The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[Kanga767]

1989 or so...

*sigh*
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg225/Kanga767/Tindal.jpg

[VH-XXX]

Savannah perhaps?

[Jabawocky]

Spot on XXX:ok:

[ops_guy]

Kanga 767,

Not sure if you owned/own VH-UMR but at the moment we have a student at archerfield who flies it (apparently his father owns the plane I believe).

Chris

[PyroTek]

where am i!?!

should be easy!

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5092/sydneydecember07008jq4.jpg

[Chimbu chuckles]

RAC.

IVW was a brand spanking new C152 Aerobat when I first flew it (spinning lesson) pre first solo at Rex Aviation at Bankstown...getting on for 28 years ago.:eek:

Every time I see her at Redcliffe it's like bumping into a childhood sweetheart.

[PyroTek]

wasn't RAC.. sorry...

However, I am doing my GFPT in IVW and BUQ (haven't been in BUQ yet).
:)

[Chimbu chuckles]

Ahh...IVW is a RAC aircraft but didn't look closely enough at the hangar...Caboulture.

[PyroTek]

correct! :D, ill post more later

[Jabawocky]

Being more specific........in front of the Shell AVGAS Pump Apron

J:ok:

[PyroTek]

yes thats right, we parked there because there was another aircraft filling up before us... Redcliffe ran outta fuel... so the instructors all flew the planes to CAB in order to fuel up...

[thrust clb]

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj115/jonjie320/pradotagz005.jpg

[jetstar1]

9 nm/min?! Oh man, I get excited when I hit 3!

[HIGH n MIGHTY]

This is fast

http://www.groundspeedrecords.com/database%20commercial.htm

[thrust clb]

Whoa! will try again tonight. I'm flying to Incheon. The last pic was taken flying to Shanghai/Pudong where the winds were mild. Saw 600knots gs last week when flying to Incheon. Stay tuned...

[Brian Abraham]

I get excited when I hit 3

Our crowd used to get excited if we saw 2

wait a minute, I see a race to the bottom here

[Chadzat]

Well if you say so- but I suspect this will be easily beaten. Flying West towards YPPF over the ranges during my CPL training once I was seeing 42kts GS with cruise power set (105kt TAS) sustained for about 5 minutes. Slow going!

[VH-XXX]

Nice rego!

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/wtf.jpg

[PyroTek]

i was thinking the other day that i wanted VH-WTF when/if i got a plane...
its taken :(

i once saw an orange lambourghini driving up the st with a number plate of 'WTF'

[buggaluggs]

clb thrust, if you thing thats smoke'n , check this out from a trip across the big wide wet a little while back, thats over 12 miles a minute!! Yeah BABY!! :ok:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2236543044_67dce464d1_o.jpg


And I do believe thats a record ! :}

[PyroTek]

next some SR-71 pilot comes in with shots from his inflight displays....

lets just hope

[Capt Fathom]

Shemya Island

Not too much snow in the South Pacific

You gave it away ... :uhoh:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Picked up a bit of a tailwind coming in from YLRE in the Bonanza last week!

http://www.fototime.com/DCF601A12120DED/standard.jpg

Dr :8

PS: Guess I win, huh?

[Brian Abraham]

next some SR-71 pilot comes in with shots from his inflight displays

Would have showed 1,905 knots, but X-15 3,925 knots :eek:

Doc, you off track for a reason? :E

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

BA - I deliberately off-set my track a bit to reduce the chance of running into someone else on the airway. One of the hazards of GPS navigation is that it is so accurate - I figure +/- 1 m.

With that sort of GS you don't get much time to take avoiding action.

Dr :8

[corowacomet]

Ok Dr two questions for you:
What is the story with the groundspeed? and
Shouldn't you be applying a right track offset like everyone else instead of a left one? :E
The Comet.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

1) What is the story with the groundspeed?

Sub-jetstream = An unusual meteorological event resulting in extreme lower level winds!

2) Shouldn't you be applying a right track offset like everyone else instead of a left one?

If everyone offsets to the right - I like to go left to be different.

Dr :8

PS: An alternative explaination might be that the mad Dr, being a bit of a smartar*e, used a GPS simulator program to produce the Jepp FliteDeck output illustrated. Said program may have required the Dr to input the waypoints in whole degrees to five decimals, and the Dr was too lasy (or incapable!) to do so, resulting in a slightly offset track.

It does however illustrate that you should not believe everything you see in PPRuNe!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Where I were yesterday!

http://www.fototime.com/609AE70774E708B/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[PyroTek]

did you have to ditch your baron or something? and took a last second shot before it went in the water?!

poor poor thing, i feel for ya

[PlankBlender]

Hi FTDK, this may be a dumb question, but here it goes anyway:

What happens when you enter or leave this subjetstream, isn't the change in windspeeds dangerous for the aircraft structure, or is the transition gradual? :confused:

[PyroTek]

apparently its turbulent.. thats what they said when we entered the jetstreams above japan.

[WannaBeBiggles]

Plank... if you read the last post that the Dr. wrote you'll see he just used a GPS sim. i.e. Pulling your leg.

An approximate 700 kt (or read ~1300kmph) tail wind should have given that away that he was having you on... ;)


Dr - fishing out at Hinchenbrook? (Did you get some floats fitted to your FDK? :p)

[Lasiorhinus]

An approximate 700 kt (or read ~1300kmph) tail wind should have given that away that he was having you on... ;)


Just when I got used to having to think in feet for vertical distance, miles for horizontal distance (unless its a runway, when you use metres), pounds for weight in the aeroplane and kilograms for weight outside the aeroplane, litres off the bowser to gallons in the tanks...

Now you introduce kilo- miles per hour?:eek:

[PyroTek]

kmph = kilometers per hour...

somebody is unnecessarily confusing us.

km/h or kph boys, not kmph

[WannaBeBiggles]

Would you prefer 710,848 fathoms an hour? :p

Ok, my turn to post some pics.

Enroute to the 2nd pic.
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v190/0/98/561397288/n561397288_652502_8873.jpg

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v190/0/98/561397288/n561397288_652486_1068.jpg

[j3pipercub]

Best Guess Is Wondai, on a solo nav? haven't flown F since it was repainted... nice old gal though.

j3

[WannaBeBiggles]

Wondai would be correct. And yes, first solo nav back in May last year.

