pmccarthy

I know an equal number of RA and GA aircraft owners. Their motivations for ownership are the same. Having owned both for periods of years, the ownership costs were similar. There is a trend toward RA aircraft ownership at present because: CASA medical limitations Old GA aircraft just got much more expensive (last two years) People with money want a modern machine with modern instruments Fuel prices have risen You can sell your GA plane for big $$ and buy RA (but someone must have bought the GA plane) We found out the kids/grandkids don't want to fly with us anyway There are very few friendly accessible GA training schools remaining

Yep, $11.50 per hour in a Victa 100.

The life coaches say to plough your own furrow.🙂

In my O360 I ran 95 or 98 usually blended with at least 40% avgas. Paterson STC. I'm sure this was quite acceptable.

Do you avert your eyes at the airfield? 😀

Airtourers AT-100 and AT-115, Jabiru J-430 (with back seats permanently removed)? Early Ercoupes. Some Austers, Cubs, and various biplanes.

Perhaps people are more happy with what they have now, and don't wish to sell?

No one is proposing to take away any rights from existing flyers. The rules allowing Drifters and Thrusters are still there, if that is your thing.

Having an autopilot (one on button for alt hold and wings level) must be a major safety benefit for those caught in IMC. BTW a friend flew for nearly 30 minutes in IMC on a six pack (instruments, not beer) with no IFR training and he survived. But his wife refused to ever get in a plane with him again.

Well I didn’t expect that!

I was reading his biography but left it in a Qantas seat pocket so never found out how it ended. I assume he died.

I agree they topple over easily and always retain enough fuel to cause a spill after you are closing up.

Pilots refused to use enclosed cockpits. The sound of the engine, the wind on one side of their face, and so on were essential for good aircraft control (they said).

Saw on the news today a blue Foxbat made an emergency landing in Russian occupied territory. Seems it was doing air obs and should have stayed over Ukrainin territory. It threw a prop blade hence the landing. The pilot has been detained. This answered my wondering why the Ukrainians were not using Foxbats. Seems that are.

It will be a short run as he is towing the ute.

That is 2022 event.

One farmer bought an ex Royal visit car with a glass screen behind the driver. He said it would stop the dogs licking him behind the ears.

It didn’t happen. It was a photo montage done for publicity. The hole isn’t that big.

I just sold a BMW boxer that was 38 years old. I never changed the carby diaphragms in all that time. Basically the same ones in a Rotax have to be changed every five years. So the level of caution is quite high.

They can't be racist - most of the names on correspondence are from the subcontinent.

I think it is a Yak. We have one on our airfield.

My friend would not see a doctor about his condition because of CASA avmed. He died.

At each renewal CASA require me to do a heap of tests that my cardiologist says are not necessary. And he would not ask for them, but they insist, and cost a lot. Just for a class 2, and I fly RAA now, so only needed to enter controlled airspace.

The Vic emergency app reported a plane on the road at Harcourt, a busy road near a roundabout. Local gossip is that it was from Bendigo, landed briefly and took off again. No further information.

Autopilot lets me look outside more. Less watching heading and alt.