Yeah. My understanding is that it has the same door which makes the PC12 so perfect for aeromedical ops. But that doesn't tally at all with the promo vid. Fair to say, if it DOESN'T have that door, I won't be flying it.
These days they don't even have a control for that anymore on a lot of aircraft. Pretty sure the Cirrus is single power lever (anyone flown one?) Certainly the PC12 prop is at a constant 1700rpm no matter what phase of flight or power setting. Next step is to have FADEC on pistons and turboprops. Cool.
I think that the Diesel DA40 is single lever. My Cirrus experience is limited to an early SR20 - it had steam instruments - don't think it was single lever, though. I remember that the CSU was playing up, very clearly!
Just take the ------- picture! Sorry to go back to Concorde matters but the papers today regarding Prince Philip and his comment reminded me of this little gem. A Concorde stewardess once told me a royal flight on the beautiful white bird did quite a hard landing at destination. As the royal party left the aeroplane, the Duke said to her "and if the company want to know where the nosewheel is, it's up my arse!".
Two so quick with the same response - echo - mate, non greek sent this through .. There's story he was on an airliner and was invited 'up front'. The aeroplane was in the cruise on autopilot and during the 20 minutes or so he was up there the radio came alive with a request for them to change frequency. Languidly the captain reached out and flicked the dial round. "Crickey", observed the royal personage. "It's all go up here isn't it".
Really because I have friends in Perth and Melbourne. I went to Adelaide once and to be honest not a place I'd like to visit again.
Well I guess if you only want to be a private pilot you can train anywhere. Out of the two I'd choose Perth. Melbourne only has two days a year you can actually fly. If, on the other hand, you want to be a professional you should get used to going to places that suck (like Bangkok) and train at the best school available.
There are a billion flying schools at Moorabbin. Just do the rounds. Also, Lilydale has some good people running their school (last time I looked) and there's not as much traffic.
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Never been to the Smithsonian ASM/Udvar Hazy centre. Jealous!! That and the USAF museum in Dayton (B-70!!) are top of my not-yet-seen list. Been to the museum on the other end of Enola Gay's mission, though - very interesting, albeit not exactly a fun day out.
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Definitely need to see an X-15! You'll have to take the Blackbird World Tour (which is a thing I just invented) - in my case, the SR-71 at Duxford, A-12 in NYC and M-21+D-21 (plus an SR-71 cockpit you can sit in and make jet noises) in Seattle... just got to complete the set with the YF-12 in Dayton I'd quite like to see Discovery too, now that they're all retired.
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Seen Enterprise! It's on the Intrepid in NYC now. Discovery replaced it when they retired, because it was the most heavily used. They're weird in person, aren't they? Sort of... not quite the same shape as expected. And the windows look funny. I'd still go, though One of the 747SCAs lives in Houston, with a mockup shuttle on top. It wasn't open when I saw it, but it sounds like they're gonna put a pretty nice display in it - although I think there's something to be said for leaving it totally empty to let people see just how big a 747 really is inside! Speaking of space things that look weird, I never understood why the X-15 tail was so fat.
