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Thanks for that review Mark! Sometimes it's hard to find what I would call "balanced" reviews of aviation gear...perhaps I look in the wrong places! I haven't heard a bad thing about Zulus, from recreational to commercial pilots.....now if only I could afford them

...and if you keep pulling back the houses get bigger really fast! Hold it back and the houses might go in nice circles too. :big_grin:

Thanks David, beautifully written and a salient lesson!

Thanks David for sharing that! It's another lesson that I shall store away and I hope it comes to the fore if I ever find myself in similar circumstances. And thanks too Motz for starting this thread. As a student I'd like to know the answer to your question too. Obviously flight into IMC happens, as David found out, whether through bad luck, carelessness, poor planning or plain stupidity. It would be nice if you can give us students something better than "if it happens you are dead so don't let it happen". Statistics show you can survive. Why not give us another tool which might save our lives if stuff hits the fan one day? I don't believe such information would encourage risk taking any more than seat belts and EPIRBs do.

No worries GDL. If you want a nice relaxing place to stay with great weather and beautiful beaches Caloundra, or any of the Queensland Sunshine Coast towns, are the place to go. We live on a farm so we go to the beach to "get away from it all". We travel (by road) 1400km nearly every year to go to the Sunshine Coast for a vacation!

Caloundra is a good pick...nice place for lazing around on the beach and taking it easy. In summer 30deg C during the day and 20 at night.

Sydney has glitz and glamour and a nice harbour, Melbourne has culture, food and sport. Both are worth a visit.

Thanks David. Looking through the ipconfig stuff it looked to me as though the phone *was* providing DHCP and NAT. In "Internet Connection 2" DHCP, DNS and gateway were all listed. I assumed the phone must have provided these. It's years since I've played with this and I probably didn't understand what I was doing half the time anyway . But I thought the bridge becomes the network interface with the IP address and the adaptors connected to the bridge have this same IP address. For instance my wifi "router" has the same IP address on both it's ethernet and wifi interfaces, as does my wifi access point. Same with my Linux pc when I configured it as a wifi AP...the bridge got configured with the IP address. Ahhh yes....wrong terminology using the word ethernet for the USB connection. So...hypothetically, if the phone *was* providing the Internet gateway, NAT and DHCP, would it have worked to bridge the USB interface to the Ethernet interface on the PC? Glad you got it working F-Dog!

I'm lost. This is totally different from what I thought. So I'm asking the following for my own curiosity and maybe David could answer....hope you don't mind FD, sorry I didn't help. So the phone is connected to the computer via USB? The phone has its own local private IP address - 192.168.100.254 The USB port is being used as an ethernet port and has the local address 192.168.100.100 If that's the case I reckon a bridge WOULD work. What if you bridge "Local Area Connection 2" to "Local Area Connection". Then your ethernet adapter (Local Area Connection) should also get the same address 192.168.100.100. (?) OK, now just go with the flow and change one of your other computers to match this network. Easiest would be just to set it to use DHCP as your phone seems to provide it. Or if you want to do it manually set the IP address to say 192.168.100.101 and the gateway and DNS to your phone's address - 192.168.100.254 Can it see the Internet now? EDIT.... that turned from questions into instructions didn't it. I had a bit of a lightbulb moment mid post. Sorry if it confuses the issue

OK...looks like because you are bridging the connection the ethernet port is taking on the same IP address as your phone has on the Internet.....which is bad. You cannot tell the phone to have a particular IP address because this is what is allocated to your phone when it connects to the Internet. It is the address the "Internet" uses to identify and communicate with your phone (and therefore your computer). It will be different every time you connect but you cannot change it. You cannot use this address on your LAN. Your LAN needs to use IP addresses that are especially reserved for LANs and don't interfere with the "Internet". These addresses will start with "10." or "192.168.". So turn off bridging....it is not what you want! You need Internet connection sharing which basically turns your computer (with the phone) into a "router". I don't have an XP computer handy, but there is a wizard somewhere to set up Internet Connection Sharing (Control Panel?). Your phone interface is the one you want to share. You will need to set up each LAN computer to use your phone computer for the Internet (gateway and DNS). You can tell them to do this automatically (ICS may take care of this), or you need to manually set each one to use the phone computer's LAN address as a "Gateway". Then you need to set DNS and this MIGHT be your phone computers LAN address or it might be the DNS server IP address that your telco uses. If all else fails you can use the address of Google's public DNS server- "8.0.0.8". Clear as mud?

