The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[Warbo]

Grab Hercules and put together another video clip for us D.

Now who could you be......?:confused:

The sad news is that Hercules had one adventure too many and won't be making too many more videos.:(

Oh, and to keep things on track, what aircraft type is this?
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/dwarburton/100_0427a.jpg

[chimbu warrior]

Dunno Warbo, but I am really intrigued as to how you steer it (apart from rudder).

Don't see any stick............so my guess is an airship.

Am I close?

[the wizard of auz]

I was going to say blimpmobile too......... studied the photo, decided on what I was going to guess and scrolled down........ bugga....... I got beat to it. possible its a hovercraft as well???????

[kingRB]

twin engine and an ASI that reads 60 midway.... gotta be an airship


how do they control pitch apart from power? is it a big trim wheel style thing?

[Warbo]

Too easy! It's the Holden blimp. (http://www.pprune.org/3390793-post1204.html) I was lucky enough to get a ride in it when it came through a while back. Pitch is indeed controlled by a big 'trim wheel style thing' next to the pilot's seat.

[NZFlyingKiwi]

I was going to suggest an Ekranoplan? :}

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Its a bit wet in N Qld!

Here's the high road bridge over the Burdekin R at Macrossan (near Charters Towers) with a bit of a "fresh" going down the river (4 metres over the bridge)! It was a couple of metres higher than this yesterday, but the weather was too crap to go flying.

http://www.fototime.com/78AFCADA4F68356/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/2C24EF7DD7AE627/standard.jpg

Burdekin Dam

http://www.fototime.com/E6EE880F03C3EF3/standard.jpg

I hear that there is a bit of a water shortage down south!

Ever wondered what a dam wall looks like with 6 M of water going over the spillway?

http://www.fototime.com/4926C9733AC280D/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/37B5C4931706731/standard.jpg

Note the public road on the left and right of the pic - runs along the base of the dam wall! Anyone for white water rafting?
http://www.fototime.com/FF29D7DF653BD16/standard.jpg

The road/rail bridge between Home Hill and Ayr.
http://www.fototime.com/2BDCF69A6ED9614/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

OMG, that was not VFR Ops was it Forkie?:eek:

Tea and Bikkies for you I can tell!

J:E

[Desert Flower]

Water wasn't too darn far below the railway bridge either!

DF.

[7mile]

Forky, incase everyone else forgets, I will thank you for the photo's.

:ok:

[Peter Fanelli]

FTDK you might have to swap the GPS's for life jackets for a while. :)

[PyroTek]

This photo was on the way back from Cherrabah, in Jaba's "Plastic Parrot".. after a night of rain!
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3096/novdec2008089wf1.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

A bit wet between Ayr and Townsville!
http://www.fototime.com/38B1C0CBC1BCFF7/standard.jpg

One of my places of employment. Earlier today there was 3 metres of water over the road and 2M of water through the cattle yards in the foreground! The road makes a useful "flood strip" - but alas, not for the Bo!
http://www.fototime.com/0237B8458522B96/standard.jpg

Similar scene to the one above, but from wider out. Burdekin R in the foreground, Lolworth Ck in the middle ground, cattle yards, and homestead on the hill. For the history buffs, Ludwig Leichardt's "camp of the three rocks" that is mentioned in his diary is just off the trailing edge of the wingtip - under a couple of metres of water!
http://www.fototime.com/18C39EF9BB08D16/standard.jpg

"See and be seen" at work! A bit crowded along the Burdekin today. Spot the chopper - make and model?

http://www.fototime.com/6339521F379E240/standard.jpg
Oh yeah, for you people down south - see that grey stuff in the distance - we call that rain! :E

Dr :8

[PyroTek]

Would it be the speck just behind your wing and up a bit?
My guess, from the oh so sh!tty quality/pixellation...
Hughes 500?

I think I'm probably wrong, but it's an attempt...

[Dixons Cider]

stirling falls, milford sound on aproach for 11.

Nice one Konev. very nice indeed

[morno]

Forky, the interesting thing is that all that water going over the Burdekin Dam, is only considered to be "moderate" flooding, :sad:.

morno

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

the interesting thing is that all that water going over the Burdekin Dam, is only considered to be "moderate" flooding

morno, at Ayr/Home Hill that is true. If you look at the pic of the rail/road bridge between those towns, the Burdekin has been known to break its banks there on many occassions. I think the difference is that the Bowen R, which comes in below the Burdekin Dam is not in flood.

Different story upstream of the dam, where the flood level is second only to the BIG one in 1946.

Dr :8

[The Green Goblin]

http://www.fototime.com/18C39EF9BB08D16/standard.jpg

I really miss looking out on that wing :(

First real aeroplane I ever flew.......... bloody ripper

[Section28- BE]

Dr

Is this one anywhere near the mark???- thoughts and best wishes to all affected in a situation that needs attention, trust that the hardware and relief needed is forthcoming to you all in a timely fashion......

rgds all
S28- BE

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/S28BE/H500P2030122.jpg

Image attributable to/courtesy of "unknown" in the Gulf??- recieved it on an all points bulletin today.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Is this one anywhere near the mark???

Ahhhhh, Colour - check! Make - check! Model - check! Could just be the one!

Lively looking group of friends gathered round there, S28-BE!

Dr :8

[Chadzat]

bah, they are just sleeping off a big night!

In all seriousness, best wishes to anyone who lives/has interests up there.

[ratso]

Thanks for these great photos of the wet.

Have you got any more

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Have you got any more

Geez Ratso, got lots of pics but there is a limit to how much interest one can wring out of the "water, water everywhere" theme! I think I have posted the best of them.

Mrs Forkie took this one - she thinks its pretty cool!
http://www.fototime.com/2FE6D4E1C767EF0/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[triadic]

What a top thread...! Thought it was about time I made a contribution now that I think I have sorted out how to post a picture! Will have to see what I can dig out of the files!

1st one... aircraft is easy, but where?


http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_0701.jpg

[Section28- BE]

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/S28BE/P2030100.jpg

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/S28BE/P2030102-1.jpg

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/S28BE/P2030112.jpg

[Peter Fanelli]

Now you guys flying out over the flood waters ARE carrying life jackets as required for overwater flight right?

I seem to recall the pilot of the 210 that ditched in 2 feet of water in Lake Eyre some years ago got into trouble for not having life jackets.

[triadic]

Speaking of weather !! If it's not mud, it's dust of course!

where???


http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/142-4225_IMG.jpg

[triadic]

A few contrasting locations.. ...From what?
...any takers??


A)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/157-5765_IMG.jpg

B)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/211-1144_IMG.jpg

C)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/152-5231_IMG.jpg

D)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_3826.jpg

[Jet_A_Knight]

Triadic:

1st one: Wilton??

2nd one: Hay

[torsion]

Triadic,
C is Saab onto 24 Griffith

[Bullethead]

triadic

Contrasting locations alright!


