Student Pilot

We won't be needing instructors and engineers soon, CASA will have made aviation safer by putting all GA/RAA out of the air.

You've never had a bad patch and tried to get the dole then? Then try and buy food while paying extortionate rent. Yep those dole bludgers have the best life.........🙄

I saw a webinar advertised with CASA about low flying and wirestrikes. I went for more information and the detail needed for registering is extensive and personal with no guarantee of third party use of your data. It looks like the webinar was setup with a third party NOT CASA, privatising safety now? Is this the way CASA are going for "Public" safety information? Are they like most big companies now and selling your personal information? Why can't you just log on with an ARN and view the seminar?????? They are not helping their reputation of being d!cks to deal with and not listening to the people that they are supposed to be giving guidance and support. Am I being too critical? Did my computer dyslexia cause me to misread? Lots of questions.

Yes but that'll never happen to CASA, brick wall. I'm glad I'm at the end of my career, in my 45 years of flying I have never had anybody realistic to deal with. As a pilot and an operator. That includes when they had regional bases.

That's the crux of it, normally stringent and unrealistic yet let one go through like the Kingair pilot if that's what happened. Did he have a current medical? Date issued? Turbo you have some GA time, what's your experience with medicals or have you just been getting a private one?

ANY heart problems/operations or even a stent requires a six month pause from flying. You cannot get a medical after any of those. The new medical requires all sorts of test including stress ultrasound and heart specialist report. Surely some of you have had a reeming with the medical Canberra mob? Atrocious service. From the people I talk to the CASA medical mob are the other extreme, they will not issue medicals without all sorts of specialists reports. All costing a lot, it's not uncommon for a late fifties or over sixties pilot having to pay 2k plus to get a medical. It then goes to CASA medical department to be assessed, taking up to two months and the day before the medical Dame extension date runs out. Not unusual then for CASA to demand more checks, example being a kidney stone 30 years ago. They then require scans and a specialist report. Any other country you can go to a nominated doctor and walk out with a medical. You can do with with a bus drivers licence in Australia and go out and drive a bus with 50 people on board. A pilot who flies a single seat aircraft (fire bombing/Ag) has to have the same medical as an airline pilot carrying 300+ passengers. Anything to do with CASA is a TOTAL balls up, no wonder GA is being exterminated.

Settle down you lot, take a deep breath and relax. Expecting common sense from those who control aviation is castles in the sky.

Ice 😁

Utopia script

What if the passenger was aware of all the issues and flew knowingly?

Over hyped, just part of learning to fly. As FH said you keep learning every flight no matter how much flying you do.

Whose actually building the western Sydney airport? Give it 20 years, it will be built out and people complaining about aircraft.

1000 k's at 300 kph 😁

Always flown straight A to B except over water, I tend to skirt around large areas of water.

No idea

Never heard that

I can understand why that vid was made and pitched at Ag pilots. Some have done a quite a bit of flying and learned some bad habits. Some also think they know better and have worked out other ways of turning than balanced flight. Every year there are stall spin and loss of control with aerial applicators, some are getting cheaper insurance if their pilots have done a course and watched these type vids.

Did they take information from early pioneers like Otto Lilienthal and the Australian Hargraves and then patent that?

By using everybody else's information and research, patenting that same information as their own. Then litigating to keep others out of the air, the case against Glenn Curtis being and example.

The Skyechos we have aren't connected to any avionics, completely independent of anything.

I found it tedious but I have a short attention span. I think like the first one it is aimed at American (Ag) pilots who think they can turn quicker using lots of rudder and out of balance.

Can't talk for other companies but ours has Skyecho and normal mode S transponder. Pilots use their own ipads which is the only visual representation of any traffic. Main tool is radio communication between pilots. There is no connection with a GPS for an indication from the ADSB. I have flown for other companies where traffic was indicated on a large screen GPS, optimum equipment.

The LATs or light air tankers when loaded are close to their max operating weight and performance suffers. The VLAT that was in Oz a few years ago was carrying 40,000 litres and still well below max weight and performed very well with a full load. The operating cost was only just more than the LAT's and delivered nearly 4 times the load. LAT's say loads from 10,000 to 15,000, usually their drops are around the 10,000. My experience is the LAT's loads are delivered not heavy enough, they string the loads out and don't get enough coverage. Many times SEAT's (single engine air tankers) are called to reinforce retardant lines or to tackle where fires have burnt through lines. Never had to do that with the DC10.

That's what I use and seems to work well, only problem (discussed before in this thread? I haven trawled through the previous pages) is when other aircraft don't have it. Around fires most use it and it's just one tool to have good situational awareness. I have seen mixed results with the Skyecho, some great others not. Setup variable with those or you just turn it on?

Beware charities https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/new-cars/investigators-target-heartbreaking-car-giveaway/news-story/fbf97ad63a66795118ebfd25be404a36 I'm not saying AF is the same. Most charities have a CEO on big money with a lot of overheads, a tiny percentage of donated funds actually get to where they should. It's very hard to find lists of salaries of CEO's of charities. That could be my incompetence with a keyboard. Phone calls saying they are calling for and on behalf of a charity are scam, they can take up to 75% of your donation for handling. Charities know of and use such tactics.