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I use a FlyBoys knee board for cross country flights with a CASA flight planning notepad and run an Ipad Mini with OzRwy for my EFB with it installed on my phone as a backup. I have charts relevant to my area and recently upgraded to a Jeppesen CR-3 flight computer as I was struggling to read my old CR-2. I found a Flight Rule Scale ruler and Navigation protractor great for cross country flight planning pre flight. Personally I like to plan on paper maps and confirm it using OzRwy. In flight I use OzRwy for my maps but I don't follow the magenta line. I prefer to only pull up the maps when I want to confirm my position

RAAus stuffed up massively by only allowing appropriately qualified CASA Part 66 licence holders to maintain Group G aircraft. Especially with CASA/SAAA bringing in owner maintenance in the near future. In the RAAus meet the team livestream (that only got 14 attendees and has had 140 views to date) they blame the drop of members and aircraft on the RPL and pilots transitioning through RAAUS for the cheaper flight training before moving on to GA. They said RAAus membership has dropped to ~7000 and that 1000 aircraft have dropped off the system.

https://www.change.org/p/rising-government-fees-threatening-aviation-small-business-workers-security-clearances

Someone has to keep the never ending story thread going 😉🤣

I found Pilot Practice Exams ( https://www.pilotpracticeexams.com )and the Bob Tait books worked best for me to lock in the theory. Doing a bit every day helped me to remember the theory, even if it was just 20 minutes reviewing topics I had found challenging. I also stick "cheat notes" on the wall behind my desk and around my monitor so I can refer to them regularly and help commit them to memory

I think the Briggs is rated at 27hp for the ~800cc motor, A Rotax 477 makes 40hp and is ~5kg lighter I will be looking at a Rotax Rick big bore when my 582 needs rebuilding

Thanks Skip, I'll refrain from responding and put him back on my ignore list. It's just sad that a couple of members degrade the content of what it otherwise a great resource

I was here for 2 years before I called you out on your made up "facts". I then suffered your usual attacks when I dared question your opinion you presented as a fact. I don't try to cut you down to size, you cut yourself down to size with your made up facts and the inability to construct a sentence with correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. I only challenge your poor behaviour and spreading of misinformation, it is not an attack on EVERY aspect of you. You are doing a great job of building a reputation for spreading inaccurate opinions as fact and attacking anyone who disagrees with you.

Calling you out for posting your own made up truths is not an attack. What you see as a "Pile On" is people calling you out for poor behaviour. You disregard other peoples experiences and attack them when they show you are wrong. You need to work out the difference between a fact and your opinion because until you do you are the problem

Just because you don't see 2 strokes flying in your extremely narrow field of view does not mean there are not plenty still out there. Once again you show your inability to accept other peoples experiences without making disparaging comments. It is a sad case when you can not learn from other people and only push your owned flawed opinions. Your insistence on forcing your often inaccurate opinion on others and attacking people who disagree with your fiction makes it hard to want to contribute to this forum.

I have sent you a message Geoff

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Maybe putting an aviator watch on is the equivalent of taking a plunge in icy water

You are the one who took the conversation below the belt Nev, everyone else was happy focusing on the wrist till you started discussing other pilots packages. To drag the conversation back on topic, I was dubious as to how much use I would get out of a smart watch until I got one as a bonus when I upgraded my phone a few years ago. Now I prefer them and see that Garmin D2 having functions like INREACH, live tracking, satellite SOS and the ability to use it as a back up for weather and navigation makes for a handy risk mitigator and backup device should I have multiple failures. I also like having the health and fitness monitoring capabilities amongst the other non aviation functions.

Seems you are a bit too interested in what other pilots are packing in their pants Nev. What does wearing an aviator watch say about a female pilot for that matter?