A former CFI at my club once said if you are enjoying it you are not flying
fast enough
K.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:48:25 +1000
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Music in General
If you've got music in the
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The question is, if the mag is free to us, why not publish it in
parallel on the GFA site or give us the option to take either version?
After all, it's only one click of a button in something like Indesign.
The mag is not free, it is a component of the GFA fee @ $42 for individual
Is it only me who gets these ads? I don't need or want them.
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:02:17 -0700
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To: peter.trott...@bigpond.com; rhender...@iinet.net.au; robc...@adam.com.au;
alan...@iinet.net.au; ldonal...@hotmail.com; gav...@au1.ibm.com;
There is an outfit in Melbourne, and possibly other states, that do a
simulation using a maskwith a lowered oxy level rather than a chamber, some of
our club members have done it and itseemed to work OK. www.hypoxic-training.com
K. McG.
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:13:34 +0930
From:
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Ph 07 3274 4732
They also now do the GFA insurances. I just last week put our club fleet
insurance with them and saved heaps
K. McG.
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:28:01 +1000
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Terry could you please contact me off line.
K. McG.
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Pretty impressive but, look at www.radiusairshows.com
More gentle flying to laid back music rather than the wham bang and finishes
with an inverted ribbon cut at 25Ft AGL. Also his night show is something to
see.
K. McG.
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A few years ago a self launching owner / pilot returned very quickly after take
off at the
Grampian wave weekend when he discovered the elevator was not connected. Rather
than have a second signing he said that he had checked it twice himself
despite there
being anywhere up to 20 - 25 other
What a sad, little person. (I almost wrote man)
K
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:30:28 +1000
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From: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] One person rigging
LOL!. I guess people routinely spend $1500 or so on One person
rigging aids with
In 2005 whilst at Oshkosh I purchased two MH systems, one I sent to a
California address the other I carried with me. The next time I checked in for
a flight I had the bottle with me and was initially knocked back by security.
Another of the security staff then said he would x-ray the bottle to
Lets get real here, it is a well known fact, and stated on this forum many
times previously that AEF's result in few new members to gliding, in fact often
they just clog up the day but we do them in the hope that maybe this one will
join.
At my club we have a fairly simple way of charging for
You should all think yourselves lucky that the new improved and updated version
of the irish china man (Pat Ching) left Avalon early last Saturday, if not he
would still be swimming back to shore.
K
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:29:57 +
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Re various
I believe this forum exists so we can debate the issues, am I misguided?
Little of this weeks mail could be described as debate it has been
To those that either missed it or choose to ignore it, below again is a recent
post from Bernard.
When I spoke to a GFA official yesterday (12/11) I was also told ONLY CASA can
issue a licence and they too busy with other matters to do it now.
K. McG.
From:
If you think the HGFA system works then you can't be reading the same Soaring
Australia as the rest of us, not only do committee members seem to quit within
months of being elected now the General Manager has apparently also quit. Page
38 of the November issue of Soaring Australia gives the
Last Saturday the young turks at Geelong Gliding Club based at Bacchus Marsh
organised a dawn to dusk flying day.
Dawn was at 6.00 AM and the first launch was at 6.10. BBQ breakfast and lunch
were provided at nominal cost along with festive treats like turkey rolls and
mince pies. Both
Monday evening on ABC2 the son of Ozzy Osbourne, Jack, along with some mates
goes gliding.
K. McG.
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No it means she is no lady.
A lady would not admit to being able to compare (multiple partners!!)
K.
So when a Lady says your average in bed, Is that Mean ??
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Bob Hoover has done this at a couple of Avalon's and the pylon races in
Tasmania. I was lucky enough at both Avalon's to have spent some hours with Bob
and he was, for a man of his stature in aviation as nice and normal as you
could find, whilst others that we worked with were so far up
It now lives at Bacchus Marsh in the care of Geelong gliding Club.
If my memory is right there was an attempt to launch a glider at Bcs during the
vintage rally
in the mid 70's.
K. McG.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:44:29 +1030
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On the up side you have the makings of one hell of a bonfire.
K.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:29:32 +0800
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Beverley Storm damage
Hi Folks,
Just to let you know that Beverley airfield suffered damage
All three clubs at Bacchus have histories going back 60 - 80 years, this
history is important to the members and the gliding movement in general and
should be maintained. They came together in the 60's and whilst maintaining
their individual identities, do co-operatively work together and
I have had good service and price for belts at www.aviationbelts.com.au in
Toowoomba
K.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:01:02 -0300
From: carlric...@gmail.com
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Puchacz Help!!
