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    To take that a step further, a single-seat aircraft of any registration doesn't need an ELT, as they are classed as "Exempted aircraft", along with HCRPT, turbojet-powered aircraft, balloons, gliders & airships. One benefit of those SPOT systems is they work outside ADS-B & mobile coverage, though depending on your chosen plan, you may have many miles between your reporting points, significantly increasing the potential search area if you can't get out the SOS feature before you crash. They're also portable between different modes, planes/boats/4WD's etc. Spot Basic sends (but doesn't confirm receipt) a location packet every 5/10/30/60 minutes but you can bring that down to every 2.5 minutes for an extra $200AUD/yr. ADS-B, for example, outputs a position accurate to within a few meters every 0.5 seconds. Depending on your cruise speed (and potential search area if you go missing), you may feel the increase in messages is worth the cost if you go the SPOT route, you may not, but it's something to consider either way.
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    A PLB is NOT compulsory for flying. For flights beyond 50nm CAR252A specifies you must carry "an approved ELT", or "an approved portable ELT", of which a PLB may meet the requirements, if it is registered with the AMSA and it meets the AS/NZS 4280.2:2003 standards.
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    It depends what you want. From a purely survival standpoint when flying, I carry on my person a GME MT410G PLB. I figure I can get out a quick mayday on Area if I am going to need the PLB and for 'most'of my flying I have mobile coverage. I considered the SPOT, but my RV has ADS-B, so it doesn't make sense from a tracking point of view. 4WDing in remote Australia would be another story though.
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    I found this one a good idea. I have a 10m wide door and was wondering how to fit a Mooney or Bonanza in there. Though I've decided to simply sell that hangar at Temora, and buy another block and build a much bigger one... Another option would be the Aero Aircraft Dolly's for each wheel individually.
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    Getting current on the Rotax-powered Tecnam & Foxbat was an expensive PITA waiting for it to warm up. Flying my own -9A, I go full power as soon as the oil temperature is over 100*F, usually that's the time it takes me to program the GPS and get to the end of the runway at Somersby, unless it's an early winters morning.
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    I did up a database of Certified airports and ALA's for the Dynon Skyview and Garmin G3X systems last year. Once installed, they show up as User Waypoints, and are displayed on the map. If you don't fancy paying for Garmin's aerodata and only fly VFR, it's a cheap alternative, and you can keep them up to date yourself.
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    The empty weight on my 2-seat RAAus-registered RV-9A is 445Kg, so 155kg payload. That's me + not-quite-full thanks or me + mini-me + fuel for a 3 hr junket. Until I swap it to VH, that meets my mission requirements.
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    Why does this sound suspiciously like the case of Patrick Crumpton who was fart-arsing about at low level over the Clarence river and hit a powerline killing his young passenger? Any time you are flying below 500AGL and not in the process of taking off or landing, you're breaking the rules, with a few notable exceptions, none of which apply to your typical junket around the patch on a weekend. If you are below 500AGL to your mates strip and you hit a powerline, you're covered as the rules permit it. If you're under 500AGL and you hit a powerline being a stuntc*ck, you deserve everything you get.
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    They're high bypass engines aren't they? He'll probably come out the other side shaken, but not stirred.
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    The hard part with having an accountant for a missus is she's always banging on about "Everything being an Asset or a Liability". Technically, employees are assets - though they are viewed by the vast majority of large companies as liabilities. The worst part is when you have worked for a company that was - and I'm being honest here - a truly fantastic place to work, and one of the best in the industry in which to work, then seeing the damage a change in management and managerial culture can do to employees morale and the businesses bottom line. ?
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    It is a part of the 2018 Privacy Policy. It is not part of any privacy policy prior to that. The 2018 policy was added to their website after I called out the CEO last year for not complying with their own policy after they apparently left their old one up. And their was ZERO notification to the membership that the existing privacy policy had been changed to include the disclosure to airfield operators.
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    So I have a question... WHEN will RAAus provide my details to an airfield operator? Whenever they (the airfield operator) request it, irrespective of whether or not I've actually landed there and then - like the AvData clowns - will I end up arguing with them about my plane being in a hangar interstate at the time....Or will RAAus expect some kind of proof that I was there before releasing my details? Going by their actions this far, I'd expect it to be the former.
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    It wasn't IDH, but VH-INH, and the problem wasn't that it dropped its' nosewheel, but that it didn't...? The BASI report for a bit of light reading...
