Jerry_Atrick

The internet is a wonderful thing these days. Rio aviation at Terlingua airport may do something for you, but I think you may want to take a wander (or mosey) to Lajitas (I am guessing pronounced La-Hitas) as theere may be an FBO there that can help. A private pilot is just that - someone who can fly privately - not commercially.. Consider us PPLs, amateurs - in my case, a rank amateur...

Hey Drexus, This is predominantly an Aussie flying forum, but a few international memebers are abouts. Where abouts in West Texas are you from? I haven't been there for years, but there are a couple of things you want to think about first: You may want to read the FAR (Federal Aviation Regulations). They will give you an idea of the rules of aviation. Although, paying a private pilot for a flight can only be done under a cost sharing arrangement (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-285). So you will have to find a PPL who will want to share the cost with you, or you may be risking his or her licence and they may not be very comfortable with it. I am guessing the request is not to fly you to your flying lessons (El Paso has some great schools - I flew there about 28 years ago). My advice would be to get your PPL ASAP and fly yourself (of course, when you have got enough hours and experience post PPL, and when the weather permits). You can go to a flying school and they may have an AOC (when I flew there, the schools had to have an AOC, but they may no longer be requied to). Note, I flew as a PPL; nothing commerical. They may fly you but it will be commercial rates; but at the end of the day, the US commercial rates are usually not bad compared to many other countries. But of all things, remember, a licence is a licence to learn - you start with a full bucket of luck and empty bucket of experience, and hope the experiencce bucket fills before the luck bucket runs out. If you want to try and track someone down to see if they will cost share, getting to a local club or school may yield results - depends on the school, club, or FBO (note, if some agrees and theyt aren't instrument rated, you will be at the mercy of good weather, and even if they are, your risks in a single pilot IFR, single engine private flight in inclement weather increases sginificantly). I would recommend watcing some of Pilot Debrief's vids on youtube - this bloke is an ex USAF safety investigator and you want to go into such an arrangement with your eyes wide open: https://www.youtube.com/@pilot-debrief/videos (BTW, fellow forumites, his last video is the missionary aviator who used to post clips on these forums.. interesting stuff). Best of luck with your flying. You are in one of the best countries for PPL flying. You have a plethora of airspace and airfields and, as my US aviation medical examiner said, "where else in the world does the taxpayer willingly subsidise what we love doing?" The FAA, like every regulator has its foibles, but what other regulator publishes and provides for free, the theory required for virtually all of its licences (not sure about the ATPL, though). Here is the PPL theory: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak

Although i had moved down, still at Fairoaks with my Warrior shareoplane I think it took part with another member flying it

This popped up on my Youtube feed. Dunkeswell is my home and local airfield; Exeter is about 20m to the west. Exeter is an international airport (though not too big), and is home to TUI airlines UK ops (they are German, I think). There is a Robin group out in Exeter, and a decent chunk of GA and LAA (RAAus equivalent) aircraft at Exeter. Dunkeswell is home to Somerset Microlights, where they have a few C42s. I though Warriors were slow until I was waiting for a C42 to get enough upwind to depart... Anyway, enjoy some of the SW English countryside. A little bit of history - Dunkeswell as one of two WWII aerodromes close by (Upottery, no closed, was the other). USAF B17s were based at Dunks in WWII.

The Mach Loop is a military low-level training route that traverses northern Wales and the Lake District of England. If you search it on you tube, you will see great vids of anorak plane spotters (I went to a Nroth Wales popular vantage point once, but all we got were a couple of egg-beaters that day). Here is a vid from the cockpit of a Eurofighter. Thought I would post it as it it pretty good birds-eye view: Hope you enjoy it.

Blimey! It has been years since I have been to a RIAT... and still is one of the best airshows I have seen. My daughter was born in late July so I always had to go to parties my partner mysteriously schedule on RIAT weekend.

Yep.. And there are excellent add ons to FS2020 as well as XPlane 11.... Everything looked too smooth in the flowing scenes and too jumpy in the cluttered scenes.

Looks like something out of a flight sim

One hopes this is inaccurate... Otherwise it is an admission that the company hd no idea, and no control over its finances. After all, the lease contract will not normally allow a reposession unless a) the company is in default, or sometimes, it it is deemed a risky lease, the lessor has a rasonable belief that the lessee will default imminently, or c) not maintaining covenants such as a minimum share price, or maintenance or something similar. It would be alarming if the directors of the company were not expecting reposession proceedings were being initiated, as the directors would normally be informed of such proceedigs. and the reason why.

I follow this Youtuber because he posts vids of accidents (usually fatal) with cool as a cumber analysis of what went wrong. In this vid, you will see reference to a few of them, and to be honest, even though there are patterns, there is always something I learn from others mishaps. But this vid is about how to do it.. and it is great to see. One of my fave aircraft is the PA28 (Yeah.. I know.. many LSAs will run rings around performance - except for load-carrying, of course).. It is just nice to see a good outcome when things don't quite go so right aviation vid for a change.

Isn't there a saying that in flying, you start with a bucket full of luck and an empty bucket of experience - and you hope the bucket of experience fills before the bucketof luck empties... Sadly, one seems to have emptied before enough of the other filled.. A tragic loss. In my early solo days, I recall looking outside and thinking. "Jeez.. this 150s is slow today... Then I looked at the airspeed indicator. A little more time before comprehending the speed outside and I suspect I would not be here today. RIP to the pilot, and condolences to the family and friends; and thoughts with the instructor...

I would say that is a misfiring engine

Yeah, but not sure the tape is up to aviation grade. Cardboard looks good, though.

