The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[bushy]

I remember once flying a Vtail bonanza, for a couple of years. One day it was hired out to someone else, and and it arrived back at Parafield accompanied by the wail of a siren and fire engine. It had the windscreen and fuelage covered with oil and had flown the last thirty miles with no oil pressure showing on the guage.
A broken pipe was the problem, I think the one that went to the oil pressure guage.
The engineers checked it out and fixed the pipe, and that engine continued in service to it's full TBO period.

[Fred Gassit]

Close CB but not quite,
I'd recognise that piston anywhere, and to get a fair trial, here's what really happened.
Aircraft turned into a mosquito spray truck about the same time as the gear came up, about 90 seconds later (back on the ground having done a quick 180 and come back the way I came (no wind)) the engine was shutdown.
No it wasn't secured in flight, yes it was making power.
T's and P's all normal, pretty hard to see much smoke from where I was too.

We give the media a pretty hard time on here but some of us are pretty good at making sh@t up ourselves aren't we? Edit: sorry, it does say apparently.

Interesting post script: part of the troubleshooting process (by long distance) was to degrease it and crank it up again, which it did!
They are tough engines, and that one was truly stuffed.
Another piston looked similar, engineers thought that the oil squirters that direct oil onto the piston skirt and base may have blocked and eventually led to the piston burning through and pressurising the crankcase, hence the oil everywhere.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Interestingly, I flew the same route again today (see post #4720). GPS dropped out again in pretty much the same place. No indication of outtages on the RAIM prediction for YHUG:

TSO-C129(a) (and equivalent)
Fault Detection
No GPS RAIM FD Outages for NPA

TSO-C146a (and equivalent)
Fault Detection Only
No GPS RAIM FD Outages for NPA

TSO-C146a (and equivalent)
Fault Detection and Exclusion
No GPS RAIM FDE Outages for NPA

Dr :8

http://www.fototime.com/EEA48618A3274AF/standard.jpg

[flywatcher]

Tracking today between Ballarat and Cape Otway, Garmin 296 lost satellites, 300xl carried on happily. Could get satellites back by putting my open hand behind the aerial, velcroed to the front of the glareshield, when I got sick of that put the mobile phone on its side in the same place and all the satellites were there. Halfway acroos Bass Strait they all came back online without help from the open hand or the mobile phone. Strangest thing I have ever seen, thought the 296 had died but apparently it didn't like the satellite geometry.

[Peter Fanelli]

I suspect Obama is selling the satellites to china for scrap.

[Cloud Basher]

Fred,
No problems at all, I am only going on second hand info (like most people here on PPRUNE!) as relayed to me by the big "Don", so please don't shoot the messenger. If the facts are wrong as they were relayed to me then I publicly apologise to you.

However I just want to make sure we are dealing with the same aircraft as this one was in Florida and again, what I was told was the aircraft was doing assymetrics at height and they (you?) had just shut down the right engine when they (you?) noticed smoke starting to eminate fromt he left engine (mosquito spraying!) and the oil pressure dropped to almost nothing and the temps went through the roof. You got the right engine restarted and used what was left of the left engine to ensure you main it back to CEW. If it was indeed you and from what you are saying in your post the "story" I have been told is complete S*#t! Again apologies if it is, and would love to have a beer and hear the complete real story! If you can confirm it I will drop you a line M and have a beer this arvo if you like!

Cheers
CB

[saabsforever]

So you keep an engine running on partial power because you might need it. And the engine is most likely stuffed anyway. But save your arse and the airframe in a Piston twin which in the real world can be a dodgy affair on one. Where is the horrific airmanship crime here??? Lets have more Piccies!

[pois0n]

Here's an easy one! What aerodrome and what aircraft? :8
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2448/04052009076mediumx.jpg

[outofwhack]

I've never been there but by the orientation and geography could it be the strip on Fraser Island?

[RadioSaigon]

OK, yet another for the What & Where phreaks ;)

http://www.dh82.com/images/posted/IMG_9718.JPG

The What should be a doddle, the Where, we'll see!

Shot yesterday.

[PyroTek]

Pois0n: Robinson R22?
No idea where

[ju7ez]

I would have said Kaikoura, but then I see you're an Aussie so...???

[saabsforever]

So its an Aussie in Kaikoura!

[Horatio Leafblower]

Radio Saigon

That'd be a feral LAME accompanied by random wench in a Yakketty Yak 52, somewhere just north of the intersection of McDonalds Rd (bottom RH corner) and Vintage Drive.

HT Powerline corridor is roughly a base leg for RWY 17 at Cessnock :ok:

[Cloud Basher]

A visitor to KVPS on Friday for some fuel.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/5%20May%20Flying%20day/P4301443.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/5%20May%20Flying%20day/P4301450.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/5%20May%20Flying%20day/P4301451.jpg

Just beautiful, even the inside of the undercarriage doors were polished! And as most here know the sound is beautiful. It had just completed a heritage flight with and F-15 and F-16 for the 33FW reunion.

I got to follow it out and watch the takeoff as no. 2 behind it when it left. Albeit I was only in a C172 feeling very inadequate!

Cheers
CB

[RadioSaigon]

ROFPML Horatio Leafblower :ok: precisely!!!

Feral LAME went home last night, random wench came aviating yet again -with a mate no less!!!

[pois0n]

It was indeed an R22 at Kaikoura :ok:

[brns2]

ForkTailedDrKiller and flywatcher...regarding your post on losing sat's. I noticed in the pick at the time you had an aerial cord running up onto the windscreen past the 430.

I have a 530 a 430 and a 296 in my bag. Well i have noticed when I got out the 296 one day and connected the external aerial I lost satelite reception on the 530 and 430.

I turned the 296 off and put the 530 on the satellite signal page, all working fine. I then flicked on the 296 and instantly watched the 530 lose all satellites and then promt me with the warning.

hmmmm???

[QSK?]

Here's an interesting site for recording GPS faults:

nano.aero - Report navigation anomalies and help make flying safer (http://nano.aero/)

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

ForkTailedDrKiller and flywatcher...regarding your post on losing sat's. I noticed in the pick at the time you had an aerial cord running up onto the windscreen past the 430

That's a lead from the PCAS!

I have a 530 a 430 and a 296 in my bag. Well i have noticed when I got out the 296 one day and connected the external aerial I lost satelite reception on the 530 and 430

The 430 antenna is on the roof and the 496 antenna is on the dash - been that way for 4 years with no apparent negative effect.

Dr :8

[VH-XXX]

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

[b_sta]

Amen.... ;)

[knox]

Whats the airfield?

