Happyflyer

Ok lots of opinions here... I agree with many, but... What is the absolute MANDATORY minimum calls inbound to landing at a basic CTAF? Given that a radio is optional, my pick is NONE! Obviously, that isn't very safe, so flexibility, (governed by traffic density) is the best choice, I would think... Keep it minimum when busy, moderate if nobody around, and LOOK OUT THE WINDOW at all times! Ok, flame me now...

Avoid if a bit of oscillation worries you, not permitted if it will kill you.

I must have lots of sheer good luck too. Doesn't extent to lotto though!

Would be good if Avpan and Ozrunways could do a deal and show each others as well as their own traffic.

There are cautions for some types of slip in a Cessna. Clearly if you land crosswind you are slipping. The extract below is from a C172S POH which does not mention the word avoid. Many pilots are of the understanding you cannot safely slip a Cessna in any circumstances. If slips were totally unsafe, Cessna would say "Slips Prohibited".

LANDING

NORMAL LANDING

Normal landing approaches can be made with power on or power

off with any flap setting within the flap airspeed limits. Surface

winds and air turbulence are usually the primary factors in

determining the most comfortable approach speeds. Steep slips

with flap settings greater than 20° can cause a slight tendency for

the elevator to oscillate under certain combinations of airspeed,

sideslip angle, and center of gravity loadings.

Early Cessnas have 40 degree flap available and that is very effective and you don't often need to sideslip to loose more height. The newer ones have only 30 degrees of flap at full flap. Remember you are side slipping if you do a low wing approach crosswind landing (recommended by Cessna). The following is from a C172N POH. People who say you can't side slip a Cessna should read the manual a little more carefully.

Page two of the how to join page. Something about clicking lost password and waiting for an email.

Did you read this? https://members.raa.asn.au/storage/1-how-to-enrol-in-the-lms.pdf

Nothing slips quite like a cub.

There is an Australian AOPA petition going around re Med Certs at the moment. Worth following up on. I've just past the $2,000.00 mark on CASA mandated tests over the last two years. Finally got a conditional class 2 and if I spend enough money over the next 12 months, I can get the conditions removed (maybe). So we can't say they don't negotiate. My application was delayed 3 months when the LAME handling my application had a heart attack. If you keep going you eventually get reviewed by a board of "hard case" doctors. If they see you're never going away they will eventually give it to you. The big error is to BS them. - Frank

I do believe there are a great number who have given up caring, they are just hoping things will keep on happening so they can fly.I do hope they do not do silly things.

KP

Maybe he was just pulling he prop through like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFqDZagVeJU

ABC reporting owner of Cessna killed in hand start incident. Plane then collided with another.

Just came back from seeing the movie "Sully" and wondered who else has seen it, and what you thought?Personally, I loved it. I thought Tom Hanks and the rest cast did a brilliant job and I may even go and see it again, which is something I can't recall ever doing before.

How the authorities tried to prove that he could have made it to two of the available airports was cruel, but i'll say no more.

 

Can thoroughly recommend seeing the movie.

Why should the co-pilot get hung out? Surely if the captain was the pilot flying, he should have advanced the power levers.

Reading the story it comes across as making more sense, they didn't actually head to Melbourne by mistake but rather as they had entered one wrong digit and killed their navs so they were going to land back at Syd to get it fixed but conditions had become in favourable so rather went to Melbourne.As far as I can see I am happy with their approach to the problem. How cranky would everyone be if they pushed on and got lost for real?

 

Maybe Dutch could give us an idea of company policy in a similar situation.

I wonder what plan B is if someone hacks into the GPS satellite system.

Having said that, Part 149 will require the RAAus aircraft register (and HGFA and ASRA, etc.) to be public the same as the VH register. So change is coming.

Key Proposal 7

Information relating to registration of aircraft/authorisations issued by ASAOs to be made available to CASA, but not necessarily to the public ( nprm_1502ss_preamble.pdf | Civil Aviation Safety Authority )

Unless you have other information it seems making rego details public has not yet been agreed upon.

That rego number was on a Jab 170 belonging to the Tooradin Flying School.

Sadly, a plane crash at Yarram today.

Man dies after light plane crash at Victorian airport

Members in SA can talk to the Tech manager this week end. From RAAus:

"Members in the Gawler area are invited to an impromptu members forum to discuss RAAus technical matters with our technical manager, Darren Barnfield at Gawler Airfield this Saturday 10 September 2016. Darren and the local club will be supplying a light BBQ dinner from 5.00pm to 7.00pm and is looking forward to engaging with local members and discussing our new technical manual and other aircraft and related maintenance topics that arise."

Existing L1 ONLY have six months before you need to do the assessment.See May 2016 Sport Pilot pg 35.

send it anymore!

Thanks Frank. I was just looking at the Tech Manual and you are right of course. Here is the relevant paragraph. Perhaps this needs more publicity.

SECTION 11.1

MAINTENANCE POLICY

Under a grandfather clause all members who are maintaining their own RAAus registered aircraft have until 01/02/2017 to complete the L1 maintenance authority assessment. After 01/02/2017 members who have not completed the L1 assessment cannot continue to sign for maintenance performed on their own aircraft. (Does not apply for members completing line maintenance only)

When we can get a large crowd to behave as the Oshkosh crowd does we might be able to have an airshow with the access you can get at Oshkosh and then I might go to more Australian shows.

As far as I am aware, anyone who has an L1 on their licence already, does not need to do the online course. (If anyone knows differently, I'd be interested in your source of information.) You can do it voluntarily of course. New pilots have to do it to get an L1. I'm with Frank. Don't complicate a system that works without hard evidence.