A. NFI
B. Den Pasar/Bali
C. NFI
D. NFI

[Capt Fathom]

d. Innisfail

[tail wheel]

New modification to the PPRuNe software, released only a few hours ago.

But does it work?

YOhQIQLLtyI

Yup! Now on PPRuNe!!

:ok:

[Towering Q]

Triadic...nice shot heading into Ngurah Rai, small swell running that day. What was it taken from? I'm assuming not the Saab.

[Keg]

Yup! Only on PPRuNe!!

Pffft. It's been on Qrewroom for yonks. A couple of other forums I frequent also have it. Hyperbole at it's best Tail wheel. :(



Yup! Now on PPRuNe!!

Like that better, Keg?

:}

Tail Wheel

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

the interesting thing is that all that water going over the Burdekin
Dam, is only considered to be "moderate" flooding

morno, at Ayr/Home Hill that is true. If you look at the pic of the rail/road bridge between those towns, the Burdekin has been known to break its banks there on many occassions. I think the difference is that the Bowen R, which comes in below the Burdekin Dam is not in flood.

The lower Burdekin is running about 3M under the road/rail bridge and rising. Expected to break its banks in a couple of places today!

Its pissing down again today - could be an interesting weekend for Ingham/Townsville/Ayr/Home Hill!

Dr :8

[Jamair]

C = Cunnamulla

[triadic]

Dr Oak..
Triadic is one of them Temora?
Is that a guess... to which pic do u refer?:confused:


C is Saab onto 24 Griffith
Correct:D

Triadic...nice shot heading into Ngurah Rai, small swell running that day. What was it taken from? I'm assuming not the Saab.
DPS Bali is correct... no! Not the Saab!!:D

d. Innisfail :D
Capt Fath. Correct (in your back yard...)


3 to go!

[campdoag]

A i think is Atherton......

[Bullethead]

triadic

Into Bali, a B767 maybe.

Rgds,
BH.

[triadic]

Dr Oak
Triadic, post 4256, "if it's not mud it's dust"... but on second thoughts...?

Don't have second thoughts.... TEM it is... well done:D

[bentleg]

Triadic

I know A is not Wilton and looking at Google Earth I dont think its Atherton either. Its distinctive with a lake alongside. I give up. Where is it?

[triadic]

bentleg:

clues: Victoria & popular annual fly-in location

[bentleg]

bentleg:

clues: Victoria & popular annual fly-in location


A = Boort, Vic

[Disco Stu]

Triadic

A: is Boort

As you say top spot for a flyin and populated by some real 'characters'.

:ok:

[triadic]

Boort is correct! Yes a top fly-in & great folk....

On a roll now, so a few more - easier I believe:

A)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_4376.jpg


B)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/206-0610_IMG.jpg

C)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_9112.jpg

D) (Disco - quite pls)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/183-8390_IMG.jpg

Enjoy!

[Chadzat]

C is Bendigo

D looks VERY similar to Tarcoola, but it isn't.

[Lasiorhinus]

B) is Cairns

[PyroTek]

B) looks like CNS...

--edit--
Lasiorhinus is a B@stard! how dare he beat me to it!:p

[Lasiorhinus]

Its OK Pyro - we're both right. You said it looks like Cairns - which it does, because, as I said, it is Cairns...

Edit:
Thanks for your text - theres no need for that :ok:

[PyroTek]

Well if I say it "looks like CNS" then if i'm wrong.. i'm not really wrong... :ok:
My SMS was just strengthening my opinion of you:p
jokes!

Pyro:ok:

[Lasiorhinus]

Same runway, but this one was a little below my usual approach angle.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9168/img0043cy2.jpg

[Lasiorhinus]

And this one's for the competition:

What it is, is pretty obvious.

Which one is it?

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3916/img0987wi3.jpg

The same one, from another angle.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6674/img0997vc6.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I think its a new-fangle VOR station!

I've only seen two of them - one at Alice (I think!) and the other at Coffs (definitely!).

Dr :8

[Short_Circuit]

A) Mildura MQL

47 C today, phew!

SC

[peuce]

I think it's got a decidedly Taswegian look about it ...

[Bevan666]

D is lake mulga.

[triadic]

I wonder why the equator is "N"... 'spose it is the same reason the ATIS at LHR says "MINUS" when the temp is zero....! "temp minus zero" (only the Poms!)

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_5679.jpg

[triadic]

Since views of Cairns (CNS) seems to be the go... here is another... on the SID one morning looking back to the left.

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_1801.jpg

[Bullethead]

Cos it's a Yank built contraption!

What happens when you get to 180E/W or better still N/S 00 E/W180 ? :}



Here's a test of the new PPRuNe function.

No prizes for guessing where, what in should be pretty easy also.

WnguYtpZMUc

[compressor stall]

Lasorhinus,

HB under the approach to HB rwy32. 7 mile beach.

[Disco Stu]

Lasiorhinus, I think they are called D (as in Doppler)-VOR :confused:

As for picture D, I'm not saying:ok: Great place though. And it aint Lake Mulga:=

[triadic]

Beven: D is lake mulga. :confused:

Disco: And it aint Lake Mulga

eerrr! Where is Lake Mulga?? :):)

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Bugger Cairns!

http://www.fototime.com/986764FF895FE2B/standard.jpg

Dr :8

[triadic]

Aircraft type????

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/164-6500_IMGff.jpg

[PyroTek]

mKSwxHbc4zg
There's my input! Taken early 2008 flying brisbane-cairns-tokyo

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Geez Pyro - that was boring as bat****!

:8

[trolleydriver]

lake mungo?

[PyroTek]

Well what the hell else can ya do when sitting strapped to a big aluminium tube?!

Pyro:ok:

p.s Some people like that!

[triadic]

lake mungo?

Mungo Lodge @ Lake Mungo.....:D:D

[drunkensailor]

No he was completely correct Pyrotek. complete ****e. :ugh:

[Led Zep]

triadic (http://www.pprune.org/members/5515-triadic) you have me stumped. All I can think of is a Twin Beech on floats with a Hamilton mod (still looks wrong). I cannot think of anything else low wing, twin, on floats.

(It looks like it is low wing anyway!!!! :O)

[Peter Fanelli]

Piper Aztec

[40Deg STH]

Yriadic,

That looks like a 737-300/400 0r maybe a 767. A long way from Oz to LHR in one of those!!!

[Lasiorhinus]

Triadic- that's an Aztec...

[Peter Fanelli]

I wish I'd said that :hmm:

[triadic]

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

A lolly pop to those that said Aztec. Well done! Not what you might see in Oz!

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/164-6498_IMG.jpg

[triadic]

Back to airfields.....

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_2931.jpg

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

UH.....the MCG prior to the stands being built??

[Peter Fanelli]

Oodnawoopwoop International Airport

[the wizard of auz]

Looks to be on the blacksoil country in QLD. possibly the Atherton tableland somewhere.
Doc will probably get this one.