[Jabawocky]

Ahhhh the FTDK on Floats, well thats about as good as it gets hey Doc?

Did you get your 1m friend Barry a mate for the foyer?
http://file043b.bebo.com/8/large/2008/02/03/06/4525920200a6782606539l.jpg

Yes folks the mad Dr did catch this one......

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Nah Jaba, I was tested and found wanting (yet again)!

Dr :8

PS: Got one only of the targeted species, 57 cm - just under size!
Psssst! You forgot to mention that the Bazza above was 102 cm / 13.6 kg!

[megle2]

Do I get a prize for the callsign of the PA28 in the background??

Also a "for sale" sign on it if I recall correctly.

VH BER

[Capt Fathom]

kilo- miles per hour...

Sub-jetstream = An unusual meteorological event resulting in extreme lower level winds!...

...apparently its turbulent.. thats what they said when we entered the jetstreams above japan.

:E Would you guys stop baiting the young folk.
They have initial Class One medicals to get through ... ;)

[Lasiorhinus]

Sorry :ok:

[PyroTek]

:E Would you guys stop baiting the young folk.
They have initial Class One medicals to get through ... ;)

Thanks Capt.:ugh:
Where do you live anyway? I might pop over with a carton of eggs!

[thrust clb]

My A320 feels like a Cessna 120 compared to you guys. wow 700plus knots! I give up! :} Tried to catch at least 600knots gs 2 nights ago but came up waaay short. Maybe when my employer gets a 777 and fly trans-pacific i'll get to post a worthy pic.:)

Anyways Doc, how did your Bonanza get that fast?:bored:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

"Anyways Doc, how did your Bonanza get that fast?"

thrust clb - if you look back through the posts you'll see that I did explain it (sub-jetstream!). Was just having a bit of fun to illustrate that all may not be quite as it seems. I ran a GPS simulator program on the tablet computer that has my FliteDeck moving map program, and set the waypoints for YLRE - YBTL with a GS of 842 kts - and then took a pic of it.

I later did it again with the GS set to 10,000 kts - man does that cover some country!

To date the best GS I have had in the V35B is 204 kts on descent into Cairns last year. I was about to pull out and pass a Dash 8 when ATC noticed the rate of closure - and vectored me out to sea!

Dr :8

[thrust clb]

Now i get it! thanks! I remembered when i was flying in General Aviation, the first 200knot GS aircraft i flew was a Cessna P-210 (Pressurized Centurion), that's what it shows during descent. In cruise it does 175 GS. ATC always thinks i'm in a Baron.:rolleyes:

[Bevan666]

One windy day I had an A36 up to 217 knots.. in cruise, from Port Lincoln over to Adelaide. Had almost 60knots directly on the tail.

Niiiiice.


:)

[L J R]

As my name suggests, I used to be an F-111 pilot, Highest I have seen is 1405 Knots G/S Groundspeed (One Thousand Four Hundres and Five Kts G/S).....and yes it was at Flight Level 490...

...seen 705 Kts G/S at 100' Above the Water.


oh yes those were the days.

[PLovett]

Out of Jandakot heading for Kalgoolie, September 2006 in a C402, saw 226 kts GS but only for about 1/3 of the way.:{

The rest of the flight to Alice Springs was much slower.:ugh:



L J R
And they paid you as well to have that much fun.:}

[gassed budgie]

There's a number of posts above regarding how fast one might go, so here's something at the other end of the scale. Taken whilst flying straight and level at a constant airspeed of 38kt IAS. One needle width slower and the nose pitches down with the old girl rolling gently off onto the left wing. If you can wind it back any slower, let's see it.

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6203/p10303331oi9.jpg

[Jabawocky]

Ahhhh yes I think I can post it......its in video format.....let me see what I can come up with.

And long before the stall too:eek:

J:ok:

PS not in my plane I might add.....;)

[Lasiorhinus]

Used to drop meatbombs from a nice little 182 that would indicate about seven or eight knots below the bottom of the green arc, and still hold height perfectly well. Never got a groundspeed check - the only time I used the GPS was on my first day.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Hmmmm? Is that a gauntlet l see lying on the ground in front of me.

(The mad Dr bends down and picks the object up)

Yes, it is indeed a gauntlet - thrown down by a Pickled Parrot!

Dr :8

Watch this space!

[Jabawocky]

And note the VSI also........at 35 kts!:eek:

http://file042b.bebo.com/14/large/2008/02/04/13/4525920200a6794221804l.jpg

If only I filmed the touch down speed:E

J:ok:

[Capt Hollywood]

If you can wind it back any slower, let's see it.

I win! :}

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n197/danodwyer/EC130/1302.jpg?t=1202131315

[Jabawocky]

Righto Hollywood

We'll call the Mod's in you for cheating......thats not a plane....its a mix masta belonga Jesus Christ..........And Does Not Count!!!:}

J:O

Sould crew itself into the ground somehow........

[gassed budgie]

I forgot to mention that ultralights and whirlygigs don't count!

[tipsy2]

Had a negative ground speed many years ago, landed a sailplane into seabreeze and rolled backwards about 15-20 feet !:D

tipsy:ok:

[Towering Q]

PLovett, it's not uncommon to get 250kts GS in a C402 or C310 between JT and KG during winter with a BIG cold front pushing you along.:ok:

As you said, the first 1/3 is the best, also the most turbulent. I'll have to work out how to get the photo from phone to computer.

[Wanderin_dave]

Saw 194kts in the cruise in a C206 a few years back. Surfing a cold front from Broken Hill to Cootamundra.

Will try to beat the low speed record this weekend in the Tiger. Hang her on the prop and i reckon 30kt IAS should be do-able. Will take a camera!:\

[CoodaShooda]

Went backwards in a C150 once. :p

Forced landing practice and turned final into a 70kt headwind (as we later found out).

Read later of a Tiger Moth pilot in the 30's being pushed backwards in cruise in the same area.

[slackie]

Have a (close to) zero airspeed at the top of a stall turn or actual zero airspeed at the top of a tailslide in the Pitts regularly...just don't have a hand free to take a photo!!

