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  1. skybum
    Yeh, the rules do say unless cancelled or revoked, however to exercise the privelage you need an AFR and a class2 medical every two years or have a type endorsment or rating AND have the minimum hours in the last ninety days to carry passengers....something about that bit of red plastics so you can land again.....otherwise you will be up all day.
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    It is a simple error that can have serious complications. Cessna reduced the flap deployment angle of the 150 to the 152 from 40 to 30 for exactly this reason. TRAINING! Go round from a full flap approach is nose down and power followed by an IMMEADIATE reduction to half flap...What's the count in a jab? A counting to three? On the ground and inter-circuit? TRAINING! Do not rush your intermediate pre-takeoff checks. Do not bash yourself over it, everyone does it eventually.
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    SimonFlyer, no argument from me. Airmanship and professionalism is not the sole realm of GA. If anyone knows the story at NRM or know the people in question. Just have a quite word to them and inform them that they will no longer be tolerated.
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    By the way, Destiny Flyer. :thumb_up: Basscheffers, true. I remember reading about how Cambridge got their exemption with a more than little amount of trust on both parties between HB TWR and the guys at Cambridge. Considering where it is on the map wrt HB is no small feat of negotiation and trust....hope it continues.
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    When it comes to ultralighting the yanks are miles behind here and Europe. Why copy the buggers? They are still trying to catch up to the rest of the planet. On the money about trying to tap into a growth industry. Back to my thread, and a very interesting point by basscheffers, cripes! This is going to hurt if McCormick DID mean out of all CTA. Hope the board is up to the challenge to maintain what has been already gained. Agree, Facthunter.
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    Tell you something QWERTY, take away all the punters at a show and who have you got left? If you are part of the show, you see people in the crowd ...the people who matter...your mates...your representatives in the association. If you see a newb doing something stupid or someone who should know better you either fronted them. Or, if they were a loser and wouldn't listen to helpful advice, you go and see that someone you know and do something about it. I used to dragrace motorcycles within ANDRA. No matter where I raced around Aus, I knew someone in the crowd and down at the pad and in the pits and knew people within the association. Only raced group 3 but I had mates right at the top of the game in group one. The common link was we all loved our sport. Nobody took shortcuts and we all looked out for each other. It was a privelage to be a part of that group. What it comes down to was you never did anything stupid and let your mates down. These guys either do not have any mates or have d***heads for mates to allow such a thing.
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    Guys, for myself I'm disappointed that the ammendment was not allowed.....However, what worries me more than anything is our AIRMANSHIP! Every last one of you that witnessed ANYTHING stupid and obviously breaking rules should be tarred as equally as quilty as the perpetrators. If you didn't take down regos and inform the ATSB of your observation then you are all guilty as charged. There was an incident in South Aus where a young fella got killed flying with an idiot who liked to do abrupt manuevers after takeoff. A lot of people knew of this guy's antics and nothing was done about it and a young fella is dead because of it. It is no use whinging about the bad apples...KICK EM OUT AND KICK THEM WHERE THEY HURT! /RANT
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    MB TWR Hours are 0800 to 1800EST THU-MON 0800 to 2100EST TUE -WED and closed on XMAS
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    I reckon there are a few exPPL refugees who are hitting their own heads against the wall, Frank. Admittedly, having the current RAA regs with that section included gave the impression of a forgone conclusion....now it is just plain gornnnn.
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    RAA in CTA is dead! Awaiting official announcment but my intel is solid.
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    Hot news people. It would appear that RAA has been refused the amendments in CAO95 to allow access to controlled airspace. Minimum requirment is PPL. Will await the official announcment but the buzz is solid on the intel!
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    Checking out the German site...for the basic aircraft works out at $228,900.00AU(ouch)
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    Millennium Master ULM Video - flyingWisi - MyVideo Keep coming back to this little baby....just wish I can win powerball...just once.
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    John Gorton wrote a message that was left on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11 it read... Australians are pleased and proud to have played a part in helping to make it possible for the first man from earth to land on the moon. This is a dramatic fulfillment of man’s urge to go always a little further; to explore and know the formerly unknown; to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. May the high courage and the technical genius which made this achievement possible be so used in the future that mankind will live in a universe in which peace, self expression, and the chance of a dangerous adventure are available to all. John Gorton Prime Minister Somewhere we have lost something when we all became a part of a nanny state of liability
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    hey Buttsy, Did you just do your PPL written a week before your flight test??
