Hi M14P - haven't heard from you for a while - still yakking?


I think I can claim a free breakfast through deceit. :D

Heres how it works - I approach the airfield, make no evasive action and a defender calls 'G-XXXX Rallye destroyed!

I then land and say 'Sorry old chap but I'm a Koliber, its a Rallye on steroids, & I claim my free brekkie'.

The defenders would need a passenger with a complete set of Jane's aircraft and 'The Observer's book of Funny Microlight Thingies' to cope with all the homebuilts and ultralights. :)

Microlights
 

Oh yes....those.

At the risk of sounding stuffy, don't they do their own thing?

They wouldn't have a chance attacking or defending.

I do of course mean those rogallo thingies as opposed to the more conventional machines that you can't even paint (it seems?!) for fear of exceeding the weight.

Oooops!.....I think I have just stuck my head above the parapet.

.....I did fly a Turbulent a few years back..........

HP

I'd never beat the defenders. A previous owner made my wing registration letters stretch virtually from the leading edge to the trailing edge :eek:

Binoculars are NOT required to spot me :D

L&S,

Large reg numbers? try being 100' tall, nearly as wide and bright yellow.....

Pity, a BP sounds fun! Could manage a target spot landing from a few km out, though. :)

Ripline

Not sure what rules we will be using for the next Seething BP but there seems toe be two basic different variants. The first is to arruve overhead at a given height, the second is to get into the ATZ (2 miles 2,000 ft). The former is easier to defend and as such probably needs to have registration read. The latter less easy to defend (13 sq miles of air space in a 2000 ft block) with the next band (2 - 4 miles) being nearly 40 sq miles.

My preference is the latter as it stops a concentration of defending a/c in the 1 - 2 mile zone. So I would have the attack objective as entering the ATZ consistent with normal aviation practice (not below 500 ft, avoiding other aircraft). We are lucky as other activity at the airfield can be stopped for the one hour duration of the exercise.

I prefer defender aircraft to give a description of the aircraft spotted rather than reg - this removes the need for close flying. A variant, given the number of digital cameras now, is to get a picture clearly showing the aircraft.

Ripline yup that does make you a tad conspicuous :)

ff when is the next Seeting BP planned for?

Ripline

Ray H, who flys Zycomm, does a pretty mean cold decent from 10,000' -- you know, turning into a special shape :eek:, but I doubt that even he could keep up with the Tiger Moth... ;)

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Will post to this forum when next seething BP planned (along with details of the 'task'). Nothing set up yet but once the days get longer I am sure there will be something.