[I16]

Peter Ensor told of flying his Auster into a very strong Nor' Wester to Double Hill Station which he farmed. He looked down and saw that he was over a friends farm ... a few minutes later he looked out and nothing had changed - except he thought he had gone back a bit nearer to Christchurch.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

"How slow can you go? "

OK, OK! I admit defeat! B*gger it GB!

20"/2500 rpm at 10,000' - 10 degrees flap - wheels up - deck angle straight out of the Space Shuttle at blast off - I could just get it to 40 kt IAS (which is as low as the ASI in the FTDK goes) before my world kinda fell apart!

Sorry, no piccies! I just could not maintain equilibrium and work the camera at the same time!

Jabaaaaaa, where the hell are you when I need you?

Now if I was a devious sort of person, I might have landed and taped over the ASI. Had I done that I might have discovered that with the ASI taped up on the ground with multiple layers of electricians tape - somehow, instead of reading 0 kts as one might have expected, it might read about 60 kts once the engine was started and sat on 60 kts the whole bloody time. Of course nobody would deliberately take-off in an aeroplane with the ASI taped over, so I am only speculating here as to what might happen in the FTDK if one were to do so!

Conclusion? Cessna fit crappy under-reading (at the bottom end of the scale anyway!) ASIs to their aeroplanes! I suspect the same ASI's over-read at the top end of the scale!

Dr :8

[Ultralights]

sorry for the delay, pics as requested

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129336-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129380-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129428-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129461-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129517-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129546-L.jpg

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/251129664-L.jpg

[PyroTek]

what are you doing taking my plane out of its hangar! put it back!

[Ultralights]

its out because i need the shed to store my kit part for the busted up sea kings next door! so there! :}

[Capt Wally]

Some time ago now when the CB fires where out of control I was tasked to fly to YMER from YMEN. So off we went..............climbing at max rate of clb to try to get on top of the high lvl cloud I managed to maintain FL330. (cabin 10000ft) I was just clear of the smoke/cloud drifting down from CB. On decent into YMER I pegged the ASI right up to the barbers pole & observed a GS of 426 kts (jetstream wind 150+ kts) .............not too shabby for an old B200 !
Trouble is ya get nufin' for nufin' !....homeward bound at FL120 lucky to get 165 kts:{:{. Anything less than 200 kts is real sad !:bored:
Used to own VH-DVK once (C150H) & had her stationary over Ricketts Point (in Vic). at about 1500 ft. watched the cars on the hwy slowly dissapear ahead of me !!:bored:
Best ever achieveable speed for me.............660kts, AD-ML, LR35, about 40 mins chock to chock if I can recall !:)

CW:)

[VH-MLE]

Best G/S for me in C441, VH-YFD, YPJT-YPKG 425kt in cruise and 454kts on initial descent. Best G/S PA31 YCAR for YPJT 258kt. Pre digital camera unfortunately.

[Jabawocky]

Forkie.....my zoom lens aint that good:E

J

[Razor]

For some speed records have a look here http://www.groundspeedrecords.com/database%20commercial.htm

remember having a Pilatus Porter back at about 35Kts level one day - still had more grunt to go. Every young man needs a ute --- that was mine!

[Blogsey]

+19KTS in a 63,000kg MTOW a/c at FL20 something...... We asked ATC first though.....

[ABX]

We need photos Blogsey...:eek:

[Blogsey]

We need photos Blogsey
Sorry mate, no can do. It was a few years ago.
Transiting across the Atlantic in a P-3. 150kt headwind. Had to drop a fair bit (all) flaps, G/S readout 19kts. ATC "Yep, you pretty much just stopped there".

[alphawhiskeytango]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Untitled/1325669/L/

[slackie]

AWT...let me guess...that WASN'T taken in Australia?!

[Trojan1981]

Ultralights, In your last Skyhawk pic there is a Tracker in the background. Is it 844? I didn't know that thing saw the light of day anymore...

[dwarfhunter]

AWT, get rid of it before the DOC sees it, he'll cry.

[Jabawocky]

Not much risk of that happening up in Qld Troppo I dare say!:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

AWT - great pic. Clearly illustrates the rear C of G issues of the V35. The FTDK is not is any danger of getting snowed in where it mostly hangs out.

Dr :8

[Peter Fanelli]

or sitting on it's arse with all that additional crap hanging off the panel :E

[AEIO-540]

how do I post a photo i can't work it out and I am not great with computers.

[bentleg]

how do I post a photo i can't work it out and I am not great with computers

Here's a post from another PPRuNe Forum:


Quote:
NOTE:

To post a picture on PPRuNe, it has to be on a website already - whether your own or someone else's. If it's not, all is not lost ...... read on.

If the picture already on a website .....

It will have an URL (the unique 'address' of that pic on the web)
To find the URL (using Windows):
Right-click on the picture and select 'Properties'
You'll see lots of info, including the URL.
Highlight and Copy the entire URL.
NB: Always highlight from the beginning or you may not get the full URL if it's long.

If the picture is on your hard disk .....

Option 1: Find a friend with a web site who will 'host' the picture for you They'll send you the URL for your picture so you can then post it.
or

Option 2: Use a photo-hosting site.

Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com/) seems to be the best, very simple to use and it's free.
An 'offshoot' of Photobucket is TinyPic but as far as I can see this one does not have a facility to resize the image.

Once you've loaded your picture on the host, it will give you the URL - or you can use the procedure described above.

Photobucket also allows you to reduce the size of any pics which are too big for the PPRuNe web page.

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You can see the size of any image (in Windows) by right-cliking on the image and selecting 'properties'.

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There are many Shareware image handling programmes plus lots of FREE downloadable ones. A simple 'Google' search or read of a computer magazine or two will produce plenty of ideas. There are also several FREE 'on-line' image re-sizing sites. Here are a few links for you:-

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5 Graphicssoft.about.com

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Now to Post!:

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As usual, a PM to your local 'mod' will hopefully result in assistance if you get stuck!

[slackie]

Just to get this thread back to the top...here's an easy one (for the likes of Jaba...)
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v204/233/2/707881562/n707881562_665893_8312.jpg
What and where??

[SoundBarrier]

erm....PLANE............ AT AN AIRPORT~~ :}:}:}

Sooooo sorry - really!

