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Hi All,


Please read my posts on this thread.  Everything you need is all in here.  I can not say anymore than what I've already said.

Hope you understand.



kiwi992.

Hi all,


Yeap, that guy called 'chairman' is Nigerian!  How so sad for one of our own.



kiwi992.

Hi Briz,


Cool.


kiwi992.

Hi,


Good.  I'm really glad to hear it. 

Thanks to Channel 4 TV in the UK for airing that program.  Glad everyone is now aware of it and finally taken a decisive action about it.

The next program to be aired on Channel 4 is about child brides in Nigeria.  It's scheduled to take place on the 2nd of January, 2009.



kiwi992.

Hi Mohawk,


Yeap.  Very good observation on your part.  Even if they do know your name, you get called 'Charlie' all of the time.

Saying such things as 'me plus am' (he and I), 'a for talk am sey' (I'd have told him), 'the gbenye' (the girl) 'o jalo' (o jare)



kiwi992.

Hi All,



Hmm - some of the so-called Ijaw names you guys are posting here just baffle me. 

I'm a Kalabari and so should be able to make out many of those names but it seems that some people here (naming no names) are just making them up.

Say no more.



kiwi992.

Hi Briz,


Done.


kiwi992.

Hi Wham,


Thanks for your comments.

I just wish that aviation training would become more accessible to our people than it is at the moment.  Everything in Nigeria is such a big deal, I simply can't understand.  Stumbling block here, stumbling block there, simply to estop people from fulfiling their career aspirations.  How so very sad.  In the end, it is Nigeria that loses because our people are not allowed to exploit their full potential.

I acquired the various skills that I have got because I live in the UK where education is open to all, as it is in the USA.  If you wish to become a Pilot, Aircraft Engineer or Avionics Engineer, you just go to a flying school, pay the fees and start the training.  No big deal.  In Nigeria, it is so much hard work.  You'd probably be expected to have a PhD in Physics or something similar (despite their published selection criteria), before someone would even take a look at you, let alone the sweetner that you'll be required to pay to the corrupt officials, just to get your foot in the doorway.  How so sad.

I have seen musicians that have successfully trained to become very good Pilots simply because music and flying are closely-related.  Both require good co-ordination skills.  I bet nobody would ever give anybody the chance to commence a Pilot training in Nigeria if the one is musically talented.  Little do they know what they are missing.

My advice to all and sundry - be very strong and determined.  You'll get there in the end.



kiwi992.

Hi,

So like pikin, almost all other pidgin words are spoken in Liberia, Ghana and S/Leone.

Ghanaians can not speak pidgeon English.

Not the ones that have lived in Nigeria but those of them in their own country or abroad.  You should hear them speak it, you'll fall off your seat laughing!



kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


You said:

Just like you have previously adviced on this thread, I would like to personally implement SAP (R/3) on my PC(although, I acknowledge my low IT skills,sincerely beleive I can do it).Please,kindly help on the SAP training software(IDES ECC 6.0)-since this is what I'll need to do the practical training.

Everything that you need is in that link.  I mean everything!     

I think that you guys need to form a study group - as there are quite a few of you in this Forum that are very much interested in achieving the SAP Consultancy Certification.  Please go through the postings here and you'll see them - Raheem and Shawn are two people that come to mind. I'm sure there are many others.

Just ask them to come in here and sign up for an SAP Study Group.



kiwi992.

Hi Briz,


Are you talking about the coded link that I gave out? If so, just drop your e-mail address here and I'll see what I can do for you.

Other than that, I don't know which password you are talking about. Sorry.



kiwi992.

Hi Mishooo,



First of all, you should have had the simple courtesy to come here to say 'thanks' because the link was sent to you since yesterday morning.

Instead of doing that, you just kept quiet about it and then came back here, pretending that I hadn't obliged your request and asking more questions, hoping that I would answer you.  That's pure bad manners, if you ask me.

Whatever you do, please try not to take advantage of my kind nature because I would simply stop helping everybody, Nigerian or not.  Tell you the truth, I don't think that anybody would have been forthcoming in wanting to help other fellow-Nigerians in this Forum, as I have been doing.  Perhaps you think I'm daft because I'm not selling those material to you lot. 

Secondly, everything you need is there for you.  Everything!  You just need to know what you want and go about looking for it the right way. 

