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  1. Mick
    My wife has often mentioned a Herc with a Winabago & a Foxbat with folding wings in the back!!!
  2. Mick
    I would love this one that will be familiar to any R/C modellers that have been around for a while....... The Liberty Sports, a one off home built, a beautiful machine. I scratch built an R/C one off the Sig plans when I was 18. The full size one was for sale on Barnstormers.com just recently.
  3. Mick
    My wife flew this last year and has been dreaming about owning one ever since.......
  4. Mick
    Lucky money is no object here, the Storch cost more $ per mile than a Spitfire, a great combo of high fuel consumption & damn slow!
  5. Mick
    Well aware of that CFI, I would not like anyones chances of "hiding" their license / cert either. Just pointing out a real use / need for a taxi authorisation.
  6. Mick
    Pete, the Oracover film for models is sold in Australia as Profilm. It is imported by a company called Model Engines, I don't know if they would be interested in supplying the product for full size use or if they would even be able to get it.
  7. Mick
    I looked into that previously when working for a maintenance organisation and my boss wanted me to be able to taxi and do engine runs in GA aircraft but I only have RAAus Cert.
  8. Mick
    I don't have a problem with having my wife there as long as she has her own aircraft and I don't have to share mine!!!! Besides with no wife who will polish the hangar floor?
  9. Mick
    Looks pretty similar to Solartex ( modelling product ) which has been around for a long time. Solartex is very easy to use but does require a coat of paint to seal the weave. I would imagine that a fair portion of the weight saving with this new product is that does not require painting. .
  10. Mick
    Did I type my the first line of my initial post in an invisible font or did you guys just skip right past it?????????? I have clearly stated that I am aware that RAAus canot fly at night and have in no way suggested that anyone else should.
  11. Mick
    I know of a club that allows a school to be run out of their building with no charge. Students need to join the club when they have completed their training if they wish to rent school planes. This is because the aircraft keys are kept in the club house, if you want to get them you need a key to the club house. To get a key to the club house you must be a member. The club fees in this case are less than $100 so it's not a big cost. This is a mutually beneficial arrangement, the club gets a steady stream of new members & the school keeps their overheads down.
  12. Mick
    You beat me to it!!!!!
  13. Mick
    Not sure who you are refering to as "aerial trailbikers"? I was only putting this out there to get people to give some thought to the practicalities and legalities prior to being in this situation. Don't know how you get from this to flying / landing after dark? Do Jab brakes get even worse after dark? I don't own one so I wouldn't know!
  14. Mick
    Damn their timing! This Sunday I have an all day date with 29 V8's, a mountain & a wide screen TV.
  15. Mick
    Easy there Turb's. I was only posing this for thought & discussion. With a Rotax I don't taxi to bowser - the jerry cans of Mogas come to me! :peepwall:
  16. Mick
    I think this accident has hit very close to home for many of us, just look at how many views this thread has - 14,500. The fact that Des and Riama were almost part of the furniture at so many Queensland events made them at least familiar if not actually known. For many of us who attended Monto, we flew in the same weather system that claimed these lives. It could so easily been us. I left Monto on Sunday not long before Maj ( about 1.00pm ) and we too "picked our way" through to the Boyne Valley which we followed home to Gladstone. There was a stage where my wife said "Let's go back". But by then I could see my way into the Boyne Valley so we pressed on. At that stage the cloud base was about 2800ft and if we had tracked direct the highest terrain was 3149ft. Here lies the value of having a good look at a chart at the planning stage and not just following a line on a GPS. It is a harsh & stark reminder to us all to fly within our limits.
  17. Mick
    "Time to spare, go by air". Add to that - If you must arrive, you better drive.
  18. Mick
    I agree that a LSALT at the very least should make you consider the terrain you will be flying over. The planning stage is when you should be considering alternative routes, not enroute when you may be busy and / or under pressure.
  19. Mick
    I think realistically the EPIRB will survive any impact that you can survive. Looking at the news footage the impact of the Dragon was very high. To have very little recognisable of an aircraft that size it must have arrived at a very high speed. It would be interesting to know what impact force the EPIRBs are designed to take. With the smaller old style 121.5 EPIRB I used to think that if I was in trouble I would put the lanyard around my neck so the unit would stay with me. I am not sure that I would do that with the newer and heavier units.
  20. Mick
    Obviously we cannot fly at night but........ If I have an RAAus aircraft that was built for Night VFR and hence has a full lighting package, and I am at an airport with full lighting, can I taxi to the bowser to get fuel outside of first light to last light? Looking at the following situations - * You arrive somewhere right on last light ( you were late leaving and got caught by a headwind ), go straight to the bowser but by the time you fill up it is past last light, now you have to taxi to the parking / tie-down area. * A late change of plans means you want to get away at first light but the aircraft is not fuelled.
  21. Mick
    As per my post #113 - "Channel 7 news showed an interview with someone from the rescue operation. They said it was a personal type EPIRB that they received a short signal from." .
  22. Mick
    When OME finally tells it will be "breaking" news!
  23. Mick
    Most of these aircraft are not checked by someone here in Australia ( for design & construction ), it is just that we accept the certification of some countries. For example if the Italian authorities accept the Tecnam, as we recognise Italian certification, it is then accepted here. The same goes for the multitude of aircraft coming out of the Czech Republic. In the case of the Ibis the final assembley is being completed by LAMEs. Weight & balance details are a requirement of any aircraft registration ( whether factory built or home built ). Again this is done by LAMEs for the Ibis. .
  24. Mick
    Channel 7 news showed an interview with someone from the rescue operation. They said it was a personal type EPIRB that they received a short signal from.
  25. Mick
    Yep, you are not getting it. The aircraft is exactly what the paperwork says it is. There is absolutely nothing wrong in that way. The problem is that RAAus / CASA only recognise certification from some countries, the origin of the Ibis is not one of them. Somehow that was not picked up until now. It is not the manufacturers fault, it is not the importers fault. They submitted paperwork to RAAus and RAAus accepted it. Aircraft were imported & sold based on RAAus acceptance. Now RAAus realise what has happened and it is the owners and the importer who are suffering. Despite all the talk above about LSA the Ibis is not registered LSA, it is registered standard Recreational. Please don't think this is a problem due to a new or confusing category of registration. The Ibis is registered the same as aircraft from as far back as 10 or more years ago in a standard category that has been the bread & butter of RAAus for all of this time.
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