 18 years I’ve had my fill. Cheers Alf
  2. alf jessup
    First ever fatalities recorded for the 787 Dreamliner, will be something simple that caused it most likely. sure does look like the flaps are retracted and with the gear still down could it be as simple as wrong lever moved? Or in-fact were the flaps and spoilers ever set prior to takeoff. (Looking at the cctv footage BrendAn put up) Time will tell I guess, very sad for the victims and their families.
  3. alf jessup
    True Nev, But when you studied the ADSB data on flight radar you could see the see the ground speed data during flight and more so during the orbits as well as the altitude fluctuations. It doesn’t take much to work out, a pleasure flight ended in tragedy for sure, no one intends on colliding with the ground when they take off. And that’s not disrespecting the young pilot in this case. I’ve flown hundreds of hours in that area and it can get quite nasty with NW, N and NE winds coming off the Great Dividing Range.
  4. alf jessup
    Only had the plane 2 weeks so would have been very unfamiliar with its handling and quirks aircraft have. yes may have had 600 hours and was an instructor but still a test pilot in an unfamiliar aircraft IMO and flying at a low level and gusty conditions in fairly tight turns is not something I would have been doing.
  5. alf jessup
    Bit like motorcycles and cars, you look at the tree you head for it, it’s usually the way.
  6. alf jessup
    The government loves the word catastrophic as it scares the minions just like the deadly Covid conn did. shame the (CoNvid) killed far less than their vaccine did. its all about instilling fear in to people. Damn when I was a kid we must have had hundreds of catastrophic days over the summers in my youth, we were just not scared back then because we had many days nearing 45 deg or more not 35.
  7. alf jessup
    And the other 50% will know they are idiots.
  8. alf jessup
    A Highlander STOL bush plane, a river, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah I know don’t summarise but really? Biggest issue we have here in aviation is everyone thinks it always happens to someone else. Well someone’s surname changed instantly to someone else. A very sad outcome for the families of the deceased.
  9. alf jessup
    Powerlines have killed many in the past and will continue to do so in the future unfortunately. As in most pilots eyes it always happens to someone else. This is a terrible loss to the family involved.
  10. alf jessup
    Well for 18 years I averaged over 100 hours each year, last year only 45, this year only .9. My how times have changed for my flying.
  11. alf jessup
    Your on to it KG, Just missed the bit where a wheel caught the tree which pulled it down to the powerlines. What some will do to blame everything else but themselves,
  12. alf jessup
    Wouldn’t of mattered if the kid had his xcountry endorsement, he would have pushed on like many do and ended up with the same result.
  13. alf jessup
    7252, Maybe Loss of Consciousness?
  14. alf jessup
    Topped out at 117.7 for the year just gone. Time to start 2022’s tally tomorrow. Fly safe everyone for the year ahead.
  15. alf jessup
    I trained for my RAA in a 160 and learnt very quickly you have to keep the weight off the nose wheel for as long as possible when landing, I had one time early on in my training where I was trying to chase the yippy dance with the rudder to no avail, all was required was pull the stick back and the plane behaved very well. I have seen many instances over the years a Jab dance just after touchdown, it’s not the planes fault.
  16. alf jessup
    A more sensitive geometry alright, they do a yippy vippy dance real quick (160 that is) not sure on the 230 but I’m guessing so..
  17. alf jessup
    Never a truer word spoken FH.
  18. alf jessup
    100 hours again this year, my average over the last 17 years is just over 104 a year, best year was 147 back in 2018, not bad for someone who doesn’t have weekday access due to the RAAF activation and can only fly weekends and when the RAAF shuts down for a month over Christmas.
  19. alf jessup
    Thank you red750 for the heading correction as I did notice it after I posted it and couldn’t figure out how to change it. Much nicer.
  20. alf jessup
    I’m not stringing anyone up, someone’s grounded, lucky guess by the police where to dig up out of all that vast mountainous area to search.
  21. alf jessup
    Saying human remains have been found in the search area. Guess the accused is well and truly grounded now.
  22. alf jessup
    That he was derekliston, had the pleasure of meeting him once in person in 2013 whilst on a campervan road trip from Cairns to Brisbane. Had many a phone conversation with him though over the years.
  23. alf jessup
    Hello fellow flyers, 6 years ago today we lost Ross Millard (AKA Maj Millard) in a preventable accident, thoughts are with Deb & Kelly on this day in time as is every year past on this day. Blue sky’s and tailwinds Maj Alf.
  24. alf jessup
    7252, There was a fatal a few years back at Yarram in a J170 for that exact reason during his go around which was quite sad for not only the pilot but also for the people that saw it unfold. Alf
  25. alf jessup
    Turbs, Yep a 172 with full flap was a handful back in my training days in the mid 80’s when you did a go around, quite a few lives have been lost with the seats either failing or not being locked in properly. Takes a hell of a lot of effort when it pitches up. Alf
×
×
  • Create New...