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Goodonya! That`s great! Never stop learning. Frank.

Well done! How long did it take you to get the smile of your face? Nah!!! You`ve gotta fly an Austflight, WB Drifter! Lear jets fly themselves! Frank.

G`Day Hughesy, !!! I started flying Ultralights way back in the early days of the AUF.... You and others, starting off, will be starting with far more privilages` than those of us who started back then! unfortunately! over the years, costs` associated with recreational flying have greatly increased and will only continue to increase, but that`s how it goes. Havn`t flown the Savanah but have flown the Zenith 701, many times! I suspect they would be very similar... Numerous Savanah owner/pilots` on here! Frank

G`Day u2flyboy, !!!...I`ve been flying Ultralights since the late mid eighties!......My wife, Frances, is of Irish descent... Frank.

When the bug bites I`ve just gotta go! so I stopped mowing and took my beautiful, cheeky Granddaughter, Alison, for a fly! Babinda, up ahead! Must be getting cold down south! The caravans are beginning to arrive at the Babibda Creek, camping area. Back home! Brooklyn (the oldest) and Isla! Our two Great Granddaughters....Future pilots????? Frank.

To me, around Australia should be,all the way around the perimeter of the country,otherwise! it`s not Circumnavigation. Circumnavigation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. Frank.

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That`s great, well done! ....Is it a one of or will the factory produce them for sale, if so, what is the purchase price expected to be? Frank.

G`Day Kev, No! I`ve never seen that ...Make sure you inspect the pan below the bracket, very carefully? The possibility of corrosion is greater for all of us who fly within a salt air environment...Read an article a while back that claimed, salt from the ocean, that is in the air, can be carried 200 klm inland...Whether that`s correct or not, we need to keep a good look out for corrosion. Frank.

Yep!

G`Day Bob ! Fran and I would love to see you again but with a cruise speed of 55kts and head wind, we won`t be flying down your way anytime soon so you`ll have to Jaber it up to here. Frank.

Thank you Geoff, I sincerely appreciate it....Guys like you are the main reason I continue to post here....You are very welcome and It`ll be my pleasure to take your photo and it won`t cost you anything to go for a fly with me!.....Oh! maybe a ride around the block on your bike! Frank

Just goes to show what you can do when you try hard enough...... Frank.

The guy in front of the X-Air is this lovely lady`s husband.They are friends of my wife Frances and myself.Both achieved their AUF pilot certificate,way back when I was instructing,unfortunately,due to a health issue,the lady no longer flies as PIC...The X-Air is their`s...I get to fly it, whenever I want. This mornings flight. Frank.

That`s great Bob!......Yes! All good times for me and those I take up! what it`s all about, for me.....Hopefully! I can keep it up for a while, yet. Can`t give away all my secrets............. Frank.

G`Day BP, yeah! I find it hilarious (figure of speech) that some people don`t see the Drifter as "a real aircraft" and " if the engine stop, they fall out of the sky". This afternoon, I told Kristy, on our next flight, she can follow me through on the controls! Frank, Ps, You back in the air?

Mowing the main strip this morning and blew a front tyre on my old tractor....This afternoon I was in the process of replacing both of them when my Granddaughter Kristy paid me an unexpected visit! What better excuse to give it away for the day than to take Kristy flying? Frank.

There you go!

S.L.B.............Great user name!!! Frank.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!

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As an RA-Aus member, I receive ENews letters! This section of this news letter explains some of the complexities of the Accident Report! Frank. Staying Safe 5 May 2017 Welcome to the first 2017 safety ENews for RAAus. In May 2016, RAAus produced its very first Safety ENews as a means of communicating safety trends and information. This information was well received by the membership and provided some great feedback on how to build on these bulletins in the future. These ENewsletters are published on a quarterly basis for our members and provide a dedicated means of communicating vital safety information. The Complexity of the Accident Report As our members would know, RAAus attends accident scenes were a member is involved in either a fatal or serious accident. What members probably don’t know is that we are invited to attend these scenes, and without an invitation from the local police, RAAus essentially has no jurisdiction. Further to this fact is that when we are invited, usually as a subject matter expert, we are requested to provide a report. The provision of a report is one step in our overall process, which is documented in our Emergency Response Plan (ERP). The ERP is a detailed internal RAAus document that governs every aspect of dealing with serious and fatal accidents. This accident report component of the ERP is prepared by the staff member who leads our investigation, in conjunction with input from other senior managers, the National Safety Manager and the CEO. Generally it will take us between four and six months to finalise a report. Our focus in preparing these reports centres on three key areas. We examine environmental factors, operational factors and technical factors. Once complete, the report is provided to the police officer leading the investigation, compiled with the police report and supplied to the Coroner assigned to the matter. The ownership of the report lies with the police and Coroner, not RAAus. This issue is a point of frustration for both RAAus management and our members. However Coronial laws require that the Coroner is the only person authorised to determine causal factors and as such RAAus is precluded from making statements about the cause of an accident. Further frustration comes from the fact that Coroners have up to 24 months to issue a final report. In striving to get information to our members we issue regular updates and work with police and Coroners seeking approval to release critical information that has the potential to improve safety or that may have an immediate safety application. We are continuing to explore ways to improve our communication to members and will soon attend a National Coroner’s Conference to meet with and present to Coroners and explore ways of improving how we communicate with members. Our research shows that over 85% of our fatal and serious accidents are caused by human factors. This means quite simply causal factors such as poor pilot decision making, planning or management of emergency situations. Whether the pilot chooses to fly too low, flies into cloud as a result of poor planning, loses control on landing or take-off, gets an aircraft into an uncontrollable situation, or simply makes a mistake, the common cause of most accidents is the human element. We wrote an article on this very issue in the June 2015 Sport Pilot (page 44). In summary, we will provide members with important safety related outcomes, subject to the considerations outlined above however we ask for your patience in these matters. Useful links: Accident Report Summaries

G`Day RLDNC, ........This is my Drifter...I fly from my own property. Frank.

G`Day DC, ...... Frank.