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  1. KRviator
    And just for interests sake, the chair that he's on you can actually buy yourself, though shipping would be painful. They're made in the UK, though I note the manufacturer now has a US branch. David Ogilvie Engineering is the company.
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    Yep, email came out this morning. Homework done & accommodation's booked, now just hoping the weather's good to turn a 6hr drive into a 70 minute flight.
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    Good thing it's well-built. In my younger days, a mate and I built a zip-line from the top of his dad's 30' feed silo. Threaded an old steel shovel handle over it and pulled it tight with the tractor. First time we tried it, it snapped about 5m out and he dropped into the only stand of thick grass between the silo and the tractor. Other than a couple of beautiful bruises, none the worse for it...
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    Anyone heard any information about the SAAA MPC that's going to be run out there the couple days before? I've registered & paid, but haven't got any info about when, where, who, etc etc.. I'll put a call into the SAAA tomorrow chasing it up but figured I'd ask here first...
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    I'm reliably informed this accident led to the implementation of the GPWS Mode 4 warning. "Train, Train. Whoop, whoop, pull up" If you have a look through the ATSB Database last year, there was a Loss of Separation between a hot air balloon and a wheat train in WA. The PDF report
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    Checking their FB page, answers that:
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    That'll be a more scenic flight than going to Cessnock for fuel! Credit card or Carnet, or manually operated do you know?
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    Easy solution. Fly PFL's and flapless approaches, etc, etc down to minimums. So long as you don't touch down, you haven't actually landed, so no PPR!
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    Private? No. I agree, you should chip in a few bob, maybe $5/t MTOW? But council-owned? Most definitely I expect to use it for free. I pay my rates. The airfield is just another public facility in my eyes, no different to the footy oval I don't kick a ball around on, or the boat ramps I don't use.It would cost me nothing to launch a tinny at any of the dozens of council-owned-and-maintained boat ramps across the shire area, but fly into Warnervale for an hour of circuits and that's nearly $300 in landing fees for the privilege. You tell me how my 600Kg RAAus bird causes that much damage to the runway? Then it's another $100 for the 'privilege' of refuelling on council land. Now they've gone PPR to make sure they get their cut. IT works out cheaper to fly to Bankstown or even Archerfield than it is to go to Warnervale. Anyone want to buy an RV-9?
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    We already get that with our railway Cat I medical exams. The whole 'do you feel suicidal?' etc etc...Yet we've had one successful and several attempts at it in the last couple of years in one depot...So no matter how good the psych profiles are, no amount of security cards or medical histories will prevent every possibility, every time.IIRC, we had a serving Qantas line pilot do something similar in a bug-smasher off Ballina a year or two ago, an Air Botswana pilot do it, the Germanwings Effo 2 years ago. This is only such big news because of the novelty of it - "Non-pilot baggage handler steals commercial airliner....". Were he to have done the same thing in a Pitts Special, we would be lucky to have heard of it in Australia. I don't mean to trivialise the event or its' repercussions - far from it - as an employees mental health is arguably more important than their physical health in both the flying, and railway, environments given the safety-critical nature of both. But I don't really see how this can have been prevented.
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    Some bloke knocked off a Q400 from Seattle, Barrel-rolled the thing before crashing it. Sad as it is, kudos for A) Getting it airborne. B) Not injuring anyone else and; C) Putting every other Dash-8 pilot to shame!
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    They've just followed in Warnervale's footsteps. It's now PPR, CTAF® and council charges like a wounded bull. No daily rate like, oh I dunno, Bankstown or Archerfield. Noooooo, the muppets at Warnervale (Central Coast Council) now charge per landing. $27.50/t MTOW for an itinerant aircraft. So, based on 1 circuit every 6 minutes (easily doable in the RV), that's nearly $300 in landing fees per hour!
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    That's what no one can understand - How did they announce V1/Rotate?!?... My usual patter on brakes release in the RV is Power set, (oil) Pressure checked, Speed reads.
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    No different to the iLevil BOM.
