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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 17, 2015 7:09:56 GMT 12
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 17, 2015 7:07:36 GMT 12
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 16, 2015 14:20:13 GMT 12
Ah, that would be a Cessna... They do that.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 15, 2015 11:43:02 GMT 12
aviation-safety.net/photos/displayphoto.php?id=20060403-0&vnr=3&kind=CThese animated videos are quite neat, I saw the Air France one the other day and then this one was brought to my attention. This was a full aircraft heading to Germany from Dover when they turned back and did a visual approach. The pilot did say they need not do a smooth landing !
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 15, 2015 10:50:08 GMT 12
Just a cool Southerly that arrived just before the rugby and hung around. Not at all cold but just a bit nasty outside when compared to the other days. Can anyone remember the last real rain ? I think we had a little a few nights ago but maybe just enough to look after the vegetation, we are still very much in brown mode here though. I have been in shorts and tee shirt the whole time, busy redecorating and laying carpet, oh and a little cricket on the TV. It was a good crowd and in many ways I wished I had gone in for it. Maybe next time.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 14, 2015 10:09:18 GMT 12
Two different guys but.. Brian Hunter will still be doing crime in the Hawkes Bay while the other chappy, him the helicopter one, seems to have done a runner. It must be very difficult to hide these days though. I can think of at least two blokes I knew (in the 70's) who were on the run and living under false names. There would have been more drifting about on the West Coast back then. I guess it is a little different blending in as a 20yo hippy than a middle aged couple. I can recall working in the gray area in Britain, cash jobs, and people just accept. They don't want to ask deeper as they know the small lies may be exposed. The big lies (if any) would never come to the surface. Even a policeman had a chat to me about work permits and the problems. He was bitter as he had been refused re-entry to NZ as a worker. (Policeman). Indeed he was so bitter he had a big moan and clean forgot he had come to the airfield to investigate a noise complaint. Marcus Norman had been doing low level aero's in a Pitts. While the cop was distracted Marcus landed and made good his escape..... in a Citroen 2CV !
So if you want to hide just let the surrounding people know that you are living a small lie, they will delve no further. Especially if you are well accepted and a threat to no-one. They may even cover for you... It would be the electronic signature that would be the problem in this century though.
Then again, that building engineer that did the CTV building was only undone by the quakes.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 13, 2015 21:40:57 GMT 12
Same guy ? I assumed 'Herb' would have been a little more senior, I was thinking Herbert Bruce.... Maybe I have the wrong guy but I was wearing a smile as I was thinking of the world view from a knuck.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 9, 2015 16:22:44 GMT 12
Deal done, you buy it and I will help get it home. I know exactly where that is at Jandakot, I used to work for another survey company (two actually) just a little closer down Compass Road.
I am sure your father did time in Fletchers as well, a matching pair.. well almost.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 9, 2015 16:04:08 GMT 12
www.nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/saanz-2014-flyin-at-ashburton-very-new.htmlA photo thread of the day's activities. Those with an A1G1Z1 or possibly a Class 1 medical will be able to make out my camera about to go flying in the very first pic. The light blue Cherokee in the background behind PGB. This would be about the time I am taking the lunchtime order phone call from Johhny F, hmmmm what were the choices again, Moa or Harringtons Wobbly Boot ? I dunno, how about I run across and head into town with ya's... CUL left early so the cockies could go home and get on with the harvesting. Peas down in yield due to the very dry weather apparently. Oh, and the beer. Well it was one of those days, sun beating down, a little warm and windy. Thirsty weather so it was a box of each after the appetiser of DB Citrus (Lemon).
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 8, 2015 13:32:53 GMT 12
For NZ Jet. CUL is the blue Cherokee at Waimate. The airfield is 15 Km north of the Waitaki Bridge on SH1. Over the bridge, through Glenavy and carry on for about 14 more clicks. Coincidentally it is the beast I did all my commercial prep and flight test in, back when it was a little newer, but I must say it has not changed much. Peter loves these weekend stories accompanying his pics. Cheers mate. BTW, I was getting down under the panel to show the owners the inspection just released. Piper SB 1242. system.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=62675&c=649290&h=3187438551be7d34fe59&_xt=.pdfCUA, CUL, DEI, DEK, EBZ, FSP, DJI, and other real planes at Ashbuton, Johnny F ? He thinks he may have seen DEL there also.. not a bad turnout. The two Tomahawks there would have stolen the show so were kept in their hangars over the weekend activities.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 7, 2015 17:47:48 GMT 12
I took a real camera. Rather than bothering to carry it about and to save batteries I stuck it in a Cherokee 140 (a real aeroplane) and sent it off on a cross country. I am looking at how to retrieve it from Waimate now...
