Happyflyer

There is a silent group who have never cared. Thet have no choice but to join RAAus to fly their aircraft. They just want to fly and not play politics.

My two cents worth. Restricted air space is controlled airspace. Therefore you need a CTA endorsement to enter (RA2 or RA3). You cannot get this endorsement on an RAAus certificate.

I'd be very interested to know who they would sue should a loaded Air Tractor plough through after an engine out on takeoff.

It's what we call a glide approach. Everybody should practice it and fly a circuit size that makes it possible. Might tighten up the circuit size of a few!

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Pilot has been named in the media.

VH-BEG

Manufacturer:

AMATEUR BUILT AIRCRAFT

Model:

SLING 4

Serial number:

035

Engine type:

Piston

No of engines:

1

Aircraft first registered in Australia:

19 October 2015

Year of manufacture:

2015

Registration holder:

BERG, Ben Peter

Registration holder commencement date:

19 October 2015

Strange this isn't all over the news tonight if true.

Hi all, I am newbie here. I am a foreign student who would like to get a RPL in Australia. I am a bit confused with the exam requirement of the RPL and what should I read for my self study. The information I found on the internet is quite contradictory. If I want to get a RPL, I need to pass pre solo, pre area solo and BAK written exam. Do I need to take a radio exam?

 

Is the test held by casa or flying school? What flying school do you suggest in Sydney? Do you recommend the Clamback and Hennessy flying school? Thanks so much in advance for your help :)

So many different opinions to my initial concerns.If currency is so important in most things aviation related, then can a couple of hours spin training prepare me for what may happen down the track?

So far the comments appear to raise more questions than answers.

 

What worries me most is the inconsistency of the answers.

........ and both the student and instructor were killed. I tried to obtain a copy of the Coroners findings, but it was restricted to close family members. The accident occurred on 19th March 2012 with the aircraft landing in a cane field 14 km NE of the Bundaberg Airport, with no apparent horizontal flight component. There does appear to be some similarities with this recent event ..... Bob

A PLANE crash in which two people died last year was caused by pilot error, a coronial investigation has found.

The flying instructor and his student died when the light aircraft they were flying smashed nose first into a North Bundaberg cane field in March 2012.

A spokeswoman for the Office of the State Coroner said thorough, independent investigations into the crash were undertaken by the Queensland Police Service and Recreational Aviation Australia.

"Both reports indicated pilot error was the cause of the incident," she said.

"Accordingly the coronial investigation has been concluded."

She said the families of the dead men had been informed of the findings.

"No further details shall be made available due to privacy consideration for the families involved," she said.

The two men who died in the crash were well-known Bundaberg man Hugh Kay, 71, and his 57-year-old student Keven Dickenson, from Gladstone.

-AVMed (and "DAME'S" system)-During the same exam with DAM'E, i answered few mobile calls to my staff, who call me very often, so DAME logged "from that reason" that i have "displayed some signs of preoccupation and disordered thinking" and CASA now emailed me another "extra" exam request for full Psych assessment (another $1600 +900 suggested out my own pocket, these exams are not even bulk billed, people :). Show me a single person who is not preoccupied these days, and does not answer mobile calls ? Duhh.

 

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FFS: how WOULD RAA or CASA be able to 'extend' manufacturer's limits? NO airworthiness authority ANYWHERE conducts independent engine certification testing - and engine certifying ( as per the ASTM regime) is purely the province of the manufacturer.Certification - to an ICAO acceptable standard - is CONDUCTED by the manufacturer and AUDITED for Certification by the Airworthiness Authority. CASA does NOT decide to run any engine through the test regime - and RAA has no authority to do that. The suggestion that RAA is 'ar8e-covering' by not providing its own assessment of mandatory TBO times, is complete and utter BS - and Kasper, you know that..

 

Certifying to ASTM is entirely the responsibility of the manufacturer. Once again, RAA has NO authority to vary this. Kasper, you also know that.

 

So: please explain HOW RAA could increase a manufacturer's TBO? It would be very instructive.

http://services.casa.gov.au/airworth/airwd/ADfiles/enggen/eng/ENG-004.pdf See requirement 1.

A big block of training brings a lot of people unstuck down the track.It's quite possible that you will go through without any crosswinds or without any gusts, or without any unpredictable weather patterns and so on.

Try here, removing paint from perspex post 5 by rgmwa.

In my experience helicopters do have a different set of rules. I don't think they are written down and I think making them up on the spot must be taught as part of the course.

