ClintonB

Tamworth to Orange and back to drop a mate off before work this morning. 3hrs 12 minutes air time.  Very nice way to start the day. Wind was all but non existent. Bumps were minimal. Added a new strip to my list of landing places. 

Found a weird anomaly with my iPad tracking though. There was an aircraft in same vicinity and height over orange- could not see and no reply on radio. Later when looking at my track history it shows me making a weird triangle hourglass shape over orange township. Has anyone else had this happen before. Also 2 “ghosting” planes coming towards me at Coolah at same height but not there.

I found the zero forward airspeed when trimming back all the way a bit unsettling at first. It was an interesting ride though. 

 

 

 

You won't believe this, but some designers even used to keep their drawings on paper, PAPER!  ... PAPER!!!!!

 

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Anyway, back to my designing, and back to blocked for you, not even sure how you became unblocked  ..

 

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Paper doesn’t go “flat”( as in battery’s), it’s really easy to delete. It doesn’t just die because you didn’t back it up because you were busy. I still have model plane plans that I drew as a teenager in a $10 crate (along with all of my original AUF newsletters and early magazines. Amazing they still work and don’t need an update, or worse not supported any more.

great to see you are still around bex, all the best with recoveries, boats are deadly-mine tried to break my leg on the weekend, 6 weeks out from a cruise. Not needed

cheers

My 182 is usually a single seater, unless my no 1 little co pilot gets out of bed early enough, yes it burns fuel like a  10 litre Cadillac tank- but when I look out either side under those wings I still can’t believe I own it, I’m flying a couple of thousand feet up and loving it. If it brings you joy and you can share that experience sometimes with your family and friends it’s worth it. You only live once.

sunday looked good, home base weather was terrible, so I chose not to go, wind, rain and bad vis out to the west.

maybe next year-here's to hoping.

Hi Clinton, so how many hours approx to do sport license then was it a further 26 hrs tp cover the RPL? if so how many hours all up?

 

All up I have spent 79 hrs with instructors, 6 hrs 20 years ago, the Raaus was around 35 inc endorsements then BFR’s plus I have grabbed an instructor after a bit of a scare on base to final until my confidence came back. It doesn’t hurt to ask for help.

I took 26 hrs to go from RPC to RPL, found going to 182 for learning meant getting used to weight difference, performance, the prop and mixture stuff, then cross country and minimum instrument time. Also some time spent getting used to radio in tower time compared to CTAF time in Raaus flying.

Very sad outcome. Friday morning weather was bad enough at Armidale, approx 500 feet cloud/fog at 0830. I headed west to go home to Tamworth and found clear sky 5 miles out, looking behind it was solid. Straight line track would have been over high unfriendly ground in poor conditions.

Am looking at Sunday morning if weather is kind.

182 AH is a bit out and 56 years young. Maybe when STC model is available it would be a good replacement.

looks good and seems very functional.

Found them (Andrews race cars) very helpful for small quantities of 4130 also.

Did a great job under pressure and calmly. Glad the the outcome was good. Hope the instructor is ok.

Good odds you will have another aviator in the making there.

looks like a good day out.

Would the full flap takeoff inhibit speed build up. Hell the cessna is slow enough on tar with 20 degrees(1/2 flap)

Cloud Dancer sparked my love of the Pitts aircraft, pretty dodgy by modern movie standards-no CGI back then.  

At school (early 80's)we watched an old film on reels with a bunch of kids stopping bad guys with remote control spitfires- RC gear had 1 stick and as huge. I have never been

able to find out what it was called. After that I started building model aircraft.

Very sad loss of an aviator. I was only just reading his last closing article in sport pilot about letting go of a plane. I will miss reading his work,

have filled a lot of bad weather days reading magazines with his articles.

RIP Mark

Is that a runner. Scale spitfire would be awesome with a 12 cylinder sound.

Pack your fishing gear, I moved to Carnarvon just for the fishing in the late nineties. Had some great times there. I miss the climate and tucker from there now.

Pindan Is it true  the ship wreck gone from the cliff base now? near the salt jetty at cape cuvier.

What KR said if you just want to do a few long flights for the enjoyment or challenge of a Bass Strait crossing plus two different weather zones on route to plan for.

 

If there was any need to get there and get back without weather lay overs, sometimes of several days at isolated  towns, then IFR endorsement, and I still know plenty of pilots who don't like going on rough days. I spent a lot of years trying to work flying into my business trips and mostly had to explain why I wasn't coming or was a day or two late.

 

Alternatively, using Launceston as the Tasmanian base and Emerald to tie in with KR, you could leave Launceston at 10:45 am on Jetstar, land at 3:45 in Brisbane, have a pleasant sleep over, leave Brisbane at 6:55 am Qantas and arrive Emerald at 8:30 am bright and fresh for $618.00 one way.

 

And that's with Jetstar and Qantas doing the flight planning, refuelling, and IFR flight if necessary to meet that timetable, no hangarage, no maintenance and no depreciation.

 

The Avgas bill would be more than this. And there are always specials when planning ahead. the country (emerald) bits are the killer $$$wise 

This made me look on eBay, now watching several large projects that look “cheap” and fixable. I always see things how they will be, not how the wife sees them.

Somebody slap me please!

Maybe a pimped up thruster on floats?

The hit cancel worked a treat, picked my first tap as origin. Easy to do that way.

Kitplanes for Africa, Bushbaby 500 and safari. I can find some pics and maybe SteveL from forum has a fairly recent one. They are similar to the Kitfox

How do you remember which is yours. All the same and way too faaassst

Very sad, especially with family there waiting/watching. Fire chief said plane was inbound with nine on board, wondering if that is correct as jumpers should have been gone when inbound.