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Your just guessing Bull!! Quite a lot of the costs of new weight and access initiatives are covered by free labour by board members, the balance would come from the membership and registration contributions of the fantastics flyers.

No one has settled the cost aspect of RAA. Perhaps the costs to run RAA are bound up in supporting the cheap end of the market with their non uniform designs and construction methods being built by a group whose skillset ranged from fantastic to abysmal out of materials of highly variable quality. I don't know the answer to the fair allocation of cost question and I think you are just guessing as well.

If you put PV or hot water collectors on all the illuminated space on your roof you don't need to agonise over colour - unless you are concerned about the opinions of the man on the moon.

I'm not sure what the rules are but maybe if you own a bit of dirt and you fly below 300 feet you can do whatever you like - just a thought. Outside that space and you are playing in someone else's space and you start needing to play by their rules.

There will be some incident heating from both radiation and ambient heat. Highly polished aluminium has no insulating layer so when the surface heats up it conducts into the Al mass. Painted surfaces are, usually, highly non-conductive and surface heat just sits there and get re-radiated rather than being conducted through to the substrate.

Ah Nev, you have to live here to truly appreciate Sydney. People from Melbourne and football supporters just don't get it. There might be a hundred thousand or so Sydneysiders who give a stuff about football or cricket, the rest of us don't give a damn (or about Victoria generally)

inflation high? for the last couple of years it has been below 2% The difficulty, in Australia, is that the banks, government incentives, interest rates, capital gains tax and negative gearing are driving investment to the residential housing sector and speculative development. The only things worse are gaming, bit coins and shares in mining companies

It used to be a 15 Square (about 10m**2) on a quarter acre block. The norm now appears to be 25m**2 on a 1/8 acre block, filling it to the boundaries with no green space, no eaves, much A/C and electric clothes drying (McMansions) - the new age slums are with us now.

It is a pity that the Mail didn't tell about the ex DCA airports handed over to councils and then placed under the control of 3rd parties to the exclusion of everyday GA and RAA operations or under usurous conditions of access. It seems like the Chinese are gentlemen in relation to access.

You don't need a transponder on Dspace. But if they bring Espace down to 1200 feet in the Sydney basis you will need one to fly above the trees (or you will have to fly coastal in Victor One)

But he can turn up every 5 minutes demanding proof of compliance to every petty demand together with the attendant threats. Police and other enforcement officers have been known to issue fines just for the hell of it.

Ah!! "The Australian", a journal of dubious record and noted more for the opinions of its writers rather than hard won facts. It is of course driven into 3rd place of crap by the "Telegraph" and "Herald-Sun" but generally only by the thickness of a cigarette paper.

If you want AWIS en-route you will need access to the mobile network as more and more radio services get terminated. Maybe the inbound checklist should include "Check AWIS, Disable Bluetooth, check and adjust altimeter"

Dear Steve Hitchens,. If a strip is uncharted there is the distinct possibility that someone won't know it is there and may sail through at 1000 AGL on area frequency because he wants to know what the other traffic is up to and what ATC is doing about conflicts. Pretty hopeless being on Multicom with a single frequency radio in this situation.

Oh, I don't know but the NSW Corps, Macarthur and cronies would have left some of the bad boys in their wake.

Getting out the map to work out what area frequency is is usually the last thing one remembers. Just because something is done in the calm doesn't mean that it is a good idea when one is desperate.

Midweek quite a few small airstrips are unused and the CTAF is non monitored so if you are flying along below 5000 feet and you get into strife calling mayday or pan pan on 126.7 or an unused CTAF (these should be the main and standby on the radio) won't get you noticed. I would much prefer that the 2 frequencies are CTAF (or 126.7) or Area. This would make it much easier to aviate, navigate AND communicate. Life would really be much easier if the secret ALAs were on the map (and using 126.7) then we would know they were there as we cruise along at 1000 feet AGL. Increasing CTAFs to 20 miles would just produce a bigger radio dead zone during the week.

