The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[frigatebird]

Great shot of the Dump and Burn.. (thats another post for me too..!)

[Pinky the pilot]

Old PNG hands will know where it is

Not me I'm afraid, skywagondriver. Kinda looks familiar though.....:hmm:

Few too many good reds over the years methinks.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Monghi Valley skywagondriver?

Pindiu or (I am leaning towards) Lengbati?

[skywagondriver]

Yalumet - Morobe
1972

[Chimbu chuckles]

Well close....had it been a little less cloudy so I could see the top of the Yalumet Gorge I'd a picked it like a nose:ok:

[skywagondriver]

had it been a little less cloudy so I could see the top of the Yalumet Gorge

Think that was why I was waiting after just getting in there...:)

[skywagondriver]

The good old days...

Mascot 1933

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/chinapilot/BILLR1933.jpg

Not me I hasten to add :)...FIL...

[Peter Fanelli]

Isn't that the FTDK?

:E

[Chimbu chuckles]

Nah - not a GPS in sight.:E

Plus I turned him upside down in a Tiger Moth and he didn't like it - I aint saying he whimpered like a little girl but the front seat cushion went missing for a while....:E

[frigatebird]

3 Old Mates

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/Early%20Whitaker%20Aircraft/scan0033.jpg

[maverick22]

Jumped on the bike this arve, and went for a ride to Amberly to catch a glimpse of the last F-111 flight. Was an awesome display. The noise brought a tear to my eye, and set someone's car alarm off!

As they were taxying in, the ground controller remarked "That'll do pig".

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight023.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight024.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight019.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight012.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight010.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight007.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight006.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd430/Bryn_Deasy/F111%20farewell%20flight/f111finalflight005.jpg

:ok:

[rocket66]

My hats off to the pig. Been around all my life. I'm not sure the supers will do it for me like the F111's.

Pollies should make today a public holiday as a national day of mourning. Know lots of boys and girls who will be hitting the turps tonight!

:D

[ozaggie]

Cool Pics. Pity they cant give one to Temora

[disturbedone]

I can't believe they found six that were still working!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Like the Ozzie "Pigs", I have been flying for 37 years.

I have no plans to retire - so I guess that makes me betterer than a "Pig"! :E

Dr :8

Plus I turned him upside down in a Tiger Moth and he didn't like it - I aint saying he whimpered like a little girl but the front seat cushion went missing for a while....http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/evil.gif
Ha! What you been smoking Chuckles? I just don't like Tigers - full stop!
Old, noisey, uncomfortable, slow - if I won one in a raffle - I would sell it! :O

[Arnold E]

I'd start a barbee with one

[Tiger35]

If the Air Force - Australian Government can't afford to keep them flying, I doubt whether Temora can too.

I think that one of the main "maintenance" reasons, as opposed to "operational" reasons and "political expediency", that the F-111 has been retired is the fact that the engine spares were rapidly running out due to the much earlier retirment of the USN F-14.

Will we ever see a supersonic, swing-wing military aircraft again once the B-1B's retire?

I bet the Indonesian Government are happy again......an Aussie pig can't suddenly appear out the side of a thunderstorm over Jakarta in the middle of the night and ruin their nasty plans anymore.

Well done to the men and women of our F-111 force.:ok:

[Peter Fanelli]

I still think some B-1Bs in RAAF colors would be good to see. Really put the wind up those little indonesians.

[SgtBundy]

Don't worry - I am sure they are scared of the F-35s.

When they arrive.

When they have enough tankers to get them to Indo and back.

When they actually get any stealth technology.

[converge200]

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img042.jpg

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img045.jpg

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img043.jpg

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img040.jpg

[converge200]

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img051.jpg

[chimbu warrior]

Hmmmmmmm...

Beagle 206's, 2 of, so has to be RFDS Broken Hill. Photos look more like somewhere along the Darling, perhaps Louth or Tilpa?

Never flew one, but I understand they are a lovely machine.

I think this is the only survivor in Australia BEAGLE 206S-2 VH-UNL (http://www.qam.com.au/aircraft/beagle/VH-UNL.htm)

[Tankengine]

Know it well! Last GA endorsement I did before the 747! [with retired ex de-havilland chief test pilot Ted Shaw]

It was old then and I advised the owner [Russell] to baby the engines through their remaining life and put it in a museum.:rolleyes: To his credit tenty years later that is where it ended up!:ok:

[tipsy2]

converge200 asks "cockpit type"?

Type=A Gentlemans Cockpit.
Aircraft Manufacturer=Douglas Aircraft.
Model= DC3.

tipsy
Definately NOT a Boonancy:p

[converge200]

Hi Tipsy2,

Sorry. Wrong on all 3. Think British.;)

[converge200]

Hi Chimbu,

Yep. Both RFDS aircraft based in Broken Hill. The first Beagle landed to pick up a stockman that had broken his leg. When they went to start it the battery was flat.:uhoh: So the 2nd Beagle came in. :ok:

The place was Hyperna Homestead. I think it is now the Danggali Conservation park.

[zlin77]

Maybe a DH-114 Heron?

[Capt Fathom]

Bristol Freighter!

The gloves serve two purposes....

Keeps your hands warm and clean!

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Hey 'Jetbrett',

What a G R E A T T H R E A D ! ! ! :D:D

Aug 2006.........and STILL 'Going Strong'..!!! :):)

Merry Christmas....!!!! :ok::ok:

[By George]

It's not a Bristol, that looks like a fire handle in the top left, the Bristol had a feather button in that position. A 748 perhaps with that right angle wind-screen?

[converge200]

By George you got it:ok:

HS748. A10-607.

Mildura to East Sale from memory.

[converge200]

I think this photo was taken in 1996. Anyone know where?

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z463/converge200/img054.jpg

[gassed budgie]

Tandou farm.

[converge200]

Yes. I see I will have to try harder.:E

[Grogmonster]

Geez it looks a bit different to when we used to go in there with the Twin Comanche. Is A.M. still spraying down there?

Groggy

[flying-spike]

Try DH104 Dove, possibly VH-ABM or VH-NBM, most likely the first but both Riley conversions and Beagles

[Capt Fathom]

Try DH104 Dove

Huh ????

I thought this one was already solved!

[flying-spike]

sorry but the previous poster suggested DH114. I used to fly Doves and they were quite often mistakenly called Herons. Just a little matter of an extra two engines on the Heron.

[Jabawocky]

Couple of interesting Youtube vids.

3Q8cGjyOZbQ


Oooops......Bugger! :eek:
VBwMJUOFmlM

[frigatebird]

Lot of spin for a simple refuel job for the Jet Jocks..
Only recall an occasional intrigued/bemused tourist pulling out the camera to get a shot of the Captain taking a turn on the handpump to help the boys for an Twotter topup....!!





