Gooday FB
No fibs in any of my stories at all. I wish I had time to write a few more, and recall the stories I have forgotten.
One springs to mind just now, pre NAS and straight in approaches, this guy based at YCAB in a Skyfox tail dragger would regularly do low and misaligned straight in approaches where ever he went, you know save 10c on MOGAS in his Rotax
. Yes he mad all the radio calls, joining crosswind, downwind and base. He was never there at all. And this was deliberate.
I found out who this guy was about 2 years after doing my training. Funny thing was At the same time I was describing how a guy who was according to his radio broadcast over the Bribie Island bridge at 2000' was within 1 minute almost at Caloundra......at 2000 feet direct opposite track of me and 45feet to my right and nearly hit me. Now its a D area and training area, I know, but he did not broadcast correctly then, and he was not obliged to. Then we started comparing notes and guess who?? Same bloke.
I am told that his idea of airframe repairs is to bend it back and paint over it......... now these I can not substaniate, but a lot of locals can.
Is this the kind of guy you want getting a CTA endo..... and perhaps on the sly?
Maybe I am worried about nothing, maybe Horatio Leafblower can tell some stories like this?
No fibs here FB. I have no need to expand the truth, the truth is entertaining enough as it is!
J
