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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2010, 02:03
Replies: 12
Views: 1,832
Posted By boardpig

We all have to learn

Yep, I get it, we all have to learn sometime.

I just get rather frustrated when I have friends etc on board and feel they are at greater risk because of these guys. Its almost like to you have to...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2010, 01:43
Replies: 12
Views: 1,832
Posted By boardpig

From the ERSA

under local traffic regulations.

4) straight-in approaches are not permitted.

BP
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2010, 01:21
Replies: 12
Views: 1,832
Posted By boardpig

To be clear

I should be clear that I am referencing two different aircraft here not the same one, my point is not to identify them, but to make comment on what seems like a very worrying trend of very poor...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2010, 00:48
Replies: 12
Views: 1,832
Posted By boardpig

Happening at Cessnock

Went for a jolly up to YCNK the other day and a few things ocurred I thought I'd share.
There I was happily decending towards the field on what was a cracking weather day. I’d been on the ctaf feq...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Oct 2010, 00:00
Replies: 20
Views: 9,643
Posted By boardpig

ah yeah..

"just don't talk over the beeper on the CTAF or Jim will be on to you in no time"

...hehehe so true!!!

"keep the control column back!!, tighten your circuts.." good days! (believe it or not)
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
17th Aug 2010, 00:47
Replies: 71
Views: 17,606
Posted By boardpig

beyond a joke...

"Only when the public understands the importance of expereince in the cockpit then maybe we can see a change."

I dis-agree, only when the idiots who keep backstabbing each other to get ahead to...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
10th Aug 2010, 02:23
Replies: 26
Views: 3,374
Posted By boardpig

Did the same thing..

Gave it up at the CPL/MCIR level to continue with IT. I now fly for pleasure and have a share in an aircraft, so the addiction is still there.

I simply refused to accept the T's and C's operators...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
13th Jul 2010, 00:56
Replies: 21
Views: 3,197
Posted By boardpig

Ask yourself...

..what is it you have the bug for? Flying?

If so, why not stay in IT, buy a share in a bug smasher, fly it whenever you want and still be able to support the family and spend time with them? ...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Jun 2010, 02:24
Replies: 98
Views: 26,257
Posted By boardpig

"Would you have brain surgery done by a 21 year...

"Would you have brain surgery done by a 21 year old surgeon fresh out of uni? Surgeons only have 1 person's lives in their hands at a time and it takes 10 years + to make a surgeon. How many people...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Jun 2010, 05:13
Replies: 98
Views: 26,257
Posted By boardpig

Dunno..

"What these cadets are missing is the valuable GA experience which will make them better pilots in the end..."

I'm not disagreeing but wonder how much GA experience contributes to a high tech,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Jun 2010, 06:05
Replies: 107
Views: 30,683
Posted By boardpig

??!!

Paying for your own interview and selection process....??

:) all the way to the bank...

Comon guys, this should say it all really...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
9th Apr 2010, 03:50
Replies: 9
Views: 4,175
Posted By boardpig

The Mad cockatoo!!

Yep, he's still there. (or her), throwing tea spoons at people.

The strip is in good nick, no problems for a landing, wind sock etc is there and seems to work fine.
Great few days spent with...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Apr 2010, 07:55
Replies: 9
Views: 4,175
Posted By boardpig

The Man Trap

..what is it with that trap museum!!

BP.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Apr 2010, 06:58
Replies: 9
Views: 4,175
Posted By boardpig

Comeroo Camel Station..

Flew out to Comeroo Camel station over easter, bloody brilliant. Bruce is a character (go mustering cattle with him in his XP, brown trouser time!) and his wife Chris is awesome at looking after you....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
9th Mar 2010, 22:04
Replies: 51
Views: 11,232
Posted By boardpig

Its like a sad comedy..

If you take the perspective from any other professional industry, you'll see just how unprofessional V has been here.
They're playing to a captive audience which is how they get away with it.

By...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
9th Mar 2010, 01:57
Replies: 30
Views: 37,242
Posted By boardpig

The CPL

Reading the preceding posts takes me back heheh. I remember being told to treat my ATO like a passenger so that’s exactly what I did, even to the point of handing him the map and asking him to help...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Feb 2010, 00:27
Replies: 26
Views: 3,115
Posted By boardpig

Dunt pay the bills..

