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  1. Student Pilot
    You wouldn't say that about a Drom if you flew one 😉 Yes, the bloke who owned the PA20-22 thought it a good idea to convert it. I have to admit it made a very pretty aircraft but...... Virtually no difference in performance or weight and no difference in short field ability. All sorts of claims by the STC sellers and those who want to brag but they are all wrong. It does make a very pretty aircraft though.
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    Sue, you have a PM
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    $600 in a 172 these days!!! Are they trying to discourage people?
  5. Student Pilot
    Talking of Conroy aircraft, any body remember the Sparrow? Saw one a couple of years ago at Evens Head, Chris was demonstrating it.
  6. Student Pilot
    Used to be one of those Darter Commanders in Bankstown many years ago.
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    Doesn't mean a lot, personal experience tells me people can shoot and hit aircraft with absolutely no consequences. CASA at local and Canberra level and police were not interested and took no action. If the police aren't interested in attempted murder in an aircraft then why would they worry about toys being shot out of the sky?
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    Yes there is regulation in place, it is ignored. An example is most chemicals are labelled at 30 litres to the hectare going up to 50 litres to the hectare. At the lighter rate of 30l your quoted 14Ha an hour would need to have lifted 420 litres in that hour. Yes they can be used in very small areas. As for general use, typical advertising hype.
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    So is lots of stuff that is illegal, doesn't mean people don't do it. An example is spraying of chemicals with drones. They use chemicals off label with total volume rates a tiny percentage of labelled rates. If an aerial operator was to do the same thing with normal aircraft they would be litigated out of business with the various State EPA's. Because it's somehow considered "green" to use drones it's ok to do things illegally.
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    The first video, 100'000 plants a day with one drone? What capacity seed hopper? What weight per seed? As with most of these drone promotions pretty fanciful. I am not against UAV's, just the bullsh!t they peddle. There are some very able UAV's and countries that utilise them to their full potential, most I have seen in Australia are hobbyists or gov bodies who were sold a flawed concept and spend way too much for what they get. The Turkish Bayraktar is an example of a capable multi role UAV.
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    A very young pilot in a larger sophisticated machine, he wouldn't have much experience at that age.
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    Henry Hudson still own it?
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    Shadow seems a strong design, one flew from England to Oz quite a few years ago?
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    How much for a delivery drone? 5 k? As long as people are prepared to pay for their own fuel, wear out their own car/motorcycle/pushbike for as little as $10 a delivery you would wonder how such a drone delivery model could compete with the current lot of cash economy slaves. Seems a crazy business model to me, looks the same as drones being pushed for everything from medicine delivery to driverless taxies, not very practical. What happened to the Canberra trail?
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    Me, if it hasn't got steam driven gauges I'm not interested. I think most charities are genuine in their efforts. But where have they have grossly overpaid CEO's and top heavy business models most of the donations go to the cost of running rather than the intended cause.
  16. Student Pilot
    Wasn't the Quicksilver just two axis? The GT had a yoke type control with teflex cables for controls, made for pretty ordinary feedback. As Nev suggested, go Thruster. The single seat Thruster is a great machine with a control feel similar to a Tiger Moth.
  17. Student Pilot
    When the police say "No suspicious circumstances" usually means self inflicted.
  18. Student Pilot
    Guidos old machine or ex Toowoomba? Stearman a nice sedate flying machine
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    Guidos or from Towoombaold machine?
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    Ask most of them who have had much to do with casa and they will tell you what bastards they are.....
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    If you had been involved with casa in such a capacity then you would know what a bunch of bastards they are to deal with. They condone some companies flagrant misuse/abuse and obvious disregard of regulations and rules while pedantically persecuting others. Why are you such a casa sycophant? Smacks of self interest or trolling?
  22. Student Pilot
    If did you would know what CASA are like to deal with
  23. Student Pilot
    I take it that's a no then about ever having an AOC?
  24. Student Pilot
    Read the Glenn Buckley thread on prune. What's your honest opinion on CASA's actions? Have you ever held or do you hold an AOC?
  25. Student Pilot
    The system will never work properly again...........CASA is making flying safer by making aviating harder. The more costly and complicated, the happier they are.
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