Edited - cos I can

[Capt Wally]

'slackie' maybe in NZ somewhere (due the ZK reg thingy in the background) Looks like a Casutt racer but could also be a 1/2 scale model plane too !:E Just guessing really!


CW

[NoseGear]

Slackie, is that at the SportAvex in TG on the weekend? Looks like the row of hangers close by the museum. I think its one of the RV Vans, but not totally certain of that. Good show though, I thought Phil H put on a great display in the 152,

Nosey:ok:

[slackie]

Nose....sorry wrong on both counts...taken about a month before SportAvex, but within an hours flying of Tauranga (guess that counts Australia out unless you're sitting in a well gased PIG maybe)

[ju7ez]

Thats the Sonerai from Stratford, not long finished!
Te Kowhai? Really have no idea of location.

[slackie]

Correct!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:ok:

[Jabawocky]

This I have seen a couple of times now.......

What a blast!

http://file042b.bebo.com/15/large/2008/02/24/03/4525920200a6979790447l.jpg

[tinpis]

Used Te Kowhai when Max first opened it (40+ years :uhoh: ? ).It was a soggy farm paddock
I heard a while ago Max not well?

[slackie]

Te Kowhai is a well formed grass runway now about 700m long. They even have an above ground BP Fuel bowser there now and heaps of hangarage and a pilots lounge... http://aip.net.nz/pdf/NZTE.pdf
Great little aerodrome (except when Max plants watermellons and pumpkin immediately next to the runway!!:eek:)
Max looked pretty spritely when I saw him at SportAvex last weekend??

[Ultralights]

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/258082126_R2cK8-L.jpg

+1

[629bus]

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj316/greyout77/P1000359.jpghttp://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj316/greyout77/P1000074.jpghttp://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj316/greyout77/kbfflyby5.jpg

[toolowtoofast]

goodness me! that's low!

[629bus]

28' RA actually! F20, 200kts IAS :rolleyes:

[Capt Fathom]

So that's why he was sacked! (http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/boeing-pilot-sacked-for-top-gun-stunt/2008/02/24/1203788130049.html)

Where was the shot with the snow taken ?

[Jabawocky]

Brilliant Pics of the Trippler! Of course some have gone about 28 feet lower, but only once!:ooh:

J:E

[Jabawocky]

You are joking, what a bunch of tight ar$e b@ stards, at least he did not do the the TAP airshop trick, I hope!

OK here is another rarely seen sight!

http://file041b.bebo.com/15/large/2008/02/24/03/4525920200a6979793104l.jpg

Any guesses....;)

[OpsNormal]

Jaba,

Lake Julius, north of Cloncurry.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Somerset Dam - I win!

Dr :8

[morno]

OpsNormal, you mustn't have flown that MA-NTN track very often, that's not wide enough to be Lake Julius, :ok:.

I'm gonna go with the Doctor, Somerset Dam.

morno

[629bus]

ahhh......yep that would be a reason.

[VH-XXX]

Title - Terrorism Gone Wrong.

This is not a mock-up, just poor quality as it's from a surveilance cam.

Can't recall what actually happened, from memory the pilot used a bit much rudder/nose wheel and hit the wing on the ground.

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/terror.jpg

[tinpis]

Thanks for the update slackie
Very young Mike Keen was often seen around there :ok:

[Jabawocky]

Somerset it is......letting some of its 83% capacity out to fill up the bugger all in Wivenhoe Dam.

Ops Normal........nice try, better luck next time:ok:

A couple of very nice examples.......

http://file042b.bebo.com/15/large/2008/02/24/03/4525920200a6979790429l.jpg

http://file042b.bebo.com/15/large/2008/02/24/03/4525920200a6979790474l.jpg

[Dixons Cider]

Where/why is that CX tripler doing the low pass? Nice shot.

[Dixons Cider]

ok just read the link above - shame to hear the skipper got nailed for it - understandable but a shame all the same. :\

[marty1468]

Somerset it is......letting some of its 83% capacity out to fill up the bugger all in Wivenhoe Dam.


Ahh, i was wondering how over the last 24 hours Wivenhoe had managed to gain some altitude and Somerset had gotten closer to MSL. All explained. :D I would've guessed Somerset as well before i read your answer jaba.

[Nivo]

Taken Wednesday, any takers as to where. Great to see the country looking this good after so long.

http://www.mirani.com.au/images/Aviation/IMG_6716.jpg

cheers,

Nivo

[morno]

Looks to be South West QLD somewhere, am I on the right track Nivo??

[Nivo]

Right track Morno. Lake system east of the Paroo river between Cunnamulla and Hungerford.

Nivo

[tinpis]

Ah....Cunnamulla ...a long ago reporting point that had Jap airline crews completely buggered .They somehow managed to get 35 "L's" innit http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/chinaman.gif

[bushy]

We had one called Argadargada. There were lots of possibilities.

[morno]

Or Ampilatawaja?? I think I got the spelling right.

morno

[tinpis]

We had one called Argadargada. There were lots of possibilities.

Bushy I heard a FSO once ask a Yank MAC over that reporting point to.."Please sir would you remove your cigar and say again position?"


tin


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/anim_cryingwithlaughter.gif

[Pseudonymn]

Jaba, morno et al...

I have a confession. That last post of Ops Normal's wasn't him. I just couldn't be bothered logging him out and me in. And as soon as I posted it, I took another look at the photo of Lake Julius on my phone (morno has seen this flick) went 'ahh bugger, wrong.' I just couldn't be bothered deleting the post after that. :O :O :O

[Pseudonymn]

Who says front wheel drive cars can't get to Lake Julius... :\

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f264/jenbean76/30-07-06_1559.jpg

[Jabawocky]

Great pic....whoever you are:E

J:ok:

[Pseudonymn]

Jaba, I'm Ops N's better half. (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2931745&postcount=533) :E

[Jabawocky]

I'm Ops N's better half. (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2931745&postcount=533)

I'll second that:ok:

He might be a lovely bloke and all.......but you will still win!

That Koala seems rather happy with his resting place too:ooh:.

