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I read "Plane wrecker in Nerang" and immeadiately thought of you Daz!!!!!

Dunno why....

As much as it pains my funny bone to have to do this.... serious thread you mob.

There's nothing tragic or sad about it IMHO. They pushed the limits and found them. Too bad so sad..

Even a guess at the runway heading would give others some idea of which way he's landing.

Off Topic: Wasn't it "Blah blah MBZ??" in the dim dark past Dazza...?

On Topic: You'd think the flapdoodle driver would be able to ad-lib a circuit broadcast off his compass....

...knockin' back shots with Salty after he volunteered to....

The time limit was introduced owing to a certain poster reinserting offending material back into a post after it had been moderated. And then there was a run on a few posters removing content of messages when things weren't going their way. We might have to con the boss into making the edit window a bit longer to cover fixing typos and the like though.

(He's smart enough to keep me out of changing those sorts of things.. )

..they'd just drilled a peep hole through the wall of the...

Come to WGAx2 and I'll soon organise a $50* cuppa for you Robbo...

(*plus GST.... )

It'll depend on what and where they/we want to fly Tubz. We're still going to need an RAA cert to fly a postcode rego'd one.

RPL does open up CTA for RAA aircraft types if that's what toots their horn.

Hmmm.... been reading into the medicals side of it. You could lose your RAA cert medical quite easily if the austroads assessments are applied to the letter. The primary difference is self assessment and the RAA will allow conditional drivers' license conditions where the RPL doesn't (IMHO and at face value)

Some links for anyone interested enough;

http://www.austroads.com.au/images/stories/assessing_fitness_to_drive_2013.pdf

and a quote from the amendment; (formatting is wierd as cut and paste isn't working correctly for some reason)

61.030 Definition of modified Austroads medical standards

for Part 61

 

(1)

 

Modified Austroads medical standards, in relation to the

 

exercise of the privileges of a pilot licence, means the

 

Austroads medical standards modified to provide that a person

 

with any of the following medical histories or conditions does

 

not meet the standards:

 

(a) subject to subregulation (2)

 

—

 

a history of cancer within

 

the 5-year period before the day the privileges of the

 

licence are exercised;

 

(b) a history of ECG changes, with or without symptoms;

 

© subject to subregulation (3)

 

—

 

a history of heart failure;

 

(d) inability to hear a conversational speaking voice at a

 

distance of 2 metres, whether unaided or with the

 

assistance of a medically prescribed hearing aid;

 

(e) any musculoskeletal disability, disorder or disease of the

 

bones, joints, muscles or tendons that would limit or

 

restrict the normal manipulation of aircraft controls, or

 

would require physical modifications to the aircraft to

 

enable appropriate manipulation of the controls;

 

(f) a history of transient ischaemic attack;

 

(g) a history of multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy or

 

Parkinson’s disease;

 

(h) a history of one or more of the following in relation to a

 

head injury:

 

(i) loss of consciousness;

 

(ii) post-traumatic amnesia;

 

(iii) abnormal findings on head CT or MRI investigation;

 

(i) a history of renal colic or calculi;

 

(j) active vertigo or a history of benign paroxysmal positional

 

vertigo.

 

(2) For paragraph (1) (a), a history of cancer for a person does not

 

include a history of basal cell skin cancers if:

 

(a) each basal cell skin cancer has been treated by excision

 

with no metastasized sequelae; and

 

(b) since at least the last occurrence of a basal cell skin

 

cancer, the person has been under active and continuous

 

case management by a medical practitioner who is a

 

specialist oncology physician or surgeon (the treating practitioner); and

 

© the person is assessed for the issue of a recreational

 

aviation medical practitioner’s certificate by the treating

 

practitioner or, if the treating practitioner is not available,

 

by another medical practitioner with knowledge of the

 

person’s basal cell skin cancer history.

