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I discovered today that an interim report has been released by the ATSB on the recent Canley Vale plane crash.
I witnessed the plane fly over Rooty Hill train station just after 8am on Tuesday 15 June. A few minutes later, the plane crashed into the front yard of a house, next to the Canley [...]

July 15th, 2010 | Category: General News | Comments Off

I started target rifle shooting back in October last year, starting off with the club’s Anschutz 1807’s and such with 54’series actions, but quickly acquiring my own Feinwerkbau custom bench rifle. Shooting at St Marys Indoor Rifle Range, being indoor, there was little breeze (or so I’d thought), but at Sutherland, the range is open [...]

July 4th, 2010 | Tags: Shooting | Category: General News, Rant, Shooting | Leave a comment

About a week ago, I was discussing with a colleague the pain of not finding any Apple iPads for sale in Sydney. It’d been around 4 weeks since they were released into the Aussie market, yet I couldn’t find one anywhere. I wanted to turn up to a store, plop down the plastic, [...]

July 3rd, 2010 | Tags: apple, iPad | Category: General News | Leave a comment

Well, what a fortnight it was!  I attended a Prize Shoot, and won, attended Jerilderie LSF flying event, and came near last, and was witness to the Canley Vale plane crash a few days ago.
North Rocks Prize Shoot (Benchrest)

I’ve not mentioned on Becsta.COM yet that I’m a sports shooter, but the past fortnight has been [...]

June 17th, 2010 | Tags: Benchrest, Jerilderie, Prize Shoot, Prone TR, RBA | Category: Competitions, General News, Gliding Events, Shooting | Leave a comment

Yesterday, I took ownership of the most popular website covering the Australian ice hockey scene, HockeyPulse.  I’m absolutely thrilled and excited to take ownership, and hope that I can expand on the fantastic work to date by Rowan.
This site had been running for a number of years, and gaining in popularity because it was the [...]

March 15th, 2009 | Tags: hockeypulse, Ice Hockey | Category: General News, Ice Hockey | Leave a comment

I attended the Armidale Sailplane Expo 2009 over the Australia Day long weekend recently.  To sum up the weekend:

I flew quite nicely, and quite consistently in the Open Class Thermal Duration.
My Pulsar 3200 also flew well in the Limited Electric Glider event.  The guys discovered a problem with the motor battery during the weekend, Peter [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Category: General News | Comments Off