terryc

Who are the suppliers of those tyres and what rim is required to fit them

In Tasmania rego stickers have been gone for a while. Andy, the intent of the bulletin is to get you to pay your bill on time.

I filled out the questionaire, the newsletter could be great or an effort to pretend to communicate we'll see. I don't want to know the name of the new president's dog just the business of raa in detail will do me fine thanks, the direction the board plan on taking us before we start the engine and a long term plan of low cost minimum regulation oversight of our recreational sport.

Just on the way to the post box. Thanks for the reminder Maj.

A mate of mine an l were talking the other day and he was telling me he and his three brothers age 6 to 12 would catch the train to the country to go rabbiting with their guns under their arms. This was a weekly trip. Try that today.

Haaaa I give up.

I was wondering if anybody has any rubber mountings laying around or the cup washers that go with them.

If I had a cup washer I could easily make the remainder and that would at least save me a few dollars.

I'm also in the market to buy all eight rubbers and cup washers if anybody has them laying around. When I discovered the price of these little pieces of rubber and metal I was staggered.

Thanks Terry

G'day All,Well I have finally decided to purchase a 701 kit. Now playing the waiting game for the components to arrive.

 

I have been doing battle with the Sunshine Coast Council and Unity Water to have a 8m x 7m shed built at home... Long story short, it won't be happening. So the home garage will have to be it! Unfortunately due to available storage I can't get the entire kit sent over so will have to suck up the extra freight and go with the component kits. Starting with the rudder and tail.

 

No doubt I will have plenty of questions for other 701 builders over the next year or so.

 

Regards,

 

Brendon

The problem is the postage is more than the cost of the item, if you order 16 the postage is $126.00. I don't think so

can anyone tell me where to find seat covers for thruster seats. I could have them repaired but I'd prefer new ones. Maybe someone has a set in top nick.

Thanks Terry.

I think everyone should re read ozzie's post because it appears to me by the responses nobody got the points he made. I might say I have never had any bad vibes from the instructors that I've had anything to do with nor have I found them to be slack in following the guidelines. In fact one went through the training manual point by point and rated my performance on each. That's not to say their aren't some that need to improve and that's where a centralized training facility wood be the better option. when an instructor has his bfrs and further training at his cost. The idea being to lift the standard of training without increasing the cost to raa. The problem I see is if you make the cost to high training costs rise then people can't or won't pay so our numbers decline and round and round we go.

Yep, part of my training too.

Sure - but the number of them in usable condition for a new-entry buyer is pretty limited - and Skyfoxes have a 4000 hour life, don't forget. As I said, the legacy of the early design standards has prevented the accumulation of a sufficiently large pool of suitable aircraft. That's history now. The reason Skyfox went out of business was that the damn thing was too costly to build, to compete with the early Jabiru. The early Jabs used 65 HP engines, remember? They've been upgraded because that was what was available. You could put one of the certificated 65 HP twins in an early Jab, I suppose, but nobody'd use it for training. It would be a dog on a hot day or away from sea-level. I really don't think that sort of aeroplane is desirable for a new entry purchaser; he's likely to leave it in the trees at the end of the strip. A bit of performance is cheap insurance. From my experience of them, the Jab airframe beats anything else hands-down for its manufacture cost. They'd be ideal for vacuum infusion, instead of the wet layup Jabiru used to use for them.

I know i'm probably getting a bit of a reputation as a grump around these parts and always having a go at RA-Aus but i must say the more i learn the more i'm utterly disappointed.In an attempt to assuage a level of despair that seems imminent i am hoping that someone can show me an example of where RA-Aus has taken enforcement action against an individual or organisation. I mean actually suspended/removed a pilot certificate or an individual or organisations training or maintenance approvals.

 

It's all very well assuming that everyone on the planet will do the right thing and that's a lovely fantasy world in which to exist but it's a simple fact that not everyone will do the right thing. In order for an organisation to be "self-governing" one would think it necessary for some examples of individuals or organisations to be made by the "government" of the organisation in an effort to keep everyone doing the right thing.

 

So hit me with those examples people!

