Aussie Aircraft Thread

But it is a Cessna T172

 

Front wheel covered in mud - I think I can see how it happened

 

Prefer a video of a T172

 

One of these?

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Is that syndicated

 

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Poor Gayry.

 

Contact from our international flyboy :

"Hey Klinkey!

All is well mate! I didn’t realise the mountain of work that had to be done to ride a new horse!!! Just got back from an month in Miami doing my Boeing Instructors course…Just about all done now..I’ve been rebuilding carbies, working on the Cooper S in between..Im off to Jakarta on the 20th so should finally have time to banter with you Homo’s…Hope you are well mate! Talk soon Gaz xx"

 

Next he will be sending "happy holiday snaps"

 

Forgot to mention, on our CP flight from HKG to MEL at baggage PU I asked the pilots if they knew Gazza?

"Yes" "and a good bloke" "lacking landing skill"
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Err no, just a few other under-the-cover issues. very odd dress sense when flying.
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An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 lrm/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.
The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight isn't it? Now have a look here! "
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: "Well, how was that?"
The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but watch this! " The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that?
Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?"
The AirBus pilot laughs and says: "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry. "
The moral of the story is: When you're young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important.
This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older and Smarter

 

^^^^^except some of us subscribe to the “do not go gentle into that good night...” idea...

 

Agree this should be a standard DOC for all events -Far to dangerous these days to drive quick on public roads ..

 

What's the old saying?
There are bold pilots and Old pilots.
No old and bold pilots.

 

Each year in Melbourne their is a LCCV lunch called "The Old and the Bold"

 

Olio.

 

There getting old ............too old for me .

 

There'd be a few of you BTC's on here that would use this service,in fact Greg and Ian are probably the major shareholders:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pets-fly-in-cabin-of-skye-charter-jets-between-uk-and-australia/102517410