Richie’s Rants!

Mayday - A distress call sent out by an aircraft when its in danger of crashing. Only once did I have to make that call as my aircraft engine suffered a partial engine failure when I was flying down the Williamtown access lane when I was flying for Basair. Anyway, the aircraft I’m flying now in Perth is extremely well maintained & for that, I’m very grateful.

I’m finally flying the Beechcraft Baron!

Able to travel about 185kts, its much faster than even the Duchess! Hmm… Faster single engine aircraft I’ve flown is the 182 which only travels at 135kts. Oh well… I didn’t know a Baron costs $1.2 million since 2006. Pretty expensive aircraft I’m flying! Haha.

Anyway, did I mention that it was great to fly? Until I’ve tried the assymetric flying that is. Assymetric flying? That means you fly with one engine down. Too lazy to explain much.

Flight time for me? 37 weeks here and flown about 103 flights. Averaging at 2.784 flights a week. ETD from Perth is about last week of Jun if progress is as per normal. Chances of that happening? Soon, I hope.

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