RossK

8 legs on your route, only room for 6 on your flight plan sheet

So, during Nav training, I was taught to plan via waypoints. VFR waypoints and Airfields primarily. Ie if we were doing a 100nm leg and there was a waypoint 10nm off track we would plan via the waypoint. With the advent of modern navigation aids, GPS, EFB etc, is this smart or safe. I've recently had 2 experiences where aircraft were around an airfield, not broadcasting their intentions or doing non standard procedures. Had I tracked around these airfields, I could have completely avoided these other unpredictable aircraft. I understand the safety aspect of navigating by map to ground and ground to map references and still do that on the EFB (not just follow the magenta line), but flying into airspace that contains other traffic may not be the safest option, when I have the option to navigate around it. Thoughts??

Yep, it's a good cause, OME posted this a few days ago For a good cause 309313 tickets sold, last I saw, 😁

I don't have a fear of spiders, which is fortunate as my wife is petrified of them. Any spider in our house dies, no ifs, no buts. Best experience with a huntsman was going in to the kids bedroom one evening and turning on the light, a huntsman had placed itself on the light switch 😬. Having been disturbed, it ran onto the top bunk bed and turned around facing me, 5 seconds later it ran directly at me, front legs flailing like swords, yes, it was on the attack. It reached the edge of the bed and lept at me, I kid you not! A deft side step and the huntsman missed me and landed on the floor, where it quickly met my shoe sole. I do have a fear of sharks - I'm not a fan of anything that can eat me alive. Not great considering my other hobbing is sailing small boats, and I do sometimes take short swims in deep water when things haven't gone the way I planned 🌬️⛵ The ground also has me concerned when I'm flying. From height it looks very hard and unforgiving to me. I've decided to take approach of sneaking up on it very slowly and trying to touch it gently, hoping it won't hit back, seems to be working so far...😉

Done.

Had a great result with the SE on Friday! Tracking over Yarrawonga I could see we we had a potential conflict with another AC, we were at 3500 tacking 005 and they were at 3500 tracking 175. I pushed the nose down and tried calling them but got no reply. 30 seconds later we watched them fly over the top by about 400ft. On the tablet I could see their altitude, speed and callsign, everything I needed to avoid them.

My sources say it's gone

I can't see why they'd put 80L in that wing just to test run the engine. The jerrys seem to be nicely arranged around the fuel drain too. It might actually be able to get off in the area they have (600m), that would be impressive. Can't ever see CASA allowing them to do it though.

Very well done when looking at Google maps - shows about 630m of open space from tree line to tree line and they've used about 500m of it. Yes, getting it out is going to be tight 😬, or on a truck ☹️

This company specialises in RV extras, started with a reinforcement for the nose leg, called Anti Splat Aero ! 😬 Antisplat

Is a little less flamability like being a little bit pregnant?

VH-ECI is in my Log Book 😁

OME, can I suggest you have an overfly type finish point close to the aerodrome, but not in conflict with the circuit. this way no one is trying to fight for their position to protect their finish time. As you say, it's only going to take 1 idiot to mess this up for everyone. I know it's more work, but I would suggest it's safer; I'm sure you've seen this from the Serpentine Air Race rules SECTION 16 – FINISHING 16.1 On arrival back to the airfield, pilots are to fly at the briefed height over such points as are designated on the aerodrome pre-flight briefing. 16.2 Observers and timekeepers will be stationed at designated points to visually identify aircraft arriving overhead. 16.3 An aircraft will be timed as crossing the designated point the moment the aircraft passes over the timekeepers stationed at that point. 16.4 After arriving over the top, competitors are to adopt normal circuit procedure. Sudden changes of direction or speed are prohibited after crossing the designated points, but pilots should land in the minimum time consistent with the traffic conditions and safety. 16.5 After landing it is mandatory to taxi to the allotted parking space before stopping the engine. Alternatively if you want the finish at the aerodrome, the finish could be the crosswind join for the circuit; For 04, AC must overfly midfield at 1500ft agl, decend on the dead side and join 04 crosswind, finish is when they cross runway centreline. For 22, AC join crosswind 22 at 1000ft agl, finsh is when they cross runway centreline. They will be broadcasting their 10m inbound and should also broadcast their joining crosswind, which gives your observers, who, what and where to look for.

