Tricks, Tips and Suggestions from the Experienced.
Before you head out bush go to TAFE or similar and learn some basic mechanical skills. You have no idea how handy it will be when you find yourself with a rough running engine that only requires a new or clean spark plug fitted. Carry some tools and lots of rags.
Your boss will love you forever...
Your boss will love you forever...
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bwahahaha! I'm so glad someone finally came to the table with this ingenious method of cooking! I'm sure it took a lot of spooning around for it but it was well worth it in the end and very well done!
Plenty of other good info here as well, lots to keep in mind and some of it has prompted me already to rethink the way i do some things so i thank you all!! I hope there are others getting as much help out of this as i am
Plenty of other good info here as well, lots to keep in mind and some of it has prompted me already to rethink the way i do some things so i thank you all!! I hope there are others getting as much help out of this as i am
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"3 deg glide slope ROD in ft /min = approx 5 x groundspeed in knots." That is a good one for those starting out, I find that halving the ground speed and multiplying by ten is easier to do the maths on though, ie if ground speed is 160kts then I should be looking for 800ft/m. Ground speed is 120kts then VSI should be 600ft/min etc. Just depends on how your brain works I guess.
Just don't use that 3x method in an unpressurised piston, 
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If I was at 8,000ft and 24nm out in an unpressurised aircraft, I've seriously f@cked up my descent
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In a pressurised turbine however, now you're talking,
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morno
.If I was at 8,000ft and 24nm out in an unpressurised aircraft, I've seriously f@cked up my descent
.In a pressurised turbine however, now you're talking,
.morno
Always have a little Nose-up trim applied, if you are doing any low-level work, legal or otherwise. It can be a little tiring, but will keep you out of immediate trouble if you temporarily become distracted/incapacitated.
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Skywagon, I imagine that you are more experienced with low level stuff than I am so not disagreeing with you as such, just wondering if that advice could be mis-used by inexperienced pilots. I talked to a kiwi top dresser friend with thirty years ag flying who doesn't like the idea.
If you're inexperienced and about to do low level stuff, get instruction from someone who's done it for a living.
(probably skywagon heh heh)
If you're inexperienced and about to do low level stuff, get instruction from someone who's done it for a living.
(probably skywagon heh heh)
Good advice for valley flying.We used it in PNG many years ago.
If you THINK you can don't.
If you KNOW you can have a look.
If your ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN go in,but make sure you can get out.
If you THINK you can don't.
If you KNOW you can have a look.
If your ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN go in,but make sure you can get out.
Cjam,
just advice for those that would do it anyway.
Bit like the collection of pilots who expressed a desire to fly below sea level during the 2000 Lake Eyre partial fill.
We advised them to have a look at the 210 parked up in the middle, from a safe height and then make their mind up about such a practice.
Do it in a Submarine.
just advice for those that would do it anyway.
Bit like the collection of pilots who expressed a desire to fly below sea level during the 2000 Lake Eyre partial fill.
We advised them to have a look at the 210 parked up in the middle, from a safe height and then make their mind up about such a practice.
Do it in a Submarine.
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On a max range type leg, figure out the min groundspeed required for your endurance so if the headwind picks up unexpectedly you know how slow you can go without using reserves or falling short of the destination
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Always have a little Nose-up trim applied, if you are doing any low-level work, legal or otherwise. It can be a little tiring, but will keep you out of immediate trouble if you temporarily become distracted/incapacitated.
cjam...
Each to there own, but that one has saved my bacon once or twice (especially true doing night low level ops) and I have witnessed it save others.
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It's a small world, so get to know guys you're working with or running into occasionally - don't be afraid to run up to someone when you're sitting around an airport and have a chat. It's how the best jobs get found :P
On the flip side, if you make a cock-up, just own it. It sucks, but stick your hand up and say "yup, sorry." If you try the sly cover or shift it, someone's mate's mate's boss will hear about it and that's the end.
Listen to the voice in the back of your head - you'll know when you're starting to feel uneasy about something, or sometimes you just get a bit of a bad gut feel (engine burgers aside) - don't ignore it, look for a problem.
Have fun :P
On the flip side, if you make a cock-up, just own it. It sucks, but stick your hand up and say "yup, sorry." If you try the sly cover or shift it, someone's mate's mate's boss will hear about it and that's the end.
