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  1. jackc
    Thanks for the offer, Brendan. You could send it to me as a PDF if you like and I can get it printed out thank you very much. Well, my machine has a serial number of 492, so I’m wondering where that fits in the scheme of things?
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    Well, this change should have been published to all X-Air owners? But it seems RAAus wait until someone does a Rego transfer, THEN the new owner gets the bad news? IF RAAus try and blame CASA, that won’t work? Because IF RAAus try to blame CASA for this, CASA would ask for an immediate AD? Notification go out to all owners ASAP? That has not happened? I would allege that some ‘skirt’ in RAAus has decided to make changes for reasons best known to themselves? Anyway, I will make phone calls tomorrow, and see what happens 🤩
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    Well, nothing ventured…..nothing gained, so I will ask for 490kg MTOW, and I should not be refused? IF I am? Then I will do, what I need to do……🤩
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    Therefore, there should be a documented reason? But I really have to wonder as they caved in, to your request? I really have also wonder where your original 544kg came from, as I have not seen that MTOW documented anywhere I looked? Jared IS in charge of Tech? I figured he would have made that decision alone, for reasons known to him? People further up the tree would need to justify their direction?
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    The new CASA approved SAAA Maintainers Course was run at the SAAA FlyIn at Narromine, early October. CASA were present and approved the course. But it gone to CASA Legal, and the Legislative Instrument to cover all this, is estimated first quarter 2026. And SAAA have opened bookings to sit the course, they have been swamped.
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    Evidence of the Certificates for greater than 490kg are probably long gone. I did not build my aircraft, so I think I am in for grief? BUT if the crunch comes to the crunch……I can go VH Experimental Rego, do an RPL with a CASA Part 149 Independent Operator, NO Flying School needed. Fly away happy as a Member of SAAA, no rego fees needed. THEN do the new SAAA Maintainers Course, take that certificate to CASA who then issue their authority to maintain my own aircraft I did NOT build, under the new system. CASA are changing the rules 🤩
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    I think the ‘skirts’ at RAAus might spit their dummy on that plan 🤩
  8. jackc
    Be interesting how the RAAus ‘playbook’ works? Under what ruling, they initially derated your 544kg MTOW but then agreed to raise it to 490kg, to appease you? The engine options originally started at the 503? Went as high as 912? in other markets? Test Specs suggest it’s a rather rugged aircraft? Maybe a call to Jared Smith, RAAus Tech Guru is in order, to find out how the ‘playbook’ works?
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    I will see what happens? May send the Tech Dept a request for increase? Then see what happens? Can only ask? I will go from there 👍
  10. jackc
    Well, it’s a 2 seat aircraft? If others have had MTOW adjusted upward and it must have been engineering checked to do this? I do have other options? But RAAus, MAY demand a Weight and Balance IF an increase in MTOW is requested? To scare people off? THAT needs to be done by a CASA W&B person, at great cost?
  11. jackc
    Well, I will wait and see, maybe I should ask for higher MTOW based on precedents being set? OR I have other options I have already investigated? Or just ignore my MTOW within reason, if I have to…….simply fly the machine, and be happy 😃
  12. jackc
    So RAAus just change things at whim? I suspect they are even rated higher in other countries? Who is gonna weigh me at takeoff anyway, it’s just a number well under what others are rated at?
  13. jackc
    450 KG
  14. jackc
    Condition Report in with Rego transfer to RAAus, paid money, up to 10 days to process paper work reply from them? I just wonder what grief will come from this process? Probably throw a weight and balance order on me? Sorry for negative thinking 🧐 Got an extra charge on rego, because of time unpaid? Total for rego and transfer $504
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    I looked at doing it that way but, using a proper tensioning tool could be a problem, so I used Panduit Cable Ties being a recognised good brand?
  16. jackc
    X-Air update, in acquiring my machine, I have gone over it with a fine tooth comb because it ain’t a $300 Rusty Corolla 🤩 One of the things I decider to do was replace ALL the Crescent Batten ends, 20 of them p/n 120179 due to some broken etc. the last person who worked on them did secure them with cable ties, but it was an average job. I did them a different way and it worked well 👌
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    I think we have now reached a point that when you look at taking a policy from an insurance company you get their PDS which is very intricately worded, you take that to a lawyer and ask him what am I really not covered for here because the last thing anybody wants to do is to make an insurance claim because these days the whole thing becomes a nightmare, regardless. It’s like reading the warranty statement in a new car handbook and I discovered that when I bought a new Mahindra Ute, the supposed it many year warranty only covered certain things for three months and all this sort of rubbish. In other words I told the dealer the warranty was not worth the paper was written on. I tend to think that many insurance policies are similar………..
  18. jackc
    RAA insurance public liability is only good for $1 million. Some Councils now require $20 million to use their airfields, on which you generally pay landing fees. So I have to ask, has anyone been asked to provide their insurance policy to gain permission to land at a council owned airstrip? It’s a wonder Avdata are not involved in some of this, them keeping this Insurance information on their database, so when you ask for permission to land somewhere, the Council can search your details to either approve or deny your rights to land at a particular airport?
  19. jackc
    Too many Maintenance Releases to look after, not to mention hundred hourlys. What are the rules are for flying Brooms ‘on condition’ ? No controlled Air Space, Brooms are not good IF they get tangled up in 737 engines 🤩
  20. jackc
    No one could force me to work on anything, unless I was a Gaol Inmate 🤩
  21. jackc
    Don’t forget the Popcorn Stall 🤩
  22. jackc
    All I can say at this stage are……changes in the pipeline coming 🤩
  23. jackc
    L2s can migrate to SAAA, IF RAAus keep up the pressure, there will be no one left to work on RAAus Aircraft, be the same for Instructors soon, they will be able to migrate to do RPL training soon?
  24. jackc
    My thoughts personally, RAAus should have stayed incorporated, BUT the members voted to change it? WHY? Because the members of the day probably were not aware it was a scheme by the hierarchy to take almost total control. NOW, we are not even members…..we are Stakeholders, RAAus words 😕 Well, that may not end well, for us. But never fear, we can go VH and maintain our aircraft that we did not build, subject to getting a certificate after qualifying the SAAA approved Maintainer Course. CASA then issue you with your approval to repair and maintain 👍 Happy days, goodbye RAAus…….. The chickens are coming home to roost 🤩
  25. jackc
    Simply reach into his Aircraft, pull out the key and tell him, he is going nowhere. But who is game to stand the personal ramifications of doing that? Someone close by will create a major scene questioning the action taken, by someone who cared, regardless? You are dealing with human beings, some who are not real bright, and that started with the Pilot 😕
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