GraemeK

... as long as the engine isn't running, that is.

Part 61 lists the requirements for a person to taxi an aircraft - and pax are not included.

Fate is the Hunter, I think ...

RH seat was unoccupied:

Taken at YSSY 6 Nov 2010.

Isn't that what your MAP gauge reads? But instead of vacuum, it reads out in absolute pressure?

One of my all times favourites was a sign on a light pole in New Jersey which said "Bill Posters Will Be Violated". Conjured up some pretty unpleasant images of what might happen back at the station!

"Radio" is an endorsement on the RPC.

Yenn - email received from RAAus few days ago.

60% of the total 10,866 piston or turboprop aircraft (excluding motor gliders and rotorcraft) were manufactured in 1980 or earlier. For just piston, the figure rises to 64%.

Fair comment - the list is all VH registered, including jets, rotorcraft, gliders, balloons, etc. Would be possible to extract the data - it comes from the CSV file on the CASA website.

Here's a histogram:

Pretty good memory FT - of the 15,529 on the register today, 7,569 (48.7%) were manufactured in 1980 or earlier.

All those people close to spinning props and nary a fence in sight! A wonder anyone survived!

At least it wasn't the thronomister playing up again ...

No, it is not - and many of us went directly to PPL without RPL - in my view RPL is a waste of time if you intend to go for PPL.

The full archive is here.

Agreed on the health systems, having experienced both. But while the pharma companies bitch like hell about the PBS, they actually love it - taking a slight discount is a cheap price for removing all the price signals!

High wing, must be a Cessna ...

Sorry bex - misinterpreted your post!

Nope - Dave and his team need to take it to the extremes of the flight envelope for certification, they're called test pilots for a reason. If you ever get a chance to talk to him about his experiences, take it - his knowledge of aviating is incredible, and he has a way of communicating it with insight and humour.

Yep - Dave was one of the pilots, apparently in hospital but OK. He tells a very interesting and humorous tale about the time he bailed out near LTV!

A great idea, I'm talon ya!

What they will be checking on a ramp check will be your fuel calculations. I'm sure we all do them and write them down in our fuel log - starting with ground speed along track made good (distance along track, time), actual consumption (fuel used, time), time to destination (ground speed made good, distance to go, corrected for wind changes, etc), fuel required to destination (time, consumption plus variable reserve), fuel remaining (net of fixed reserve). And update regularly, and to 5 decimal places! Remember maintaining a fuel log is on the ramp check checklist ...