Thirdly, you should do your own research, as well as reading the posts on this thread and not keep asking and asking.  You ought to have known, by reading my previous posts on this thread, that Novel NetWare is dead.  It's been dead for many, many years.  Novel even had to sell off their office equipment that many years ago because nobody wanted that damn product of theirs which was killed off by Windows NT. 

If you think it's hard to get hold of training material or whatever, you would soon realise that it is indeed far, far more difficult to train for, and pass those Consultancy certification exams.

The rest is up to you.



kiwi992.

Hi Mishooo,


Do check your mail box. 


kiwi992.

Hi Wham,


Cool. No probs.


kiwi992.

Briz,


I'm most sorry but I can't help you there because I am NOT a cracker.  Maybe you should look into using brute force password crackers to break the password if you've already got the software.

That said, if you are talking about my coded links in this thread, I'm afraid, you'll have to use your resourcefulness to de-code the links, just like others have done. 

Sorry mate.



kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


No probs. You are most welcome. Do make good use of it.


kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


I've just re-sent it.

Actually, it was my fault. I inadvertently sent it to graphmone@yahoo.com. A typo - the 'y' having been left out! Sorry about that.



kiwi992.

Not too many left to feast your eyes:

11.  DragonFly - from another angle

12.  Alatus-M - this is an SSDR motorised sailplane that's made in the Ukraine.  A glider has no engine on it but a sailplane does.  You fly this type of aircraft under thermic condtions.  You go looking for the thermals and use the lift created by the rising air columns to fly them.  One can fly very long distances with a sailplane (and glider) and indeed, thousands of feet up.  You literaly are flying from the seat of your pants - pure, raw, un-adulterated flying.  Oh yes!!  It takes a lot of balls and a heart of steel to fly these types of aircraft because you go flying when the weather is rowdy (and indeed, most scary to fly).  You go flying when every other pilot is grounded due to the dreaded mid-day thermals - when the air is rising and bumpy.  On a 'blue' day (no thermals), you can just fly around using the tiny 2-stroke Black Magic engine on it (on this particular one).  The engines on sailplanes are retractable and you mostly use them for take-offs and landings, in addition to using them to fly back to your airfield when the thermals die down in the late afternoons.  I really like this aircraft but the problem is the wingspan, hence how to hangar it without having to incur too much hangarage cost.  The Alatus-M can be dismantled into five pieces, then packed into their cases and carried on your car's roof rack for transportation to your home.  This includes the wings.

That's it, folks.  Hope you liked the photos.  I didn't take any photograph of the bigger (and boring) aircraft because they do not interest me.

Hopefully, by now, you guys have come to realise that there are other forms of General Aviation (GA) that can equally get you up and flying, as well as going cross-country (xc), just like the Cessnas, Pipers, Boeings, Airbuses, Robinsons and so on, do.  At the end of the day, flying is flying and it's the various aircraft listed here that give you the most fun, if all you want to do is simply to get in the air (with or without your friends) and have a good time by flying for leisure and visiting far-away places. 

Good luck to you in your quest to become Pilots.  See you in the skies. 



kiwi992.

Just a few more:

9.  Paramotor - this type of aircraft is pure fun to fly, with a great deal of following all over the world.  You can carry the aircraft at the back of your car, the wing included.  The wing is made of fabric but very sturdy.  Some of the wings are termed 'reflex wings' and can indeed, carve through thermals with a great deal of ease.  I learnt a lot about aircraft engines from these types of aircraft.  It would be unsafe to fly them without proper training (though you do not require a licence to fly them in the UK or USA).  You just strap the frame (with the attached engine and propeller) to your back and take a few running steps.  You would be airborne before you know it.  It is most important to get a powerful motor that's relative to your empty weight.  Engine thrust is extremely crucial with this type of flying else you'll run forever whilst trying to take-off.  There are electric paramotors out now as well.  The Hirth F33, Simonini 200, Bailey 4-stroke and the Black Devil engines are some of the most popular engines that are used on this type of aircraft.  Endurance on them varies.  By the way, that's only a dummy strapped to a Bailey 4-stroke paramotor (with a titanium frame) just for show.  I bet you didn't notice, did ya?


10.  An electric paramotor powered by a Chinese-made nikel battery that gives an endurance of around 30-45 minutes.  The technology is still new and the endurance would definitely increase when battery technology matures.
 
The last ones are yet to come.



kiwi992.

