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  • The Signs Were There - when not to fly!

    ...ch from the other side - over the powerlines.  Bumping along I made my turn, lined up and missed due to too high and crosswind - I would have landed too long (300m strip - not wo...

  • My Sunday Flight

    ...g trikes. The GhostBuster even had retractable flaps! After meetign the Mikes, we had to get back and headed for Eldorado again. Not long after we landed an SUV came barreling over an...

  • Passive Detection Systems.

    ...   In August 2002 Jerry Wilson in his Pocket Rocket hit a power line near Bright in Victoria. Another good friend, Greg Withers, who had landed just before Jerry's crash...

  • Member's Life Stories

    ...their direction of flight after airborne. It was the ground controllers job to mix the soup. Of course there was constant "arrivals" that had just landed and needed to taxi into their...

  • John's Most Excellent Adventure

    ...ce but he extended his downwind by a lot to allow me to cut a few corners and come in for a smooth landing. I'm not sure how hot it was when I landed but a couple hours later I wa...

  • Megafauna Flyaway 2012

    ...d on an already dog-legged route. There is no simple direct route from Yarrawonga to St Arnaud, trust me! As more and more of the varying aircraft landed, local cars turned up to meet...

  • Your Engine Just Quit, Should You Land On A Road Or A Field?

    ...mes at approximately 300 feet AGL. The pilot turn on carb heat, and the engine completely quit. Because the plane was beyond the runway, the pilot landed on a road, striking the left...

  • A trip to North Queensland Australia. AKA The Bundy Run...

    ...air strip is on the top of a flat hill. Harold landed first, on a long bitumen stri...lking about.) The air was turbulent but we all landed safely and taxied to the gras...the foot hills of the Great Dividing Range. We landed at the airport to phoned the...

  • When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD

    ...s beach (blue line), and Morro Rock with it's top obscured to the Left of the photo.  Photo was from beach level.  It formed after I landed on a different day, I think I...

  • Equipment for XC Flying in a Trike- Series of emails

    ...ve!!     3) We talked about your bump tolerance.  How bout winds?  Are you OK landing in gusty situations?  I have landed with wind gusts up to about 1...