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    WRT RAA I am just a newbie...only been around the scene for a very short while. farri, that wasn't what I meant. I do not think you had an instructor to teach you any habits (not having a go, you did teach yourself to fly...didn't you?) I did and I did learn habits from my instructor(s) Provided you stay B050, out of Class E or higher and out of any CTAF® and that means within 20nm of one and provided you keep a good look out and stay strictly VFR you do not NEED or require a radio. Even in a CTAF! As farri says..them's the rules. However, evolution of RAA is heading into areas where radio carriage is required, as farri says...them's the rules. If thats the case then learn how to do it correctly. If you wish to stay in the first bit then it is only an opinion if a radio makes it safer or not. That is where your instructor comes in. Their opinion normally becomes yours! I think having a radio does help my SA..but that is from opinion and then experience. Hence my thoughts on Mandate. It makes me do something that I do voluntarily.
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    Farri, agree about the different views. It seems to align on how you were taught at the start. I reckon we should ask the question AFTER RAA is allowed into airspace. Class E TWR and GAAP. I am pretty sure people will find it is just as impossible to access Class C major aerodromes like BN or ML However, good r/t and a trust that you WILL fly as per a clearance will allow access to transiting that airspace. Just because you have a GA licence doesn't grant you access now. ATC must trust you before they will even think they will give you access to the same airspace as heavy iron. Believe me on this. It is a rare privelage that you really work hard at ensuring you do not efup for yourself or anyone else.
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    Radio is training. I can tell you that finishing my PPL flying out of EN (TWR ClassC) did wonders for polishing up my R/T moreso than when I started nearly thirty years ago at RED. It is just like talking on the phone...or...learning the patter for ordering a meal at Macca's for the kids in the same sequence the flippers input into the order console...goes through so much quicker.(Now, that IS embarrasing!) Mandate is the pits because it forces me to do something that I already did voluntarily.
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    Mazda...that would be called a beep back unit. The mandate bit does come from the airline industry. You know, the guys that urged the Feds to mandate radio in CTAF® To explain my bonafides, I come from GA because RAA wasn't even thought of when I started flying. Rogalo wings (kites!) only existed behind speed boats! What is your problem QWERTY, the radio or the mandate? That way I can tailor my argument to best suit the topic.
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    Shame, when you see what CAN be done when you look at Temora, Wang just died out....still a shame.
  21. skybum
    Not having a go at you, Octave:thumb_up: If you know you have a blind spot you bleeping well clear it before you put yourself in harms way:cool: (Another argument for another thread, Only a few things to be annoyed about high wings. Blind above you on the ground, in the air and blind into turns.)
  22. skybum
    Back on the first part of the topic. If you are taxiing anywhere on the movement area and you come up to the unbroken line of a holding point YOU STOP! Airmanship 101! After you stop, uncontrolled aerodrome clear both ways (Thank you Mr Smith for legalising straight in approaches)then radio intentions. Controlled aerodrome you have the luxury of passing a holding point if given clearance AND you have acknowledged same. If crafty tower types wish to trap you as courtousy to ever watchful instructor....stop and ask for clearance to cross ANY runway. Keep that simple rule and you will always be safe and legal.:thumb_up:
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    Mike..how true! Right now, things are not looking good to get a general case for fitment of ADS-B. Given a bit more time. I think you will find the same scenario in avaition as in maritime. Have had this same opinion for a considerable while, especially after studying a few AIS sites. It will eventually be commonplace.
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    when i finally get there..anywhere that has an aerodrome and a pub within close walking distance. The thing is the flying. Right now Lake Eyre is a goer, then there is the kimberley. Thinking about a float plane for that adventure tho.
  25. skybum
    Bob Tait is the go. I did my BAK back in the days of College of Knowledge. Bob explains things better than they did, that says heaps. funny though, BAK was more involved with calculating weight and balance more so than calculating from P-charts. Have to go back and see whats different. Best way to work out density altitude is start with a diagram showing pressures, your aerodrome and temperatures. Temp has the biggest effect. [edit-I'll get my book out to be sure]...then the hard bit is calculating the altitude differences and then adding them in the correct sense to your field elevation. Of course, there is always the designated density altitude chart in the VFG. Once you have your head around the diagram then the calculations are very straight forward. Just always remember if its hot you are going to be high.
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