RetiredRacer

Hi guys, What are our RAA legal requirements at Natfly? As I understand it CASA do regular checks on GA aircraft arriving there. GA have to have licence, medical, aircraft log, maintenance log, PAX and freight manifest paperwork available for inspection. Do we as RAA still come under this check? if not, is there a check done by RAA and if so, what do we need to supply for a check?

My wife has a program for editing which turns out great HD video's, but when it is uploaded to UTube the quality drops big. Can anybody help us here?

My brother from the Gold Coast bought a "Quick build" kit and has started assembly.

We registered ours about a year ago, there was about a two week turn around.

Congratulations sweetheart , you make a husband proud. And you deserve the fun you are having .

We were there for that Turbo, Awesome racing !! Ashley, we were there in our 9a for a couple of weeks. Flew out Mon 23rd. There are cable tie downs and the hangers give some shelter from the prevailing winds. And Hertz have a small Toyota for $30 a day.

I never read the books as a kid, but I can remember listening to biggles on the radio (that was before tv).

Hi rg, I see your building a RV12. How is the build going? We have a RV9a registered RAA. We got it in the air last April and now have 51 hrs up. The W'bool trip will be our first major run with the -9, so I'm interested in cruise speeds and fuel burn etc. My teenage memory's of Cobden etc, were back in the late 50's early 60's.

Thanks Turbo, I spent a lot of "working bee" hours helping to build the place. They sent us an invite to the club's 50th anniversary about four years back. You never know, someone might know someone. Do you follow some speedway?

Terry, we won't be down there till the second week of January. At this stage we will tie down at W,bool and do some flying from there. We will be doing the western end of the great ocean road coastline and possibly stay a night at Peterborough. Accomodation I think will be hard to find that time of year, so we're packing the tent.

Thanks for that Bill. My sister dropped in there the other day and made enquiries. It looks like we will have to tie it down. I'm very interested in a wednesday night while we are there. I grew up in W'bool and I have some fond memorys of Gobden when I was a teenager.

Thanks Kaz. If we can't get closer that might have to do. We're planning on dropping into Peterborough while we are down there.

Hi everyone. We're planning on doing a trip down to W.bool (Vic) in January. Does anyone know if there would be a possibility of getting hangerage for a couple of weeks?

Frank, you posted these photo's before with an invite. I bookmarked that post, and marked the location on Google Earth. Once Robyn has her licence, we're planning on doing some traveling. About mid year would be a good time to head up your way. I'll contact you first, if we do. What length is the strip? Bob & Robyn Dennis

Nah, Ignition (famous last words perhaps). I've already started getting used to sitting in the right seat of the RV, 'cos once Rob gets here ticket:plane: , that's most likely where I'll be sitting:wink: .

I forgot to mention, "JimG" on here is Robyn's instructor. And Rob is Jimbo's first student after getting his instructor's rating. As I said Rob is doing well, so she must be in good hands.

Hi Guy's, Yes, my wife is finally starting to learn to fly. But I am not too sure that it is a good idea. When she gets back from training, she is so excited, she wants to tell me about it. I mean really tell me about it...... Yap Yap Yap for hours But I am proud of her, she is doing well. And I am excited for her. I can't help but be excited for her, because she transmits so much enthusiasm

Check out the comment on the newspapers website. Scroll down below the story.

Congratulations Jimbo, well done. Robyn wants to book in for her first lesson. She's biting at the bit to get going.

Sorry guys, fixed!!!

This is a good video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfh-YJu3q8Y The little fella was hiding

When I first called Steve Bell to let him know our intent to apply for RAA registration for our RV9a, Steve read me the riot act (and rightly so because of the RV7a etc). Steve told me that was what they were doing with the RV7a. Refusing reissue of registration until it could be proved it was legal. He also told me any certified aircraft, like the Cessna 150, he would now only except the factory's certified weight of that aircraft. Our 9a being a kit built. He would not except our 9a for registration, that was until we supplied a letter from Van's Aircraft, stating they know of some of their 9/9a kit's, being built down around the 900 lb (409 kg) empty weight, and being registered in the 1320 lb (600 kg) LSA class. We also supplied a LAMI's weight certificate of our 9a. This is true !!! And with the spotlight on us, I'm going to be making sure if I add anything at all, I'll be removing the equivalent weight from else were in the aircraft first. On this subject. It is a lot of hard work to get an aircraft down in weight while you are building it, but very easy to increase it's weight (much like if you yourself was overweight, and spent months getting your weight down. only to stop at the bakery and blow all, or most of that hard work). Vans Aircraft lists the expected empty weight of an assembled kit RV9a as being 1028 lb (465). There are more RV9a's registered over this weight than under. Some of these more than a 200 lb (90 kg) over this weight. Which shows how easy it is, if your not careful, to build a kit or plan's built, and finish up over the manufactures listed empty weight. This is the same for an aircraft designed to meet the 544 kg or 600 kg classes. If your not careful how you design and manufacture the component's and bracket's for it while you are building it, or what you buy and bolt onto it before or after you have it into the air, you will soon push it past it's legal weight. And more concerning, its designed weight. Bob Dennis

Hi Guys, Here is a video, first showing the repaired RV7a, the crash and some stills of the incident. Vans Aircraft posted a statement saying that the owner contacted them with drawings etc of how he was going to install a larger wheel to the front leg. They advised him against this as it would put more stress on the front leg.

I like the look of it!

Thanks for that update Ryan. Mat, I know what your saying about the "A" models. But our's is very light on the front wheel, so I'm hoping that wont be as much of an issue. But that is the reason I was enquiring. I want to get some more hours up on it first, before I start venturing into anywhere that might be a little dicy for it.