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General advice I've read elsewhere is not to talk to CASA without your lawyer present and considering the MOU between CASA and ATSB, that goes for them too. This is not to accuse CASA of being corrupt or anything but it is a recognition of the simple facts that you could get charged with a serious criminal offence as a result of investigations: 1) Aviation offences are strict liability offences. 2) Aviation offences are criminal offences which means your are a felon with a criminal record if convicted. 3) A criminal record means that many professions are forbidden to you, as is most if not all, overseas travel. You wont be flying an aircraft again either. The size of the punishment doesn't matter, its the conviction. 4) Aviation regulations are so complex and impenetrable that you are unlikely to be able to navigate them without legal assistance. You may not even know you are incriminating yourself. 5) As the video indicates, you are highly unlikely to be able to avoid incriminating yourself given courtroom tactics. Its a pity it has to be this way.....

Notice how the pilot kept his mouth shut? Good man! Nothing for the ATSB or CASA. They are joined hand and foot. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjt-aiR8pf0AhXSbSsKHQnqCxEQwqsBegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dd-7o9xYp7eE&usg=AOvVaw0m8ia3E7_AUW90asWpWd_m

Jackc. today another tradie asked what I wanted for my old 80 series. I told him he was number 5 in the queue. I have a 200 as well.

RAA has at least four markets in my opinion, GA has at least four and the costs of everything connected with aviation is increasing. That creates a great deal of friction as associations and businesses try to find a "one size fits all" value proposition that doesn't exist. Lets catalogue them: RAA: - the ultra cheap home built rag, stick and two stroke market for people who just regard getting airborne as the achievement. - the " shiny new toy" market for those who want an airborne jet ski - price is no barrier. - the home builder who wants a little touring. - refugees from GA without class 2 medical certificates or who have no money for GA. SAAA: - Home builders - The "I can do 180 knots" RV 99 home builders 😜 GA: - the airline stepping stone crowd. - private business users. - well healed recreational flyers Then you can add the aerobatics guys and the techno fetish guys who just want to polish their flying Ferrari, be it a glider or powered. All of these good folk are on display if you visit enough airports. To be fair to CASA and the associations, trying to balance all those competing interests is difficult if not impossible. In the yacht clubs you see the same tensions - the family cruisers at one end and the ultra racing crowd at the other who budget for half a million in sails for each new season

Turbo, I'm in complete agreement with you but I'm married.

It wouldn’t be Australia if such a change didn’t require another layer of paperwork and more complex rules. However, congratulations to RAA for perseverance. The access to controlled airspace would also be very welcome because it then makes touring a lot easier to potentially plan. My touring plans founder on controlled airspace road blocks at Alice Springs, Tindal, Darwin, Broome, Karratha, Perth and Adelaide.

Does the weight increase for 95.55 apply from 2 December 2021?

Flightrite, it's called progress. It's inevitable. Aircraft performance increases with time as it should. If anything, RAA/LSA adopts technology faster than certified aircraft because it doesnt require the same level of certification. We are even occasionally seeing lsa technology get adapted to certified aircraft (Dynon and Rotax) "Cheap Flying" as a concept is/was never going to remain cheap because as performance improves, so does the operating envelope and rules have to cater for that. Dreaming of older and simpler times is just that - dreaming. The next generation of LSA are going to match the performance of certified aircraft (in crude terms) and the generation after that will exceed them. Personally, I am looking forward to the weight increase because my MTOW is constrained to 600 KG by regulation..

Que?

The fuel circuit in a 912 iS includes dual redundant pumps, an 8 micron filter after the 40 odd micron gascolator and its pressurised when running to about 45psi and a flow rate of about 70 l/h ( > 2X maximum flow). There is no air access to this system, the only air contact is on the free surface in. the fuel tanks. Murphy’s law therefore suggests some new failure mode will apply one day instead of “gum in carburettor passages”. 😞

Mr. Funnel is your friend.

Between starts? One - two weeks.

Rotax recommends unleaded 95 for my engine (912 iS). Starts every time.

Sorry, my apologies.

KG Wilson, BP Premium 95 does NOT contain Ethanol. https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/australia/home/products-services/data-sheets/premium-unleaded-95.pdf ....And another thing, Avgas has an SG of about 0.72 BP 95 ha an SG of 0.75. You should factor that into your W & B. Furthermore Unleaded 95 has about 3% more energy than Avgas, so expect your fuel consumption to increase for the same power.

Let’s face it, Government hates private non RPT and non military or government run aviation in all its forms. Their only concern is to ensure that as an industry sector we die quietly. I cannot think of one positive action Government has taken for GA/RA that hasn’t had to be dragged out of them with much kicking and screaming.

Garfly, I've done some research and there is a subtle software error in my ADSB installation - will be corrected before next flight. ADSB should have shown the two other aircraft. Anyway having he Ozrunways is a useful backup fort guys with no transponder.

Flew to a destination for lunch with two other aircraft last week. Two had sky echo and I have ADSB in/out transponder. ADSB only showed close traffic BUT we all had ipads running Ozrunways. Ozrunways showed all of us and we kept in line astern at about equal four mile intervals 🙂 …A little chat occasionally on 123.45 and we kept ourselves neat and tidy there and back.

Pen, regarding Los Angeles, there are VFR corridors right through the middle of controlled airspace, none of this skulking around the edges at 500 feet. Regarding “mixing it with hundreds of passengers” - you do that when you use any CTAF with an RPT service already. You arrange separation with the RPT pilots, they won’t bite your head off. When there is potential conflict, I usually give them the courtesy of landing first on economic grounds by just extending downwind a bit. ‘’All PPL holders learn and are endorsed on controlled airspace procedures, it’s not rocket science. ‘’RAA students at Moorabbin have been using class D airspace for years. Sure we all get rusty, but it’s not that hard. ‘’As for medicals, in the USA and UK they self certify without it raining flame and aluminium from the sky. Besides, what do you think ADSB, transponders and radios are for? ATC is there to help, not hinder.

Now I know `why Michael Smiths Searey was N registered.

I found out the hard way that you can’t hire an aircraft from some organizations without a current ASIC.

Turbo, I have a ppl and did the training. but $800 for a bfr and then a medical on top of that, just so I can “go coastal” once a year is crazy. Have you ever flown into LAX as a passenger in daylight? You would have seen all sorts of aircraft from a C172 upwards, mixing happily in that airspace, but not here.

Turbo, I’m sure you are right. What you are saying, it seems, is that RAA pilots have no rights. That said, my point stands. With no rights, then the 60%+ of Australians living under CTA on the East Coast should not be flying RAA. You can fly suitably equipped RAA aircraft in CTA with a ppl, bfr and medical certificate). ‘’That begs the question of medical self certification for GA, if that happens then the floodgates are open for the RAA pilots with a PPL as well.

Why even fly the East Coast? It’s just a series of road blocks. Jervis Bay, sydney, Newcastle, Coffs, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast. Seven of them - and not one of them makes a provision for RAA pilots or a sensible fuel efficient corridor. How many Light Aircraft pilots and pax have been killed because they couldn’t plan or get clearance through these toxic zones?

No point commenting. They don’t listen and don’t care. All you are doing is providing window dressing.