Can't be too carefull with them Nth Qlder's:E

J:ok:

[slackie]

Not my photo, but a pretty cool one posted on the Tiger's Blood (Kiwi Thunder) website...not a view you'd see every day!
http://www.kiwithunder.com/images/Air%20to%20air/IMG_0230.JPG
"Too close for missiles, switching to guns!":ok::ok:

[tinpis]

How does that salad dodger chef fit in that bloody thing?:confused:

[slackie]

Built by Americans, for Americans....he probably finds it quite spacious!:}

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I guess that at least one dam in this country is full, huh?

http://www.fototime.com/5B1F9EBF8998A60/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[slackie]

Yeh....but would you want to drink THAT water??? Looks like diarea...diorea... dyoreh... sh!t

[tinpis]

Adelaide water springs to mind http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/poo.gif

[185skywagon]

'kin Burdekin dam, Forkie?

[Jabawocky]

Just proves the Dr does look out the window on an IFR plan.....takes pis's too:ooh:.

Must be the Burdekin 185skywagon, coz it ain't any of the ones down here!

J

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Slackie, it would taste like the best bottle of Grange Hermitage if you were thirsty enough!

Dr :8

[Peter Fanelli]

http://i29.tinypic.com/29ps104.jpg

Weird :}

[Ultralights]

weird! but looks like it will get up and move though!

[tinpis]

The original 146 (http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=966&ID_CONSTRUCTEUR=1136):hmm:

http://www.aviafrance.com/image.php?im=966

[tinpis]

....and a NUKED DUKE.

http://www.royalturbine.com/images/RoyalTurbine006.jpg

[jbr76]

That is one fine looking bird :}

[Daqqy152]

Who ever did the layout for the Duke was having a good day at the office when he did that. That is one pretty aeroplane.:ok::D

[629bus]

very nice pic! ill trade my 777

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Where is?

http://www.fototime.com/800F35766476A5E/standard.jpg

Yeah, yeah, I know! Still haven't got the DME fixed.

Dr :8

[Mr Bomb]

Tinny,
That is would have to be the nicest ever looking turbo prop I have ever seen. Absolutely beautiful. Some aircraft just look right and a Duke with those kero burners just works. Would love to know more about it if you have any other info.

Forkie,
As a wild guess I would say the cockpit of an aeroplane, but I was wrong once before...:p

Cheers
Mr B.

Edited to add: Found the website http://www.royalturbine.com/index.html

[tinpis]

It sure beats looking at pictures of tired old junk filled Bonanas http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/laughpound.gif


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/n157jt.jpg

[Desert Flower]

Oh man - I always thought Aerostars were sexy, but that Duke really does it for me! ;)

DF.

[tinpis]

Whos the first cab off the rank to import one to Oz? :hmm:

Imagine the ****E with the paperwork.

[BrazDriver]

Duke is an aircraft that looks just ''right''

Apparently it takes the curvature of the earth to get airborne.

[tinpis]

1000 feet is arse dragging? :hmm:

http://www.royalturbine.com/comparison.html

[Sarcs]

BrazDriver must be talking about the Standard Duke, 2660'!!?? Max climb is pretty impressive too!

[BrazDriver]

Yeah, Sorry talking about the piston model.

[gassed budgie]

I always thought that Beechcraft tried a little too hard with the Duke and it ended up looking slightly ridiculous.

[Warbo]

Don't know which thread to put this under....:E
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/dwarburton/05022008.jpg

[VH-XXX]

Doc, looks like Hervey Bay... I have attached the almost exact picture, but without the back of some pilot's head in it.

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/hb.jpg

[Jabawocky]

Hey.....thats my head.......and another famous PPRUNER around here:=

hehehehe:E

J

[VH-XXX]

This is an interesting pic. No photoshopping or trickery, the picture was taken as is... it is not modified in any way, nor is the prop.



http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/RV6.JPG

[Jabawocky]

Thats a great one XXX......quick camera no doubt!


OK Now here is a competition for you all, and for the first correct entry, not including those involved, a carton of beer next time you are in town!

From Left to Right name the PPRuNe members by their Usernames (not real names).

J:ok:

http://file039b.bebo.com/3/large/2008/03/16/09/4525920200a7161836755l.jpg

[Lasiorhinus]

Is that you, Jaba, with the green T-shirt and black jeans?

I'm sure the one with the forked tail is Dr Killer, but I just cant quite see who's got tails, and who hasn't.

[tinpis]

The Ozark Mountain Boys? :rolleyes: http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/bananaguit.gif

[haughtney1]

PPrune names? I thought it was the bar scene outta Star Wars.....:E

[185skywagon]

Tin,
Not to far from the truth.
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/URBLREdec06.JPG
We gotta start a band.
185.

[ABX]

185skywagon, UNK, Chimbu Chuckles, UNK, FTDK, UNK, etc.

Jaba behind the camera?

I'll be collecting a couple of stubbies for getting it partially right?:}

ABX:ok:

[BEACH KING]

"PPrune names? I thought it was the bar scene outta Star Wars....."

:D:D:DHaughtney, that is very very funny

[185skywagon]

"PPrune names? I thought it was the bar scene outta Star Wars....."

'cept we all had to be half responsible, so we could get home. "Drano" was the drink choice of the day.
Nice spot to go for that $1200 hamburger.

[Jabawocky]

ABX.....you will be a very thirsty boy!:uhoh:

Not one of them correct......and no I am not the photographer!

Keep guessing ya'all. when it gets too hard I might put up a scrambled list for you to pick from!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

XXX - funny that! You take two pictures of the same thing - and they end up looking the same!

Dr :8

[OZBUSDRIVER]

More like "Ozark Mountain Daredevils":ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Jaba - Seriously BAD looking group. It was a pity the FTDK went U/S.

Dr :8

[tail wheel]

Look carefully and you'll see Tail Wheel:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Woomera/Jaguar%20E%20Type/JagReg3.jpg

:}

[ABX]

Dammit Jaba, I'll just have to drink my own.:{

ABX:ok:

[ekoja]

I would not know and would never be lkley to meet any of you guys and gals. However it is interesting how other people percieve you in their minds eye.
Here is my guess and even then I cannot get all of you.
Chimbu Chuckles: 5th from the left (or indeed 5th from right.)
Jaba Bin Lower: I suspect is one of the two at the right end, I am going for the green with white striped shirt.
185skywagon: Third from right end (check out 2685)
FTDK: Im guessing 1st left side.

