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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-04/light-plane-crashes-near-cloncurry/103065708?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/pilot-injured-in-light-plane-crash-broken-hill/102653198

Looking at a trip to the Sunshine Coast and interested to know if Caloundra and Gympie are RAA friendly. Would be looking to park up for a fortnight or so.

This is an old post but hopefully someone has a 55/3j pilot operating handbook online they can upload here.

If you are experimental you could look at race car scat hose which is 1/4 of the price.

With the cost of hangarage so high in the metro areas could it be an option to build a hangar at a regional location and RPT or train or drive for a weekend of flying. Camp in the hangar?

There are bargains still to be had if you really want to get in the air on a budget.

Who in Australia is doing the best price on a SkyEcho2?

Here is my preferred way to remove fuel from wing tanks if I am not/havent using/used the aircraft for a few weeks. Simple.

Can guarantee it's not certified, they are all over ebay etc. There are not many promoted for petrol and those that have the 60l min capacity range are $400 plus. Old mate had another chord which attached to the alligator clips to an anderson plug. Mostly he uses a small battery which sits in the box on the trolly using the alligator clips seen in the picture.

Here's one to take for interest sake (definitely not a recommendation and bound to be controversial) on a trip last year through Victoria I spotted this set up. Uses a $95 ebay diesel/kerosene pump that was being regularly used solely for 98 and avgas in a Cessna. Mounted on an old shopping trolly his jerry cans either in the trolly or ute and Anderson plug on the aircraft to power the 12v pump. Apparently 20l empties in 30 secs, no leaks and works well. Pump, hoses and auto nozzle part of the package.

AOPA would be interested to see that with the advocacy they are doing at the moment.

Race for the sky. SBS on demand if you missed it.

What was the LSA55 pricetag new back in the 90s'. $170k for the 230 with kit is getting expensive.

this image above is the wiring diagram from Jabiru and the r2013.0.2x is the non genuine. The wires come out of the regulator in differnt spots but all end up in the plug in the same configuration as the Jabiru diagram.