It is the "interface" (eg. an ethernet port) on a computer that has an IP address, not the computer itself. So if you have 2 interfaces, such as ethernet and wireless on a laptop, they will normally have two different IP addresses. Where I have used "bridging" it is to have two LOCAL network interfaces (such as an ethernet port and a wireless card), on the same computer, share the same local IP address and network traffic can travel through the computer between the two interfaces transparently as if they were the same local network. Then computers on the wireless side and the ethernet side can see each other. A "wireless router/modem" uses a bridge to connect its ethernet ports through to it's wireless port, but it uses a router to connect and share the Internet into those ports. These days the terms "bridge", "switch" and "router" etc are all becoming a bit blurred as they are often combined into one device. What you are needing to do is "route" not "bridge" your phone interface, which will have a unique Internet IP address provided by your telco, through your computer to your ethernet interface, which has a fixed Local IP address on your network. Note that there is a special set of IP addresses used for local internal networks that don't work on the Internet...hence the need for all this NAT stuff. All of which is another way of saying what Bas, David and Andy said above....don't use a bridge, use Internet Connection Sharing. Like Bas I'm not that familiar with how Windows does it, but I assume Internet Connection Sharing will take care of DHCP in some unique Microsoft way

I seem to recall on one thread here that it would be alright for, say, a tradesman to fly to a job and be able to charge travel costs to the client. This opinion came from someone at CASA, but opinions only count when tested in court! I would suggest phoning them to make sure.

I'm only a student so others here could offer a much more informed opinion. I had the choice of two schools at my airport, one with Jabs and the other with Tecnams. I did TIFs with both. The Jabiru is a good, honest and strong aussie built aircraft. It is built down to a price and represents excellent flying value. Tecnams are Italian and a lot more expensive. For me the difference was chalk and cheese. I found the Jab (J-160) rather "clunky" to fly. The Tecnam by comparison was beautifully responsive and a joy to fly. But you pay extra for the privilege. I really enjoy the low wing Tecnam Sierra, but the high wing Tecnams are very nice to fly too. Do TIFs with both schools....you might prefer Jabs!

Lilydale airport has Jabirus and the Royal Vic Aero Club has Tecnams at Coldstream (Go for the Tecnams :big_grin:). One prominent (but dark) forum member here trained at Lilydale. She could tell you more.

Hi OZ, This is from the RAAus Operations manual: Basically if you already have 20hrs experience (5hrs solo) you need to do another 5 hours minimum training, 1hr solo, in an RAAus registered aircraft. A basic RAAus certificate allows you to fly within 25 miles radius from your originating airport (similar to GFPT?). You need another minimum 10hrs nav training to get a cross country endorsement. Pros and cons? A lot cheaper to fly, arguably more fun. The lighter aircraft can be more challenging to fly. 600kg MTOW (depending on aircraft). Day VFR only. No aeros. Only one passenger. You cannot fly in controlled airspace....unless you also hold a PPL (don't know about GFPT) and your RAAus aircraft is suitably equipped. As an example I'm training in Tecnams at $180/hr dual, and I think they are about $140/hr wet hire. Peter

Nice looking aircraft, but at Natfly it was sporting a large and rather ugly ventral fin. Don't know if this will be a permanent feature. Bit hard to put a tail wheel there

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Congrats Evan! Hope to be following in your footsteps sometime soon. Peter

Hi All, Many of you probably already know this, but it was new to me so thought I would share. One of the provisos from my wife for me to start flying was to make make sure my life insurance covered me when flying. It took me a while :big_grin: but I finally looked at my policy conditions and found that private flying was excluded. A phone call to my insurance agent put my mind at rest. If you start flying AFTER you sign on the dotted line, you are still covered. The exclusion is only if you are flying at the time of taking out the policy. My agent gave the example of one of his own family members, who died in a crop duster crash. Policies he had started before he started flying paid up, but not the ones after. Of course, you should check your own policies to make sure. Peter

I don't mind geographical representation....even if it means that one board member represents less numbers of people than another. I think a lot of the issues facing our members would be geographical in nature: weather, terrain, local airports, local and state government regulations etc. Could a board member from Sydney's northern beaches really effectively represent the aviation interests of someone from Alice Springs, or Yarrawonga, or Devonport? Or vice versa? Just my two cents.

Yeah Gnome....saw savvy Flightygirl, but not Flightygirl because I caught up with you guys. The lure of Camp David was too strong. I must say it was interesting to see two knockabout blokes (Blackrod and David) suddenly turn into your consummate politicians when the opportunity arose. They were whipping out their business cards and election platforms faster than you could say "Carbon Cub"! I'd like to put in a vote for a RecFly cuppa on Saturday as well. Peter

Should be good! Honda mowers start first time every time!

It is nice to find aviation websites where an effort is made to keep them up to date. In my travels today I happened across the Polish FK-Lightplanes website. On their home page in the mostly European coming events section, is NatFly (because FK has a stand I guess)!

Bugger Pud. Tomorrow you shall fly!

Hope it went well Pud! It must be a very special feeling to fly in a machine you've put your heart and soul into. I hope I can do the same one day.