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Is this it Frank.

Blood pressure is fine but I don`t know if to laugh or cry at the prospect of it! Exactly why I haven`t posted my rant on the subject! WOW!!!! Will a decent coffee machine with real coffee, give me more enjoyment? Frank, Ps, Thanks Guys!

Reminded me of a guy ( passed away quit a few years ago ) way back in the mid eighties...He had a WB Drifter on floats and being a keen fisherman decided to fly to a reef, out from Tully Heads...Going out was ok but by the time he turned around to head back a haze had set in and he couldn`t see the mainland...About half way back, he spotted a prawn trawler, landed close to it and asked for direction to Tully Heads. On another occasion, he`d put the Drifter on wheels, gone flying and was almost back to Tully Heads (had a house there) when he ran out of fuel,nothing but the Tully river and mangroves below him, fortunately, it was low tide so he put it down in the river, in a couple of feet of water, a guy in tinny saw him come down and picked him up...No injury to the pilot or Drifter...Pilot went back with his boat and retrieved the Drifter... Both true stories. Frank

I`ve already been told a couple of times on this thread, everything is in place to just go out and do it! Frank.

No flying today due to heavy rain....Yesterday was the perfect day to do some boating so I decided to take Jonas out to the Frankland Islands to do some snorkeling, bush walking and rock climbing ... Truly great day. Frank

I never said there was! This is the bit that I`d need to establish. (d) the aeroplane must not be operated by a person as pilot in command unless the person: (i) holds a valid pilot certificate; What is the definition of a valid pilot certificate? Frank.

I`m currently reading this book and I`m enjoying it......Cedric Flood, kindly offered to send it to me.

It looks very much like one I flew way back when......Is it a single surface wing?

These days, I`m not brave enough to give anyone advice, especially on a public forum! Legal eagles get rich, arguing on points of law. Frank.

As for "Who is the current RA-Aus qualified multi electric or jet engine instructor???" - well I reckon it's pretty good that once we have a pilot certificate, we still have the freedom to jump into our personal twin jet with multi-electric-motors for vertical take-off and landing, and fly it without having to get a multi-engine endorsement nor a helicopter or hovercraft licence, so I'm happy with that ... (makes personal note for next build project [ATTACH=full]48503[/ATTACH] ) Hi HITC! .... I recall most of what you have said in your post, but my point lies in what I`ve quoted. Back when I started as an AUF CFI I could instruct someone in the Drifter and as you`ve correctly said once they obtained their AUF pilot certificate, they could go off and legally fly anything that was AUF registered! Slowly but surely the endorsement system came in and as far as I`m aware it applies as much to 95-10 as it does to other categories. Unless I`ve missed something or I`m mistaken, there is nothing currently in place to allow someone to legally fly a multi engine electric or jet, 95-10 aircraft, registered with RA-Aus.....Anyone! please correct me if I`m mistaken. I`m on my sixth two stroke Rotax engine! two 503 and four 582, yet to fly my Drifter legally, I had to go and get a two stroke endorsement. Frank.

Joe Blogs builds a multi electric or jet engine, 95-10 and now requires an RA-Aus pilot certificate to fly it...Who is the current RA-Aus qualified multi electric or jet engine instructor???....Am I missing something here? Frank.

I love it!!! .........

Under the present system, imagine all the legal issues required to get a multi electric engine aircraft, registered with RA-Aus and flying! Yes! it is still just an AC but it`s multi engine, electric! It took years to get the AUF/RA-Aus Ops manual 1 approved ( I was there ) not to mention the Tech manual and the legal situation has only become more complex, so, I wouldn`t expect to see one in the air, legally, in Australia, anytime soon, however, the sooner steps are taken in that direction, the sooner we might see one flying. Franco.

I lost track of it for a while but I reckoned it would still be flying...Goodonya. No it wasn`t! But I would have tried to fly it! . Frank.

A couple of weeks ago, I took a member of this forum, flying in my Drifter! He`d never flown in an Ultralight and wanted to find out if Ultralight flying was what he really wanted to do, well, the easiest way to put it is he was immediately hooked. A couple of nights ago he phoned me and said he had done a fair bit of research and had decided he wanted to start flight training, own an aircraft and it had to be a tail dragger so he could fly it out of paddocks... He was told by one RA-Aus flying school that they hadn`t had a tail dragger for years as no one wanted to learn to fly in tail draggers,anymore. The way I see it is this! The majority of RA-Aus pilots are around retirement age and over! For whatever reason, a great number of them have come from a GA background! They have enough disposable money to train in and fly modern LSA`s! A large number of them own their own LSA, so for those guys the cost of flying doesn`t really matter very much, but if the cost of training and owning an aircraft continues the way it`s currently going, it`s only a matter of time and it will certainly become a sport for a chosen few! That is not what many guys like SSCBD and myself intended, when we started flying Ultralights. Electric aircraft may be the way of the future but for now, we are stuck in the present! An alternative??? Airdrome Aeroplanes ~ Holden, MO Frank.

Absolutely! So would I. Frank.

What`s Happening??? Well, this is what happened today here at Deeral.....Jonas, the Swiss backpacker I recently took flying, has had his Passport stolen, so he has to stay in Australia until everything is sorted out, in the mean time, he is staying with some friends of ours, here at Deeral so today I decided to take him out and do some snorkeling with him, around high Island. Some of the Coral we snorkeled over, around High Island. Jonas, had never had the chance to drive a boat so I showed him what to do and let him drive us home...Great day for both of us. Franco.

Hello Aubrey! Frank.

G`Day Philip,Thanks for your reply, won`t be dropping in any time soon, though! I`m at Deeral 45 k south of Cairns and fly from my own property....I flew the Zenith 701 over a 10 year period! I thought it was a good easy to fly, aircraft. Cheers and all the best with the Savannah. Frank.

With a few of the guys on here telling him on several occasions,he`s has too much time,maybe he`s taken it seriously and found something else to do.

Some of the laws in this country don`t seem to make a lot of sense, if any. Originally, a friend of mine at Fishery Falls (NTH,QLD) had his strip on his private property, on the opposite side of the Bruce Highway from his house and the shed where he keeps his Drifter....He would fire the Drifter up and taxi straight across the road to the strip....Cops caught him a couple of times and gave him a warning. Apparently it`s legal to push the aircraft across the road but not to sit in it, with the engine running and taxi it across. Franco.

Absolutely!!! Over the years, I`ve had enough complete engine failures, in the air, to know that is correct...Knowing the correct action to take is the first step in landing safely but the correct action depends on the situation, so, for each flight I do, I keep the situation within my ability to handle the aircraft and what I know the aircraft is capable of doing, unfortunately! this knowledge comes mostly from experience and experience comes from doing. At least one! I make it part of my flying. Frank.

I wouldn`t say "Don`t fly over what you can`t land on" but I certainly would say, "Don`t fly over anything you can`t land on, if you`re not within gliding distance of a suitable landing area." Frank.

But if the engine stops running, you`re going down, so you better have somewhere to land and the ability to land safely! Frank.