Pictures ! Anything goes, it is the camera corner after all !!

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 7th March 2009, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

A long, long time ago in my 20's I was interested in taking up gliding. My old man was a flight engineer and all his mates were the same, or pilots, etc. Made the booking at a nearby airstrip, spoke to the instructor, all set to go. The day before my maiden flight the instructor was killed in a glider crash

, and my enthusiasm went with it

.

I can still appreciate it from the ground though

Honestly they are quite safe. It does happen from time to time though. As a general rule if you look at a operating club over say 30 years if they are unlucky they might have one fatality (more would be rare unless it was a big club). In that time it's likely that they would loose one or more members to car crashes, and of course many to all the normal diseases and smoking etc.

If you don't take off with an engine you don't take one for granted. You are required to fly by the rule that you must always bee within gliding range of a landable field (or paddock). So, at least you don't fly over mulga or densely populated areas like other light aeroplanes.

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 7th March 2009, 10:14 PM

I forgot to say in the pic you can see all the cool looking instrumentation. However the only **really** important instrument is the piece of cotton wool stuck on the canopy with sticky tape. Loose that and lots of pilots would have difficulty

**29dinosaur** · 7th March 2009, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Stop it 29dinosaur you'll make me want to go back flying again!

Hee Hee (Keepit)

**Chucaro** · 8th March 2009, 06:42 AM

Is this one of the Blaniks glaiders made on the Czech Republic?
Lovely machines

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 8th March 2009, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Is this one of the Blaniks glaiders made on the Czech Republic?
Lovely machines

Those there are fibreglass! Blaniks were alloy (and fly beautifully).

**rmp** · 8th March 2009, 03:25 PM

Nice shot. Little bit of sink there :-(

**matbor** · 23rd April 2009, 09:04 PM

this was buried on page two...

some pics i have taken lately of a few friends.... just to hot things up...

what has everyone else been up too?

**dullbird** · 23rd April 2009, 09:06 PM

The bottom one is nice matt

**matbor** · 23rd April 2009, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by dullbird

The bottom one is nice matt

Did you see the werribee zoo pictures I took with the 300 F4? got to get to Melbourne Zoo in the next couple of weeks before I have to give the lens back

Hope u have been studying those lighting DVD's both of those shots above where shot with a SB-800 in a dark restaurant! Also the one below shot at home with SB-800 and white shot thru umbrella.

Matt.

**dullbird** · 23rd April 2009, 09:23 PM

I'm still only half way through one dvd as its a lot to take in...somethings I went back and re watched.

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