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Man Bilong Balus long PNG
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I ditched an A model 402 a long time ago due to stupidity on my part. Nearly cost me my life and ruined my career at the time.
With perseverance I have reached the stage where I get the occasional casual work. With any luck I may even return to full time flying one day.
Needless to say I have learned a salutary lesson and now am very careful that I do not repeat my mistake, as anyone who has flown with me will confirm.
" Only a fool does not learn from his mistakes"
With perseverance I have reached the stage where I get the occasional casual work. With any luck I may even return to full time flying one day.
Needless to say I have learned a salutary lesson and now am very careful that I do not repeat my mistake, as anyone who has flown with me will confirm.
" Only a fool does not learn from his mistakes"
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notrouble........
was with same company and exited same in much in the same manner, only mine was over a metro which I wasnt driving at the time..... was severely blacklisted in darwin and interstate by said company.
No other Darwin company would give me a go..... one said "too high hours", another said we'd love to have you but heres why we cant... (their chief pilot - I really appreciate that mans honesty - told me exactly what was said to them by the management... beneath the lies and spite there was alot of anger on the managements part.) It took a court order to try to curb their tongues and still they persisted.
I survived, life is looking rosey. No doubt as the owner told me, "you will never work in avaition again!".... he meant it with all the conviction he could muster, and he saw to it that his statement would effect everything I did for the next 2 years ......
But as the months turn into years, no one has every held me away from an achievement, not him, not the company.... in the end I make the decisions, I chose to walk....... next walk I do is to finish my ATPL. Always something in the pipeline, always options.
Success in any field is a measure of what can be overcome to achieve a goal. Very few had it easy.....
was with same company and exited same in much in the same manner, only mine was over a metro which I wasnt driving at the time..... was severely blacklisted in darwin and interstate by said company.
No other Darwin company would give me a go..... one said "too high hours", another said we'd love to have you but heres why we cant... (their chief pilot - I really appreciate that mans honesty - told me exactly what was said to them by the management... beneath the lies and spite there was alot of anger on the managements part.) It took a court order to try to curb their tongues and still they persisted.
I survived, life is looking rosey. No doubt as the owner told me, "you will never work in avaition again!".... he meant it with all the conviction he could muster, and he saw to it that his statement would effect everything I did for the next 2 years ......
But as the months turn into years, no one has every held me away from an achievement, not him, not the company.... in the end I make the decisions, I chose to walk....... next walk I do is to finish my ATPL. Always something in the pipeline, always options.
Success in any field is a measure of what can be overcome to achieve a goal. Very few had it easy.....
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Accidents
Its not realy an accident so apologies but i did learn something from it.
Doing inverterd spin recovery in a slingsby, hit 75 knots upsidedown about to put rudder in for my spin and the engine failed.
What lesson did i learn.....
It helps if you put the fuel pump on before aerobatics!!!!
My instructor said he had saw what i had done and wanted to see how i would cope under the situation, we were well above 5000 feet so no problem in recovering and restarting, but whenever im going to do an unusual thing in an aircraft what do i now always check!!!
Doing inverterd spin recovery in a slingsby, hit 75 knots upsidedown about to put rudder in for my spin and the engine failed.
What lesson did i learn.....
It helps if you put the fuel pump on before aerobatics!!!!
My instructor said he had saw what i had done and wanted to see how i would cope under the situation, we were well above 5000 feet so no problem in recovering and restarting, but whenever im going to do an unusual thing in an aircraft what do i now always check!!!
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Hey NC,I knew you wouldnt let a great FAT, PORCHE driving IDIOT with freinds (god knows how....must be the money thing) in high places get ya down. Good onya!!!. Some one else we know just recieved the wages owing to them from said sleezebag......nearly two years later, and the career scene still looks grim for them due to Mr. sleazys spitfullness. 
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One incident, I had a fuel blockage so the eingine stopped whilst at 500ft.
Secound incident, funnily enough on Sept 11th in Alaska! just passing about 300ft after going under a fog bank in a C185, the engine gave up the ghost. A hole as big as your fist in the crank case, smoke and oil everywhere. Made a 180 turn landed, cleaned my draws then got towed in by the coast guard.
Had a heap of near death experiences, usually by myself "pushing it a little" ALLWAYS learnt something from them though.
But hey that's life as a float driver!
Secound incident, funnily enough on Sept 11th in Alaska! just passing about 300ft after going under a fog bank in a C185, the engine gave up the ghost. A hole as big as your fist in the crank case, smoke and oil everywhere. Made a 180 turn landed, cleaned my draws then got towed in by the coast guard.
Had a heap of near death experiences, usually by myself "pushing it a little" ALLWAYS learnt something from them though.
But hey that's life as a float driver!
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hmmmm.....
great FAT, PORCHE driving IDIOT - WIZ I get the feeling you are not telling us something! You of course didn't let this idiot get the better of you. Someone else is certainly being economical with facts here
