Sport Pilot, tha magazine.

[turboplanner]

CASA is NOT administering "safety". The biggest risk I take in flying is forced on me by CASA for no benefit to anybody else.It has been suggested to me that mishaps to people like me are actually of benefit to CASA. Their funding depends on the politicians being continually reminded by mishaps.

Personally, I don't believe that there is any malevolent faction in CASA. They are just bureaucrats doing whatever they think will ingratiate them with those who provide their funding.

You're painting a very broad brush there for a tiny problem that's getting up your nose in a tiny area, which the rest of us deal with when we fly cross country.

 

 

[facthunter]

IF you use radio badly enough, you can with a bit of effort, make it useless. How often do people check it before flight with another station? Having said that couldn't a section be available specifically for noradio aircraft or LP that like grass and don't need much strip length? Nev

 

 

[turboplanner]

IF you use radio badly enough, you can with a bit of effort, make it useless. How often do people check it before flight with another station? Having said that couldn't a section be available specifically for noradio aircraft or LP that like grass and don't need much strip length? Nev

Good points but I think you're in the wrong thread.

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

We have very different ideas about what constitutes a tiny problem Turbs.

 

My Jabiru flight manual begins with this on the outside front cover...

 

"WARNING. This is a single engine light aircraft.

 

It should be flown with a view to the engine ceasing at any time and appropriate precautions taken."

 

This means having a glide to a safe landing spot as much as possible, preferably all the time.

 

To be denied this big safety consideration flying over the Adelaide Hills when the sought-after airspace 2000ft above me is COMPLETELY UNUSED is not a tiny matter in my opinion.

 

There are many other examples in Australia where our aircraft are trapped between low controlled airspace and unlandable terrain. A real safety authority would be on this like a shot. Our aircraft outnumber all the airline and military aircraft put together, but we are denied airspace to enable us to fly safely. In whose interests could this possibly be?

 

But here's a tiny matter if you want one.. It was noticed that the many photos of my plane on file in Canberra contained only one fuselage side photo.

 

Well that was a tiny matter only in my opinion.. it was a grounding event in official reality.

 

 

[turboplanner]

You were grounded?

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

The registration renewal failed, so I would have to fly a non-registered plane. I reckon this means grounded, but please correct me if this is wrong.