The rest I have no idea.:ugh:

[Dixons Cider]

This is an interesting pic. No photoshopping or trickery, the picture was taken as is... it is not modified in any way, nor is the prop.

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/RV6.JPG


Must be those funky new rubber blades that prevent a bulk strip in the event of a prop strike no?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Pssst! ABX, I figure you're good for two (2) stubbies!

Dr :8

[Chimbu chuckles]

I'll give you a hint Ekoja....You got me wrong whether you count from the left or right. You did, however jab Jabawocky:ok: and Skywagon.

BTW 185...MOST impressive departure...especially enjoyed the dulcet tones of the 86in prop. Exactly how a 185 should sound:}:ok:

Haughtney...I agree with BeechKing.:D

[RadioSaigon]

Me, I'm going for the FTDK slap-bang in the middle with the loud blue shirt! ;)
CC I reckon the blue t-shirt (next to the cute green one :E with the baseball hat) on the FTDK's right.


Chocolate fish, me?

...and my 1st thought was a scene from Deliverance, but <sigh> not a banjo in sight.

[tail wheel]

"Chimbu Chuckles: 5th from the left (or indeed 5th from right.)"

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

ekoja, I like your style but the 5th from the left or right looks far younger and more intelligent than Chimbu Chuck!!!

:} :} :} :} :}

Tail Wheel

P.S. With apologies to FTDK!!!

[Lasiorhinus]

P.S. With apologies to FTDK!!!

But no apologies to Chimbu Chuckles?:confused::=:ok:

[Jabawocky]

Tail Wheel:= geez comments like that and you might get banned:}, where is another mod when you need one!:E And I think you are a bad judge of age, but I am sure the Dr appreciates the back handed compliment.:ok:

RadioSaigon are you seppo's girlfriend or something....

Well the FTDK, Chimbu, Jaba and 185Skywagon are all correct, the guy and girl on the end you can leave out, they are ringins, so what about the rest!:ok:

J:ok:

[ABX]

ABX.....you will be a very thirsty boy!:uhoh:

Not one of them correct...

If RadioSiagon got it right then so did I as we said the same thing!

I got 185sw wrong but CC is in the blue T-shirt, FTDK is in the middle.

I'll also guess that BEECHKING is second from the right?



ABX:ok:

[Jabawocky]

oooops sorry ABX

I must have been thinking princess Leah was who you called CC.........and chimbu has never had legs like that!:uhoh:

Two beers and a ride on the Gixxer for you!

J

[PyroTek]

HA! Nobody got me yet! (did i just give it away)

and can someone post the 'guess which way the runway/plane taking off is?' photo?

[Jabawocky]

Pyro

That was another photo with us all looking away......zoom in a little there boy!

Cheers mate!:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Beats me what you guys are on about!

The Forktailed Dr Killer was parked in front of the Redcliffe Aeroclub all day Saturday.

Dr :8

[ABX]

Thanks Jaba, I'll drink the beers after I ride the beast!

ABX:ok:

[ABX]

Yeah Doc, what happened to the FTDK?

[Jabawocky]

No FTDK in this Pic is there.........:cool:

http://file042b.bebo.com/1/large/2008/03/17/11/4525920200a7172007822l.jpg

[SWMBO]

The Forktailed Dr Killer was parked in front of the Redcliffe Aeroclub all day Saturday

Does that have something to do with CC flying it from YBUD?

SWMBO;)

[Much Ado]

Just gimme the word Chuckles and I'll ban tail wheel down to his ISP:E:ok:

So...from left to right...ringin, Princes Leah, CC, sundry starfighter pilot, Lord Vader, sundry Alien, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Jaba the Hut.

Beer?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Yeah Doc, what happened to the FTDK?


Somebody broke it!

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

Much Ado.........You Win hands down

So come around tomorrow night and collect the Corona's

Whole carton (less two) in the fridge.

Give me a call to arrange dinner......Chinese from Kallangur do?

J

[PyroTek]

now who was it that made the FTDK u/s?
I think that maybe we should have posted a list of the pprune members with the photo, makes it a tad easier

LETS CONNECT THE PILOT WITH THE AIRCRAFT NOW!
(C210 to the left of the shot)

my turn: from the day :) (rego removed)
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1966/planes1bo9.jpg

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Aw, C'mon Doc......


More, please Sir, I want more......

:=:= Regards, Griffo

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Griffo

A precautionary landing was carried out at YRED after an alternator failure!

Dr :8

PS: But don't tell Capt Wally!

[Chimbu chuckles]

I blame the talking cigarette lighter!!!!!

[Lasiorhinus]

PyroTek, thats all very well, but who can match the aircraft to the pilot??

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh204/Lasiorhinus/helipilot.jpg

[Lasiorhinus]

Dr Killer,

the alternator failure wasnt in any way related to the gobloads of electrical equipment you make that poor alternator power, was it? :eek:

[Jabawocky]

Yeah ....and just on dark, with the three GPS turned off, No PC, ADF turned off, one radio turned off, all the nav lights landing lights and dash lights out........AND the DME being U/S.....I could not divert to YBBN so YRED had to do!:eek:

CC had to get his cigarette lighter out to see the map....which subsequently caught fire at 1500 over YCAB........

And Forkie is worried about his bloody alternator:uhoh:

J

[PyroTek]

wow, good point!

Hey Dr.
You reckon Ill see the FTDK still at YRED on Saturday when I go out to do a lesson?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Pyromaniac, I hope not!

The plan is for the FTDK to be back up north to celebrate Easter!

Dr :8

[PyroTek]

ah, well if it isn't up by then, i'll chuck a load of easter eggs in the back (if i can afford easter eggs)

[Lasiorhinus]

Dr K, you could always fly it out using this new, updated Palm Pilot...

http://blogs.aviation.ca/media/palmpilot.jpg

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Hey 'Laz'....

Just LUV DAT 'PALM PILOT'.....

Good One!!! And well presented!!!

:cool::cool:

And 'Jaba' Reminds me of the time I landed at LEO (WA) ...NO Electrics...no flaps...no lights...very little moon... but... STILL'ERE!! (In a 172)
Graham in 'The Powerhouse' was very helpful!

