Life in GA
Join Date: May 2005
Location: sydney
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
oh come on chief, he's only a kid. :P
condensation:
Fact 1: most GA pilots drive old, run-down cars. this is a fact of life. take a look in the carpark at your flying school. Fact 2: It will be necessary for you to drive your car to the different places where you are seeking work. Can you see any other solution?
I understand that you are currently completing school. I commend to you the following online book which may serve to provide you with some insight for your career planning.
The purpose of this book is to assist you in maximising your potential for employment in the Australian aviation industry and to provide you with some ideas that will strengthen your success potential as a pilot. Although a little outdated, the contents are still very relevant to current industry trends.
http://www.interneering.com/500hrs/00.htm
Regards,
rb26
condensation:
Fact 1: most GA pilots drive old, run-down cars. this is a fact of life. take a look in the carpark at your flying school. Fact 2: It will be necessary for you to drive your car to the different places where you are seeking work. Can you see any other solution?
I understand that you are currently completing school. I commend to you the following online book which may serve to provide you with some insight for your career planning.
The purpose of this book is to assist you in maximising your potential for employment in the Australian aviation industry and to provide you with some ideas that will strengthen your success potential as a pilot. Although a little outdated, the contents are still very relevant to current industry trends.
http://www.interneering.com/500hrs/00.htm
Regards,
rb26
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Left of reality.
Posts: 243
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
cars
Drove from Caloundra to dn to Derby in a 68 Escort a while back seeking work. No aircon in the wet!! hot !!. No job ,
drove to Adelaide did an Ag rating and ended up in Darwin again with the same great little car. Port Mcquaire IFR, WA Dog baiting then back to NT. Sold it to the (locals) for 3000$ , laughed all the way to the bank.
Now wish i,d never sold it. The attachment of failure and success does funny things to me, (said with a tear in my eye)!!.
Probably never seen again after that. But it never owed me a cent.!!
Cheers Multi
drove to Adelaide did an Ag rating and ended up in Darwin again with the same great little car. Port Mcquaire IFR, WA Dog baiting then back to NT. Sold it to the (locals) for 3000$ , laughed all the way to the bank.
Now wish i,d never sold it. The attachment of failure and success does funny things to me, (said with a tear in my eye)!!.
Probably never seen again after that. But it never owed me a cent.!!
Cheers Multi
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: australia
Posts: 39
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
hey raafboy that link sounds good but its not owrking for me is there anyother site like it or another way to get to it
I'm about to set off looking for jobs. the plan is to live out of my car and stay at mates places
I'm about to set off looking for jobs. the plan is to live out of my car and stay at mates places
Join Date: May 2005
Location: sydney
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
hi guys,
to those that have PM'd, it appears that the link to the book, which was very insightful to those considering taking the plunge into GA, has been disabled. pity, it was a great read. maybe try the site in a few days time?
rb26
to those that have PM'd, it appears that the link to the book, which was very insightful to those considering taking the plunge into GA, has been disabled. pity, it was a great read. maybe try the site in a few days time?
rb26
Join Date: May 2005
Location: ON THE HILL
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This has gotta be a wind-up but "seriously" life in GA is great kiddo, just take a look at the rusty old heap of sh*t in the carpark at your flying school. Bound to be a pilot's !
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: AUS
Posts: 331
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Cars ?? Cars ?? The only person driving a car in Top Gun was the chick. Cmon if you are going to slum around Aus, living on the side of the road, flying exotic equipment for crap money it's just got to be a big kick as$ bike.
If you own more than you can fit on the back of a bike you are just not serious about G A.
If you own more than you can fit on the back of a bike you are just not serious about G A.
Not enough $$$ ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 317
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I think the link got "PPRuNe'd", a similar phenomenon to getting "Slashdotted".
Nice to see that PPRuNe has begun to achieve the same notoriety.
For the non-IT people, see http://slashdot.org/ to know what the hell I'm talking about.
Nice to see that PPRuNe has begun to achieve the same notoriety.
For the non-IT people, see http://slashdot.org/ to know what the hell I'm talking about.
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Out There
Posts: 43
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I'm confused!!!
RAAFBOY?? GA?? bit of a contradiction in terms. Unless you're one of those sorts that joined the RAAF reserve for the uniform, and ability to tell women at party's 'Oh I'm in the RAAF' to which the reply is 'so what do you fly?' to which a quick reply of 'not everyone is a pilot, my position of ________ (insert appropriate, ADMINO, OPSO, NURSEO etc) is just as, if not more so important, we're the people that keep those fly-boys in the air', remembering fondly your brief visit to RAAF Willytown where you saw the line of RX8's, in all the colours of the rainbow, in the parking lot.
or you may be genuine, and have the misfortune of having the name Raafael on your birth certificate.
or you may be genuine, and have the misfortune of having the name Raafael on your birth certificate.
Join Date: May 2005
Location: sydney
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Wind up alert
What a sad little man you are.
I'm sorry you feel the need to post such a message, especially when unprovoked.
I won't bother reading whatever you might reply to this - but seriously, do get a life mate.
What a sad little man you are.
I'm sorry you feel the need to post such a message, especially when unprovoked.
I won't bother reading whatever you might reply to this - but seriously, do get a life mate.
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Out There
Posts: 43
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Yes it was a wind up, and I was just kidding, as indicated by the
I was more so curious as to how someone still in the RAAF would be so experienced within GA?
If you seriously took offence to my post, I do apologise, and suggest probably a quick trip to the Q store to get a humour: sense of X 1 issued. Yes another joke
And on another point, I do have a life of which I'm really quite happy with.
I was more so curious as to how someone still in the RAAF would be so experienced within GA?
If you seriously took offence to my post, I do apologise, and suggest probably a quick trip to the Q store to get a humour: sense of X 1 issued. Yes another joke
And on another point, I do have a life of which I'm really quite happy with.
