Jump to content

coljones

First Class Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,734

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    7

 Content Type 

Everything posted by coljones

  1. coljones
    Have a link to the CASA site for a free download copy https://www.casa.gov.au/airspace/standard-page/operations-non-controlled-aerodromes
  2. coljones
    you could have ordered the new VFG and had the radio handbook thrown in for free.
  3. coljones
    Is that May, 1918 or 18th May, 2019?
  4. coljones
    Landing fee equivalents are built into your membership fee. It is kind of you to forgive the itinerants the expense of wear and tear on the airfield.
  5. coljones
    You can walk away from Telstra or your power company. You can have a say in the operation of RAAus, vote, got to a meeting, write to the CEO, President or board members. If you go with ELAAA you will just be a customer - get into the queue!! My objection with going to a company structure is that it is a smoke screen for the greatest range of corporate bastardry. The ASIC rules might be suitable for big companies but impose too many baseless rules and anti-democratic processes on small companies.
  6. coljones
    Maybe you should take this up with the pilot's advocate, AOPA, who can argue on your behalf. Or you could contact each board member whose contact details appear on Sports Flyer
  7. coljones
    If it couldn't be done you asked Jim to do it. He was a gentleman and an aviator to the core. Born and bred in the central West of NSW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hazelton
  8. coljones
    You forgot Lawrence Hargaves and Jim Hazelton
  9. coljones
    Bob Hawke never pretended to be a paragon of virtue although his behaviour during the Pilot Strike left quite a few union members asking when Hawke, NewsCorp and Abels were going to come after them for standing in the way of the mates.
  10. coljones
    If you believe the naysayers you would form the impression that these are mass graves of Jabirus that engaged in ritual mass suicide after discovering that they weren't Rotaxes. Oh, the shame of not being born with 4 little coloured hats. ??
  11. coljones
    Jabiru-Locations.png Cheers
  12. coljones
  13. coljones
    Just interpolating. Do you have doubts about 6900 engines being produced, some of which were sent, and are still operational OS?
  14. coljones
    Almost 3500 would suggest that of the 6900 Jab engines quoted at least 3400 Jabiru engines are either overseas in places like USA, South Africa and Denmark or not in use.
  15. coljones
    That might suggest that some Jab engines are OS in places like USA, South Africa and Denmark.
  16. coljones
    There wasn't all that many that failed and probably insufficient to draw statistical conclusions. There was, however, one LAME who had a number of failures which might indicate finger trouble - if you keep doing the same thing don't expect a different result. There appears to be little evidence of continuing problems.
  17. coljones
    You don't know what you are missing. Jabiru makes great plane.
  18. coljones
    There are numbers of ALAs where the owners encourage visits without fees and, presumably, the cost of the airstrip is covered by their other activities or generosity. There are other airstrips out there that don't have that luxury and the costs are met by the owner with some hope of payment of landing fees paid into an honesty box. I dare say that most of these honesty boxes are regarded by a proportion of pilots as quaint architectural features best regarded from afar or as a haven for venomous snakes and best kept clear of. Airfield operators are entitled to have some cost recovery and those pilots who don't pay up are a blight on the society. Most of us would be pissed off if anyone wandered down the side of the house and pinched a bucketful of apples. Please don't try the canard of council car parking as a lot have paywalls and in any case are used by a far higher number of ratepayers and with a very high turnover.
  19. coljones
    Not a problem, don't fly into airports that charge landing fees. A number of airports are now moving towards demanding 24 hour prior notice (c/w Credit card details) from RAA pilots. This is an outrageous imposition. Release of details to AvData will mitigate this.
  20. coljones
    Active Mil airspace is Class C equivalent and therefore requires that the PIC has a medical and Class C endo and the plane has a transponder - not sure about TSO. A great trip and good scenery.
  21. coljones
    Bugger.
  22. coljones
    You are confusing CTA with Built up areas. Not all CTA is over built up areas. You only need and approved plane/approved engine when flying over built up areas. For Class D you need a radio and for class C you need a radio and a transponder.
  23. coljones
    OzRunways has not updated my maps yet and in any case it will not be valid before 08Nov18 so I would continue to use 119.55 (area) until 8Nov to follow those following the rules. It is always good to see ALAs on the maps so that there are no surprises as you follow the road into YGLA.
  24. coljones
    Ethanol is the bad ass. This is what you test for with water. Metho is the one adulterated with methanol. Drink that and it will blind you.
  25. coljones
    Sorry Frank but the board is now the result of an Australia wide election open to all members. Is this any better or worse than the old model where if you lived in the wrong state you weren't even afforded the opportunity to dump the non performers (and we had a few)
×
×
  • Create New...