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  1. Student Pilot
    It would appear Nev now they are the latest fashion accessory. You can't call yourself a "Bush pilot" (Whatever that is) unless your wheels rolling diameter exceeds your bank balance. The Super Cub mob are a good example, it seems more a statement than a capability.
  2. Student Pilot
    Not worth the time or effort, leave it like it was manufactured either tailwheel or nosewheel. There are no great advantages to either. There is virtually no performance increase from going from nose to tailwheel, no speed increase, almost non existent weight advantage. A well flown 182 will go everywhere a 180 will go. (Exception being an EXTREMELY rough strip which will damage either aircraft) A personal peeve is people calling a nosewheel a "Nosedragger", it is not. It pushes if anything, there are tailwheel (Used to be called conventional) and nosewheel aircraft. You don't have to be a skygod or exceptionally gifted to fly a tailwheel like some will have you believing. It is a learned skill, learnable by most. You can place your hat at a jaunty angle and have the "Ace pilot tailwheel swagger" should you choose. These options are not available to the poorly nosewheel pilot. Your choice.
  3. Student Pilot
    There are several different mods and wings and now available for Beavers, they claim all sorts of advantages but are very expensive. The standard Beaver is a good performer. It's a bit like all the stuff available for Cessna's with outrageous claims about how good they are. A well flown standard aircraft will outfly a highly modified machine flown by an average pilot. If you want to spend lots of money personalizing your aircraft well and good, it's your aircraft. I do have a chuckle when I see aircraft with gigantic wheels flying in and out of 1000 metre runways 😁
  4. Student Pilot
    "and that a review of the limitation be conducted and consulted with industry" Good one......😁 CASA consulting, that does happen, then they ignore what people tell them and do what they want to, they don't take any notice of anybody. They are making GA in Australia safer, with something like 40% less aircraft flying than 20 years ago does that make it 40% safer? There are other reasons why there are less aircraft flying now but CASA is the MAIN reason.
  5. Student Pilot
    That's the way they want it, all good.
  6. Student Pilot
    Correct in whose eyes?
  7. Student Pilot
    I use that except at the end instead of ETA two five, ABC I say the name ABC two five
  8. Student Pilot
    Another one that's annoying is people giving excessive calls, example being somebody inbound and giving 8 calls from inbound to clear with no other traffic in the area.
  9. Student Pilot
    I was taught to give accurate concise calls in the circuit and elsewhere. For instance calling crosswind, I was taught to call as you enter crosswind flying over the runway or inline as you fly an extended centreline. Gives me the irrits when people call crosswind and are still 4 miles from the airfield. Your looking around where expecting the aircraft to be and their still miles out! Another is calling final, other day I heard somebody in an RAA aircraft call joining final then giving an estimate of 8 minutes before they arrive!!!! Some of the less professional (Not Eastern) RPT call final 20 miles out and expect priority over somebody doing circuits. Not so good is also people keying the mike then thinking what they have to say with great pauses between information. Another variation on that is the "Release under pressure" call with words blending into one long continuous unintelligible blurb.
  10. Student Pilot
    I heartily disagree, reading any CASA rules/recommendations/regs will only confuse
  11. Student Pilot
    Hence I think there should be a lot more slow speed training......
  12. Student Pilot
    Once I thought I was wrong, I was mistaken 😁
  13. Student Pilot
    I don't think there is any need for much more than a couple of spins in training. A lot more should be done on slow flight and slow manoeuvring so you know the aircraft and how to avoid stall/spin.
  14. Student Pilot
    Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it
  15. Student Pilot
    Dunnooo what it is but I like the look of it
  16. Student Pilot
    Maybe it was reading wrong before? Nil wind the airspeed and GPS should be close.
  17. Student Pilot
    This is a valve! Very tactile object.
  18. Student Pilot
    Maybe the ailerons were rigged down a touch to try and allow for reflex once flying? If they were rigged lower that would make for slower flight and mebe slower stall speed. Rigging an aircraft is not a black and white thing there are nuances and very individual to each particular aircraft. Can take quite a bit of experimentation to get right. An aircraft (especially light/ultralight) can be flown easily out of trim just by a bit of different pressure on the rudder. Always good to test fly a few circuits before departing for your home field. How did the controls feel? Firm, like approaches before? Headwind not going to make any difference to your indicated airspeed, only groundspeed.
  19. Student Pilot
    Believe it when it actually happens
  20. Student Pilot
    CASA doing something that benefits GA and RAA? Never going to happen. A good start would be to acknowledge the injustices and bad behavior of the past, that will never happen either.
  21. Student Pilot
    When you start flying ASIO open a file on you (also with a firearms license, powder ticket and a swag of other things), how many security checks do they want?
  22. Student Pilot
    There are (usually) no "Beaches" in that sort of country, the shore is a 125' row of pines then steeply sloping into the deep water. As I've said previously I would go for the timber every time, the water is VERY cold and any injury when ditching would increase your chances of not getting out of the smashed wreck. The aircraft must have stopped on top of that tree and slid all the way down, the pilots legs must have been roughed up with the bark!
  23. Student Pilot
    Vege doesn't light up in turbine exhausts, even if it did in recip's it could be a true afterburner. Ignites after 😁
  24. Student Pilot
    Just used vege oil
  25. Student Pilot
    Those Iskra's accelerate VERY slowly anyhoo
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