(p.s. its raining outside, a day in today)

[VH-XXX]

Rekindled my interest in the old floats today. Those floats can certainly handle quite a large set of waves versus some of the boats that were nearby.


http://members.iinet.net.au/~bc_j400/floats.jpg

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Nice shot Mr 'X',

and, NIL landing fees...I presume..??:)

Cheers:ok:

[VH-XXX]

Vic is pretty good for float plane operations which is a shame as there are few operators. You don't need a boat licence and you don't need a coxwain's certificate for commercial ops although this particular operator does have all that.

[frigatebird]

You would have needed all of those, plus a pilots licence for the SRN6 in Fiji 20 years ago

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0006.jpg

powered by the mighty R-R Dart

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0009.jpg

[chimbu warrior]

powered by the mighty R-R Dart

A good set of earplugs would probably be handy too!

[AussieO2]

Seems that SR.N6 came to FIJI from NZ, was commissioned in November 1969 and used as fire rescue from Auckland International airport. Was powered by a 900SHP Roll-Royce Marine Gnome engine. It went to Taiwan after FIJI, but can not trace when it left FIJI. Originally it was launched in September 1965, then went to Shell Petroleum in Brunei. Lease expired in November 1968. By July 1985, it amassed 2210 hours in service.
Did it ever enter service with Golden Sands Hover Cruises?

[frigatebird]

Sorry if my blue. Have a copy of the ops manual somewhere but didn't dig it out before posting.

[Stikybeke]

Great vids Jaba...I really enjoy those olden days RAAF ones in particular!!!

:ok:

Thanks,
Stiky

[Jabawocky]

OK

One more, no doubt most of you can tell where, all that green stuff and water may confuse you :ok:

UVQGQcgweSU

[VH-XXX]

It's hard to see properly Jaba, your video camera is flickering from the strobing effect from your CRT screen on your flight simulator.

[Ultralights]

http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Our-Savannah/GOPR6643/1129129223_G4Z4h-L.jpg

[Arnold E]

Wow! pop rivits. Scarey:eek:

[Jabawocky]

Not wrong!!!!

I know the bloke who riveted them:eek:

[donpizmeov]

Yeah, I hate it when they go "pop".

The Don

[Tidbinbilla]

What's the depth charge on the side of the SRN-6 for Frigatebird? "Special" fishing adventures? :8;)

[bentleg]

Ultralights - Did you want someone to guess where?

It's YWOL - Illawarra Regional Airport, Albion Park, near Wollongong NSW, home of Connie VH-EAG and HARS.

[bentleg]

What's the depth charge on the side of the SRN-6 for

Could it be a liferaft?

[frigatebird]

Tids
That made me pull out the Type Operating Manual (You have no idea what else I found - Flight without Formulae and Mechanics of Flight by Kermode, Flight Briefing for Pilots volumes 1 & 2 by Birch and Bramson, Flight Safety Metro Endorsement material, even my progress sheets for the IF Rating with Westco signed by John Appleton, etc. etc)

NOT a Depth Charge device.. the Gnome would have been enough to scare the fish to death. Factory mod or home grown tank for fuel or ballast. The platforms are extra too.

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0013.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0014.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/SRN6-5.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/SRN6-6.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/SRN6-4.jpg

[kingRB]

frigate, I find the "POH" for the hovercraft fascinating :ok:

Couldnt twist your arm and bother you to scan the whole thing and host it somewhere could I ? :E

[frigatebird]

LOTS.. of pages..!!

I used to be quite taken with the ones that operated from the Brisbane Airport Hovercraft Terminal to the Gold Coast in Chris Skases (spelling?) time.
They were big diesel ones, and I thought that was the future then.

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0016.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0015.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0018.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0019.jpg

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/SRN6%20Hovercraft/scan0008.jpg

[Ultralights]

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YouTube - YLRD, Savannah over the Ridge. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JNocaUA0Q)


so whats changed with embedding video now?

[Grogmonster]

http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp230/grogmonster/PNGOct2010017.jpg

[Grogmonster]

http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp230/grogmonster/P1000592.jpg

[Desert Flower]

Don't know where it is, but I don't like the sight of that wheelie bin out there!

DF.

[Horatio Leafblower]

I'm thinking beautiful downtown Narrabri...

[Chimbu chuckles]

I find myself wondering why an ex PX Dak has a PNGDF serial number painted on it and is mounted on poles in someones back yard blocking the view of Ela Beach or, maybe, the harbour:confused:

I am assuming its a bitsa made up of the ex PX Dak that was abandoned at Jackson's and an abandoned PNGDF Dak - or maybe the one they crashed at Nadzab.

My brain hurts:{

[Jabawocky]

Groggy

Is it YNRB ?

I have a pic similar from ection day

That was meant to be "election day".....what were you thinking Forkie :=

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I have a pic similar from ection day
You have "ections" on particular days?

You take pics?

Oh dear!

Dr :8

Yeah, yeah - I know! Hat, coat, door!

[Tiger35]

The Dak is at the Airways Hotel in Port Moresby.

It's their business centre. Lined with wood and half a dozen computers grace its interior. The cockpit is closed off with a perspex "door" but it has been gutted.

[pistinaround]

Yeah Airways at POM & the Duck at YNBR.

[Grogmonster]

Yes the DC3 is at the Airways Hotel in POM and the Jetstream is at Narrabri. I will try to find something harder.

Groggy

[Arnold E]

I will try to find something harder.

Bit sus there Grog.:E

[Horatio Leafblower]

Bit sus there Grog.

Jaba started it with his talk about "erection day" although at his advanced age, one can forgive him for considering it a special event :=

[Jabawocky]

Some history for all us Young Pups (I saw that Leaffie:suspect:)

Airport & Aviation Appraisals, Inc. :: "When the Job Requires a Special Purpose Product" (http://www.airportappraisals.com/contact/)

There are 4 parts to the film ............

Enjoy!

J:ok:

[Pilotette]

Ok, figured I'll get the ball rolling again and finally post some photos from the year gone by!

http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/IYA.jpghttp://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/BoomerangvsBo.jpg
Boomerang vs. Bo

http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/Sunrise.jpg
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/FerryCrossing.jpg
The Cooper Creek Punt over the flooded Birdsville Track

http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/VIP.jpg
An important delivery! Little bit cold after a 45min flight :}

http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/YPPF.jpg
Not hard to guess where..
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/SilverBullet.jpg

[Arnold E]

Last photo
Ok, let me guess, pllllease. Rv7a
how'd I do???
Hmmm , having said that could be a 6a

[Pilotette]

Haha good work on that one Arnold..its a 7, where might be harder? :ok:

[MyNameIsIs]

Shouldn't be too hard, but where and what?

