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    You would need to convert your RPC to RPL quite straight forward. You need an ASIC to apply for RPL. Get a medical, a class 5 is quite straight forward. Do a flight review in a GA plane which could be a tailwheel and get signed off for flight review and tailwheel endorsement at the same time. Give RAAus a copy of your RPL with TW endorsement and they will add it to your RPC (and update your BFR expiry date and give you group G if you ask for it). Some (most?) of the GA flight schools want you to do 5 hrs-ish before a flight review.
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    From the ADS-B track it looks like he came down from Bankstown, did some circuits at Shellharbour then possibly lost power on takeoff.
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    https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/568731 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vh-pdx#3f09275a
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    Tailwheel Willy at Parkes
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    I wonder about the viability of MOGAS at an airport. Often you can get it significantly cheaper at a servo. You just have to be prepared to hump the jerry cans.
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    Let me clarify; the fuel importer pays for the fuel 6 weeks before it appears at a retail servo. ie they did not pay todays international barrel price. They paid the price 6 weeks ago.
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    Fuel is paid for 6 weeks before it appears at a retail servo. On 28 Feb 95 octane was selling in northern suburbs of Sydney for $1.70 per litre. On 31 March (yesterday) it had reached $2.75 a litre. The cost price on both days was the same. $1.70 includes a reasonable profit markup. $2.75 adds an additional $1.05 or 0.95 extra profit after GST. This morning most Shell servos had it for $2.45-2.47 and a few BPs (not all) for $2.44. The cost price is still the same. At $2.44 this adds an additional 0.74c or 0.67c extra profit after GST. So if we take off 0.26 cents excise they have already paid then the poor fuel companies were only making 0.41c EXTRA profit. Their strategy is probably to get large volumes of sales (at this still inflated price point) before other fuel distributors catch up. The BP I filled up at said they had few customers yesterday but he had served 200 today.
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    I live in the northern suburbs of Sydney and use 95 in my vehicles. Last few days most servos have been sitting at 2.75 with some 2.80. Woke up this morning and checked the NSW government Fuelcheck NSW app. Most Shells are now 2.45-2.47 with some BPs (not all) at 2.44. Lets see how long it take for other brands to come down. Then lets see how long it takes for their ongoing price rises to absorb the excise saving, as I said before GF.
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    Most of us are neither pro or anti EVs. We know we have limited fossil reserves. We know fuel companies are greedy f*cks. We know that for unexplained reasons no Australian government wants to control their operations. We know that lifetime maintenance is less than ICE vehicles. We do not understand why the entry point for basic EVs is so expensive. We are uncomfortable about the limited range of EVs. We know that EV techonology particuarly batteries and electric motors is constantly improving. We are in a transition phase now. There is no black or white right answer for all (or most) circumstances.
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    I have not heard of this before. Perhaps you could give us some details. Converting long distance trucks to batteries could see a significant fuel/cost saving. There is a cost to doing this; additional batteries, leasing land and staff to maintain this depot. To really save this would need to ramp up to cover most of the long distance fleet. Some trucking companies may be waiting for battery capacity to increase and size/weight to reduce.
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    There is a major correction that I need to make to your post; his name is 'dickhead Donald' not the 'tangerine todler'.
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    Yes, it does appear that consumption has increased by 50-60 %. I do not believe this is the major reason profiteering by fuel distributors has increased. If you want to talk about greed this is it. I do not believe this is personal greed. Yes, there is a little panic here but mainly I see a lack of trust in government to manage the situation. Being significantly below the recommended onshore reserve of 90 days does not help. Making wishy washy non transparent statements does not help. Appearing to have no plan does not help. We have been here before. This lack of trust needed to be worked on in 2022 but it was ignored just like 20 years plus of ignoring adequate onshore fuel reserves.
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    If the issue is the radio is medium volume and the internal intercom is loud then this is something you need to adjust in the radio. https://www.mglavionics.co.za/v6.html
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    I also tuned it to the webinar. Good presentation and good reminders but not much new. It is no suprise that taking off and landing has the most potential conflicts and mistakes. A lot of presentations start with this and I always feel it does not tell you much (like how to avoid the error). I do not think that continuous circuits teach you much except perhaps fine tuning your flare. My first away landing was poor, probably because I was using ground references that no longer existed. Leaving then rejoining the circuit is a useful learning exercise.
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    These sort of terms and conditions may not have much legal standing if you cannot renew without agreeing to them. Having to renew for your RPC to remain valid would also work against RAAus in court. Their main purpose is to try to frighten family members off making a claim/sueing them. However, if a death occurs I doubt it will stop anybody. Probably was driven by Mt Beauty but I doubt it will help RAAus in a similar future event. Plenty of blame to go around all parties at Mt Beauty.
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    I believe legally non ethanol fuels are allowed to have up to 1% ethanol to allow for ethanol previously transported in the same tanker.
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    If you are looking at fuel cost savings you need to look beyond the cost per litre. You need to look at the cost per kilometre travelled. Over several motor vehicles (2li v6, 2lit turbo, 1.8li IL4, 2li IL4, 1li v2 mc, 400cc single mc etc) in all cases I have found the cheapest petrol (cost per km) to be; 1. 95 2. 98 3. 91 4. 94E10 If you can still get 91E10 it sits at 5. I have not done the costs for planes as it would be more work and I do not have one 🙂 but similar 'least cost per km' numbers would not surprise me.
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    Lets be blunt; this is a problem created and not fixed over many years by all sides of politics. The 90 day onshore reserve is designed to mitigate these types of problems and the only 2 developed countries that do not have this reserve are Australia and New Zealand. And the Australian government even fudges the published numbers by including ships at sea.
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    I believe fuel is actually paid for 6 weeks before it is sold at the retail pump. So we should have not seen any price rise until mid April. Very blatant price gouging and the government is doing ...... In the past fuel distributors have floated the argument that they must (why must?) price at their replacement cost. So as soon as the bulk purchase price goes up the retail price goes up. I could buy into this argument IF as soon as the bulk purchase price goes down the retail price also goes down. Yet in past supply problems the price takes several months to go down. And the government does ...... Greed is understandable but must be controlled. Is the lack of government action stupidity or corruption ?
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    I think the technical term is 'f*cked'.
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    Late at night. Multiple ground units responding to another incident. Controller not on the ball.
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    Sign on the fence at Tumut said new CTAF was live on 20 Feb 2026.
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    As part of the $12mil upgrade of Tumut (mainly for fire fighting support) Tumut now has a dedicated CTAF 126.85 instead of its old shared 126.70. Tumut has low traffic levels whereas Cowra is much busier but Cowra still uses the shared 126.70 CTAF. What is required to get a dedicated CTAF for Cowra ? Is it simply a matter of all the Cowra user groups (clubs, flight schools, ag ops and maint businesses) getting together and requesting a dedicated CTAF from Air Services ? Probably one group would need to coordinate and drive this as I do not see it happening overnight.
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