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  1. kgwilson
    This CASA link to deleted pages has been evident for close to 2 months that I know of. I wanted to check some details on CAR 166-1 and CAR166-2 so googled them and both failed. then I tried some others and the result was the same. Businesses update their websites all the time and this is the only time I have come across such a poor upgrade process. Either they get all the google link data modified or they have a page redirect from the one that no longer exists. Who the hell is running this mob?
  2. kgwilson
    You got a good deal on purchase at $894.00 unless that was ex GST. The price I paid was $1020.00 inc GST direct from Uavionix. It looks like the price went up as soon as the grant was announced.
  3. kgwilson
    I've seen too many shoddy LAME & L2 jobs to trust anyone else with my aircraft than me. 4-6 seats is GA of course & new will be 3/4 to several million to buy. Cheap 2nd hand will be 50 years old or more and maintenance costs will be very high. Just an annual will cost 5k or more.
  4. kgwilson
    Chainsaws are very dangerous instruments and can be purchased by anyone & now with cheap Chinese models cost is not a prohibitor. I am a qualified Chainsaw Instructor for NSW SES and the dangers of kickbacks and jamming binds are well trained so these issues a minimised. They are a great tool in the right hands. Chainsaw pruners are just that, pruners for unskilled and lazy people. There are lots of these available in Aliexpress for a little as $40.00. They have no chain lubrication & the gears are plastic. The Stihl at $299.00 is better but still pretty useless
  5. kgwilson
    What's wrong with the original? It is the same diameter as the ASI VSI & Altimeter & you will have a big hole to fill in if you go for a smaller instrument & it will not be as easy to read or set rpm.
  6. kgwilson
    Which means the gear mechanism or some other component must have jammed/broken or else he would have been able to manually wind the gear down easily enough.
  7. kgwilson
    I'd just take a battery chainsaw. You can cut down trees cut firewood or make a sculpture if you get bored.
  8. kgwilson
    I have only ever flown recreationally. I flew 4 seat Cessnas & Pipers for 40 years. Other than club trips when the 4 seats were filled with 4 pilots, about half my flying was on my own & 45% or possibly more was with my wife as a passenger & sometimes the dog & only 3-4% of the time did I take 2 or 3 passengers, mostly family & friends. I built my RA aircraft & first flew it in 2015. 95% of my flying has been solo since. Get all your endorsements & then rent. It will be heaps cheaper & the aircraft will likely be well maintained & hangared.
  9. kgwilson
    I started my RAA conversion in a Skyfox Gazelle at Caloundra in 2009 & the radio traffic from Caboolture on a Saturday morning was crazy. Gliders, RA, GA, Helis & students of all persuasions. Luckily I didn't have to make many calls as Caloundra was fairly quiet. If it is busier now it must be hard to keep track of what is going on. I always remember one frustrated pilots comment after some pilot hogged the airwaves by almost reciting his life history when he said very quickly, clearly and in an agitated voice something like "Keep to the point, this frequency is far too busy for idle chit chat". I didn't hear the perpetrator at all after that.
  10. kgwilson
    Crikey 5 f*#@ ups in just 8 posts from a small sample of licenced pilots. There are probably hundreds of pilots flying around with endorsements they never got and have not bothered to get them corrected. I wonder if they have any sort of audit process. They don't seem to have a checking process.
  11. kgwilson
    https://bollyaviation.com.au/ +61 8 8380 8396
  12. kgwilson
    Saw that and my Virus detection software shut it down immediately. It apparently was a Trojan that was trying to be installed.
  13. kgwilson
    I received an email today to say my grant application has been successful so they are speeding up. I put my application in on 30 August (No 244)
  14. kgwilson
    I have electric flaps & it takes about 10 seconds to fully deploy to 30 degrees which is the maximum & a similar time to retract. In a low wing it is easy to see if they are deployed & to what degree as you just glance out the window. I don't have any settings marked so just guess where 10 & 20 deg angles are. I usually flick the switch up at touchdown. I had a Cherokee Archer 2 umpteen years ago & the handbrake style manual flap handle between the seats with the 3 notches of 10, 20 & 30 degrees was the best I have used. Easy and instant to set any position and I could pull the lot on or dump the lot instantly. I have only flown one high wing with manual flaps & that was a Foxbat. I found the location of the lever to the side behind my head pretty awkward & didn't like it at all. I guess if I owned one I'd get used to it. I also didn't like the location of the throttle in that aircraft either.