Here are some more:


7. FlyCar - from another angle

8. DragonFly - this is a flexwing microlight that meets the SSDR requirement. It is powered by an 18hp Bailey 4-stroke engine. It sips fuel at 2-3 litres per hour. An ideal aircraft for thermaling and cross-country flying, if you don't mind the cold. It really, really is well-put together. It's even got electric retracts (wheels). A very beautiful aircraft.

Yet more to come.



kiwi992.

Yet more:


5.  Aerochute - this is a PPC (powered parachute) that's made in Australia and has a Rotax 503 2-stroke engine.  A two-seater aircraft suitable for bimbling around the local airfield in the mornings and evenings when there are no thermals.  You could, of course go cross-country flying with it.  However, it is non-enclosed, as you can see and you'll most likely freeze your wotsits off.  That said, the open cockpit is pure fun when the weather is good.  This aircraft is very light - 75kg empty weight, and comes with an eliptical wing that you can pack into your car, in addition to a purpose-built trailer to take it home and hangar in your garage.  I spent quite a bit of time looking at it.  In fact, I went back twice to view it.  I seem to quite like it but not too sure about the engine on it because although it (Rotax 503) has a lot of grunt, it is much too thirsty - consumes about 15 litres per hour at 70 mph.  I'd have much preferred to see the Japanese HKS 700E 4-stroke engine on it as it consumes only around 7 litres per hour with two up, although marginally less thrusty than the Rotax 503. The best part being that it is a 4-t engine.  Oh yeah, what you see in the middle of the two seat belts is one of the toggles that's used to control the aircraft.  There are two of them - one for your right hand and the other for your left.

6.  Magni M22 gyroplane.  This is an open cockpit Italian-made gyrocopter.  Magnis are known to be very stable aircraft with no reported cases of PIO (pilot induced oscillation) or burnt-over (PPO) which is a dangerous situation that arises as a result of the propeller thrustline not being aligned directly with the aircraft's centre of gravity (e.g. in high thrustline gyros), and having the prop slipstream not centred in the middle of the horizontal stabiliser (H-stab), and a keel which is not located aft enough to dampen down any oscillation that occurs when the nose of the aircraft pitches up or down.  That said, gyroplanes are the safest aircraft to fly because they do not stall even with an engine failure since the rotor auto-rotates (just like the leaf of a sycamore tree) hence, does not need engine power to keep it rotating.  It is mostly pilot error that causes accidents in this type of aircraft, in addition to the flawed design of some of the older gyrocopters that did not remain within the design parameters of Dr Igor Benson - a pioneer of gyroplanes and the Spanish inventor of the autogyro named De La Cierva.  This type of aircraft is the pre-cursor to the helicopter.  You can fly them in the thermals without any problem whatsoever because the rotors spin in excess of 300 mph.  By the way, Magnis are not yet certified in the UK so, it would be illegal to fly them over here.  I hear that it would be around July or August when they eventually get certified.  This is a nice aircraft for touring, with a large luggage compartment by the sides.  That said, I still very much prefer the Calidus for serious cross-country flying because it has a fully-enclosed glass cockpit, hence you are not exposed to the elements, so, both you and your passenger can fly in comfort. 

Feast your eyes - more to come.



kiwi992.

Some more:


3.  Calidus (gyrocopter).  This is the aircraft for me.  A well-built German gyroplane with a fully-enclosed engine and cockpit, in addition to tandem sitting.  It's powered by a Rotax 912 ULS engine but you can get the 914 turbo engine as an option. This is the aircraft that I would really like to buy and fly to my home town - Bakana, in the Niger Delta, on a flying adventure.  Superb, just superb!  Very roomy with a heated cabin, German quality workmanship, and an all-round aircraft for serious cross-country touring.  What a beauty!  By the way, the makers of this aircraft also manufacture the MT-03, a non-enclosed gyrocopter that's really popular all over the world because it was the first aircraft of its kind to get certification by the various national aviation authorities.  Prior to that, all gyroplanes were home-built!      

4.  Escapade Kid - a fully-enclosed SSDR aircraft with a Hirth F33 engine and an empty weight of just 103kg.  This aircraft is well put together and I found myself spending a lot of time on its stand.  It has a folding wing - just take one bolt from each wing and then fold them back for transportation to your home.  It only takes two minutes to do so.  The engine on it is German and is superb, with a Bing carb.  Very efficient and reliable even though a two-stroke.