Listen to the voice in the back of your head - you'll know when you're starting to feel uneasy about something, or sometimes you just get a bit of a bad gut feel (engine burgers aside) - don't ignore it, look for a problem.
Have fun :P
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If 185Skywagon gets above 1500AGL..... he gets lost! So I think he has sound advice.
And mate you home town weather was CR@P the other day......no wonder you were outta town. I dont think Pete was all that impressed with his extended holiday in Surat either!
Catcha soon!
J
And mate you home town weather was CR@P the other day......no wonder you were outta town. I dont think Pete was all that impressed with his extended holiday in Surat either!
Catcha soon!
J
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From a military perspective (knuckle head to be precise, so not to be agreed with - necessarily). 
1. As an aviator in flight you can do anything you want... As long as it's right... And we'll let you know if its right after you get down.
2. You can't fly forever without getting killed.
3. As a fighter pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will:
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight in a fighter.
b. One day you will walk out to the airplane not knowing that it is your last flight in a fighter.
4. Success is being able to walk to your Flight Evaluation Board.
5. There are Rules and there are Laws: The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you; and, the Laws (of Physics) were made by the Great One. You can, and sometimes should, suspend the rules but you can never suspend the Laws.
6. More about Rules:
a. The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea and the talent to execute it.
b. If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance, e.g., if you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge!
7. The fighter pilot is the highest form of life on earth.
8. The ideal fighter pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.
9. About check rides:
a. Having someone climb into your fighter to grade how you fly is just like having someone come into your bedroom to grade how you perform.
b. The only real objective of a check ride is to complete it and get the *#%@&* out of your airplane.
c. It has never occurred to any flight examiner that the examinee could care less what the examiner's opinion of his flying ability really is.
10. The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation community.
11. The job of the Wing Commander is to worry incessantly that his career depends solely on the abilities of his aviators to fly their airplanes without mishap and that their only minuscule contribution to the effort is to bet their lives on it.
12. 'Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the age of the pilot is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over, I know of no such expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.
13. It is absolutely imperative that the fighter pilot be unpredictable; rebelliousness is very predictable. In the end, conforming almost all the time is the best way to be unpredictable.
14. He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot; he that demands one iota more is a fool.
15. If you're gonna fly low, do not fly slow!
16. It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.
17. If you can learn how to fly as a Lt. and not forget how to fly by the time you're a LTC, you will have lived a happy life.
18. About night flying:
a. Remember that the airplane doesn't know that it's dark.
b. On a clear, moonless night, never fly between the tanker's lights.
c. There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.
d. If you're going to night fly, it might as well be in the weather so you can double your exposure to both hazards.
e. Night formation is really an endless series of near misses in equilibrium with each other.
f. You would have to pay a lot of money at a lot of amusement parks and perhaps add a few drugs, to get the same blend of psychedelic sensations as a single night weather flight on the wing.
19. One of the most important skills to develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.
20. At the end of the day, the controllers, ops supervisors, maintenance guys, weather guessers, and birds; they're all trying to kill you and your job is to not let them!
21. The concept of "controlling" airspace with radar is just a form of FAA sarcasm directed at fighter pilots to see if they're gullible enough to swallow it. To put it another way, when is the last time the FAA ever shot anyone down?
22. Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.
23. It is a tacit, yet profound admission of the pre-eminence of flying in the hierarchy of the human spirit, that those who seek to control aviators via threats always threaten to take one's wings and not one's life.
24. Remember when flying low and inverted the rudder still works the same way but hopefully your IP never taught you "Pull stick Back, Plane go Up."
25. Mastering the prohibited maneuvers in the dash-10 is one of the best forms of aviation life insurance you can get.
26. A tactic done twice becomes a procedure. (Refer to unpredictability discussion above)
27. The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight planned for that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.
28. One of the beautiful things about a single piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience.
29. If a mother has the slightest suspicion that her infant might grow up to be a pilot, she had better teach him to put things back where he got them.
30. The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward and wish.
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been and there you will always be." Leonardo da Vinci
1. As an aviator in flight you can do anything you want... As long as it's right... And we'll let you know if its right after you get down.
