RossK

Back to the topic. If you're flying your own aircraft regularly, I doubt most pilots are doing the calcs or plotting the graph every flight. I've done the calcs and plots for my aircraft and know that my wife and I, 25kg in the baggage area and 95L of fuel are under MTOW and within the envelope at all stages of flight. So the 3 things I do are confirm fuel qty, actually weigh the stuff going in the baggage area, and then politley ask my gorgeous, stunning, love of my life what she weighed that morning 😱 😲 😬, If the numbers are within my limits, were good to go. I know that 95L is going to keep the Rotax spinning for 5.2 hours, which is far longer than I can cope. We are typically on the ground again in less than 3 hours (longest to date is 3.5hrs).

A quick google finds the Atec Zephyr 122 Flight manual. Section 5 lists the Best rate of Climb as 1180ft/min at 54knots, MTOW of 472.5kg. I have no doubt the Atec are great aircraft and the book performance numbers are better than most, but Skip does seem to flavour the numbers with a bit of bias.

That would be Gundaroo Gundaroo Airstrip

My experience is similar to Neil_S Got my RPC in a Jab160, right Stick, left throttle and bought a low wing plane with centre throttle and dual sticks. So sitting in the left seat, everything is opposite to what I learnt in. I was concerned that it might take some time to transition, but was surprised at how natural it came. The hardest thing was the vernier throttle, and remembering to push the button.

Dan Gryder asked the pertinent question of GA and airline pilots; "Manoeuvering Speed, is it a minimum or a maximum??" The resulting answers are eye opening.

And you think Pilatus haven't thought of this before marketing as suitable for unimproved strips??

Yes, going there was good markerting for Pilatus, but the PC-24 is designed to operate from grass & unimproved strips. So not really a stunt, just a demonstration of it's capability. Landing on 2km of the Sturt Hwy would have been a doddle for the crew. Most "with it" purcahsers looking for an off airport transporter are going to have Pilatus on their list. Pilatus just want to upsell them from the PC-12 to the PC-24 😁

Pilatus don't seem to be too concerned with FOD in this you tube clip. PC-24 at The Vale, Tasmania.

The friendly people at Rawnsley sent me these 😁

Yep, 3hrs by foot 🤔 or 3 mins by plane But the view is spectacular, glad we did it 😉

Flew out to Rawnsley Park Station at Wilpena Pound for the weekend. Refueled at Renmark on the way there and back. Short final for 07 at Renmark Then on to the Flinders Ranges Had to do the obligatory climb of Rawnsley Bluff, 2000ft up this track! Left Monday morning with a lap around Wilpena Pound for some nice photos 6hrs each way roughly. Rawnsley Park Station was great. The accomodation is very good. They picked us up from the aerodrome, took me to the general store to fill up my fuel bags (98 Premium), then back to the airport to refuel, and then back to the room. Picked us up Monday morning and dropped us off and waved goodbye. Very welcoming to visiting pilots. I can highly recommend them, a great place to stop for a few days.

From the reports, he wasn't trying to land, he was departing. "He was just about to fly home Saturday afternoon and he flew over the house just to say a final goodbye." There doesn't seem to be a strip nearby that I could land our Sportstar on. Nearest aerodrome is 9km away. But, he did take 2nd place (in the same AC) in the Light Sport Category at Aus STOL 2019, so who knows where he departed from.

A Hobbs meter is a clock, it does measure time. What you are talking about is a Tach Time meter

Funded by boat licences and boat registration fees. How much do CASA charge for licences and VH rego ?

The question everyone wants an answer to is; How did they get it out? Fly or Truck?

Its a Toyota, not a Landrover

Tell them it's for a snowmobile engine 😁

2018 Actually. Rates here are pretty good - Lilydale Flying School Do your lessons mid-week in a Vixxen, my equivalent training (27hrs) would be $5160 using todays rates. No affliation, just received good training from them IMHO, at good rates.

Mike Smith - Southern Sun Averaged just over 20l/hr

You don't have to pass all those extra test. You can get a basic RPC without Nav or Passenger endorsements and then just stay within 25nm of the airfield, simple. If you do your lessons frequently it can reduce the cost also. My RPC was $4620, 15 hours dual, 12 hours solo. I was doing at least 2 lessons a week. It can be done in less, 20 hours is all thats required, 15 dual, 5 Solo.

And this is the stupidity of the legislation and the way it's implemented. ERSA tells us that an airport is Security Controlled or not. Some actually state that an ASIC is required at all times, while others just say that it is Security Controlled. So it then falls on us to try to find out what aircraft ,and how many passengers do they seat, will be arriving to then determine if it's a Screened Air Service. Which for some Airports, is not that easy.

You would think that this could have been avoided with a simple procedure like; all approaches from the east, all departures to the west. Flight paths never cross.

Aviation Transport Security Regulations 2005 Subdivision 3.2.1 3.03 (1) Subject to subregulations (4), (4A) and (5), regulations 3.05 to 3.09 and subregulations 3.18(2) and 3.26(2): (a) a person in the airside security zone of a security controlled airport must properly display a valid red ASIC; and (b) a person in a secure area (other than the airside security zone) of such an airport must properly display either a valid red ASIC or a valid grey ASIC. Penalty: 5 penalty units. Note 1: The requirement in subregulation (1) applies to a person who is accessing parts of the sterile area not generally accessible to passengers or the public. Note 2: For properly displaying, see regulation 1.04; for valid, see regulation 1.05; for secure area, see regulation 1.03. Note 3: A person who properly displays a valid VIC or TAC, and is supervised by a person who properly displays a valid ASIC, need not display a valid ASIC—see regulation 3.09. (2) To avoid doubt, the obligations in subregulation (1) apply to crew. (3) A contravention of subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability. (4) Subregulation (1) does not apply in relation to a security controlled airport from or to which no regular public transport operation operates. (4A) At a security controlled airport from or to which no screened air service operates, paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) apply only during traffic periods. (4B) To avoid doubt, there is no requirement that a person display a VIC or TAC in the secure area of an airport referred to in subregulation (4A) other than during traffic periods. From the Definitions; screened air service—see regulation 4.02. traffic period, for a security controlled airport, means a period that begins 2 hours before the scheduled time of arrival, and ends 2 hours after the actual time of departure, of a scheduled air service that operates to or from the airport.