BurnieM

Normally I go for a middle of the road 4 man dome tent. A 2 man tent is pretty small even for 1 person. Is weight really a facter ?

Check the tent is long enough. Touching the end will get your sleeping bag wet from condensation. Or take a rubbish bag. Definitely need an insulating sleeping mat if you are camping anywhere cold. You lose more heat thru the ground than the air. Jetboil is a one trick pony but it boils water faster than any other stove type.

You need a Jetboil Flash

For licensing moving to a RPL with Class 5 medical is straight forward. Has anybody successfully moved a plane from the RAAus register back to the CASA register and what costs and how long did it take ?

There appears to be a lot of history which some of us here are not aware of. If you have facts then please state them. RAAus being a company surprised me and I am not aware of why this happended. However from what I know they do a reasonable job with limited resources. Withholding information from the Coroner was stupid. But.... .... we are where we are. What is the best option moving forward with what RAAus is now ?

Yes and no. "you own the airspace above your property that is necessary for your ordinary use and enjoyment of your land" and "A majority of court cases have concerned cranes or machines carrying weight that have passed through a property without the neighbouring owner’s consent. The success of these court cases have found in favour for both developers and land owners, varying between granting an injunctions to stop developers from using the airspace to granting the developer access to use the airspace without the landowner’s consent." Good luck getting any court in Australia to say you own the airspace at circuit height under any circumstances.

A few points; - does CASA really want control and managing 10,000 pilots and 3,000 planes back ? Control probably yes, management workload probably no. - if criminal actions against RAAus or its officers are successful then insurance may be void. This is probably not what his girlfriend wants if she brings a civil action against RAAus. - any civil damage award may be reduced by his partial liability (poor decision making) and his girlfriends partial liability ie being too scared to fly with him and her PPL training meaning she knew or should have known she was required to report him to CASA which did not occur. So we are left with does the cost of legal action and any damages bankrupt RAAus. This is the real risk which may take 5 years plus to play out.

Legally unenforcable.

The height of Camden traffic overflying The Oaks it a significant part of this problem (as Skippy points out). Camden being 649 ft below The Oaks makes this more likely to happen. Surely nobody is saying 'dont bother calling' if you are at or just above circuit height ? A good way to find out if an airfield is populated is to listen on their CTAF.

The issue is that departures from The Oaks 36 or 18 do not fly over Camdens circuit area but upwind departures from Camden 24 fly almost directly over The Oaks.

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But AVDATA do have a contract with the Airfield owners. Most airfield owners have a website where they state their charges. Really this argument should be with the airfield owners if you are being charged for usage that did not occur.

I thought they only charged for landings ? They have been used in incidents before but I understand ATSB do not specify the source due to lack of proof of chain of custody.

They charged me $12 for a single touch and go a few weeks ago. I understand that the charging is done from radio recordings. They pretty much had to wave it but I would have thought it should have been obvious you did not actually land.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/plane-crashes-at-avalon-airshow-20250328-p5lney.html