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Mine does that too. To make it even worse it will very often tell me to keep left when it means turn left but also the opposite tells me to turn left (or right) when there's just a slight curve in the road and it shouldn't be saying anything or just keep left / right.

Something like this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKu785g0O0

Sent my rego renewal 2 weeks ago. When I got back home today saw a letter from RAAus, got all happy that my rego is here, but no luck - it's just a final notice about my rego running out (and I really wanted to go for a flight this weekend) :( Checked my emails a bit later and surprise, surprise - there's an email from RAAus that my rego has been renewed, so I'm going flying after all

No, no, you got it all wrong - it's the new honeycomb fuselage filling prototype...

Oh how I wish that someone would tell that to CASA and RAAus, instead of having rules like the VMC visibility (distance from cloud) where you have ft, m and nm all mixed into a a single rule...

use at your own risk...

Seems it's not the first time this has happened in that area: http://www.recreationalflying.com.au/threads/qantas-flight-near-miss.62884/

While I agree with most of the things in your post there is one thing that I have to point out (note I fly a weightshift trike and not 3 axis, so my controls are completely different). From what I've read so far in this thread and others, landing a tricycle gear 3 axis plane is easier than taildragger and also is possible while not doing everything right - say not using the rudder to steer during landing. So to go back to your bolded part - you may in fact be reinforcing incorrect things to memory, thus making later conversion harder. But as I've said I know very little about proper control of a 3 axis plane during landing, so I may be wrong.

That's exactly what prompted my original question - in a trike I have pretty much unrestricted view in any direction accept for directly up and it is still pretty hard to notice planes, unless you know they are there. Now if you take into account a limited view out of even a small 3 axis plane or a tiny window in a airliner add much higher speeds, relying on only visual scan has me a bit worried.

It's something I've been wondering for a while - how well the pilots of much bigger planes (airliners, transport planes, military jets, etc) can see recreational planes in the air? I know military fighters / jets have radars that can lock onto our planes, but do they keep them always on, does it warn them with enough time to react, that there's a trike moving at 50kts in front of them? How about the civilian or even military transports? Do they only rely on the ground tower to give them position of one of us? Or is it just visual? I know most of the time the civilian ones will be much higher than most of us fly, but flying around Caboolture, right under the approach path to Brisbane Airport makes me wonder about this quite a bit.

All I could find was: http://airportguide.com/airport/Australia/Nanango-YNAN/ or http://www.ourairports.com/airports/YNAN/pilot-info.html From what I've heard the runway is a bit rough (or at least was a couple months ago, when mates went there to get some peanuts)

I don't know how easy they are to set up, but apparently the Fly synthesis Storch 500 can come with folding wings. Also probably not what you're looking for, but all trikes (which are also LSAs) can be easily transported on a trailer.

I think someone has realized your project (although without the machine gun): Now, all you need is to add a little wings to it as well, so it can fly, and it will be the ultimate off-road vehicle :)

One quick note - decide on one type of answer selection method. Some of the questions have a tick - box suggesting that you can select more than one, others have a radio button (you can only select one of the options). It gets a bit confusing, as in questions where you have answers like: A B Both of above None of above I wasn't sure if it's enough to select the third option or do you have to select all 3. And there was no explanation that I could see if you can select more than one answer.

It was showing like this for me from the start, although I've included the Archer Falls Airfield in the search. Without it (just the address) it is showing on the driveway next to one of the buildings (but I haven't checked it before).

Looks ok for me, the pin is right on the runway: Maybe it's google playing silly buggers with you apple folk.

And here I was thinking it was just because they're all still Virgin Jets...

Quick google search and found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5NNEi9geQ

It was designed by Yuri Yakovlev and he's friends at Antonov Design Bureau. http://www.foxbataircraft.com/aeroprakt-company.php I couldn't find any information if Yuri is any way related to Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, the founder for Yakovlev Design Bureau famous for their Yak aircraft.

One thing you have to take into account is that flying commercial airliner is slightly different than a little RAAus machine. For example have a look at the Gimli glider - no other pilot apparently was able to recover a total loss of power on all engines, simply because they don't practice glide approaches or side slips in commercial planes. If you look at the Air crash investigator show about that incident they make it like it's some really extraordinary maneuver, that only selected pilots are able to perform (I am aware that they exaggerate) whereas I can see at least one plane a week doing that at Caboolture. Same situation may apply in here, where something that is common for recreational may not be even taught in airliner simply because you just don't do it.

There's another thread on this already http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/around-the-world-flight.64428/ Also with 14.7 h endurance in the plane and the longest leg being about 14 h over ocean, I'd say he's pushing it a bit.

Maj, I agree with you that a safety inspector at every airfield would be better, however... Have you seen how much opposition a simple CASA or RAAus ramp check can involves? Seeing as you've been involved in aviation way longer than I have, you have probably been to an airfield where there are more than one flying school - I fly from one like that all the time, and from what I can hear the different CFI's don't really like each other all that much, now imagine if one had power over the others... Also with sky-diving, it's usually organized through some club and you jump out of that club's plane, so if you don't behave, you don't get on the next flight, it's much harder to enforce when a lot of people have their own aircraft. Short of revoking access to the field there is not that much you could do, unless that safety person would have almost police like powers, where he or she could stop and detain your plane or yourself if you do something wrong. Plus as far as I understand it CFI's already have similar powers (certificates, BFRs, etc), the problem is if you don't like one CFI you just go / fly to the next one. I agree that no HF course or SMS will be perfect, especially if people are just treating it as a piece of paper that you need to have. However, short of putting an inspector or spy at every school, or interviewing schools students to check how safe your operation is, those are the methods that are available to us and organizations supervising us, to ensure at least some procedures are followed. I know a lot of people in here criticize the HF exam, to be honest I really liked mine. Maybe it was because of how it the course for it was structured and executed, maybe because instead of considering it's just something I have to get done it makes me sometimes stop and think if I really should be flying o that particular day, even if I really want to, or maybe just because I find it fascinating, how a series of really small things can have a great impact on your life. It's the same with SMS - we're going through setting one up at work as well(not flying related in any way) - is it annoying and time consuming - yes, will it stop accidents, probably not (although we haven't had any yet either), but it has made life easier in some regards, it has made the boss go and spend some money on equipment that's better and safer than what we've had (ladders for example) so I don't take it as a waste of time.

Maj, SMS is not about getting rid of all hazards, rather about being aware of them and having a plan of action for each of them. Even though they may all be obvious to you, for many people not living in your general area they may be something completely new. You don't need to cull all those roos and wallabies, all you need to know is put it in your SMS, and then mention what you do about them. For example tell your student to be on a watch out for them, be ready for a go around at any time. Maybe do a strip run before landing if the airfield is not used and you're the only one coming to it, etc. All of this would be pretty standard stuff, that you should be common sense, but at the end of the day, it may be the difference between pilot freezing at the controls wondering what to do about all those roos and crashing in the process, and one that knew about this and had something planned and landing safely after a strip run. SMS is also about people like yourself assuming that some things about the plane, airfield, flying are obvious, but for many people (especially new ones) they may not be. I've seen you post on this board a couple times how important accident investigation is and how we need to know what has happened (and I don't disagree), but at the same time you dismiss all the human factor or SMS programs, when pilot errors are the most common cause of accidents. One thing you have to remember - common sense is not really that common.

It is just my guess, but isn't it "On the following route"

Going back to the story itself (I won't go into jabiru engines), did anyone else notice the J-430 on the cowling in that picture? Also are you allowed to use a bolly prop on a Jabiru? I though it was only the wooden one and one new composite that Jabiru is working on.