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If done correctly then flying without a radio will be safe. Basically all our circuit procedures are set out the way that they are so that a radio is not necessary, yes it is nice and helpful but not critical. I think it would be a pity to shut out non radio aircraft from a flyin. For sure a flyin is a higher traffic time but if everyone sticks to the basics it will be safe.

I think they will be the only ones complaining, all the feedback I've heard has been very positive. I thought it was a cracker, but then again I'm not averse to the idea of poking a bit of fun at some vegans:whistling:

Since when do we need a copy of a medical to get an ASIC? Or is that just a GA thing? My ASIC expires this month, which reminds me I have the paperwork printed out I had better fill it in and go get some new pics and visit a jp. It's a pity it is so complicated, wouldn't it be nice if it was as simple as turning up to an rms or casa office, having them verify you are you and have automatic renewals unless you have been naughty in the last 2 years. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to set up a more user friendly system which could actually save the system some money as well as keep people happier. IMO it is ridiculous having to fill the same paperwork out time after time.

That blog is nice reading:thumb up: I especially liked the trick on getting the spare seat, although hopefully the secret is not out yet:fear:. Anyway, welcome and keep the updates coming.

Repeatedly doing something can create habits which can be a good and a bad thing. Add onto that being very relaxed or slightly distracted and it's not hard to stuff up. For what it's worth my most common mistake is forgetting to change to the correct CTAF. 90% of my flying is done within the YQDI CTAF so I normally leave it on 127.8 and have Brisbane centre selected on the second channel and only touch the radio to turn it on and off. A couple of times now I've stuffed up, once going to scone and once going to gunnedah and both times I was having a relaxing flight with no real distractions.

Definitely not true, but having said i don't think many (if any) were attributed to an engine failure! I guess though that most people see an engine failure as an increased risk, inasmuch as you lose a few options once your donk goes clonk. This of course isn't a jab exclusive phenomenon.

We had another good day of flying at YQDI today, I had an early start and after a preflight and a warmup I did a five minute circuit of the farm to check my irrigation. It needed adjusting so it was a nice farm track landing and a quick hop out and I was back in the air after another five minutes. I did a short local flight then headed for the airport. There were already a few people there even though breakfast wasn't to start until eight o'clock and after a short chat I thought wasting the best flying time of the day talking was silly so grabbed my cousins dad and went for a half hour local flight. After that I got stuck helping cook the barbie which was pretty good even if I say so myself. Our grocery getterer (Old Koreela) had outdone himself, we had sausages, eggs, bacon, mushrooms, onion, breadrolls and coleslaw as well as an assortment of dressings:thumb up:. During that I got to meet another forumite 'bubbleboy' who is building a pietenpol (ok ok I can't pronounce it so not sure how the spelling is!). It was good meeting him and interesting to hear of his progress first hand. I had to check the irrigation again so took bubbleboy for a short lap over to the farm and back. After that it was time to clean up, I didn't do too much of that, and say goodbye. Our events organiser had his son up from uni so I took him for a fly back to home where he was picked up by dad in a chopper:rotary:. Then it was work time But late this afternoon I wasn't too busy so pulled the plane out and took both kids for a nice leisurely lap. (Individually of course!) then with a bit more spare daylight I took off by myself and did a bit of stall practice and then a couple of steep turns and finished off with a couple of gentle minimum radius turns. Once I was done I pulled the power back to idle to practice my spot landing accuracy dead stick. (No not engine off dead stick just idle deadstick!) All in all it is the most flying I've done for a few weeks so I really enjoyed it:thumb up:

That link isn't working either, maybe privacy settings?

I hate to say it as it was all for a good cause but I have to say my first thought when I saw that photo was "man that would suck if they were all on 95 and you were in a hurry to get anywhere!"

But bex if there was two motors on each arm and one failed wouldn't the other motor on that same arm be able to compensate enough without having to have the opposite one reverse? That of course would be irrelevant if something like a bird took out both props on one arm but other than that I would have thought it would be designed so that it could be run on just four motor/props (well three in an extreme case) and that the double up on each arm was just there as a redundancy thing. Of course in normal operation they would all be running but at nowhere near capacity. It would be interesting to see some figures on how much weight would be saved just having the four arms compared to having eight. Of course they would have to be a bit beefier but I still think you would save a bit. And the more I think about the high or low cabin I think I would opt for the high cabin so that a brs had a clear shot unless of course there was a way to do it safely with the props up there. It could be less efficient but maybe safer? I'm not sure how popular you would be if you jettisoned four arms with props attached over some city somewhere :-)

I've paid by cheque in the past but you have to allow a but more time of course.

But wouldn't the second motor on an arm, if engineered right, have the ability to hold without too much hassle? The only problem I can see with having a lower cockpit would be the departure angle of the props if you were to have a 'catastrophic' prop failure! Personally I would have thought having the cabin below the props would help with hovering stability? But then I guess they would be in the road if you were to have a brs for the cabin.

