Student Pilot

There are those that think they are special because they fly a tailwheel aircraft, they're not. For 99.9% of short strip operations a trike flown well will handle it. The "Big wheels little dick" brigade has become popular in Australia, most of the strips they post flying into you could do it in a 140hp Piper Cherokee. You don't need a 250K flimsy slow Cub Crafters machine with massive wheels to land in a paddock or a short strip.

If you are not comfortable Bruce you are doing the right thing.

CASA motto, "We're not happy till your not happy". The way GA has gone in the last 30 years there will be no flying to make safe soon. Anybody in GA (Apart from those with a vested interest in CASA) know how hard it it is to work with CASA.

Is that what they cost? Seems the latest lot of lighter aircraft are well beyond the reaches of the common man. Aviation has never been so expensive, the realm of the very well off. Good news is very basic flying is still cheap, you can buy the likes of a Thruster for 10K?

I stand corrected. I have never found Williamtown easy to negotiate, I have never been given a clearance to track coastal at any height immediately. Been held for over half an hour with no explanation then allowed to track coastal. I never had a plan and contacted them direct. Even with no traffic Williamtown/Tamworth/Coffs Harbour were always hard to get on with when trying to get a clearance, busy traffic or not.

Yes he shouldn't have been flying. An added risk was going out over the water, he was forced to because of no clearance available. The was buggar all traffic at Williamtown but he was forced to fly out over the water and remain clear of airspace. Flying over water (Dark night no horizon) without reference to instruments and no visible lights from houses or traffic is impossible. I have had trouble in shit weather trying to get through Williamtown where there was no other traffic. With restricted airspace and CASA's drive to rid Australia of GA there won't be a problem for much longer, nobody will be flying.

200K?

Super Spread rego Airfarm colours

I look forward to seeing it on the factual documentary History program "Hunting Hitler" 😁

No I'm suggesting fly the aircraft, keep it straight if it deviates put it back on line. When it happens again you will be aware. If the conditions are beyond your skill level, don't fly.

A lot of overthinking going on. Just fly the aircraft..........

FB is a Trump supporter, you expect him to be logical?

Seems worse now, the Q mob seem to beyond all logic. The extreme religious side is even more worrying

People who pretend to support Trump are just trolling, nobody could be that stupid.

Trump is a dill, insane, a dangerous plotting fool

Trump promoted violence, he would not support Pence who did what he had to. Pence was being hunted when the rabble invaded the congress, Trump took hours to make a public statement, that was only when he knew his insurrection had failed. Trump is a dangerous threat to democracy, his path is demockracy. His desire is to overthrow a legitimately elected government by any means. That isn't unusual in the US, it's full of nut cases. What is worrying is that some commentators in Australia give him support and promote his lies, the most worrying was our own PM who was sucking up to Trump. Our own PM has a good friend who is a conspiracy nut, Q Anon fruitloop. I would not say Trump is finished yet, he and his cronies are promoting a military take over.

Not everybody stalls powered aircraft on Nev

There seems to be a certain sort of pilot that flies a Cirrus.......

Just what the world needed a 21m span pure jet powered biplane with two separate hoppers 2m either side of the centreline!!!!! It also had two seats behind the pilot for pax. I have seen pics of one spreading solids, I cringe at the thought of flow problems and having one hopper empty while the other still full. Any of the Polish aircraft have good spread/spray patterns. The Drom was the best of any factory setup for spray, the Drom spreader threw a great pattern as well. A well flown Drom could sow the best rice crop of any aircraft.

Was that Martin Hones old aircraft?

Flying powerlines has been done for many years. I would consider an Ag rating the minimum training. Was this an RAA aircraft?

Saw it flyover western vic a few years ago, it was very slow

Spanish built Hispano Battle of Britten star Buchan?

Is there any other reason for flying?

That aircraft doesn't look very stable in pitch