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I wonder when a new rule is badly worded, do the employees get reamed out or do they get praised for adding to the confusion?

My search result: According to the Audubon Society, birds are VFR creatures and do not intentionally fly into clouds. They have more common sense than some pilots and ground themselves on foggy days. (Small birds occasionally do get caught in IMC and fly into tall buildings, as do some pilots.)

Some of us understand the problems of communication and the media. It is strange that a view can take hold on a forum like this and alternative views get crushed. Yet in a different forum, club or group, the opposite views hold sway. Rest assured most of us respect the USA and its people. Don't be put off by the few extremists, we have lost good contributors to rudeness before.

Also keep people warm in a montain accident with heated sleeping bag and run a welder, grinder etc for rescues. Also recharge two elkectric motorbikes at once!

Mark Twain wrote a story about climbing Mont Blanc by telescope. He wrote it like he was in the climbing party, but he was on the balcony of his hotel. Sounds like Spacey's aeroplane and VR glasses! A good idea.

Three Hummock Island, off the coast of Tasmania. It has two airstrips, accomodation and wild coastal scenery. Degree of difficulty not high but you have to fly over water. From the mainland we track over King Island.

I bet he knows what it will weigh to the nearest few grams.

Most government sites were unable to accept data for a while yesterday. Nothing in the news about it.

I enjoyed the couple of episodes it took for him to make the engine cowling. I never miss an episode.

There would be plenty of brown in my case.

On my first job as a surveyor I was issued a chrome plated pocket watch, wind up type. You could buy them at the time for $2.50. My daughter had it now as a family heirloom.

Danny I hope you can persevere and complete the build. I looked at the Bushcat at the same time as you started, sat in one at Avalon. But my CASA medical came good and I postponed a decision. I think now I would probably go for a Foxbat or Vixxen, spending a fair bit more money.

In defense of Ballarat boy Henry Sutton... In 1885, Sutton designed, but did not construct, a mechanical television apparatus to see the Melbourne Cup in Ballarat.[34][3]:319 Sutton had published his Telephane designs in 1890.[34][27][35] According to historian Ann Moyal, the concept was never successfully demonstrated: "Sutton's 'TV system', which he called 'telephany', used all the latest technology, such as the recently-invented Kerr effect, the Nipkow disc (which Baird was to use in the 'twenties) and the selenium photocell. But its weak link in the 1870s was that the signal had to be transferred by telegraph lines, as radio had yet to arrive, and these were too slow to transmit the dashing horses of the Melbourne Cup successfully."[36]

Danny have you given up on the South African kit?

The ASI replaced wind in the wires.

Nothing to stop the RAA board appointing a committee to study or advise on any subject. It can include board members or outside specialists.

But 600 kg is where you are going if AVMED gets you in the crosshairs.

How about a J230 from carbon fibre? It would have a great load capacity.

Ad hominem I think they call this sort of response Onetrack. When you don’t like the message, criticise the person. Anyone who speaks up against the AGW hypothesis cops this.

My dog has never been flying but when I open the cockpit door she is keen to go.

Annoying if you are thinking of ordering a 600kg aircraft now for delivery next Feb.

Coal is congealed solar energy. More or less, it is all the same.

Will you survive the forced landing to claim the warranty?

CASA don't mail paper certificates as far as I know, they email them and you print them yourself. The part you described having done is all I ever do. Once you have seen the DAME they email the certificate. Unless there is a problem. then they email you a letter asking for more info.

Perhaps the main thrust of these rules is the listening watch that you are supposed to maintain when cruising. Many pilots do not monitor Centre in cruise, instead they play Bluetooth music or make videos of their flight. All ok if your technology allows over-ride by the radio, except that Centre traffic is too frequent and annoying so it gets turned down.