It will also depend on whether qualifying only for a conditional commercial MV Licence gets you over the line. This is one of the stumbling blocks of the RAMPC/DL standards.

Park near the eastern windsock just opposite the 747 and walk over to and through the HARS hanger. Be nice to all the people in yellow fluro and don't forget your ASIC.

Aus Roads Standards at Austroads - Assessing Fitness to Drive 2016 (as amended up to August 2017) What is not indicated is if you can get a Basic Class 2 if you only qualify for a conditional private or commercial MV licence eg Diabetes with Insulin control.

looks like you will have to plan a trip to Cessnock - please report back and give us a heads up on things like locating the cafe, distance to the flight line etc.

From AOPA 30/11/17 11am(ish) BASIC CLASS 2 - PRIVATE PILOT MEDICAL ANNOUNCED! Thursday 30th November Thousands of pilots are set to benefit from major reforms to the aviation medical certificate system. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is cutting aviation medical certificate red tape to make it easier for pilots to continue to fly safely. The reforms include creating a new category of private pilot medical certificate, allowing non passenger carrying commercial operations under a full Class 2 medical certificate and increasing the delegation of medical decision making to medical professionals. The new medical certificate category to be known as a basic Class 2 will be available to private pilots flying piston engine powered aircraft carrying up to five non fare paying passengers. Operations will be limited to the daytime visual flight rules and will be permitted in all classes of airspace. This basic Class 2 medical certificate will require an assessment by a doctor using the Austroads commercial vehicle driver standards. General practitioners will be able to carry out assessments. These commercial vehicle medical standards currently apply to drivers of heavy vehicles, public passenger vehicles and vehicles carrying bulk dangerous goods. They cover medical issues such as cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, psychiatric conditions, blackouts substance abuse and vision and hearing disorders. The new basic Class 2 medical will be valid for a maximum of five years up to the age of 40 and a maximum of two years above the age of 40. The current unrestricted Class 2 medical certificate will remain in place for private pilots operating aircraft up to 8618 kilograms with a maximum of nine non fare paying passengers. This unrestricted Class 2 medical will be used under all flight rules and allow for operations in all classes of airspace. Importantly, pilots flying commercial operations with no passengers – such as flying training and aerial agriculture – will now be able to do so on the basis of an unrestricted Class 2 medical certificate. Previously these operations required the pilot to hold a Class 1 medical certificate. CASA’s CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, Shane Carmody, said the reforms to the aviation medical system maintain appropriate safety standards while offering flexibility and reduced red tape. “CASA has been engaged with the aviation community and made a series of fundamental reforms to aviation medical certification,” Mr Carmody said. “We have initially focussed on changes that benefit general aviation because this sector has been telling us the current medical certification system was causing real difficulties. “In the interests of public safety it is important that pilots meet relevant medical standards but the system must not make unnecessary demands and should meet the needs of the aviation community. “I am pleased we are making changes that will see more appropriate medical standards applied to flying training and aerial agriculture – two vital sectors of Australian aviation. “CASA will now continue to review the aviation medical system to identify possible improvements in areas such as using medical data more effectively, further streamlining processes, further reducing CASA involvement in medicals and harmonising with global best practices. “It is CASA’s role to maintain appropriate aviation safety standards but the requirements must not unnecessarily burden Australian aviation and hinder development and growth.” The reforms to aviation medical certification will be progressively introduced during 2018.

Congratulations!! Set yourself up for a visit to HARS in Wollongong, they make great steak sandwiches. Don't forget your ASIC.

Engineers and designers are acutely aware of the stresses and strains that their products are put through. there is some beef built in to all products to cover material variability, environmental and operator extremes but at the end of the day all products need to be built to a price that satisfies the market. If people want absolute fail safe and idiot proof that is an entirely different market with an entirely different price point. Engineers and designers can build for that market but are the idiots who need this design prepared to pay for it? automotive engineers build for a fit for use market as do all engineers. what we need is a market that buys for THEIR INTENDED use.

Are you quoting peak or continuous power?