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Hi Greg. Could you point me to the source of your quote? It's a very useful bit of info and I just want to be able to point to its source when telling others. Thanks!

Bet it won't be your last!

Back to the photos. Most of mine just replicate those already shown, but I did like this one...

Thanks OME. Hope there won't be too many takers or you won't be able to walk straight.

Thanks. Sorry for the dumb follow-on question (using mogas is new for me), but is there likely to be jerry cans floating around? I don't think that we'll have room to bring any.

A whole new genre of home flight movies. Cool.

Does anyone know whether there will be any mogas available? I can't find anything on the site apart from the avgas tanker.

Welcome Dan. If you're hiring, then I'd say rent and fly anything you can. The more types you fly, the more proficient you'll be IMHO. Having said that, I'm in the process of buying a Tecnam, having done most of my flying on various Jabs. No argument with the Jabs, but the Tecnam is really nice to fly.

Just might be able to make it (and in good company too) if all the planets align. Will know more next week.

Don't worry about the blog - lots of progress photos in this thread will do nicely...

50 minutes to Warnervale (but no A/C currently there for hire), 90 min to the Oaks, 2 hours to Cessnock, so an hour's circuits at Cessnock is a 5 hour exercise (5.5 if you include set up / check out / chat / etc). I think that's the thing that tipped me over the edge towards ownership - if I'm going to travel a long way, I want it to be when I want, not when an aircraft is available! Mind you, I don't think that it took much pushing to get me over the edge...

Now, were the parts shown at 3:37 the bits leftover when you'd finished??

Van's reason for supplying the higher power is probably as noted in this Dynon comment; "Currently the FAA ADS-B requirements specify the higher power Class 1 transponder. For U.S. customers, we recommend only the Class 1 SV-XPNDR-261." Doesn't answer the original question for Australia though...

You mean like in the Sydney basin???

I only had one instructor, but I've been on check flights since with a number of them and I think I understand a bit of what he was feeling. Different instructors have different emphases; one will crucify you if you don't know what his favourite acronym stands for, while another will take you to task for the 'wrong' approach in circuit. I'm confident enough now to know that I can learn something from all of them so there's nothing to fear, but the student is much more likely to be thrown by the variations.

I reckon it depends. I recall getting the cuts from a few psychopaths who just did it for fun. Then there was the one teacher that only ever gave me the cane once, but I can still remember what he said to me afterwards. Him, I respected. The others; waste of oxygen. Not wishing to rain on too many it-was-better-when-we-were-young parades, but there was a helluva lot wrong back then just like there's a hellava lot wrong now. The only difference is that we only remember the good stuff from back then, and we only hear about the bad stuff from the shock jocks now. My daughters are both teachers and I reckon they do a pretty good job (and while I'm on a roll, until you've had an ADHD child and understand what is involved, pull yer collective heads in about the 'doped up on Ritalin' jibes. Go break a leg and then tell me that you don't think it should be treated...)

Pardon the dumb question, but who is guaranteed to be at the meeting that I can nominate as the proxy? Are they legally bound to vote as I request, or do I need to find someone who is going to be there and will follow instructions?

I was really surprised when I read of your first passenger. My niece's boy is autistic and they come and stay with us for a week a couple of times a year. There's no way that I could try to control him and fly the plane at the same time. Then I read the bit about him being in the back seat... Isn't it great when you do something that makes him smile!

Thanks again Wayne. Would you believe that I scoured that document, but somehow skipped section 4.0.

Thanks Wayne. Comprehensive answers, much appreciated. It's possible that I'll be talking to Adam et. al. before too long, but I didn't want to bother them until I had a better general picture. Thanks again.

I've been hunting through the regulations regarding maintenance, and now I'm even more confused than before I started. I understand that if a factory built (24-xxxx) aircraft is being used for training, etc, then its maintenance must be performed by an L2 or better. However; If it is just being used by the owner for their own fun and games, are they then allowed to do their own maintenance? If they are allowed, then can the aircraft be used for training in the future, or does the first non-L2 maintenance render the aircraft forever marked as unsuitable. If a syndicated limited liability company owns the aircraft, are the shareholders in the syndicate considered to be owners for the purposes of maintenance, or does the company put them at arms length so that an L2 has to do any work? John Brandon, in one of his excellent tutorials states "Where there is a group-owned aircraft one owner must be appointed to be responsible for — and control of — all maintenance on that aircraft". Whilst that makes good sense (just as one should be responsible for finance and one for booking, etc), I couldn't find where in the regulations such a stipulation is made. Any ideas? Thanks. Any answers much appreciated.

Nice photo. What height are you at there? I've flown over the bridge a number of times, but I've never dared to get right down there on the basis that there's not a lot of landing places if things go quiet...

I think if I had a lot of money and was able to fly every day, then I wouldn't have a lot of money any more...

Yep. I was disappointed too, because I enjoy reading the magazine, but it's the kind of thing that I pick up for 15min when I'm going to bed or spending time in a Doctor's waiting room (or even occasionally when I'm... ). The iPhone is too small for reading stuff like that, and I didn't want to purchase an iPad (my cunning plan is to wait for someone to discard theirs because they're upgrading - that's how I got my iPhone. Ok. Call me cheap! The occasional bit of honesty doesn't go astray ). Still, I guess we'll all learn to live with it. We've worked around a helluvalot of other changes.