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    I think that's what it comes down to. I usually plan the flight on SkyVector and print out the NavLog page(s), then email the plan to the iPad, open it in OzRunways, and then WiFi the plan to the Dynon for the autopilot to track. While the engine is warming up, I'll plug it into the KLN-90. I have and can, but refuse to, use a whiz-wheel. It has no place in a modern cockpit. If I really want to do any E6B calculations, I use an app on the phone. I have no qualms about using any of the 4 GPS' I have on board for sole-means area navigation, though it is the KLN that keeps me legal for that, nor even about going VFR-on-top using the KLN for position fixing. Battery going flat? Plug it into the 12V socket. Ipad overheats? Pull out the phone and spin up RWY. Drop the phone on the floor? Pull up the VTC overlay on the Dynon. Dynon fails? Use the KLN to find the nearest suitable airport. There are a multitude of single-place failures in light aircraft, but consumer-grade electronics utilised for GA navigation aren't one of them anymore. I can't even remember the last time I bought a paper chart...?
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    Could you edit your post to remove his mobile number? Might well be his personal one and there's bots that crawl websites looking for thing like that and email addresses.
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    Where's it been stopped? It was the ADS-B paint, to disable that, all you need to do is select Standby when you need to. One of the VAF guys makes a habit of it, hell even Boeing does it: Images from Wired.com
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    Personally, I like this one more:
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    ATSB RepCon might be a good option too?
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    But how is that different to Christian Scholl, the arsewipe who drove his B-Double into the side of a passenger train at Kerang and killed 11 people. The only substantial difference, is Scholl drove that route weekly, for 5 years and knew the level crossing was there but still drove at a speed that meant he couldn't hold short of the stop line when he observed the crossing lights were activated and his actions resulted in the worst rail accident since Granville. Sometimes I wonder just how 'justice' is served...
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    I dunno about that... I overstayed a parking meter in Brisbane once. $52 fine. But to do an hour of circuits at Warnervale will cost $82.50 - plus another $110 if I want to refuel there (not counting the cost of the actual fuel, either...) I don't begrudge paying my way at all. What I have an issue with is a private organisation performing an extraordinarily quiet backflip on a well-known public policy - that was reaffirmed in writing as recently as 18 months ago, in an attempt to feather their own nest at my expense. And then being told I am the one who mis-read their privacy policy, when I called them out on it. Given they've gone to the trouble of actually removing and replacing it, it smacks of a cover up. Exactly the same as when I called them on the Privacy Policy and their URL's...Not even a mention of it in the December one, not even an 'errata' or correction advising the membership "a draft release went out last month, sorry about that". One can only wonder just what is going on down in Canberra....
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    Dunno about anyone else, but I sent the CEO an email about it: The reply was less than inspiring, basically saying "We amended the Privacy Policy in August and uploaded it to our website, you must be looking at an old version" and "There are a number of drivers for this change, access to CTA and higher MTOW are also a driver, as is Part 149..." I replied Deafening silence has been my only reply. Not that I am surprised, but I am drafting a complaint to the Office of the Information Commissioner about it, as I provided my details to manage my RPC and aircraft registration - NOT for RAAus to use as an olive branch to the rest of the industry in an attempt to feather their own nest at my expense (both literally and figuratively). Afterall, if they're happy to change this policy willy-nilly, and disclose our details to whoever they want, what else will they change, and to whom might they give our data to next time?
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    I would say the vast majority don't even know about it, Keith. I didn't until I read a post on PPRune, and then went looking (And found the old privacy policy they had never bothered updating...) Apart from a short spiel in the latest Sport Pilot magazine - that no one gets in the mail anymore - there has been absolutely no communication from RAAus about this change. No email, no letter, no SMS - NOTHING at all.
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    The school might reasonably be expected to foot the bill to train their individual instructrors, but RAAus - and as a consequence, everyone - has to foot the bill for the legal advice, development of a training and standardisation package, dialogue with CAsA, etc etc. And for those of us who will likely never use CTA, then yes, we are footing the bill, indirectly.
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    No.....They don't. Not for VFR anyway. They provide segregation, not separation - there is a very big difference. Separation has minimum standards, segregation doesn't. Note there is no mention of VFR/VFR separation! An oft-overlooked gotcha in CTA... There was a very close near miss at Bankstown not long ago when a Warrior was doing T&G's, went around and a Helo was cleared across the runway at 500'. This is the comment from one of the ATC'ers in the tower:
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    At a guess, they response you (we) will get is "Well, the new privacy policy allows it, suck it up, princess!" The thing is though, I didn't provide my details when that privacy policy was in effect, and there is no alternative but to use RAAus, for many things they are effectively a monopoly. I am still waiting on a further reply from the CEO, but am seriously lodging a complaint with the OAIC, given the sneaky way in which RAAus brought this in, and has not notified the membership.
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