  15. kgwilson
    I don't know what you are doing to your AGM batteries but the Motobatt MBX20U 21 amp hour AGM battery I installed in my aircraft in 2015 is still going strong. I have flattened it a couple of times by leaving the ignition on for a day or 2 but a quick charge to get some power back in & then I connect my intelligent charger which starts with gentle pulse charging then switches to trickle charging once the voltage has come up till full. It has started my Jab 3300 engine on average about 3 times a week for the last 7 years.
  16. kgwilson
    Trailer trash are some of Trumps most fanatical supporters. Many have a low level of education, work in poor low paying jobs or don't have one & still think the last Presidential election was stolen. They don't need a Putin to brainwash them, they have a complete moron to worship.
  17. kgwilson
    I have just read on Avweb that these aircraft were wrecked pre-hurricane. It was a tornado or possibly two that were spawned by a line of thunderstorms on Tuesday. Some were flipped upside down and others were wrecked by falling aircraft. Others were untouched.
  18. kgwilson
    They had plenty of warning that this hurricane was coming and also of its intensity. I'd have flown mine away out of the perceived path of the system if I'd had the opportunity.
  19. kgwilson
    Just as a comparison, we applied for a couple of grants from the NSW State government after South Grafton aerodrome was flooded in March this year. One was for road base & gravel & the other for a weed spray trailer totalling 8.5k. Both were approved in just over week & the money was in the bank a week later.
  20. kgwilson
    It took 9 days to get from No 24 to 67. So take out the weekend & that is 7 days to approve 43 applications which is just over 6 per day. It theory then they will get to mine (No 244) in 30 working days from now or 6 weeks and a bit over 2 months from my application. This is how efficient our Federal public service is. No wonder flood and fire victims who applied for funding are grumpy waiting years for anything.
  21. kgwilson
    From reading that article he was obviously someone used to taking calculated risks. That is living close to the edge and though it had served him well for a long time this was one last risk too far. RIP to a great adventurer.
  22. kgwilson
    It is about time NAIPS forecasts were published in English not the code we are all forced to learn & later forget. The excuse that it is to conform to ICAO rules does not hold water in the electronic age. Yes there are plain English translations available & have been for about 15 years or more but this still doesn't mean our regulators should persist with outdated and potentially dangerous processes through pilot reluctance to use them or mis-interpretation. I use NAIPS when filing a flight plan but also check Windy for comparison.
  23. kgwilson
    Get a SE2 while you can still get a 50% subsidy. At least you can see every mode S Xponder in your area even if they can't see you & under 5000 ASA radar see bugger all. Also every SE2 operator & any other ADS-B in/out installation can see you & you can see them. Since I have had mine there are aircraft around I never knew were there before but a quick glance is all that is needed to know whether there is any potential conflict. The main thing to remember is not to fly with your head in the cockpit. I wouldn't trust the cellular based systems for reception & latency reasons.
  24. kgwilson
    Another weather related crash. We don't seem to learn that light aircraft are very vulnerable when there is low cloud, high winds, rain. hail etc especially flying VFR. The Cessna near Brisbane recently, bad weather, the Jabiru near Townsville also bad weather AFAIK, & another reported just today. Don't know the circumstances of that one yet.
  25. kgwilson
    FWIW I find that the most accurate forecasting is from Windy.com that uses a number of different world wide and local forecasting models. I have mine set to use the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium range weather forecasts)which is the most accurate most of the time. The US based GFS is pretty poor, the Swiss based Meteoblue is pretty good, the German ICON not as good & the BOM Access system is somewhere in the middle. Does anyone bother with NAIPS any more?
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