Pearo

You wouldn't think it would be a big job to remove the undulations from that runway ........

The second thing I need to know is that if having Cystic Fibrosis and Crohn's disease would stop me from being a commercial/recreational pilot.

Call ACMA, its their problem and they have the technology to deal with it. I would also report to Air Services and CASA to encourage it along.

I used to fly on a metroliner out of Brisbane to Hervey Bay on a mail run. Worst RPT plane in summer because the aircon was turned off on take-off. Sucks for a 6ft bloke also.

Folks, I think you should all ditch the personal insults and perhaps focus on helping out. Mistakes are made in aviation, and people openly speaking about them should be applauded, not delt with abuse. Others will read this thread, and other will learn from it. Abusing a fellow pilot will just result in them not asking for advice in the future or telling their stories.

Ryan, thanks for your story. I was interested in flying into YORC, but your story has convinced me to go practice my soft/shortfield take off techniques first. Our club requires you to be certified into island airstrips (regardless of hours/experience) prior to landing solo, and I have qualified for that.

BTW, this could be a good article for CASA's Flight Safety rag that they send out to those who are subscribed. I always read those articles, and I have learned a lot from them

Hi GuysWhat would be the realistic chance of getting Class C clearance say direct Lismore to Sunshine Coast at A085, so basically over the top of Brisbane.

 

Not a hope in hell? Don't even try just take the coastal route??

 

And going the other way into Bankstown would they entertain something like A065 following the VFR route to Prospect or just to much effort.

 

Cheers

The problem with Evans head is that it is a bombing range, so if you request a clearance through Brisbane centre, we then have to call Amberley ATC, and they have to then contact the range safety officer to find out what is happening and get a clearance. Being a restricted area when active it is equivalent to class C airspace, so any IFR aircraft in the area have to be separated from VFR, as well as keeping you safe from military aircraft with live weapons. If they do give a VFR aircraft a clearance, they are basically rendering the airspace unusable to them for the length of the transit, which in a light aircraft can take quite a long time.In all honesty, most of the time if you request a clearance from us we will just tell you it's not available if we know there are any aircraft at all in the restricted area. Military ATC has become fairly good at releasing restricted airspace to civil ATC lately when they aren't using it, so we normally have a good idea of when you will be able to get clearance.

Out of interest, how far north does your area stretch too? I only ended up going down to Ballina so only talked to ATC on 119.5 to the familiar voice of a controller who I don't know! Must have been a quiet day because it was the same person on 125.7.

PearoCheck your ERSA PRD - 1

 

Conditional Status

 

RA1 - Pilots may plan through and expect a clearance from ATC

 

RA2 - Pilots must not plan through unless on a route specified in ERSA Gen FPR, a clearance is not assured

 

RA3 - Pilots must not plan through and clearances will not be available

 

Aldo

As always, I replied to the wrong post. My response was meant to be to onetrack, apologies to litespeed.

Yenn, best bet to understand battery state is to use both a voltmeter and an ammeter.

Your powermate regulator should be charging the system at a preset maximum of 14.4 voltsThat is a typical charging voltage and quite normal.

 

If yours says 15-16 volts it sounds a bit inaccurate

 

What is the gauge you are using?

Considering that's in my airspace, I will tell you the general rule is you won't get a clearance. Realistically it's only medevac that will get through it most of the time. As for who to contact for a clearance through it, your best hope would be Brisbane centre on 120.3Sometimes the airspace is released to Brisbane centre, in which case we can clear you through it, other than that we will just tell you clearance is not available. It's a bit of a painful piece of airspace for ATC as well, especially for Gold Coast arrivals.

I am only used to mil airstrips/airspace, so it's a new one to me!

Looking at ERSA suggest that there is several frequencies. Do you need a code? IF so, do I get it from BNE centre?

I am going to plan around it (RA2), but it would be nice if I could get cleared through if active.

Last year when I rode my motorcycle across to WA, I was chatting to a truck driver at noremsan who hit a camel at night! He said it bent the chassis on the truck.

I have hit a roo on the Motorcycle, that was bad enough....

Why would you get a 3d helicopter and stuff about when you can do this?

Word on the street is possible gear failure?

Microsoft has done this to death. If you read around, they have done a lot of research on the subject with real end users.

The basic idea with screen fonts is to avoid serif's. The UI guys tend to stick with fonts like Verdana or Tahoma (my preference for readability) for text below about 10pt, and plain old Arial for font above 12pt. There is also recommendations on colour choices to make reading easier.

I know every rags on MS, but as a programmer myself they have invested a lot of research in how end user actually respond to UI design. For the programmers among us, we tend to disagree with a lot of it, but when you take the time to sit down and see how users click about and read stuff you will change your opinion. All my UI design is hijacked from MS because they do it better than anyone else as far as end users are concerned (as opposed to IT nerds).

BTW, if you want to compare readability of fonts, read this forum then go look at a google search. I think the use arial and san-serif (more or less the same as arial).

Oh my, so the decline in private pilots is all related to Class 2 medicals... Sigh...

Of course cost has nothing to do with it.

Looks like I won't successfully fill the seats at the moment. I'm taking IYF, the air Queensland partenavia. Should be fun showing up in a twin at least.

Which PN are you taking? I am on call at the moment otherwise I would jump at the chance. That and its the wifes Birthday!

If you can fill up seats go for it, but if not let me know and I will try and organise the day off.

Is he landing lengthways or breadth way?

Draw the vectors, always helps.

Here is the best ever mspaint drawing you will ever see.

Gravity is pulling down, but the lift generated by the tailplane is pulling up. The aircraft will rotate around its lateral (pitch) axis and hence the nose will drop.

I've got three crashed RC helicopters, among'st the other junk.There not as easy as they look to fly.spacesailor

I am trying to teach myself how to fly a RC Heli. Watching all the online tutorials and have invested quite a few hours in it now. Its so frustrating, I swear flying a real aircraft is actually easier than flying an RC Heli.

I couldn't do mine online, so I filled in the paper copy using my very best handwriting.

Was it under 1000ft? Not sure what the issue is here?