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  1. Flightrite
    Everyone has got this in their email this arvo as well as a CAsA briefing that are RA/CAsA affiliated. things are changing....slooooowly!
  2. Flightrite
    You’re right the Corby Starlet is an amazing plane, will go to VNE using the Jab80 in Lvl flight if you are not careful👍
  3. Flightrite
    The whole philosophy of the AUF was to keep it simple hence affordable flying but like most thinks in life you plant a seed then it grows into a big tree!👍
  4. Flightrite

    912 Uls

    Flightrite replied to Rodr's topic in Engines and Props

    A friend of mine has one of those trike thingies with a 80 HP Rotax donk (which I think is the common HP)? & he runs it it at a much higher power setting using around 15 lph, (that’s what he plans) at 60 kts, seems happy at higher revs, prop /wing combo must have a lot to do with it. on a side note bend in one once many years ago, felt really strange, not for me😉
  5. Flightrite
    “to save some money” there’s the biggest flashing red light right there when it comes to aviation!
  6. Flightrite

    912 Uls

    Flightrite replied to Rodr's topic in Engines and Props

    So someone buys/operates a new type of powerplant (to them) and they have no idea about basic engine checks? That’s poor airmanship right from the get go! Too many poorly trained and ill equipped drivers out there as it is! There's so much info avail today on every plane/engine that not knowing the basics is just lazy!
  7. Flightrite
    .....”you’re going in with the wheels down? I’d give anything not but we’d never get up again if we don’t”😀
  8. Flightrite
    The idea of any emerg Ldg is to get out in one piece, the Ins Co owns the plane now!
  9. Flightrite

    912 Uls

    Flightrite replied to Rodr's topic in Engines and Props

    There’s so many of these donks out there these days that this sort of knowledge should be common?
  10. Flightrite
    Looks like someone here is a CAsA supporter😉
  11. Flightrite
    I’ve said it before, don’t think I’ll ever fly again or get out of bed for that matter, just to risky, according to some😂 Everything we do is a risk, calculate the risk/s for YOU and bloody get on with it.....long time dead!
  12. Flightrite
    That’s so true, every A/C that takes off weighs less/more than calculated!
  13. Flightrite
    5 weeks waiting for a class 1 assessment, according to Avmed’s website the average time to issue a med cert is around 10 days, seems bullshit runs right thru CASA’s inept departments! A class 5 will only add to the problems but hey why not we already live in a two class society anyway!
  14. Flightrite
    I don’t know how you guys sleep at night with all the stress you show, I just fly my birds with whatever fuel I can get and go flying, I also sleep like a baby😉😂👍
  15. Flightrite
    Get used to dirty power, we will all be rotting in the ground before that’s done with! The greenies will keep the hype at high levels forever & a day!
  16. Flightrite
    That Avgas contamination in 99/00 was fortuitous for me👍
  17. Flightrite
    I believe that a more competency based training/checking system for those converting to RA from PPL (& beyond) would see more take up that level of driving planes, the current 5 hrs is an insult to most experienced drivers!
  18. Flightrite
    Like I said EP is for fairies, power to the people with fuel!😂👍
  19. Flightrite
    Whilst EP stuff is gaining popularity albeit with limitations I’ll go a hydrocarbon product any day, love the smell of two stroke in the morning, EP is for fairies😉
  20. Flightrite
    I often do (pre Covid bullshit) 700+ nm a mornings flight to visit friends/family so yr average RA takes too long, at my age time is short👍😉
  21. Flightrite
    When you factor in purchase price, hangarage, insurance, Maint inc unforeseen Maint, fuel, club fees (if any) ldg fees (bastards!) it’s expensive to own/operate a decent plane you can go places in with another person. My VH machine costs me$225 an hr based on 50 hrs a year, not everyone can afford that but it’s my time machine at 180 kts, my other machines are puddle jumpers but very limiting.
  22. Flightrite
    That corny statement “ the good ‘ole days” (or words to that effect) always pops up in such conversations, life has no rear view mirror, it’s always forward and we are our own worst enemies.....wanting more, bigger & better, faster, more space, more comfort and more of the gizmo’s to entertain us, (humans love to be entertained) just look at the stuff most people have in their houses, the fancy cars, it’s the same as A/C but that costs more so the concept of affordable flying is well behind us now, the way of the future!
  23. Flightrite
    The AUF then RA was born out of people wanting a cheaper simpler choice to fly, same as the LCC (low cost carrier) concept but like the LCC which people wanted more frills but keep the cheap fares the basic/cheap end of flying got expensive as people simply wanted more, more frills and oh how the plastic fantastics have boomed! It’s a dog chasing it’s tail!
  24. Flightrite

    SuperPup

    Flightrite replied to who's topic in Aeropup

    I imagine it’s the same as the Aeropup? Sure looks like it to me.
  25. Flightrite
    I like to keep a finger or two in each pie, VH Exp & homebuilt RA, both have their pluses & minuses. Both also have restraints!
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