My favourite (it's in a thread here somewhere) was where a forumite wrote to the minister to complain about casa and got a reply from casa. The minister thought it proper to pass the letter to them! Beyond a joke really but sadly is the norm.

You fellas have to start looking closer. It looked to me as though each arm had 2 rotors back to back, it is a bit hard to tell but I would guess that they run two elec motors back to back on each arm so that you have redundancy but without having to have extra arms/struts. I would say that should give you some weight saving over a standard octocopter layout but you still have the eight motors. Also (I'm a farmer with no electrical experience!) would having the eight motors in a quadcopter layout be easier to program to cope with an engine failure? Or would it make no difference? Either way it would be foolish IMO to not have a brs in something like this which is flying without a pilot

I was always taught to treat the prop with respect, I guess learning on a plane that required hand propping has its benifits! Talk of mag switches and differences between carb/efi and hot or cold engines IMO is irrelevant. I think it is a bit like gun safety, no matter how sure you are that it is unloaded you don't step in front of one or point it at anything you don't want to shoot and then you develope good safe habits and then on the off chance that something is missed no one gets hurt. Same for props, stay out of the arc no matter how safe it is and that will eventually become a habit that could save you one day.

Are you using an IPad Marty? Franks links won't play for me but the YouTube one that corvairkr put up works fine. Maybe Frank's links are not compatible with the iPad?

I think flying is a fair bit different to our other forms of transport, that extra dimension adds a totally different set of risks. Yes we can overanalyse but we can also be too slack which can be deadly. Pm said "I don't think I would do something silly" which is basically how we all see ourselves and it can be a dangerous thing. Even with a good training and currency regime we don't really know how we will react when it all goes south but the more training and currency we have the better the chance that we will subconsciously do the right thing. Take stalls for example, they are one time where if we do what our subconscious wants us to do we could end up in deep do do. We see the nose fall or wing drop and our automatic response is to hold the nose up with the elevator or save the wing with the ailerons, that is one thing that we should be practicing regularly so that the automatic response is the correct one especially if we take into account that the most likely time to have an unintentional stall is when we are low and distracted (maybe with something like the unannounced EFATO). So I guess in a way it is all well and good to say we fly by feel but just remember there are countless examples of pilots who had a lot more experience than us who definately could fly by feel but still stuffed up. We ignore that at our own peril. I think it is a good thing if we all sit back and tell ourselves before each flight "better pilots than me have made mistakes! I am not foolproof!" I do enjoy flying to relax and i know I have to constantly remind myself to get "in the zone" or in the right frame of mind at least for takeoff and landing, if we aren't on the job our subconscious could catch us out.

When we were living out west it was drought and we were feeding cows non stop and we would occasionally get unannounced visits from the local rspca, they were always impressed with how fat the cows were but were there because of anonymous complaints (well they said they were anonymous but I reckon someone had an axe to grind but that is of course just supposition on my part!). So it is hard for me to see how someone can let their stock starve without getting done for animal cruelty.

Tamworth does NOT have a reliable radar below 5000 and class c has a ll of 4500

Your link still doesn't play for me Frank But the one corvairkr put up did. He wouldn't want to leaf his rotation any longer or he would've needed floats!

Hmm the video won't play for me. Maybe because I don't have the bookface?

I have a peculiar thing happen occasionally when I take the iPad in the car. I have a standard UHF in the car and occasionally it was playing up, it would come up as if it was transmitting all by itself. Although the tx graph would only show half strength and could be overridden to transmit but wouldn't receive anything. I puzzled over it for days, as sometimes it was fine and resigned myself to the fact that I had an intermittent radio fault until one day I dropped the better half off and she took the iPad with her and the fault stopped once she walked away. I was gobsmacked, it has done it a few times since and turning the iPad off fixes it. It doesn't play up every time I take the iPad though so I'm not sure if it is some app running in the background that causes it or not, I've never had any hassles with it near the VHF. And that is without the iPad being on a charger.

Isn't that rediculously typical. Screen size does matter now, it has to be APPROXIMATELY 200 mm some manufacturers may vary (I'm typing from memory as I was too lazy to copy and paste!) if it is to be used as an ebb it should be of a SUITABLE size!? Ok I take some of this back, I thought it was a new rule to clear up the flexibility in the rules. I guess we should be grateful that there is some flexibility there, it is just in this day and age when a law seems to be open to interpretation you always worry that they will interpret differently to what you think.

If anyone wishes to send money to Bex please wire transfer the funds to me and I'll take care of it:whistling:

I think it totally depends on how much space you have. I use the full size but I have side by side seating so I either have it sitting on the other seat or I get my pax to hold it, so no real space issues. I did originally purchase a knee dock for it but only used it the once as I found it hindered the use of the stick in some situations. Maybe a mini would be perfect for that though especially in a single or tandem seat machine. I enjoy the big screen but comfort/swingability is definately important.