bushpilot

The side-shows are as big as the Race: We operate just 5NM from Mount Panorama so we get to see some of the action - heaps of visiting a/c including some very nice corporate jets, plus flyovers by the Hornett and Roulettes, who are based on our field for 3 days. We had a really good experience with the Roulettes on Friday - I was with one of our students and she was landing on the cross-strip as the Roulettes were positioning 3NM out to land on the main strip... So she offered (on the radio) to hold short of the main-strip to allow them a straight in approach. But rather than land immediately, the Roulettes thanked us with a 50' pass over us in formation, then a fan-separation at the end of the runway.. Amazing experience at such close range - but we didnt have our iPhone cameras! See some ground pics at: http://www.facebook.com/CentralWestFlying Cheers, Chris

Hmmm - reading this tells me this is not the place to be having a debate on fiscal dynamics.. but, yes, I started it! And I can't start to imagine what our Mod would come up with as a subject line when they reset this as a new thread.. if we continued it..