Geoff13

My annual membership was due 23 Jun which was also the date of my original membership. I took the opportunity to join for a further 5 years thus avoiding this price rise and any subsequent price rises over the next 5 years.

Glad you prefaced your comment with "Several Media Reports" As we all know the media appear to get it wrong more often than not. It appears that they are not trying to improve their standards here.

Does anyone know any more about this. Plane crash south of the Sunshine Coast

Just to play devils advocate here. At 10 nm from Tangalooma as you state you had just made that call, you are actually halfway between Bribie bridge and Woorim and right over the southern part of Bribie. At that point you at the juncture of 3 different frequencies, Caboolture/Caloundra 125.85, Redcliff127.15 and Tangalooma on 126.5. Most people in that area would be on the 125.85 as it is part of the eastern/southern training area for Caboolture and Caloundra. in that area I listen to 125.85 and monitor either Redcliff or Area. Again most people that I know crossing the bay Bribie to Moreton and back do so at as close to 3500' as possible. In theory if the fan stops halfway across at that height in most aircraft you will have enough glide to get to one of the beaches so long as you glide with the wind behind you. Even up to 3 miles out over water he may not have been crossing rather just flying local as many do head out over the water when flying around Bribie eastern beaches. When I am crossing I do the following. West to East I use the 125.85 from Ycab to Bribie and monitor 126.7 I give position and crossing calls on both 125.85 and 126.7 and a 10 mile call for Tangalooma over Bribie central. I fly a 3400 and monitor Area and 126.7 and fly almost directly over the VFR Route. East to West I use the 126.7whilst ever I am over the island and monitor area I give position and crossing calls on both 125.85 and 126.7 I fly a 3400 and monitor Area and 125.85 and fly south of the VFR route from Combayuro Point towards Woorim. Once past halfway I swing North towards the VFR Route and cross the coast almost right on it. I find that gives me the most options if the fan stops. I do often fly around Bribie with no plan to go anywhere and sometimes pop out over the bay to check out a ship or boat or sometimes just a shadow without intending to cross. One last point, below 5000' there is no requirement to even have a radio and as such we should assume that there will be someone out there without one. Best answer to that is eyes outside. Not trying to justify anything here really other than that is a high traffic area and people may not be doing what you think they are doing or should be doing, but could still be well within the rules. FWIW

Alf it just seems like a few months not years. I remember reading all your posts as you and your family went through this. So pleased that there was such a good outcome after all you and your family went through. Hopefully we members of the forum were able to provide you with some little bit of support through the dark days. It does show with the amount of support how good these forums can be for people who are feeling down and isolated.

From memory this one was reported on the 1st of April, I can't remember the year.

I don't believe the weather kills VFR pilots at all. I believe that pilots kill VFR pilots. Until we take responsibility for our own actions, it will continue to happen.

My thoughts after watching that compared to the OP. Interesting how much left rudder before applying power. Even at takeoff the elevator was level as I would expect it to be in level flight. (It wasn't in the OP). From that I assume and I may be wrong but the pilot is simply allowing the aircraft to lift of the ground when it is ready and not trying to force it up. Very similar as I find taking off in a drifter. Oh and how close together are those mains, not a lot of room for error there. Like i saw I don't have much tailwheel time, and what I do have is in a drifter but it seems to me that the theory must be very similar.

I thought that they took our printed magazine of us so that they wouldn't need to increase fees.

Listened to him on Australia all Over with Macca last week. Macca invited him to ring back tomorrow after completing the trip. Seemed like a well grounded young man.

It wasn't my idea, my L2 suggested it after a service and a filter cut showed what we determined to be remnants from a buggered sprag clutch. So we taped a magnet to the filter and ran it for 5 hours and found no problems. Then we redid it and ran it for 20 hours and again found no problems. It was an interesting exercise and like most things since starting my flying journey it has been a learning experience.

Not a problem here been a member for 12 months or more.

Maybe with the number of people you have said have zero SOH and put on your ignore list a little self reflection would not go astray. But at the rate your ignore list appears to be growing at it shouldn't be long before you have no-one left to reply to.

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You fly on a Drifter, not in it.

Interesting that an instructor would allow a first Nav to continue over fog.

Foxbat A22 at Caboolture 3 years ago.

60 knots compared to 100 knots, how do you get 40 minutes per hour? That is amazing?

Just because something is in an RAA exam does not make it correct. I am 3 years into my flying journey and the RAA exams have had glaring errors for those 3 years.

I just say the glass is refillable.

Totally agree

And how many have they sold? Ie how many without the problem so we can work out a percentage with the problem?

So if some bloke wants to by a hamburger for someone else it should at least have beetroot on it and maybe bacon as well