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Where’s OME ? Tooraweenah is publicising a fly-in for first w/e in June. Maybe he is still recovering from the Arthur Butler ‘Winging it down the Castlereagh’ trophy event. Tooraweenah is a great small town with a great grass strip if anyone wants to visit…..and it has a bit of aviation history.

I believe one of the issues is that 3G operates at 700mhz and 4G operates at 850mhz. 4G has approx a 10 fold performance gain, but coverage may not penetrate as far in the 3G areas it replaces…..but I’m no expert in these matters. As others have mentioned, generally ANY coverage is poor once you leave populated areas anyhow. Maybe Starlink is the answer.

Yet another flying car - now certified and now sold to China.

I believe the aero commander was rescued this afternoon.

If you zoom in you can just make out the tennis stadium.

Ahhh, yes he did ! - I’ve read “The Hazelton Story” by Denis Gregory. It took him 6 days walk to get to the Coxs River post office- a remarkable story. The poor old Auster was a wreck, but he still managed to sell it for 300 quid ! Nowadays there a couple of golf courses if you follow the Great Western Hwy to Blackheath. I’m not sure about tennis courts though. Sadly my days of flying PIC over the mountains are no more, so I guess my job is to look for those tennis courts now.

Are you sure that is Hogan Island ? It looks a lot like Tracey Island, and I suspect there was no media coverage as it was an ‘International Rescue’ by the Thunderbirds.

Remember the QF A330 incident near Exmouth back in 2008 ? Over 100 injured due to a computer glitch……and that was an airbus !

I dunno, this crowd may be interesting to watch regardless of what view you have of the development and suitability of the technology. The CEO of Vertiia was previously the CEO of GE Australia and the lot that placed the order (albeit conditional) are significant players - and operate King Airs etc and do medical transfers etc. So again should be no fools. i guess all I’m saying is I think this lot are slightly better than ‘wannabe’s’….and at least they are home grown. Yeah it’s their first attempt, but we need to start somewhere to transition to new energy sources……and I think is better than batteries for this application.

Aviation Logistics signs Order for 10 Vertiia eVTOLs - Australian Flying

I'm following this CTA access thing with interest. As others have mentioned, there are some parts of Australia where CTA will become increasingly difficult to avoid......and it shouldn't be avoided.

Paddy- why are you dragging that door across the desert ?? Oh, I’ll wind the window down in a minute and get a nice cool breeze !

Class G to Class D for much of the western Sydney basin and requiring a transponder and flight plan https://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/new-airspace-design-to-reduce-class-g-in-sydney-basin RAAus will need to get access to controlled airspace sorted sooner rather than later.

Back to the thread……….sort of. The very first production Jabiru aircraft (LSA 55) is on permanent display at the Narromine Aviation Museum for those that are interested.

We’ll all be rooned - the end of pilots is near !