The Wolf

Practice is all i do. I don't have a cross country endorsement and for the near future, dont intend on getting one. When i hire the plane i pretty much just run through the BFR/test for an hour or 2 and circuits.

Could someone paraphrase the article or something. I may be a bit thick, but i dont quite "get" what the article is trying to say.

about 30 hours in a Jab 160.

I'm sorry, but i have no idea what "adventure" you are talking about then. You started off by saying that adventure was legislated against, now you are saying that everything has been discovered. bull! There are plenty of undiscovered fronteirs, you just cant think of them because they are undiscovered. was it 70% (or some number) of the ocean floor remains unmapped?. Hooning around in a car has nothing to do with "substituting adventure" it is a quick thrill, plain and simple. And you can go orienteering with the scouts!

That has nothing to do with killing adventure, it is about preventing you injuring yourself and claiming compensation. Like climing up ropes? go absailing.

That's not scalable though, is it? No, the stupid ones end up taking out everyone else. Just look at those "seeking adventure" on the roads. Few headlines say "Idiot kills himself, others OK though" There is adventure out there, and there is no regulation stopping you from seeking it. Just out of interest, what regulations stopping adventure are you talking about? I dont see any. There is a difference between trying to see if something can be done, and just being plain stupid about how you go about it. I dont see it as that though. In the early days of flying, it wasn't understood. So it came down to common sense, and taking precautions. The reality is now, we understand flight and how to do it. Common sense no longer applys, because there is an element of knowledge you require. Flying is a complex, expensive (relative) endevour. Just look at the horrid buckets that are on our roads when people are left to self regulation. Most Humans cannot and will not regulate themselves.

You mean like unleaded petrol? How lead substitute was junk, cars would crumble in the street. Valves would come shooting out? This is exactly the same fear campaign that came out when lead petrol was being phased out. Again, Correlation doesn't imply causation. The Z24 engines are nearly 20 years old! ofcourse they are falling apart. Why are you so quick to rule that, say 3 years of ethanol are to blame, and not 17 years of unleaded petrol? Actually, BP will guarantee their E10. If E10 kills your car, they will fix it. Wait a minute! were not they the people telling you it would kill your car? Are they in a "give away money mood"? no! now that E10 is required, they cant try to scare you away from their product, how would they make money?If E10 was that bad, they stand to loose quite a bit.... no?

You are confusing friction with inertia. aerodynamics effect how much force wind resistance will apply, but the force required to stop the object will be the same. A golf ball and a table tennis ball have the same shape, same aerodynamic properties (for the porpose of the example) but different mass. if you throw them, the table tennis ball will drop shorter than the golf ball. It has less inertial mass, so therefore requires less force (through wind resistance) to stop it moving than a golf ball. If all items had the same inertial force on them, they would stop in the same place.

Cant say i agree fully with that. There is still a mechanical lag when using analouge gauges, so if you are rapidly decending/accending you are still seeing the historical height. The analogue gauge would actually be slower to respond than the digital gauge, because of all the friction and force required to move the needle. Because the reading isnt flashing and requiring your brain to compute the new numbers, it is only giving you the perception that it is working better. Digital would still be harder to read and interpret though.

Because then you will lose your photocopies before you transfer them to the log book. Hrm..... maybe if i photocopied them While it in some ways IS a legal document, there is no requirement for your logbook pages to be signed off in any way, So it is more of an official written record. If you lose your logbook, you just transfer the photocopy into your new logbook and who would know you ever lost it?

So what you are saying is that a pilot would never attempt to smuggle drugs across a border? Who said any explosives on him would have been to blow up the plane? Is it not possible he may have attempted to take fireworks or the like across a border? One of them goes off in the cockpit and incapacitates both pilots? Sounds like a smart and well trained security force to me.