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    But a spot tracker doesn't meet the requirements for a PLB/ELT for XC flying
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    I noticed it in the latest ERSA - Warnervale on the NSW Central Coast is now PPR only. No doubt in an attempt to catch out those pesky ultralight pilots that Council can't charge their exorbitant landing fees too. Coming back to Somersby today, I heard someone calling themselves "Warnervale Base" request the contact details of a Gyro pilot who didn't contact them for permission beforehand on the CTAF, so if you aren't based there, get ready for a $27.50 landing fee for each movement - and there's no daily rate like you get elsewhere; even Bankstown has a daily charge, FFS! It'd be cheaper for me to fly to Brisbane Archerfield, do an hour of circuits there, refuel and then fly back to Somersby than it would be to fly the <5 minutes to Warnervale for an hour of circuits there and buy fuel from the aero club - By the way, that's another $110 just for the 'privilege' of refuelling on council land. FML... Another nail in the coffin for local GA, notwithstanding the flashy new website of the local aero club, unfortunately.
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    If he's anything like me, he's done it inadvertently using an ipad and trying to scroll down. The 'Caution' is bloody easy to tap by accident.
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    I wouldn't say "all" manufacturers pad out their performance claims... Vans is well-known for being accurate with their claims. For example, in my -9, I cruise at 2400RPM which works out to around 55% TAS'ing 143-145 KTAS. Vans does use SMPH for their performance figures, but after converting to knots, I am exactly where they say I should be for a lightweight RV-9 at 55%.166SMPH / 144.2KTAS. IF, however, you are looking at a brand-new/new-ish manufacturer, then yes, I would be somewhat sceptical. The internet is a wonderful tool for calling out BS claims, and when you get interested in a particular plane, a night or two with Google will usually produce enough meaningful performance data to show whether or not the manufacturers claims can be trusted. Ignore the 38LPH indicated fuel flow. This was during a fuel-flow sensor validation flight after installing the new Rotec TBI. After 2 hours flying laps around the Hunter, it was 24.5LPH, measured.
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    You could always try booking under "B. O'neal" and if it's delayed, trot out the Don't you know who I am?!?!? line?
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    Bugger...Well, it was worth a try. Thanks anyway John,until I hear back from the G3xpert's over on the VAF forums, looks like all an owner can add is an identifier, altitude and description. Better than nothing I suppose. Here's the plotted location of the waypoints in the test file, for posterity!
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    AIUI, this is only if acting beyond the scope of any training received, or not otherwise acting in good faith. Ie: I only have a Senior First Aid certificate, so I'd be comfortable doing CPR. If, while doing so, I broke old mates ribs, I would still be held harmless. On the other hand, if I attempted to do a tracheostomy on some bloke choking in a restaurant and nicked his artery, I am a goner. You covered so long as you don't go above and beyond what a reasonable person, with your training and experience, would be expected to do in the circumstances. By the same token, if you fail to act even though you have some training/experience in first aid or rescue, you can't be held accountable for someone subsequently dying, with the exception of in the NT - the only state to have such legislation, IIRC.
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    Why is a go-around seen as a bad thing among pilots? I average one go around for every 4 landings I do at Somersby because it has very little margin for error and I'm not prepared to push the boundaries. The aim is to get down in one piece, not get down off the first approach - that is a bonus.
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    Just in the interim, could a kindly passing G3X owner try this file out to see what icons it displays? I am not sure if the Apt/NDB/VOR's are permanently saved to the G3X as User Waypoints are. As before, rename it from *.TXT to *.FPL and load the flightplan in your system as normal. There is no route data associated with the plan. IT contains 3 x fictitious way-points, all located offshore of Sydney/Wollongong area, way-point G3XT1 should display as an Airport icon, G3XT2 should display as a VOR, and G3XT3 should display as an NDB. The idea behind this is if these three waypoints do in fact display the respective icons, then I can include a G3X Navaid file for Garmin owners in the same manner as for Dynon owners, and also update the ALA/Certified airport files to show as airports instead of User Waypoints. g3x_icontest.txt g3x_icontest.txt g3x_icontest.txt
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    Thanks John, I don't know anyone with a G3X so had to wait until one of the VAF guys tested them for me. I have an email in to G3Xpert at the Vans Forums to see if there is anything else I can include in the XML file, for example hollow icons for uncertified airports or VOR/Tower icons for the aids, as Dynon allows. Unfortunately, the G3X manual is lacking somewhat in the ability to manually create user-waypoint databases.
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    Canada seems to have it right, with their owner-maintenance scheme for GA, though sadly the M20C and on and Beech Bonanza's aren't included...
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