[PyroTek]

Triadic: procedures for EFATO? I wouldn't be able to decide where to set down!:p

[Chimbu chuckles]

Pyro with that crap hanging off the bottom of an Aztec you wouldn't get a lot of choice.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Geez Triadic, I think I have flown over that, but buggered if I know where!

Dr :8

[Disco Stu]

Back to airfields.....

I reckon this one is in Victoria, aligned N-S and slightly East of its namesake:cool:

[peuce]

Looks like Lilydale ... sans trees, clubhouse etc etc

[Bevan666]

Looks like Avalon East - very busy strip for a week every few years..

:ok:

[bentleg]

Triadic

Avalon East. Not on an airshow day.

Absolutely no doubt - the tents and the portaloos confirm.

[triadic]

Yes, Avalon East one day after the show.... Thanks Disco!:*

Some more... much more easy!

A)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/205-0551_IMG.jpg

B)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_2132.jpg

C)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_3848.jpg

D) ..the Dr's other home...:)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/IMG_4561.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

A) Cooly - though I haven't been there for 20 yrs!
B) ? - though it looks like somewhere I should know!
C) ?
D) Dunk Is :E

Dr :8

[kookabat]

First one Merimbula from the Saab?

[Peter Fanelli]

B.......Broken Hill

[Dave Incognito]

C) Mareeba

[Keg]

Forky's got a right. Cooly from a 767 by the looks of things. A longish final too as I seem to recall aiming directly at Curumbin Pt as a great base/final point at about 800'.

C looks a bit like Armidale but I only ever flew in there once and so I may be completely out.

[WynSock]

A = Gold Coast

B = ?

Dave Incognito is correct

C = Mareeba QLD for sure.

D = does look a lot like Dunk Is.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

C = Mareeba QLD for sure

Sh*t!

I must be getting old. I have landed at Mareeba dozens of times. I looked at that pic and thought, "That looks kinda familiar", but Mareeba never occurred to me. Still not totally convinced!

Then there is the earlier pic of Innisfail - didn't pick that one either, inspite of landing there many, many times including annual renewals.

Hey, but I have been to Dunk all of three times - once in a C310, once in a C402 and once in the Bo!

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

Sh*t!

I must be getting old.

You should not be admitting to that around here!!! :}

[WynSock]

1. Watch out for masts http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss227/WynSock/rwy14.jpg

2. Skis fittedhttp://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss227/WynSock/NZ.jpg

3. Threshold moves depending on tide and conditionshttp://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss227/WynSock/P3030142.jpg

[Lasiorhinus]

Not in its natural habitat...
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6522/vhvhanv4.jpg

[the wizard of auz]

That would be Stallies ride.

[RadioSaigon]

Wynsock: Not sure of no.1

No.2 looks like Franz Josef

No.3 possibly Big Bay?

[goin'flyin]

Wynsock - No.1 Is Hamilton Island

[PyroTek]

I was kayaking around the water just beyond the runway a few years ago...:ok: (Hamilton Island)

[WynSock]

Radio Saigon, No 2. is correct Franz Joseph. NZ

Goin Flyin, No1. spot on RWY 14 Hammo, where the weather there is often not like the brochure. Rain and poor viz, blowing its guts out. Poor Japanese honeymooners.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

The Burdekin Dam is at 160% capacity, with 750,000 ML of water going over the spillway every day!

According to tonight's TV news, that would fill Sydney harbour every 5 hours !!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr :8

http://www.fototime.com/4926C9733AC280D/standard.jpg

[slackie]

Shame you couldn't ship a little down to Vic!!!

[ABX]

That would be Stallies ride.
At YMEN.

Are you back for a while Stallie?

[compressor stall]

Yep, :ok: good to be home with the family.

Was a good trip home - 40 knots up the clacker most of the way from the ice to Hobart. Only 10 hours skis off to wheels on. Removing one's drysuit at the end of that is never pleasant. :eek:

[triadic]

Yet another runway............ Obviously a Dash8 port

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/138-3804_IMG.jpg

[Disco Stu]

RWY 23:ok:

[Pilotette]

Triadic... Thats Dubbo Rwy 23

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

See post #4336

The water first went over the Burdekin Dam spillway on 5th January and up to 10th February, 14,370,000ML have gone over the wall.

It peaked at 6.63M above the spillway on 5th February and approx 1,570,000ML of water went over the spillway in that 24 hr period.

The record was 6.68M set in Feb 1991.

The dam holds 1,860,000ML when full so it took about 28 hrs to spill its own volume.

Dr :8

[Mick.B]

Ther has to be a way to get that to Victoria and SA. :sad:

[tipsy2]

Bloke by the name of "Bradfield" had an idea.:ugh:

[Pilotette]

Just thought I'd share one from my collection that I think is pretty :)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/photo-1.jpg

[Tmbstory]

Tipsy 2

It is a crying shame that our so called Leaders did not follow up on his ideas, they were good.

Our Politicians want the people's votes but do very little to plan for the sustainability of that same population.

Tmb

[Lasiorhinus]

Two easy ones, and one hard one for the quiz :ok:

Enjoy!

A)
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3695/1022614cn1.jpg

B)
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6986/1022682mf2.jpg

C)
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3267/1022841xn0.jpg

[AussieNick]

B is leigh creek im sure

[Peter Fanelli]

B is Leigh Creek South

C is Roseberth

[Ferrett]

A. Port Augusta - South Australia

[sms777]

I hope you were wearing your lifejacket Pilotette :ok:

[Peter Fanelli]

Oh ****!!!! How could I not get Port Disgusting?????

:ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

[Pinky the pilot]

How could I not get Port Disgusting?????

Wondered that myself Peter! You were there often enough!!:=

B : YLEC.

C: Roseberth.

[Pilotette]

SMS777...Not this time! :ok: No need as this was actually taken about 30m offshore..it looks out deep though because the water was so dark.

[Lasiorhinus]

Ah, not so hard after all, it seems. Yes, Port Augusta, Leigh Creek, and Roseberth. I thought Roseberth would at least keep you guessing a few more hours.:{

[aseanaero]

You can just see the 'ski jump' in the middle of Leigh Creek's runway ...

Ahhh beautiful red dirt , nothing like climbing into a cockpit that's been shut up for hours in the South Oz sun , instant loss of 2kgs of bodily fluid due to profuse sweating

[bentleg]

You can just see the 'ski jump' in the middle of Leigh Creek's runway

Try the ski jump on the cross runway at White Cliffs and LC will seem tame.

[Desert Flower]

I thought Roseberth would at least keep you guessing a few more hours.

Can't fool the mail run pilots! ;)

You can just see the 'ski jump' in the middle of Leigh Creek's runway ...

Just be thankful that trains no longer use the railway line that runs through the middle! ;)

Ahhh beautiful red dirt , nothing like climbing into a cockpit that's been shut up for hours in the South Oz sun , instant loss of 2kgs of bodily fluid due to profuse sweating

Definitely would have done that a few weeks ago with temps in the high 40's in the shade, & probably in the sixties in the sun! :{


DF.

