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If you haven't got the room leave them in the van with strict instructions to keep out of sight😈

Anyone checked out the "FLY'N FOR FUN 2026" page 80. "Bring some polish and get to show off your wings with other aviators or curious victors...." As some of you may recall I thinks Parkes is about the worst airport to host an RAA event. Nothing against Parkes itself, just that its a Security Controlled Airport - ASIC required and definitely no "curious visitors" on the flight line. RAA events of this nature should be; About educating (recruiting) the public -in part this is means access to the flight line -not possible at Parkes or similar Security Controlled Airports Showing off your aircraft (if you wish) - other than a passing pilot/ passenger - not going to happen. Open to all pilots, no ASIC required. Sure they had a sort of, semi functional, estcourt service at the last event but the fact remains ASIC requirement likly to put some off. Controlled ie have a UNICOM. Last year saw aircraft in opposite circuits & landing direction - crazy! Ground stewards: There were arriving aircraft parking attendants, on the day I was there but not in evidence, when departure time came around - chaos! What was wrong with Narromine and Temora???? 😈

I would be happy if they reduced my membership fee and didnt deliver this crap product. With the notable exception of the RAA staff advisory submissions, for the most part the rest, writen by the editor, is a trash magazine😈

Wow! A real windfall IF it wasn't such a rubbish product.😈

"I am on the wrong side of Melbourne " Is there a right side???🤣 😈

FOLLOW UP My SK2 is now mounted in its own (home design) mount, just off center on the glare shield. No more clicking/inference sound in headset. No more suction pad sudden loss & SK2 dropping into foot well. Position gives SK2 optimum "view" and has very little impact on my view. SK2 now on constant charge from in panel aircraft USB, through Cygnett Unite Right Angle Lightning to USB-C cable . So far no problems. https://www.cygnett.com/products/right-angle-braided-lightning-usb-c-1m?_pos=1&_sid=af3ca84cf&_ss=r Campervan Builders Treklow Dual Port -QC3 charger , that replaced the Certified Guardian Avionics transformer, supplying power to my iPad just fine - no problems .https://campervanbuilders.com.au/products/100w-usbc-quick-charger-3-0-pd-12-24v 😈

Despite the advocates of spend big = quality, bleating on about future dangers etc, I advocate doing the best research analyses you can ie cost : benefit. With an experimental aircraft, you have great freedom and with it responsibility, to do the right thing (whatever that means for a given project). E.G. You can easily make a flexible transponder antenna for the cost of connector, some multi strand copper wire, solder and shrink tube, at a guess $5 all up. IF your Chinese coax will do the job, to an airworth (transmit & receive) standard - go for it. Spending x 10 will not make the system more efficient or have any implications on safety.😈

Random thought; Given that the "melted" part was designed to conduct cool/external air and cooled by the same, the undercowl temperature of this aircraft must have been extreem to overcome the cooling effect of the fresh air. 😈

I think you might need to qualify this statement with - (VH) only applies to experimental/home built. As far as I am aware VH pilot/owner maintenance of certified aircraft is limited to a few routine activates eg oil change. I don't know how this translates for factory built (non certified) aircraft.😈

So I am correct - all this rabbit hole talk of aircraft registration, in relation to CTA entry, has no substance. The principal factor, for entry to CTA, is the appropriate & current qualifications of the PIC. Thanks for clearing that up. 😈

What!!! no one knows? 😈

So am I correct/incorrect?????😈

I'm confused. To enter CTA, subject to the aircraft having the required transponder/transceiver and the pilot having a CTA endorsement, what relevance does the registration of the aircraft have?😈

I have ordered the necessary (I hope) Bluetooth connecting device - will wait until it arrives before accessing the 4 month trial, if still available.😈

Would contacting Sonex /Aero V engines help?😈

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"Fagend" - Yep the end of a cigarette, picked up by a down & out person for a quick puff. Term used to describe overhearing a bit of conversation or using just a bit of a longer conversation - probably English in origin. 😈

Ha Ha! We now have one saying my "fagend of a conversation" is UNTRUE, the other saying TRUE and BOTH sighting RAA - Please don't come to blows🤣 😈