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz199/MyNameIsIsPROON/GuessWhere01.jpg

[Look Mum - no hands]

Looks like the left hand engine of an Islander about to turn base at Daru.

[short-field]

Out with the old in with the new. Bit more functional now!


http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff54/VHDXO/OldPanel.jpg

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff54/VHDXO/EXCpanel.jpg

[yowieII]

Noice.....

[ozaggie]

Hey Pilotette, definitely Yppf in one of 'em. Let me guess, 'special vfr'?

[Jabawocky]

Sexy Aero Commander :ok:

[MyNameIsIs]

Look Mum - spot on :ok:

What an 'experience' Daru is.. . :ugh:

[Pilotette]

Ozaggie...:ok: Sure was!

[404 Titan]

MyNameIsIs

What an 'experience' Daru is.. .

What are you talking about? I had a place with ocean views there in the mid-late 90's. I even had power and water for about 6 hours a day.;)

[Pilotette]

This looked nasty... :eek:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/WOOPS.jpg
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/Flying/OOPs.jpg

[Bevan666]

I think the wheels weren't down originally...
:}

[asw28-866]

Nah, performance mods, 'Q' tips on the props and reprofiled undercamber on the flaps. All the rage these days.

[Pilotette]

Yeah, they jacked her up on the strip..put the gear down and pushed her off to the side. Apparently a few weeks later an engineer arrived, fitted new props and flew her out..easy done ;)

[Peter Fanelli]

Probably being flown by a former bloody cirrus pilot!

:mad:

[VH-XXX]

That wouldn't be the first time a prop strike aircraft has had the props swapped at a remote location after a prop replacement and subsequently flown out... All good fun until someone gets hurt!

[Pilotette]

This particular one was another one of the Airtex mishaps at Marree for 2010.

[Clearedtoreenter]

Not bad shortfield - but maybe needs a couple more GPS's and an ipad. (Found this on Controller.com - really nice 210 with FIKI and and IO550 - not sure when he looks out of the window - probably doesn't need to!)

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb466/51759/87758074.jpg

[Peter Fanelli]

Caption Contest!

Finish the sentence.

When the good doctor sees all those GPSs he will..........

[Jabawocky]

........... need a new keyboard! :E:eek:

[MyNameIsIs]

..... buy another alternator just to power the bloody things. And if it all turns to sh!t- a ram air turbine and a few extra batteries just to keep them running...


F*k me... can't that guy navigate?

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

....Will Suddenly realise that he left his 'thromomister', and the 'Thermos', back on the kitchen table............


Aw SHAT!!!
:ok::ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

Ponder on how many cow's bums he's gonna have to shove his arm up to afford the G600 and Mx20.

He already has the other GPSs and after I showed him my Ipad with Ozrunways he's decided he needs that too.:ok:

[VH-XXX]

I find that pic interesting, tens of thousands of dollars of certified gear and there's still a $1200 296/396 on the dash.

[Pinky the pilot]

When the good doctor sees all those GPSs he will..........

collapse in a quivering heap as he realises that, finally, someone has more GPS units in an aircraft than he does!:ooh:

[Ando1Bar]

The following are some photos taken yesterday of the floods around central Queensland. Sorry about the quality - iphones don't produce great photos out of the cockpit window (plus it was pretty cloudy!).

Flood waters to the south of Rocky:

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu13/alearmonth/IMG_0045.jpg

A little hard to see, but water was only metres from the threshold of rwy 15. Listening to the mayor on ABC Radio today he reckons the airport could be closed on the weekend:

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu13/alearmonth/IMG_0043.jpg

The Fitzroy river, which has risen a couple of more metres since this photo was taken:

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu13/alearmonth/IMG_0046.jpg


Overhead Emerald a couple of hours before the bridge was closed. This has therefore shut the highway from the south. I believe a couple of streets close to the river are now under water:

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu13/alearmonth/IMG_0048.jpg


Good luck to all of those affected and the pilots providing relief work.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

A little hard to see,

You got that right! Fecking impossible if you ask me!

Dr :8

[prospector]

Ah. so I am not the only one who can only see red crosses.

The captions show what should be some interesting pics.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

When the good doctor sees all those GPSs he will..........

...... say, "Ha, fecking ha! You guys are hilarious!"

Just looking at that pic freaks me out. Talk about information overload! Worse than Jaba's Retard Vehicle - which I can't even start!

I count a possible 6 x GPSs in that pic. The ForkAir SOPs state a minimum of 5 on board - soon to be six as I move to the paperless aeroplane!

Dr :8

[Tankengine]

I can see a new alternator in your future!:E

[toolowtoofast]

had this sent to me earlier this year....

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj274/toolowtoofast/onapproach.jpg

[CazbahKid]

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUUggjK6I/AAAAAAAAAFg/tkqfZys-P24/s800/P1000957.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUVUyYKII/AAAAAAAAAFk/ifveInqESWI/s800/P1000959.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUWLQzecI/AAAAAAAAAFo/n1LqnUTAmw4/s800/P1000960.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUYnQlKOI/AAAAAAAAAFw/qij67hwVjDk/s800/P1000964.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUaFvflRI/AAAAAAAAAF0/M3atL8lWvrI/s800/P1000965.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AtvHl7bvldE/TRxUbkA-atI/AAAAAAAAAF8/Hszgr1Vfj9s/s800/P1000981.JPG

Last one is easy!

[wishiwasupthere]

YPMQ?.....at least 10 characters!!!

[bentleg]

cazbahkid pix -

1 Newcastle
2 Synga shipreck Stockton Beach
3 Stockton Beach
4 About to overfly Port Stephens lighthouse northbound (near Fingal Bay)
5 Cabbage Tree Island off Hawks Nest NSW
6 YPMQ runway 03 (agree with wishawas)

[Flopt]

http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn465/floptagain/DSC_0024.jpg

.....by the way some of you blokes can pick an airport by the size of the dung-beetle poo next to a standby-light pot....so where is this....any one but Forkie...facing roughly north west at 2000z....Flopt ..[again].

[Flopt]

http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn465/floptagain/DSC_0018-1.jpg

....flying the monsoonal trough 4 weeks ago...bit off track due CBs...clue in the cockpit photo...
http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn465/floptagain/DSC_0020.jpg
Flopt

[Jabawocky]

hmmmm HDG around 270, ADF over left shoulder TRK around 260-262 from 114.20 prolly YBSU.....Could be Kingaroy or Kilcoy maybe on your way to Blackall or Charleville?

You need to post higher res fotos for us lazy folk.

[Jabawocky]

Windsock looks like it might be Winton Qld.

How am I doing?