Many folks have told me that the love of flying lasts about 6 months, then it becomes a job.
A job in which you are still getting paid less than the checkout girl at Coles. I love flying too, but...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Dec 2009, 01:09
Replies: 29
Views: 5,530
Posted By boardpig

out back..

I'd rather sit at the back anyways. No plane that I know has ever backed into a mountain.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Dec 2009, 21:42
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Curtiss...

As the previous posts here have eluded to, Curtiss is well respected and won't waste your time. Curtiss Jim, grumpy old bugger?.. oh yes (not really but I won't tell). Knows what he’s talking about,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2009, 21:41
Replies: 19
Views: 4,816
Posted By boardpig

HTFU

Check your pm's mate.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2009, 01:23
Replies: 75
Views: 12,792
Posted By boardpig

or maybe...

I can't disagree with anything that’s been said here. I've followed many a thread here during which the first 3 or 4 posts have been relevant, then the chest beating and stupidity starts and you're...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2009, 00:59
Replies: 19
Views: 4,816
Posted By boardpig

Not too bad

Its wasn't actually too bad. Interesting having a bum engine that wont feather, then doing the approach off centre with low cloud ceiling. Not a bad bit of work. The co was visibly rather worried.
...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Nov 2009, 01:21
Replies: 11
Views: 1,785
Posted By boardpig

aaand

You have to fly all 5 parts of the circut now when joining outside of twr hours. (forgot that last week and was very politely reminded :ok:)
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Nov 2009, 02:33
Replies: 405
Views: 129,328
Posted By boardpig

Australia's capt Sully.. good grief...

quotes in todays SMH from Christopher Newns of Concept Aviation Supplies who has been flying small planes since 1973.(apparently)


"It's unlike the Hudson River [ditching], which was done in good...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Nov 2009, 02:58
Replies: 69
Views: 8,454
Posted By boardpig

Cape Leveque.

Zooming up the coast from Broome in the 210 at 500, shark/whale spotting then overflying the sand runway at Cape Leveque, joining the downwind out over the crystal clear, blue sea, turn back for an...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Nov 2009, 02:22
Replies: 124
Views: 21,997
Posted By boardpig

and....

So start one then, why wait on someone else to do it?
This is an open internet forum, what the heck do you expect.
Maybe the crew room is the place to go for the kind of opinions you are after....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Oct 2009, 00:07
Replies: 31
Views: 3,842
Posted By boardpig

WTF

I've seen many posts like this over the years on Proone and the beat never seems to change. I eventually gave up a career in flying as I couldn't justify the T and C's, but it occured to me that the...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Oct 2009, 05:31
Replies: 12
Views: 2,331
Posted By boardpig

Camden

Anyone have an idea of costs at Camden? I'm sure there is no hanger space there now what with Hoxton gone. Then theres always Wedderburn further down the road.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
28th Oct 2009, 04:34
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Indeed

hehe, yeah I remember landing long and then the gradual swerve to the right under braking. This was the same day as total flap failures, certainly kept you on your toes. Strange thing was though, she...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Oct 2009, 22:11
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Sad

...very sad. :(

No more real life failures to deal with then. Flaps broken, one brake defective, smashed nav light on a pole at Parkes... ah the old girl had such a character...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Oct 2009, 05:00
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

What happened?

To RWK?? I was going to fly that next week. Is it gone / grounded. Guess I could call and find out..:ok:
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Oct 2009, 04:53
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Yup

LOL, yeah that be him alright....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Oct 2009, 03:02
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Best of luck

Best of luck with it Dean, never let that elevator drop when Jim's around :}
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Oct 2009, 05:49
Replies: 71
Views: 20,240
Posted By boardpig

Curtis

Did my CPL with Curtis, loved it. Learned to really fly there, in and out of "very" short fields, ALA's, dirt tracks etc. Rob there is also an examiner for the CPL, so when he says you're ready..you...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd Sep 2009, 01:12
Replies: 36
Views: 6,457
Posted By boardpig

Just gone over

Yup,

Just gone over. Did cause quite a stir round here and among other places in the city. Not that I mind of course, but I think there might be some explaining to do....noise was rather loud for...
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