I'm aware of one but I don't feel it needs to be discussed on a forum. Raa do a good job in this regard. Your idea that some how we humans can only be controlled by constant examples of what might happen to us is in my mind not correct. My experience is that the overwhelming majority do the right thing and in fact gain pleasure knowing they do the right thing. To have someone/organization constantly threatening is demoralizing for them all. For those that don't do the right thing the answer is education education education and if after that they still offend it loss of certificate. Like I said raa do this well.

Also,

The board has acted quickly to correct this.

The above was lifted from Motz's letter from the GM.

What has the board acted quickly to correct, 1/cease the cover, or look into the matter

If the above is true then what the Major is saying is wrong, or the Gm is wrong, they both can't be right.

FTFs and SFTFs are currently no longer covered by these policy provisions

the above is lifted from motz's letter from the GM.

just a small item that leaves me some what confused, could someone explain it to me please. If they are no longer covered then they were covered before they weren't covered so the Major or the GM has it wrong, they both can't be right.

Hi Motz, I'm sure there must be some mistake as no one [no not even raa] could be that stupid. I'm aware of a case where an insurance company cancelled a policy without informing their client and when an accident happened the insurance company still had to honour the policy. If an accident happened I'm in no doubt that raa would be liable. I'm not sure that their argument holds water, insurance is paid by the student and paid by the instructor so they should be covered, or when I did my bfr last week was I not covered. What if I go for a fly for fun with my instructor am I not covered, how do I convince the insurance company that it was a fun flight and not a training flight. What if I do training in my 19 rego aircraft am I covered then or will we cease that as an option for future aircraft builders. I could kept going but I won't. I understand your anger Motz.

Yep great idea, I'm in

Posting questions or hints to questions will likely see the whole thing torn down and some CASA requirement for everyone to sit a human supervised exam.... Please think before posting fellow flyers. its in our interest to respect this move.

If all twenty questions gets discussed that's learning in action and benefits everybody. Gee whiz, you can't please some people.

Looking for a local manufacturer in NZ capable of fabricating a replacement windscreen for the existing one which is cracked. The aircraft is still flyable but the crack is unsightly. Any ideas? A replacement from the aircraft company is pretty expensive.

I'm an old fashioned type and haven't got 3D CAD (but very impressed when one of you puts up some 3D plans!)This is a 2-minute scribble of what I'm thinking of.

 

A float off a seaplane (obviously size/displacement/load/balance needs to be worked out). Couple of small floats at the tips. Aluminium "D-box" spar & leading edge - top of spar meets over the bike and the lower part clamps onto the bike using it as a stressed member. Rest of the wing dacron with slide in battens (or aluminium, doesn't really matter).

 

Looks like you have to push the bike backwards onto the craft in order to leave the fan shroud & drive mechanism fixed.

 

HITC, should've sold your landing craft idea to DARPA, they go in for tricky stuff like that. Failing that, the producers of the next James Bond film...

 

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Frank, regarding the guy who test flew the WIG and it flipped - I would have thought an accurate scale model would have been a good idea to work out weight & balance first.

I've priced up new skins and it's $3k for them. Then add up all materials.$1k just for a pod plus everything else. Doesn't take long to add up.

I just checked my novertrunion and the bloody turbo incabulator is missing, what are you up too bex, where's my turbo incabulat0r

The insurance company takes over and tells the claimant what he must do. Best mates doesn't matter. Once a claim has been lodged the insurance company takes over. I've been there. You may believe you have a perfect defence but your insurance company will decide to capitulate and settle with your mate's insurance company. Neither of you is given any choice in how the thing proceeds. Steve, don't blame your mate, he is caught up in the machine.

The insurance take over after his mate [use that term loosely] has made a claim, remove him off the christmas card list forever. You deserve better steve.

I don't know about endone and scotch, I just took my endone but alas no scotch to have with it. Chin up mate.

IGood reply there, Turbs. Did you know that school operators are now in possession of the RAAus SMS Template, a document which specifies a four person safety committee. I want the wider membership to understand that the cost will be reflected in higher training rates. Do the members wish to pay for the four person team that each school will, it seems, need? Are they prepared to finance gold plated, fully paperworked, schools? Really? Members will have to pay for the compliance burden and, no matter how you cut it, the financial bar will be lifted for those wishing to fly. More people will be excluded, than are, under the current circumstances.

 

RAAus is now in the full grip of the BUREAUCRATIC IMPERATIVE. Considering this, all members will pay more for the privilege of wading through more paper.