[CazbahKid]

cazbahkid pix -

1 Newcastle
2 Synga shipreck Stockton Beach
3 Stockton Beach
4 About to overfly Port Stephens lighthouse northbound (near Fingal Bay)
5 Cabbage Tree Island off Hawks Nest NSW
6 YPMQ runway 03 (agree with wishawas)

Wow :D

p.s. just got the 10 chars message too!

[Chimbu chuckles]

Clue in the cockpit?

Mooney Ponds?

[BEACH KING]

Windorah or Quilpie

[Ando1Bar]

Sorry about the photos not showing. I've uploaded them to a different server and have reposted above.

[Ando1Bar]

The below photo was taken west of Hughenden yesterday. I took it because the cells made an interesting photo. However, after looking at the shot this morning the cell on the left looks like a tornado.

The shape of the shower from it looks unusual and my initial thought was it was a disappating thunderstorm. However, there is a far bit of dirt/water being thrown up around the base, which you wouldn't get from a storm that is dying (only from an initial downdraft).

Wish I had of paid more attention to it while I was up there!

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu13/alearmonth/IMG_0067.jpg

[Keg]

Ando, awesome pic. Well done. Imagine all that at night with no weather radar! :eek:

[Peter Fanelli]

Clue in the cockpit?

Mooney Ponds?


You are in fine form this week!

[frigatebird]

Ando
Thanks for the shots of Emerald. Rang a rellie in Capella this morning to enquire how the nieces house in Emerald was fareing, and advised that the water on the southwestern side of the town was lapping the doorstep, so hope that is its high tide mark. Believe the food trucks could get from Mackay to Capella, but then had to be unloaded and two pallets made a load for the choppers taking it the rest of the way into Emerald. Would like to see some photos of that if anyone has some.
Re. the shot of the cell west of Hughenden - do you mean to say Hughenden has actually had rain - must be one of the driest places in Qld - west of the divide and a long way down from the Gulf.. See the report was for flooding on the Jordan at Jericho too..

[frigatebird]

Commiserations to Hedley on his Cherokee 6 that went under with his strip. Glad to hear the big birds got out O.K. And good work by the Blackhawks, they will be back on the job again tomorrow now that Avtur has arrived. Those private volunteers deserve a big hand for pitching in to keep the supplies flowing too.

[Jabawocky]

Those private volunteers deserve a big hand for pitching in to keep the supplies flowing too.

Well done to them, 2 days ago I started phoning SES & EMQ to see how I could volunteer a 400-500kg payload aeroplane that could get into smaller towns that were suffering from no drinking water and likely medical supplies shortages. Obviously larger places would get Dash8 and the like.

They did not know how to handle the offer of help? System is lacking in that way it seems. So I sit here fat dumb and happy in Brisbane willing to help but nowhere to start?

So I eventually phoned the Mayor of one region and she advised they just got their water treatment going again but just....and roads were starting to clear so the problem was off there.....but as things change by the hour you need a co-ordinated approach not a bunch of well meaning folk wandering aimlessly.

Anyway a big pat on the back to those doing a great job to help folk affected by the floods.

Bundy a day after the peak
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[bushy]

You will be able to help. Lots of people will be broke ad homeles for months. They will need help.

[bushy]

Ando 1 bar
I once flew insurance assessors to a station in South Australia.
A caravan (the kind that you tow) had been shattered and spread across the plain like confetti. Only the wheels were left. A trailer from a road train had been moved about 30 metres. A water tank had also been shredded nd spread around. The top had been ripped out of a gum tree.
A cessna 172 which was not tied down, and was about 100 metres waywas undisturbed.
The house was un disturbed.

This fierce, localised event must have been a tornado.

[OZBUSDRIVER]

Jaba,:ok:

Something like this was started after Katrina in the states...lightie owners were the only heavy lift that could get in to a lot of the disaster areas.

Something like Angel Flight but as a lift capability...could work?

[Peter Fanelli]

Call me cynical, but....
Those of you wanting to fly over the floodwaters to see history and record it for the rest of us, make sure you remain within gliding distance and altitude of dry land or remember to carry life jackets.

Don't want to tempt CASA now do we.

[Grogmonster]

I read Jaba's comments about helping. Let me tell you there is a heap of charter operators with aircraft just sitting around. Very capable aircraft at that but no one will use them because the whole effort is so disorganised. That is except for all the private pilots and aircraft out there that are "cost sharing". Read total sarcasm just in case you don't get my drift.

Groggy

[bushy]

Most of the public think light aircraft are only toys for rich boys. They do not realise that they are one of Australia's important transport systems.

[Keg]

When the government, most of the politicians and the regulator don't realise it bushy, the general public have even less chance. :(

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Can't agree with you MORE 'Bushy'....Groggy....Jaba...et al...

The Pioneers of AALLL of todays LARGE aircraft operators started out filling a need with 'lightys'....Even the 'Dugong' 0perator...and with all of their very large capabilities, they are not that effective in situations like this - except where they can utilise the larger (serviceable) airports for bulk uplifts / deliveries.

Even then, the smaller types are the only ones capable of specific delivery to specific smaller locations in need - read station homesteads, smaller towns etc etc.

Both The FED & Qld Govts., should be exploring ALL available means for flood relief etc etc....and, its very simple to finance....
"Charity begins at HOME".....

:}:}:}

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

During the 1974 floods, myself and another pilot spent a week or so in Clermont with his C172 doing food drops to isolated homesteads and flying all around the district checking on people. My recollection is that is was all well co-ordinated through the local Copper!

The RAAF were also in town with an Iroquois, but they were busy lifting people off roofs etc.

Dr :8

[Flopt]

:ok:...but you gotta get a life Jaba...!


Do you go around hugging them?

Think I'll start a new thread : "Windsocks Jaba can't pick"....I know a couple of 'classics'..........

I dumbed the cockpit photo resolution down as per Tailie's spec......Am I the only one who takes any notice off him?

Anyway what's wrong with a magnifying glass ....all you presbyopic old farts should have one handy all the time.....

Flopt

[Arnold E]

all you presbyopic old farts
I must be one of them.
But what the hell is it???:confused:

[Arnold E]

all you presbyopic old farts
I must be one of them.
But what the hell is it???:confused:

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

I dunno Arnold.............I can't see ya...!!:eek::eek:

[Jabawocky]

Floppy........ I been there a couple of times and it just looked familiar, one VFR arrival over those hills look at the airfield was at a similar level :sad: so I had a hunch!


Bushy, Keg, Griffo and Groggy.........could not agree more. I believe the locals in their respective areas are helping out but there is capacity elsewhere.

