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i think too many students, and instructors place too much emphisis on keeping on centre line early on in the circuit training. the key ingredient is to look far down the runway, right past the end, as far as you can through the flare and touchdown, doing this will make keeping on centreline far easier, as well as result in far better landings...

 

 

the camera is just a Gopro, taking a picture every 2 seconds, then all pics made into the movie.

 

The V1, or Victor 1 actually starts at Port hacking, then ends at North head, and max alt is 500ft. past that, its the usual 500 ft CTA steps to about 2500 over most of the sydney basin. but i decided to fly the entire coast at 500ft.

 

the V1 itself can get quite busy with seaplanes and choppers coming in and out of Sydney heads at 500 or 1000 ft. once past long reef, the only other traffic is the sea lanes at 1000 or 1500 heading up to the Hawksbury.

 

tips for V1 are, make sure you are on the YSSY (kingsford smith) QNH, and the right frequency, and monitor 124.55 if you can monitor 2 or more at once. and dont coastal fly between Bondi and the point north of Botany Bay. there is a few couple of miles (2 ish) you will be unable to glide to land if the noise stops, so wearing or having a life jacket is mandatory for V1.

 

 

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just a lazy sunday flight from YWOL up and down the V1 coastal route off the coast of Syd, at 500ft.

 

or in case that doesnt seam to work,

 

 

 

yep. its Rudi

 

 

Gday Bob, Im based in Wollongong, and also there is a new savvy under construction in Kiama, and a new factory built S arrived recently on the South coast of NSW, so they are spreading south! Sadly i cant give you any help with building as i bought mine already built, (i didnt want to wait to fly and do what i do at work again when i get home)

 

there is also a SOC email group you can get onto, ill have to find details later though (SOC= Savannah Owners Club)

 

 

$6500 US you say..... back while i check the bank balance...

 

 

From a Qantas Pilot, seams pretty accurate description of past events..

 

If you can sit back and look what Joyce has done, it has to rank as one of the smartest industrial moves anywhere in the world. You really have to hand it to him as a brilliant strategist. - You don't have to agree with what he is doing, that is another thing.Lets look at what he has done. ....

 

He has locked out the workers. A move that may or may not be legal. Well it is not. He is in breach of so many laws he could be put in behind bars for a long time.....

 

Well not really. He grounded the airline. - yep he can do that anytime, he is the CEO. And he scared the government / workers / unions that he had a result BEFORE he locked out a single worker. Yep no one was ever locked out. so he was not in breach of the law. Kudos to Alan

 

He has killed the governments IR laws in 48 hours. Yep what Abbot has been trying to do for so long, Alan has done in just 48 hours. Now all you have to do to ban your employees from doing anything is to lock them out over the weekend. Kudos for Alan

 

He has killed any hope of Gillard ever getting back in.

 

Wondered why he told the media that he gave the prime minister 3 hours to respond to a phone call? (Well he didn't do that OW told the media that, so Alan has a fall girl.) He did that to throw fuel on the fire. The ALP is going down. What do you do to get political favours from the new government? You throw kids overboard, or give the PM 3 hours to answer a phone call when she is hosting the heads of state, and has no time to consult with her advisors and obtain legal advice. The phone message was probably something like "Hi, call AJ it is really important." Not if I don't get a response in 3 hours I am shutting down the Australian air network.

 

So just how much will Abbot owe Joyce for humiliating Gillard in front of the world leaders?

 

So in 48 hours he has removed any possibility of strikes, work to rule, PA's. He has killed the governments IR laws - no more PIA.

 

He has deeply wounded Gillard.

 

So the mileage he will get with the new government will enable him to do anything with the airline. Expect

 

1: 50 flight attendants to Pax (like NZ and the US)

 

Expect softening of the QF sales act.

 

Expect modified flight and duty times.

 

Yep it was a brilliant move. He has out smarted all of the unions and the government.

 

I just wish he was working for the good of the company........

dont forget there has only been just 4 hrs of strike action taken so far, Just 4...

 

the long term plan has been to shut Qantas down, ever since the failed take over bid a few yrs ago. Qantas has legal obligations to be 51% australian owned, and employ Australians, its Subsidiaries do not. Jetstar and jetstar Asia have been used to bleed Qantas dry, once Qantas is gone, they are free to Staff and sell both jetstars to anyone, and employ anyone on third world wages. maybe even to the point that Jetstar Asia is Renamed QANTAS ASIA.... just all crewed with people with strange accents on $5 a week.