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 6, 2015 23:49:03 GMT 12
Numerous times in my career I can recall having a limited time to make a diagnosis and get the rectification underway. As an aircraft engineer you may have minutes rather than seconds. You know you have been trained and given the knowledge to assess and quickly react, hopefully with some options or even a solution. An airline engineer operating on the ramp can be under horrendous pressure, a few times a week even. As a pilot flying a multi-engine aircraft you have much less time and things are done in seconds, often against a drill. Fortunately the time interval is much greater. I could not count the times I have either flown an aircraft asymmetric or been involved as tech crew during test flights of the same. We do it often and as an engineer, with knowledge of the type and systems, we are very much applying another set of eyes..... it is our butt that could fall from the sky. As a pilot you do the identification/verification drill etc before acting, the engineer in me slows the drill down as rest assured there is some thinking going on also. Some of the pilots can seem very rusty but still rattle through the drill, wham, wham, wham.... In that case my eyes are very much on the instruments and then watching very carefully where hands and feet are going..! There will be many guys here that have flown a multi-engined aircraft about on one engine. They know the drills, the feeling or response, - and more importantly the performance of the machine. Most here will understand the importance of VMCa and the death roll which will result if not careful. I say this in the knowledge that news of the contents of the black boxes is now being released. The excellent video footage and quick access to the FDR etc will allow rapid dissemination of the info to the flying community and public alike. In the coming hours there will be much discussion on how this crew (3 pilots) got themselves into the situation they did. It will make Barnsey's last sentence even more poignant I suspect. Unfortunately for the passengers, and relatives, it is not going to ease the pain and suffering one bit. A sad state of affairs. twitter.com/gerrys
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 6, 2015 11:29:01 GMT 12
Plastic aeroplanes. Does he still have to pay landing charges ?
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 6, 2015 11:19:16 GMT 12
Yep, they would be the first four I could come up with. George, Sandy, Jerry and Al. I would be interested to hear the names of some of the others.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 6, 2015 11:10:17 GMT 12
This is a tricky one, I think a few here have realised it is probably one of those loaded RTFQ examples the military are so good at. I will have a crack though. Weekend, used to be the days of Saturday and Sunday back in the day. Bit more difficult to tell this century with different shop and pub opening hours. The long weekends could be a bit confusing as we may have an extra day or two thrown in. Omaka, used to be an airfield near Blenheim. Again with the urban sprawl and decline in GA the term airfield could be a little flexible. Many examples of 'airfields' are now just names where flying activity used to take place but are now either a place on a map, maybe some old buildings, and often featured in forum threads. Someone else here may be able to have a better go at the question. They may not over-think it. Just thinking about it, I have flown an aircraft with more than two engines off Omaka. I am sure others have as well but it may have been a little unusual and different. Obviously many twins have operated from there over the decades but how about some of the heavier machines ?
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 5, 2015 14:03:33 GMT 12
First of all a welcome to the site Dennis. Your website is still under construction as I write but Mr Google seems to know you. I still can't understand why you are smiling in the pic, I worked on an Airtruck, - once. Long term hangar queen on rebuild but it did fly...Nelson and about September 1987. thecolletonian.com/palmetto-aero-bringing-jobs-energy/The journalist called it an Alf Truck, another reason to smile... I look forward to the flow of info here. Has Peter done an Air Truck thread yet ? *** EDIT *** Indeed he has. rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/12314/pl-11-airtruck
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 5, 2015 13:46:46 GMT 12
No, I think the car did change lanes after seeing the aircraft. There was a shot on the midday news actually filmed from the vehicle directly behind that cam car. Quite something that of the handful of cars travelling in that direction we would see footage from three of them. Then again the car may have swerved to avoid the debris that instantly appeared just metres ahead. They are saying they have 15 survivors, what an ordeal but miraculous. That crash looked really ugly.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 5, 2015 9:10:27 GMT 12
It is difficult to say what they were up to but I think the aircraft had stopped flying well before all this. The relative airflow is all over the place and the aircraft is literally just dropping. Do you think both engines may not be producing power ? It would appear they are headed for the river but have turned in to the 'dead' engine. Amazing footage and it makes you wonder at what point the drivers were aware of the aircraft. The camera car did a quick lane change just in time.
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 4, 2015 20:33:49 GMT 12
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 3, 2015 10:32:36 GMT 12
Flight AF447 (Air France A330 mid Atlantic crash) - official BEA animation
There are certainly some similar aspects, the sustained stall and flop into the ogin.
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