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Nothing further from the truth!. Super is just another asset with no protected status. All it takes is a court order and its cut off and redistributed by the fund.

These days I have the jab insured through an aviation insurance broker who knows me and knows what I need. He gets significantly cheaper than I could get myself and makes sure it's what I need. I did have a claim on it back in 2009 and the insurer and the broker were all very helpful and no problems at all.

But you have to accept that someone else or some event over which you have no control may cause you to wish you had it. But I know where you are coming from - when I had the Robinson 22 the insurance was so expensive ( 17% of hull value per year plus 10% excess) so I didn't insure it (only insured for third party damage and the passenger liability. ) Fairly stressful way to have a toy.

I'm confused. The money is always outgoing. That much I have worked out. But where does the sex come into it? Is that how you are planning on paying for the plane? - I doubt that would be a viable business proposition for most of us. Or Are you hoping your conjugal skills are such it is how you plan on getting the significant other to accept the outgoing of the money? Or are you hoping that the ownership of a plane will somehow get new significant others to offer it to you? Have to say I have owned a helicopter and a plane and not once ever had that offer come out of it. But now being divorced for a while I am happy to learn how to make use of this information - if you care to share it

And you think that if we are perceived to do our share they won't come? Sorry but that makes no sense. They will come whether we do our bit or not.

Yep I agree. Can get avgas at just about any airport that has fuel. I was not aware they don't like avgas. But then again there are far more airports that now have mogas apparently. I have never been to an airport that has it, and been to lots of airports. But the topic was raised on another thread a few months back and lots of people posted various airports that have it available. Seems like the number is growing, according to the posters.

Rod Stiff told me himself they are in the process of setting up building the new engines with external sources engines for most parts. Some of these sources are already building the parts. It sounded like they would be available sooner rather than later. Despite the pervading perception on this forum that Ian could do no wrong, and Stiffy could do no right, The reality is Ian's business model was such that it led Rod to perceive several years ago he would go under. Rod has been preparing for the outcome that eventually happened and seems to have at least a plan which is now actually underway to get through it and have jabiru engines continuing to be made. I'm not saying anything (and don't want to get into a slanging match) about who is right or wrong, who is a great bloke or a hard nosed businessman. Whether or not if Rod had done things differently things would have been different for Ian or if they would have both gone under. Just the facts about pending availability as they pertain to someone wanting to buy an engine.

Getting back to the original question about what to build. I had a thought. You seem to be happy with the idea of the jabiru airframe. It seems to be the engine that's the concern. You also seem to be keen on building it yourself. The reality is it will take quite some time to do the build. I took 1400 hours (admittedly only 13 months - but I had a deadline to meet and that was working almost every day late into the night after I got home from work and pretty much worked on it every weekend) most people take years -some many. Assume several years. You can buy the kit without engine and don't really need to install it till the rest is done. In fact it is sometimes better not to hang a donk on the front and have it sit corroding there for years. (I had a bit of experience of that myself- we had a big wet season while mine sat in the open sided shed engine on for about 8 months. . Carby bowl corroded inside. Rubbers all cracked and crazed. ) In the time it takes to build the rest - you could wait and see if the new jabiru engines turn out to be to the standard you are happy with, and at the same time start a bank account to save the extra $ needed to go up to a Rotax. At the end you either have a rotax or a Jabiru and some money in the bank. For what it's worth - if you have a PPL then go experimental GA then you can put four seats in it. There's not much difference in cost ( the back seat is a pre-fab single piece that slots in. Minimal work to install. You add the seat belts and it's right for the times you might want to take more people. The seat doesn't remove much ( almost none) space. Mine fits just as much camping gear as my two mates with 230s. Then it's registered GA anyway so you avoid any issues or concerns ( even incorrect ones) about any form of airspace. Of course all this is predicated on a jab airframe being what suits your needs.

This is completely untrue. You can, my flying mate does it based ( in his RAAus registered home built J230) numerous occasions and I have flown both in his aircraft with him and in company in my own VH registered Jabiru ( home built). His was originally based at Cairns International Airport and has only just recently moved it to Atherton. He has a completely home built jabiru. What makes it legal to fly in CTA (even an RAAus one) is that the aircraft has a radio and a transponder and HE has a PPL ( as well as his RAAus pilot certificate). The same applies to the other statement about rotax powered aircraft. There were some BASED in Cairns over the last twenty years that I have been flying out of Cairns.

