Happyflyer

They have just advertised for a seaplane instructor so progress is occurring.

Yeah, Turnbull booted out by one vote! Won't take too many to change their minds for him to be back.

From all reports it had an engine problem on take off. It has nothing to do with being a sonex or some other aircraft. Does the last road accident you saw on TV make you stop driving?

I have read the CAAP. It is very straight forward and just telling you what common sense would tell any intelligent person who was setting up a strip. This is the first sentence: IMPORTANT The information in this publication is advisory only. There is no legal requirement to observe the details set out in this publication.

If you are saying permission from CASA is required, do you have a reference for that? I have never heard of it and certainly none of my friends with strips have ever communicated with CASA. It is my belief CASA have zero interest in private use strips. There appears to be a lot of negativity to someone having a private strip. I know at least ten people with privates strips within 50 miles of me. None have had any problems that stopped them flying . What could be better than your own strip if you have the room? I would love to be in that situation. If you are in that situation - go for it!

Obviously the factory can not keep up. Maybe it's the Russian sanctions biting!

Just as the council has no way of stopping you driving to your home, it has no way of stopping you flying to your home. As long as you have the room to be safe. All CASA requires is that you have the permission of the land owner (you). Councils do not regulate aviation. The problems only start if there is commercial land use.

Most get rich by taking risks. They are gamblers by nature. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Remember, even if you have a low level rating you can't just stooge about he country at zero feet where ever you please. You have to have a reason such as mustering, ag spraying or display and have all the permissions in place. However if you have done the course it may educate you enough not to do it in the first place and you know what to look for should you be unfortunate enough to be caught out by the weather.

Not sure how they can refuse. The ops manager has to abide by the ops manual like everyone else. Section 2.07 could not be more clear (see below). You should not be expected to bear the extra cost for no reason. The only issue I can see is if you did your PPL in a large heavy aircraft (over 1500kg mtow). Don't just take no for an answer, quote the ops manual and request a reason. If you are not happy go the the CEO or your local board member. (e) if a Pilot Certificate holder has within a period of two years immediately preceding the proposed flight, passed a flight test for the issue of a CASA Recreational Pilot Licence or higher, or the initial issue of a CASA licence, rating or endorsement, then the pilot is taken to have satisfactorily completed a recreational aeroplane flight review on the date of the flight test.

While I think we are all lucky to be flying in Australia, I would love to visit that strip and others like it in a good short field aircraft. Weather permitting of course.

I'm not sure about the conversion but would be surprised if RAAus did not recognize your hours and exams. RAAus and HGFA have a lot of common ground in the powered hang gliding area. Contact the Operations Manager of RAAus at [email protected] and I am sure she will help you out. Cheers

If it flies, floats or you know what, rent it! I suggest you do not get into leasing an aircraft to a flying school while you are so very new to the game. Another very true saying is "aviation is a good place to make a small fortune........if you start off with a large fortune".

No matter how the pilot go the aircraft on the ground he did so and suffered only minor injuries. Just after take of is a critical and dangerous stage of flight. Well done! I do feel for the builder who was no doubt present and has seen his pride and joy go up in flames after years of hard work.

Stevron, all this type of information is in your ops manual. The answer is yes it is, although RAAus is behind the times as a GA flight review is no longer put in your log book but in your licence (Part 61 Licence). You just need to send the proof to RAAus HQ. From Section 2.07 of the RAAus Ops Manual (g) an aeroplane flight review (AFR) conducted in a single engine aeroplane with a MTOW less than 1500KG, is accepted as meeting the requirements of paragraph 5.f. A copy of the AFR statement from the pilot’s logbook is to be forwarded to RA-Aus Headquarters. The statement should include the pilot’s name, type of flight conducted, name and signature of the examiner and the date of the AFR.

The Cirrus wing has features designed to make the aircraft more controllable in the stall, lessening the chances of it developing into a spin. Spin resistance does not mean idiot proof. I have stalled a Cirrus and it is quite benign and predictable. More info at http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/misc/3-105960-Cirrusstall-spinreport.pdf

Seems an awful lot for an aircraft type that wasn't attracting buyers for under $80k on another forum a week or two ago.

Plenty of Chief Pilots will tell you that RAAus time is wasted, some value tailwheel some don't. Some value a white shirt with w**ker bars over ability. I would suggest you learn your basic flying in RAAus, get your RPL, do your Navs in aircraft that have GA navaids such as VOR, ADF Garmin 1000 or 430 and do time in CTA. In then end it's between you and your wallet. If you are going on to CPL, doing your RAAus at Archerfield can't hurt. If you can do your training at an RAAus/GA school you will be doing it with the same instructors and CFI and to the same standard usually, that may save you some dollars. Listen to us all and just take what makes sense to you.

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You are right, only real difference is the 2 hrs of instrument time. Oh, and of course the extra cost of flying the GA aircraft and the extra headache of dealing with CASA and AVMED!

Here is my guess. Some residue glowing in one cylinder, probably causing some ignition before TDC. As it got slower there was not enough momentum to push the piston over TDC so the pre ignition caused it to run backwards for a bit.

The log books should show the figures for the cylinders for each annual or 100 hrs service. Check them out for a trend. It depends where the leak is. A good LAME will know if it is rings, inlet or outlet valve. You may consider getting an independent LAME to inspect the aircraft and to look at the log books. A lot can be gotten by what is in the log books and what is not in the log books. Buyer beware. If you don't know much about aircraft be very, very careful. I would suggest you are very much in a buyer's market especially when talking Jabiru.

I guess he figures if he runs out of fuel the parachute is right there and ready.

You are right. CAO95.55 allows flight training of the builder or builders of amateur built aircraft. For GA aircraft however REG 262AP allows flight training of the owner of the aircraft. Best to check with the ops manager to verify.