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2558/fog.th.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fog.jpg)

[Katoom]

Haven't seen this strip get a mention yet...

What a/c (easy), where (medium) and what year (hard)?

http://www.vmxktm.net/Aviation/PPRUNE.jpg


Here's another one... where & what decade?
http://www.vmxktm.net/Aviation/PPRUNE2.jpg

[Bullethead]

Whats the airfield?

Fogged if I know!?!?!? :eek::}:E:8

[clear to land]

2nd photo: Caloundra, prob early 80's ???

[ZEEBEE]

First one is Mt Hagen ? probably about 92 judging from the Kamov

Second ..Agreed caloundra, but more like mid 80's. Thought barry sold the Hillers 'bout then.

[toolowtoofast]

Whats the airfield?

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2558/fog.th.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fog.jpg)

Looks like the Barrier. Or Picton.

[knox]

toolowtoofast
you are very close, it is a NZ airfield.

[codenamejames]

Nelson? Looks fairly narrow...

[Corkey McFuz]

Kaikoura....

[knox]

Bang on corkey.
We were clagged in for 2 solid days.

[tinpis]

THe coldest damn place I have ever been my life. Stuck a few days with a broken axle in a MK1 Zephyr.

http://www.virtual-kaikoura.com/kaikourarealty/kktownship.jpg

[FoxtrotAlpha18]

Queenstown?

[pois0n]

Sif Kaikoura is cold! :8

It's great with a gusting nor'wester

[Katoom]

First one is Mt Hagen ? probably about 92 judging from the Kamov

Second ..Agreed caloundra, but more like mid 80's. Thought barry sold the Hillers 'bout then.


Spot on ZEEBEE. :ok: Mt Hagen 1990 and Caloundra 1986. Baza's Hillers were still truckin then.

[tea & bikkies]

YouTube - V tail flutter (cam: Flycamone2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU7c0XgfqKE)

FTDK thought you would like to see this:eek:

Interesting

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

T&B, now that is fascinating!

I wonder if I were to hold a camera out the storm window aimed at the tail and dive the Bo past the red line, could I get some pics like that? :E

Dr :8

Pssst: Anyone got a KA42A ADF loop antenna they are not using? Mine is flucked!

[tea & bikkies]

Yep did a few flight reviews with guys in a K35 always wondered:bored: about the tail. What sort of ADF you running? Maybe try a modified coat hanger:)

[Chimbu chuckles]

I already told Forky any good aviation museum should have one but he got abusive...and then sulked:}:ok:

[Cloud Basher]

Since we are on the V-tailed subject, some more Bo goodness from Sun n Fun

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/Sun%20n%20Fun/134V-tailBonanza.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/Sun%20n%20Fun/135V-TailBonanza.jpg

Cheers
CB

[Jabawocky]

At least his is mostly airworthy some of the time.....:E

Jaba into his bunker! :uhoh:

[philr]

I used to fly this 36 and COG years ago.... are they still 'alive'..??:ooh:

[spini]

From a Metro?

[chimbu warrior]

Kingair at Coffs Harbour?

[DeathStar-Alpha]

A plane!!!!!! :}

[Capt Basil Brush]

What about a 737NG?

[tea & bikkies]

F27:confused:

[tea & bikkies]

Couldn't read the logo on hub, but just looked like a Fokker wheel:)

[tea & bikkies]

Looks a bit spiky for a ballon, could be a fokker:confused:

[b_sta]

How would you see anything?

[stable approach]

BSD
I remember the Fokker crash well. Interesting case for having an inward opening emergency exit. Notice the two port doors are closed as they couldn't be opened because of the leftside down attitude of the aircraft as it came to rest, and one of the starboard doors was blocked by a tree! Considering the state of the left hand fuel tank, it was lucky the thing didn't catch on fire.

[tinpis]

New shoes, does it everytime, one of the pilots was wearing new shoes.

[stable approach]

Don't know if he was wearing new shoes, but the Swedish F/O apparently did a reasonable landing (for a Scando), but the retaining nut at the top of the strut had come undone after the split pin sheared, and the scissor link was all that was holding the strut in place. That left the scissor link extended straight when the weight was off the gear, resulting in the previous few landings being noticeably clunky (technical term). Noone could however find the cause of the savage landings until the thing let go. No scissor link left to hold it in place the strut turned sideways and the gear went bang. Hello jungle.

[tipsy2]

Back Seat Driver, nothing has changed in PNG, security does not exsist.

It's all them wantoks

tipsy

[ZEEBEE]

Back Seat Driver, nothing has changed in PNG

Wanna bet ? It has changed, it's got worse!

[Jabawocky]

had play in this today.....what & where

http://file047b.bebo.com/0/large/2009/05/16/13/4525920200a10831171380l.jpg

[Arnold E]

RV10, somewhere in Queensland I suspect

[povopilot]

Errr not victoria. F**k I'm jealous of that blue sky. 4 weeks since i started my night rating and still not done..........

Anyway here are some from my limited travels

http://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/?action=view&current=09042008231.jpg&t=1242536082859http://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/?action=view&current=06012009077.jpg&t=1242536113281http://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/?action=edit&current=12052009161.jpghttp://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/?action=view&current=05022009095.jpg&t=1242536290719http://s683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/?action=view&current=05022009090.jpg&t=1242536314921

[povopilot]

Yes everyone I have been to the land of the 5 squares with red crosses in them. Shagged if i can make photos appear.

[bentleg]

where is it? (and when?)

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k129/bentleg/IMG_2740.jpg

[Peter Fanelli]

I'm inclined to say Adelaide, but that rise in the terrain to the right has me puzzled.
It has been a long time however, so maybe not.

[Jabawocky]

Arnold :ok: Cherrabah to be precise!

Skies were blue!

[Arnold E]

Gotta be happy with that

[kingRB]

bentleg - magnificent snap there...

no chance you have a hi res version you could throw my way? :ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

I took these today over the Barkly Tableland!

http://www.fototime.com/525BD563CD270D1/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/C4E1BCB27C14037/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/EDA74A51EC8F1A7/standard.jpg

I think they were caused by a UFO passing through at warp speed!

Dr :8

[Peter Fanelli]

Chemical trails perhaps.


This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between posts. Please try again in 20 seconds.


That rule sucks.

[Flying Binghi]

I think they were caused by a UFO passing through at warp speed!


ForkTailedDrKiller failed met...:eek:

CASA to send notice to FTDK requiring attendance at a remedial Bob Taite met course.....:E

[RadioSaigon]

...I think they were caused by a UFO passing through at warp speed!

