WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

AO11912 wrote:I never noticed that in merredin, they were always red, and green when the train was due

I suspect that in towns etc, where the signals could be powered off the mains rather than solar or a generator, they were probably lit all the time. But in remote areas (i.e. middle of nowhere), they are only illuminated when necessary.

ahhh an old favourite of mine

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!

Read http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp and you'll see that it is wrong on a number of levels. (I especially like the part that a Sidewinder is a heat-seeking missile...)

WPXZBP wrote:Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!

Read http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp and you'll see that it is wrong on a number of levels. (I especially like the part that a Sidewinder is a heat-seeking missile...)

Yep - I remember reading about it on Snopes as well ... but even with all its inaccuracies and implausibilities, it's still a funny story

Edit: Whoopsie, forgot to resize it.

Well, i am meant to start my Night rating on wednesday... but this is the plane i'm meant to be flying: (meant to be out thursday... hopefully)

This is the wing, looking towards the engine:



The Engine:

On the front of the prop is the Constant Speed Unit (controlls the speed of the prop)



Looking in the Nose of the aircraft... at the controll system (the big bike chain is what connects the two control colums



The wing with the leading edge taken off... reveling the wing spar. (this had to be inspected because the company that makes the aircraft said so )

so Nafenn is this part of the rating?? you need to know how to put your aircraft back together with no left over screws or screw holes??

Tyranus wrote:so Nafenn is this part of the rating?? you need to know how to put your aircraft back together with no left over screws or screw holes??

Nah... We are pilots, therefore we are idiots... So we can't touch anything with a screwdriver :p

It's just... Broken

Nafenn wrote:

Tyranus wrote:so Nafenn is this part of the rating?? you need to know how to put your aircraft back together with no left over screws or screw holes??

Nah... We are pilots, therefore we are idiots... So we can't touch anything with a screwdriver :p

It's just... Broken

Broken by pilot with screwdriver? interesting pictures though specially your speedo thingy ma doobly on the front of the prop oh and your steering column chain and stuff, all makes sense now.

Looks like that's a pretty serious 100hrly going on there.

Helitak_670 wrote:Looks like that's a pretty serious 100hrly going on there.

yyyyep... they only pulled the front of the wing off to check the spar

Now offline till tuesday, so we are Crosshiring PUZ:

A seriously deformed aircraft at of best of times. Looks like a hyrbid of a 1960 design smacked with touch ups from the 2024 timeframe.

Have fun!

Give me a DHC6-300 any day!

I still reckon the nose looks like something out of "Spy vs Spy"

written_ficton wrote:Give me a DHC6-300 any day!

give me a DHC6-ANYTHING any day

god i love those things