Tomo

Give this Legendary fella a go - JG3

He may be able help you along :big_grin:

Milker Bull (true story)

Adorer Bull

Yes, its done during the planning stage. Useing 10 % of your predicted groundspeed, so, 100 kts is 10 miles.Winds are often different then forcast, so the markers stay but become 5 minutes or 7 or woteva, which gives u an instant revised eta.. Works a treat.What you end up doing is things like :i will cross that road at 16 (eg) and then that river at 19 etc...not just waiting for the feature to arrive, you know WHEN it should pass under you.. Makes very accurate navving possible.

Maj - Yeah, head off end of this week.

I know you already know, and others have mentioned it - but just watch the weather, can get pretty nasty pretty quick at this time of year.

Day temps at Broome recently have only been about 39-40 according to friends living in the area (well 350klm out of Broome in the middle on nowhere)

I'll no doubt be making the trip mid next year, though most likely in a C206.

The airspace is reasonably intense around the Brisy area, so study the VTC etc carefully. Brisy, or Archerfield is all CTA also.

What area do you have in mind? If you head out toward the Downs - Toowoomba, Dalby etc... quite nice scenery - particularly at present with all the cotton crops coming up - and fair bit of water about too!

My TAS is 100 knots and I mark my track in 10 NM segments, too. Very handy when doing a 1:60 calculation.

I just mark 10nm on the map along the track, makes it easier to calculate the leg distance as well, not sure how the 6 minute marking works? do you mark off set 6 minute marks? Or is it a thing you do in the air, not pre planning?

Terrific, great sense of humour as well. Makes it great reading.

I always work 10nm rather than 10 minutes, or 6 minutes for that matter... which is roughly 10nm anyway, but;

I think It's more the point of working with a distance = time, rather than time = distance.

I guess it's a matter of working from map to ground, rather than ground to map.

That's my thoughts on it anyway.

You must be to good a'looking Darky to get it free... I had to pay $160 odd quid for my PPL cyber exam.

Rip off if you ask me, but such is life.....

Well done Ozzie, you deserve a medal.

It's funnier when you say it to someone though, as they don't have time to focus on the word. I've had some pretty scientific answers. Only problem is.......

cheers, loved the vids btw (had no idea the Drifter tailfeathers moved around that much)

Nice video's tomo..accept the cheesy sax whitney housten number in the jab vid..a bloke has standards you know....hehe...ps..Didn't your instructor teach you to stay off the ailerons in the stall???

Yes no aileron input 'whilst' stalled. To which you will find in the video, it isn't really a good video showing stalls, 'cause as soon as it unstalled I banked it around in a descending turn - hence aileron input as you can see. And they aren't dropped wings, I'm doing that. Was just playing around, and being at 5000ft, I made the sweeping descending turns once unstalled to get down.

bit of aileron input in that 1st one mate- nice footage!

So tell me, when a rooster lays an egg, does the pointy end come out first?

but those of us who do this - we know what ima talkin about - don't we, fellas ??

Oh can't wait - hopefully it isn't raining tomorrow and I'll get some flying in!

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On the subject of Jabiru, I find the J120, J230 (the models of which I have the most experience on) to be quite responsive. More so than a C172. Obviously that's a pretty wild comparison due to size difference etc...

You coming from an Aerobatic aircraft into something like that would have it's vast difference also.

From memory the LSA55's were pretty touchy with pitch control, not sure if that's correct or not, only been in one once.

Not sure if this will show it, but just me playing around with stalls and stuff in a J120

The boys earned their salary that day..

....post him a letter

LOL your not alone in thinking that it's wildly expensive.but a lot of prices have shocked me off my seat in aviation. $110 to sit an automated computer exam for PPL and approx $300+ for a testing officer to come fly with me. All up including "buying" the license was around $600. Now I know that it's normal but I was expecting it to be A LOT less!

What sort of time without flying are we talking? Couple months, years?

I haven't had any serious breaks between flying, though it's been 3 weeks since I've flown, and I'm getting serious withdrawals, was gonna take the Hawk for a run this morning, but it started raining......... might take a few different aircraft for a fly tomorrow, before I head OS next weekend.

Hey mate, welcome along - was just over near Boonah the other day, nice little area.

Excellent

Mm if only.... actually wouldn't be to bad a job I reckon.

Keep it in the family.... Rod worked with my Uncle back at Toffs on Cane harvesters - which funny enough was designed and invented by my Granddad.

My GA instructor flew in the airlines with Rod's Daughter...

Small world really.

That is brilliant! what an excellent Idea!

Here's the direct link Cityscapes - Phil Rettke Photography

And the share link for the photo -

Or just accept the old adage, "He that pays the Piper, calls the tune". Nev

Welcome mate, great to have you. :thumb_up: