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by **chopper_nut** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:27 pm

Some of you here know but for those of you who dont, Im off to Aussie tomorrow morning. Im going without a computer so as a result Ill be offline for a fair while. If anybody wants to contact me, md500f@gmail.com is my email addy. Ill see you in the near future hopefully.

Nick

by **Splitpin** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:33 pm

All the best Nick....sorry i missed you at Omaka....fly safe

by **dbcunnz** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:58 pm

Good luck with your new job Nick If I was young again I would be off over there too

by **Splitpin** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:05 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jun 26 2011,10:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Good luck with your new job Nick If I was young again I would be off over there too

Uncle D, YOU have too much do sorting out this monster competition you created

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:50 am

Nick , you come back now hear

Mate - My place open home on any NZ visit

by **Naki** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:02 am

Good luck Nick!

by **scaber** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:03 am

I hope things work out well for you over there. Not sure about going 'cold turkey' with not taking a computer with you!

I'm pleased to have been able to meet you at Omaka and not doubt we will bump into each other again some time in the future.

Cheers

by **spongebob206** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:49 pm

All the best CN

Take care mate

by **chopper_nut** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:11 pm

Well, I'm more or less set up in Bathurst / Orange now. Its probably about time I posted some photos of some of the goings on here. They are taken with an iPhone so sorry about the 'fish eye' look.

Our fleet crammed into the hanger.

These were here prior to going out on station for the fire season, they have a Cessna 337 as the spotter.

Off to Dubbo with a student.

On the ground at Dubbo, waiting for the fuel truck.

Real men fly without an AH.

Random collection of DC3s.

Photo shoot for the local paper.

Visiting fire spotter.

My friend whos been riding along with me in the car for quite some time now.

Ill post more as I take them.

Why oh why does photopucket keep changing my settings Grrrrrrrrrrrr

by **Ian Warren** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:18 pm

Great views , DC-3 alley downstairs , and your friend , a 'Huntsman' ? Al and jod's , family in Allbury have a couple , keeps the bugs out

by **chopper_nut** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:27 pm

Yeh I dont mind the Huntsman, I just dont want it crawling across my lap while Im driving!

Why the hell cant I shrink those photos down?

by **Ian Warren** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:33 pm

Wonder if its saved as another picture format , some wont reduce unless edited . you don,t have problem with screen shots , maybe the problem

by **chopper_nut** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:35 pm

Ive shrunk it down in photobucket and uploaded them again and it comes up the same size here so I dunno.

by **Nzeddy** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:09 pm

I use VSO Image Resizer 4.

by **dbcunnz** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:02 pm

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Sep 23 2011,1:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ive shrunk it down in photobucket and uploaded them again and it comes up the same size here so I dunno.

I resize them all before uploading to Photobucket then use the Best possible quality (while staying 1mb or less)and they seem to come out at the size that I upload them at.

by **AndrewJamez** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:07 pm

those aerial terrain shots instantly remind me of flying orbx AU. Is there a line in your pre flight that say's "remove all insanly large spinders and creepy crawlys"? I think some kiwi's would jump out of there own plane if one of those crawled across the instrument panel during flight. lol

by **chopper_nut** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:55 pm

AndrewJamez wrote:
QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Sep 22 2011,6:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
those aerial terrain shots instantly remind me of flying orbx AU. Is there a line in your pre flight that say's "remove all insanly large spinders and creepy crawlys"? I think some kiwi's would jump out of there own plane if one of those crawled across the instrument panel during flight. lol

Orbx does simulate oz quite well. That spider is a baby, they can get as big as dinner plates, although thats pretty rare, most of the ones you actually see are about that size. Completely harmless too although gives you a bit of a fright when they crawl across your hand or something.

by **Splitpin** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:46 pm

"Completely harmless too "

YEAH RIGHT CN.......except for your nerves.
I can remember coming home on a P-3 from Oz a long time ago, and one of those got onboard somehow.....anyway half way across the tasman he/she decided to go for a walk across the TACNAV's legs.....Ive never seen a grown man move so fast in all my life...he brushed it off , onto the guy next to him.....complete chaos for about 5 minutes....then it vanished!!
Needless to say MAF had a ball when we got home.....gassed the whole aircraft....but never found it, maybe its decendents are still alive and well in 02.

Great pics, and good to hear from you again....keep them coming

by **jastheace** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:45 pm

ahh yes the glorious huntsman, layed a full can of industrial strength fly spray on one at the request of my wife, damn thing looked at us then scuttled off to hide with no ill effect, tough buggers they are. scare the bejesus out of you in the middle of the night though.

if you are ever in Brisbane give us a yell

Jason

by **chopper_nut** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:11 am

Couple more from this morning.

We share our hanger with a couple of other aircraft.

See these all the time, three times a day during the week and before you all ask, none of them are
ex Air Nelson.

NZFF

Im outta here

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