Anyway I had a chat with a friend in Rolleston tonight and seems they need a Retard Vehicle of Aeroguard, and Dunny Paper:uhoh: plus some other basics. So if I get called the Dunny Paper Express by BNE CEN in the morning I know you have been reading PPRuNe :}.

Maybe anyone else who knows folk in the smaller towns that do not get the media coverage like Emerald should phone around and see what you can do to help. Obviously a few simple things can make a big difference.

Will hopefully have some pics tomorrow to share!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

So if I get called the Dunny Paper Express by BNE CEN in the morning I know you have been reading PPRuNe http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/badteeth.gif.

Bum Wipe One?

Dr :8

[Ultralights]

http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/Other/Savannah-flight-home/IMG0036/1144327529_8sKzW-L-1.jpg
south of Ballina

looking out the other side
http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/Other/Savannah-flight-home/IMG0041/1144329021_GrwHQ-L.jpg

[frigatebird]

Heard a reporter say (while covering the Qld floods) that there was more land under water than N.S.W. Which I thought was stretching journalistic licence just a little toooo far. Maybe she meant Queensland has more land under water than N.S.W. has under water at this time....

Another interview with a copper had him talk about a near mid-air at Emerald because of all the light aircraft in the area. Like our local serial complainer, he probably thinks that two light aircraft in the circuit together is a collision risk, or its too noisy, and the sky is falling..
Some just love to go off all indignant, to distract from other more pressing concerns in their own fields.

[megle2]

All charter associated with any Qld Govt dept or utility has to go through a broker in Cairns.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Don't forget the Bundi Jaba - bum crack express doing the colon 1 departure?

No flies on you:E

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

What's ya backload Jaba?

How many full dunny cans can a Retard Vehicle carry?

Dr :8

[Chimbu chuckles]

Father Jaba of the outback - Retarded Flying Dunny Service

[Arnold E]

Betcha he wishes he'd never told you blokes what he was hauling.:O

[Peter Fanelli]

He's hauling ass supplies.

[Dogimed]

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/01/02/1225980/591094-plane-emergency.jpg

Where, When & What..

Not my photo.

[Frank Arouet]

SAAB 340 perhaps REX up to usual cost saving initiatives by using 50% power and over a town somewhere on their network. Taken from seat 3A I would wager.

[VH-XXX]

The sight no flight passenger should see | Herald Sun (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/the-sight-no-flight-passenger-should-see/story-fn32891l-1225980825843)

[Jabawocky]

You guys never disappoint.....:ok:

Well despite the media coverage of Emerald, Condamine and Rocky, the folk in Rolleston seemed to be missing out. And running out of some essentials! :uhoh:

Plenty of Beer and Bundy although the Coke is rationed :}.

So here is a look at a great day out after a good friend of 185skywagon's spoke to me on the phone about the towns shortages. Meat was not too plentiful, fresh fruit becoming rare or not so fresh, and sufficient non perrishable foods, but some basic foods, Aeroguard and Dunny Rolls were completely out! :eek:

So with roads not expected to be open until the end of the week, and they have been cut off for 2 weeks already, this small load of a few hundred Poo Ticket Rolls, Bugs Spray (which we needed the instant we arrived) flour tomatoes etc seemed to be a welcome sight.

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Base leg for 14 YRLL
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And just what you need.......
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Thanks to Ross and Peggy for a cup of tea and a sandwich :ok:

[Jabawocky]

And the town of Theodore is still under water..........:uhoh:

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Not sure what the problem was with the airstrip, but the northern end seemed to be closed, which is the high end. Perhaps it was damaged.

Be a while before the locals here will get back.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Enroute AKL-BWN today we were painting lots of cells around Taroom that completely blanked out what was behind them. Very obvious shadowing...not something you see all that often. Tops around 37000' and they were obviously very powerful cells.

Didn't hear Arsewipe 1.

[Peter Fanelli]

So how many rolls of paper can you fit in a Returd Vehicle?

[frigatebird]

O.K., don't stop after one trip Jaba. Do a dozen and you will get an idea how difficult it is for a local charter operator to cover all the overhead costs trying to make a living with small aircraft. Country folk will have to live with locusts, bushfires because of the grow from this, then it will be drought again before another flood rolls around to reduce the income further. Not much cash left over to support a local operator, so donations from the city cousins who aren't directly affected would always be welcome.

[Dogimed]

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RV to Kid: Looks like we are going to need all that paper, this ones a klingon!

[Jabawocky]

PF
Probably around 1000 if I had to!

Frigatebird
No way that would be hard work! If you could do shorter legs than 2hrs it might be possible to do 12 in a day.

As for what the farmers and town folk have in front of them your summary is just the start. Some of the stories are hard to believe. The recovery will be long and some will not make it. Some not wiped out by floods will do well. It's not a Fair game!

CC did not hear you either. Was back around 4pm

[Jack Ranga]

Seriously mate, well done :ok: You put your money where your mouth is. As a bloke who comes from the land, I know how much your helping hand is appreciated.

I know this couldn't be the furtherest thing on your mind but you will be re-paid ten times for this :ok:

[185skywagon]

Jaba,
Ross must have his high strip operational now??

I can't believe the amount water that is still there.

Good on you.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Hey Jaba,

We got a drought over 'ere.......wots the RV like at boring holes thru rock, sand etc to dig a chunnel and drain some of that stuff over 'ere.....

Good Effort Bloke..:ok::ok:

p.s. Is any of that flow S/SW enuf to get into the Murray/Darling system eventually?

Cheers:ok:

[frigatebird]

Griffo the Murray-Darling basin starts on the western slopes of Mt Mowbullan (where the TV towers are) in the Bunya Mountains, and also 20 miles north-east of Roma, so am sure there will be a flushing of Queensland sewerage downstream..

Just for interest, the water that falls 20 miles south of Hughenden has a long way to go to Lake Eyre, and never makes it to a sea.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Thanks 'FB',....

Was loooking at a chart of the major rivers, and was just wondering how 'beneficial' this overload might be to other places, far far away from the actual rainfall and immediately affected areas....eventually...

Cheers:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

the Murray-Darling basin starts on the western slopes of Mt Mowbullan (where the TV towers are) in the Bunya Mountains, and also 20 miles north-east of Roma, so am sure there will be a flushing of Queensland sewerage downstream..

I guess that is one way of looking at it, but I would have said that the Murray-Darling starts in the headwaters of the Condamine R, in the mountains east of Killarney in SE Qld.

Dr :8

[Desert Flower]

Hey C185 Skywagon - hear things got a bit hot at the local watering hole in Charleyville!

DF.

[Jabawocky]

Jack Ranga

You are right...nothing in it for me and thats fine....watching the news tonight the folk at Surat now and St George and Dirranbandi are next.