 

(3) For paragraph (1) ©, a history of heart failure for a person

 

does not include a history in which the person meets all of the

 

following requirements:

 

(a) the person has not had an episode of heart failure for at

 

least the previous 3 years;

 

(b) since at least the last episode of heart failure, the person

 

has been under active and continuous case management by

 

a medical practitioner who is a specialist cardiovascular

 

physician or surgeon (the treating practitioner);

 

© the person is assessed for the issue of a recreational

 

aviation medical practitioner’s certificate by the treating

 

practitioner or, if the treating practitioner is not available,

 

by another medical practitioner with knowledge of the

 

person’s history of heart failure.9

 

(4) In this regulation:

 

Austroads medical standards

 

means the medical standards for

 

the issue of an unconditional

 

private motor vehicle driver’s

 

licence, set out in the publication

 

Assessing fitness to drive for

 

commercial and private vehicle drivers

 

, published by

 

Austroads in March 2012, or any later version as in force from

 

time to time.

 

Note

 

See www.austroads.com.au/assessing-fitness-to-drive/.

Without having delved into every nook and cranny of the amendment Dazza, it appears that if you have a current RAA pilots cert with Nav, Pax etc., you are already qualified for a CASA recreational pilots license with same permissions.

I've not looked properly into the medical side of it yet, nor of the registration requirements, but VH-BeerCaN is looking more and more appealing.

The interesting bit;

61.480 Grant of recreational pilot licences in recognition ofpilot certificates granted by certain organisations

 

(1) This regulation applies to an applicant for a recreational pilot

 

licence if:

 

(a) the applicant holds a pilot certificate, granted by a

 

recreational aviation administration organisation that

 

administers activities involving aircraft of a particular

 

category; and

 

(b) the certificate permits the holder to act as the pilot in

 

command of an aircraft of that category.

 

(2) For subregulation 61.475 (2), the applicant is taken to have

 

passed:

 

(a) the aeronautical knowledge examination; and

 

(b) the flight test;

 

for the licence and the associated aircraft category rating.

 

(3) The applicant is also taken to have met the requirements for the

 

grant of:

 

(a) the aircraft category rating for each category of aircraft in

 

which the person is permitted by the certificate to act as

 

pilot in command; and

 

(b) the aircraft class rating for each class of aircraft in which

 

the person is permitted by the certificate to act as pilot in

 

command; and

 

© the design feature endorsement for each design feature of

 

an aircraft in which the applicant is permitted by the

 

certificate to act as pilot in command.

 

Note

 

The holder of an aircraft class rating must successfully complete a

 

flight review for the rating to be authorised to exercise the privileges of therating, and is not taken to have met the flight review requirement on the basis of being taken to have met the requirements for the grant of the rating

 

under subregulation (3): see subregulation 61.745 (4).

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2013L00218/Download

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You sure you're not an insurance parasite rep Tubz..?!

It's a sport really...

I only fly near retirement homes and besides, no insurance, no assetts, no worries... remember?!

I'm pretty sure I won't be too interested in money when I'm carked.

..You may wonder why an attractive female driving instructor would pop in to see an old guy like me ?

Agreed, Mods this topic would be much better by itself.

http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/accident-investigation-is-age-a-factor.62969/

Several posts moderated or removed. Keep it civil folks or the thread gets locked.

But the altimeter didn't fail. It appears that the instrument tech wasn't capable of performing a calibration check on an otherwise functional altimeter and tagged it unservicable.

You've been a busy boy!

...Just don't be surprised if people won't take you seriously

... life long fantasy of talking to a real live Bev!

"Hello" :sweat:he stammered as he.......

a founder member at the Blue Oyster and a real ..............

This was too much for the cottonwool commandos! "There is a duty of care to ensure that children don't risk injury by falling while laughing!" scowled the spokeswuss. "Get those posters off the trucks and threaten the children with fines, gaol terms and losing their houses."

"Teehee, ouch, teehee" said....