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My recent buying experience was a horror story, I found an aircraft in Victoria advertised by a broker that read as a good buy with great credentials, since I could not leave Qld to look at it I needed to find someone to fly it here to Qld, yep that could be arranged he said. I asked the broker IF the owner could take a video of himself entering and exiting the aircraft so I could work out IF I could do same easily. The video came back good. Now this aircraft was advertised as a 2020 model with 10 hours total time airframe and engine. Well the whole deal went down a mineshaft from here on…..I find out it’s a 2010 kit finished and registered 2020 and the engine 2011. I find that the engine no longer made from around same date. When I query about parts am told by owner no problem…….then I find out the engine is the only one of the model in Australia 😞. More due diligence finds aircrafts owner 2 years ago lamented on a blog in the U.S. there were no parts for his engine. So I told the broker about my concerns, he says I have first choice as there is an interested buyer in the U.S. if I don’t take it… I said sell it, I am out of here. Next, I get the most abusive text msg from the owner working me over for stuffing him around. So, for 3 days I think about this whole deceptive mess and decide to ring the broker…….telling him about the abusive message. Hi says that I should not have to put up with that etc etc, then I tackled him about his deceptive advert and…….he said that’s the way all broker advertising is done! I paused…….boiler pressure rising, fast! I let him have it, yelled at him ’If that’s the case all you brokers are a pack of lying, rotten, unethical spiv c…..s.’The lowest of the low. He said there is nothing illegal about the advert, I said I don’t give a f….. about the law, what you did was totally unethical…..from a fellow aviator. I can believe he stayed on the phone, guess I have to credit him for that. I might add that advert for the aircraft is still up with no wording change as of yesterday. I really hope some aluminium termites sneak into the hangar and eat the machine to dust.

Probably want one, like a hole in your head 😞

Spoke with Ben Noakes and he combines both aircraft to my one policy 🙂

My skins left Wingtech yesterday, he said they are the last ones to be made……sadly no more since Alan is retiring and all his machinery sold off 😞 End of an era……..

Nev, the clear tube is sandwiched in the middle between the tank and rear cockpit wall, hard enough to to see on ground looking at it. Would have been far better towards one end of the tank.

Thanks Mark, I have to fit something as the clear tubing cannot be seen from cockpit, only on the ground.

The day before the election I tried to contact the 3 contacts on the RAA page to speak with them……to get a feel WHO I should vote for. NO contact info for one, the second went to msg bank with no return call, the third did not answer phone, rang out. Hence, I could not be bothered voting…..I ran out of f’s…… to give 😞

Got one of them from Dan at Wings Out West, just need to fit my Clark headset to it 🙂

For me I have done 18 hours nose wheel, the rest of my training will be taildragger so when/if I get my RPC I am good to go with both my aircraft.

Turbs I have all the books and yesterday I went up the bush and logged my airstrip site on my new Aera 660 GPS and discovered that I am going to have to be very aware of winds on any day of flying. I have a range of hills 1000 ft higher than my strip close by, that prevailing winds come over the top of………lots of careful planning needed……

When mustering cattle or any animals, be it quads or motorcycles side by sides etc, ‘target fixation’ is your enemy……you become fixated on your target and your allocation of keeping it all upright suffers and you miss seeing an obstacle or dangerous situation and it can bite you, with fatal results 😞

Well, after reading all these posts I feel very good about wanting to wear a Parachute, in case my plane comes apart in severe turbulence, don’t see my Thruster liking it at all.

Works for everyone UNTIL someone gets turned into a Rice Colander……..

As far as I am concerned i need to go through an onerous and costly process to get one…..they can place it where the Sun NEVER shines……

Ran that flight plan for my Thruster…….it said my fuel tank was too small 🙂

I ordered skins from Wingtech today, but sadly they will be no more as they are closing down end of this month and Alan is retiring, no one taking the business over……..I was the last order I was told 😞. So, I am not sure IF there is alternative company they can be purchased from. Maybe a sailmaker somewhere could do them, but probably need the aircraft as they would not have templates. Hopefully Wingtech inventory may find it way to someone willing to do them. Might end up using Bunnings silver tarps DIY fitted 🙂. That would be flying on a wing and a prayer!! Insurance? PSB Insurance are contacting their underwriter and will know tomorrow what is happening.

No, not yet but close……just waiting to hear back from my comprehensive insurance changeover from my other aircraft that probably won’t be flying for a while. I ordered and paid for a new set of skins today, even though the ones on it are in very good shape. My Garmin Aera 660 GPS and mounts came today, along with some nav charts I wanted. So I need to set the GPS up and load some ALAs as waypoints. An aviator’s work is never done 🙂

Unfortunately I am in the position that I cannot build……I have little time left on this earth and want use some of it to fly with….before I can’t 😞

Nullarbor Roadhouse has runway that used to be the driveway in off the highway years ago to the old original roadhouse, I worked there back in ‘76.

Thanks for that:-). They are all in boxes that came with the plane, never pulled them out to look. That makes them handy anyway. Was looking to get a new set from Wingtech before they cease manufacture?

Thanks 🙂. Worth a shot, have a spare set of skins that came from the plane originally, need to check their integrity and can experiment with painting them and see what happens. Not sure WHY they were originally taken off?

THEN the game addicted youth join the services and play the games for REAL….. What carnage could result? But it’s a War they said…….

Because he CAN 🙂

Last week I went out to a local gliding club airstrip looking for a temp hangar….. I thought they would be flying that day…….all I saw was what I thought was a post WW2 airstrip, buildings looking forlorn and unkept, shredded windsocks … The whole place looked abandoned 😞. I was in that club 35 years ago, it was dynamic with lots of activity etc, but many of the people from those days have probably passed on and gliding does not have the attraction of iPhones etc……. I believe there are 7 members left now……..and they have hired out some hangars to store building materials? Not sure how that fits in with Aviation?

Only gone against my Ju Ju once……’98 leaving Heathrow in a British Airways 747 to come home…….weather was foul to the point that I thought they would hold/cancel. I always booked seat 59A on those trips! My logic was IF it crashed, tail section usually breaks off and I may be saved! Well we took off and the wind was horrible, snow flurries etc. the plane wallowed into the sky like a lame wing duck, after an eternity. Here I am thinking, we are too slow to be flying? Wallow wallow etc…… It took over 60 seconds before the plane started to stabilise…….the longest 60 seconds of my life…….. IF one of the engines even sneezed, I think it could have been over. Fortunately the rest of the flight was fine.