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  1. FlyBoy1960
    There are reports on PPrune at this particular serial number had a history of engine problems which they could not locate or identify and it had had engine outs previously if you read between the lines from somebody that it obviously being flying the aircraft before
  2. FlyBoy1960
    https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/244642 No mention of the type of aircraft or anything like that
  3. FlyBoy1960
    What's the lesson ? Stay away from twins ?
  4. FlyBoy1960
    some of us in Queensland are still waiting for the voting papers to arrive with the first new edition of sport pilot magazine. contacted the RA-Aus head office several times but nothing ever happened, no voting papers and no magazine !
  5. FlyBoy1960
    you are making some really big assumptions here about an aircraft being able to be flown overweight in other countries. They may not have the same G requirements as Australia, I believe, our G requirements are based on international standards plus the weather that can be expected in Australia to affect an aircraft during flight. Just because somebody says they fly at 700 kg overseas is probably true but it will most certainly be at a reduced G loading so instead of +4-2 you could be +2-1 in which case your aircraft will either be damaged or break in our turbulence. There are standards and rules for a reason, commonly these are written in blood of those before you. CASA or RA-Aus has a requirement of a required payload which is one hour of fuel, two persons of 86 kg each and if you add this together and don't have enough payload based on the aircraft empty weight then the aircraft cannot be registered as an LSA and would have to go into some sort of experimental category with CASA. We saw this happen at our airport previously when the RA-Aus came up to measure some aircraft that were being assembled that were obviously much heavier than being claimed, then all of a sudden they went on to the VH register after the RA stickers were removed
  6. FlyBoy1960
    The Bolly in-flight adjustable is being tested/developed at our airfield. There have been a couple of blades that have let go and the other day (about three weeks ago) the propeller went into beta mode at about 200 AGL after rotation requiring the aircraft to crash land into a pond. I am not sure if they are going to keep going with the project
  7. FlyBoy1960
    That was just STUPID !
  8. FlyBoy1960
    Yes all good now !
  9. FlyBoy1960
    I have also lost the little icon thing from the shortcuts on my browser bar ?
  10. FlyBoy1960
    I have said this before and I don't want it to sound like a real complaint but every time you change the site I go round and round in circles again and again. It would be good if it was just left the same for us old users
  11. FlyBoy1960
    the silicon tape is probably more needed on the fuel lines which in your photos have not been completed
  12. FlyBoy1960
    I would like to say - That's good news. But it isn't, another aviator lost
  13. FlyBoy1960
    Was this John from Comminya ?
  14. FlyBoy1960
    The flight training school at our airfield at Jacobs Well Flight Training – Gold Coast Sport Flying Club Inc is absolutely flat out, they now have three planes and about four instructors. I don't know if this is typical of the rest of Australia but these guys are knocking out huge hours.
  15. FlyBoy1960
    Absolutely terrific aircraft, I managed to catch a glimpse at Caboolture and the owner, adventurer Mike Smith even allowed me into the aircraft to sit in the cockpit (and fantasise) absolutely huge in size inside and out. Plenty of room, he even has his own coffee maker inside so he can make his "picalo almond latte's" while he is flying. There is enough room to sleep in the back in complete comfort, huge baggage area and it gets along at about 125 kn at about 35 L per hour or it may be 38 L per hour I can't remember. It is running two Rotax 915 engines and air master propellers. Absolutely unique aircraft with many stories to tell. He also said there were a couple more headed to Australia as well ! Now if he was in Canberra, how did he get out of Victoria ?
  16. FlyBoy1960
    That is the same rim as my wheelbarrow ?
  17. FlyBoy1960
    Airport coffee gossip about 1 week before it was public, if wrong however, don't shoot the messenger.
  18. FlyBoy1960
    I read you ONLY get the first issue FREE. The rest you have to pay for ! Nothing yet in QLD.
  19. FlyBoy1960
    casa
  20. FlyBoy1960
    I was talking to my mate the other day about just how far the aviation industry has come since the Wright brothers, but he said he didn't really care. I thought that's just plane ignorance.
  21. FlyBoy1960
    This screenshot is from the Comm Bank just now to the USD. There will be about 10% difference between the buy rate and the sell rate, this is how they make their money. What you see on the television will never be accurate because this is called the mid market rate which is the difference between the buy and the sell rate.
  22. FlyBoy1960
    You need to go ahead and get a refund, you were ripped off and it went straight into your custom brokers pocket. Do this 50 times every year and you will have a great Christmas !
  23. FlyBoy1960
    Item 34 of Schedule 4 of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 Item 34 provides a free duty rate for imported eligible goods. Aircraft parts or materials must be consumed into the whole of the aircraft during the act of manufacture, repair, maintenance or modification.
  24. FlyBoy1960
    There is no duty on aircraft or aircraft parts. They are exempt. About the only thing in an aircraft that will get duty applied if it is imported on its own is fabric like seat coverings or aircraft covers but if they are reported as part of a total shipment they are like the rest of the shipment exempt. If you were charged 5% duty then this was incorrect and you are actually able to go and claim it back by contacting your customs broker who incorrectly applied the EIN code when doing the importation.
  25. FlyBoy1960
    This is close but not correct. GST and/or customs are levied on the day that the shipment is exported from the first foreign location so if for example your shipment left England on 1 January then the exchange rate used in the calculation for any duty (which doesn't apply to aircraft) and GST is applicable on the exchange rate calculation on the 1st January not on the day it arrives into Australia. It is been like this for as long as I have been involved with importing before I retired last year.
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