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Student Pilot

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  1. To me the most basic flying is the most fulfilling. Having an open cockpit maximises the experience, something like a Thruster, primary, basic flying at it's best.
  2. Mebe one of the schools still operating, they either run worriers or 172's
  3. When a system is designed to be convoluted, complicated and very expensive it rules out representation of those without financial resources. There is the legal aid program, ask anybody who has worked in that as to it's success. Seems wrong that if you can make an argument more complicated and take longer then you get rewarded accordingly. Also seems wrong if you muddy the waters with mega dollars from one of the biggest companies in the world and pay enough money you can get a convicted criminal off on a point of law. There's law and there's law, one for us and one for...................
  4. All of the above are good, any reason to fly. Pawnee great little machine, coastal picnic great, any view from above is triffik. he changing 3D The countryside from lower (Legal) altitudes is mesmerizing. I'm lucky enough to do this stuff
  5. How is the virus situation making more work for CASA? With a lot less people flying, less maintenance and hardly any airlines flying what are they so busy with? Has CASA stood down a lot of staff?
  6. Is it worthwhile trying to get any sense out of CASA? There are some good people there. The main trouble I've had is nobody will make any decisions, they just quote regs and say put the question to somebody else. If it's anything like the rest of of their changes of regulations that are supposed to be interchangeable or direct replacements to FAA or JAA stuff, never happens, look at part 61. What a disaster, all it's done is make anything to do with a licence a lot more expensive and complicated.
  7. Had a close look, it looked Italian so I googled Caproni, came up with similar aircraft but not the same.
  8. Fokker derivative? Ford produced his own copies after inspecting a Fokker, only his were all metal I believe. The tail/fin in that photo looks very Ford.
  9. I usually go on memory, haven't seen that one. Looks like a metal version of a Cirrus or something it was based on. Just had a close look at the photo, looks like it's in Australia at Latrobe Valley. Has a bit of a Gippsland Aero look to it.
  10. Blackburn Kangaroo comes from a long way back in the brain.
  11. There will be jobs but as of the last aviation crises in Australia (pilot strike/Ansett collapse) there will be lots of competition for limited jobs. I would imagine the same as last time wages will be considerably less than before things stopped. Lots of pilots vying for limited jobs, just what predatory companies like.
  12. Fibro or fibrous cement was used a lot in cheaper houses especially commission homes, still a lot of older places with internal walls built from it.
  13. They did have a couple of "Sort of" conventional aircraft, a few even had the wings on the right way round
  14. That's pretty good for 5 feet tall
  15. Burt's mob were prodigious producers of aircraft.
  16. Looks a bit like the UFO ole mate from Moree built
  17. Give up Turbo, you know you can't convertum
  18. Perhaps you would rather move to the US where if you get sick and don't have any health insurance then you die, if you get cancer, you sell your house if you have one or you die, free enterprise at it's finest.
  19. King air or PC9 could carry 1 tonne of freight, Jab 30 kilo's?
  20. The actual rate of unemployment will be a lot higher than predicted, the same as the quoted rate now is not the actual rate. The actual rate will be closer to 30%. With causal jobs now being the norm and either under employment (If you work 1 hour a week you are considered employed) or working 60 hours a week and only being paid for 40 is standard practice, this will only get worse when jobs are harder to get. Before virus unpaid overtime was standard practice with most work, when work does resume you there will be a big hit in wages and conditions.
  21. Jodel a much underrated aircraft
  22. Don't know why but it looks Italian
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