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About Thruster88
- Birthday 04/01/1963
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Thruster T500 T85 RV6A Beech23
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cowra
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Australia
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Thruster88 started following Hi All, Newbie seeking help with Skyfox Gazelle , Glad to be here , RA-AUS renewal now with lots of Membership Terms and Conditions and 4 others
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Welcome Jack, a local young fellow has just purchased a CX4, I had not seen one before, nice looking aircraft.
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The playing field between VH and RAAus aircraft is narrowing bit by bit. The difference now is all VH aircraft except experimentals THE OWNER BUILT require LAME maintenance. The ease of getting an L1 endorsement, one multiple choice exam, compared to the days long training with the new not yet available SAAA maintenance course that will enable non builder owners of VH experimental to maintain their aircraft is an interesting one.
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RA-AUS Cross country endorsement
Thruster88 replied to danny_galaga's topic in Student Pilot & Further Learning
It is about time we should be teaching cross country using an Electronic Flight Bag. Commercial pilots fly this way, most private pilots fly this way. Being able to demonstrate one's ability to correctly us an EFB for planning, in-flight navigation and diversion, getting notams and weather, use of traffic info etc would be best done with an instructor rather than winging it alone. Anyone still use a Gregorys street directory? Anyone failed to reach their destination using Google maps? -
Parking up a plane. Slowing down stale fuel?
Thruster88 replied to danny_galaga's topic in Engines and Props
Laughing with you danny, just to be clear. -
Looking at google maps terrain and the airspace chart for a few minutes, this is how I would do it. Old Station- Koorana croc farm - Hedlow. All OCTA.
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Thankyou for posting Gary, A Thruster for one, or one for thruster, I like it either way. Have just passed 40 years of continuous Thruster flying, hopefully another 20 or 30 to come. My Thruster 1988, t500 will be the last aircraft I fly. They are fun and teach you to fly.
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My casual observation was that most aircraft in airside parking were not raaus aircraft. We camped and could have taken the musketeer into the site but the no propeller rule ruled this out, I am not going to push a heavy aircraft. We returned to the musketeer thru the "pool" gate to collect some things without having an asic, I did not renew last time. I agree, Narromine is better.
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If a good investigative journalist was to follow the chain back from the servo up they could find out who has been making the enormous windfall from the trump netanyahu war. Data, it is all in the data.
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Spitfire Gear up @ Scone, 26 March 2026
Thruster88 replied to KRviator's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Pics on Facebook of P40 kittyhawk VH-PFO damaged in some kind of runway excursion at Scone airshow 2026 Sunday afternoon. -
Me thinks the servos peak body is going to have some explaining to do. Hopefully Journalists will keep on this story. ABC may have bias in some people's minds but they can get a story out. The story is fuel prices not ABC bias so please comments on fuel price only. Track Australian petrol and diesel prices - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The federal government's cut to fuel excise has almost immediately flowed through to petrol prices at the pump, according to ABC tracking of fuel price data nationwide.
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Speaking of NASA, the Artiemis 2 rocket launches tomorrow 9.24 am eastern australia time. Good luck to all.
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Hi All, Newbie seeking help with Skyfox Gazelle
Thruster88 replied to Neil Denmark's topic in Just Landed - Welcome
Airworthiness Directives, AD's, never die, sometimes they are amended or cancelled. Cancellation usually only occurs if it reasonable that all applicable aircraft will have had the AD applied. In this case because the AD only applies to high time aircraft it will be forever. -
Hi All, Newbie seeking help with Skyfox Gazelle
Thruster88 replied to Neil Denmark's topic in Just Landed - Welcome
That AD is pretty clear, those items HAVE to be replaced at those hours. -
Seriously, they all decided to drop their prices by 26 cents per litre? We hear all the time there is not much margin at the servo.
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This is not about politics So an interesting thing happened today. The federal fuel excise cut of 26 cents per litre started april 1. At 8am today I checked the nsw gov fuel servo price app, only one of 5 servos in cowra had dropped their price by 26cpl ON ALL GRADES, the rest no change. Not sure why all had not lowered their price i checked Google news. Chris Bowen Labour spokesperson had said that until servos recieved new stock with the lower excise applied they would not lower prices and that this may take some time. I was unsure exactly when the excise is payed. Now 6.30pm April 1 all servos in cowra and most elsewhere have dropped their prices by 26 cents per litre. 1 did they all get new stock today. 2 did they do it out of the goodness of their heart even though they had old stock 3 does a federal minister? Not know how things work. Cowra prices now diesel 303.6 ulp98 255.9 for once we are similar to other towns around and not getting ripped
