Hi There.

[Markproa]

I joined this group and have been watching for a while so thought I'd better introduce myself.

 

I live in Bellingen NSW, I'm sixty this year, and I'm about to start building a plane from plans. I started flying in ultralights in the early AUF days including instructing. We had a flying school in Coffs Harbour in the mid-Eighties with a couple of Drifters and a Falcon. Coffs airport went controlled so we had to close down.

 

I got my GA license at the Coffs Aero Club and bought a Jodel D9 which I flew a fair bit including down to Mangalore air show every year, then sold it and flew it to a guy in Adelaide. I hardly flew again after that as it coincided with having kids.

 

So I have a few questions now that everything has changed. Questions around getting back in the air, Saaa or RAA etc. Which forum is best to post those question?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

 

[SSCBD]

Welcome - if you are looking for your PPL back - check with CASA on your license number is still on the system (which it should be ) do a MED 2 from a AVEMED doctor then do a few flights and theory (new procedures etc) with a GA flying school till they are happy to sign off a BFR.

 

All done.

 

Then if you want RAA just (Pay More money to join RAA) then give copy of your Log and BFR to RAA CFI and do some time in the RAA toys and you have both worlds covered.

 

Best

 

 

[Markproa]

OK, thanks. That's the way I'd like to do it though I'm wondering if I'd be better off going straight into RAA, particularly as I'm nearly 60 and I understand medicals are getting tough. Do I get any credit for holding a UPPL albeit very uncurrent? Nobody does GA training in Coffs Harbour these days but there is an RAA guy. I'll need to go have a chat.

 

I also need to consider if I'm better off building the plane under RAA or SAAA. The plane is under 600kg MTOW and will have an uncertified engine so it could go either way. Then there is the consideration of being able to fly it out of Coffs control space. Am I right in thinking a homebuilt with an uncertified engine can't fly out of controled airports?

 

 

[SSCBD]

That's a can of worms. Not sure!! is my quick answer - With RAA and no current GA, I THINK you have all the exams etc and flying.

 

You should be able to do the MED2 if no major medical issues just to get current again. Call a AVMED doctor first and have a chat before booking and see if he sees any problem.

 

Sorry just saw you were AUF instructor - so give RAA a call and see if they have you on the old system. That could then work?

 

 

[Markproa]

Ha, I was an ultralight instructor before Auf got involved in licensing so they wouldn't have any records of me. Thanks.