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Brendan, Hence what you have said are some of the reasons I sold my beautiful Tecnam Sierra and no longer fly. 1. RAA don’t give a sh!t about West Sale RAA members. 2. RAAF have made West Sale their second base. 3. Council are happy the RAAF are using it. Hence the runway upgrades to suit the RAAF 4. Council are greedy having landing fees for RAA members considering we could only take off and land on weekends. 5. I actually don’t miss it, the hangar fees, the RAA rego and membership and the insurance, I’m actually saving 5k a year to be able to only fly on a weekend. 1860 hrs over 18 years I’ve had my fill. Cheers Alf

First ever fatalities recorded for the 787 Dreamliner, will be something simple that caused it most likely. sure does look like the flaps are retracted and with the gear still down could it be as simple as wrong lever moved? Or in-fact were the flaps and spoilers ever set prior to takeoff. (Looking at the cctv footage BrendAn put up) Time will tell I guess, very sad for the victims and their families.

True Nev, But when you studied the ADSB data on flight radar you could see the see the ground speed data during flight and more so during the orbits as well as the altitude fluctuations. It doesn’t take much to work out, a pleasure flight ended in tragedy for sure, no one intends on colliding with the ground when they take off. And that’s not disrespecting the young pilot in this case. I’ve flown hundreds of hours in that area and it can get quite nasty with NW, N and NE winds coming off the Great Dividing Range.

Only had the plane 2 weeks so would have been very unfamiliar with its handling and quirks aircraft have. yes may have had 600 hours and was an instructor but still a test pilot in an unfamiliar aircraft IMO and flying at a low level and gusty conditions in fairly tight turns is not something I would have been doing.

Bit like motorcycles and cars, you look at the tree you head for it, it’s usually the way.

The government loves the word catastrophic as it scares the minions just like the deadly Covid conn did. shame the (CoNvid) killed far less than their vaccine did. its all about instilling fear in to people. Damn when I was a kid we must have had hundreds of catastrophic days over the summers in my youth, we were just not scared back then because we had many days nearing 45 deg or more not 35.

And the other 50% will know they are idiots.

A Highlander STOL bush plane, a river, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah I know don’t summarise but really? Biggest issue we have here in aviation is everyone thinks it always happens to someone else. Well someone’s surname changed instantly to someone else. A very sad outcome for the families of the deceased.

Powerlines have killed many in the past and will continue to do so in the future unfortunately. As in most pilots eyes it always happens to someone else. This is a terrible loss to the family involved.

Well for 18 years I averaged over 100 hours each year, last year only 45, this year only .9. My how times have changed for my flying.

Your on to it KG, Just missed the bit where a wheel caught the tree which pulled it down to the powerlines. What some will do to blame everything else but themselves,

Wouldn’t of mattered if the kid had his xcountry endorsement, he would have pushed on like many do and ended up with the same result.

7252, Maybe Loss of Consciousness?

Topped out at 117.7 for the year just gone. Time to start 2022’s tally tomorrow. Fly safe everyone for the year ahead.

I trained for my RAA in a 160 and learnt very quickly you have to keep the weight off the nose wheel for as long as possible when landing, I had one time early on in my training where I was trying to chase the yippy dance with the rudder to no avail, all was required was pull the stick back and the plane behaved very well. I have seen many instances over the years a Jab dance just after touchdown, it’s not the planes fault.