I've been reminded of something that I omitted above. Any other apps that need internet that you want to use whilst the Skyecho is connected also need to be set to mobile data only. ie, web browser, weather apps, spotify, etc

The Android problem is Skyecho connects to the tablet via wifi, so your EFB thinks this is an internet source, which it's not. So you have to tell the tablet that your EFB only uses Mobile Data, so you get ADSB traffic from the Skyecho Wifi and EFB traffic from the mobile data. The Apple versions of the EFBs seem to have this function integrated, so it's easier. For Android, you can set it up so it's a once off. Basically, you change the settings so Av-Plan or Oz Rwy only uses mobile data, not wifi data. Which means your EFB will always be using mobile data, even for chart and ERSA upgrades. If you're not concerned with you Mobile Data usage, you can set it once and forget it. Tight arses like me like to use WIFI at home to reduce our mobile data usage, so we switch back and forth each flight. I've had an Ipad overheat in a RAM mount after 25 minutes into a flight. This was the second time it happened, so I cracked it and bought the Samsung, and sold the Ipad for more than double that. I haven't decided which I prefer actually. The Ipad is easier to use and the EFBs have more functions, some of which I do actually miss. But the Android tablets are significantly cheaper and so far, I've not had it overheat. Even though I've had backups when it's happened with the Ipads, is a major pain and a huge distraction. With the overheat issue, I'm in a perspex bubble, so worst case scenario.

Danny, depends on what type of pain you want. The Skyecho with ipad, just works, no connection issues The Skyecho with Samsung (Android) requires 30 seconds of changing System settings and then works. I've had 2 Ipad overheat issues, none with the Samsung. Samsung tablet was $400 cheaper than the equivalent Ipad, I could buy 2 Samsung tablets for one Ipad and have change to spare. Avplan has more features on the Ipad vesion than the Android one So pick your poison.

Would it be possible to have the volunteer and car at Gilgandra? those wanting Mogas (ie me 😁, I have my own collapsible jerrycans) could simply fly into Gilgandra, pay the volunteer $5 to drive them to the servo and they can purchase fuel. This would avoid the liability re fuel, as the pilot has purchased it themselves.

That was exactly my experience. Ended up high on approach and tried to force it down, realised I wasn't happy with it, so went around. Bonus circuit for me 😁. Instructor was happy when I got back as he could see I was too high and was glad I went around.

Unfortunately the news has come that the pilot passed on 24/12/22 😢 I never met him, but from accounts, his passing is a huge loss to the flying community. Condolences to his family and friends.

The AC wil fly much sooner than normal and climb faster; watch your altitude, it's easy to bust through the 1000ft AGL circuit height when only 1 up as it will happen earlier in the circuit. Don't be afraid to do a go around if you're not happy with your approach to landing. Enjoy, it's a once in a lifetime event 🙂

almost as much water on there as most country airstrips in Aus at the moment....🤣

Back to Jacks question on lenses for flying. Can I add to the question, Polarised lenses or not? I've seen pros and cons for both.

"Sitting here in the west of Melbourne waiting for the rain to stop. Wondering what the weather is like in other parts of aus. We have a nice summer in Vic. 10deg here ATM.😁" If it's any comfort, it's no better in the East, it's raining, again 🥺 When I was out at YLIL a week ago, it was hard to believe how bad it looks. I know there are places that have had it worse, but it's copped a beating with the rain, only 1 of 3 runways open and the groundsman is working overtime trying to get the other 2 back to useable condition. This weather isn't helping. Surely there can't be that much water left up in the sky, 'cause it's all down here 😵 🤣

All true, but if RAAus drag their feet on this and the above is the only way to get CTA access, some will want to reduce that cost. The easiest way for me to do that is transfer my AC reg to VH, and cancel my RAAus membership and registration as it's then superfluous and no longer required. An LSA on VH reg and a Pilot with RPL basic med is going to have more privileges and less cost than an equivalent RAA member. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking along these lines.

Here is a man who is very good with numbers, I doubt there is much guesswork in your numbers RF 😉 My empirical evidence supports this: 15L/hr for circuits in the Sportstar is what I regularly see.