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Just as the vibration starts, you see a flag being pulled towards the chopper. I reckon the wire that flag is attached to is the one the chopper hit. (Otherwise it should have been blown away, the flag being lower than the rotor blades)

One honourable mention in the Darwin Awards coming up - doing something so dangerous just to put up a bloody Christmas tree!

So much for controlling cost by moving to China... Ended up with pretty much the most expensive LSA on the market. Admittedly, the panel is very well equipment with the G300, which ads to the cost. But why make that stuff standard? Who needs that anyway? Keep it very basic for a BASIC trainer, I say!

And now it seems your new trainer will be just over half price of a SkyCatcher! http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e1c68b15-72aa-4c3a-88fe-23b08ee1af55 Teh Lulz... Well, if it wasn't less capable for more money than the competition, it wouldn't be a Cessna...

LOL. I think it has only 160 KG left after full fuel. But it takes quite a bit of fuel, so with half tanks around 200 should be OK. Enough for a training environment, but not for a personal cross-country machine. Looking through the POH, I can't find a per-seat weight limit that would have stopped you from flying it solo. The critical mistake they made was putting in that Continental O-200 and BRS. Take out the BRS and swap the engine with a 912ULS and you gain 40 KG usable.

A "G" version sounds like a good idea. Would still be a heck of a lot cheaper than the nearest part 23 certified trainer. Now if you can sell as many of these to schools as the Cessna GroundStriker SkyCatcher...

The problem with that is that it is hard to get a distributor to come and re-fill the tanks for you if they know PULP is going to be used for aviation. They are scared and don't want to be liable. On top of that, most AVGAS bowsers are not owned or operated by the airfield, they are put there by a fuel merchant. It would be a lot of paperwork otherwise! Most training places that use auto fuel have their own trailer instead which they go fill up - don't ask, don't tell... But they too will only use it in their own operations and not sell it to others. (Otherwise they'd become a fuel merchant themselves, with all sorts of hassle.) It's complicated...

Looks like a great value aircraft. Should give the J160/170 a run for its money! Can you get a discount for not installing the BRS? And it might be worth having an upgrade on the price list for a Mode-S transponder. The GA training market will probably want a DG and AI also. (GA pilots and instructors keep telling me you can't navigate with just a compass and they get nervous without an AI.) Would be good if you have a couple of options on those as part of the type certificate so anyone can install them later if desired.

I wish it were the Jetson mobile! I reckon the one in the picture is a EuroStar. But yeah, my SportStar looks the same on the outside, it just has some internal strengthening to carry the 550 KG MTOW. But my paint job is cooler!

Great thing about pope mobiles is: you can see out of them really, really well. :) Mind you, the paint scheme of that EuroStar in the photo isn't doing it any favours. Mine looks much better! And the new ones look very sleek...

$5m, divided by 3, minus tax? Enough for a nice house and aircraft, but then I'd have to get back to work. Open your offers at 10 and we'll talk! :P

It's funny how Evektor only has their oldest (current) and simplest design built there. One they don't actually sell in Australia. I wonder if we'll start to see more and more "native" Chinese aircraft. It wouldn't be hard to buy the rights to a popular/proven plans-only home build design, get it up to ASTM standards and sell it as LSA in the US and here. So far one of the reasons Chinese companies are buying US manufacturers like Cirrus and Continental Motors as certification. Same reason Honda is designing and building their jet in the US. That makes it easier to be FAA certified and when you are FAA certified, you are world certified. I wonder how they would go if they got it certified in China and then tried to have that extended to other countries...

Remember 300,000 immigrants a year by aircraft = "No worries, mate!", 300 refugees by boat = "Oh no, the country is going to hell!". :mad: So come here by aircraft, you'll be welcomed, just like in real life. :D

RA-Aus is buying them from him? That's retarded. It is simply not allowed to register Australian domains using someone else's name or trademark (registered or otherwise). A complaint to auDA should free them up. Michael did the right thing in just transferring them at cost.

I don't think you even need to have a registered trademark. The Aussie Aviator is clearly a brand name belonging to your business and the other name was clearly registered by a competing business after you started this site. I think that if you lodge a complaint with auDA directly it won't cost you much, if any, and they will take action. That's how it is supposed to work anyway...

Nothing a trademark claim lodged with auDA can't fix in a jiffy.

It's not slander (libel in this case, actually) unless a) what's being said is untrue and b) if you can afford a lawyer.

I would argue they were always redundant...

So not correct that you should never even consider this! Fly the correct altitude, ATC will call you up and verify, then they will put a correction in for the remainder of your flight. If you fiddle with QNH because you know the encoder is 400' out, you WILL be flying on the wrong altitude!

Nah, we won't put one in. That problem is solved! http://coradine.com/ I use their software on my Mac and the (old) lite version to sync to my iPhone. But many are now using just the iPad version. Word of caution: CASA does not recognise electronic log books and any ones printed out need to be bound, so no loose sheets in a binder. (you could print out sheets when full an glue into a book? Yuk!) I don't fly enough to go through that nonsense, so I keep a standard written one as well for official record keeping.

Thanks for the praise guys, but don't forget there's a *lot* of work in there by Neil and Rowan too. :) We have a great team, and it's growing too. (we're keep what these people are working on a secret for now!) We're getting multi-leg flight planning soon, we've sent the first beta to developers on Tuesday. They are already using it in ways we never did, so there is some more fixing and finishing to do - but that is why they call it testing... Here, have a sneak peek! http://www.ozrunways.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/OzRunwaysFlightPlanner2.5.pdf Stuff already looks different (better) from some of the screens there, but it will give you some idea about the functionality you are going to get. (Terrain won't be in the next release, but soon after.)

Long alienated from you-know-where, I thought I'd have a look around here. Recreational pilot, owner of a SportStar hangared at Gawler (shares available!) and co-creator of OzRunways. I may at some point even had an attempt at running for the RA-Aus board. Question: I must be blind, but is there a function here, as there is on so many forums, to view the latest active topics? The "latest posts" widget doesn't quite cut it and clicking into each and every forum to see if there is anything new...