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Money makes the world go round... 'till it suffers critical failure. Thats just the way it is. Cabon offsets will only line someones pockets as you've all mentioned. Industry will still grow and thus actuall carbons in the atmosphere (paid for or otherwise) will increase because "money..." My take on it is to do what i can personally in a real sence. (buy less plastics etc.)And hope that at least some are doing the same. And hope that Revelation 11:18 comes around soon. "and the appointed time... to bring to ruin those ruining the earth." Writen well before anyone knew about climate change by the way. The pollies just make me laugh. You know they spoke for an hour just on how long for each day they were going to spend talking about climate change. It's like those aliens in hitchhikers guide. As for casa, there probably was some context to it. He's right in a sence. But the guy does sound like a douche. Somebody vote him out please. You should ask what he thinks about the GYFTS program. Prob thinks the little slackers should get a job!

Maybe someone should do a freedom of information act on these guys. Get some raw footage of all the half baked interviews done over the years.

Actually... I went for a ride at the great eastern fly-in with Wayne and ask him that very question and suprisingly he said the standard kit is more than capable of aeros. I can't quote exactly but some thing like +10 -4. In saying that, to all those drifter pilots out there, Wayne is an outstanding pilot! There is aero trained, and there is aero experienced, and then there is experienced in drifter aero flight. Wayne I think is the only pilot in australia (maybe the world) rated to do this and I don't think casa is likely to ever give anyone else that rating. So please don't get any ideas.

I want one! There is definately a huge market in this. The convenience of a simple gps system from the car to the air is fantastic. If you build it, they will come!;)

Is this real??? 60 --- http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=115

I should add also, for clarification that you can be trained to a professional level in rag and tube type aircraft. It's not about the aircraft as much as the instructors training process. Getting some time in a faster type does help as well, just in getting used to the quicker circuits and approach speeds and in some cases more complex instruments etc.

There's no minimums Tomo. The actual training is not a transferable thing. The hours that you fly in RAA count toward minimum 40 hours flying experience for the PPL. The advantage of starting RAA is that the flying is cheaper. When you begin the PPL training, the instructor can in theory deem that your RAA training has been totally useless and begin all over again from the begining. He just can't legally say that you have to complete the 40 hours minimum. This is why you have to be careful which FTF you go to. Some instructors are young and will just put you through a set regime and not really know how to tell if you are capable or not and therefore ready for the test. And then there are the old guys that will never see 'ultralights' as real flying and do the same. But I think its getting better. Motz's experience has to be the best i've heard of and the way it should be these days. That is of coarse if your training has been done to a professional level. You may find that the GA training will cover many things that you have never done. And in that case you will need the extra time to get up to the CASA set level for PPL. This is somewhere that RAA is still in the process of improving. The 'old school' FTFs only gave there students the bare minimum for basic tube and fabric 60kn flying. If you have only recieved that level of training, you can hardly expect to do a quik 5 hour PPL conversion.

Found a field with a rogue fence right where it shouldn't have been. If you click the more info pop out it gives you a good description of a very lucky pilot. I think he passed his Old or Bold pilot test. He gets to be Old...

learn something new every day :confused:

Or if you wish to keep the aircraft able to be for hire or reward. I think if you stop maintaining an approved type with L2 it can no longer be used for hire or reward. (Trainer)

When the aircraft is for hire or reward?

Ha ha.. I don't know about figures like that, but maybe??? There are some good surfers in the top 44 but to see some of the best, you need to go to the local hot spots and watch the locals. In my work I get a lot of people straight out of uni who claim they are fully trained in autocad. So I sit down and ask them to do something simple enough and they have no idea. I've never had any formal training. Hackers are amazing at writing code that can automate all kinds of devious fun stuff. And Microsoft can't even make simple graphic animations work right. But the guys in the top seat of all these and more areas of life will never eat humble pie and realise that its the ones who do it cause they have a passion for it are the ones that get it right. And not the ones who sit in school thinking "Aeronautical Engineers make a ton of money. I'm doing that!"