Hello Guys,
We just finnished all the ADs for our
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Call me old fashioned, but I thought competition was what a contest was
for.
YOUR OLD FASHIONED.
It won't make any difference to under 18's, of whom 16, more than 30%
attended the last Joey glide Mark as it is *illegal* for them to drink.
IT IS NOT
All this talk about medicals, who forgot to take their medication this
morning?
K
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Promoting Gliding in
I always thought that he (Ian) was adopted.
K
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Good news for some? from Avweb.
K
FAA CERTIFICATION OF NEW COMMUTER ZEPPELIN UNDER WAY
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/861-full.html#195138)
The FAA has issued proposed design criteria
(http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-7302.htm)
See front page of GFA web.
K
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For those that may have missed it the paraglider pilots own story of climbing
to 32,000 in a comp held in Oz early this year.
www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/october-november/above_and_beyond.php?=1
K
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Overpaid or Underpaid?
The Hearn glider on floats was on display at the GFA AGM in Melbourne a couple
of years ago.
K.
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From Col Collyer: Hanna Reich did some tests
At Essendon (Melbourne) Avgas is $1.79.19 / Ltr and Jet A1 is $1.80
K
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Hi All,Whilst I understand the disgust at the price of diesel, it isnt very
relevant to the discussion.As I
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:26:10 +0930From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: [Aus-soaring] Forward slips?
I imagine that most of us use Wikipedia from time to time - I certainly do.I
was curious to read in its account of the Gimli Glider, that the pilot executed
a forward slip to lose
For those who may have not already seen it there is a somewhat unusual
flying machine at www.homepages.about.com/dmaerosafe4/eagle/
K. McG.
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:40:54 +1100
Your Peter Buskins doesn't work??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/11/02
From this weeks Avweb,
McG
SHORT FINAL...
Overheard December 18, 2003, at a local gliderport...A moment of
silence everyone, for today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
tow plane.
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Neil Joiner at Australian NDT based in Melbourne and Morwell in Vic. has the
gear and will travel. Has done several jobs for my club including Pawnee
AD's and have known him personally for 30 plus years
Phone 9397 6834 or 5134 8255
Kevin
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son Ian has pointd out Alan at 80 yrs. young is still active
and flying tugs with his club.
Kevin McGowan
Hon. Sec.
Geelong Gliding Club
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For anyone interested in the transcript of Alan Patchings interview on ABC
radio yesterday see the following.
K. McG.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s1160207.htm
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Not sure what Puchacz you refer to as our clubs one is made of GRP, no doubt
there are rivets in some places but not enough to require grounding when and
if they work loose.
Kevin
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A few drops of lemon juice into the empty bag also seems to keep out the
nasties, we have used this method at our house for the last 3-4 years with
good results. You can buy the juice in a small plastic bottle from the
supermarket.
Kevin McG
Every now and then, fill up the bottle with water
My club has also safely flown a Puchacz for many years, its spinning
charachteristics are as good or better that most if not all two seat
gliders, it is started and stopped exactly as stated in the book The thing
that is different with the Pooch is that it will lose more height than most
two
All,
I had a conversation with Marcia in the GFA office on Friday and she said
that Rod Kinnear had made the last copies for the GFA he had nothing to do
with it otherwise.
McG
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Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Minutes of
different dates flown by different pilots having precisely the same
heavy-landing accident, which appears to be what the Robert Harts of
the world want to see column-inches in Soaring Australia wasted on.
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Having just read
I have started to think my computor has caught some virus as all of the mails that I have been getting from this list seem to be repeats of ones that I have had before so in an attempt to break this cycle I am sending this note Re PPL medicals which shows thatwhen asking gliderpilots to pass such
Ian has been GLIDING for years he is nowlooking attaking up SOARING.
McG
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This system certainly works, an outfit i once worked at used it. The downside is that you have to pay to have it transferred, as I recall each time a call is transferred you incur a charge equivalent to the initial call ie long distance if applicable.
K
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Also not gliding but worth a look at the following link.
K
Subject: FW: [UKaerobatics] FW: Harvard's on a wet South African runway...
This is the reference to the video clip...
Amazing flying...
South Africansgo figure!!
http://www.flightzone.co.za/media/harvards.wmv
Mike Valentine told a story of the resident cat at Euroa who often went for a
flight in the Blanik
curled up in the space behind the instructors head. On this occasion the cat
sat on the instructors
lap and as it was only a check flight the instructor allowed it. As the winch
launch
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