What the article doesn't mention is the number of movements Western Sydney is forecast to have, so it makes it difficult to assess the need for Class D. I operate out of two London-ish airfields - Fairoaks (located in the Heathrow zone) and Blackbushe (located in Farnborough's Class D airspace. We have Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stanstead, London City that are all busy CAT airports, as well as Southend ramping up. We also have Biggin Hill and Farnborough as fairly busy bizjet airports. There are airfields in the zone (Redhill, Denham, Fairoaks), and some just outside it (High Wycombe, Blackbushe, Elstree, White Waltham (which is half in the Heathrow zone), Stapleford Noth Weald, and i am sure I am missing one or two. Until Farnborough got their airspace grab of Class D (which most guess involved brown paper bags), there was lots of class G under 2,500'. But there were notable choke points for people trying to stay out of Class D, and there are now more. This may be something to look out for Whenever I fly, there is a Class D transit and even Class D bimbling. Never had to lodge a flight plan (the only time I do is when flying to the continent). In class D, we are told the route we have to take and we take it. I guess our longer radio calls though, form some sort of flight plan. I like flying in Class D.. It is not as restrictive as most think; yet you are always under a flight following.. And ATC are working to stop you bumping into someone else.

Is the airfield liable for the cables? The two airfields I have had parking at provided the tiedown points/blocks, but it was up toi us to provide the cables..

I did.. I broke my ankle in a motorcycle accident and as soon as I was out of hosptial, I fired an email off to my AME, who handled to comms to both CAA and CASA. Once I was ready, I had to undergo a minor medical to ensure all was OK.. Doc didn't charge me, but from memory, CASA wanted some money to process the information, so as I wasn't planning any trips to Aus until after the medical renewal was due anyway, I left it until then.. If they didn't want money, there was some administrative hassle that didn't make it worth it.. It was a while ago.

Doe having a medical absolve you of responsibility if you are incapacitated at the contrrols and cause an accident? It doesn't here which is why we carry 3rd party insurance. What about if you flew with a known ailment at the time? I would say the Daylesford driver would be in hot water even if he had a medical for driving: Daylesford driver ignored nine blood sugar warnings before crash killed five, court hears WWW.THEAGE.COM.AU The minutes before the Daylesford hotel tragedy have been detailed for the first time, as police opposed bail for the 66-year-old driver.

Biased? SD may well be biased, but is his synopsis biased with the information at hand? Or does Australia have that many more criminally minded nutters per capita than the USA, for example? Or could it be that the pollies/bureaucrats can't be bothered doing their jobs properly so implement a CYA regime? Biases have a tendency to gather pace when there is a lack of information. And that information does not have to go into specifics. Don't think the pollies/bureaucrats shirk their responsibilities? Ask undercover AFP officers if the latest news is to be believed.

Judging by two elderly US presidential candidates, cognitive ability does generally decline as one its into the older yers. So, as an absolute, I don't think it I ageist per se. However, as I have suggested on the other forums, I think, like the aviation sector, drivers should be tested periodically. OME pointed out the logistics of the number of drivers divided by the number of examiner would be difficult to achieve. But this could mean, like CAA (and I presume CASA) class 2 medicals, at younger years the testing is further apart (4 years) and as one ages, it drops to 2 years and for me, now yearly, with an ECG every year (under 50 and its an ECG every two years). Maybe the test should be for cognitive ability in the same way he have period medicals for flying. but in GA world, are Australian pilots still subject to the BFR? Over here it is 12 hours of flying in the last 12 months and 1 hour instruction (they can't fail you - just recommend additional training) within 90 days of your 2 year anniversary. At least that's what it was in EASA.. not sure if the UK has since Reverte to BFRs... I am getting back into flying after a 3 year break or thereabouts, so I have to do a renewal. I dressed.. for cars, maybe up until 50 or 60; once every 10 years, then from 50 to 70 once every 5.. Would be driven by the medical stats of the population of drivers.. there will those In their 90s that have full faculties and good cognitive abilities, but I would imagine that is not the norm. Loss of cognitive ability, I would guess is also not linear. So, I would think a driving test over 85 once and nothing is pretty useless except for that point in time. FWIW, I think the road law, fairly easy to test online should be done every so often. Today, a newspaper ran a quiz to see hoe much we retained of the road rules... I last did my road rules here in about 2008; I got 3 out of 15. Thankfully my daughter has the latest books as she is getting her provisional licence (L's), so I will be reading up to see what else has changed.

Is there an age limit on the CASA medical. There doesn't seem to be one for the CAA. John Houlder, the late Elstree airfield owner had his medical into his early 90s.. in his late 80s he had to renew it something like every month or 6 weeks. I think after 90 he had to fly with a safety pilot. He died, I believe of natural causes aged 96.

Looks not a bad job given the circumstances known so far. "An investigation into involuntary injuries and endangering the lives of others was opened by the regional prosecutor and the air transport gendarmerie." May cause the pilot or operator some consternation. Villejuif: Small plane makes emergency landing in Paris suburb WWW.BBC.CO.UK An engine failure forces the pilot to make an emergency landing, crashing into an apartment building.

Here's the uk flyer forum where the pilot started a thread on it: Flying Reporter - The email no pilot wants to receive FORUMS.FLYER.CO.UK FLYER Forums

Although technically not a commerical passenger plane, Piper, courtesy of CAE are getting in on the act: Piper PA-28 electric conversion kit on the way : : FLYER FLYER.CO.UK Pilot training company CAE is working with Piper Aircraft to develop a electric propulsion conversion kit for in-service Piper Archer...