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Onetrack, it has mechanical injection. No electronics.

Section 10 refers, but section 11 is wanting. There is one manouvre that should be absolutely prohibited: that is a “touch and go” on a short strip intended for STOL training. ‘It is axiomatic that if it’s a real short strip with obstacles at each end then when you “practice” STOL landing techniques then there is no room for error once you are committed. Think about it; to be successful you cannot do a touch and go because technically that requires at least the full length of the strip and then some. A failed touch and go almost involved me in a crash but for the extreme actions of the demonstrating instructor.. ‘’In my opinion, either practice STOL techniques with a touch and go on a looong strip with no obstacles. If you are practicing for real on a short strip, make a commit height decision and once committed, land, do a full stop , backtrack and takeoff. I assume the instructor wrote our incident up but no action was taken by anyone. ‘’The technique of using touch and go for teaching STOL or precautionary landings on “real” short strips is akin to testing your cars brakes by charging at speed at a concrete wall to see if your judgement and brakes are sufficiently capable. If they are lacking and you are not killed, you get to buy a new car. ‘’Precautionary or STOL touch and go is in the same class as practicing engine failure on multi engine aircraft.

Boycott BP?

The basic medical is a deliberate sham. ‘’Why? Because it requires a GP to certify that you have no “conditions” - that is what “unconditionally “ means. A “condition” is one of millions of possible dimensions of a human that is outside the established range of values for a particular branch of humanity. For example “alopecia” Hair loss, is a condition that technically can be used by CASA to exclude you. There are very, very few people in the world who do not have a “condition” of one sort or another. ..And I’m including one year old babies in that classification “people”. No one can pass the standard if CASA puts its mind to it since everyone has at least one condition. ‘’Regarding sleep apnea, I saw the question on BMI slither onto the class 2 medical questionnaire about 2012 and correctly predicted that sleep apnea was going to become a trendy addition to CASAs aresenal. Of course CASAs wet dream would be to require you to provide your DNA for genetic screening - just imagine! Millions of conditions ! They could then build impossible medical regulatory structures. Please don’t think I’m joking.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2020/aair/ao-2020-065 Have a look at the carbs 😞 You don't have to drain them every time but don't leave the plane for months and let them dry out with unleaded fuel in the bowls.

Do NOT let fuel sit and evaporate in carburettor float bowls, run the engine bone dry with the fuel off. Anyone who has had to clean out a small motor carb will know this. See images at https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2020/aair/ao-2020-065 Apart from that, full tanks to minimise opportunities for condensation. Then this: https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/australia/home/products-services/fuels/opal-factsheet-storagehandling.pdf

OME, I think the lawyer mentioned S58 of the Act which has to do with confidential information being membership data or suchlike. ‘’I don’t want to get involved in law fair or organisational fights, been there and will not do it again. ‘’As for the Board, their hands may have been tied by the Act and they may not have had any good options and this was the least worse. ‘’Our ski club board had something happen once and our Boards legal advice was that they HAD to take action, else members could pursue them in court. I wonder if the SAAA Board were in the same position?

reading between the lines of the latest email, it appears that the issue may have been to do with alleged contravention of the Act. in relation to use of confidential information in some dispute this apparently leaves little room for the Directors to move.....but I don't know.

Could you please post details of the event ASAP? That would include accommodation, food ,and fuel plus time.

Well, this years proposed Outback destination, Lawn Hill Gorge National Park, is out of action till at least July due to flooding, where else would you recommend for a ten day outback loop in April/May? Arkaroola, Tibooburra, Innamincka and the Dig tree are always on the list. Underwing camping is possible but a bed is better. Controlled airspace is off limits, in addition, Alice Springs has been likened to a war zone. Are William Creek and Birdsville worth a visit? Charleville/longreach, etc have no great appeal except to sleep. Is the East Coast one long streak of bad weather and controlled airspace? WA is too far from Victoria. Last years ramble took me 3000+ nm and as far North as Cloncurry before I chickened out in the face of bad weather and unreliable information.

Jackc : "Give it 12 months and there will be a drop in prices, MY opinion only…….. " The Aviation white paper will see to that.

Mate had no trouble the other day selling his C 182 (garmin G1000) for well North of $500,000. Another mate sold his - as new - Bushcat recently and he didnt have to wait long either.