So, 'Wal' the 172 is virtually self - non - destructible - for a 'normal' ole fart paylut...and...ya gets ta fly in da shade...:cool::cool:

[Chimbu chuckles]

You guys think I am joking about the talking cigarette light don't you?

I swear...G296/G430/G496/PC tablet and a fecking talking cigarette lighter:ooh:

On descent into Maroochy in IMC the Lady in da tower (Rapunzel?) asks for radial and distance. Ahhh but nothing beats system redundancy like a GPS for every seat in da plane...and I bet even Airbus' don't got a talking cigarette lighter:}

All jokes aside...nice day on Friday..lunch at Hervey Bay, pick up son of FTDK at Bundaberg, back to Maroochydore to pick up Brother of FTDK's Mooney (pictured) and the alternator spit the dummy leaving the Maroochy zone heading back to YCAB so we turned everything off and put the gear down while we had plenty of electrons and went to YRED...where if needed my Alternator was available. Some hope of getting the FTDK serviceable for the fly in but was not to be...LAME/work/Saturday...pick any two.

Great day at Jimbour...lots of laughs and good company...definately what it is ALL about.

Someone even arrived in a Glider:uhoh:...and left in a trailer:ouch:

[Torres]

Anyone headed to Roma this weekend for Easter in the Country (http://www.outbacknow.com.au/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=6&pid=91) let me know.

Bed, beer and bad company available.

Chuck, could be bigger than the arrival of the 742 at Longreach??

:E

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

OK, the truths out!

Yes, I had to slum it in Bro's Mooney 205.

Doesn't climb like the V35B - but 4 up, 245 L gas, 2500/25", 162 kts TAS, and get this - 38 L (that's THIRTY-EIGHT) litres/hr.

Not bad on 200 ponies.

Dr :8

PS: Ditto to what CC says above. A great day!

[WannaBeBiggles]

Saw a V-Tail parked @ YRED today, that yours FDK?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Saw a V-Tail parked @ YRED today, that yours FDK?


Most probably!

It will be GOOD if I can retrieve her on FRIDAY!

Dr :8

[PyroTek]

I'll be there on Saturday! (want me to fly your Bo up? on my SPL with 5.5 hours logged? :p)

Yeah Yeah, you don't trust me just yet :cool:

[WannaBeBiggles]

White and Maroon from memory... I'll have a look at the rego tomorrow ;)

I'm at YRED all week, would love to have a closer look if you don't mind? :)

[Jabawocky]

Biggles......You found the Dr!.....well his chariot of choice.:ok:

Just wipe it clean afterwards.........................:mad:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Biggles

Its a bit bare at the moment - only one (1) GPS!
No tablet computer!

..... and no alternator!

Dr :8

PS: New alternator going in Thursday morning - lots of electricical !

[PyroTek]

Its a bit bare at the moment - only one (1) GPS!
No tablet computer!

and aren't all the windows covered with that silver reflective stuff anyway?

AND CAN I FLY IT TO YOU ON SATURDAY?!
(despite my SPL and lack of Class 1 medical etc. etc.?)
jks jks

[OpsNormal]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh204/Lasiorhinus/helipilot.jpg

Sorry I hadn't read this thread for a while Lasiorhinus. That was Jamair after being checked to line..... :}

[ABX]

That was Jamair after being checked to line...

Well it looks like he was pretty happy about it OpsN.:}

Or was he just glad to see you?:E

[Mr Bomb]

Well I'll be buggered. Forkie I have met you ay Townsville, we watched a large Russian transport taxi out and takeoff one afternoon from the GA ramp. Would have been a couple of years ago now, but I distinctly remember you... I was doing a twin rating at Bluewater in the Partial Aviator at the time...

Cheers
Mr B

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Hey Bomb! I think you got the wrong bloke.

My p*nis gourd is way bigger than that!

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

pssssst Forkie......he is talking about another photo, back a page!

Gotta help the older generation a little!:confused:

J:}

[Ultralights]

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/269201980_brQdX-L.jpg

So FTD, who was this then at Narromine?


http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/269203908_jJ5sy-L.jpg
genuine article.

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/269199055_qgVix-L.jpg
not so genuine.

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/269199190_Ae4NH-L.jpg
now this looks like serious fun!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

So FTD, who was this then at Narromine?


Not me!

Whats the call sign - can't quite read it! CFK?

Dr :8

[Ultralights]

yep, it was CFK, and i was quie surprised to see quite Mooneys there as well, at least 4. most i have ever seen at one place at the same time. very nice aircraft those Mooneys.

[PyroTek]

heres some from today:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7358/easterflying005bo3.jpghttp://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6673/easterflying026co5.jpghttp://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8870/easterflying017wa4.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

OK Ultralights, here's a bit of history for ya!

On 16 January 1977, I did a check ride in VH-CFK at YBAF with one Barry Hempell who was working at Gill Layt's Flying School at the time. It was my first Bonanza ride (as PIC) but not my first retractable, having done an M20 endorsement in early 1976.

On 30/31 January I flew it to Great Keppel Is and back!

Dr :8

[PyroTek]

and your RG endo was done in an RG where you have to like, pump the gear up and down? :cool:

[Capt Wally]

That's a great shot there 'pyro', must one day figure out how to post piccies on here, have a few that might even impress the Dr:8


CW:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

and your RG endo was done in an RG where you have to like, pump the gear up and down?

Nah Pyro, my first retractable endorsement was done with Gill Layt in a green Mooney Super 21 VH-MWB. It had a big lever between the two front seats that operated the gear. When the gear was down the lever was upright and locked in under the panel, and when the gear was up the lever locked down between the seats.

VH-MWB was put in the drink off Newcastle in the 70's by a pilot who ran a tank dry and couldn't get it started again quickly.

Dr :8

[Bevan666]

CFK is now owned by Jock Folan - based at Lilydale.

Started life owned by Civil Flying School - where the 'CF' came from.

Bevan..

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

CFK is now owned by Jock Folan - based at Lilydale.