[peuce]

List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement#Sydharb)

Geek Trivia: Measures for leisure (http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-10878-0.html?forumID=6&threadID=194521&messageID=2008211)

Ministerial Media Statements (http://www.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=55657)

[gassed budgie]

An easy one from me.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1179/p10207721.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Moree!

Dr :8

[Lasiorhinus]

Your compass is wrong :E

[Howard Hughes]

I've been there a couple of times!:ok:

[HomeJames]

I know a young guy who had himself a double bird ingestion at Moree, just after all of the wheat at the sides of the runway had been harvested. Flock of Galahs and from the photos he did a 'smashin' job of it!

Straight Home and Don't Spare the Horses

[gassed budgie]

That was probably a bit too easy. The good doctor got it right.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/44/p10207781.jpg

Lined up pointing towards town.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8384/p10207791.jpg

Departing over said town. Where am I ? A number of the usual suspects here should be able to identify this particular place fairly easily.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6312/p10207761.jpg

On the way home from Morree. Another easy one. Oh and it looks like someone forgot to wash the bird**** off the top of the wing.

[bentleg]

1 and 2 - Kerang Vic (Never been there)

3 - Dunes, Mungo National Park NSW

Edited for typos

[Chief galah]

One for Le Docteur

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff213/martyp52/BE35.jpg

Sorry, can't help with the callsign or location.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

There used to be a ' Republic Seabee' at BK many years ago when I was doing my PPL at RACNSW.....background RHS.....

Could be BK? :ok:

And....just remembered, one of the first(?) '35's at BK was BMC?
Was painted yellow and white at the time....
The flap indicator was a series of painted black lines out on the flap, suitably marked....very modern..?? :}

[Jabawocky]

Found another one of them Fork tailed things in my patch yesterday!

http://file046b.bebo.com/17/large/2009/02/23/04/4525920200a10174300551l.jpg

[slackie]

Is that VH-Dyke:oh::eek::O...think I'd apply for a different Rego!

[HardCorePawn]

No slackie... it's aussie... so its obviously pronounced "Dick" :E

[slackie]

Oh...that's okay then:}:}:ok::E
Had me worries for a second!
Wouldn't want to be "beached as, bro!":ok:

[PyroTek]

I remember going out to Kingaroy with Forkie,

The term "Sex on the Beach" was eventually brought up... Then Replaced by "Sex on the Beech" due to the fact the nearest beach was a few hundred Kilometers away.

:ok:Pyro

(We WERE in Female Company!)

[Peter Fanelli]

Sure you were.
We understand.

:E

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F**K i HATE that!

[andrewpb]

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1313/img0723.jpg

Beautiful WA on a beautiful day for flying :) (Sorry about the reflection, just a quick snap)

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

AAAhh...

Woodman PT just S of Freo...and Cockburn Power Boat Assoc. ramps in the 'inner harbour' area.... and wait....that's probably MOI going out for a day's R&R....:D:D

or, to call it by its 'aero' name... SHIP - Shipyard - JT Inbound rep point.:ok::ok:

[Towering Q]

I had to go into Jandakot VFR a few weeks back, Shipyard wasn't hard to find, but Adventure World!?! Sure has been a bit of development around there in the last 10 years.

[Rincewind3]

Why would I ever want to go back to an office job?
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr81/Rincewind3/Flying/2009Jan101923resized.jpg

[peuce]

Can't answer that question .... :ok:

[Lasiorhinus]

207kts with the dunlops a-dangling? :eek:

[Peter Fanelli]

Nice turn of speed from the Bonza at FL140 this afternoon!


But what was the VSI showing? :=

[the wizard of auz]

But what was the VSI showing?
Bwaaahahaha.... you beat me to it. :E

[Capt Fathom]

Doc didn't enjoy that VSI remark!

He's taken his bat & ball and gone home..:uhoh:

[Jabawocky]

Chimbu Chuck suggested this would make an interesting pic.... and for something different, some of my handy work of late!

Hey Owen Stanley...... another bit of Aluminium cust just like it with your name on it......have to buy the expensive bits yourself tho! :ooh:

http://file048b.bebo.com/13/large/2009/03/02/07/4525920200a10235245565l.jpg

J:ok:

[Bevan666]

...All you need to do is build an aeroplane around it!

:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Looks a bit light on in the GPS department to me! :E

Dr :8

[Lasiorhinus]

Theres plenty of room on his control yokes for another three:ok:

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Where's ya 'Bat and Ball'...??:}

[VH-XXX]

You're going to need more switches and dials if you're going to be going IFR.

[VH-XXX]

So who was it that said we are in the middle of a Global Economic Crisis? There was another 120 to the right of frame just removed from the hangar. The back left is the wide-body 130 jobbie. Verrrry nice!

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/heli1.jpg

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/heli2.jpg

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/cessna400.jpg


http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/cessna401.jpg

[Peter Fanelli]

So who was it that said we are in the middle of a Global Economic Crisis? There was another 120 to the right of frame just removed from the hangar. The back left is the wide-body 135 jobbie. Verrrry nice!


But they aren't making any money sitting cosily in a hangar.

[VH-XXX]

In their defence it was 7am Sunday morning, hence why it's a little dull and the lights are on. 2 were up and away within minutes.

It's an interesting story, a company that had a Chieftain, PN68 and a couple of others, turned to choppers instead and has this fleet of 6 after only 3 years!

[gassed budgie]

1 and 2 - Kerang Vic (Never been there)

3 - Dunes, Mungo National Park NSW


Yep, hit the nail on the head there Bentleg. Kerang it is and the Great Walls of China out on the eastern 'shore' of Lake Mungo.

[Mark1234]

Another recent one..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3553/3325079662_78c5b5d75d_o.jpg (http://flickr.com/photos/upsidedownmark/3325079662)

should be easy, definately no marks for the type!

[Jabawocky]

Ahhhh heading NW of Dubbo?

[triadic]

I posted this also on the Darwin in the '80's thread, but believe that some here might appreciate this as a very much one-of in this country. I believe it was around '86 after an Air France Concord stayed overnight doing a flight around the world. We all stood out on the grass in front of the old tower (could not do that today!!) and watched as it took off followed by 2 MIRs from 75 Sqn. They then formed up & did about 3 passes over the field - all at about 500-1000ft. It then departed for SIN with a clearance to climb to FL590.
This picture is looking north and they are flying down runway 11. The final pass was from the south, right over the tower. (great days)

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq325/hangar6/ConcordMIRDRW.jpg

[compressor stall]

Southern End of the Grampians looking NE?

If I remember correctly it's the Serra Range...

[Bevan666]

Mnt Sturgeon is the bump closest to the camera, with Dunkeld at the foot of the hill.

[the wizard of auz]

Triadic... looks like Darwin in the eighties. pass two or three. :ok:

[Mark1234]

Stallie and Bevan666 correct: 8500 / 20deg OAT and some serious thermals (read bumps) - would've given right nut to be able to get higher.

