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  1. Student Pilot
    Always admired the Hurricane, would like a go in one.
  2. Student Pilot
    Space junk? Need to see what the make up of the metal is to get a better idea?
  3. Student Pilot
    Good luck getting an answer, they will refer you to some reg or other and you will have to sort through 9000 pages of legalese. I have never got a straight answer from CASA.
  4. Student Pilot
    Aircraft, they are aircraft.....................plane is what you shave wood with 😁
  5. Student Pilot
    Just had a look at the survey, first they want your name............. Previous experience with this body makes one VERY careful about putting your name on anything to do with CASA.
  6. Student Pilot
    Nobody is 😁
  7. Student Pilot
    The biggest percentage of losses was due to training/operational accidents, the Yanks seemed worse than other Air forces
  8. Student Pilot
    Agreed....... Know your aircraft and it's foibles at slow speed.
  9. Student Pilot
    Good luck if you can find anything to do with CASA that smells of roses, the stench of stifling over regulation, the stink of pilot persecution. No smell of roses......
  10. Student Pilot
    Rotary as in Clerget or Le Rhone? 😁
  11. Student Pilot
    To save me sitting through 40 minutes of monotone, why wasn't it? From what perspective was it reported on? Thanks Captain Gazza 😁
  12. Student Pilot
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cb-CF3UoeiH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Here is some skilful minimum flying
  13. Student Pilot
    It's an indicator of how GA has been treated, nobody gives a sh!t. Federal gov not interested, rich people vote libs anyway and they can afford to fly their rich. CASA being the biggest impediment to flying, you have to be a lawyer to read anything they release. They are actively discouraging aviation, I don't know how people maintain an AOC these days.
  14. Student Pilot
    Single seat Thruster for a tiny percentage of the price and you have some "Real" flying. Seems flying is way out of reach of ordinary folk who are flat out paying for food/rent let alone $3 a litre for avgas, $75 landing fees AND hundreds of thousands of dollars for an aircraft! There are still ways https://www.facebook.com/544160029/videos/780906566216285/ Back to basics, flying for flying sake. No glass dash needed.
  15. Student Pilot
    And only 160 K?
  16. Student Pilot
    You can see the curvature of the earth!
  17. Student Pilot
    Yes, very expensive fashion statement.
  18. Student Pilot
    A PT6-67F develops 1700 shp, most 802 Air Tractors are now fitted with them. Mkes. Huge difference off a short airstrip.
  19. Student Pilot
    It would appear Nev now they are the latest fashion accessory. You can't call yourself a "Bush pilot" (Whatever that is) unless your wheels rolling diameter exceeds your bank balance. The Super Cub mob are a good example, it seems more a statement than a capability.
  20. Student Pilot
    Not worth the time or effort, leave it like it was manufactured either tailwheel or nosewheel. There are no great advantages to either. There is virtually no performance increase from going from nose to tailwheel, no speed increase, almost non existent weight advantage. A well flown 182 will go everywhere a 180 will go. (Exception being an EXTREMELY rough strip which will damage either aircraft) A personal peeve is people calling a nosewheel a "Nosedragger", it is not. It pushes if anything, there are tailwheel (Used to be called conventional) and nosewheel aircraft. You don't have to be a skygod or exceptionally gifted to fly a tailwheel like some will have you believing. It is a learned skill, learnable by most. You can place your hat at a jaunty angle and have the "Ace pilot tailwheel swagger" should you choose. These options are not available to the poorly nosewheel pilot. Your choice.
  21. Student Pilot
    There are several different mods and wings and now available for Beavers, they claim all sorts of advantages but are very expensive. The standard Beaver is a good performer. It's a bit like all the stuff available for Cessna's with outrageous claims about how good they are. A well flown standard aircraft will outfly a highly modified machine flown by an average pilot. If you want to spend lots of money personalizing your aircraft well and good, it's your aircraft. I do have a chuckle when I see aircraft with gigantic wheels flying in and out of 1000 metre runways 😁
  22. Student Pilot
    "and that a review of the limitation be conducted and consulted with industry" Good one......😁 CASA consulting, that does happen, then they ignore what people tell them and do what they want to, they don't take any notice of anybody. They are making GA in Australia safer, with something like 40% less aircraft flying than 20 years ago does that make it 40% safer? There are other reasons why there are less aircraft flying now but CASA is the MAIN reason.
  23. Student Pilot
    That's the way they want it, all good.
  24. Student Pilot
    Correct in whose eyes?
  25. Student Pilot
    I use that except at the end instead of ETA two five, ABC I say the name ABC two five
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