Oh how true,
The young guy you speak of is an indictment of the "modern airline pilot".
The future of the industry is really sad, the romance called aviation is nearly gone.
The future is computer geeks who are all excited about talking on radios and electronic flight decks, wearing jackets and caps and wandering aound shopping centres in uniform.

Love your photo's, and well done to that young guy who took on the DC3.
Almost did a similar thing 20 yrs back, I wish I had, what a journey.

And waddya log time in here as? :rolleyes:

Buncha wimps :}

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart...abins-0106.gif

sixtiesrelic - when I was a lad......
 

Just a computer programer.... I'll keep that in mind next time were stinking down a runway on takeoff at 233 tonnes, 300km/h+, max X-wind and thunderstorms in area.

Last time I checked I thought I was flying that thing..:hmm:

Hey, Stallie.....Where is ya?
 

Gaunty's gorn a missin'...he's up in his attic / out in the shed / down in the basement - just looking in all those old relic boxes for his 1970's WAC's...

I've found some of mine - well used - and coffee stained....

Begins with....."G"...as in silent 'G'.....n....a....??

Are we THERE YET????

Cheers:ok:

Muddy dont draw attention to yerself the beancounters already got a fair idea what they can buy a bum to fit in a modern cockpit seat for.:rolleyes:

tinpis
With all due respect we are paid what we are for when something goes wrong, not when everything is going like clock work. What an airline is prepared to pay its drivers has nothing to do with how difficult the job may be perceived to be by those outside but by supply and demand. What we have seen going on in Australia over the last five years is supply and demand at work. While there will always be an oversupply of fresh CPL’s in Aus, the time is fast approaching that experienced drivers will be in short supply. It is already happening in other parts of the world. Once it starts happening in Australia the tide will turn. By the way I am a beancounter.

By the way the photo of the Airbus crew rest area is from the A340-600 and is the cabin crew rest area. There is a separate rest area next door for the S/O or F/O. The captain and relief commander have a separate crew rest area just behind the cockpit. As a Relief Commander, F/O or S/O you log nothing while in there. The A340-300 has a different crew rest area and the A330-300 doesn't have one at all, at least ours don't anyway.

Hey FSO, :ok:
Getting closer....it's south of Gnarloo.

Stallie.

Thanks Stallie,

MUST begin with 'Q' then.........???

Last time I landed around there was mid 1970.......
I used to take the Doc & Customs / Quarantine up to Cape Cuvier for the 'Texada' salt bulk-carriers. Then we would fish by trolling from the tugboat whilst the business was being done....dems was de days....
Wilson used to let us keep the Mackerel in the pub freezer until 'required'.....

Cheers:ok:

Bingo!

Spent the last night of our honeymoon there camped under the wing. Great spot; a wild coastline, poles apart from the peaceful Coral Bay waters. This was at Quobba station; there is another one further inland next to the saltlake.

1970? Sheesh my folks hadn't even met then.... :eek:

You mean 'Wilson' as in 'Iron Bar'........?????:confused: :uhoh:

A friend of mine from up thataway tells a very interesting (and true) story about how he managed to get Wilson to donate two 18 gallon kegs to a local fund raising show..:D :eek: :confused:

That Pic...
 

G'day Stallie,

Now YOU are showing your age........

Yep! We used to land at the 'Texada' strip by the salt for 'Texada' business...just hose the acft off later - or watch the paint on the undersurfaces 'melt' before your eyes......

Give us another one!!!!!

'Pinks' - Sent a response by PM....:ok:

Cheers.....:ok:

An excellent pic collection of someone's trip from California to Oshkosh and back, with commentary.

http://silvairehair2.home.comcast.net/072806/

Wow:D :D :ok:

fantastic photos - not dial-up friendly though!

For mudskipper
 

Mudskipper ... what altitude does your ops manual instruct you to plug the auto pilot in!!!
Not taking anything away from you and your 330 tons of aluminium...I didn't pole that much much around the sky, but 60 tons on an 18 meter runway in the same conditions ... yes!
The only time you're allowed to fly those things is in the Sim.
So I still say you are now computer programmers who get to take off and land... It's not your fault! You have to obey the rules.
I ignored the company edicts to plug the auto pilot in at what ever alt. they reckoned and flew the aircraft to flight levels, because I liked flying.
The proof of the pudding is the number of blokes who are buying light aircraft and going FLYING

Hmmm ...matey same aircraft same company ....erm ....which one was the 18 metre runway? :p




hope this reply fits in with the new requirements for usefulness in this forum

Is it possible to buy one of those beds with the restraints for home use ???

