They are fantastic! Gone are the days of flying VOR and NDB approaches in a wide body Jet..They were always fraught with Peril especially the offset breakouts in the Jumbo…New York is a good example on 13L & R..Used to be an ugly VOR approach but now an RNAV approach..Hard to take the money flying it now…
Talented? If you can drive, you can fly. Like driving, however, some are better than others. I'm working on being better. That's what gives me a buzz. Sig www.pless.com.au/mechanics.htm
100% except your missing the most important thing..The art of staying alive..Doesn't matter how good you are …Complacency and ignorance will eventually kill you…
I must get back up to Temora airport in 2023 , they have coming three aircraft flight simulators ....full motion Mustang, Spitfire and a P40.
100% I didn't say it, but I know it. I've seen some really crap flying these last few months, and I don't want to be one of them.
Just lost a really experienced mate yesterday in Zimbabwe…Tens of thousands of hours and a brilliant aviator…
I'm interested in this claim. Unless the rules have changed, you can't go solo in Oz at less than 16. In fact, when I learnt, you couldn't do any official training until you were 16. That didn't stop the kids of rich wankers taking the controls and "going solo" in daddy's plane younger than that, it just wasn't officially recognised. I was 14 and 50 weeks old, when flying a glider at Gawler the instructor got out, closed his canopy, and said "off you go. Congratulations". I had to explain that I wasn't 15 (and therefore couldn't legally go solo in a glider). Went back two weeks later on my birthday and went solo. Did my first powered-aircraft lesson on my 16th birthday, and went solo in a 172 sixteen days later after 7 hours training.
Found this on hoogle When accompanied by a flight instructor, there is no age limit for learning to fly. However, you must be at least 15 years old to fly solo in Australia. Sig www.pless.com.au/mechanics.htm
Yes. Bit of a shame for this website, with Moretti washing planes in WWI and Gary flying Dakotas in WWII it would have been nice to continue the tradition.
Its a pity I didn't know you and Gazza 25 years ago , in those days one friend had a T28 and another a a late 50s from memory MIG or 20 years ago when Ansett went under and a good friend who was the chief engineer tried to get a few of us to buy the Ansett DC3.......we lacked a pilot !
Interesting. Must have changed the differentiation between gliding and powered aircraft, which seems reasonable.