I suggest that I'm not much interested in actual distance - its irrelevant. What I want to know is how many seconds I have between detection and a Skyview Audible traffic warning and between that warning and closest approach. It also doesn't matter much about you not painting the other guy - just as long one of you can see the other and communicate both ways.

I’m wondering now if CASA Avmed is just full of racists. They don’t seem to like anyone who is not airforce cadet material.

Some of the richest, most successful people on the planet are on the autism spectrum. CASA has no idea.

I dont want to know the details. i would like to know if this is an internal SAAA matter or an external matter that could potentially affect other members.

WTF is that email about? A breach of CASA regulations or something else entirely? I haven’t seen such allegedly summary justice meted out very often at all. Most disconcerting without knowing any background.

I have been given what appears to be a set of plans for a Jodel D11 ("approved by DCA 1968") together with a set of some 24 lesson course notes covering BAK of about the same vintage for a PPl.. There is also a file of correspondence surrounding an attempt to build said aircraft that was apparently discontinued around 1970. The documents were given to me third hand some ten years ago. The original owner is long deceased. I suspect a great many projects suffer this same fate. Are these of any interest to anyone?

I heard it was at Lima South. There was a stiff South Easterly blowing yesterday and the turbulence in that part of the Broken river valley is such conditions below about 4500' is dangerous, at least in my opinion.

Ah Yes, GPS assisted collisions.If you are stupid enough to use published waypoints exactly as they are printed then you have lost one potential element of protection against a mid air collision. In other words two rather big holes in the cheese have just aligned. Your track if you do this will mirror someone else doing the same thing. That means either an overtaking or head on encounter. You can pray for GPS errors to save you but consider, if both of you have the same band receiver (eg. GNS 430) then as you close with the other aircraft the position errors due to instrument accuracy, or error, are potentially going to be identical. This means that all you have to save you is differing altitudes when you cross. Good luck with that. I have personally met another aircraft exactly head on - except we were about 500 ft of altitude apart. Please use offsets, and not obvious ones either.

ground grabba screw ins - worked on dry hard surfaces at innamincka just fine. 10mm hex head takes a sparkplug socket - a j a box wrench and crossbar work fine. I use light spectra for the tiedown. https://groundgrabba.com.au/

I am a bear of very little brain because after reading through the new CAO 95.55, I fail to understand how the proposed MTOW increase does anything at all for existing RAA registered aircraft and their pilots. The change does seem to allow owners and pilots of VH registered sub 760kg. aircraft to switch to RAA membership without losing access to controlled airspace. I can’t see where it allows kit built RAA registered aircraft to be reclassified in a higher weight category - ‘lightweight aircraft”. that is apparently needed to get a weight increase. I must be missing something. ‘It appears as before that there is no access to controlled airspace without a full CASA licence, medical and current BFR ,Kit built aircraft are also specifically excluded. ‘I guess our leaders can see a way through all this gobbledegook but I can’t.

Guess I'll shut up and wait and see,,,,,,,,

Flying higher, I am not trying to stir people up. I hope RAA (and you) are right about medical matters. My reading of the discussion is that Avmed is still quite capable of perverting the UK and American standards into something worse than useless or worse than the current mess. They did that with the "basic class 2". Just ask the color blind aviation community about Avmed's capacity for deception.. I survived in my career by never assuming that people had my best interests at heart. Any time I hear "don't worry, she'll be right!" my BS detector triggers.

Kyle, as I read 95.55, you ( and I ) will still need an experimental C of A under 21.195A to satisfy the definition of a kit built lightweight aircraft. There are currently only 25 people in Australia that are authorised to do this and the SAAA Charge for this service is at least $700. RAA in its own right can’t award a C of A - most of the ones I’m aware of are SAAA, and I don’t. see why they would want to do anything for an RAA member. Their forms are all VH prefix as well. ‘’There is thus no current way, approved by CASA, for RAA to issue you with any approval beyond 600 kg. Oh yes, and what happens if you need a medical to drive group G? At present, you would need to (1) get your kit built aircraft VH registered, which means you need current PPL to fly it. Then convert it to RAA while keeping the 21.195 Cof A, if CASA will let you. I fail to understand why this is going to work without even more legislation because RAA has no way of issuing the appropriate C of A..