Marty_d

Pardon my ignorance here as someone who is not yet flying - but if you currently hold an RA-Aus pilot certificate because you fly your Aeropup or Jab or whatever, doesn't that cover a 95.10 aircraft too? Or do you need type training, and if so, how do you get that in a single seat ultralight anyway?

Wright Cyclone-powered RV... can you imagine the maintenance and running costs of a Sikorsky S-58?

Zoning only works up until someone who wants it changed is mates with a councillor.

As Danny points out there's drones and drones. What I was very tongue-in-cheek referring to is a Foxbat filled with explosives which is only required to do one flight. However for the loitering/missile-carrying ones you need reliability over many hours.

That happens a bit around here.

We drove past Lethbridge the other day. Not that far from Ballarat which seems to have a sizeable LAME presence.

It's like every speed limit sign being blank until you pay to see what it is. Utter stupidity.

You don't need a 2,000 hour TBO if the majority of engines make one flight in the general direction of Russia.

My mistake, the wrong SAI Global details were presented when I searched them. Intertek is the parent company of Intertek Inform which you now pay money to to access Australian Standards, and they're a multinational headquartered in London. The main point is that Australian standards, which are compulsory to follow in every aspect of manufacturing, materials and engineering, are only accessible by paying a multinational company.

There's two separate issues there. Yes ignorance of a law is not an excuse, that's one issue. However setting up design standards which everybody has to adhere to, then allowing a private company (based in Chicago) to charge people to access those standards, seems to be stupidity. It's like Parliament making laws then hiding them from the public unless you pay.

There's an article in the latest sport flyer about the Microair ADSB (including In). It stated that even with the rebate it was something like $3,097.

Beautifully finished. Good luck with your sale.

That was a beautiful landing.

Website aside, it appears to be a lightweight rag & tube which would be both STOL and fit under FAR 103. So not like they're promising the next flying car.

I escaped the family yesterday and spent a very pleasant hour exploring Ballarat airfield and doing some plane watching. Unfortunately the aviation museum is only open weekends and public holidays, neither of which coincide with our visit, but there were a gaggle of C172's doing circuits, several Air Tractors, a nice little RANS taildragger, Foxbat, Skyfox, Beech V35 and others. A very sad looking De Havilland Dove sans tail sits behind the aviation museum (hopefully being restored?) In one hangar I could see a bloke polishing a very nice looking Ryan with enclosed cabin and radial engine, but I didn't have my phone with me at that point so missed the picture. A C206 on floats landed at one point, swapped passengers then took off again. Seemed like a very nice airfield. There's a bunch of what looks like WWII wooden barracks nearby, all with different signs - the Morris Minor club, woodworking club, etc... so much nicer than being surrounded by concrete factory outlets - but given the road and construction work going on nearby, that too is inevitable.