Stuart Erskine

If you are a Texan 550 owner interested in joining an owners group please email me [email protected]

A company that was only incorporated in October 2019, which looks to be run by Stuart Erskine, who owns or is affiliated with BreezyLog, an electronic logbook they're toting as an alternative to paper-based versions and which he has been spruiking on the RAAus FB page.

 

I think I'll pass. What are they going to say? Your logbook is not compliant, therefore you're in breach of CAO 100.5, you're grounded! And an instant criminal because 99.9999999999999995% of aviation legislation in Australia is a Strict Liability offence. And because we change our Privacy Policy willy-nilly with no notice to the membership, we're dobbing on you to CASA because our Privacy Policy says we can!

Lol.. not at all. Just to clear up a few things.. its a service that provides hyperlinks to the many documents required to ensure compliance. We don't see or want your log books. We provide you the information to do it yourself. If you've ever researched every document that you may need to check to ensure compliance, CAO's SBs, etc you'll appreciate its a lot of work.. hours in fact for some aircraft. By keeping all this data for each aircraft on a database, its a matter of loading the data appropriate to your aircraft and topping it up with latest revisions from web sites before dispatch. No information has been or would ever be passed to RAAus or anyone else and they don't even know the names of the clients. I'm sorry if the concept of the service offends some people but I can assure you the time spent designing it and setting it up was far longer than some of the members on here would ever put into helping other people to be and remain compliant. Like many other services, it is entirely optional and has helped many people. Yes.. its also an easy way to start a fresh compliant BreezyLog Aircraft online logbook, which again is entirely optional. Regards, Stuart.

Safety Thought.. How confident are you that you really do know the actual Empty Weight of your aircraft? Since important calculations and loading decisions originate from this critical weight, its vital to know what it actually is. Is the empty weight in the POH correct? Do you trust that the weight stated at time of CofA must be correct just because it couldn't possibly be wrong, given all the measures in place to prevent any such errors? If you are reading between the lines you may be in for a shock. Trust but Verify.

At risk of being shot down in forum flames.. I'd at least be checking with Jabiru that the 600Kg Fwd limit is not a typo in the POH. If I were a fit trim solo pilot who hadn't have a big breakfast, and found myself in an 'out of fuel' scenario, from my calcs I'd want to see Fwd COG limit not more than 195mm (19.7% MAC) in order to be able to land slowly and safely. I don't know the Jab, and am working from info in POH V4 Feb 20 and guessed the fuel arm, The thread is very interesting, and whatever the answer is, it's a good spot, a great question and a good exercise to go through anyway.

tried to fill out survey but haven't a google account so sorry cant do

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Stuart

It's not a good look, you're asking pilots to trust your company with, what is quite valuable really, digital data but you've admitted your very own website got hacked because you didn't understand how easy it would be for someone to do. And not only did it get hacked, you didn't pick up on the fact that it had been.

 

I'm not sure which is worse, but what I am sure about is I will be ensuring my aircraft data is kept under my control.

Mate.. you are entitled to your opinion but please contain yourself to known facts before slamming our service. BreezyLog is far removed from WordPress and the BreezyLog records system security exceeds all the security requirements required of it. No one is forcing you to do anything and I feel that your negativity serves no useful purpose to anyone if it's totally unfounded. A mistake was made on another web site and it was rectified. I'm sorry we are unable to assist you and I thank you again for alerting us. I'm not commenting further on this. Regards, Stuart.

Hi KRviator.. Thank you for this alert. I'm very new to WordPress, and have only recently created our FSS pages, and, hands up! the word-press admin password was not really that great and we were quickly high-jacked! I've also just learned, thanks to your timely alert, that word-press is highly susceptible to hacking if long admin passwords (12 digits plus) are not used. Lesson Learnt. Who is Stuart Erskine? Well that's me.. please feel free to call me on 0407 243001 if you prefer to. Anyone knowing me or any of the Flight Safety Solutions / BreezyLog team, would have realised this incident was clearly due to a malicious hack as I'm sure you yourself would have done. Thanks to you we caught it early and now we can resume our endeavours helping pilots fly safely and maintain aircraft correctly. Best Regards, Stuart.

Has anyone made this Skyfox maintenance manual available? I'm looking for a copy. Thanks in advance.

I realise this thread is quite old now, but I was quoted $1300 for a 100 hourly on my LSA one year ago. It ended up costing near 4K.  Long story.  Since then I've gained L1 and L2 and do 912's  by the Maintenance Manual.  I'm appalled by the comment that it takes 10 plus 5 plus 30 mins, but I'm probably not allowed to say that.  I'll happily spend a whole day on a 912 200 hr service, whilst that may not be cost effective, it's a matter of personal satisfation and a smooth running clean engine at the end of that day.   What is a full 912 L2 200 hr service worth these days? My guess, probably around the $500 to $600 mark plus parts?   What do you think?  

I flew down on Friday morning & stopped in Quirindi where forumite Old K was waiting & we flew to Parkes. The air was pretty good at about 8500 but after beginning to descend after Wellington it got a bit choppy. I made my 10 mile inbound call & Unicom advised 04 was in use. Called downwind & base where I was getting tossed around like a rag doll & found the wind had become quite cross from 360 so was pushed out of line. No problem though as everyone was doing it. Putting the tent up was an exercise in almost futile persistence. There was no way I could do it on my own in the gusty conditions. Old K came to the rescue & it was up, sort of. There were dunnys everywhere but no-one could find the showers. They were eventually located about 500 metres away across the apron. The only problem was that the bloke who started the generators slept in on Saturday so I had a 6am cold wash instead. The wind howled and I reckon I got less that an hours sleep on Friday night with the tent threatening to lay down & it kept hitting my head & the noise from the flapping was deafening.

 

The food was good except for the Greek stuff that had Chinese people doing it. I went to a couple of seminars on Saturday but the wind got stronger & the dust came, then it got worse & they decided the site had to be evacuated. Some of us rode it out at the Aero Club & it was there I bumped in to T88. Spent some time at the HARS Museum which was good but it was raining mud. When we got back the plane was a real mess. It rained on and off all night but at least the wind was gone.

 

I spent about 2 hours on Sunday morning washing the plane. I pinched some empty water bottles from the yellow bins & filled them at the basins at the toilets. What a mission. That red dust gets in everywhere. After Id washed it and it dried it still looked terrible but CASA came to the rescue as they were giving away promotional chamois so I grabbed a couple & eventually it looked presentable again. The seminars were excellent and well attended and although Saturday afternoon was a dust out, the evening was good with a few beers & good food & the presentations were made. The show was pretty good. Matt Hall was sensational as always & the F18 deafening. Monday looked better for the trip home as the weather was forecast to be better. Sunday night was freezing. We woke up to ice on the wings. The site was virtually deserted apart for those who stayed another night. The trip home was a bit hairy but there was a good tailwind & lots of smoke the closer I got.

 

Was it worthwhile. Absolutely despite the weather bits. It was well organised, & the company great.

 

Photos

 

1 Bushcat under assembly

 

2 Dust storm just before evacuation, Seminar tents

 

3 Camping area

 

4 Food & drinks & socialising covered area 

 

5 Main exhibitor hall

 

6 Exhibits

 

7 Aircraft parking, camping behind & main site in the background

 

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Hi. Can anyone tell me if there is an existing group for Fly Synthesis Texan owners please?