I have it on good authority that such phenomena are usually caused by something passing through the alien at warp-speed :eek:

[Arnold E]

If its Adelaide its sunrise

[morno]

Ohh dear Dr, did I hear you DOWNGRADING to VFR today? :E

"XXX sartime for arrival Tindal, bla bla bla", I didn't know you even knew what a Sartime was, :}.

What height were you at anyway? Strong westerlies around today! I had 65kts at FL180 at one point.

And after today, if I hear one more person ask for a ride report and a request to change level, I'm going to strangle someone, :{. It was a challenge to squeeze in a radio call in amongst all that (due high and low sectors being combined).

morno

[morno]

Bentleg,
Not sure when, but it's not Wagga Wagga is it?

morno

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Ohh dear Dr, did I hear you DOWNGRADING to VFR today? http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/evil.gif

Hey there Morno!

Yes, not being HF equipped, I entered the cone of silence (and boy was it quiet!) about 100 nm from Isa and re-emerged prior to descent into Tindal.

I was at 10k - pushing a 15 - 20 kt headwind.

And after today, if I hear one more person ask for a ride report and a request to change level, I'm going to strangle someone, http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/boohoo.gif. It was a challenge to squeeze in a radio call in amongst all that (due high and low sectors being combined).


Yeah, I'll second that! There was one Virgin going up and down like a new bride's nightie.

Dr :8

[tipsy2]

There was one Virgin going up and down like a new bride's nightie

After the latter they would no longer be the former:E

tipsy
:yuk:furball:yuk::yuk:

[povopilot]

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/05022009095.jpg?t=1242605801
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/05022009090.jpg?t=1242605970
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/06012009077.jpg?t=1242606009
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/09042008231.jpg?t=1242606051
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/12052009161.jpg?t=1242606092

Aha, thats how you do it.

[185skywagon]

Povo,
Is that a Navion in the foreground of the first shot???

185.

[185skywagon]

This was taken west of Longreach in May 2006 by a Grazier and Lame.
I was there at the time. The patterns were amazing. Our thoughts were that a couple of Mil jets dogfighting, might have caused it.
http://www.skywagon.info/webshots/DSC01310.jpg

[Mark1234]

FTDK - I suspect them be wave bars - given the closeness / height, probably shearwave at a guess... thermic lower down?

[Cloud Basher]

provopilot, I know the third shot is of my hometown of Horsham! Drop in their for fuel? One of the few(?) remaining places with no landing fees.

Cheers
CB

[bentleg]

where is it? (and when?)

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k129/bentleg/IMG_2740.jpg


As no-one has got close - it's in Victoria - that will give it away.... The time is sunrise - 7.07 am.

[tinpis]

How do ya do this then?


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

[gassed budgie]

Povo,
Is that a Navion in the foreground of the first shot???


Sure is 185. Navion Rangemaster. It's been based in Bendigo for some years now. Wangaratta in the second pic, horsham in the third and I was going to say St.Arnaud in the fourth. But maybe not.

[povopilot]

Gassed Budgie, 4 out of 4 mate.

Out of interest does anyone have any time in the mighty Navion? Apparently they hold over 400lts of fuel???

bentleg - Point Cook? Avalon?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

FTDK - I suspect them be wave bars - given the closeness / height, probably shearwave at a guess... thermic lower down?

Its interesting! If you look at the first pic it looks like the cloud has been twisted up like you do when wringing the water out of a towel.

Can't say I have ever seen anything like it before.


ForkTailedDrKiller failed met...http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/eek.gif
CASA to send notice to FTDK requiring attendance at a remedial Bob Taite met course.....http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/evil.gif


It was a long time ago! These days I only remember the 4 killers: 1) stratus cloud; 2) CBs; 3) icing and 4) mountain waves!

Dr :8

[Jabawocky]

Hey Tin

Could it be a big bounce? :uhoh:

If so its a cracker shot!

[povopilot]

Okay here are some harder ones...

Where is this?
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/12052009162.jpg?t=1242628702

And what strip should be just south of the two smaller lakes according to the wac but is not?
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/09032009114.jpg?t=1242628810

[Desert Flower]

Sure is 185. Navion Rangemaster. It's been based in Bendigo for some years now.

Oh my - that takes me back a few years, over 20 to be precise! The registration is WWE, & it's the first aircraft I ever refuelled.

DF.

[B767MAD]

Desert Flower , it is my grandfathers first aircraft. When I was a young man learning to fly I wrote to the (now owner) and he very nicely sent me a large poster of it. I will get a picture of it and post shortly. I have been looking through my my grandfathers Aviation things which I now have but only found the flight manual to his next aircraft , an Aztec 'D' which is also still around Queensland I believe. I have some earlier pictures of it before she was painted red , I'll track them down , they're very 70's taken at Camden. :ok::}

[tinpis]

Where?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/IMG_5090.jpg

[Disco Stu]

tinpis, Sydney KSA:E

[Got the horn]

Ohakea? I think that Bandit now belongs to Dr Dave.

[185skywagon]

Tin,

Port Lincoln??
185

[tinpis]

Negatory to all three
Taken last week.

[185skywagon]

WWE Navion also was based at Cunnamulla in the early 80's, with Warrego Air Taxis, and was damaged in a storm at Roma sometime around then, I think.
185.

[Shredder6]

Bandit and Metro, both ex Eagle in the Waikato somewhere, maybe Matamata or Morrinsville?

[Disco Stu]

Tin, I should have known better, way to swish and sophisticated for Sydney.:ok:

[VH-XXX]

Bentleg, Mangalore perhaps?

[povopilot]

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv192/povopilot/05022009094.jpg?t=1242696136

So has anyone been for a spin in one?

[tinpis]

Nup.
Hint: Cuzzy bros. Pine trees. Deer.

[bentleg]

bentleg - Point Cook? Avalon?


Yep, Avalon :D.

Taken the southern end of taxiway Alpha, near the US heavy metal, at 0715, while volunteering at the airshow.

[Sarcs]

Shrike!!?? Possibly on final for RW 14 Horn Island?

ps Good phot Back Seat Driver, what did you take it from? Chopper maybe?

[Horatio Leafblower]

Been a long time since rego's were painted on the top SFC of the wing.

Is that the C210 in Lake Eyre?

[Peter Fanelli]

Can't be coz it's a 172

[Chimbu chuckles]

So Tin just how do you trick the WOW switching in the Jew Canoe? :E

[ZK-NSJ]

tin

ruatahuna?