It bothers me they are spening an hour or more in 15' tinnies ferrying food in raging flood waters when say, half the airstrip is available and a couple of 185/206/RV10's or better still Bongo Vans could be used to carry more quicker with far less risk.

Where is the public co-ordination????

Charter guys could be paid or us folk who don't care could do it for free.....but it does not happen.

Might phone some cutomers of mine in those parts and ask.....if anyone is watching phone your friends out their, you may not do a lot but it may just make their day!


Griffo
The FTDK is correct, the water that starts up near Killarney and through Warwick, plus all the catchment downstream of the Condamine is what goes down there.....its a truly amazing system, and when it all gets wet.....look out!


NEWS FLASH 8.30pm
Just been talking to a mate/ customer at Dirranbandi and the town is cut off already, just like Rolleston the media / guvinmint does not talk about small places like that. The floods have not hit them yet :eek:.

At least they have had the foresight to beef up the levy bank around the airstrip.

I reckon in a day or two I will get a call back...:uhoh:

[185skywagon]

Df, we lost another pub to flame last night. Don't know where all guff about
Heritage listed building came from. Down to 2 pubs from 5 in 1990.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I reckon in a day or two I will get a call back...http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/worry.gifReturd Vehicle to the rescue!

Dr :8

(With credit to PF for "Returd Vehicle")

[frigatebird]

I guess that is one way of looking at it, but I would have said that the Murray-Darling starts in the headwaters of the Condamine R, in the mountains east of Killarney in SE Qld.




I'll agree with you on that. Looking at the charts, the water off the western side of Mt Roberts on the Border at 4531 ft has further to fall, than the 3759 from Mt Kiangakow in the Bunyas, and further to run, with a big catchment for the Condamine. My father would have been more familiar with that area, having grown up at Cambooya. Just that as the most north-easterly point for the south-westerly flowing system, for me, the catchment starts on the western side of the Bunyas, or Durong.

[Jabawocky]

What about bringing the "Bognanza" down to help........sticky job:}

[VH-XXX]

Every time I wipe my a-rse from now on Jaba, I'll be thinking of you.

How may ply was the paper?

[Brian Abraham]

Some evocative photos of the floods.

Australian flooding - The Big Picture - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/australian_flooding.html)

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Hey Jaba et al,

Just a thought to co-ordinating some relief for those not quite in 'the public eye'....
The following link is an 'Events Calendar' -

I am sure you could organise some co-ordinated help in getting some guys together, like thru the local (dry) aero club, for a 'fly-in-with-stuff' to a town / stranded family near an airstrip of your selection - sort of like a 'mass' 'Angel flight' with needed stuffs....
Pick a date, get 'Jamie' the organiser to put it on the site.....

Australia: Everything in aviation - Events, Clubs, Schools, Airfields, Aircraft and more... (http://www.aeroclub.com.au/)

Like I said, just a thought....

Cheers:ok:

[VH-XXX]

Amazing photos there Brian.

Was this you Jaba?

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/ausflood_01_03/a16_26480455.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

2010 was a relatively quiet year for the Forktailed Dr Killer!

http://www.fototime.com/89A177DC7D9A088/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

Its on again............ Today more rain in the Carnarvon range area, north of St George and Roma and this on the downs area.

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[Grogmonster]

Yes it was rather heavy as we slid down the BN R/W 01 ILS at 5.25pm this arvo. The WX radar was painting a pretty picture.

Groggy

[frigatebird]

Thanks for that link, Brian. Have e-mailed it to my son in Toronto so he can get the Picture. Web magic..

[frigatebird]

Was going to say something about the water getting under the slab into the downstairs converted garage/granny flat, but as that situation has eased wont bother, other than to say that houses raised even a few feet on stumps do have advantages over some modern low set homes built on a slab. (The club president, a plumber, has already been and given advice) Had previously obtained some sandbags from the local S.E.S. that may have helped. If they want to use the cessna for a spotters course some time, can donate the time to repay the favour.
After seeing a Squirrel come in to pick up linesmen, (didn't have the camera) and talking to the pilot briefly ( he had done work round Dalby), will just go and fly the cessna for its first flight this year....

[frigatebird]

its not called 'Island Plantation' for nothing..

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/Floods%202011/IslandPlantation.jpg

the Lamington Bridge going under again.. 40 years ago it used to go under regularly - and the Bruce Highway was cut then..

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'The Pocket' loop - sugar mill now an island - the foreground used for cane as it always goes under - the Granville bridge is not under yet.... but the water is still rising..

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looking towards the town from the mouth of Tinana Creek

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looking back the other way with 'Muddy Waters' under water.. in the days when Walkers Ltd built ships, whenever the flood was coming down the shipyard would be evacuated to the Top Shop..

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[Jamair]

This the sorta thing you talkin about Chuck?

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p271/jamair_photos/IMG_1280.jpg

[Peter Fanelli]

I hope that was taken just before altering course a little.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Yup, just like that. Was that taken recently in Qld?

[Jabawocky]

Hey Jamair....Kimmi is a fair way from your home base these days, was that when operating out of CNS?

[Jamair]

PF, no I altered course a LOT:}

CC, nah that wuz 2008..... its a lot WORSE around here at the moment :ooh::yuk:

Jabba you'd be surprised where I have been going lately with the wx and all the flooding issues....... but that pic was from them old days...:ok: Well done on your recent activities too BTW

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

What constitutes a lot of water?

The two pics below were sent to me by Forkie Jr, who works with water. The first is of a facility on the McKenzie R, which of course feeds into the Fitzroy. The river is at "normal" level.

The second pic is on the same facility taken in the last couple of days from the air. All that is visible is the top of the structure shown in the first pic.

Imagine yourself sitting in that car - with all that water going over the top of you.

The Fitzroy R system is second only to the Murray/Darling. The McKenzie is one of many large rivers that flow into the Fitzroy - and they are all in flood!

Dr :8

http://www.fototime.com/1DF56C9B32A1E90/standard.jpg

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[Kulwin Park]

WOW !!!! Those 2 bridge pics are crazy :ooh:

But imagine the fishing afterward the water recedes - fish will biting finding all the **** being washed down the river system. :8

[frigatebird]

FTDK
Just how big a catchment do you class the Mackenzie and how long a river is it, in your opinion? In Australia, a catchment system for a river that eventually runs into the sea (Fitzroy) can have a change of name every time a major tributary joins it. We used to live on the Peak Range, which was a watershed between the headwaters of Capella Creek which ran into Theresa Creek which ran into the Nogoa River which joined with the Comet River and became the Mackenzie River. The water falling the other side of the hill ran into a creek that ran into the Isaac River that joined the Mackenzie at the top of its loop about halfway along its south-to-north-to-south-again run. The Mackenzie lost its identity when it joined the north flowing Dawson to become the Fitzroy that held its name to the sea. So you could say all our water went to the Mackenzie, but it all also went to the Fitzroy.
Even the longest tributary of the Murray, -the Darling-, starts as the Condamine, becomes the Balonne at about Surat, then the Culgoa at 'Cubbie', etc, before it ever becomes the Darling River. (have to find my Bourke map)

No wonder people get confused over catchment areas..