TPG uses optus' 900/2100 instead of Telstra's 850/2100 So you got the one that suits you. The original Nexus i ordered was 850, and i am glad they cancelled my order :P

I witnessed a bit of a close call a while ago. I was visiting someone at an airfield to see their plane. There must have been a fly-in or something as there was a large amount of weight-shift planes (plus the usual jabs, foxbats ect). There was no wind (not enough to really sway the 'ol windsock) The fly-in was using 20 so they could get a straight flight to their next destination. A line up was forming along the side, off the active runway. As they were taking off a minor wind developed, meaning they were taking off with a small tail wind. As this occured a local taxied for a flight, checked the windsock and called that he was using the opposite runway. Another line formed behind him. Confusion broke out, as it wasnt a CTAF® so some of the planes didnt have radios and were unaware of the change, and obviously the other side thought they knew that someone had decided to use the opposite runway. I didnt have a full view of the runway, but there were quite a few panicked "stop rolling!" and "Aborting takeoff!" calls from different aircraft.

Sounds like CASA need to look at who they are contracting things to. Unless you are at a certified aerodrome, then it isnt a testing ground (thats what i thought) Although, you are stigmatising CASA for something that 1 person has done. I dont think it is fair to be saying that it is a CASA intitiative, without asking if they are condoning what he did.

Are you sure this is a "CASA out to flex its wings" or a guy who has a) had a bad day and wanted to take it out on someone b) having been abused at several other clubs, felt he was going to "get the boot in" before any of you could? The guy repeatedly stating he was given a holiday to do this seems strongly like he is trying to re-enfore something to himself.

Jet powered glider

I was told by the school i intended to convert my licence with, that a BFR in an RA registered plane will count as your BFR for your PPL. But a BFR in a VH registered plane wont count for your RA licence.

In 2 years, these phones will be $2 peices of junk, and we will be on here arguing about the next "latest and greatest" phone

Not really, since it wasn't a "which phone" question, It was "what can this phone do". My point was, that if you can think of a need for it, chances are someone else has too. Every google employee was given one for christmas. Out of all the employees in the world, there is a high chance that one of them flys. It is unlikely that a few people, currently studying programming, are going to go through the trouble of publishing with apple, just for something to show at the end of the year. Many android publishsers make a point of saying "if you want something, tell us and we will try to help"

That is the advantage of open source, people can make their own without having to pay a company royaltys. If you know anyone who can program in JAVA then they can make an app for you. Apps will (with a soon to be made update) be able to be run off an SD card There are fewer apps in android market than in apple market, but i am yet to not find an equivalent. i have an artifical horizon, magnetic compas, GPS waypoint finder. I have seen a flight computer, directional indicator and a GPS guidance to airfields (it was american, but it is a matter of time till it gets localised).

I have a nexus one. It is the Google variant of the HTC desire. Internally the phone is the same (apart from memory) and the OS is the same (apart from HTC desire having propriatry apps) Differences are listed on wikipedia page of HTC desire (if you are interested). Top phone! What aviation apps were you thinking? There are quite a few. could you narrow it down?

I think what is happening is there is demand for a class inbetween GA and RA. RA hasn't really kept up with aircraft advancement. Alot of the rules and regs in RA are based around the assumption that the plane is an experimental or kit plane, that is slow, rough and held together with wire and tape. It seems the there is a demand for GA endorsments and entitlements, with the cheaper LSA available And then the option of moving to a bigger plane. For some, RA may just be a stepping stone to bigger things. A way of seeing if you truly want to fly, or if you are just young and want some acheivements to your name. I think if RA embrace this side of flying, then they will have more members, more income, and more sway on CASA. At the moment, converting to GA (from my experience) seems a little "adhoc" I'm sure that was said by some when the 100ft limit was removed, or the other legislation that people perceive makes us GA. People always oppose change

RA-Aus has the endorsement. I am thinking of going for it Need to be Solo in a glider apparently.

RA-Aus website says So your mate was in the right. Even though many can omit calls to prevent channel congestion, the other pilot was well out of line to tell you what to do!