Gnarly Gnu

I have no income derived from aviation with respect to the type of aircraft and flying overseen by RA-Aus.

This part is good IMO. Not being an instructor or owner of a school helps remove the potential temptation to add additional regulation & cost to students and RA-Aus pilots. (No, not implying all are that way inclined).

Welcome Rico! Which part of the USA.... what do you fly?

Sure, thanks Scotty.

Gnu would do too.

I think there are some good welders on this forum.

Mate just cover the aircraft with random black numbers, take some photos & send in for your registration.

Welcome PA-28 from EP! Have to get over that way again, it's been a while.

Put a post up about a month back asking if anyone had heard of these engines & go no response. Later I was surprised to see Lightwing at Ballina are listed as the Australian distributor. Maybe they will get one and display it some time.

Made in China.

Hello Frank, my knowledge of PPC's is quite limited but I understand there are some significant differences to conventional aircraft and stability in the take-off phase is the most dangerous issue (where four wheels - with steering - would help most) and must always be directly into the wind, same as with landings. So I don't think you are going to be doing cross wind landings except in a very low breeze perhaps and of course the roll is quite minimal.

Yes I believe it's Hyundai - good Korean quality.

Do they still retread the tyres on the big birds? Maybe the rubber isn't costing that much? Bextyres from China r cheap n r good.

Well done Cam, great stuff.

We are going to tie a piece of string to Cam's plane so he can find his way back to Gawler.

Very nice Timbgy! Is the second seat the fuel tank or something?

Can't work out why they don't make these things four wheelers, so much more stable on take off which I understand is the critical phase. Didn't take them long to figure out ATV's with three wheels were dangerous, now everything is quad. If anyone knows the reasoning behind the three wheels on PPC's I would be interested to hear, maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Hi Wai, (I wanted to say that) just a comment - I thought the survey inclusion of traffic speeding fines had little relevance. Twenty years ago it would have been but today at least where I live a speeding fine has no relevance to risk taking. At some stage everyone gets a fine now from your grandmother down to the revhead teenagers, in a desperate grab for our cash the tolerance of traffic radars has been reduced to a tiny margin over the posted limit and they are positioned on downhill runs and the like. Then the next step is to reduce the posted limits. Perhaps you could have asked something along the lines of "exceed the posted speed limit by 10 kmh or more".

Really the person(s) responsible at CASA should loose their job, everything about this appears to be negligence. It might even cost us, the taxpayers, a lot of money if they are sued by the incinerated folks families. Not much point even having the organisation if they ignore serious issues whilst busy chasing trivial non-safety related paperwork.

I think I'll write to the opposition and request a complete overhaul of CASA when they get in, I suspect most in the aviation industry outside the Qantas inner circle of buddies would like to see this.

According to CASA licencing branch, an RAA registered aircraft in NOT a "recognised aircraft", or even a "registered aircraft" - go figure!!!

We do not fly cars. Cars are also engineered with a lot more safety margin than aeroplanes. Again, we do not fly cars.

Welcome Wai Sang.

Some GA pilots would regard us recreational pilots as students so I guess I'll look at that one.

Didn't Robin Hood have a band of merry men? Must be a modern problem for the Poms, I blame global warming.

how many of you have had the mechanic give you your rego inspection slip for your car and say something like 'Shes all good to go, just had to replace a rear blinker bulb and grease your front wheel bearings, though,' hey? Finding small things through mandated checks before they cause an incident is what this kind of legislation is all about.

As Andy said, when it comes to safety pilot error is the issue.

Interesting! Strong NSW accents - or did everyone speak like that in the 90's?

Welcome back Phil (pie fill? makes me hungry). Ignore f_t he is a transgenderphobe

Did you pay the name-change fee to Ian yet?

Do you think that the election will impact the turnout at AusFly?

If she > < not getting many votes it may be an excuse to try. Buncha misogynists at Ausfly too probably.

And yet Ultralights are buzzing around the place all the time and they have a park for them nearby

From memory the revenue relating to Aircraft registration was circa $350k pa

Public Liability Insurance could remain annual or be offered bi-annual for convenience / cost saving. Also owners should always be free to source their own of course.