FLYNOTE wrote:Is the Trixy up and flying yet?

Up and down you might say... At least 3 gone down this year - 2 with fatalities.

I'm busy reading Winds of Destruction, the autobiography of Rhodesian pilot Group Captain (Retd) Peter Petter-Bowyer who played a major role in the development of visual air reconnaissance as a highly effective way of tracking and locating hidden enemy camps during the Rhodesian War. The following c...

from the AVCOM discussion thread: Spoke to the pilot he is fine. Happened over the Kupverberg ridge I assume a combination of lee side turbulence and downdraft aerie seems to be written off Thank you for the feedback Wilhelm, much relieved to hear that the pilot is ok. :D On the topic of downdraft i...

Spoke with him a week or two ago and he's doing well. It's been a long hard road for Gareth but I think he has recovered remarkably well given the severity of the injuries he sustained. Brave man!

Here we go... this should save a lot of Google cutting & pasting
Link to download the FAA rotorcraft flying handbook
http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies ... /aircraft/

Same problem.phone works via mtn. Not with pc.isp is hantamnet.co.za. They can not help me.anny advice this is what our IT guy told me "we found that something has changed on this web site and it does not like the connection go through a proxy. I have removed the proxy config yesterday so this shou...

spoke to ISP this morning... click...click on their side and it's working again

D2O wrote:Who's your ISP?

Afrihost

Absolutely agree with you Vertical Tango vhpy I for one would love to see more RAFs flying in South Africa. But I'm also a (marketing) pragmatist and whilst Henry Ford may have felt that there was no reason for a Model-T to be produced in any colour other than black, the same could not be said for h...

Hi Dave Bring yours to me i have a fair amount of hours in gyros without HS. I will give it a go.............. :lol: Eben, and you know that I have no doubt that you have the skill and experience to fly it 100%! What's interesting is your comment has made me realize that this almost mirrors the RAF...

I have a fair bunch of Magni hours, but I think I'll take the advice of the Emeritus Professor of Aeronautics study paper and not try to fly a Magni without a horizontal stab.

Cleared cookies. Reset IE browse settings. Installed new browser (google chrome).... Same error code

For some reason I've been unable to access microlighters from my PC for the past 2 days - gives a HTTP 406 Error ??? All other sites - AVCOM etc all still working ok on my pc so it's just with microlighters?
Site works ok on my iPad though.

Presume it was Magni M22 :( Submitted by NamibianSun101 on Tue, 2013-06-11 10:10 WINDHOEK ELLANIE SMIT Two people were seriously injured when a gyrocopter crashed on Friday afternoon in Windhoek near Kupferberg. According to the director of aircraft investigation, Ericksson Nengola, the M22 gyrocopt...

From CAA Aircraft Occurrence log April: https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/533925_10200347322640163_1840769801_n.jpg CA18/2/3/9164 15-Apr-13 Gyro MTOSport ZU-REB NC Onseekans - Upington 0 Pilot experienced a down draught near Augrabies and collided with terrain, resulting in subs...