[edit to add] it's the southern end - was tracking just south of hamilton to YMTG.

[Bullethead]

Hmm,

I reckon it's the northern end of the Grampians looking roughly south east with Mt Stapylton the closest lump. The ranges curve the wrong way to be viewed from the Dunkeld end.

Regards,
BH,

[185skywagon]

YBCV today 4/3/09.
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/0304091302-01.jpg
Vis about 1 km, 900ft vertical(according to Met).
Dust.

A 210 just lurked out of the dust.

[VH-XXX]

That's close enough to 5k vis for me. To be honest, it looks like about 2-3.

[185skywagon]

It is actually worse than the photo shows, let me assure you.

[Jabawocky]

And Beachie tells me its always beautiful out there......was not the day I arrived!! :eek:

[BEACH KING]

When I flew in from the east this morning there was 10K+ vis. I wouldn't want to be fly'in
around in it now though, that dust wouldn't do the hairyplane engine much good at all!
Get ready Jaba.. it's on the way down to you!

[Jabawocky]

Well its got to get past Torres on the way and we all know how much hot air he can add..... :}:}:}:}

J:suspect:

[185skywagon]

Well its got to get past Torres on the way and we all know how much hot air he can add.....

Torres is nearly famous. He made the Western Times last week.
I still can't get my photo in it.

185:sad:

[Jabawocky]

Maybe thats the cause for all the hot air then.......... Blame Torres!

[BEACH KING]

What are ya talk'in about 185? We BOTH had OUR photos in there a couple of weeks ago!

[Jabawocky]

What are ya talk'in about 185? We BOTH had OUR photos in there a couple of weeks ago! CHARLEVILLES MOST WANTED :}

....................for drinking the town dry?

Here's one here
http://file046a.bebo.com/1/large/2008/12/08/00/4525920200a9585945581l.jpg

[185skywagon]

What are ya talk'in about 185? We BOTH had OUR photos in there a couple of weeks ago!
'part form that one Beachy.
ole scoop ain't too fussed about writing the names of his photo subjects down, is he.

[BEACH KING]

Bwahahaha. You are so right there 185! You are not still dirty
on him for putting your name under the photo of that elderly aboriginal woman are you?
Scoop generally commits all names to memory, and then
drinks a fair few beers and forgets
a) the names
b)why he went there in the first place... and
c) what day of the week it is

[185skywagon]

Beachy,
Love ya work. :D:D:D

[kingRB]

thought the thread may be due for a bump...

Will post some more of the same flight once someone picks the strip :ok:

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/travels/IMG_5445.JPG

[Its the Pleats]

Balcanoona (spelling?) near Arkaroola in SA?

[Desert Flower]

Rawnsley Park in the Flinders Ranges S.A.

DF.

[kingRB]

ITP - you are in the right part of the world... but no


edit - Desert Flower on the money. It disturbs me how quickly you guys pick these.

[kingRB]

as promised.... (56kers, grab a coffee ;))

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5377.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5385.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5397.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5402.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5406.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5421.JPG

http://www.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/pound/IMG_5424.JPG

[Peter Fanelli]

Too easy, Wilpena Pound

[kingRB]

sorry Peter, guess the location was on the last page :}

[Tmbstory]

At least you are flying a good type of aircraft.

Tmb

[HardCorePawn]

That is some pretty stunning scenery... and funnily enough saw the same thing on tv this morning... part of a series of SA tourism ads they have been showing since they started direct flights to Adelaide from here in NZ...

maybe you should get in touch with them, might be able to make some money :)

[Chimbu chuckles]

Name the strip

http://www.fototime.com/{520D6353-309B-4AD3-85B8-EE7E0C761A5E}/picture.JPG

http://www.fototime.com/{B3089289-CA17-45CB-9099-D2100A048A69}/picture.JPG

This will give you a hint...passed this on the way.
http://www.fototime.com/{10D5BEEA-BC5B-4801-B988-6FE99BC9029E}/picture.JPG

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Name the strip


Pokaurikauriamukau!

Dr :8

[RadioSaigon]

hmmmm... those oxbows look shocking familiar... up in the Pyke Valley or Lower Hollyford, perhaps somewhere handy to Lake Alabaster? Name of the strip eludes me for the now. Or perhaps the Arawata River down towards the mouth... more likely when I think about it.

2nd pic CGG... yup thought so, Dave S from NZWF, Definitely proves I can manage an air-register search, little else.

3rd pic, was I a betting bloke, I'd be saying NE side of Mt Aspiring looking S towards the upper Matukituki and the Cascade/Shotover Saddles, just visible behind. The Volta Glacier should have been to your immediate R and pretty much directly under you. Absolutely crap day to be airborne up there too. Bet you had an interesting day getting anywhere.

[Corkey McFuz]

That'll be the Alabaster airstrip in pic 1

[peuce]

Geez ... is that an airstrip at all ? :confused:

[Chimbu chuckles]

I am impressed...more sheep shaggers on here than I thought:ok:...Alabaster it is.

I think Mt Aspiring was in cloud yesterday...saw it today on my way to another strip which I will link a short vid of when I can...wonderful fun...way more challenging than most PNG strips...blowing a gale for one and VERY short and VERY thin...but a great cup of coffee and nice cake served by the residents...we bought them some mags/bread/fruit and the last few days news papers...very remote.

The South Island is SOMETHING ELSE...Sarge and I are having a ball giving his 185 a work out. Done two days now and starting to get the lay of the land...mostly Sarge just says "fly over that way...land there"

Overnighting tonight at his sisters place...landed in the paddock back of her house.

Edit: Most impressed...having discussed it at length with the household it IS Mt Aspiring looking south towards the Matukituki (which was clagged yesterday - went (up/down?) it today on the way to somewhere more challenging than Alabaster.

[Corkey McFuz]

Ah yip good to see that 185 is alive and well, didn't is spend a fair amount of time out of the air, extensive rebuild from a hard previous life ?

Putting 2 and 2 together that will be the same D.S who wrote the cowboys guide to the Cessna 185. Bloody good article, very well written also :ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

Yup...5 year total rebuild...was his father's farm hack 70s/80s and before that a topdresser...has a massively reinforced 'Fieldair' wing and fuselage...yes Sarge wrote that.:ok:

Lets see if this works

eSD912sDQCQ

[Corkey McFuz]

Fantastic !

If you have any more good pictures or videos of down that way put em up :D

[Lasiorhinus]

Dr K, you just broke my screen :}

[Chimbu chuckles]

Have lots...

http://www.fototime.com/{EF7A5661-3062-4B76-B456-62E2A7BACED6}/picture.JPG

We ran into some deer shooters today at Gorge River..."Someone mowed Alabaster we just flew past it!!!"

"Really?" say we.:E

http://www.fototime.com/{DA643CC1-CEA3-4209-9DBF-04A89EA6253F}/picture.JPG

More vid tomorrow night

[HardCorePawn]

Good thing 185's didn't come with GPWS as default :E

That looks like some 'real' flying... must remember to add "taildragger" to (already bulging) list of things to do..

:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Yeah Lasio, I was trying to channel a Chuckles pic, but he operates in far broader dimensions than I do!

Should have known better! :E

Dr :8

[185skywagon]

Chuck,
would that be Dave "Sarge...."? Say Gidday from me. He wrote a very good piece called "A cowboys guide to the 185" based on his experience in PNG.

Does the wind mainly parallel the valley direction? I guess afternoons would be subject to cooling air etc.

[RadioSaigon]

...it IS Mt Aspiring looking south towards the Matukituki (which was clagged yesterday)...

Yup, I thought as much. Clag in the Matukituki hanging at around the 7k mark or slightly lower is usually the only compelling reason to go around the NE face of the mountain. That layer hanging there at about 10k too... hope you had an eye on what was going on behind you! I've seen those conditions deteriorate to zero vis in less time than it takes to tell of it. I'd be betting the Arawata was nothing too flash and the Olivine probably closed or marginal -out around the Red Hills was it to clearer air in the Pyke/Hollyford?

Done the Siberia thing yet? I'm betting you'll have at least stopped at Makarora for a yarn with Paul... Stumpie still there or house-husbanding again?

[Chimbu chuckles]

Hi Cracker...Dave says hello.

No doubt the Kiwis will get this one. Sarge still suffering finger trouble with my camera:}

f2BtJoWtApk

Shedloads more but they'll have to wait...all freshly ****, showered and shaved and off to some strip I cannot pronounce for the 180/185 flyin/pissup.

[prospector]

Man. you have got that stall warning well trained, comes on at just the right time!!.

[walu]

MobileMe Gallery (http://gallery.me.com/andrewjkennedy71/100006/_DSC5980)

not really a regular destination but was a stop over in a bygone age!

[Its the Pleats]

I can't believe I got Rawnsley Park wrong! I used to fly out of there for god sake!

[kingRB]

not really a regular destination but was a stop over in a bygone age!

nice pics there mate

You almost make me want to start flying floats :ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

Sarg just after we landed at Hunter Strip...his Dad's land used to run most of the Eastern Side of lake Hawea and about 10nm up the eastern side of the Hunter River...Dave helped his Dad lay down this strip in the late 60s as a little boy...doesn't get used much these days.

http://www.fototime.com/{CEA38458-4977-4C87-9F50-E496F05DAD09}/picture.JPG

When I get a chance to upload it to youtube I'll post a vid of his landing...the grass is so long it looks like we are going to tip over...and the prop leading edge was green for half the blade length:}

Here it is

A6A2Wud0FHI

RS drank MANY beers last night at Makaroa during the 180/185 flyin...to my eternal regret my camera battery was flat and the quality of the electricity wasn't good enough to get a charge into the camera until we got back to Wanaka before heading off to Fiordland after lunch.

hope you had an eye on what was going on behind you! I've seen those conditions deteriorate to zero vis in less time than it takes to tell of it. I'd be betting the Arawata was nothing too flash and the Olivine probably closed or marginal -out around the Red Hills was it to clearer air in the Pyke/Hollyford?


We did...this is Sarge's back yard...he's been trotting around these mountains and strips in this particular 185 since he was a boy. Red Hills and Alabaster was beautiful..the pics/vid at Alabaster were taken between a trip each way across the mountains in that weather. After 14 years in PNG I know what a backdoor looks like.:ok:

In fact here is some video of flying back from Alabaster to Wanaka via the same NE of Mt Aspiring route we took over earlier...was blowing probably 50kts through the hills...VERY bumpy as you'll see in the vid

beUSHhYODRY

[NZFlyingKiwi]

Really enjoying these videos - flying as it should be! :ok:

[ksa5223]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa178/ksa5223/11.jpg

[XRNZAF]

Awesome stuff... Seems like a fair bit of 185/strip/mountain flying experience on board there. Good to watch! :ok:

[RadioSaigon]

Thoroughly enjoying your photo's & vids Chimbu Chuckles -and more than just a little bit envious! Miss that place something fierce. I certainly wasn't trying to call yours or Sarge's experience, professionalism or knowledge into question in the previous post -just trying to subtly get the message across to those unfamiliar with mountain ops that there is certainly more to it than might meet the eye in some of the images posted.
It's certainly the sort of country that a lot of itinerants are keen to get in amongst -who could blame them- but not all are careful or smart enough to seek some local knowledge before they go blasting off, sometimes with tragic consequences. All too often the guys that fly in that area are regularly tagged "cowboys", usually by those who have little or no knowledge of what we do, how or why we do it. In comparison to what they may be used to, I imagine that we could be perceived as cowboys, but for the knowledge, care, thought & experience that underpin every flight.
I've seen ATPL's, high-time CPL's and Instructors, Military and every level of experience come unglued in there, as I'm sure you have in PNG etc., and Sarge too. Regrettably on occasion the local guys sometime push their luck just a little too hard too. No one is immune and the mountains unforgiving -they deserve ultimate respect.
You would have had a helluva night at Makarora I'm sure -video of that would have been a crack-up! Hope you get into Siberia -one of my favourite places on the planet. Have a ball and keep posting the pics!

[Chimbu chuckles]

Points well made RS.

Well my South Island adventure is over and I am back in Brisvegas for 4 days working on my Bonanza before heading back to work for 10 days or so and then another weeks leave in Perth for more taildragging fun in another mate's newly imported C195.

This was my first trip to the South Island...it will NOT be the last. It's just the most spectacular place I have ever seen...and it changes constantly...fly 40nm and you could be in a different world but just as spectacular.

You'll possibly have noticed me laughing in unrestrained joy after each landing at Gorge river, Alabaster etc. I haven't had so much fun in an aeroplane since my PNG days ended over a decade ago. Thanks to Sarge's encyclopedic local knowledge it was relatively safe fun too.

The run into Makaroa...cant remember what this valley was called but Sarge said "remember the Kosipe Valley?" - Yes - "Turn up here, cross that saddle then turn right":ok:

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Last trip was an amazing flight down to the southern tip of NZ on a cloudless and smooth day before landing at Roger Monk's strip, cuppa at Sarge's cousin's place and then dropped off to QN to start home.

I'll certainly be back this time next year for another Tiki tour and more beer at the C180/185 annual Fly in...although next year I'll take a bit more leave and include some camping/fishing/hunting:ok:

http://www.fototime.com/{46CAE657-9A15-480B-B178-55DDF607053D}/picture.JPG
http://www.fototime.com/{8999CEBE-9C99-4C69-8761-A62D1121831A}/picture.JPG
http://www.fototime.com/{36E90772-BDDE-4A55-A7A8-DFDD04587147}/picture.JPG
http://www.fototime.com/{B40336D9-924C-4FC0-A326-A22D5158FD50}/picture.JPG
http://www.fototime.com/{D447CB2B-2B17-456E-B629-B01060343943}/picture.JPG
http://www.fototime.com/{43E67ECC-2865-437D-9C97-48B8F8F8AB95}/picture.JPG

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Geez Chuckles, you look like a flam'in tourist!