[BULLDOG 248]

C172 Near Mud Island doing Aerial Photos of sharks from memory

[tinpis]

wat we gna do next marama cuz..hava ball or anada dress up paati?

Ruatahuna?.... geezaz... ya think they using em for a cargo cult? :}

Nup.


Chuck Um..mi nosave ???

[BULLDOG 248]

Sorry BSD...Only 3000nm and 30 years out...:oh:
Never heard of the Shrike story though???? What happened there.

[Sarcs]

BULLDOG 248, from the ATSB site:

199804432 21 Oct 1998 Horn Island Qld Aerocommander 500-S Fuel exhaustion followed by ditching short of runway

Cheers

Sarcs

[tinpis]

Chuck, never had anything to do with them, but I knew a few norty boys that did. :E

[tea & bikkies]

Anyone pick the type and model this was taken from?http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww269/greg2217/Assortedmay2009025.jpg

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Gotta be a Death Pencil! I can't think of anything else in which you can get so far behind the engine!

Dr :8

[tea & bikkies]

Good guess but, no!

[Ultralights]

Dash 8 Q400?

[hightower1986]

Wings and engine a bit low for a Dash 8 arent they? Was thinking that myself!

[tea & bikkies]

Very good Ultralights... taken today at fl240.

The answer was in the angle between the prop blades

[hightower1986]

I take it back!:oh:

[tea & bikkies]

Hightower 1986, looking at the the photo now I tend to agree the wing does look low, must just be a perspective thing as the wing is a long way back:bored:

[hightower1986]

Yeah, did you stick your head out the door to get a better shot? Were you Pax or El-capitano

[tea & bikkies]

Crew, the one who gets his a%& kicked whenever...

[tea & bikkies]

How about this one? Any ideas?


http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww269/greg2217/Darwin2009691.jpg

[kingRB]

737 NG

apparently I need to type more because 5 characters wasnt enough for this post

[tea & bikkies]

Yep, your right, first go and you still have 50/50 and phone a friend left. Good on ya kingy:ok:

[ZEEBEE]

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss76/zeebee42/P1000715-1.jpg

Anyone who's been there would have no problem picking where this is...

[Rudder]

Ulan Batoor, Mongolia?

If it is that is what it was looked like in 1995

[startingout]

is it Bishkek in Kyrgystan?

[oicur12]

povoliot,

Yep. Been for a spin in a Navion, in fact, probably that one in the pic.

Was it owned by Phil White of hanger 4 back in the late eighties at Essendon?

[VH-XXX]

Where?
http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/forklift.jpg

[ZEEBEE]

Rudder Wrote
Ulan Batoor, Mongolia?

If it is that is what it was looked like in 1995
23rd May 2009 13:34

Give the man a penny bun ! You're right about the place, the photo was from 2005 but it still looks the same a week ago. (except the AN-2's have less fabric on them).

[Cloud Basher]

Went for a fly in a Stearman last weekend. Had a ball dogfighting with a Citabria and then a few gentlemanly aeros and circuits.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/Flying%20in%20USA/P5151507.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/Flying%20in%20USA/P5151514.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/Flying%20in%20USA/P5151513.jpg

Cheers
CB

[NoseGear]

Tin....parked up on the Taupo Rotorua road...Broadlands rd to be exact-ish....Wheels prob on an old Hillman or HQ by now....oarsome!:ok::}

Che brutha from anotha mutha:D

Nosey

[XRNZAF]

Cool cool cool with a capital 'C'....:ok:

[j3pipercub]

I second that cool cool cool...

j3

[Rudder]

Zeebee,

When I was there you could buy them for about 1000USD a pop. Only problem was being a landlocked country the logistics of getting them out was almost impossible and being surrounded by China, Russia and North Korea there was no way to fly one out even if you were game.

They obviously haven't moved since.

[tinpis]

Nosegear

Cha ehore!...correctomento bro eh? :ok:

[ZEEBEE]

When I was there you could buy them for about 1000USD a pop. Only problem was being a landlocked country the logistics of getting them out was almost impossible and being surrounded by China, Russia and North Korea there was no way to fly one out even if you were game.

Hell of a shame really, since they would be scrap now after 10 yrs of Mongolian winters. I probably might have been game to fly the better ones out at the time, but it would have cost three arms and two legs with the fuel costs alone :{ I would also imagine that it would need about three 100 hourly's along the way :}

At least there would be very little corrosion in them with the Rel Humidity the place has.

[Trojan1981]

I personally didn't take this photo but I have spent a bit of time in this place. Does anyone know where or when? It looks quite different now.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh68/trojan1981/Dili1973.jpg

[Back Seat Driver]

Old airport in Dili. Nice photo tho' Trojan. Some interesting aircraft in there.
You might find a couple of blackhawks etc. operating from there nowadays. :ok:

[Trojan1981]

Thats it. It has changed a lot since then. New bays were built by the US Mil for the Russian MI-8s and Chilleans during INTERFET. The same MI-8s are still there.
The pic was taken in 1973.

[Back Seat Driver]

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/9637419.jpg

What's the chance of that being the same 4wd outside the hangar?

[Bullethead]

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/watto700/18TheboystheBeerandtheHerc.jpg

I was scanning some old pix and thought that this might be interesting.

No prizes for what, but where is a little out of the way.

Notice the emergency rations at the feet of the closest guy.

Regards,
BH.

[compressor stall]

Thanks for posting that BH, I'd be interested to see some more. :ok:

I'll leave the location guessing for others :p, but BH if I'm right is that the seaice strip, and there's a bloody great big hill behind your left shoulder....?

[Bullethead]

Correct Stallie, a hill that spits fire!

I believe you work in the neighborhood, which is rather large in fact.

I'll PM you the link for the rest of the pix.

Regards,
BH.

[Dog One]

That would have to be the old aerodrome situated close to the centre of Dili. It is oly used by helicopters now, the tarmac and hangar area being the only usable area. The runway has been built on and no longer exists as such. The main aerodrome now is Comoro, which is situated further to the west and is sealed. The only hangar there is the CHC shade cloth hangar and workshops. There are hard stands for helicopters as well as the main tarmac. The runway is showing signs of wear from the many numerous C130 flights in there in '99.

[RadioSaigon]

... is that the seaice strip, and there's a bloody great big hill behind your left shoulder...

So, with the a/c type a given and the white-bits a give-away... would that be McMurdo and the "bloody great big hill..." Erebus?

