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Don't be fooled into thinking the senators know nothing about aviation. I get the impression they already know the answer to most questions they ask. And that's why most of them, particularly the Chair, are so "JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION, YES or NO" with some things. They can spot diversion and confusion tactics a mile away. They don't have time or tolerance for that. They have many people and organisations appearing before them, they can smell BS a mile away and want to get to the bottom of a matter without all the song and dance thrown at them. Self-declaring medical arrangements work for the mission in question - private flights with one passenger. PPL 30+ years, I have an under 600kg VH plane though, so I'm an interested party to all this.

Two identical aircraft overhead, one piloted by a CASA approved organisation's pilot (RAAus pilot) who self-declares fitness to fly, and the other has to jump through CASA medical hoops and in reality, also self-declares fitness to fly, or not, regardless of any certificate held, on each and every day they fly. Just like the RAAus pilot does successfully. AOPA position is the RAAus self-declaring medical status system works, CASA has approved it all, so why are they denying PPL holders of same aircraft up to 600kg? Certainly had all the senators shaking their heads in disbelief. They all seem to be be regular guys, who can clearly smell BS at 60 paces. RAAus legal advisor fella needs to, oh, I dunno, read the RAAus OPS Manual before his next appearance. My goodness. RAAus aircraft are all simple aircraft with fixed pitch and fixed gear??? What The.

Alpi Pioneer 330. Next....

Ah, LTF, you always question, examine:book: inspect, dig deeper, the truth is out there and all that (except when the CASA regs are silent) I see you got back okay, your valet probably experienced this:plane: while you were actually doing this:drive:

Assuming this is about RAAus aircraft, (since RAAus was mentioned) why not read the first two paras in section 12.8 of the RAAus Tech Manual instead of all this guesswork and mis-information? I'm not in RAAus, and I found it in about one minute of looking online. It's been there, unchanged, for the last three years. When it doubt about something, just check the facts out for yourself, it won't take long. Never blindly rely on what "someone" told you - too many people do this as their first and only option, why?? Check the facts, in many cases you might be pleasantly surprised. Questions/topics of similar nature would best be posed not as "what is the answer I seek?" but "where do I find the answer I seek?" And there I end the lesson, not by giving you the answer you seek (after all, I'm just another "someone"), but guiding you to where it is where you can see it for yourself, and no guesswork is required. Good hunting.

Cub and Kestrel. (Photos credit: SIG)

Yes, and yes.

Caniva go?

Producer, with IO-360.

ATC can approve a flight with no transponder any time they like. But, they no like...........

LASER Z-2300 or REBEL 2300

FAR 45.22 covers the "NX" registration marks. basically, old aircraft, or a replica of an old aircraft, with an experimental certificate, and a few other things thrown in the pot.

Not by a long shot. I’d think something French, just can’t pick it.

CASA Part 139 - Aerodromes.

Narromine, now????

The trademark has now been cancelled - it's easy to find in the public domain.

$500.00 was the cost, paid in Nov 2017. It's easy to look up in the public domain. One would imagine you could just as easily cancel such a trademark at any time with the dept of trademarks. In fact, yep, you sure can, and it's free.

Pop back up to the propbits link.

Same mob, still there at MB, (not at 9) but not so help-yourself-free-range as it was, but still, they have what you need and will sell you one or a hundred, and are happy to do so.

SAAA doesn't have such an engine course, and have no qualifications to do so, but some members in Sydney did sorta run some sort of engine maintenance workshop a while back. That's probably what you heard about. A friend had Steve Hobby do some prop refurb work not so long ago, he was most happy to be involved.

Find another engineer. Rob at Maryborough, Steve(?) Hobby at Wang are two I know are not scared of exp. There will be plenty more I'm sure. Good on ya too for seeking professional input when you believe you need it.:spot on:Keep lookin, they're out there.

The business is still there at MOOrabbin, but moved around the corner many many years ago Propbits I think AVIALL does tempest filters. Also, Greg Bell at GEE BEEs at Essendon can get things from some places that don't care to deal with us plebs individually. Tempest stuff included, I'm fairly sure. Funny story - a mate needed a new mega $$$$ engine, the dealer (wherever) wouldn't deal with him because he didn't have an account, a business, or some such twaddle. So he had his son's workshop interstate order it, saved a bunch of $, then took his trailer in... "I'm here to pick up that engine you wouldn't sell me last month." This sort of stuff still goes on.

Thanks P. Where's a computer nerd when you need one........ I hate technology........................