Stephanie, me and number 1

Continious Updates of My Flying Experiences, Pictures & Stories

Flying Stories & Picture Gallery - Click on this link for flying stories, photo galleries and more. New pages are added all the time.
What is in the BOX ?? - Well, we have opened the Box and voila, see what we found.............

Courtesy Bureau of Meteorology of Australia

Bureau of Meteorology - This website provides an overview of the latest weather from the BOM website The notes are written in more understandable English

Courtesy Bureau of Meteorology of Australia

Bureau of Meteorology Satelite Image - This Cloud Animation image takes a little while longer to load, but the animation is incredible and it provides a beautiful picture of Australia and associated cloud formations within the region.

Courtesy Airservices Australia

Air Services Australia - AREA 40 Briefing - Fantastic quick link to the briefing office for Brisbane and surrounding areas

Stephen's own website to promote Para Pilots and would-be Para Pilots

Paraplegics can fly - just ask - I had flown for years in years in South Africa, but was somehow highly intimidated by the rules and regulations and red tape associated with 1st world countries and in particular Australia. I really wondered whether I would be allowed to fly light aircraft here and in my persuits, I met with Stephen. He is a paraplegic confined in a wheelchair and cannot use his legs at all. I went for a fly with him in his cherokee and immediately bought one of his hand-controls which comes fully certified and very easy to install. I've never actually installed mine, but I can assure you, they work well indeed. Read on.....

AMPUTEE FLYING A PITTS - EXCELLENT

Here is a story of an Amputee Pilot flying a Pitts - - "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" Read on.....

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