[Bullethead]

Right you are on both counts RS. :ok:

[compressor stall]

Here it is from another angle last summer. Your pic would be taken from the sea ice near the rock roughly in the middle of the pic - directly in line with the summit.

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu353/stallie001/aviation/Picture4.png

[startingout]

Skytraders 320... probably NZIR? or is it pegasus?
Erebus in background. Gotta love your job stallie :ok:



Edit: Make that a 319/ACJ...

[Trojan1981]

What's the chance of that being the same 4wd outside the hangar?Good chance!

This was it in 2000.
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh68/trojan1981/DiliHP2000-1.jpg
It is really run down now, Runway long gone of course and the Eastern Apron in disrepair and being used for containers. The MI-8s are based in Comoro. What about Lloyds/CHC or whoever has taken over, are they still at the heliport?

I think the Blackhawks have moved to Comoro too.

[Trojan1981]

Dili- Comoro in 2000. 1 MI-8, 1 MI-26 (awesome!), 2 Super Pumas and 2 'bous present. There was usually a Safair Herc, Westwind and another MI-8 present as well as the daily prehistoric Merpati 737, Qantas Dash 8 and RAAF C-130 flights. Quite a busy place.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh68/trojan1981/176128.jpg

[tinpis]

Where?
When:this week

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/IMG_5210.jpg

[Bullethead]

Unusual looking wind farm there Tinny! :rolleyes:

NFI where it is.

Regards,
BH.

[tinpis]

Hint, its 12000' amsl. the Helo was delivering coppers to round up locals who were going up there and stealing everything not nailed down.

[Jabawocky]

Let me guess..... you much beloved PNG....somewhere :} and it was the Aussie Taxpayers goods being flogged!! ;)

[Chimbu chuckles]

That mountain more or less on track Moresby - Lae...the name of which escapes me.

[tipsy2]

Scratches head and comes up with Mount Edward Albert or Albert Edward.

Locals well known for 'collecting' scrap copper wire and all manner of bits. Even if it is still in a working repeater, NDB, phone tower and the like.

tipsy
:yuk:furball:yuk::yuk:

[saabsforever]

Mt Yule on track Wau Moresby. Often stuck up when all else was in cloud.

[Pinky the pilot]

Can't flamin' remember the name of the mountain but remember one fine day doing a couple of orbits fairly close to the summit. Purely for the hell of it of course!:O

Seem to remember one of the towers there but not both!:confused:
T'was back in 1992 though.

Or am I thinking of an entirely different hunk of cumulo granitis?:confused:

Since found my old charts and checked them. Realised that I really don't remember what mountain it is!:O

[tinpis]

View on the way down......

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

[haughtney1]

Jeez tinny you get about a bit mate....

Did you have "landing" drinks? :}

[tinpis]

Yeah, I can turn up anywhere...


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/tinpis1.jpg

[Jabawocky]

A Limo with your name on it..... can't beat that :ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

Well that is Goroka Tinny...so I guess it wasn't the repeater station I was thinking of either.:ok:

[tinpis]

Also in GKA this week after ferry from Siberia
Flying gas tank has 15 hour endurance apparently

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

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Interesting place I have been to this week!

Any suggestions as to where?

Hint! The lagoon is full of crocs - large crocs!

Dr :8

UoXE09XH_KA

Another view!

tS95GsYFUNA

[Peter Fanelli]

So.......how many back up cameras do you have installed? :E

[Clearedtoreenter]

an interesting little "house" strip on a Cape York cattle station - requires a curved approach to very short final to dodge a large mango tree that encroaches on the approach path, over a crocodile infested lagoon?:)

Sorry, couldn't resist. Enjoyed the vids. Keep 'em coming!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

an interesting little "house" strip on a Cape York cattle station - requires a curved approach to very short final to dodge a large mango tree that encroaches on the approach path, over a crocodile infested lagoon?http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/smile.gif


That would be the one! You know your mango trees, huh?

But which Cape York cattle station?

Dr :8

[kingRB]

interesting, shall I call it "precautionary search" setup you use there Dr going over the strip.

What are you doing there? 150 KIAS? :}

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

interesting, shall I call it "precautionary search" setup you use there Dr going over the strip

I prefer to call it "Encouraging the crocs, roos, pigs, cattle and horses to depart the general area".

On occassions I have included deer in that list as well!

Dr :8

[Two_dogs]

Looks a bit like Rutland Plains?

I have been there but used the larger strip to the East. The smaller strip looked a bit too small for the aircraft and load I had on the day.

[QSK?]

Thanks for that pic of GKA, tin. Lived there for 4 years as a kid and now I finally have a photo of the place.

By the way, GKY sends her love and says she is now too old for that type of flying.

[slackie]

I prefer to call it "Encouraging the crocs, roos, pigs, cattle and horses to depart the general area".
I remember a certain short ag pilot (CS) who used a similar technique with sheep on strips in a Beaver out the back of NZPM...was fun if not particularly successful...tended to get a few stuck in fences, and pissed the cockies off something wicked.

Just re-read this post and you Aussies could have a field day!!:}

[tinpis]

A few more of GKA last week...

P2-SDA

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

The old TALAIR hangar :{

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


Sign of the times......

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

[RadioSaigon]

...with sheep on strips...

That's one beastie you have to positively manage -and correctly- if they're on your strip. There's still reference to farm strips, stock and what you can/can't do in the regs I think too.

If you have to clear sheep, start from one side of the strip (usually the side with the least number to be shifted) and work them across to the main mob, leaving your strip clear. Do NOT split the mob into smaller mobs... they'll wait until you're nose-high in the flare before they decide to join their mates across the strip. Consequences are obvious.

Done properly, there's no reason any should be sufficiently spooked to get jammed up in fences. If one or two do get that way, do the decent thing and go sort them out.

Cattle beast can behave unpredictably too I believe... a long time ago I knew a pilot that had been thru 3 of them... on seperate occasions. No experience of them myself so somebody else may be able to advise how best to handle them.

[haughtney1]

A recent nightstop somewhere.....

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f200/haughtney/nightstop.jpg

12 hours from bottle.......

[troppo]

nice pic haughtney, does the vinyl jacket fit? :}

[slackie]

SO what did they look like after they actually opened a few of those bottles!?!!?:}

[Dogimed]

The bottles are photoshopped in.

[Pinky the pilot]

Hmm, Ozexpat and Torres after a Pprune bash if what I heard was correct! Still extremely p****d off that I missed it!:mad::mad:

[tinpis]

Once a top spot, now well and truly rooted...

zSHARE - IMG_5421.JPG (http://dl051.zshare.net/download/dd6f438df0b698f40d0face378be8e60/1244335784/61040847/IMG_5421.JPG)

[ABX]

now well and truly rooted...
Like many others.

