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  1. jackc
    Mine is a 24 reg, Jabiru will not allow it. People wonder why I get pi$$ed off with stupid unsafe regulations.
  2. jackc
    I made myself a rule, to never carry a passenger, not even my wife…..no one. my flying hobby is me and me alone. IF a flight I was piloting went pear shaped, i would never for give myself IF survived and my passenger was badly injured or died. At my time in life I have beaten many possible death scenarios and not looking to push my luck any more. If I crash and die, so be it…….
  3. jackc
    Nev, it’s a 24 reg Jabiru plane and we can’t change it, I want a panel rotary switch with 0, 10, 20 deg flap settings so I can select what settings I need and just fly the plane. The existing system as fitted from the factory is dangerous in my opinion. Manual flaps would be OK too, but because of stupid rules and Jabiru won’t approve a change, I am stuck 🤢 IF I was 19 reg, it would have been the first mod I would do, along with an increase in main wheel size.
  4. jackc
    Hydrolyte is my favourite, drinks heaps before I fly. Cost a lot of money but worth it and works for me.
  5. jackc
    My Instructor will only ever be a passenger, no one else……
  6. jackc
    The Jabiru electric flap system scares me IF I need a go around as I have to hold flap switch up to raise flaps and use left hand reaching across stick while watching indicator at extreme right of cabin, it’s a horrible system.
  7. jackc
    In today’s World it comes back to this. You need Public Liability Insurance, with any complexity? Simply take all your information to a lawyer who specialises in Insurance, dump it all in his lap and then get ready to open your wallet, because that is as good as it can get.
  8. jackc
    Now if the holder of your policy tries to find a reason to deny you claim? Then you end up in crippling litigation in which you cannot afford to defend yourself? Then the policy holder goes down the drain. Years ago the PDS was on the back page of policies, now it a Los Angeles sized phone book of gobldegook and escape clauses, unfortunately.
  9. jackc
    Public Liability Insurance is a necessary evil for many, however many policies are full of evil escape clauses. The mere fact you have taken out some form of Public Liability insurance against an adverse event, protects the people you are undertaking work or event organisation for. They are covered, but depend on circumstance you may not be covered and may spend a lot of money, enforcing you claim.
  10. jackc
    There are many offerings, the VTwins also offer a solution, too https://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=63F35D18-EDC6-45F4-99FC-0AC80745BEE4
  11. jackc
    For ANY insurance these days, you pay the premium and sign on the line. From then on you HOPE, as most policies are loaded with escape clauses that can make them worthless when the chips are down. AND you will go broke proving the policy should have covered you for your adverse event.
  12. jackc
    IF you are smart, study a lot of YouTube videos that are now out there AND have a decent paddock and others surrounding your take off and landing location. Look at wind conditions, with a few bunny hops and NO Instructor, you have a very good chance to teach yourself to fly an Ultralight and do it well, with careful practice. The way our sector of Aviation is going, I don’t blame anyone for giving it a go, in our current declining regulatory environment, sad but true 🤢🤢
  13. jackc
    It’s Aviation, what else could we expect?
  14. jackc
    Aircraft is undergoing full refurbishment, have bought 2 others in the meantime……they can actually be flown 👍 WHY CASA? Not their problem as RAA administers us?
  15. jackc
    In my 30 years of private enterprise, I refused many jobs that related to safety, in Radio Communications, particularly Marine. Bodgy radio/antenna repairs etc. Before the days of Mobile Phones I used to remind customers ‘its a long swim to a Public Phone Box’ when you are broken down or sinking. NO short cut work from my workshop. Just one of many examples……
  16. jackc
    A ‘Condition Report’ is worthless…..kick the tyres, tickle the Ailerons, stroke the tail, pat the prop, check doors open an shut? Flaps? Yep they are fitted 🙂 that’ll do, it’s good to go 🤢
  17. jackc
    When I bought my first aircraft……it received its Condition Report and was test flown. I folded its wings, brought it home on the car trailer. Back home ‘I’ inspected it and even having NO knowledge of Aircraft and Aviation. I totally grounded it immediately, I would not allow my worst enemy to fly it. A LAME did the work on it. My respect for workmanship just went down a mineshaft. When I complained to RAA about quality of condition reports. I was told by a staff member on condition reports, ‘ we don’t care if your wings are stuck on with blue tack’ Well guess what, you can all guess what I do now……..
  18. jackc
    Well, just go back to flying out of paddocks, NO Rego NO licence, like it used to be. Anyone ready to form a ‘new’ clandestine AUF? With the slogan ‘catch us if you can’ Awaiting incoming ‘do gooder’ incoming Missiles 🤩🤩
  19. jackc
    The he said, she said is not acceptable. A signed/written statement of facts as described is the only acceptable description of what went on. When humans describe an event verbally in person, they say whatever it takes to present themselves in a good light, and cover up anything that describes otherwise. That is human nature…….
  20. jackc
    I have scoured the document and can’t find anything relating…….so when in doubt, ask 🙂
  21. jackc
    This Part 149 document is where the answer must lie, so maybe I should ask CASA the question and see what comes of that ?
  22. jackc
    So do we as members end up with the complete investigation that has RAA and Police involvement?
  23. jackc
    Well, I guess we wait and see if it is?
  24. jackc
    From comments in another thread, it seems that RAAus don’t want to participate in investigation of crashes involving RAA aircraft? I was under the impression that CASA under Part 149 has told RAAus they must carry out crash investigations involving RAA aircraft, however the required framework for this to happen, has not been completed etc? I am commenting based on my limited knowledge of the subject, but in my opinion there seems to be some deficiencies here? Does RAAus not want to be involved? Or is the development of the required framework a large task to undertake? An enquiring member wants to know……..
  25. jackc
    In which case RAAus does nothing and the members never get to see results of any investigations etc. Best we could ever see is a statement on incidents/crashes etc from RAAus and nothing more. A summary of opinions and safety suggestions will be it, nothing more.
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