GraemeK

Yep - the famous fugawi tribe! What great branding for a GPS company! http://www.fugawi.com

There's one on the RAA site for $129,500, factory built 225hr, Fagawi navigation (presume that's as in "Where the Fugawi?"), adjustable prop, auto pilot, GPS. 115kt cruise @20L/hr.

Never tried that one, so can't comment. But have used crumplers for years for camera bags and they're great - good design, good quality.

Gomer, a thousand thanks for that! For several weeks I've suffered a great depression because I thought I was the only person ever to do that, and I was so embarrassed. Now I know that at least one other person has screwed up a badly as I did, so hopefully I can get off my medication ....

terrific shot! Almost made me call Gary and place an order straight away! EDIT: for the Cheetah, that is, not for Slarti

Sorry, I've absolutely no idea either . But as a photographer I do love the Crumpler range, nice stuff there .... I'm kinda thinking in the Jab though that the weight of the bag might tip the scales, so I'm just gonna stuff everything I can into my pockets and what won't fit there will end up in the headset bag .

Just watched the 60 turn spin - Catherine can teach me spins any time, remarkable!

Great stuff, and something I intend to do once I've got my RAAus cert in my pocket. Like you, I'm sometimes worried about how I'd react to a really unusual attitude (beyond stall ± wing drop or spiral dive) so I think it's really important to experience those things in a controlled situation. Plus the Victa Airtourer is such a nice old part of Australian aviation history - I've had a good look over it in the hangar several times and would love the opportunity to fly it.

You know two thirds of five eighths of all? Well, take that and divide by a few thousand ....... :hittinghead:

Hi there and welcome! Lilydale (YLIL) is close by Kinglake, in fact our training area extends north as far as Kinglake. We have three Jabs on line, plus a few Warriors etc. Lilydale Airport Sorry to hear about your folks' loss in the fires, the whole thing was pretty devastating over a huge area - the fires even came down as far as the northern boundary of our airfield. Used to spend a fair bit of time in NY State - what part do you live in? Cheers

5,000 feet, even 10,000 feet not an issue when it comes to bird strikes! While most birds fly below 2,500 feet, I think the highest recorded bird strike was a vulture at 37,000 feet - beats me how the buggers can survive at that pressure and temperature! The US Navy has reported sightings at 54,000 feet!

I had thought much the same thing - ie we would have a separate regulatory regime for recreational aviation and another for commercial. Seems to make a bit of sense, despite that there may be some tricky issues (but there are now anyway, because of the arbitrary divide). Thus you want to go commercial (be it the big kero burners or bashing your way around the outback on twin charters), then there is one stream for your licence and aircraft registration - appropriate for carrying members of the public for profit. Want to buzz around in your bugsmasher (big or small), then you go recreational. And I really did think CASA was thinking the same way - it would take all the headaches of private GA off their plate and let them concentrate on protecting the fare paying public. CASA is not really set up to understand and manage/regulate private GA, IMHO. The attitude of the new CASA worried me though, it seemed to me the "Big R" stuff was dragging the industry back into its past. I hope Matt is right in his assessment of the new management.

Very neat and professional looking!

Think it's right - it should increase, since the alcohol will preferentially come out of solution in the fuel layer and join the water layer, hence "water" increases ........

Over the last coupla months, we've had a lot of birds in the grass at the northern end of 36R - fortunately not normally used for takeoffs but when disturbed quite a flock. Dunno which was worse, the birds there or the lake at the end of 36L! Have also seen a few ibis at 1000ft in the circuit.

Damn Darky, nearly gave me a heart attack! I saw the heading "First Solo" and thought you'd beaten me to it (way I'm going, you probably will anyway, just a matter of time!). You should know that it won't happen at YLIL - nobody will be able to find the scissors , they'll be in the same place all the pens have disappeared to . I do like the can of Solo idea though .....

Interesting reconstructions of Cactus 1549: Cactus Flight 1549 Accident Reconstruction (US Airways)

Like this? (despite all its errors .....) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMDkV5kJYk"

The three 160's at YLIL have all gone to 1000hr - then changeover engine as a matter of policy.

IANAL and I'm no expert in aviation law, but not sure it does, because the labelling is mandated and approved by CASA (the placards are in the "CASA Approved" section of the POH). In my industry (pharma, only marginally above lawyers, used car salesmen and estate agents in social acceptability ), labelling mandated by the regulator is your "get out of jail free card" when it comes to liability. But I agree with the view that yes, you could probably safely spin one (the Jab test pilots did it over and over, the POH gives the recovery) - but you can't because RAAus, CASA and the POH say you can't. While at some stage I hope to do spin training in a suitably certified aircraft to improve my general flying skills I would hope never to get any closer than incipient spin in my normal flying (and I'd hope not to even get that far!). EDIT: and to say "unintentional spins are prohibited" would be a nonsense!

Yep dazza - at the moment, there's potentially dangerous congestion about the reporting points if there's no slot in the circuit. And the issue of people flying outbound on an inbound track over a VRP is an issue highlighted in the current "Flight Safety" - nasty. If we go to the US style Class D, then you can come in from any direction, so problem solved! Except for two things - firstly I'm not sure if CASA's going the whole hog on Class D and abolishing reporting points or whether we're gunna continue with our own local "flavour" - secondly I'm not sure which is worse, everyone congregating around one VRP where at least you know where everyone's coming from, or having people coming from all directions so you need eyes in the back of your head! In the US environment where you have heaps of radar coverage, maybe not an issue ... Again, maybe a bit of consultation might have come up with a better solution.

My other concern is knee-jerk reactions. As stated in the Flight Safety article, the GAAP changes were rushed through because of the mid-air statistics. Now 2 things are relevant here. Firstly, the statistics did not show a statistically significant trend in mid-airs - we did have a bit of a cluster but that is not uncommon in random, extremely low incidence events. So there was no need to rush in with poorly thought through changes. Secondly, long term the changes may in fact increase the risk (eg by increased holding times at GAAP approach points while waiting for clearance). Plus the change to Class D means that AsA needs more ATC's (which they don't have). My tip is the GAAP to Class D changes will be deferred, possibly for quite some time (HINT: the CEO in the interview makes a great point of "well, we'll act quickly to make changes, but if there are problems then we'll just defer implementation then everyone's happy" - so he's already preparing for the inevitable backdown). BTW, what's the difference between deferring the change on the one hand and making the change and deferring implementation on the other - seems curious logic, dare I say spin! Given this background I really worry about what might happen if we had a couple of major RA accidents in a short time - despite probably having no statistical significance you can bet that the new CASA would come down on us with great force.

Never a truer word JG3 - and it's as true today as it was 20 years ago!

"Flight Safety" magazine just arrived today, and it got me thinking along the same lines. In an interview the new CEO talks in terms of CASA becoming a "big-R Regulator", with more decision making directly by CASA and less consultation with industry/stakeholders. He also (curiously) mentions his desire to get some CASA people inside the self-administering organisations such as RAAus. This seems like "big-R" with a vengeance, and will certainly reduce the independence of these groups. So I don't think you are being overly paranoid at all.

Also, the 160 manual gives spin recovery technique, so I guess they've anticipated that someone might end up there unintentionally.