 

 

since the magazine changed, i am yet to receive a copy! yet all my new certificate and other correspondence makes it to the correct address

 

 

Would I support an airline paying its experienced Captain a half million dollar salary plus all the First Class family flights benefits and whatever....?

where on earth, well, above it, would you find a Commercial airline pilot on this kind of money? the best and most qualified would be lucky to get HALF that! Dont believe the Qantas Spin. even i, as a lowly AME had first class staff travel rights, if i could afford it! not only that, in my 11 yrs at the big red rat, not ONCE did Qantas negotiate in good faith, every promise made was never delivered upon.. dont forget the $30 Million in fines for their international Freight cartels! not once, but TWICE! i started as an apprentice, after my trade, i started on $32Kpa. after 11 Yrs, i had NO training offered. but countless courses promised, and was only earning $35KPa when i left. after 11 yrs. love those 1% pay rises every year regardless of CPI index. every EBA for those 11 yrs, my job was threatened directly. its no co-incidence that the share price has dropped from $6 to almost $1, not to mention the massive shrinking of their routes. just how do they keep making profits when they have not seen an increase in revenues for 4 yrs? there is a reason QF do not offer "service" anymore.

 

 

It's a sad state of affairs that with my nearly 1000 hrs, I have been told by 2 airlines in Oz, that I am to experienced to be considered.

 

 

yep, complete deadstick flight, including take off!

 

 

 

Wonder who was responsible for erecting a ferris wheel at the end of runway and making no mention in a NOTAM?

 

 

Brilliant Stuff MotZ and Foxy! hope you dont mind me posting the vids in other sites to help the cause and show just how much good is within this industry?

 

 

ducted fan blade technology. wouldnt a ducted fan blade be far more efficient in an actual ducted fan?

 

 

sadly missed this year due to work commitments. next year though! last year was great!

 

 

Id also hate to have a bird strike in it

that would be no problem, just duck!

 

 

is there any rule as to when flap should be deployed? eg, in a forced landing where you only deploy flap once you know you can make the field, apart from that, well, for me it depends on a lot of factors, weather, runway length, approach. apart from the mentioned forced landing scenario, i base my flap setting on the windsock, and use it as a rough guide, windsock down, then full flap, windsock horizontal, flap up. though thinking about it, i mostly deploy flap on finals, either early or late. . if im going for a short field, with good approach terrain, then ill get 1 stage out on late base to get everything settled, then final stage on early final, set power and attitude and control everything on the throttle.(much like the 3.3deg airline approach). steep glide approach or ugly terrain under the approach (such as water or suburbia). well, flap on late final. or if i have a nice long runway, and steepish approach, i will often use no flap. short runway and steep approach, then full flap. so many variables its not really worth selecting one point. as for my students for the sake of simplicity in their early stages, flap on base, then final flap position on final depending on windsock. but as they progress towards licence and XC, then ill get them to see the use of flap as another flight control at your disposal and use it as required to achieve what you want. my most common aim though is glide approach every time, and flap on mid to short final mainly to move aiming point.

 

 

i wouldnt consider it a problem, as said before, if before 935, no issue, even so, how do you know the aircraft isnt equipped with a transponder, and the pilot appropriately licensed?

 

 

we use the fuel pump at startup to get fuel pressure up to 5 psi before startup, then turn it off after starting, the engine fuel pump maintains pressure at 5 psi, but with the electric backup on it will rise to almost 9 psi. well into the red zone on the gauge. also, the fuel system being a high wing also has gravity on its side.

 

 

this is what YHOX looked like less than 24 hrs after the last aircraft departed. and yes, the runway WAS heritage listed...

 

 

 

Not sure about the Tecnam setup, but in our savvy, with 100hp uls, you do NOT take off with electric fuel pump on, as the pump over fuels the carby and floods the engine resulting in rough running usually just after take off.

 

 

I have flown V1 countless times, there is only 2 places the worry me, just south of sout head to bondi as cliffs are 400 ft, and the area from bondi south for about 3 nm where you can't glide to shore. I will take victor 1 any time over the LOE to the west over 8 8ths suburbia. Also, it is mandatory to wear life jackets/vests when flying V1, well it was a last year.

 

 

Casa need to be made accountable for their decisions before they can improve. Stop the internal politics and get on with their job of PROMOTING safer aviation, not punishing everyone and giving no recourse

 

 

if the tanks cross feed, or the engine draws fuel from both tanks at once, then yes, draining a significant amount when parked on a slope with full tanks will happen. to stop it, turn the fuel taps OFF, but remember to OPEN them when you start up and again at runups. nothing more embarrasing than having a fuel starvation induced engine failure just as you rotate at take off, or worse, a minute later