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  1. walrus
    My opinion is that RAA saved itself a great deal of time and money by agreeing to provide AVDATA with ownership details. The alternative would have eventually led to the Courts - RAA aiding and abetting “theft” by its members, etc. and losing. The alternative being airport owners banning RAA aircraft, wheel clamps, etc. This was one the RAA wasn’t going to win.
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    Privatisation works just fine where there is already a vibrant, efficient market. Elsewhere, not so much - like healthcare. Compounding that problem is the use of contracts for public servants. In the old days, you got “full and frank’’ advice from the PS. Today, not so much because you want your contract renewed or a job with the service provider. Add to that some PC bullshit and you get 26 year old arts graduates (?) organising covid quarantine hotels and security.......with predictable unpleasant results.
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    This is serious. I’m not sure what foam they used but some can be corrosive. This might take much more than a simple hose down to return the aircraft to service.
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    Seen somebody taxiing with control locks still in place............for a short distance.
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    I pulled mine apart. The “dangerous goods” are four sonneschein cr125 lithium batteries in a well engineered plastic carrier. Anyway, it all went int o the bin as it was about 2010 vintage and i’ve ordered a new ACR PLB. I miht have kept the 410, it was well engineered, but I figure the electronics have improved in the last ten years.
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    Wait till the fun police read this story. To them “10000 pilots” is a threat. They will do what they can to destroy recreational aviation the same way they destroyed GA.
  7. walrus
    Advice from a serious researcher in the field on Tuesday is that the Melbourne outbreak is driven by a new mutation that makes it the most infectious strain on the planet. The lockdown is thus for national and global reasons.
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    Flying for recreation is out of bounds in the Melbourne lockdown area. In regional Victoria I can not find anything that prohibits it as a form of recreation even under stage 3. The applicable documents appear to be the Stay Safe Directive number 9 and the restricted activity direction number 16. - Leaving home for recreation is permissible. SS clause 5, provided you comply with RAD 16 - which allows recreation , clause 6B. If no facility is involved there is no record keeping. 6B (3)(e) has a footnote covering recreation where there is no defined facility involved. Eg bushwalking, running around an airstrip. etc. - CASA exemptions specifically state RAA aircraft are for education or recreation. I stand to be corrected, but I cannot see anything that prohibits working on or flying your aircraf.
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    No blame reporting culture doesn’t exist any more. Two examples from my time as a student in GA not RAA. 1. Do not use a rag or wad of paper to plug ANY orifice during maintenance, use a correct plug or fitting. That one resulted in a fire, $12000 damage and a few dinner party stories. When the smoke started, I did a very neat circuit at 200 ft while my instructor did the radio. My understanding is that one may have been written up as a “random” bit of paper being blown into an unfortunate location so as not to reflect on LAMES. 2. Do not EVER do touch and goes with flaps when learning STOL techniques on short unimproved airstrips without determining your climb capability. . Plan for a full stop or go around from a safe height before you are committed. That one nearly killed me and my instructor. It should have been written up and even perhaps published. No written report was produced because it would have been an admission that the school and its instructors were less than perfect. The instructor is now in jets.
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    As long as the Icom is approved you should be OK. How did you get approval to fly in class D airspace in a “19” registered aircraft?
  11. walrus
    KR Aviator, the issue with the virus is not it’s lethality but the dynamics of pandemics. The rate of infection without mitigation (blunting the peak, smoothing the curve) ensures that the healthcare system collapses. When that happens, no one gets medical attention for anything. Supply chains instantly freeze up and our society collapses. Think 100,000 people trying to get medical attention for their wives/grandparents/children at once. Do the statistics. No medical services, therefore no workers, supply chains operate just in time systems. When they go down, no food, no fuel, no energy, no job. No country is more than three meals from revolution. Police are monitoring supply chains very carefully since the start for this reason. The authorities are trying to keep us balanced on a knife. edge - no jobs vs. no societ.
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    The Rotax engines are used in American military drones.
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    ......and I’m assuming WGS84, not AGD whatever for the datum. From experience, you can overnavigate by fiddling around with this stuff. The surveys for almost all VFR charts predate GPS and you should be prepared for features to be up to a few miles out of position compared to GPS. So please continue to navigate, not just follow the magenta line. ‘Certified ’Airport positions should be accurate but don’t assume anything else is.
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    Mhalc, rememyer that an engine is a pressure device where hot gas flows to low pressure - the exhaust. The pressure drop from piston to atmospheric produces the power. At altitude there is less exhaust back. pressure.
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    Thruster.....because you open the throttle more as you climb.
  16. walrus
    The only cautionary comment I’ve had was from a LAME who warned to keep a spare set of carbon brushes handy as they do wear down in service. Apart from that, the quality of mine is superb and all ground testing has been perfect. I checked blade tracking yesterday and the total difference is less than a quarter of a millimeter or less - too small to even measure accurately unless I wanted to use a dial gauge. You MUST fit a MAP gauge AND a fuel flow gauge. The first is required by Rotax because you CAN overload the engine if the prop is mishandled. SL - 912 -016R1 section 3.1.3 refers. The second is a matter of safety. It is possible to have an engine producing takeoff rpm and correct MAP but producing SFA power if fuel flow is restricted. You must see correct fuel flow and MAP to assure required power.
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    No disagreemenT, you are just up for about $600 for a ppl bfr and another $300 for the medical. Followed by $300 for the ASIC. Simply to use a few miles of track occasionally and access some airports in your two seat aircraft. We truly are idiots.
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    I guess you can go through the restricted areas when not activated, but the circle around the airport reverts to class C when the tower or military use is inactive. What a mess.
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    It’s not clear to me if RAA aircraft piloted by a certificate holder can transit VFR corridors through C or D airspace. I’m thinking in particular of Williamtown. Then there are the corridors through danger and restricted areas as well. For example near East Sale. There is an OZ Stol event later this year North of Newcastle (Wallis Island) that got me interested, However getting there from the South might be problematic.
  20. walrus
    Sounds like amateur built it is. The kit manufacturer leaves the engine, propeller and instrument fit out up to the builder.
  21. walrus
    Clan anyone help with the classification of aircraft for RAA purposes? LSA - built by manufacturer. - 600kg mtow. Amateur built? What is the difference between that and a kit built design that is capable of being an LSA? Then there is E-LSA.... The kit has a choice of firewall forward engine and propeller options. Where do they fit? The technical manual is unclear where they fit.
  22. walrus
    Anyone have a link o the previous version of the RAA Technical manual?
  23. walrus
    Foreign students are required to achieve a pass at ”Cambridge Level two English”. The training they buy to achieve this qualification is verging on fraudulent. Most eventually get it sort of OK if they persevere. I still remember “which one are you? Waggle your wings! ...from YMMB tower.
  24. walrus
    Kaz, these days I can’t even reply to your post without getting vilified or victimized.
  25. walrus
    Kiter, so you can fly into class D airports out of tower hours in your home built? Is this situation ever going to change?
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