Jerry_Atrick

My step father-in-law has a weather station at his place and I think he contributes to it.. He is an ex aviation meteorologist before turning his hand to bank manager. Even so, he is a handy resource when flying with me.

A bit like this:

I have swapped toPilot Magazine as they still produce a paper magazine - albeit muchg less quality of paper than previously. I don't have a problem with that personally... But, it is OK... They had a review of... the C150.. .OK -they were re-imagined, engineered, furbished, or whatever the current re- word of the moment is.. but they are still C150s. The article opened with the statement that virtually everyone that has gone down the PPL route has probably flown one.. Well, if that is the case, them why do we need a review on them? I seriously was falling asleep reading hte article as I have numerous hours on them, and the 152s.. At least he could have found an aerobat, did some aeros on them, and written about the challenge of energy managment with them (thanks to Mr Gower, ex of RVAC fame for putting me through a barrel roll on one in my first lesson with him - think I had soloed on PA28s by then) There was also a review on some other out of production, not particularly classic, nor special, high-wing.. although apparently it has great STOL performance. In my card was a voucher to subscribe to Aussie Flying.. Just done it... I don't mind the trip reports - the photos can be great and the route map gives me a bit of inspiration for trips - biut to be honest, I rarely skim, let alone read the articles Unf. Shelly Ross no longer writes for Aussie flying (she has this website, though: https://www.flyingtheoutback.com.au/ ). She had some great adventures, and she is a great writer... Also, Unf, Jim Davies has moved back to South Africa, though I stil llike readign his analyses of accidents, even if they are now from SAF.

I don't recall any theory - sunstantiated or conspiracy - that reckoned the 9/11 terrorsists decided against flying into the Sydney Opera House because they would have needed an ASIC (yes, I know, they weren't around then). This comes up occasionally here and in PPRUNE, and in UK Flyer Forums, etc. It is a complete joke, but it has created a small industry where the background checks can't be too thorough as I can apply for one here and as long as a designated person who is authorised to sign for the docs sees me and them together, it is done in about 2 weeks.. Which makes me think its little more than a criminal record check, possibly a credit check and maybe a trawl though public health record systems of any evidence of violent psychological disorders - oh, and a check if one is licenced shooter and has licenced firearms - of course that will catch the nasty types.. In fact from here, I can have the ASIC ready to go without them having seen my documents and when I front up to collect it, I just have to show them the docs to prove I am who I say I am - because I can givem them an Aussie address they can post things to. How they will tell I, as a foreign resident, have any issues, I will never know - not in a couple of weeks. I had a UK SC Security clearance which allowed me to have access to secret and occasional top secret assets. As I was only in the UK for about 3 years at the time.. maybe 4, it took 9 months and I know the depths they went to to make sure I wasn't a risk... Over here, which arguably has a much higher terrorist threat than Australia, we are not required an ASIC type card to visit any airfield. Blackbushe, the field I was last involved with would issue an identity card, but that was really to show a) you had passed their out of hours operations questionnairre, and b) the fuel operator had faith you could take your fuel on account. No one wore them (except those who also wore G suits for C150A aeros). GA airfields have as about as lax security as they ever had.. And the security is tight as fishes posteriors at major airports.. it is mandated by law the min standards and as part of their licence, they have to satisfy the Home Office their security meets it, it is audited, etc. etc. I bet few, if any foreign operator crews have an ASIC yet they can come and go through Kingsford-Smith, Tulla, etc.. because of the security the airprt has to deploy - not because of ASIC. That is just another layer to justify it to the masses. It is also costing GA operators good money (how much, I am not sure), but every so often someone in the flyer forums or who you speak to raises it as they intended a great flying holiday in Aus, but instead opted for a 1 hour joy-flight around the Sydney basin (or wherever they happened to be)

Close call - Baby lakes for $22K or wife... I know which is cheaper....

Yes, get well soon, Ahmed; Wishing you a speedy recovery and tapping at the keys, ASAP.

Those graphics are stunning... Are you flying around Blackbushe? Be careful not to bust Farnborough's new dog breakfast airspace! It looks so real, the CAA will come and get you 😉 Just saw the Jackrells Farm reference.. .so no.. not near Blackbushe..Those light coloured fields in the background and the town off to the left had me thinking Eversly's Quarry...