A lot of amazing stuff happens in that land. What about the ar-5 clocking 185knts off a 65hp rotax with still a stall speed of 46knts. And that was by a guy with no engineering back ground at all.

If you've seen a slepcev storch you would think it may be possible. I think it boasted 22mph flight w 30% power. They may be refering to power on stall too.

The site comes up in google but I get a web hosting page from the link. NEOBEE or something. Is importing a kit still viable or should I look for other kits? I found this example in the states for instance. STOL King - Preceptor Aircraft - Makers of N3 Pup, Ultra Pup, Super Pup and the new STOL King Though it strays from the original design a bit it has good stats. I might just have to find a well looked after used slepcev storch I think. When the money starts flowing my way again.i_dunno

The reason at the moment is that its at the bottom of the 'I want' list for GA. When the option opens for them to come into RAA their 'I want' status will go back up(a bit). Hence the get in quick comment I believe.

The whole extra room for gear thing is only really good for planes like the jab j230 which are restrictive just because of the weight restriction. Gaining the old faithfulls is good for the reliability of the Lycs and Conts. Another advantage is that kits can be built with the heavier reliable engines and still have room for two plus luggage plus performance. :thumb_up:

I've edited that post too. I don't want any impressionable ab initio's thinking stalling through cloud is a cool thing to do.

No not a standard decent nor a lesson in the proper way to drop thru cloud. (ps. never drop thru cloud in a stall! Bad Bad Bad) Relax guys, it was't a small gap in the clouds. It was a thin stratus about 2000agl over the field we were going to. The 'lesson' was, ok so even though its a thin layer, we need to be under it so lets lose some height. good visability otherwise. We could have set a steepish decent or circled. Lots of visability. Lots of room. We just dropped 500 or so for something different on a two hour nav to goulburn. Sorry if I gave the vision of dangerous behaviour. Reading it now it sounds terrible.

No, just the normal hasell check including lookout.

Thats a bit harsh. On a navex one day with a thin layer of cloud over the destination field, I asked how we should lose height before the cloud layer. Expecting some professional answer like he usually gave, my instructor said 'why not stall to lose 500 or so'. And we did! Having a ship that will hold a nice controlable stall is such a good thing.

Hey Maj, are you a storch driver yourself? I've been looking for info on them. Is there a website I can check out for performance stats and build details? Are they even still available as a kit? They seem to have dropped off the radar somewhat. I saw a demonstration at YPMQ a few years back. Wind was 021/15-20 or so. From stand still, about 5m roll to airbourne. Like you said, full aileron control. Almost in a hover and he waves the wings at the crowd. And then a slow pass. A dude ran underneth and held the mains. Great bush plane. I like the style too.

This is something that confuses me actually. Firstly I agree that every approach should be a glide approach. Many pilots do. From every where in the circuit you should be able to glide to the field except straight after take off. However almost everyone is taught to set a certain rpm and an attitude for descent. Increasing flap settings as you get closer to short final. And adjust power to keep a constant glide path to the keys. Agreed? So now you're on short final with full flap, power set for a greaser and the fan stops. Your glide path goes from perfect to well short of the field. Do you lift the flaps? That might be an option with 5-600ft under you but not with 1 or 200ft. Why are we taught to use power all the way to the flare?

1. How do you do that? Thank you for accurately describing this as a J160 ultralight? If you called it a CASA registered light plane I would have taken a piece out of you, let me tell ya! :hittinghead: 2. Why would you do that? It's their job. Do you or anyone else who has been to Hornsby Westfield shopping centre thank me for doing such a good job of drafting the lanscape plans for construction? It's just not needed. Nor would I expect it. I was just happy that my employers thought so. I'm sure that this journo's employers thought that this story was well done also. (No complaints means a good story)

By the way turbo, you are quite right, I did confuse the stories and responses. I read one and then the other and matched the two without varifying. My Bad. ...But I am not the media. I could actually flat out lie and it would have no baring on anything.(except missleading my friends) Big difference.