missing plane katoomba

[storchy neil]

do we as in you and I need the PLB in aircraft

 

as I have said before don't take off without it neil

 

 

[KRviator]

You still need to be alive and able to activate it. Even a fixed ELT with a G switch isn't guaranteed to work.

 

 

[jetjr]

Not when doing circuits

 

Need it for trips over 50nm?? From home

 

Logic says take one every time, 5 nm is a big area to search and find you

 

 

[storchy neil]

50 nm from home as the crow flys put it in before take off how far was he from home RIP young fella neil

 

 

[rankamateur]

how far was he from home

Only 200m Neil, he was well and truly legal.

 

 

[cooperplace]

does anyone know what sort of aircraft it was?

 

 

[terryc]

jabiru, just on the news with pictures

 

 

[ave8rr]

And sadly this aircraft was involved in an emergency landing a few years back.

 

http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/plane-makes-forced-landing-in-blue-mountains.1801

 

Condolences to family and friends.

 

By all accounts the pilot was very experienced.

 

 

[cooperplace]

and it seems that he was an instructor, very experienced.

 

 

[rankamateur]

and it seems that he was an instructor, very experienced.

I might misunderstand the life of an instructor, BUT why do instructors need to wear out their plane doing circuits unless they are trying to work out some issue with the plane? Perhaps he was a retired instructor.

 

 

[facthunter]

I wouldn't necessarily make the connection. Instructors don't get a lot of actual flying in, unless they are a lot different to me. The students do most of the flying. Nev

 

 

[Thirsty]

I was an instructor and I used to do circuits on my own - you get to practice almost everything in a circuit rather than just flying aimlessly around.