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08-30-2009, 02:48 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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| G'day from Australia It is good to find a Forum devoted to one of my loves: Aircraft. I have never been in a position to learn to fly and now, approaching 70 years of age and with poor eyesight and blind in the starboard eye and a dicky ticker, I would never pass the medical. So I have fun with my MS Flight Simulator 2004. The pics are in my photo album. I suppose I could get into a Cessna 172 and a Twin Otter and fly them. They are the planes I use most of the time in the Sim, especially the Twin Otter. I have mastered getting it down at Lukla, in Nepal -on the Sim, of course. I must have about 300 aircraft on that Sim, including most of the WWII aircraft of the RAF, USAAF (USAF), Luftwaffe and Japan. I was brought up on the "Biggles" books and learned much about WWII from them. My father fostered my interest in Aircraft and bought me books and models ( not flying ones). A friend of his had the Flight Manuals for the B24 - a two volumn set. I got a loan of them , but was too honest and returned them when I had studied them. I was to be a photographer and some of the work I got was aerial. I loved going up the Cessnas I chartered, either 172, or 182 depending on the job. The work was for Property Developers in Melbourne, Australia. How's this for a Sim.
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08-30-2009, 05:44 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| G'day mate, Welcome to the forum. cheers
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08-30-2009, 05:53 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Another one!!??  Welcome to the family mate!
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08-30-2009, 05:59 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Vojvodina, Serbia
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| Welcome and greetings from around the globe. Enjoy the forum mate.
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08-30-2009, 06:33 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canberra
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|  G'day eccles. Welcome from another new member. I cant fly either, but love aircraft having lived very close to them all my working life. Now I just make plastic ones with the aid of a magnifying light and love it.  |
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08-30-2009, 07:17 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Welcome aboard mate 
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08-30-2009, 07:20 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Melbourne
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| G'day Eccles! |
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08-30-2009, 07:48 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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08-30-2009, 08:03 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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08-30-2009, 08:09 AM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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08-30-2009, 08:28 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Aw......YES! another Bl**dy Aussie. welcome aboard mate!  ....
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08-30-2009, 08:48 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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08-30-2009, 09:11 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pennsylvania
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08-30-2009, 09:52 AM
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08-30-2009, 10:13 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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