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Make sure it's designed to have one end blanked off if you fully sheet the end. If the airflow is blocked a strong gust of wind in a storm could easily lift it.
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Upgrading is usually very expensive, particularly if you need to have it done professionally, which will be necessary as the work (maintenance and upgrades) you can do yourself as the owner of a commercial aircraft (Cessna, Piper, etc) is extremely limited. One option might be to buy a two seater and consider building your own 4 seater over 4-5 years like a Vans RV-10 (expect to pay $250-$300K however). Alternatively, buy a two seater and just hire a larger aircraft if/when you need it - which will probably be far less often that you may be thinking now. Very few private pilots own a six seater. You may also be able to buy into a syndicate that owns a larger aircraft. There are plenty options, but none of them will be cheap. Probably the least expensive option would be to own a two-seat experimental aircraft like a Jabiru or Vans and hire a larger plane when you need it.
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If you have a plane you will need to keep it somewhere so doing some research on the hangar options available in your area makes sense. Visiting the local airfields and talking to hangar owners would be a good way to find out about costs and availabily. Someone will probably also know about any local private strips that may offer possibilities.
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Usually, yes and not necessarily. If you really need a 4-6 seat aircraft it won’t have easily removable wings anyway. Best thing would be to visit local airfields and talk to hangar owners. You are at the start of a long journey if you have only just started lessons and your plans and ideas will change over time.
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My last flight review was on 27 Feb 2022. All went well so I didn’t think any more about it. Then just tonight I received an email from CASA formally confirming that my flight review had been successful - more than 7 months later! They must be short-staffed at headquarters.
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Very sad. The owner of the helicopter and presumably the pilot on this flight was well known in the Jandakot flying community. -
They're all excellent reasons. Nice work. Should be a hit at the shows.
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Can't help feeling it's a lot of work just to listen to some jet engines, unless he has plans to make it do something else like being able to taxy it around. An impressive effort though.
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I Just bought an Airplane with Crypto
rgmwa replied to MissionaryBushPilot's topic in Aviation Videos
I initially considered building a Kitfox but ultimately decided on an RV-12. Sounds like you got a great buy on a very nice looking aircraft. Looking forward to the videos. That was Mike Seager doing your transition training wasn’t it? -
The Mustang was designed by Edgar Schmued.
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... before 🙂 and after ☹️ adding postage.
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Yes, but which two?
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It would be shortsighted if they knocked back home builders from the hardware rebate because they couldn’t produce an invoice for the installation, but it is the government after all so anything’s possible. They may think that someone could buy the gear, get the rebate and then sell it at a profit. An invoice and certification would prove it had been installed.
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Did you get an answer on this? I also have a Dynon and would be doing the installation myself as the aircraft builder,
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We have three windsocks at Serpentine, all usually pointing in different directions. Glad this incident finished well.
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... don't know what happened there. Tried to edit my previous post.
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They said the trailing edge angles were put on to increase stick feedback and won't be on the final version. The front of the stabilator is also removable so they can experiment with different nose sections. The whole thing is a flying testbed for their ideas and still quite a long way from a final design.
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Seems there was a fair degree of interest...
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Yes, total confusion the first time. Trying to remember and do everything at once, and achieving very little. It got better though.
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Correct Nev. All I’ve proved is that I can do it under certain conditions unrelated to a reall emergency.
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I’ve practised it at height enough to know that I can do it pretty well …. at height when I’m practising.
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It's on the to-do list.
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Some of you have probably already seen this, but for those that haven't it's an interview with Rian Johnson, Vans CEO and chief designer about the thinking and development of the RV-15. It's clear that the current aircraft is about testing their ideas rather than a pre-production aircraft. Also interesting that they've been mulling over the idea of building a high wing for about 20 years now. They are putting some solid engineering and marketing thought into this plane, and I think it's going to be successful aircraft for a variety of customers, although probably not me unfortunately. They are also planning to develop a trainer version which may mean they intend building it themselves as they do the RV-12. Homebuilt aircraft have come a long way in the last 50 years.
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I averaged A$1.00 to US$99c. Friends did really well and bought their full RV-12 kit just as the rate hit A$1.00 = US$1.10, but today A$1.00 will get you just US$0.69. The exchange rate has a big effect on your build cost.
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I suspect it will be up there with the RV10 in cost, but I don't think RV's are overpriced for what you get in terms of kit quality and aircraft performance. You can also add a lot of extra cost to the basic kit by your own decisions. For example, most RV10 builders seem put enough avionics in their panels to pay for a decent used Cessna. A US$40-$60k panel is pretty average. What really hurts builders over here is the exchange rate and freight. My RV-12 cost $96k finished and flying in 2015. Today it would cost me at least $140k.