You're gonna have to update your wardrobe if you want to be taken seriously as a South Is bush pilot!

Swanndri, shorts (regardless of the weather) and GP boots would be the go, I think!

Dr :8

[RadioSaigon]

...GP boots...

Since bloody when??? :}

Boots should only ever be of the Ashley lace-up (gumboot) variety, laces removed and replaced with a couple of No.8 wire staples :E Always worn unfastened tho, so wot the hey!

[compressor stall]

Nice pic there chuck of Mt Aspiring in cloud. SW ridge running towards the camera.

It takes me back to my climbing days. Spend many weeks up there on and aound Aspiring.

[Corkey McFuz]

Some Great photos and videos there chuck. Thanks for sharing :D :ok:

[SystemsAreGo]

Charlie Golf Golf must be one of, if not the tidiest 185s around. Nothing like watching mint machines flown into raggady ass bush strips :ok:

[Warbo]

Charlie Golf Golf must be one of, if not the tidiest 185s around.
Not for long...:E
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/dwarburton/100_0492a.jpg

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/dwarburton/02122008.jpg

[Jabawocky]

With so much 185 action here..... old mate 185skywagon is going to think this thread is dedicated to him! ;):E

[Dixons Cider]

Chimbu,

A BIG thankyou going out to you man for taking the time to post your pics and vids here, really appreciated by me as its been way too long since I've seen some of that countryside. I cut my teeth in those parts, and looking at your pics only makes me wonder why I was in such a rush to get into the airline game!
You've got the idea, a bit of both.
Nice one!! :ok:

[185skywagon]

Jaba,
na mate.
That is a very nice 185 in the photos above.
The owner is looking for some info on it's former life in PNG.
P2TAC I think. Chuck, did you have anything to do with it???

185.

[Jabawocky]

Hey 185.....mate, I think Chimbu Chuck will have some stories about that one!

P2TAC rings a bell, I have seen that in some of his pics (now all on his thrashed HDD) and I would not be at all surprised if there is a story of an arrestor cable involved:ooh:.

As you know he has many great pics and stories so I can't wait to see what comes forth! :ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

That's TAC is it? Wondered where it had got to.

Sarge would have much more information as it was his mount in PNG.

Back in this thread I have posted some pics of it in PNG.

I used to fly it occasionally - mostly training newbies. Originally it belonged to New Tribes Mission (P2-NTM from memory) and then it was sold to Trans Niugini Airways (P2-TAC)
http://www.fototime.com/{1B80C0C0-846D-41BC-8E35-95945E73878D}/picture.JPG

This was the result of hitting a cable during a forced landing after running a tank dry in the circuit at POM. My fault - I had told a trainee to ensure both was selected after we dipped the tanks and I didn't check that he had done so. The aircraft had been parked all night on a side slope and most of the fuel had drained from the up wing to the down and the up wing was selected. There was no time to get a restart so I landed on a road and hit pole support cables just above the road.:ouch:
http://www.fototime.com/{1C888053-7159-43CE-BCE4-C7EB089E14F0}/picture.JPG

Nice to see her restored...she was a nice aeroplane.

Actually I helped trash that pod twice..some time later I was route endorsing a new 185 pilot into some strip or other and he got a little slow...."More power...MORE POWER!!!"...well more power came just a bee's dick too late and we 'arrived' 3 points and splayed the main gear a bit and a bump in the strip split the bottom of the pod:E

On another occasion while taxiing out we found ourselves looking 'up' more than was usual and stopping dead in our tracks despite 'lotsa' power...the tailwheel tube had corroded through just in front of the tailwheel assembly and broke off. We were rescued by someone in a C206 (Oh the shame of it) and went back the next day with a little ski shaped tailskid welded to a tube the right diameter...we wanged it onto the broken stub, drilled holes for bolts and lock wire etc etc...stood back to survey our handy work. (me) "Reckon that will stand up to a takeoff/landing?" (engineer) "Not a fecking chance!" We manhandled it onto the strip and I hopped in and started her up...flaps 20 and full power against the brakes/bit of fwd stick, raised the tail up and took off level from a standing start...at Moresby landed on the grass next to 14R and bought her to a complete stop tail up before gently lowering it down. On yet another occasion at Enonge the bolt that passes down through the tailwheel assembly sheered so I collected all the bits together, strapped the cables around the tube and took off level from a standing start...this time I decided I could taxi it all the way to the hangar at Moresby so, to the utter amazement of the chaps in the tower (I did explain it to them on finals but they don't seem to have understood) I proceeded to do so...around several 90 degree bends and along at least two long straight taxiways I went, engine roaring, flaps 20, tail up until pulling into a parking spot outside the hangar...to the bemusement of several engineers too.:E

Weren't my brakes:ok:

Edit: and for those who wonder why we couldn't make the runway we had been extended on downwind to let a QF767 backtrack and it all went quiet too far away to make the airfield.:{

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Geez Chuck, you spend the day with your naked mistress, and your still fantasizing about old girl friends! :suspect:

Dr :8

[Warbo]

Err, I'm afraid there is a slight misunderstanding. The aircraft pictured in post #4458 did not have a former life in PNG.:8

[heywatchthis]

That yours Warbo?

Might be coming through Moree in a few weeks in the 180 on the way back from SA..

Long time no see

Hippy

[Jabawocky]

Sh!t Warbo....ya spoiling a good story!

185 had us going there!

So whats the truth then?

[saabsforever]

Had me wondering if it was TAC. It was a great machine and my first mount in PNG. Was doing an Islander endorsement when Chuck had his mishap in it, had done the same thing a couple of weeks earlier and got away with it. Our 185s did not have fuel selectors hence the finger trouble. The good news is Tac is/has been rebuilt in Sydney by a Skydive operation I think. A very similar scheme to the one pictured. I sent the owner photos of her time in PNG. The Milky Bar kid flew it after me than she was left essentially derilect in Nadzab and picked up corrosion.
Back to our trip it was great to go back after 20 years in some cases and check out the old strips. Most are just faint wheel tracks and seldom if ever used. Had to say to Chuck 'I will have to fly this one since I have not bee there for years and may not be able to find it if it is still there'. Will start poking into some of the shorter Strips now I am current again.The old guys that did the venison flying etc are fading from the scene and the new generation are more interested in helicopters, hence the lack of use in the remote places. But there is still a lively interest in the Aircraft and some younger blokes about. Also have noticed some of the Older Airframes are starting to fall by the wayside. Like CGG was they just need a full refurbishment in the end due age. Unless you get the Hull for about nothing and do much of the work yourself as Chuck is the cost is prohibitive. Would not be able to do CGG now due to the massive labour cost. So it is great to see such wonderful old machines as P2 Tac rebuilt, she will be good for a further 40 years and you cant say that about a Robbie! :ok:

[Horatio Leafblower]

The photos posted by Warbo are VH-SLC... she was a float plane and was speared into a sandbank, as I understand it :hmm:

I haven't seen it up close but looks like a nice job - this is the second C185 Warbo's mate has rebuilt.

