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Looks good Ian☺

I have a completed Sonex Waiex at Kilcoy that you’re welcome to check out.

Luv ya work Ian

I would hope you would have sighted the aircraft well and truely before they broadcast their crosswind entry. Also knowing a standard crosswind entry is made between midfield and the DER you’d scan that airspace.I find too many RAAus pilots don’t know where to find rules, reg’s and official guidance material. There seems to be too much reliance on what they were taught, as opposed to what’s written. CASA have tried to make life easier for the sport pilot/PPL holder by producing the VFRG, I just don’t think too many read it.

Downunder, these pilots are who are annoying you are in fact doing the right thing. The standard circuit entry on crosswind is based on overflying the upwind threshold and that has been for the past 40 plus years I’ve been flying, instructing and testing in both GA and RAA. The broadcast of “joining crosswind” indicates you would be overflying the upwind threshold to join the circuit, the recent trend to state “joining midfield crosswind” is unnecessary. https://www.casa.gov.au/file/182536/download?token=ev1DY9ngTo join crosswind any further upwind of the upwind threshold is unsafe, you may then be flying over an aircraft climbing to circuit height on the normal crosswind leg.

Below is a link to the CASA CAAP on non-controlled aerodrome procedures.

You would think it was laziness & not what they have been taught, With aircraft in the circuit area being in close proximity to each other that is not the time for vauge position reports. The last thing you need in the circuit is looking for someone where they say they are and not being able to find them because their crossing 200ft behind you on downwind.

Yeh the Red demo model at Airventure was very impressive.

IllI’ll fly it down for you mate

Hey guys, Anyone in the Qld Southeast in the process of building either a Sonex or Zenith601/650 & wouldn't mind someone popping in to check it out, Plenty of YouTube stuff on builds but would like to see one in the flesh. Cheers

We attended all 3 days and the aircraft camping area we drive past was never close to being full, Saturday morning looked like more than previous day's but still plenty of room. I enjoyed the event overall, plenty of display aircraft on show compared to Narromine, I would like to see more involvement from kit suppliers with partial assembled kits on display, most of the vendors in main tent were mainly high-end avionics. But overall I enjoyed the event. Matt Halls display in the MSXR was amazing & gotta love the Warbird. Darling wife bought me a joyride in the Stearman, Awesome

How does Ra-Aus get to have a vote regarding the regs of another division of aviation, Smells like a conflict of interest to me. I understand Ra-Aus not wanting GA to have lower medical standards as it may lower possible future Ra-Aus memberships but nothing good can come of sticking our noses in other people's business. We need to be promoting Aviation across the board, not making selfish desicions to feather our own nest. My opinion only.

Hey CanMan, I recently got back into flying after a 28 year break, Got my GA ticket back in 85 then like you other life things got in the way. After a bit of messing around with CASA convincing them my license was still valid I did the conversion to Ra-Aus, Driver licence standard medical, cheaper to fly generally than GA. Get into it m8 & enjoy.

Yeh we were happy to pay for parking, glad it's going towards something good, The guys getting traffic out were great, job well done. Matt Halls flight in the MSXR was awesome.

Lol Dave's a very reasonable guy but me not having a x-country endorsement may cause him to say no

Hey Neil, If you mean my avatar it's a Tecnam Golf from AirsportQld in Boonah, unfortunately not mine

Whoops missed that Kiwi lol, Knew how to get there so didnt look there, Its not even hidden in the fine print so no excuse. Weather hopefully better toomorrow. cheers

Carpark guy we spoke to today said something about the council but not sure.

Ok warning all those flying in but what about those who didn,t or the general public, No mention of parking fees on website or on tickets, No big issue but nice to be told beforehand. Glad i got in early for members discounted tickets.☺

Condolences to all involved.

Wow another case of the news reporting on a subject they know nothing about, Everyone knows aircraft dont have Flux Capacitors, It could only have been the failure of the Filangee that would cause that problem, I know its true cos Pheobe said so lol. (To those that have never watched Friends please disregard my post)

That would be the Boneyard, plenty of youtube videos, amazing collection .

Had my first close up look at the ME262 at RAF Cosford recently Phil, Awesome looking aircraft thankfully not used to it full potential.

Great models Dom, Loved RAF Cosford Museum, was there on holidays just over a month ago. Cheers

Checked the demonstrator at Narromine, Looks like a well engineered aircraft and should be fun to fly.I recall hearing a kit build time of 120 Hours, that may of been the time it took to put the demonstrator together for Narromine. Apart from drooling on it no other experiance with them. I believe its the same distributors based at Heck Feild Jacobs Well (GAP Aero)that sell the Sling models. The

Sling & the Bushcat both from The Aircraft Factory in South Africa. cheers

So the next thing is joining the circuit. In Darwin there was no flying overhead. With a smaller airfield like Boonah there is. We did some more practice in the northern training area on Saturday and damned if I could think what the radio call should be after the inbound call! It's something like "Boonah traffic Tecnam 7433 overhead at 2000 Boonah". But do I need to give any more info than that at that point? In this case we were overflying runway 22 and then circle around to the dead side to descend and join crosswind. Trying to cast my mind back to what we did then. I'm thinking you need to make a call like "Boonah traffic tecnam 7433 joining crosswind runway 22 boonah"