OK, this is a Cherokee 6 and ther eis IFR (when not really required), but you can do this with LSAs as well.. Enjoy (I did):

I was taking a photo fo a static B1 Bomber at Fairford when a rather attractive woman entered the shot just as I hit the shutter... or that's what I told my partner 😉 Anyway, flame out happened quickly and obviously using the sea as an extinguisher.

Glad to hear things are going well with FS2020... Any chance of a vid/screen shots? I think I would have to upgrade my graphics card and possibly RAM to make it work well.. But my PC is an I7=9700K, which I would have thought would be good enough to run FS2020. But it was £500, so unless the yoke is expensive, I fear I would have to get something better... and I would rather spend that sort of money on 10 hours in a Warrior rented from the local school. Maybe...

Thought I would test out the feature 👍

OK.. impossible to work out where they were, but even assuming a non FISO airfield, there should be radio calls somewhere?!? That is nuts... BTW, rather sadly, I used to work at Coles Myer at their Tooronga head office in Melb (nicknamed the "Tooronga Zoo"). A lovely lady (few years my senior) who was a server at the canteen (called "The Bistro") had a husband who was a glider pilot. He drove to Tocumwal every second Sunday, went for a glide and drove back. At the time, I used to go to Toc one a month for a weekend (Friday night to Sunday morning) mostly for gliding, but I never met him. I used to glide on Saturdays as well and left Sunday for a lazy sleep in and lunch before the 3+ hour drive back to Melbourne. One Sunday evening I get back to Melbourne but go to the sis-in-law's place instead of home. As we are yapping away, one of her kids grabs my attention to the tellie to show me a glider accident at Toc; A power pilot was descending on final and the prop cuts through the tail of a glider. My heart sank as, although I didn't know his name (they hadn't yet married), I just knew it was him. The next day, she was not there, and when I asked about her, they just said she had a sudden family bereavement. I felt gutted, as she confided to me she hated him gliding, but I used to assure her the drive home after an early morning drive up + all day gliding was far more dangerous than the gliding itself. When she finally returned to work, I greeted her; she came out from behind the counter and gave me a big hug.. Tears were streaming from both of our eyes as I apologised for giving her false assurance. She told me not to be silly and agreed it was a freak accident and it brought some comfort he died what he loved doing. It was the only time I thought of chucking it all in. I gave up gliding not too long after, though.. I have not been in a glider since (although I have yearned to a few times). [edit] I still have the newspaper cut out...

Glad to hear pilot will be (or should be) OK... Noted that the ATSB were informed.. Do they investigate such actions for RAAus aircraft?

2017 - 145 hours 2018 - 122 hours 2019 - 65 hours (a/c was in the paint shop for a bleedin long time) 2020 - Zippo hours... a/c came out of paint shop just before lockdown, sold the share, work dried up.. Start some work on Wednesday, and we go into lockdown on Thursday!

Ahh.. OK. .The ad has to contact someone called Mario (can't recall the surname) on an Aussie mobile...

The phrase, "Watch this space..." comes to mind...

Nice part of the world you've retired too, squire... Often see Aeropup advertising in the UK both for the aircraft and set aup a distributorship/manufacturing operation. I think someone took on the distributorship... not 100% sure. Interesting the instructions are a pain... Would not do for someone of my engineering talent-lessness...

Another in flight break up - not quite as dramatic, but made little lambies or goats a little nervous... Around 2:50 is where iut starts..

Yes.. Sadly what happens when a schlock rag tries to make a mountain out of a molehill 😉