The elephant in the room is that Australia supposedly makes 1 - 1.5% of the worlds anthropogenic carbon dioxide but the figures thrown around that the entire world needs to drop are variously 50 % or more. Some countries produce more than our entire carbon dioxide output entirely within their yearly variation let alone their baseline. The "warm and fuzzies" jump up and say we have the highest per capita production so somehow it carries extra effect on the earth. ( although they usually achieve this by double dipping in that somehow the CO2 within the coal we dig up is added to our bill and then added again to the country who burns it and actually releases it as well.) But that argument is completely spurious. It is the total mass alone that is important. The earth doesn't care whether one or one million people made it. But the fact that very few of us will be paying for the reduction is very important. It will cost us a disproportionately high cost to reduce it. So even if we could stop making 100% of our carbon dioxide it would achieve exactly nothing. We have to accept that what we do is symbolic and tokenism. That's fine if we want to show we want to do something to the rest of the world and encourage them to do likewise but this is where I have a big big problem with the greens and many others. They talk as if the huge increases in cost of living and the damage to the economy are justified. Clearly they are symbolic and will achieve no actual outcome.

That's my opinion too. I have some friends who grow mangoes up here in North Qld and they have the same feeling. When they get backpackers they get people who work. When they have had people who have been forced to do it after being told they would lose the dole - they have had a high percentage (not all but some) who have gone slow or sabotaged their work so they get sent home. Back onto the dole.

Not sure how that fits in with it. But a local liberal party member was telling me a few days ago that it's part of broader plan to try and get australians off the dole at least for some of the time. Apparently a recent MP that covers Huon valley in Tassie fronted the minister concerned and expressed major outrage about how his constituent cherry farmers were being driven to the wall. Asked how many pickers he needed in his area and he said 600. The ministers helpers went scurrying off and came back with the info that there are currently 2000 registered new start receivers (not disability, not aged pensioners, not people who could not partake) in that area. Did he really believe that backpackers should be doing the job while Australian dole recipients did nothing for their money? Did he really believe that there were not 600 out that 2000 people who could/should do the work? So part of the push is to have communities pressure their dole recipients to do the work. Apparently there ended the lesson. So rightly or wrongly there seems to be a lot more to this than just backpackers and their tax payments. Anyway a moot point now.

The subject ( of Melbourne airspace) has been discussed briefly on another Facebook forum and the initiator of it Adam Bandt seems to have dropped it. He had a petition and a page of mistruths and rubbish on his website. Anyway after a very short time the lot was removed off his website. Presumption is that a few truths about the huge effects it would have on Melbourne airspace were pointed out to him - it would force a lot of traffic into controlled airspace causing congestion, cost and risks.

Why do you say that a rotax prevents access to CTA? My understanding it has no effect. If it's registered as RAAus it just have to have transponder and radio but the pilot has to be endorsed or have a PPL . If it's registered as GA experimental - no problem again. Can't realistically fit a parachute to a Jab. I have done extensive research and liaison with Jabiru and other Jab owners on doing this. No reliable hard point for attachment. No work done by anyone ( Jabiru or others that I could find) to determine the positioning of the shrouds for stable suspension, descent or safe landing. It turns out it is not as simple as just bolt the lines to somewhere in the cabin. Have to consider weights dispersion through the hull - otherwise the fuselage can break up at the first opening of the chute. Then have to consider fuselage angle on descent which changes stability on descent so shroud attachement strong points have to be in position to support optimal attitude. In in the current jab fuselage there aren't any. So to change the Jab fuselage to suit would make a whole new lot of costly testing etc. essentially a new airframe. So Jab have said "no chutes on our aircraft"

This usually means for the purposes of the business of the owner/pilot stuff like transport from one job to another, transport of plant and equipment owned by the owner or pilot not for actual commercial activities like transporting passengers or freight owned by a third party.