[Jabawocky]

frigatebird

you need to worry about the mary catchment...........and post some more pics!

Do I need to come up there and collect you and your camera for a few hours? ;)

[frigatebird]

No Worries.. Jaba. Your camera would be better than mine.. Even the daughters took better photos of the present flood out of the Cessna than mine. The Cessna comes first for me tho.. just have different priorities.
We had bigger floods in the late '60's, but there IS more to come down.. The Mary is a straight-forward system, but maybe if we reversed the flow, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane wont complain in five years time of a lack of water for their growing populations......;)

A couple taken by my neighbours S.E.S. friend after I took them both up over the weekend..

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/Floods%202011/SES.jpg

This creek entrance allows water to back up through Queens Park underneath Woolworths and into the town centre to the steps of the Town Hall and Police Station..

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/Floods%202011/SailingClub.jpg

one floor of the high blocked Sailing Club is under water, and the railway to the old shipyard is covered.

[Capt Fathom]

My guess is Sydney.

Looking towards Brighton-Le-Sands. Notice the control tower to the south of 07 isn't there yet.

[Captain Nomad]

Sheesh... Look at all theose people walking around on the tarmac with an aircraft nearby with engines running. No earmuffs or high-vis vests either...! :E :eek: :D

[Peter Fanelli]

No earmuffs or high-vis vests either...!


Nope, the white overalls did the trick back then.
Of course these days you can't go anywhere near a Dash 8 wearing white.

[Frank Arouet]

Walking near a Rolls Royce dart without hearing protection would be an act of bravery today.

[gupta]

Speak up fellas things are a bit mumbled these days.

Been there & done that

[HercFeend]

Spent an awesome weekend in Wellington and as usual visited the 'must do' Te Papa. The photographer Brian Brake currently has an exhibition there, I loved this particular photo of his and so bought a large print.

I couldn't get the image to appear so here's a link!

Camel rider of the Aden Protectorate Levies beside a jet plan... on Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/3rifht)

Just thought the coming together of these two, centuries apart, fighting machine was brilliant! It's a Hawker Hunter I think, although I'm not certain.


<a href="http://twitpic.com/3rifht" title="Camel rider of the Aden Protectorate Levies beside a jet plan... on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/3rifht.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Camel rider of the Aden Protectorate Levies beside a jet plan... on Twitpic"></a>

[Jabawocky]

Well what a small world it is, fellow ppruner followed me into an "isolated" spot yesterday and did a nice job of it too!

V44OWfoLNpA

No doubt someone will pic who where when and why.....
http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/m_IMG_0265.jpg

And yep its isolated all right............
http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/m_IMG_0268.jpg

[ABX]

Too far north for Captain Wally?

[Desert Flower]

Too far north for Captain Wally?

Wouldn't be Morno either, 'cos as far as I know he only flies them thar single engined things.

Reckon those HF aerials would be attached to a vehicle that has a couple of purty flashin' lights on its roof too.

DF.

[Jabawocky]

DF

You are slipping! You normally hit the nail on the head http://www.katzy.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/nail2.gif but not this time.

No it was not Morno this time. However, Morno has been poling around them twin kero burners of late, and as luck would have it we enjoyed a top steak and a couple of cold beers at Bretts Wharf on the Brisbane River last night. Then Jaba got a very wet ar$e riding his bike home in massive storms....but thats another story.

And no pretty lights on that ute I am afraid. You will have to try harder :ok:

[PA39]

Goondiwindi ?

[maverick22]

St George Jabba? I'm cheating though because I heard your departure call on BN CEN yesterday!

[megle2]

Don't reckon its St george or Gundi

[Jabawocky]

Gooday Mav....how is married life treating you :confused:

Cheating....well seems I need a new callsign. Flew 4 flights yesterday with 2 departures from YSGE, after the first one I get sprung by the B200 pilot who has an ETA 30min after me to the unguessed airfield asking will I be there long. Had a phone call from 185skywagon about the same time.

So not St George.......but getting warmer.....like 38degC on the ground!;)

[Warbo]

I reckon that is Dirranbandi

[Dogimed]

Moree?

Moree Moree

[Ultralights]

Then Jaba got a very wet ar$e riding his bike home in massive storms....but thats another story.


here ya go Jaba!

http://www.motorcyclepilot.com/images/gallery/img_4657M.jpg

http://www.motorcyclepilot.com/images/gallery/DSC02550m.jpg

http://www.motorcyclepilot.com/images/gallery/IMG_3782M.jpg

[morno]

DF, you're a bit behind the times, ;). Been flying them twin burners for a while now.

Jabba, I noticed the storms weren't anywhere near as bad today and you weren't up flying, :E.

morno

[PyroTek]

Warbo: I am calling Dirranbandi too :ok:

[rioncentu]

Hehe can't be St. George as there's no crapped out old Bonanza dieing in the long grass ;)

[Jabawocky]

Warbo wins! I'll buy you a beer next time I am down there. Let me know when you plan on taking some of the toys outa the toy box :)

Morno..... What did I tell you, headwinds and storms is all I get!

UL ....... Yes have seen them, crazy yanks!! That dude sells the pod kits. Nice machine he has too.

[BEACH KING]

Reckon those HF aerials would be attached to a vehicle that has a couple of purty flashin' lights on its roof too.


Not HF...but high gain UHF radio and Mobile Phone I would suspect.

http://www.motorcyclepilot.com/images/gallery/DSC02550m.jpg

Get a Bonza...Those things go straight in the back! (still have to pull the front wheel off though...and drain the oil & fuel:\:\ )

[Jabawocky]

...........And cattle too! :ooh: So how do you drain the oil and fuel with them!:}

[BEACH KING]

They are self-draining Jaba....as you well know.

[Peter Fanelli]

Get a Bonza...Those things go straight in the back! (still have to pull the front wheel off though...and drain the oil & fuel


You can drain all the fuel and oil you want, it's still hazmat, or Dangerous Goods if you prefer.

[Chimbu chuckles]

As opposed to the fuel and oil in the Bonanza :hmm:

Was a time when we used to roll 2 full 200 litre drums of avgas/diesel/JetA into the back of 185s - 4 in the back of Islanders - 8 or 9 in the back of Twotters.

This is a much better way to carry a motor bike - a mate of mine (in his younger days) transports his bike to his new base.