Keep it going guys
 

I will have to wait until tomorrow to post a couple of new ones, but this thread was going great, but its a it quiet here these days.........come on guys and gals!

J:ok:

More from Godzone state
 

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http://myspace-257.vo.llnwd.net/0118...82202257_m.jpg

http://myspace-524.vo.llnwd.net/0118...82203524_m.jpg

http://myspace-793.vo.llnwd.net/0118...82204793_m.jpg

J

It's the old one about Shamus and Paddy on their way to a new airport in their Aer Lingus A320. Shamus says "Roight Paddy, it's a very short strip, oi'll do the stick and the brakes and you do ta throttle and the flaps". "Roight Shamus" says Paddy "Oi'll be ready - as soon as you put her down oi'll dump the flaps and hit the max reversers.".

In come our heros and in a cloud of dust, smoke and noise come to a screaming halt just at the edge of the grass. "Bejesus" says Paddy "that's the shortest fooking runway I ever seen". "To be sure" replies Shamus, "but it's the fooking widest one".



I'll get my coat......

Heres a few from ol' days!

coming into darwin at sunset
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...k/P5020136.jpg

FL2-something-0 over the desert in the top end (sunset again!)
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...k/P6070007.jpg

Some spectacular formations a long way down
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...k/P7030035.jpg

From a recent trip overseas
 

This one should be too easy to guess. :ok:
Long bridges
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_1629.jpg
Bit of light drizzle?
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_1648.jpg
Happy days.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_1654.jpg

Guessing....
 

S CRUISER

I have never been there but could it be Bermuda by any chance?

If not put me out of my misery humanely!

J:ok:

Hi J430,
Shots are from a flight down to Key West (KEYW) in Florida..
Did a US trip in a 152 in July, ended up flying from Orlando, down to Keywest, Up through Atlanta, Illinois to Minnesota - then across to Michigan, - back down to Peoria, Illinois, then to Akron, Ohio, to Niagra Falls, then back to Orlando via Greensboro.. Was about 54 hours in 9 days :} , but am already getting withdrawl symptoms again :sad:
A good link that you can see where we went is at: US Trip - Great Circle

Not the greastest quality (clearly i'm the one flying, not the one taking the pic :p ), but here's my kite.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...ave/tiger2.jpg

Can I guess
 

That looks like a moth over D'bay just west of YRED.

Or am I mistaken?

J:ok:

Unfortunately you are, not far off though, about 100nm. Hervey Bay.

No short walk either
 

Hervey Bay!

Was there just recenty, lovely place. Droped in for the evening hoping to get Col C to buy me a beer....sneeky bugger went to South Oz.

Pic's above came the next day flying down around here!

Love the Bay!

Did have one in the hangar near his.....was that your beer I enjoyed?

J:ok:

Anyone able to guess the name of this WA town?
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...q/IMG_0684.jpg

Somewhere in WA
 

No idea, but I know whose plane you took the photo in.:E A C310 perhaps?

J:ok:

The other KAL?
 

TQ,

Despite the fact you're in a Goldfields aircraft, would that be the other "Kal" - Kalbarri?

LF

You would be correct.:ok: That's the mouth of the Murchison coming into view.

Unfortunately we don't get to see the ocean very often.:sad:

J430...a C310 indeed.

But....it could have been a 402B, or a C340!

Eye like a hawk
 

Well if you know your stuff its a C310.

Me...I just have seen a couple and it looked about right. The rest was all ar$e and a littlest it of class.:E

J:ok:

I'm sure a psychologist would be able to explain it, but the GAS thing put me right off trying to think what was on the South coast that being the more likely destination.

Kalbarri did pop into my head but it didn't "fit" my "preconception":ugh: :ugh: .

Been going there since 1959 (as a kid in our family Austin A70) when the road was a goat track and you could routinely pull 10lb Tailer out of the channel mouth off Chinamans Rock and eat your fill off Oyster Reef.:E

Rolling out on final, Rumdoodle. (Screenshot from my video). Black dots L to lower R is a moraine line of rocks, moving along slowly as the ice sheet flows by.

http://www.remoteadventures.com/webpics/finalrumdo.jpg

Hah...I was waiting for the rest of your piccy to load and then scrolled down a bit:} :ugh:

I made the same mistake as Chimbu! Finals to what exactly? There aint nothing there!

Gaunty, were you thinking Esperance before the 'GAS thing' started messing with your mind?:eek:

There is something there! There's a black dot just under the "Fang" (the black isolated peak top right). That black dot is a Hagglunds (tracked oversnow vehicle) two quad bikes and some 44's of AVTUR (ATK). :E