Burnie me mate, I hope I would never post/repeat something I know little about, that I had heard from another, as fact ie I will always use words like speculation/rumour/caution to worn the reader that its something I wont standby/defend.- ie not know to be fact. I thought that this little bit of information, that I had not previously heard of, may be of interest to pilots who are RAA endorsed on diffrent types of aircraft (not I). It is for them to follow up/check to see if right/wrong.😈

It has been speculated that the decision, to require separate BFR for each category, has come out of the incident where a person transitioning from weight shift to conventional fixed wing (Jab) took of, against all advice, into bad weather and died as a result. The perception was that the transitioning pilot had not received sufficient training/testing (BFR) in the higher weight, performance, more complex aircraft and this may have been a contributor to the incident. If memory serves - many of this Forum members, felt the pilot , was a known risk taker, that it was just a matter of when rather than if, he was involved in an incident of this kind.😈

Thanks for the second (to my) caution- What do you know or not?😈

CAUTION this may be inaccurate I have heard that RAA members, with more than one aircraft type endorsement , will no longer be able to maintain BFR currency by siting the one biannual review ie each aircraft type will require a separate BFR.😈

Agreed - Those apposed would label you and I "Sovereign Citizen" without some much as shred of evidence for this libalest talk. My guess, they do this because they : Don't actual read what we have said, rather substitute their own biased thinking. Have such poor English comprehension, so misunderstand. Are so set in their ways, they cannot entertain an alternative rational. I think you & I have tried very hard to present polite, logical, well thought out arguments, without stooping to name calling/labeling. Nuff said - will try to avoid (not promising) responding to any more irrational arguments. 😈

All these interesting stories about people falling off ladders/crashing cars, are only slightly related to the core topic The Right OF An Adult To Take Risks With Their Own Welfare - to wit the pilot who installed a home made duct in his aircraft. I contend that is is an inalienable right, that all mentally competent people have, on reaching their legal majority. This right does not nullify an individuals responsibility to his fellows - Duty of Care (DofC) ie must not involve others in potential injury/death/loss of assets, due to their risk taking. Nor does it give the individual the right to wilfully ignore, with impunity, rules made by Clubs/Business and similar organisation who have a DofC to their membership/employees. Where this does occur the organisation must in the first insistence council/educate the individual, if if this fails to acheive adherence, dismissal is the only option. The above approach should not and can not be readily applied to society - an adult who refuses to wear a seat belt, is in my view stupid, however I defend their right to make this decision, without legal repercussion. This does not mean that an insurance company will or should accept a claim, where such an action has resulted in injury/death. The last point needs clarification: We can not avoid our history. There was a time when religion and Government were combined. Religion is all about control of ALL aspects of the individual, from birth, reproduction, diet, behaviour, thought, death the "after life" - the ultimate "Big Brother". Religion has given us many things, both posative & negative. One of the negatives, is the concept that the State (religion) owns the individual (akin to slavery) so they have no rights over their own person. This was fine in the past, the rare expression of individuality, by the common man, usually resulted in banishment/imprisonment/death. In extreme instances this also applied to the ruling classes . We live in diffrent times - A significant number (the majority?) claim no religious affiliation and we are supposed to have a separation between Church (religion) & State ie no direct influence. Despite the illusion of no religious influence, we still have this ridiculous idea that the State has the right to intrude, on what should be personal decisions ie the State owns you and will make decisions, as it sees fit, for the maintenance of its asset (your welfare) . I contend that the State should have no input into the personal decisions/actions of the adult individual, where that input is primarily design to protect the said individual from themselves. eg wearing of car seat belts. I also support the need for the population to be protected, by the State/law, from wilfully dangerous actions of individuals. Further, I support the actions of the State where is tries to foster by promotion/non direct action (laws) a culture of safety that will be willingly adopted by the vast majority. In contrast we have a Government culture (Nanny State) that seeks to protect us from our own actions, not by education/training but by draconian (often illogical) restriction, safety systems designed to reduce injury/death, rather than prevent accidents.😈