Firstly, this is probably a better discussion to behas on socialaustralia, as it is politial rather than flying related. I rarely click on a link to Brietbart, but did on this occasion.. At best, a tepid attempt to sensationalise something that reflects its makeup and introducing gener nuetral pronouns - and what is actually wrong with that.. There are women fighter pilots as well as women chefs and technicians/engineers.. And for haircuts and head-gear... well, they are simply reflecting the times - probably to continue to attract the best to its ranks.. Re turbans: they have allowed them for at least 19 years as when I did work at a RAF base, there were service personnel wearing them.. in fact, bringing them into uniform could be seen as tightening discipline a bit... Two great editorial quotes from that article: "... although the flying service somehow managed to see off Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the 1940s without recourse to gender-neutral pronouns." Yes, but I am sure the vernacular has changed somewhat since WWII.. I don't recall anyone at the RAF still saying "Tally-Ho, Ol Chap".. Also by that logic, since they fended off the Luftwaffe using spitfires and hurricanes, why on earth did they bother upgrading to jets since.. FFS.. "The Ministry of Defence has been led by Conservative Party politicians since 2010.".. Er... So? They are actually caning their own right wing.. Fantastic (also, it is not the MOD that is implementing this, it is the RAF themselves - so no - not led by any political party). Also, something about introducing woke culture as if it is a bad thing... Well, it isn;t, although, as usual, the right try and hojack terms to suit their twisted agenda: https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right I do agree though, that the potential scrapping of tanks is an issue, but the £500K for a diversit and inclusion directorate is being reported by the British "Freedom" Party and the Daily Wail (er, Mail) and no-one else - can't find reference to it from MOD nor army sources on the net... And, for reference, there is no mention in the Brietbart crap that the RAF will be renaming itself to change the word force.. And sorry to differe FB, but force is very much a gender neutral word already.. Nice try at futher sensationalism, though... (I don't support the left any more than the right, but it appears the right are whipping up a frenzy not too dissimilar to both "sides" of the left/right divide prior to WWII... Interesting times ahead...)

Firstly, it is unclear whether the lapotop and/or content is authentic.. You'll get a good treatment on this on the ABC's Fireside Chat, last week.. But, the shop owner is a dedicated Trump supporter, why would Hunter Biden drop a laptop off for repair at an unknown shop for repair when he lives on the other side of the country? Why was it not encrypted? Why would he not pick it up again if it had a lot of sensitive data (cost of the laptop is not important)? Why does the shop owner contradict both his original timelines and that esposued by I think Giuliani? Yet, the shop, in Delaware, is only a short drive from New York... There were other things on the Fireside Chat that called it into question.. yes, people are that dumb... but at this stage, let's wait and see what the investigation shows, because even without the commentary provided, it was already suspicious. Yes, Eric was a coke head, yes, he may have used the family name for his personal business gain, and yes, he may have even offered to get meetings with Joe Biden to wrangle some influence/deals - but unless Joe Biden was complicit and involved, Joe Biden should not be vicariously tarred with the Hunter Biden brush. They are different people. For what it's worth, I think both candidates are short of the mark required to be president. The people of America do not have much to choose from.

Except for Yeovilton, the other airfields I mentioned are those they definitely won't let you near as a civvie. With Yeovilton, they will, but, like others, you need to give notice (I have given at least a week's notice) and of course, it must not conflict with their operations. I have ben to Yeovilton (Naval Air Service rather than RAF) twice, once for their airshow and once for an all-day meeting (non-military related) held at their museum meeting centre. You have tio give details similar to a GAR (General Aviaton Request) form, which I guess they forward to the Special Branch for backgorund checks. I have also been into St Athan (RAF), Cranwell (RAF - but more a university airfield these days), and Cosford. Glad to hear overflying is OK.. Although the best route from Blackbushe and Fairoaks, where I had shares in a plane to Dunkeswell - my closest airfield to home - takes me almost directly OH Boscombe Down, I have never even bothered trying to get an overhead clearance as I know it would be futile (have been through the Danger Area, but they routed me to the north...)...

Let's not forget, the video presented in the OP was put together by the Lincoln Project - a bunch of republocans opposed to the election of the republican nominated presidential candidate.. I am not sure anything like this has happened in the history of US politics (I am not sure it hasn't either, but not in my lifetime).

I had some credits with an air school in North London. So a work colleague who was also a member of my PA28 syndicate and I flew from Surrey (Fairoaks) to North London (Elstree) where I was to use up the credit showing him a loop in a tired C150A.. It had a 4 point harness and normally I check the thing is very tight.. must have forgot. We took off, found an area of sky where there weren't too many others around and in the apex, I came off my seat, pulling back on the control column.. Didn't hit my head, but it did wake me up... (Also, a couple of pens fell from behind the rudder pedals... that was more worrying...)

Campaing Against Sivil Aviation, eh? That is a shame... There are fields here that have a reputation for denying permission, but the pilot can make a complaint and if there was no operational requirement denyung the permission, then the station commander can be in for a bit of a grilling.. However, how many times do they not have such an operational requirement? Shame though, and a little short-sighted.. Can you imagine a father taking his impressionable children to a mil field and they are so smitten by it, they decide they want a career in the forces - they are closing down a free (or where the pilot pays for the landing fee, paid-for) recruitment opportunity..