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Student Pilot

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  1. Using old aircraft with 20,000 hours for aeromedical (Even if it's just supplies) is no longer acceptable. A turbine powered aircraft is way more reliable than two recips that were designed 70 years ago. GA is in such a mess they either have high time old worn out Cessnas/Pipers or million dollar turbines, nothing in between.
  2. Why would you use an ultralight when a drone would be quieter surveillance and have zoom capability?
  3. Like any low level operations a reccy before flying low into the block to pick the hazards is SOPs. Can miss them or temporarily forget about them, most line strikes the pilot knew about them. With mustering private ops there never used to be much training, a so called low level check was all that's needed.
  4. Always liked that design, with a 503 or 582 it should be a good performer.
  5. So sad. Pressing on into bad weather. If you positively have to get there....................drive.
  6. The answer is no landing fees, the main income is for the parasitic avadata. The income that the councils get after avdata take their percentage (Anybody know what that is?) would be buggar all.
  7. Now Nev, you're just trying to provoke 😁
  8. My bad Captain Gazza, If a thread goes any more than 2 pages I loose focus 😆
  9. Too many frequencies can distract, you would think there would only be one frequency priority close to the helipad.
  10. Like the PG Taylors "Frigate Bird", he is an underrated aviator.
  11. It was a graceful design, looks like a control system failure ☹️
  12. The only one that looks to be struggling is the Javelin, nose up.
  13. That's what I was told as a sprog pilot in the olden days Nev 👍
  14. Turbo, do you (or any of your family) now work or have you ever worked for CASA?
  15. I still find ole mates videos hard to watch, my limited intelligence, bad comprehension short attention span got a bit to do with.
  16. Yes there are exceptions that are going ahead. I have traveled a bit and Mostly I see places shut down or shutting down. GA is in a steep decline and has been for the last 25 years or so. I have friends in a few different areas/states that also say that. RAA seems to be clinging on still, nowhere near the interest or aircraft there was 25 years ago. I suppose the real decline in wages and income (Compared to inflation) over that time has a big part in it. Also the changing of the want/dynamic of RAA is compounding the decline. Now an RAA aircraft cost about the same as a 182 did 25 years ago. A Rotax 912 now cost what an 0-520 used cost to overhaul 25 years ago. There are still basic cheap flying machines but seems the average price of any new machines be it composite or metal is way over $100,000. No way an average man on wages can afford to learn to fly let alone own an aircraft.
  17. A bit like the machine Will Rodgers and Wiley Post were killed in.
  18. Anybody familiar with Bob Lazar's drawings on flying machine design? Do a bit of reading on the subject, it is interesting.
  19. The price I quoted was just for the instructor, aircraft on top of that.
  20. Seems people are getting more gullible, like the rest of the conspiracy theories.
  21. Last time I saw an RAA instructor he was charging $150 an hour, I think he should have used a mask when instructing like a burglar.
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