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Author: Stealth PilotStealth Pilot Date: Jun 16, 2008 05:11
I walked outside on Saturday while the toast was cooking and glanced
upward at the most oppressive sight in days.
eight eights blue sky is a common term but doesnt convey the
oppressive nature of all that blue. ...truely it was an impressive
eleven elevenths blue sky that day.
"Hmmm, got to make use of this" I thought as the muffled kerplung of
the toaster resonated behind me.
a quick flog on to the airservices web site showed that the day was
doable. just the mere trifling of a 20 knot headwind to keep life
interesting.
the BOM site showed pretty coloured satellite photos that looked
pretty if not interesting. winding the weather radar out to 256km
showed not a cloud to darken the day.
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Author: More_FlapsMore_Flaps Date: Jun 16, 2008 19:04
On Jun 17, 12:11Â am, Stealth Pilot aeroplanes.com.au>
wrote:> The tank dipped a reassuring 26 litres beside the clubhouse and it was
> in for a goffer.
> 3 hours 28 minutes went into the log book that day for a flight to
> Perenjori and back averaging 20.2 litres per hour at 122 knots
> indicated.
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> not a bad afternoon's trundle If I do say so myself.
> 98 litres of high octane avgas was all it took.
>
I'm puzzled, how do you figure 98 lters with a consumption of 20.2/hr
fot 3.5 hours? Also did you log time on the ground or was your plan
way out?
Cheers
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Author: Stealth PilotStealth Pilot Date: Jun 17, 2008 03:10
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:04:49 -0700 (PDT), More_Flaps
gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 17, 12:11Â am, Stealth Pilot aeroplanes.com.au>
>wrote:>> The tank dipped a reassuring 26 litres beside the clubhouse and it was
>> in for a goffer.
>> 3 hours 28 minutes went into the log book that day for a flight to
>> Perenjori and back averaging 20.2 litres per hour at 122 knots
>> indicated.
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>> not a bad afternoon's trundle If I do say so myself.
>> 98 litres of high octane avgas was all it took.
>>
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>I'm puzzled, how do you figure 98 lters with a consumption of 20.2/hr
>fot 3.5 hours? Also did you log time on the ground or was your plan
>way out?
>
>Cheers
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Author: xyzzyxyzzy Date: Jun 17, 2008 09:42
This post needs pictures. Next time you take a flight like this,
take a camera.
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Author: More_FlapsMore_Flaps Date: Jun 17, 2008 17:42
On Jun 17, 10:10Â pm, Stealth Pilot aeroplanes.com.au>
wrote:> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:04:49 -0700 (PDT), More_Flaps
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> gmail.com> wrote:>>On Jun 17, 12:11Â am, Stealth Pilot aeroplanes.com.au>
>>wrote:>>> The tank dipped a reassuring 26 litres beside the clubhouse and it was
>>> in for a goffer.
>>> 3 hours 28 minutes went into the log book that day for a flight to
>>> Perenjori and back averaging 20.2 litres per hour at 122 knots
>>> indicated.
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>>> not a bad afternoon's trundle If I do say so myself.
>>> 98 litres of high octane avgas was all it took.
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Author: Stealth PilotStealth Pilot Date: Jun 18, 2008 04:22
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:42:39 -0700 (PDT), More_Flaps
gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 17, 10:10Â pm, Stealth Pilot aeroplanes.com.au>
>wrote:>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:04:49 -0700 (PDT), More_Flaps
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>> gmail.com> wrote:>>>On Jun 17, 12:11Â am...
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Author: Stealth PilotStealth Pilot Date: Jun 18, 2008 04:23
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT), xyzzy gmail.com>
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>This post needs pictures. Next time you take a flight like this,
>take a camera.
I did take a camera.
I must get my web site fired up again.
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Author: Don ByrerDon Byrer Date: Jun 18, 2008 15:10
Now why can't us Yanks have some cool sounding places to fly to-like
Goomalling, Dallwallinu, & Perenjori :)
(at least there aren't many here in Ohio!)
I can however, fly into (over) Canada (Pelee Island) and back in an
hour easy...my passengers always think it's the coolest thing:
"we went to Canada"...
Nice trip...makes we want to go out and commit more avaition!
--Don
Cleveland OH
Don Byrer KJ5KB
Radar Tech & Smilin' Commercial Pilot Guy
Glider & CFI wannabe
kj5kb-at-hotmail.com
"I have slipped the surly bonds of earth; now if I can just land without bending the gear..."
"Watch out for those doves... "
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Author: Larry DigheraLarry Dighera Date: Jun 18, 2008 19:52
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:10:22 -0400, Don Byrer hotmail.com>
wrote in <6k1j54pd36rmdet1r5c5mq31kpm1q4cmen@4ax.com>:
>Now why can't us Yanks have some cool sounding places to fly to-like
>Goomalling, Dallwallinu, & Perenjori :)
How about Big Bear Lake, John Wayne International, and Santa Catalina
Island? Cool, but in a different vein. Viv la Difference! :)
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Author: Jim LogajanJim Logajan Date: Jun 18, 2008 20:50
Don Byrer hotmail.com> wrote:> Now why can't us Yanks have some cool sounding places to fly to-like
> Goomalling, Dallwallinu, & Perenjori :)
How about these Yank locations:
Oshkosh, Walla Walla, Rancho Cucamonga, Hoquiam, Humptulips, Snoqualmie,
Puyallup, Ogallala...
> (at least there aren't many here in Ohio!)
I haven't got an Ohio map handy, but I bet Ohio has a few doozy names with
airstrips somewhere near them.
Oh yeah - I cheated a tiny bit: I found this blog where people contributed
a bunch of amusing and odd names:
http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2006/05/city-names-that-make-me-smile-or.html
As to the OP: I don't understand Strine, so I had no idea what his post was
about! ;-)
I sure as heck didn't understand eight eights till I found a reference to
it elsewhere!
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