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    I tried to look for her. I think it might be Polly Vacher, although her husband would have objected to me describing her as a widow 😄 . Because I’m really into arcade games etc, I reckon I’ve combined Polly Vacher with Doris Self, who started playing the arcade game Qbert to pass the time when her husband died. In 1984 at the age of 58, she became the oldest game record holder. Also, this takes the cake. Not who I was thinking of, but very inspirational: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/72yo-female-pilot-says-it-is-never-too-late-to-fly/105491864
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    There is a lovely story about a woman who became a widow at 56 (I think), and decided to learn to fly. She ended up breaking all sorts of endurance records. Her name escapes me right now.
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    If you tell me about a CEO of a food franchise who likes to keep it real by serving at the drive-thru of his first restaurant, the purpose of the anecdote being that it's nice to see successful people staying interested in the 'nuts and bolts' of his profession, my first reaction isn't that I know some CEO's, but none of them do what you described, and then concede there might well be some. My first reaction is that this is nice to hear. My personal experience in the subject is not important. Saying 'there could quite well be some' , when I'm telling you I knew one still implies you are reserving judgement. Therefore you are still missing the point. Fact Hunter and several others here were airline pilots, but I bet they aren't doubting the veracity of the other pilot from my hangar that I mentioned. Even if they don't personally know an airline pilot who also flies a Thruster in his spare time, I'm confident they don't find it hard to believe, even if they know most Thruster pilots. My point is there are ATPL pilots who still enjoy flying small aircraft. Your point that you don't personally know one of my examples is irrelevant. You probably don't know the other guy either. Maybe you can bang on about him too 🤷‍♂️
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    Northern NSW I think. For a while he was commuting from SE Qld in his RV6. I think he's permanently moved now. I think you are missing the point I was making. This is not a tall tale for you to deconstruct, I was merely pointing out that it's nice to see some of the 'big boy' pilots staying grounded (so to speak) and still flying as a pass time.
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    And yet he's doing it 🤷‍♂️
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    I took a workmate for a fly a few weeks ago and she was horrified at how much grass we dragged into the cockpit. She said was going to buy me something. Voila! For tents, which have exactly the same problem. Scrub your shoes soles before putting your feet in the cockpit ☺️
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    I'm hoping to finally do my navs soon. While I was on holidays I bought this G-Shock. Duty free. Duty free is the biggest load of bollocks, but I was on a cruise ship and there it was. Pretty much the same price as if I had bought it in Brissie. But there's a million different ever changing models so I struck while the iron was hot. G-Shock are from Casio so quite reliable. I've known a few people that like them because they can bang them around doing manual stuff and they keep working and who cares about a scratch here or there. Digital face for UTC (I think that's showing Lisboa time at the moment). Also has stopwatch and alarm. Playschool clock for local time 🙂
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    At my hangar there were several atpl guys who like to keep it real by flying light aircraft outside of their job. One flies fuel tankers and an RV6. The other flies 727s and a Thruster! I think the RAAF guy has left and flies crop dusters now. Anyway, in both cases, they didn't 'hate' their jobs. They just liked to stay connected to flying just for fun. Which is great to see. As Nev will attest, the larger the variety of aircraft you fly, the better you must be. Which is true whether you are commercial or not.
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    Good stuff. I have no context of physically how much gold that little pile is. A photo with a coin or pen with it would give some scale. I would love it for you if it's such a large pile that you can hardly discern the coin 😊
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    Sweet dreams tonight ☺️ 🍈 🍈
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    In both cases if you follow what the manufacturer says, your bases are covered legally and for insurance purposes. Your cars gearbox blew up because the oil glugged up? That's on them to replace. Your Rotax failed on takeoff because the plugs were fouled because you ignored Rotax instructions on using avgas? Guess what, you own that wreck. Not the insurance company.
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    What does it matter if you can find a picture or not? What's important is what the manufacturer says.
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    Once there is no 100LL it will not be a big deal for fuel suppliers to provide a guaranteed quality of unleaded fuel to airfields and airports. It's not like old mate is pulling up to the 7/11 in his Bonanza to fuel up. What do the suppliers do now with 100LL? whatever it is, do the same with unleaded 🤷‍♂️
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    I'm 56. I suspect I'll never find a job I enjoy doing 😄
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    I just fly for fun. When I first was learning to fly I entertained the idea of going further with it. but I looked at the young instructors teaching me and all the hard work just to scrounge a few hours here and there. Then I remembered I'm allergic to hard work 😄
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_526A
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    The write up on the crash had it as poor maintenance. Apparently that airline had a string of issues with shoddy maintenance practices
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    Dobro utro 😎
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    I didn't know anything about this accident. Apparently the aftermath lead to standardised pre flight briefings for passengers. It seems most people would likely have survived in a more modern setting. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kiro7.com/news/trending/pan-am-clipper-endeavor-found-plane-missing-74-years/WT4EDEASSZAPBEQK32CE2ULPFQ/%3foutputType=amp
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    Too windy this weekend, so this is from last Saturday 🙂 over lake Moogerah. I've just deleted FB off my phone, so maybe I'll start doing the navigation course so I can fly further away VID-20260711-WA0018.mp4 😄
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    I neli I believe it can be inspected by taking off the fuel pump, so you wouldn't need to remove the gearbox. But obviously I haven't done it myself so find out for sure.
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    😄
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    😞
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    Absolutely need a 😲 emoji for these occasions. Mods?
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    Latest is my mechanic says mine isn't affected after all
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