2. You can't fly forever without getting killed.
3. As a fighter pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will:
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight in a fighter.
b. One day you will walk out to the airplane not knowing that it is your last flight in a fighter.
4. Success is being able to walk to your Flight Evaluation Board.
5. There are Rules and there are Laws: The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you; and, the Laws (of Physics) were made by the Great One. You can, and sometimes should, suspend the rules but you can never suspend the Laws.
6. More about Rules:
a. The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea and the talent to execute it.
b. If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance, e.g., if you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge!
7. The fighter pilot is the highest form of life on earth.
8. The ideal fighter pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.
9. About check rides:
a. Having someone climb into your fighter to grade how you fly is just like having someone come into your bedroom to grade how you perform.
b. The only real objective of a check ride is to complete it and get the *#%@&* out of your airplane.
c. It has never occurred to any flight examiner that the examinee could care less what the examiner's opinion of his flying ability really is.
10. The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation community.
11. The job of the Wing Commander is to worry incessantly that his career depends solely on the abilities of his aviators to fly their airplanes without mishap and that their only minuscule contribution to the effort is to bet their lives on it.
12. 'Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the age of the pilot is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over, I know of no such expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.
13. It is absolutely imperative that the fighter pilot be unpredictable; rebelliousness is very predictable. In the end, conforming almost all the time is the best way to be unpredictable.
14. He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot; he that demands one iota more is a fool.
15. If you're gonna fly low, do not fly slow!
16. It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.
17. If you can learn how to fly as a Lt. and not forget how to fly by the time you're a LTC, you will have lived a happy life.
18. About night flying:
a. Remember that the airplane doesn't know that it's dark.
b. On a clear, moonless night, never fly between the tanker's lights.
c. There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.
d. If you're going to night fly, it might as well be in the weather so you can double your exposure to both hazards.
e. Night formation is really an endless series of near misses in equilibrium with each other.
f. You would have to pay a lot of money at a lot of amusement parks and perhaps add a few drugs, to get the same blend of psychedelic sensations as a single night weather flight on the wing.
19. One of the most important skills to develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.
20. At the end of the day, the controllers, ops supervisors, maintenance guys, weather guessers, and birds; they're all trying to kill you and your job is to not let them!
21. The concept of "controlling" airspace with radar is just a form of FAA sarcasm directed at fighter pilots to see if they're gullible enough to swallow it. To put it another way, when is the last time the FAA ever shot anyone down?
22. Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.
23. It is a tacit, yet profound admission of the pre-eminence of flying in the hierarchy of the human spirit, that those who seek to control aviators via threats always threaten to take one's wings and not one's life.
24. Remember when flying low and inverted the rudder still works the same way but hopefully your IP never taught you "Pull stick Back, Plane go Up."
25. Mastering the prohibited maneuvers in the dash-10 is one of the best forms of aviation life insurance you can get.
26. A tactic done twice becomes a procedure. (Refer to unpredictability discussion above)
27. The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight planned for that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.
28. One of the beautiful things about a single piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience.
29. If a mother has the slightest suspicion that her infant might grow up to be a pilot, she had better teach him to put things back where he got them.
30. The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward and wish.
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been and there you will always be." Leonardo da Vinci
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Get your ATPL subjects first.
A mentor once told me if you are ever on your way to work and crewing calls and tellls you to go home as the flight has been cancelled.
Always call the miss's that you are on your way home. As if you dont you might just find your mate in bed with her!!!
A mentor once told me if you are ever on your way to work and crewing calls and tellls you to go home as the flight has been cancelled.
Always call the miss's that you are on your way home. As if you dont you might just find your mate in bed with her!!!
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Good idea to take a cell phone.
If you have a comms/electrics failure it is good to make a call to the tower or FIS before relying on nordo overhead rejoins and transponder codes.
Also handy if you put it in a paddock and you need to call the required folk
If you have a comms/electrics failure it is good to make a call to the tower or FIS before relying on nordo overhead rejoins and transponder codes.
Also handy if you put it in a paddock and you need to call the required folk
Always call the missus that you are on your way home. As if you don't you might just find your mate in bed with her!!!
Home to bed. Into mum. Lots of love, Roger.