[Jabawocky]

OK some more "where is this?"

http://file047b.bebo.com/1/large/2009/06/07/09/4525920200a10981579466l.jpg

http://file047b.bebo.com/1/large/2009/06/07/09/4525920200a10981579481l.jpg

and this one is not hard because of the file name.... but a nice job!
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R1M1FEdxK3w&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R1M1FEdxK3w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Joker 10]

So no TCAS ??

[ABX]

Looks like a Jaba and a Doc to me.

Where is YMOR? Moree? Dunno...

If you don't have "flight director" or some other flight planning software, where can you find a list of all the Australian destination abbreviations?

Cheers,

YMAY

[VH DSJ]

Interesting place I have been to this week!

Any suggestions as to where?

Hint! The lagoon is full of crocs - large crocs!

Dr :8

That's a very nice and clear video, doc. Can you show us your camera mounting gear? Would love to do something like that.

[RadioSaigon]

...where can you find a list of all the Australian destination abbreviations?

If you have Jepps, Airport Directory pp AU-25 to AU-29.

[ABX]

Thanks RadioSaigon, but I don't have Jepps, is there a website or program (free would be nice) that is available?:ok:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Can you show us your camera mounting gear?

Oh dear!

DSJ, if I show it to you I can not accept responsibility for your safety. Its a highly sophisticated gyrostabilised camera mount that I souvenired from the military!

Dr :8

PS: Well actually, its a velcro-anchored, electrician's tape stabilised something that I knocked up enroute to Rutland Plains (Yes, Two Dogs - you were correct!), cause it occurred to me that I might just end up as croc poo if I tried to take pics while flying that approach. I took it with a Sony Cybershot digital camera set on high quality video. Managed to find some velcro dots in the side pocket of the aeroplane and velcroed the bottom of the camera to the top of the dash. Then I used two pieces of electrician's insulation tape to brace the camera fore and aft so that it was aimed in the right spot. I then just started the camera and flew the run up the strip and from the base turn to touch down.

It worked well, but you can see that it was a bit unsteady because the strip is NOT as rough as it looks after I touched down - the camera just wobbled around on my makeshift mount.

[cavok69]

For placenames (Oz and farther afield), you can try World Aeronautical Database (http://worldaerodata.com/) or just Google it.

By the way, has your non de plume any reference to a certain Aztec used around the Whitsundays in days of yore? :confused:

Cheers

[compressor stall]

Try the Air Services Webstie and download the relevant pages of the ERSA.

Or use Great Circle Mapper (http://gc.kls2.com/) If you don't know the code, type in the airport name, and it will give you various options.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

DSJ, I have seen some video captured with this: V.I.O. | Point-of-View (POV) Video Cameras and Helmet Cam Accessories (http://www.vio-pov.com/)

It looked good.

Dr :8

[VH-XXX]

Sounds like my camera mount, electrical tape and a crappy tripod mounted to some internal cables behind the pilot and pax. I use a JVC Digital Standard Def Video camera with SD card recording. You can flip around the LCD screen so you can see what you are filming without having to turn around the camera, which also means less video editing. Will post youtube vid shortly.

If you're not on a Doctor's budget like the Doc, perhaps one of these would be the go. Great for youtube and PPrune.

Oregon Scientific | Australia | Store | Action Cams (http://www.oregonscientific.com.au/shop/browse.asp?cid=36&scid=146)

It's even waterproof for Float Plane operators.
http://www.oregonscientific.com.au/assets/product/photos/AT18-08G_rg.jpg

http://www.menkind.co.uk/EMSImage14643-248-247

[ABX]

Thanks Stallie.:ok:

[ABX]

cavok69, sorry mate, I missed your post when I first read the replies. I just spent 20 minutes on the site you recommended and it is excellent.:ok:

Cheers mate, and thanks.

(I guessed YMOR was Moree!):}

My nom de prune is simply the IATA code for Albury NSW, the town I live in - YMAY in aeronautical terms.

Cheers.

[socks and thongs]

1.2 gigapixel photo of an AN-2 cockpit. Interesting stuff, what's the scale on the ASI???

gigapan: Antonov An-2 cockpit, Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum (http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2269)

[aldee]

ASI = km/h x 10

[socks and thongs]

Ah yes, so it is. I hadn't realised the Russians use the metric system in flight. Interesting.

[Cloud Basher]

Did some more flying this weekend in good ole US of A.

Went to a flying at Peachtree Georgia and had a ball. Flew down in a friends B55 baron and then at the end of the day he was kind enough to let me take his Cub for a fly around the park (and up the river and over the forest!). I had never flown a cub before and I weigh 240lbs and he is 6ft 4 and weighs 290lbs so the poor old 65HP just wouldn't cut it so he let me loose by myself. As I said the American Pilots I have met are simply the nicest and most generous of any I have met.

Anyway here is a few photos.

Enjoy.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2509.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2566.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2580.jpg


Absolutely beautiful Curtis Robin.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2570.jpg

Met a guy who owns a C195 (not this one) and if I had have been able to stay an extra day, could have got checked out in it for a bottle of Aussie wine!
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2637.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2668.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2718.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2634.jpg

And from the Cub, nearly at Oxygen height!
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/P6051561.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/P6051563.jpg

Baron not too badly equipped!
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/P6051554.jpg

Baron and Cub owner's home field.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/P6051557.jpg

I must say the Cub is everything everyone says it is (good and bad!) Most fun I have had flying whilst I have been in the US. If anyone knows of a Cub project going back in Australia please PM me (and yes I am serious). Will be the perfect aircraft to rebuild in time to teach my girls to fly!

Cheers
CB

[PyroTek]

Great Photos CB! :ok:
Glad to see people taking real care of their aircraft :D

Pyro

[Cloud Basher]

Forgot to add the DC3 in the photos was the one I was offered a seat in to go to Oshkosh! Alas I can't stay in the States the extra month, but what a way to get to Oshkosh!

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2598.jpg


http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/Nards22/AAA%20flyin%20Peachtree%20GA/IMG_2601.jpg

Cheers
CB

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

That's a very nice and clear video, doc. Can you show us your camera mounting gear? Would love to do something like that.

Here you go DSJ!

I am thinking of marketing it as the ForkMount!

Dr :8

http://www.fototime.com/E6BB4B94C8B90C0/standard.jpg

[slackie]

Very high tech Dr!!