Still, more to come.



kiwi992.

Hi All,


As promised, here are some of the photos that I took yesterday at SPLASH in Birmingham.  The photographs were taken with my old Nokia N80 mobile phone.  Hope the quality isn't too bad.

Just to say that in the UK, there is a particular type of aircraft classified as SSDR - single seat de-regulated.  These are single-seat aircraft, with an empty weight of not more than 115kg, a wing loading of 10 sq metres or less and a maximum fuel capacity of 10 litres.  This is similar to the FAA Part 103 regulation aircraft in the USA.

An aircraft that meets the SSDR classification does not need an annual inspection by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).  It does not need an annual Permit To Fly either.  This means that you can carry out any repair to the engine by yourself, if you are competent-enough to do so.  Indeed, you can have any contraption of an aircraft by yourself, attach a wing to it and fly it legally, as long as it meets the above-mentioned criteria.  However, you DO need a Private Pilot's Licence to fly them but are not allowed to carry any passenger (don't even try to sqeeze in the wife or girlfriend on the single seat because you will be fined and grounded if caught).  The cost of ownership of an SSDR aircraft is very low, as compared with other types of aircraft but the down side is that you fly on your own all the time and thus are not able to share the fun with family and friends.  You thus become a Mr Have-No-Friends .  Hey, but who cares?  It means that if I die up there, I die alone, without taking anyone down with me.  Not very funny but it makes a lot of sense to me, don't you think so?

I remember when I was flying across the Formby sea, near Liverpool, as a pilot-under-training (put), when the aircraft door on my side (left) flung open and I nearly died with fright! Practising stalls the following weeks after this bad experience didn't help at all, if you see what I mean.  That said, flying is just great and I prefer to die up there instead of here on earth.  Once you've tasted flying, you'll be bitten by the flying bug and would forever be looking up at the skies and never wish to stop flying.  This is so very true.

Here are some of the aircraft that I saw:

1.  Sirocco - a fully-enclosed SSDR aircraft with a Rotax 447 two-stroke (2-t) engine.  It is planned to install the 2-t Black Devil engine on it but I'm not in favour of this engine because of reliability issues.  I'd personally like to see a 35hp Briggs and Stratton 4-stroke engine on it to give it a lot of thrust.

2.  FlyCar  A car that flies - it's planned to fly-drive it to the Sahara desert on the 14th of Jan 2009.  It's powered by a Yamaha R1 motorcycle engine.  The production model would look much better than the show aircraft, I'm told.  It would be sold with a fuel-injected Wankel rotary engine instead of the R1 engine currently on it.

More to come.  Enjoy!



kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


The e-mail should read from 'Peter Harrison'.  It was definitely sent successfully.  Do come back and let me know and I'll be too happy to re-send it.

By the way, when you access the second link, ensure you click on the 'free' box, (the one on the left) and then wait for a few seconds until it counts down to zero (0) seconds then download.


kiwi992.

NB: 

That name above is just a pseudo name.  I answer to a Kalabari surname.

Hi All,


I attended SPLASH (Sport and Leisure Aviation Show) at the NEC in Birmingham, yesterday, and took some photos.  I would post them here this evening, with a running commentary on the various aircraft that attracted my eyes, including the engines on them - something that is of particular interest to me.



kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


Done!



kiwi992.

Hi Graph,


Thanks for your comments.

I can't see who else I could help, if not my fellow-Nigerians.  Afterall, we are one.  Moreover, selfishness gets no-one anywhere because the one can never do everything by the one's self.  I wish our bloody thieving politicians could adopt this attitude and serve our country selflessly without lining up their own pockets and getting away with it. 

I'll be more than happy to help you but I really do NOT wish to post the link here for the general public to see, hence coded it in the first place.  As you know, not everyone in this Forum is a Nigerian.

Just get a Yahoo e-mail address (but definitely not your real one) and leave it for me here.  I'll definitely send it to you.  Please do not use your real name. 

Actually, I wish the Site Administrator (Seun) would add a PM facility on this website so that people could use it, especially in times like this.  Seun, could you please do that?



kiwi992.

NB:

By the way, in place of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), SAP now offers a new module - GRC - Solutions for Governance, Risk and Compliance and it is really hot because it encompasses everything about corporate governance, controls and so on.  It would suit people like you with a specialism in Auditing.  So, please look-out for it.