[185skywagon]

My mistake.
Apologies to the owner of SLC. Is that the one that Nev is doing up?

This is the former P2TNC ex TAC
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j75/frankywrx/23062007051.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j75/frankywrx/IMG_0871.jpg

[Jabawocky]

Thats a nice trim job 185 :ok:

[bushy]

That's a proper 185 with the strenghtening bars to the top of the panel. i think that's a seaplane mod, but all Cessna singles ahould have them.

[Nivo]

A question for you 185 pilots. Why do they all seem to have 2 blade props? I thought 3 blade might be better for take off performance and ground clearance.

There is also a very smart C185 at YARM. GNS530, flush rivetted etc.

Looking forward to learning more on PPRuNe!

cheers.

Nivo

PS - loved the NZ pics and video CC!!

[Chimbu chuckles]

Bushy the cross bars are seaplane kit to stiffen the airframe...CGG doesn't need them because she was modified by Fieldair for top dressing so has massively strengthened wings and fuse to take the hopper and general abuse. She's stiffer than any seaplane kit 185 by a large margin. The cross bars are REALLY good to swing off when getting in and out though.

Two bladed props were standard when new..three blades look cool and are smoother but, until the advent of scimitar props, were marginally better off the ground, not much in it in climb and slower in cruise. Theoretically the most efficient prop would be a single blade but its not a practical proposition for obvious reasons. Too a 3 blade prop is next to useless on anything with less than 300hp.

Nice paint job on BVS/TAC:ok:

Anyone want to hazard a guess why Cessna didn't put the 185 back in production? Surely they didn't crush the jigs like they did to the 210 jigs. Seems to me a lot of people are spending cubic money rebuilding old ones to as new standard so there might be a market for new build C185s...mind you rebuilding to 'as new' is probably cheaper than a real new build....you aint paying to cover Cessna against product liability issues for the next 20 years - a BIG part of the new sticker price.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Why do they all seem to have 2-blade props? I thought 3 blade might be better for take off performance and ground clearance

Not all, but most! VH-KGT, now in NZ had a 3-blader. The two bladers, especially the large diam one that goes with the seaplane kit, give better performance off the ground - in my somewhat limited experience. The 3-blader obviously has more clearance and is a bit smoother. Can't say I have ever seen one with a 3-blade scimitar prop - now that might be interesting!

That's a proper 185 with the strenghtening bars to the top of the panel

As distinct from an improper one?

The cross-bracing comes with the seaplane kit. Many 185s that were never intended for floats were ordered with them. A mate of mine owes the fact that his head is still connected to his body to the cross-bracing! The top cowl made a very determined attempt to come through the windscreen and decapitate him when he rolled his 185 (VH-KFT, twin of KGT) up in a ball ............ but that is a whole other story!

Dr :8

[Chimbu chuckles]

Saw one at the 180/185 fly in with an IO550 and 3 blade scimitar prop...might have been Cracker's old girl but don't quote me.

The fruits of my labour the last 4 days.

http://www.fototime.com/{F47B6430-C02B-4FC7-ACE0-E4906ABD0E6E}/picture.JPG

Most of which was cleaning corrosion off ring frames that had to be cleaned in situ, unlike the forward frames which I de riveted and bead blasted before 2 pack etching.

http://www.fototime.com/{B499B917-792F-472F-B7DD-B329E7DA2AE3}/picture.JPG

Also riveted a bunch of stuff together today and didn't ****, and therefore have to drill out and do again, a single one...new record set.:}

[Bevan666]

Krikey! Is there going to be anything left thats original?? :}

[Chimbu chuckles]

Nothing in those photos is not original...just removed (by me) bead blasted (by me) painted (by me) and reinstalled - you guessed it - by ME.

Enormously satisfying.:ok:

and a **** of a lot cheaper than saying to the engineers "Make it beautiful".

[gassed budgie]

Anyone want to hazard a guess why Cessna didn't put the 185 back in production?


Cessna themselves sometime in the late 90's announced that they were considering puting the 185 (no mention was made of the 180) back into production. It was thought at the time that the new 185's would be manufactured with the IO-520, but that's about as far as it went.
Whenever someone from Cessna was asked about the new 185 there was a lot of whistling and shuffling of feet.
Evidentally someone down the road at Textron thought it should've had (the 185) an IO-540 bolted to it.
Some sums were done and it was determined that by the time it was recertified with an IO-540 it would be too expensive (a bit like the 210).
Nothing official from Cessna on the subject, has been heard in over 10 years.

[gassed budgie]

Cessna themselves sometime in the late 90's announced that they were considering puting the 185 (no mention was made of the 180) back into production.


Come to think of it, I actually think it might've been Russ Meyer at the time just thinking out loud. So nothing official from Cessna as such, probably just a bit of wishful thinking from the CEO.

[tinpis]

Pig Isalnd hospitality?.....phooey..
A venison pilot in the 60s was told he couldnt use a hollowed log bathtub on a strip cos he stank too feckin' much
ZK-CGG, hmm reckon that in me book somewhere, Peter Matich, Taupo ? 60's? Seem to recall was an Aggie, trim on roof? Could be wrong.

Just an aside how many Rural Aviation dung duster pilots (180/185) are still standing?

[Millski]

Jeezuz Corkey,
I flew in KGT many years ago up northern Aus, Mt isa, Darwin, Cairns, and back to Brisbane.
I was pointing it in the direction of Bathurst Island at appox 1600 ft when 2 FA18s flew under us. bloody exciting.
the 2 pilots were Laurie and Tony also the owners at the time of KGT Bloody good plane and I think it was IF Rated as well.
Cheers Millski :)

[185skywagon]

Cessna considered putting the 185 back into production only if there were a certain number of orders. This did not eventuate.

2 blade vesus 3 blade:
Depends on diameter.

The 86" 3 blade on mine is the best things since sliced bread, in warm condition, with a heavy load. Compared to the 80" 3 blade it replaced, there is no contest. Reduced T/o rolls by 1/2 to 2/3.
The 80" 3 blade(thin blade) was a bit faster in cruise, however.
The big prop is about 4 kts slower. It is an excellent airbrake though.
if you pull power on finals, you can aim it at the ground and not build up much speed compared to the 80". It is also easier to slow down in the circut for the same reason. Cost $11k with spinner. Trouble with the 2 blades is that you can't get parts for them, and only recently is there a replacement available for the C58, which was the only 2 blade prop approved for the IO520 on the 185.

On my previous 185, I started with a 88" 2 blade. This packed a punch when compared with the later 82" 2 blade that came after it.

The main disadvantage with the 86" prop below, is the noise at 2850 rpm.

Meaty, ain't it.
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/2009/cwhprop.jpg