[Horatio Leafblower]

CAR 35 approved with a flight manual supplement inserted, I am sure :}

[Chimbu chuckles]

So on top of 4 GPSs and 5 torches forky also has (at least) two cameras:}

[Warbo]

Hey FTDK, did you came into Moree on Friday? A bonanza was on the RNAV just when I was departing West. If so, a pity, I would liked to have showed off the 'wagon!http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/dwarburton/slc1.jpg
BTW, beaut photos, CB!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Geez Warbo, don't tell Chuckles (the Pilot Flying) - he will be in tears for missing a C185!

Dr :8

[Chimbu chuckles]

Aw fk it all!!!:hmm:


Nice machine Warbo:ok::}

Great pics Cloudbasher...you shoulda done whatever was necesary to get that 195 checkout.:ok:

[Cloud Basher]

Chuckles,
I wish! Something about my boss sending me home early if I didn't make it to "work" today... but you are right, at least I would have been sent home with some 195 time in the logbook!

I still have three weeks left in "Aviation Nirvana" so we will see what happens. Shuttle launch is this Saturday so I am off to the Cape in a clapped out old T41A (180HP 172) on Friday (the 310 hasn't had the new engine installed yet!) . My mate was going to let me take his little Baby Beech Sierra, but it isn't back from the shop, it is getting a nice new fuel computer installed and mated to his CNS480. We will be visiting the Kennedy Space centre musuem on Saturday after the launch.

I could have gone in the B55, but alas he is leaving on Thursday and I can't get off until 1200 on Friday. And then the other guy who owns the 206 said take mine, but he now had a family emergency somewhere up north so he has gone. And the T210 is now out of hours and the owner is going to sell it rather than spring for a new engine. Oh well, a 3 hour flight in the 172 won't be too bad:ok: I will have a couple of Norwegians on board and they are always good value and will make the trip go faster.

I will miss this when I go!

Cheers
CB

[Chimbu chuckles]

Tell ya boss chuckles says he is tnuc with no soul.:}

Here are some more 'happy' snaps from the last 2 weeks leave working in the hangar...I seem to work about 20 times as hard on 'leave' as I do normally...still having fun though:ok:

When I left off last the rear fuse looked like this

http://www.fototime.com/{608A2895-E8CB-465C-AD51-1E079D369F45}/origpict/EZU%201.jpg

Now it looks like this

http://www.fototime.com/{42D3BF26-CCBC-4B57-B588-83497B77F2DB}/origpict/P5290026.jpg

Then I pulled off the starboard side skin.

http://www.fototime.com/{7A0B0E81-2997-4164-868D-4181B3E2BB17}/origpict/P5280016.jpg

Removed, cleaned, painted, reinstalled the longerons and cleaned/painted the ring frames.

http://www.fototime.com/{F32C67C7-68A3-4433-869C-C68511BA517A}/origpict/port%20longerons.jpg

A new skin is fabricated

http://www.fototime.com/{AC7B8E18-9742-44DB-AFAA-9B0524611C05}/origpict/P5290020.jpg

Painted

http://www.fototime.com/{B8F4DB75-980C-4A17-9CE6-75AB8D269AAD}/origpict/port%20Skin.jpg

And riveted back in place by a very skillful Lame with me handling the bucking bar. The result is beautifully fair thanks to young Pat's (pictured) skills with a rivet gun.

http://www.fototime.com/{F6ED7F53-6542-45C4-8F21-77A641D03A5D}/origpict/port%20skin%20install.jpg

Then I de-riveted the port side skin and started cleaning the longerons/frames...then ran out of leave...the upper one looked like the lower one just a short time before.

http://www.fototime.com/{89F06069-4A93-43A7-ADD7-60B0956C0B96}/origpict/cleaning%20starboard%20longerons.jpg

Weekends riding motor bikes around Mt Mee and Maleny in the cool Autumn air, steaks and beers in pubs with mates, a mate's 50th birthday, and a trip in the FTDKer to Temora to watch the airshow rounded off a great couple of weeks. 4 hours sat on the ground at Young waiting for the fog to lift - and freezing our tits off - was particularly memorable...as was the last hour or so back into YRED on a beautiful moonlit night with just enough cloud to make it pretty :ok:

[RadioSaigon]

Gawd she looks great Warbo -but don't stop there; run the rest of the happy snaps out too!!!

When's your wee project due to be signed off Chuck? You gotta be getting anxious to get her back in the air!

[Chimbu chuckles]

Anxious to get her flying again?

That would be the understatement of the century!

Next year is about is specific as I am prepared to be...when the fuse is finished there is still the wings to do...although they should be relatively simple and quick.

[RadioSaigon]

Next year is about is specific as I am prepared to be...

I hear ya. I'm off tomorrow to lend some elbow-grease to an Aerostar project that was going to take 6 weeks to complete -18 months ago. Good news is she's almost ready for the cosmetics to be done, do a 100hr, get CASA to sign off on it...

Yeah. We'll see.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Anxious to get her flying again?
That would be the understatement of the century!
Next year is about is specific as I am prepared to be...

At which time he will most probably trade it for a V-tail! :E

Dr :8

[Pinky the pilot]

although they should be relatively simple and quick.

Where have I heard that before?:hmm:

[Mark1234]

Regarding them action cam thingies... not very good (I have one). Doesn't cope well with vibration and movement. Problem is it uses a rolling shutter (cmos sensor); it's very prone to jelly wobble (skew), and you get nice horizontal bars where the prop should be.

Most effective (cheap) solution is the aforementioned compact cam - most have a CCD sensor which works much better for this sort of thing. My mounting solution is a 'quality' suction mount for an ipaq; something like this: just clip the camera in between the arms and stick it to a smooth surface...

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/reviews/gps-mounts/seidio-slimline-mount.jpg

[Chimbu chuckles]

The VIO vid that FTDKer alludes to is one I took in a mates Stearman a month back...clamped it to the front windscreen and everything was in focus and NO vibration...even through takeoff and some aerobatics...very impressive unit...my mate uses it for filming on his paraglider.

[Ovation]

Whereabouts? (Clue - N of Equator)

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/OvationGX2/PB060.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/OvationGX2/PB034A.jpghttp://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/OvationGX2/PB034-1.jpghttp://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/OvationGX2/PB062.jpg

[compressor stall]

Iceland?

The edge of BIRK is barely visible at the top RHS of pic 1

Home of the Utgilemenn in pic 2

Looks like Þingvellir in pic 3

And I'm guessing but Snæfellsjökull in Pic 4....

