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Turbo. The Regulation is current.

Turbo, I've done a search and I was current as of 8 June 2023. It would appear that there have not been any changes to that Advisory Circular. Federal Register :: Request Access WWW.ECFR.GOV I think this is where US Federal Regulation 103 would clash with CASR § 103.7 Certification and registration. (a) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to certification of aircraft or their parts or equipment, ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of airworthiness. (b) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to airman certification, operators of ultralight vehicles are not required to meet any aeronautical knowledge, age, or experience requirements to operate those vehicles or to have airman or medical certificates. (c) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to registration and marking of aircraft, ultralight vehicles are not required to be registered or to bear markings of any type. I think (b) and (c) are required under CASR.

Turbo, Have a read of AC 103-7 using the link that JackC provided. I reckon you have the knowledge to understand it.

Jack, Would you open this group up to all comers, please? OME

I don't know how I was able to post in it, then.

Members, JackC has created a new thread to enable the discussion of the introduction of Part 103. Perhaps going there will allow the return of discussion here to the original point raised.

That's OK. At least you have started a unique thread to allow the discussion to proceed. There's no need now to be a member of the Dia tribe. Simply present the arguments in favour of the introduction of Part 103-like conditions, and calmly respond to others' arguments. Remember to "play the ball, not the man" in order to keep the discussion to the expected high standard of this website. As for attitudes towards CASA and RAA, it would be best if they were not mentioned. Keep the discussion to "Part 103 - Yes or No?" The first thing I would ask of you in relation to the debate is to present an outline of Part 103 and where Australian Regulations do not meet it.

Okay now

Not even to see if the librarian was still chasing you?

That's where most young players fall into the trap. It's called "failure to research". The first thing you should do is determine who is going to do the higher echelon maintenance. I would be seeking out someone who has a good reputation for doing the right thing. You want a bloke who'll tell you, "It's stuffed, mate. You need to replace it.", rather than the bloke who says, "You should be able to get away with it for a while yet." Once you select your maintainer, have a good talk about the costs of his services. You want to know how much a straightforward service wound cost, and what problems the maintainer has experienced with your make and model of the plane you want to buy. I would also ask to see a representative set of logbooks of aircraft he ahs worked on. If the entries contain a lot of detail, then you can consider the maintainer to be thorough. Once you know what your likely maintenance costs will be, you can shop around for insurance, which for the hull seems to be about 3 - 5 % of the sum insured. Then you add on your public liability to get your total insurance bill. One essential thing to do, and which is frequently forgotten, is to invoice yourself for the flying you do, and make sure that you pay the invoice. If you do this, you will have the money socked away to immediately pay for routine maintenance; insurance; hangarage and a bit for those long-term jobs, like instrument calibrations and engine overhauls.

This is what I did and what I got:

Recent circumstances have led me to re-evaluate my involvement with organizations of all types. That re-evaluation has resulted in my withdrawal from organizations of all types.

To me, this question is simpler than the responses might indicate. To me there are two questions being asked here: 1. Can you only private hire from a flying school? 2. Can you hire an aircraft from anyone? Question 1: Because the question contains the word "only", the implication is that all other means are not possible. Therefore the answer has to be "No". There are other means, which the second part addresses. Question 2: Because the question contains the word "anyone", then that trows open the hangar doors of flying schools, aero clubs and kind hearted souls. Therefore the answer is "Yes" Following from the "Yes" answer to Question 2 comes the supplementary question: "What are the conditions that you must meet to hire from "anyone?". There are very many conditions, the main ones being proof of ability to pilot an aircraft; proof of familiarity with the particular aircraft (including currency), and next, implementation of a system for the owner of the aircraft to recover the costs of accidental damage to the plane, passengers and the public (that's the insurance bit). Obviously an agreement has to be met to deal with the operating costs of the aircraft from the fuel being used for the flight, through an allocation towards scheduled maintenance, and then the overheads.

Ian, I don't want to dis your contribution, but dis calculator don't work! Check the coding for the "Calculate" button.

What ever happened to Flight Service Units? There was one at Dubbo when I was a young bloke. The FSUs seemed to be able to handle briefing, flight plan acceptance and flight monitoring.

If you look at the majority of airports in rural areas, you will find that those essential taxiways don't exist.

Can you get that in "shag pile". Oh for the return of the Sandman!

Plane + location of home = Camden/Wollondilly areas. To meet the 1.5 hours max travel you will have to use the train from Campbelltown or Leppington. Whatever you do, don't use the freeways. They are parking lots during peak hour and if ever there is a collision, you can't get off them. There are plenty of alternate routes to get you where the freeways finally get you.

I knew that there had to be some unsound illogic at play.

The question, Chris, is what sort of environment do you love in now? I don't mean the weather, but do you live in a city, small town or village? Where you live now will have a big effect on where you move to. If you are a city person, you will probably want to see what things that make up a city lifestyle are most important to you. The same argument applies to small towns and villages. If you enjoy anything with a taste of Culture, keep out of Sydney and look at Melbourne. Sydney has a wonderful opera house, but it is mainly used as a backdrop for tourists' photographs of the Harbour Bridge. How important is making a living going to be for you? Does your need to earn an income affect where you do it? I would suggest that if you want to live near Sydney that you explore the Southern Highlands between Mittagong and Canberra.

Of course. I was simply wondering about the pilot. So, basically you have to be a dual aviation citizen? Yep, at 160001 the skies above Camden miraculously are swept of all dangers until 075959 the following day. There are schools at Bankstown that train with RAA aircraft. Does that mean that a student on first solo has the RAA RPC qualification?

Then you would do well to consider if moving to any one of our capitol cities is really essential for you to support yourself and those who come with you. A lot of people are relocating away from the major cities and relying on the Internet for professional work, or if they have a service business, re-establishing in small towns where rents for premises are so much less than in the metropolitan areas. I know of a specialist motor vehicle restorer who move everything from Sydney to a country town. His speciality did not require his business to be located in a city, and he says that the move was a really good thing for his family. He told me that his daughter who is in her final years of Secondary education says that she is doing so much better than she was in the city.

I was wondering. If I have a full Part 61 PPL, it means I can fly in controlled airspace. If I switched to an RAA certificate, would that Part 61 approval carry over?

Ask yourself this question: "How much use will I get from the aircraft during the period that my main reason for being in Sydney exists?" Is it going to be worth the hassle of bringing your aircraft into Australia? Perhaps it might be a better economical proposition to examine hiring.

The heat produced by urbanisation is one of the main contributors to micro-climate change in the Sydney Basin. Twenty years ago, most of the land west of the line of Cowpasture Road/Windsor Road was open space. Admittedly cleared of native forest in the 19th Century, but well grass covered. Since 2000 vat swaths of that land have been covered with roads and dwellings. In the main, those dwellings are of brick, and the style has been to have grey-coloured rooves, not the lighter terracotta of the older parts of Sydney. These materials act as heat banks, warming during the daytime and radiating heat at night. I used to slope-soar RC gliders off the southwest-facing hill near Camden back in the early 2000's. X marks the spot. The winds would pass over cleared paddocks. Now look at what has happened to those paddocks. I reckon that on a warm day, a glider would rise like a homesick angel late for harp practice due to the heating of the air caused by those heat banks below. The observation that the clouds were circulating could be explained as a type of willy-willy, but more extensive in area than we associate with a willy-willy. Both are the result of rapidly rising air.