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You can call them an import agent or custom broker I don't really care. What I was saying is to use an Australian based one not just one with authority to operate in Australia. I am aware that they have to be licensed in Australia but they do not have to be based here. My advice was simply to use one based here.I don't import much stuff and what I do is normally via post. I do however move a lot of containers off the wharf for several agents and lots of larger companies. At least once a week we get one that has been handled by a non Aussie based Agent and inevitably it has strings attached. The worst one was a lady importing 3 wool looms (2nd Hand) from the USA. Handled by an American based but Australian licensed Agent. By the time she got to me, there was over $10,000.00 storage due. I managed through some contacts to get that halved but as quarantine hadn't even been booked it could still not even be released into under bond storage. The end story was she had to walk away from them and forfeit them for destruction. These were being imported for a charity and for the sake of a couple of hundred bucks saved they became scrap. Wharf storage when it goes wrong can cost $1000.00's and adds up at an increasing rate. You want someone in Aussie handling it so if it goes wrong you can kick some doors in.

 

I am not in the habit of recommending agents even though I work for several suffice to say that if it is a second hand engine, you use an Aussie based one and the first question you should ask is what experience do they have in importing second hand engines. They do have some special rules.

What if he sees you and noses down also.....

I'll be banking right thanks.

If the jet was ifr and the cessna VFR shouldn't they have had 500ft vertical separation

http://cfr.vlex.com/vid/91-vfr-cruising-altitude-flight-level-19562336#ixzz1KPTTW8V4

Thanks for the info Maj hasn't flown but it's begging too , just doing the paper work .I'm not good at this Mick so how do I pm my ph 0428843062

Thanks Oscar the diam needed is around 130mm or 5inches any larger would look odd as the moth spinner is traditionally very small like a nipple on a tit!I would place a picture of the prop here but unsure of how to do it!!!

Cheers

Now I want to see that nipple on a tit you spoke of

If you tap on the map where you want to go and then "enter user waypoint" it will be there. Hope that makes sence, easier to show then explain, for me anyway.

Regards Bill

Ok, so when I try to enter the coords with all sorts of apostrophes and stars and things to represent degrees and minutes, it sends me thousands of miles away, then I looked at the example oz runways shows underneath ( bloody genius aren't I ) there are none of those, just letters and numbers. Do it like that and it does what I want.

Thanks guys.

Regards Bill

Thanks Geoff,

That's about where I want to go, my last effort was sending me 6000 nm somewhere lol

Thanks again

Regards Bill

So how do I enter it into oz so it takes me to the right place ?

Hi all,

I need some help adding a custom waypoint to a flight plan in Oz Runways.

I don't understand how the coordinates should be written correctly.

A guy has sent me a set of coords that are supposed to be on the west side of Port Phillip bay, this is what he sent:

That didn't appear to be the way coordinates are presented in Ozrunways, and I eventually got it to accept them like this:

Problem is that isn't where I want to go.

What's wrong?

Be gentle with me, I'm not very smart

Only because you don,t know enough about the HGFA and their weight shift operations, training and instructors

Exactly the opposite ! As I said, you have no idea of what is going on. You obviously don't fly trikes

You obviously failed comprehension at school. By the way HGFA stands for Hangliding Federation of Australia, so LSA and other 3 axis don't come into it where they are concerned. Please don't benchmark RAA against the HGFA as that implies a lack of knowledge

Inferior, in what way ? I can't see one pilot being considered inferior to another.

Exactly the opposite ! As I said, you have no idea of what is going on. You obviously don't fly trikes

So you're flying along in the cloud, the terrain below is quite steep and all of a sudden a tree jumps up in front of you, you bank away sharply, but too late, the tree rips a wing strut out. Now you have plenty of terrain clearance but one wing falls off, then some other bits and then ......

I should have been an investigator. Or a story teller.......

Bugger... I've snapped my antenna off Got to be more careful in future putting the cover on :$

Andy,

I think that even those of us that Asmol thinks look really stupid, realise that it would be possible to load a trike so badly that it may be difficult or impossible to control.

If we go back to where this discussion deviated from the original topic, it started because somebody thought there should be weight and balance calculations written down for the particular flight.

The fact is, that if the trike is operated IAW the POH it will always be in the safe range with regard to weight and balance. The people that regulate weight shift know this and therefore don't make us do a calc for every flight, nor do they teach us how to do it ( except for, as has been shown here, the latest RAAus training syllabus, which some believe is a mistake).

If they do make us do weight and balance calcs, that is likes saying " here you go fellas, when you break the law, ( operate outside the instructions in the POH) you will need to do these calcs to make sure you don't crash".

At this stage, I don't think they do, but I will find out for sure shortly.

Bill

Cupboard on top of the hot water cylinder is where we leave our dough.

Thanks.

Do you mind if I print that off for use in discussion with the CFI?

(a) It is always applicable if the POH specifies any minimum or maximum weights.*(b) RAA is simply matching CAR 235, which doesn't give RAA, HGFA, or the pilot any discretion.

*The Airborne Edge XT912 Streak/Cruze for example says in 2.6.9 "Minimum Pilot Weight. The microlight aircraft must only be flown solo from the front seat. Minimum pilot weight flown solo shall not be below 55 kg. Maximum power at minimum TOW can cause an abrupt climb rate that, if uncorrected, may cause a wing attitude of greater than the placarded maximum of 45 degrees."

 

This would be a critical calculation factor if for example a teenage pilot was about to solo.

I have never seen one of these weight and balance calculations, so could you tell me what you would be expected to write on such a form.

I.e I have weighed the pilot, he's 56 kg and he is sitting in the front seat iaw the poh instructions

How else could you put it?

Where does the calculator come in to it?

Yes, if you are doing a similar flight regularly, if you do it once and use it again, it was still done before the flight.Incidentally, I just did two calcs based on the POH I quoted previously, both with full fuel.

 

The first one was a 95 kg pilot only and took seven seconds to do without a calculator, including writing it on my proforma.

 

The second one was 95 kg pilot, 80 kg pax which took nine seconds.

 

Why anyone would be whining about this process eludes me.

If somebody shows me that it is either relevant to my aircraft or a legal requirement as a HGFA pilot, I'll be happy to do it.

As I said, I will ask some questions in the next month and report what I find out.

Turbo, dont know you personally but i think it shuts them all up with their non compliance re weight and balance etc.

To correct that statement, I will say there was nothing in the HGFA training syllabus as at March 08 ( that work book was first issued May 97). I can't find anything on the HGFA site as to its currency now.

I have a BFR coming up next month, I will ask the question then about whether or not I need to be filling out a form re weight and balance before I fly. I will report back here with the answer.

Regards Bill

How's this for a great shot, taken in The Karoo in South Africa (not by me).[ATTACH]23812[/ATTACH]

Turbo,

Kasper has presented you with facts repeatedly.

The fact that it doesn't align with your standard position that somebody has to go to jail or have be fined some massive amount doesn't make him wrong.

If you need any further evidence that weight and balance calculations aren't necessary for a trike, go and have a look at the training syllabus for trike instruction. There should be a section dedicated to the teaching of such calculations, shouldn't there?

There isn't.