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Old 15th Oct 2006, 07:42
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Chimbu chuckles

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Olly O'leg for goodness sake.

1/. An ultralight having a bit of fun on a dry lake bed...no one at risk.
2/. A RNZAF 757 doing a flyby at a RNZAF airbase.
3/. A Piper doing a low pass down a grass airstrip.

Believe it or not we civvy pilots are taught to fly low along airtrips in Oz to get the Roos off so we can land safely.

If you want to expose your holier than thou FJ attitude I would suggest you find some better examples than those. Believe it or not there are pilots in the civvy world that display enormous skill and discipline all day every day in a multitude of different aircraft in a large variety of highly dangerous flying, bush flying, Ag, Mustering etc, who were never in the mil first...and sometimes they have a bit of fun on the side.

When one of the Hannas buzzes Alain De Cadenet, and I agree it's a great vid, in a spit that is just good fun...when a civvy dares to fly past on a wide open dry lake or along a airstrip you get all holier than thou.

Flying of the type being discussed in this thread is human nature at work...it requires no other justification than 'it is fun'.
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