Student Pilot

At least you can go for a fly when you want, flying for the general population isn't a reality anymore in Australia.

Don't like your tone there chap. I am not big noting or bragging, stating a fact I do not use a complicated flight plan, usually just a track. I am not trying to discourage flight plans or people from learning. I do see a trend for over top complicated planning, a basic plan and weather from somewhere is all that's needed. Most RAA aircraft are basic, the idea of basic flying is appealing. If I wanted to do complicated flight planning I would have flown airlines or charter, I fly because I like flying.

Air Tractors mainly, right up to the 802

Yes, usually the only occupant. Flights destination is fluid at times, dependant on a few things.

I fly all sorts of distances, local to across large countries.

Haven't done a flight plan in years, leave a flight note or make sure somebody knows where I'm going. Do all you blokes put a road plan in when you go driving? Do you use a road tracker/recorder when driving? A car could disappear on any of the main roads and not be found for weeks or longer. Do any of you check/get weather for driving?

I use OZR in other countries, I use the basic Nav function. Apart from radio frequencies it has everything I need.

No change in pitch with power changes?

Shorts made something like similar but that one looks French with that powerplant.

Flightplan? What is this plan of which you speak? 😆 I hve put probaly hlf a dozen flightplans in, I would have no idea how to go about it now

Have to be a Saab

At a guess 50K+

As with most armchair flying people are overthinking it. Engines stops pick a spot landing into wind if you can, the lower you are the less time to overthink it.

Got bored after 37 seconds. I'm sure he has a very plausible theory if I had watched it long enough. With my limited brain capacity and boredom threshold I can't watch it vey long. How does he define final? His approach in the first 37 seconds he turns onto his landing heading just before he touches down. When I'm landing short on a bush strip I fly a curved approach straightening up just before flaring.

It's not a development for aviation, just commerce. The restriction of aviation continues.

Obvious they are the original pistons, I think they might have had geared props? The augmenter tubes were very noisy.

German engineers knew a thing or two.

Sabre?

Unfortunately no aircraft nor the likelihood of being able to afford any 😕I'll just have to learn flying somebody else's 😁

I'm sure I could talk you into a fly in a 150 Captain Gazza......😜

Didn't watch the vid, internet too slow. I'm sure this has been covered here before. I am very hesitant of ditching, I do work in some remote areas with quite a bit of water, maybe 50%. I would always go for the timber, the water here is usually below 10C. Combine that with an inverted aircraft and maybe some injuries and cockpit egress difficultly because of impact damage and it narrows your chances considerably.

The old canvas one was good. Now there are 20 pages of guff with 3 pages left intentionally blank. I've lost count of how many times the licence has changed (along with the simplification of regs by increasing the word count 10X) over the last 40 years. The licence still has no equivalence to Euro or Yank and is a waste of paper and resources. I still get my checks signed and entered into my logbook (like the olden days) as well as the loosable loose leaf one that the checker/instructor/chief pilot (or mofo or whatever their called) takes a copy of and submits that to CASA to keep another 40 people employed in licencing.

Always admired the Hurricane, would like a go in one.

Space junk? Need to see what the make up of the metal is to get a better idea?

Good luck getting an answer, they will refer you to some reg or other and you will have to sort through 9000 pages of legalese. I have never got a straight answer from CASA.