Old Koreelah

Agreed, Ian. I am so underwhelmed with how a discussion so quickly descends into personal insults.

1. Local pilot forced to undergo retraining due to CTA breaches2. Two local pilots forced to undergo CTA awareness training after a significant breach of CTA

3. Instructor application denied until a second check performed by a third party was passed due to previous history of the pilot

 

4. Aircraft grounded until independent inspection of homebuilt cheetah was performed due to the 'history' of the aircraft.

 

5. BFR rejected until FURTHER training performed by a flying school, with a list of "obligations' forced apon the pilot from the RAA.

 

6. Suspension of pax carrying endorsement of a pilot until further training provided due to a report from a CFI of 'observed' poor standards.

 

Thats just what I can recall over the past year or so.

 

Any more questions volsky?

Crikey, I might have to lift my own game...

Vincent Black Prince ( became a Norvin) BSA Empire Star 250, Big marriage gap, and son-in-law gave me a "Machin" farm bike.

... I ended up going with the hornet ...Would I like a second plane that goes quick ...

Too right OK. My son is 21 and has been a CFS volunteer since he was about 15. He has been a triple zero operator for 2 years and is in the army reserves. I have to admit he is a lot more mature than I was at his age, I was all bones and balls, no brains at all. (My how things have changes, I'm not bony anymore!) I am so proud of the independent, confident and caring man that my little boy has turned into and I believe that the CFS has been a big part of that. These guys and girls really deserve our thanks and respect. I think Australia would be a better place if it were mandatory for all young people to do a couple of years of some sort of community service.

I have few fond memories of my previous existence in schools- except the wonderful kids. I found that for most kids, the more you trusted them with responsibility, the better they got.

Re those RFS volunteers, one young bloke was battling along with a bad limp. He has a painful and debilitating injury, but has to wait months for an op. Meanwhile, the media concentrate on all the minor injuries to our footy players and cricketers- who get immediate treatment.

The app is still there... it costs 0.99c now.

At peak production, the Japanese could make five Zeroes per day. Just one American plant produced over 30 fighters a day.

...for the cheapest way to get airborne & visit flyins - is one seat enough? How much luggage? How much range? Folding wings and easy trailerage? How much "hot and high" takeoff ability? How fast? How small? how slow? how big? How 2-stroke?Bewildered Bob.

I have been working on a couple of concepts that combine STOL with speed and foldability. There must be mobs of us dreamers around the world.

I am reluctantly coming to see that you can't beat the simplicity, compactness and STOL of a gyro. I know their safety record has been improved, but I'm too chicken to get in one.

The wonderful pilots of the water bombing aircraft and their spotters, both fixed wing and rotor, helping to keep us safe from bushfires.I spent the day with the farm fire fighting equipment hooked up and ready, liaising with the neighbours and monitoring the three fires within a few kilometres. I was watching the firebombers come and go and listening to the sometimes frantic calls on the CFS radio, feeling the wind changes on the back of my neck and wondering how hard it would be on the pilots.

 

On days like today, I don't have to fly, nor do I want to. I am very grateful to those that do.

 

Whoever you guys are, a very heartfelt thankyou, I salute you. Gary

I spent much of yesterday and last night at a fire on a neighbour's. Water bombers, several RFS units, a grader and farmers on quads.

Came away very impressed with the young volunteers in their huge RFS vehicles, weary and blackened from a long day on the fireground. It occured to me that they are probably of similar calibre to the young people we sent off to wars past. Young, but showing maturity beyond their years.

No headsets, that is why I am part deaf. Flying, agricultural tractors and centurian tanks play havoc with ears.

..I want an ultralight supersonic VTOL jet that I can shut down & go hang-gliding in sometimes...

Welcome Bob. You and Dafydd gave me lots of help with a design a few years back. I tried out some of your energy-saving ideas. I still haven't got around to delivering the bottles of port.

Hope to get to Clifton in March. Will you blokes be there?

Is that another screen on this app https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/free-gps/id335392176?mt=8 or a different one.?

By the look of it just about everyone who in to aircraft are in to bike as well...

In the last few years, after a gap of nearly four decades, we "got the band back together". The survivors gathered at Hidden Valley to perform unnatural acts on motorcycles. Each year my Darwin mate buys a faster bike. When I go up for my annual visit he puts me on it. Last year it was the GSX-R. Useful power from 4 to 16,000 rpm. They don't rev, they vibrate! I had awesome fun; my 1975 leathers still fit, but are a little outdated. So is my riding style, but I wasn't the slowest on the track.

I have finally let my bike rego go. The funds won't stretch that far, and I've recently had a few close shaves on the road with people who don't give way. Sad, but I have some great memories.

Jabiru website says 10:1 for 120, 160, 170 & 230.

10:1 is a nice, simple ratio to remember when things go quiet.

(Just trying to get some info while ducking the shots passing back and forth!)

...what RAAus offer is completely ineffectual at offering the protection you would likely need....Andy

...a LD of 10 to 1 I would think...

Just trying to visualise that, PA...

On the subject of gap seals, what's the objection to brush seals? Why does everybody persist with tape seals?

A worrying pattern here. Jabiru can do far better. Perhaps they need a more consistent approach to their customers.

I have always had cordial and efficient service from the factory. Admittedly I haven't presented them with major engine failures, but I have found that courteous phone calls always get good results.

So has the RAA notified all the FTF about the insurance being removed? First I have heard of it. Not a squeak out of the reps I guess at some point they stop working for us and start working for the RAA?

Great videos. Lindbergh certainly didn't like all the media attention. Everyone else was grinning & laughing & wanting to be in the photos with him. He just stood there stony faced putting up with it all. His commitment to the task though is legendary.

Talent, or guts and determination? The answer seems to be nearer to practise, practise, practise!

Lindbergh sure did lots of that.

http://www.wisdomgroup.com/blog/10000-hours-of-practice/

Hmmm. Can anybody tell me whether following a moving map in VMC would satisfy CAR 78? A formal record on a standard flight plan form, of where you were on your planned track, at what time, is no great hassle for a point-to-point flight in a conventional aircraft; but it doesn't make much sense for a touring motor-glider, which wanders from the straight-line track according to the available lift. Nothing about fuel logs here; anybody know where that is, in the regs? It doesn't make much sense for a touring motor-glider, either.78 Navigation logs

 

 

 

(1)The pilot in command of an aircraft shall keep a log of such navigational data as is required to enable him or her to determine the geographical position of the aircraft at any time while the aircraft is in flight.

 

 

 

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

 

 

 

(1A) An offence against subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.

 

 

 

Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

 

 

 

(2)The log shall be kept in chronological order . . .

All pretty laid back and lots of fun; "she'll be right mate". I can imagine their excitement, but was a bit concerned when the hound wandered past. Dogs and propellers don't mix.

Doc for years I have had my iPhone mounted at the side of the panel running a simple freebie called GPS. It has big, clear, simple readout of the basics. Always easy to read and accurate, and a minimum distraction from looking where you're going.

.... a PLB is a crock of wank. another device that we require within the nanny state we live.