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wonder how it will go. game changer or fizzer. people must have some confidence to spend millions of dollars .

maybe you should organise the next one skippy. might stop you moaning for a while 😁

I had a quick look at their website. I think they hydrogen electric hybrids.

on the local news today there was a mention of an electric powered aircraft business starting up at latrobe valley airport. dovetail i think the name was. i don't know if its got anything to do gipps aero being purchased by its original owners.

Yltv. Latrobe valley has a new mogas ior Bowser , installed recently.

Should have awis frequency

Hi Glen. I spoke to the instructor while i was at the airfield this morning. They are now shifting all of us from raaus to ga rpl . Because they have brought a c152 online and the club is looking buying another one. This way they can match the raaus rates and most of the younger students are working towards RPL anyway. And the instructor is going to make sure I get the time I need to finish solo starting this week.

Exactly what I thought would happen😂😂.

What do you class as a dangerous activity. People flying small aircraft without passengers in rural areas are hardly a danger to anyone but themselves.

Raaus don't want to chase unlicensed pilots because they can't fine anyone anyway, they are a company. All they can do is pass it on to casa and they don't care unless something goes wrong.

Bosi has made a generous offer if I decide to go ga I will be taking him up on it. I have found someone local who is going through the conversion to raa instructor now. Will wait and see how he gets on.

When did that happen. How many were caught. What were the fines. Do you have any documented proof.

Why wouldn't you carry a couple of jerry. And if fuel with you. If your on your own they are the passenger. I guess it might be hard in a single seater.

Yes. Competing with the reputation of Rotax is a huge task. They need to sell thousands to get the reputation but people won't buy them without it.

The point I made in another post was what if they turn out to be every bit as reliable and long lasting as a 912. Then it would worth the 5 or 10k saving.

Must have been USD. Although that was a while I go and I haven't heard that he actually went ahead with them.

no one would buy them. the bloke i heard about reckoned he was getting a container load for 12k each but he might have talking crap too.

do you seriously think they would ask the same price as rotax. they only cost about 12k au landed here from what i have heard. 38 would be a good markup. if they do ask rotax price they will never sell an engine .

matt did mention the price he paid in one of the videos and it was a lot less. but like i said, maybe he got an extra good deal.

i think that bloke in canada got his for half the price of a 912, may have got a real good deal too, for advertising. even so ,if they prove to be as good as a rotax i would buy one if it left 5000 in my pocket. only time will tell.

how could it not be.

there are plenty in rural areas. a friend of the family had 3 cessnas over the years. did a lap of aus. flew everywhere. never questioned or had a ramp check in his life. never had a rpl either, i don't think he even had lessons. the issue would have been if he had an accident with passengers.

there are probably nearly as many rec pilots flying unlicensed as there are licensed. no one evers checks unless something goes wrong. lots of pilots out there that haven't done bfrs for years.

who fines you 500 for flying without a license