Student Pilot

Aircraft, they are aircraft.....................plane is what you shave wood with 😁

Just had a look at the survey, first they want your name............. Previous experience with this body makes one VERY careful about putting your name on anything to do with CASA.

Nobody is 😁

The biggest percentage of losses was due to training/operational accidents, the Yanks seemed worse than other Air forces

Agreed....... Know your aircraft and it's foibles at slow speed.

Good luck if you can find anything to do with CASA that smells of roses, the stench of stifling over regulation, the stink of pilot persecution. No smell of roses......

Rotary as in Clerget or Le Rhone? 😁

To save me sitting through 40 minutes of monotone, why wasn't it? From what perspective was it reported on? Thanks Captain Gazza 😁

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cb-CF3UoeiH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Here is some skilful minimum flying

It's an indicator of how GA has been treated, nobody gives a sh!t. Federal gov not interested, rich people vote libs anyway and they can afford to fly their rich. CASA being the biggest impediment to flying, you have to be a lawyer to read anything they release. They are actively discouraging aviation, I don't know how people maintain an AOC these days.

Single seat Thruster for a tiny percentage of the price and you have some "Real" flying. Seems flying is way out of reach of ordinary folk who are flat out paying for food/rent let alone $3 a litre for avgas, $75 landing fees AND hundreds of thousands of dollars for an aircraft! There are still ways https://www.facebook.com/544160029/videos/780906566216285/ Back to basics, flying for flying sake. No glass dash needed.

And only 160 K?

You can see the curvature of the earth!

Yes, very expensive fashion statement.

A PT6-67F develops 1700 shp, most 802 Air Tractors are now fitted with them. Mkes. Huge difference off a short airstrip.

It would appear Nev now they are the latest fashion accessory. You can't call yourself a "Bush pilot" (Whatever that is) unless your wheels rolling diameter exceeds your bank balance. The Super Cub mob are a good example, it seems more a statement than a capability.

Not worth the time or effort, leave it like it was manufactured either tailwheel or nosewheel. There are no great advantages to either. There is virtually no performance increase from going from nose to tailwheel, no speed increase, almost non existent weight advantage. A well flown 182 will go everywhere a 180 will go. (Exception being an EXTREMELY rough strip which will damage either aircraft) A personal peeve is people calling a nosewheel a "Nosedragger", it is not. It pushes if anything, there are tailwheel (Used to be called conventional) and nosewheel aircraft. You don't have to be a skygod or exceptionally gifted to fly a tailwheel like some will have you believing. It is a learned skill, learnable by most. You can place your hat at a jaunty angle and have the "Ace pilot tailwheel swagger" should you choose. These options are not available to the poorly nosewheel pilot. Your choice.

There are several different mods and wings and now available for Beavers, they claim all sorts of advantages but are very expensive. The standard Beaver is a good performer. It's a bit like all the stuff available for Cessna's with outrageous claims about how good they are. A well flown standard aircraft will outfly a highly modified machine flown by an average pilot. If you want to spend lots of money personalizing your aircraft well and good, it's your aircraft. I do have a chuckle when I see aircraft with gigantic wheels flying in and out of 1000 metre runways 😁

"and that a review of the limitation be conducted and consulted with industry" Good one......😁 CASA consulting, that does happen, then they ignore what people tell them and do what they want to, they don't take any notice of anybody. They are making GA in Australia safer, with something like 40% less aircraft flying than 20 years ago does that make it 40% safer? There are other reasons why there are less aircraft flying now but CASA is the MAIN reason.

That's the way they want it, all good.

Correct in whose eyes?

I use that except at the end instead of ETA two five, ABC I say the name ABC two five

Another one that's annoying is people giving excessive calls, example being somebody inbound and giving 8 calls from inbound to clear with no other traffic in the area.

I was taught to give accurate concise calls in the circuit and elsewhere. For instance calling crosswind, I was taught to call as you enter crosswind flying over the runway or inline as you fly an extended centreline. Gives me the irrits when people call crosswind and are still 4 miles from the airfield. Your looking around where expecting the aircraft to be and their still miles out! Another is calling final, other day I heard somebody in an RAA aircraft call joining final then giving an estimate of 8 minutes before they arrive!!!! Some of the less professional (Not Eastern) RPT call final 20 miles out and expect priority over somebody doing circuits. Not so good is also people keying the mike then thinking what they have to say with great pauses between information. Another variation on that is the "Release under pressure" call with words blending into one long continuous unintelligible blurb.

I heartily disagree, reading any CASA rules/recommendations/regs will only confuse