A simpler time before the lunatics gained unfettered control of the asylum.:sad:

http://www.fototime.com/{014EE623-673C-4068-8A82-A8E4780E3F11}/origpict/Otter%2520Lake.jpg

[Capt Fathom]

Where there's a will, there's a way! :E

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/DeHavilland-Beaver/IMAGES/dehavilland-beaver-with-canoe.jpg

[BEACH KING]

You can drain all the fuel and oil you want, it's still hazmat, or Dangerous Goods if you prefer.

:rolleyes:Yes Nanna

[Ultralights]

Here you go, one for the soft cock OMG Dangerous goods, you cant do that! brigade.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii272/popsdory/IMG_1624.jpg
Zip ties = Modern duct tape.
Or a twin engined Beaver.

http://www.backcountrypilot.org/gallery/albums/userpics/13399/normal_N67689_with_a_new_R-985.JPG

[maverick22]

Hmmm, thought it was a sure thing jabba. That RV gets around a bit too much! And married life is going well:ok:

[Peter Fanelli]

If they could find a better way to position that bicycle you'd have an extra passenger seat available.

[Jabawocky]

That RV gets around a bit too much!

It does indeed....a bit more than V Tails of late :E

[frigatebird]

The Little Red Kawasaki That Could.... (travel hundreds of miles without its front wheel) -(its bigger/heavier/longer/more powerful brother couldn't)
http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy129/bird__photo/de-stessing/RedK100.jpg

[TriMedGroup]

Location of these 2?

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/alistairfarnhill/IMG_0238.jpg?t=1295661647

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/alistairfarnhill/IMG_0335.jpg?t=1295661901

[TriMedGroup]

Why I persevere with my chosen "profession" while my mates that left school in year 9 to do a trade make twice as much money as me:

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/alistairfarnhill/Picture119.jpg?t=1295662758http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/alistairfarnhill/Picture093.jpg?t=1295662758


http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/alistairfarnhill/Picture121.jpg?t=1295662895

[Aye Ess]

Ah,yes, TriMedGroup,no other feeling than VFR stuck above overcast in a single engine aircraft as the sun is setting wondering if to start bleating on the radio about your predicament. :E

Nah,just joking.....they are beautiful photos.

[TriMedGroup]

IFR in a new 206, so legitimate but still a little disconcerting when the time comes to dive down into the black soup below!

[Plow King]

Location of these 2?

Not sure about the second, but the first would be Rainbow.

At a guess, I'd say the second one is somewhere in Western Victoria?

[Power]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1955/img1144k.jpg

[Capt Fathom]

Nice picture of a puffy cu! Somewhere in Australia?

[Power]

near a certain RA strip :D

[MFB 2]

CC, "Was a time when we used to roll 2 full 200 litre drums of avgas/diesel/JetA into the back of 185s - 4 in the back of Islanders - 8 or 9 in the back of Twotters."
Likewise.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/mickblake/Fane6.jpg

[bentleg]

near a certain RA strip :D

......and inbound reporting point for Camden.

The Oaks NSW.

[morno]

Should be quite an easy one, where is it?

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo84/morno_photos/where.jpg

[Super Cecil]

Karboolcha?

[bentleg]

Karboolcha?

Agree it could be Caboolture Q, not a recent photo I suspect.

[Jabawocky]

Why so Bentleg? looks recent enough to me. What features are you picking up on?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Yeah Kabullture, I would recognise that dump anywhere!

Dr :8

PS: And the refuse tip on the left hand side is pretty characteristic too!

[rioncentu]

Looks like ycab but not enough lanes of traffic for my liking

[morno]

Is most definitely recent Bentleg (yesterday). Best fun I've had in an aeroplane in a while. The Retard Vehicle ****s all over most other lighty's I've flown, :E.

morno

[Chimbu chuckles]

As Jaba said earlier on skype "Old pic? That T shirt hasn't even hit the washing machine yet"

Not a bad machine is she Morno - could you understand how to start the fcking thing?:ok:

Whenever Jaba offers me the LHS I just stay "Thanks...start it for me will ya":E

[Tiger35]

Hi Moreton Bay guys,

Have you flown out near Moreton Island lately?

Has the brown water reached the island yet?

Thinking of putting the nautical money burner in action for a run out to the Cape.

[morno]

Chuck, I could understand how to start it.......... but I feckin couldn't! I eventually did, but only after we'd let the equivalent of the BP oil spill out on the ground in Avgas and let the thing sit for what seemed like an eternity.

There are more pics, I've just gotta try and find some that aren't incriminating, :}.

morno

[bentleg]

What features are you picking up on?

I recall an overbridge over the highway and junction thingy close to the threshold, but maybe its outside the cam view or I'm thinking of somewhere else.

PS - I accept the guidance of those more familiar with it and that the photo is current.

[Super Cecil]

Yeah Kabullture, I would recognise that dump anywhere!

Dr :8

PS: And the refuse tip on the left hand side is pretty characteristic too!

I went to an airshow seems like a long time ago there. The usual stuff was on and as something went by there were some explosions over the tip side of the airfield. I said to my daughter that must have been terrorists trying to blow up the tip and missed. The bloke next to me with five cameras, a scanner and a copy of Australian rego's overheard me and said "It's part of the pyrotechnic display with the airshow". I thanked him for his knowledge. :D

[slackie]

Even I recognise Cabulture (although I probably can't spell it), except when I was there it was blowing 40 parentless children and the air was decidedly hazy due to the bush fires!!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I could understand how to start it.......... but I feckin couldn't! I eventually did, but only after we'd let the equivalent of the BP oil spill out on the ground in Avgas and let the thing sit for what seemed like an eternity.

Lycomingcrap! :E

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

He used the Conti fuel system technique.....:ooh:

I was wondering how that would go............:}

Yeah all good fun!

And Morno had no trouble with the power up and start sequence at all.....he now has the Retard Endo unlike you slack and lazy Cony drivers :E

[VH-XXX]

I was gonna say that that looked like one of Jabba's token striped shirts but the comment about the photo being old threw me off a bit.

The FUEL system is not the hard part, it's the Dreamliner-like electrics in that thing that you need an endorsement for and that's just the multi-battery set-up let alone Barbara the auto-pilot chick.

[Jabawocky]

Just found this in my collection

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/m_IMG_1603.jpg:ok:

[AussieNick]

My New work ride
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5389049394_e14a4d21c6.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5299/5388439807_8545dc6aa9.jpg

A few quick ones from a recent trip.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5388440471_773e06a21c.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5059/5388440839_446832cb50.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5388441683_c0263444a4.jpg
Where (locals should be able to get it)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5388439161_0638ebeff0.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5294/5389045676_36f70cf47d.jpg

Fun was had by all