Licence or Certificate, it's just words. Interestingly, the FAA in the US issues airman certificates and not licences. Any reasonable person would see that there is no practical reason for a PPL or CPL to be prohibited from flying a RAAus registered aircraft if they were properly endorsed and checked out. It's just that CASA and RAAus have strangled themselves with legislation and red tape. It just needs CASA to change CAO 95.55 etc to let PPL/CPL holders fly RAAus aircraft. Pilots wanting to fly RAAus aircraft on a PPL/CPL should still be required to be a member of RAAus so the rest don't have to pay more. Of course to be fair, RAAus certificate holders should be able to fly GA registered aircraft up to 600 kg mtow also.

Will it happen with the current clowns in charge. I don't think so.

Question with a GA PPL do you need and RAA cross country endorsement on a RAA cert in a RAA plane???

If the student isn't ready for solo flight, then isn't it a bit dangerous to send them on a solo taxi? What happens if they accidentally increase throttle too much?

AFTER first solo and at the approval of the CFI ONLY.

What was P2 doing?!?

I asked an Aussie captain who flies with an Asian airline if this could really happen. He said you better believe it. Some junior pilots in some Asian countries will watch the Captain crash rather than point out a mistake to the senior man!

Thanks for the link, Phil - just an amazing document, and I'm more surprised it didn't bring even bigger money.I was amused to see the bomb nets erected over the Mohne Dam after being repaired.

Just goes to show, that even after the event the Germans still had no idea of how the bouncing bomb operated, and how far it travelled along the water, before sinking at the wall.

 

Not too many people would really understand the massive risks these blokes also took in the bomb testing phase - not only ultra-low-level flight, but a very real danger of the bouncing dummy bomb rebounding and striking the aircraft.

The flight from Murray Bridge to Mt Gambier that morning doesn't paint a nice picture either. From FR24, the last 25 minutes were all below 900', dropping down to 600' at times before doing somewhat of a circling approach (3 full orbits) at 200'. After that, airborne again 15 minutes later...

TV saying it was an angel flight, if so it may get CASA going again as they tried to curtail Angelflight a few years ago when a fatal angel flight occurred in Victoria.

You are one of those! You have deliberately misconstrued my words. The regulations state that for the purpose of landing or inspection you may descend below 500 feet within 3 miles of an ALA or landing area.Not immediately at 3 nautical miles.

CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS 1988 - REG 157

Low flying

(1) The pilot in command of an aircraft must not fly the aircraft over:

(a) any city, town or populous area at a height lower than 1,000 feet; or

(b) any other area at a height lower than 500 feet.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) An offence against subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .

(3) A height specified in subregulation (1) is the height above the highest point of the terrain, and any object on it, within a radius of:

(a) in the case of an aircraft other than a helicopter--600 metres; or

(b) in the case of a helicopter--300 metres;

from a point on the terrain vertically below the aircraft.

(3A) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply in respect of a helicopter flying at a designated altitude within an access lane details of which have been published in the AIP or NOTAMS for use by helicopters arriving at or departing from a specified place.

(4) Subregulation (1) does not apply if:

(a) through stress of weather or any other unavoidable cause it is essential that a lower height be maintained; or

(b) the aircraft is engaged in private operations or aerial work operations, being operations that require low flying, and the owner or operator of the aircraft has received from CASA either a general permit for all flights or a specific permit for the particular flight to be made at a lower height while engaged in such operations; or

© the pilot of the aircraft is receiving flight training in low-level operations or aerial application operations, within the meaning of Part 61 of CASR; or

(d) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in a baulked approach procedure, or the practice of such procedure under the supervision of a flight instructor or a check pilot; or

(e) the aircraft is flying in the course of actually taking-off or landing at an aerodrome; or

(f) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in:

(i) a search; or

(ii) a rescue; or

(iii) dropping supplies;

in a search and rescue operation; or

(g) the aircraft is a helicopter:

(i) operated by, or for the purposes of, the Australian Federal Police or the police force of a State or Territory; and

(ii) engaged in law enforcement operations; or

(h) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in an operation which requires the dropping of packages or other articles or substances in accordance with directions issued by CASA.

Clearly you have forgotten the requirement to do a PSAL when doing an outfield landing.....such as one where the tide has gone over the beach since you were last there....you will find that then you may descend below 500' within 3 nautical miles of the landing area... then we are taught to do a 500', a 200' and 50' pass as required or any combination there of.Aerobatics? Once again you are demonstrating your ignorance.....should you be brave enough to reply, define an aerobatic manoeuvre.

If you want (or need) good vision on takeoff, don't fly a Spitfire ( or Mustang or Stearman or Tiger Moth etc etc).