[Ultralights]

Something for the FTDK....

a student of mine owns this..

http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/558983165_zSSmD-XL.jpg

[Jabawocky]

Holy COW ultralights! :eek:

that thing should be grounded, its at least 3 GPS short, missing 5 torches, a Tablet PC and apparently 2 x camera's.

New rules by the way........ VFR 1 x GPS, if INTER 2 x GPS and Tempo 3xGPS

And thats before you get to IFR ops!:uhoh:

[yowieII]

Got some work to do......:}

[gassed budgie]

a student of mine owns this..

http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/558983165_zSSmD-XL.jpg
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That really is a golden oldie there Ultralights. Reminds me of the time I dropped a guy off on a farm strip out the back of Lameroo. Said he had an aeroplane in the barn. He did indeed. Was an early 50's V-tail with an immaculate original interior. A real gem.

[Jamair]

Heya Chuck & Jaba..... soon as I kin figure out this technomocological stuff I'll stick some videos on a hosting page somewhere.......gotta get it down from 85+mb though, and Windows Movie Maker aint working on my pc for some reason :mad: My Canon IXUS 80 works great in movie mode on the glareshield with a coupla bits of blutack.

Great to see the Bonza CC; lookin good.

Gassed Budgie - is that a Debonair? Did my first flight (in control) in a Deb.... -RUG or -RUB I think.... about '75 or thereabouts.

[bushy]

That's a very precious Beechcraft. I don't think there are many of those "piano key" machines left.

[ZK-NSJ]

chimbu,
you wouldnt happen to have shares in the company that makes cleco's would you?

[Ultralights]

the rest
http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/558983092_Bng5h-XL.jpg

http://pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/558983138_325mY-XL.jpg

what year?

and i cant wait to get some hrs in her.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Mid/late 50s?

A H model...maybe.

Pretty aeroplane...electric prop/E225 engine or IO470?

Is his hangar on one of those aviation communities or a public use airfield....looks very pleasant.

[Defenestrator]

Obviously a labour of love Chuck. When do you reckon it'll be back in one piece? What sort of coin have you factored on the whole restoration cost (if thats not too rude a question)? It's certainly going to be a beautiful thing when you're done.

D:ok:

[Chimbu chuckles]

Hopefully about this time next year....or next year sometime:ok:

Well I originally figured on 45k for a strip/repaint/interior/correction of any airframe issues...there were more issues than I thought:hmm:...That was two years ago and I went past that figure a little while ago...I reckon it will be around double + that by the time I finish..not really thinking about that aspect very much - just a bit at a time until its finished - as the engineers say to me - its like eating an elephant, one mouthful at a time.

She'll be one of the best Bonanzas in Aus when I am finished - structurally as good as ANY Bonanza. The attention to detail, care, elbow grease, sweat...and yes even love going into her beats, hands down, anything going on in the Beechcraft factory in Wichita...even young Pat gets excited by what is happening.

I have no way of knowing but even the engineers think maybe this is the first/only Bonanza in Oz to be restored like this.

And you have to hook in and do as much as you can yourself...you could NOT pay anyone enough to do this, for instance...it took hundreds of hours for me to clean the engine bay like this...it was almost a shame to paint it by the time I finished.

http://www.fototime.com/{4AC84A9D-A136-41D9-BF49-D7D0C65CABBC}/origpict/engine%20bay.jpg

And if you wonder why the re-skinning?

Because of areas like this...and EZU is just average for the fleet in her age bracket...its just quicker and easier to make a new skin than clean the old one.

http://www.fototime.com/{AC755F26-8E9E-49E3-AE45-23F5CC6493C5}/origpict/P5290021.jpg

Labour of love?

Obsession may be more accurate.:ok:

[tinpis]

Dont fill the cockpit up with them funny girlie man wirelesses when yer finished Chuck.:hmm:

[Wanderin_dave]

Love or obsession i don't care. It's great to see that kind of care taken. She'll be a beautiful lady :ok:

[mickk]

Whats this then??

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ahyxie.jpg

[tipsy2]

Foreground, QF 707
Background, QF 747

[maxgrad]

Frank Spencer in a really bad spot

[ABX]

Good one Max!

[mickk]

Very close Max!

http://i39.tinypic.com/29w8oif.jpg

[triton140]

Holy COW ultralights!

that thing should be grounded, its at least 3 GPS short, missing 5 torches, a Tablet PC and apparently 2 x camera's.



Yeah, true - but at least the DME's not MEL'd!!

[Jabawocky]

Did they have them back then?

Doppler perhaps??:}

[Jamair]

Here ya go Chuck, bung this lot in the panel......:}

Even the DR would be satisfied with this.......:confused: oops, there are only three screens......:hmm:

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p271/jamair_photos/IMG_0085.jpg

[Chimbu chuckles]

I see 5 screens for starters...and just how many electrickery sources you think the average 1970 Bonanza has?

An anyway...glass for work, steam for fun.:ok:

[Ultralights]

before i forget ,1947 'Straight' 35. They have a terrbile reputation because they are built so light- it weighs about the same as a modern Cessna Skyhawk, but has 225 HP

[tinpis]

Coming back.... (http://www.zshare.net/video/612930886f79b009/)


...from up here, yesterday morn.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/IMG_5210.jpg



17 minutes up in the Squirrel

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

FTDK channelling Flopt!

Where is?

BtdtPxG62Qk

The Floppy One

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

You need a ForkMount!

Dr :8

PS: Hang on a minute! How many GPSs do you have in that thing?

[Grogmonster]

Jamair,

Why does the RFDS still fit an electronic checklist when there is one available in the Proline 21 that can be easily amended??

Groggy

[SGT Schulz]

1770 / agnes water

[VH DSJ]

DSJ, I have seen some video captured with this: V.I.O. | Point-of-View (POV) Video Cameras and Helmet Cam Accessories (http://www.vio-pov.com/)

It looked good.

Dr :8

Thanks Dr. Looks exactly like what I want. And it looks easy to mount on top of of your headset as well. :)

[Flopt]

yup......good spot for lunch.....but it costs $50.00 to land there....s'pose someones gotta mow the grass....

was cheaper when " feathers" & co owned it.....

Flopt

[goin'flyin]

Groggy,
Don't worry about the checklist, RFDS policy is to buy a new aircraft and then the next week they take out all those screens and put in the steam driven instruments so that it is streamlined with the rest of the RFDS fleet. Nothing like "de-modernising" a new aircraft.