The whole thing is anachronistic really. I suspect ( with no particular proof) the whole concept of photography will end up separated from all other commercial or for reward activities. the fact that cameras and videos are ubiquitous in everything from UAVs to recreational aircraft and to private GA aircraft through to commercial GA aircraft means now that photos and videos get taken by lots of people in lots of situations and may or may not end up being a source of reward either immediately or later. Something taken legally today may be deemed illegal tomorrow depending on what happens well after the flight. Strictly now if you take a video while flying and for example post it to you tube you can be both legal or illegal depending on the actions of others. If you have a you tube account you can link it to advertising. Those annoying ads that get played at the beginning of the clip. These you-tube "for payment" schemes - If no one actually watches an ad all the way through you get nothing so it would be legal but if they watch the ad for the full duration then you are illegal as you get a small return. Also if someone else takes your legally acquired photo or video or one they took legally while in your aircraft and later uses it for profit then the video becomes illegal. But it may only affect you well afterwards and by actions of others over which you have no control.

"Enjoy life while you can Do It Today Tomorrow may be too late!" Or. Do it today. Because if you like it you can do it again tomorrow!!!

Don't stay down SE Qld. Go north young man ( or woman). The far north qld chapter of the Sport Aircraft Assoc of Aust based in Cairns are having a breakfast fly in to Santolin strip ( just south east of Tully ) on Saturday morning. 8 ish o'clock. Anyone in the area is invited to drop in. If you do happen to be around give me a call 0419536668 and I can give more details.

However on heir website they do give a list of their roles and encouraging civil aviation is one of their published aims. Quote: We're responsible for the safety of civil aviation. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 created the agency under the name Federal Aviation Agency. We adopted our present name in 1967 when we became a part of the Department of Transportation. Our major roles include: Regulating civil aviation to promote safety Encouraging and developing civil aeronautics, including new aviation technology .... plus more ( deleted).......

There are representative bodies (AOPA, SAAA, RAAus, HAIA ( I'm not sure of the correct acronym but the helicopter group). Trouble is that apart from being carried aloft by a machine the people they represent have very little else in common. This leads to divisions or at least lack of common driving principles. While they are not always in conflict they have historically been driving different agendas and this lack of cohesion is something CASA have been happy to allow to continue. There has been increasing cohesion between them over the private pilot class 2 medical issue ( which is great) but it's taken a century of flight to get toward cohesion on even that).

Has it been flying yet with the ilevil system? And if yes - does it seem to be giving accurate data. I was looking at an ilevel and iPad as an instrument panel in front of the co-pilot but have read on another forum that someone there had lots of problems with ?accuracy with the ilevil or data transfer to the iPad. Not sure if that's a common issue or a one off with that person.

Japanese is even more complex They use 4 written languages - kanji ( same as the Chinese) then hiragana which gives tense, conjunctive and broader meaning to the kanji then katakana for business names, words that have been borrowed from other languages etc and then often freely interspersed with english letters and Arabic ( english ) numerals. All these are intermingled throughout written text.

FT, I'm assuming you're being cynical. Frankus when the real stuff was being flung around many of us asked CASA for the real story ( myself included) and for the data, the source etc. In the beginning we were completely fobbed off. I didn't even get an acknowledgement of my initial enquiries from CASA. In fact the only response I ever got was from the senator who grilled Mark Skidmore and his mate. Later as the excrement was flying off the fan ( and the noise started getting into senate enquiry territory), CASA started to release information but often only after FOI demands and then only in drips and drabs of selected data. Only when that selected data was shown to be suspect the restrictions started to be lifted. The head honcho resigned but the public servants who really run the show stayed on. ( Mark Skidmore stated at his penultimate public appearance as the CEO that he was unable to control the senior public servants in CASA ) So now that the Jabiru fiasco is winding down I suspect that you or anyone will be even less able to get anything out of CASA. They will be hunkered down, watching their backs ( and jobs) waiting for it all to go away.

Well actually that is not correct. (At least was not for me about 18 months ago) I spent quite a bit of time looking at both CAE and Jabiru engines to replace my then 500 hour Jab 3300. (No problems with it - just wanted to upgrade it to all the latest upgrades to avoid trouble and it turned out the most sensible economic direct was simply replace it with a new one.. To buy one new then was $22K for a CAE and $18K for a Jabiru. Just as an aside Jabiru gave me a trade in of $4K as well so it was a very attractive offer that CAE could not match. But even without the trade in - CAE were $4k more expensive.

There is well described phenomenon of three generations for family empires/fortunes to be made and lost. First geration makes it with sacrifice and toil. The second generation see the work/effort and heart & soul put into it by their parents. They learn and look after it but don't need to put as much in to maintain it. Third generation comes along and doesn't see any of the sacrifice only the benefits and squanders it.