Seems every Bonza I have flown ends up at Lilydale!
BE35 VH-FWE (ex Stanbroke Pastoral Company - new in 1966?) now at Lilydale (or was until recent wheels up!)
BE36 VH-FCT (bought new in 1974 to replace FWE at Stanbroke) now at Lilydale (FCT = Fort Constantine = Stanbroke property at Cloncurry)
BE35 VH-CFK at Lilydale

Where are:
DLQ (Debonair)
PAD (Debonair)

So Pyro, that second pic looks like the dash of a Jabiru that was in the Jimbour gaggle! Did you manage to bum a ride with Jaba?

Dr :8

[bentleg]

Where are:
DLQ (Debonair)
PAD (Debonair)


DLQ is regd to an owner in Kuranda Q
PAD is a hot air balloon regd in Yarra Valley Vic (since 1997)

[tinpis]

Refuelling a HUGE R/C model aeroplane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiI6dT11ADQ)

How to start a Mooney with a shagged batt. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3e2foG0yTw):hmm::rolleyes:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Now Tinny, where the hell did you get that?

That Lycoming gave me a hard time all day! Give me an IO520 any time!

Dr :8

[tinpis]

Ummm...it sorta popped up on the interwebby thing Dr
I WOULD NOT go rummaging around on that site there for any other vids though ....oh no no no...:=:eek:

[PyroTek]

Yes Dr.
Jaba took me up for some fun in the Jabiru. Was a great flight! :cool:

[Jabawocky]

Hey Tin

You are a sneeky fella.....by the way the R/C guy is not Bill, one of the other R/C guys is bill but the Jetstar guy is another fella.

I tell ya what though.....the Landcruiser 200 series is a nice truck:ok: Owned by a REALLY top bloke too:}

[PyroTek]

of course, in that video, the REAL pilot was the guy in the right seat :p

-hides from the wrath of Dr. Killer -

(it was a joke, don't kill me!)

[Lasiorhinus]

And here was me thinking the 'shagged batt' would have meant hand-swinging the prop. Soon as I saw the length of the video I knew I was wrong - I dont know anyone who can start an engine by hand in one minute 53!:}

[nightmode]

Some pictures from a paper run last year:)...

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/587d779d.jpg
The latest hangout..


http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/d01c5a28.jpg
Nice town:E

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/cf34dbb4.jpg
Pick an airport, any airport... Hint, the beaten up old GPU by the building looks like its been there for a while.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/ffdd795f.jpg
Going fast..

[Duck Rogers]

Pffft! You don't know you're born. We used to do the NT News paper run at night in C210's.

Our predecessors used a 182.




<sings> "Yesterdayyyyyy........."

[tinpis]

Hmmmm...night...15000'...turbo-prop...

You will notice the usual GA status of the Wx radar......:rolleyes:



stuffed

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

You will notice the usual GA status of the Wx radar......:rolleyes:



??? or just turned off?

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

By the daylight on the top of the dash it must have been 8/8ths of blue above!:ok:

Nice pics Nightmode!

J

[tinpis]

DAYLIGHT paper runs?....What kind of nancy-boy outfit is this? :=

[nightmode]

Daylight comes after a long night :) -- This day they had some hassles at the paper printers and the departure was delayed by about 2-3 hours. From memory a new setup was being trialed whereby the papers were picked up in BNE, fuel in LRE, Crew change and fuel in Isa, DN, TNK, then AS - then ferry back to TL. Radar was in the OFF mode :} - had severe cavok :)

Someone got me started on these pics so some more random ones from around the traps:
This storm
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/87d8eeb2.jpg

Spun that around on the tarmac, relocated the bungs and gave a free compressor wash.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/69685991.jpg

Sunrise somewhere on the way to MK
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/23f69c3f.jpg

Night moonscape somewhere between MK and RK
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/nightmode1/56ea52e5.jpg

[Cap'n Arrr]

Where's Samuel L Jackson when you need him?:E
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk85/CapnArrr/l_1d7305da40b3b8c557b13de7b5dc008d.jpg

[WannaBeBiggles]

Haha, classic Cap'n! :D

[dreamjob]

That's not the good 'ole Duchy, is it?

[Cap'n Arrr]

It certainly is! Quite a nice old girl too I must say. I take it you two are well acquainted, dreamjob?

[dreamjob]

Yeah, and what a pleasure she is to fly! :cool:

[ABX]

nightmode,

This storm...Spun that around on the tarmac, relocated the bungs and gave a free compressor wash.

Are you saying that the storm moved the metro around on the spot like a weather vane?

If so, must have been a heck of a storm, lucky it didn't throw the old girl over.:ooh:

[nightmode]

It was parked in the corner facing the same way as the truck!:eek:... Moved about 10m and 120 deg.
Had a stack of fuel in it which probably helped keep it down.

Couldn't believe it had moved around so much - I was sure I hadn't had that much of a shocker with parking in the morning :}

[PyroTek]

Possibly a sentimental topic?

I have a question about the aircraft in the topic.
A Queensland Aerospace Piper Tomahawk...
(It's been deregistered by CASA... registration delegated to new Aircraft)

Firstly: What is it's future? The dump? Or is it possibly good for spare parts?
Thats how it was when I first joined RAC, now it's since been moved onto the apron, and its wingtips have been smashed off.

I haven't seen such a derelict aircraft, and I really think it should have been sold off to someone who wanted it (for a cheap price), than to be left to corrode away in the sea air.

anyone here have any memories of it before it became a rust magnet?
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6333/ftnsl3.jpg

There: my own pic

[jbr76]

Pyrotek I would be extremely careful posting copyright pictures belonging to someone else without their permission ... could end up in hot water over that!

[flyitboy]

ok guys is there an easy & basic way to upload a photo to a thread? I do remember seeing 'how to' posted somewhere but it seemed quite long winded to do.

I know there's the little icon for inserting an image but is it possible to upload from ones own computers stored images or does it have to be via a URL?

any idea's plz?

F

[slackie]

How about posting some of your better Wanaka photos??? I'll start the ball rolling with a bit of unashamed bragging here...look who I got to fly with...
http://photos-562.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v196/233/2/707881562/n707881562_750594_6611.jpg

[Jabawocky]

I suppose when you live in Hamilton NZ that would seem exciting:rolleyes:

J:E


PS I am kidding......I would go for a fly with him too if he asked nicely:}