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according to reports it is one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Teenie_Two

looks like the left prop may have been featherd

Here it is

I have just been sent a picture of a twin with collapsed landing gear at Point Cook today. If I get the photographers permission I will post the picture.

I had to sideslip before I could get my cert. and I practice it almost every flight. I see it as an essential technique (in the Gazelle at least) in a forced landing situation to avoid overshooting if it becomes clear that I am too high.

Try Moruya Aero Club

:clap:well done,

I have not had any problems logging on over the last 24h

too bad about the weather, but if you will try to fly 3 times in one week!

congrats again Lloyd. (Lloyd is my brother in law, he started out as a regular passenger of mine).

I could never throw my logbook away. flying has given me some awesome experiences, log book is the only written record I have.

I could never throw my logbook away. flying has given me some awesome experiences, log book is the only written record I have.

You considered yourself a pilot all that time though? And the AUF/RAA advocated on your behalf.If the RAA had a cheaper membership option it could have kept you involved you might have been back flying a bit sooner instead of loosing you

You considered yourself a pilot all that time though? And the AUF/RAA advocated on your behalf.If the RAA had a cheaper membership option it could have kept you involved you might have been back flying a bit sooner instead of loosing you

FT no I didn't pay fees between 1990 and 2007 I wasn't flying

FT no I didn't pay fees between 1990 and 2007 I wasn't flying

My first involvement in ultralight flying was 1988 - 1990, from memory it cost me about $40 a year for membership of the AUF. This allowed me to fly to 500 feet, no magazine no 3rd party insurance and there were many fatalities. I ceased flying in 1990 and quite by accident resumed in 2007, $160, 5000 feet, a basic magazine, wider choice of aircraft and now some 3rd party insurance, 10 000 feet. It is just my personal opinion but $185 seems like a reasonable deal to me, I pay RA Aus about $5 per hour per year.

I wonder what the members who say this is excessive think would be a fair price and how the membership cost of RA Aus compares to other similar organisations e.g. gliding or motor sports?

My first involvement in ultralight flying was 1988 - 1990, from memory it cost me about $40 a year for membership of the AUF. This allowed me to fly to 500 feet, no magazine no 3rd party insurance and there were many fatalities. I ceased flying in 1990 and quite by accident resumed in 2007, $160, 5000 feet, a basic magazine, wider choice of aircraft and now some 3rd party insurance, 10 000 feet. It is just my personal opinion but $185 seems like a reasonable deal to me, I pay RA Aus about $5 per hour per year.

I wonder what the members who say this is excessive think would be a fair price and how the membership cost of RA Aus compares to other similar organisations e.g. gliding or motor sports?

good question, I would like to know also

The Skyfox stands condemned by statistics.

The body count is running at about ten to one or worse. Moreover, the only Lightwing fatality known...was not airframe failure related. However, some of the Skyfox deaths were.

The Skyfox stands condemned by statistics.The Lightwing and Skyfox were produced in fairly similar numbers for the same market and were being manufactured and marketed simultaniously for some years.

 

Both have a steel tube fuselage and strut braced high wing. However the wing designs are very different and one of them is better than the other.

 

I don't doubt that corrosion was involved in the cross member failures, but what about the identified bending loads on this member caused by the design compromise of the lower strut attach point, to enable the wings to fold?

 

Statistics? The body count is running at about ten to one or worse. Moreover, the only Lightwing fatality known...was not airframe failure related. However, some of the Skyfox deaths were.

 

I think it is fair to assume that some Lightwings also live by the sea and yes, some of them also receive less than optimum maintenance. Therefore these excuses for the Skyfox are invalid.

 

It was not only dumb to mount the ailerons on plywood, but it was double-dumb to deprive them of the physical protection that is, in most aircraft, afforded by the wing structure. Sometimes aircraft run into birds....

 

AND

 

Stall/spin accidents have claimed some lives in Skyfox ops. Statistics again favour the Lightwing by a wide margin.