G3000 "Twitchy" history.

[WEST OZ FLYER]

Looking for information/previous owners history for G3000.From a few people I have spoken to, it has colourful history. If you have a story or information post it up. If it is not on the legit side send me a PM. I know it has had one bingle at the nats that someone doesn"t like to talk about, spiral dives requiring two people to pull out of. ;DSeems as though alot of the instructors and CFI"s have done their ratings on this machine.

[Brian]

Yep, probably the best trainer ever !! with one of the best instructors to go with it !!I came from a FW mentality & twitchy showed me how to actually fly a gyro.

[WEST OZ FLYER]

I did miss out on the Rossco instruction. Apparently he was too busy and too old to train anymore. Trained with Madmax instead. Couldn"t of asked for a better instructor . I don"t reckon you could even get him upset. Tried to kill him a couple of times, didn"t phase him one bit.

[mad max]

That"s cause I love near death experiences Mat ;D Rosco came to Tennant Creek with twitchy and Tim with the boiled egg. in around 93 or 94. I was flying an old bomb (self taught) and after I saw Rosco with a bloke his size doing spiral dives I was hooked on a lighter machine so purchased a rolling frame off Rosco and built a clone of twitchy and never looked back. I hail Rosco as the "Henry Ford" of gyro"s. His simple machines out number all other models in AU (I think) I never got to see the famous video of Rosco flaring twitchy too much at a fly-in and touching the ground with his blades with the expected consequences. I think it"s a tar-boo subject (like UFO"s) After each flight I look at the simple machine and still have trouble believing that it can fly! It has brought so much joy to so many people and I never get board flying it as you can never totally relax your concentration. (And I used to sometimes get board sky-diving)

[MadMuz]

He did win the spot landing tho, didn"t he?

[Tim]

He got 10 out of 10 for accuracy Muz, but lost a few points for method.There were a few videos kicking around Max but I think they were all on VHS tape - the old days. Ross himself has one and I"m sure he would be happy to have it converted to digital if asked.