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  1. Love to fly
    It's awful. But please be careful saying they were flying below legal minimums. FR24 isn't adjusted for QNH and that could easily make the difference. Family & friends could easily be impacted by statements like this.
  2. Love to fly
    Below minimum legal height? 100ft too low? Are you using altitude from FR24, adjusted for QNH? Had they been flying along too low? Or descended due to an onboard issue? I've no idea. Just bloody sad at the loss of 3 lives. Can't even imagine what the families and friends are going through. Hope they are well supported.
  3. Love to fly
    Yep. We've been a few times. But always had to send in form prior, and check on the day as per their website. If there's a way to do it enroute, ir even on the day I can see us going there more often.
  4. Love to fly
    Have you managed to get permission for Milawa while on the way there? As well as the required update on the strip? Genuinely interested.
  5. Love to fly
    I'm surprised at this. I've never flown one but, there are 2 at the RAAus school here on the Murray. Several friends have done their ab initio training in them and I don't know anyone who has had any problems. We're at the airport and they seem to be flying a lot.
  6. Love to fly
    Actually I think training in interpreting weather forecasts across different areas is really important for cross country flying. And without it it could be very difficult to make informed devisions as to whether a flight is safe to make.
  7. Love to fly
    Great to know. I was there a month ago, and informed by one of the instructors at Adelaide BiPlanes that their weather station wasn't publicly accessible. Silly me didn't go and check for myself.
  8. Love to fly
    Apparently them may have to 'restart' the inquest due to significant information being made available by RAAUS on Friday, the last day of the inquest. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-04/mathew-farrell-fiancee-system-failed-inquest-plane-crash/103414984
  9. Love to fly
    Like what? Bass Strait has different challenges. Being comfortable with one, doesn't necessarily reflect on the other. No sarcasm or other was intended.
  10. Love to fly
    No hills on Bass Strait though 🤔
  11. Love to fly
    I have flown Tocumwal/ Bairnsdale and reverse on several occasions, so similar track to what you are asking about. TAS at 140 knots in the RV. The lowest safe for the area is high, over 7,000'. Not sure how long it would take you to get there or what performance you would have. For me its about 70 minutes flight time each way, and not all of that is over the high country.. One recent trip I had over 58 knots headwinds for about 15 minutes. Was fine at 9,000' (IFR). I wouldn't have been comfortable down lower or in a lower performance aircraft. If the weather is even slightly forecast as dodgy I choose a lower route. You may be going over a Designated Remote Area so would need to check the rules for that and make sure you comply re reporting and equipment. Not onerous but important. You may also need clearance through East Sale Airspace depending on where you're starting/finishing your trip. And asking for advice is always a good thing to do.
  12. Love to fly
    Hangar plot in Flight Place could also be hanger house methinks. Thete us another block almost opposite also with a signboard up. And SportAviation with associated house, hangars and caravan park has just come on the market. The one in Wirraway was sold the day it hit the market, and is the one I referred to as recently sold in my first comment.
  13. Love to fly
    No, different one in Wirraway Ct.
  14. Love to fly
    Do you know if the canopy smashed when flipping, or had he managed to break it from the inside?
  15. Love to fly
    Really glad pilot and pax are okay. Very experienced & competent pilot so I'm guessing there were other factors. RV's are built to be either tailwheel or nosewheel, with the decision being made pre/during the build. A few have been converted afterwards. Landing profile in an A isn't dissimilar to that of a tailwheel and the nose wheel is definitely not designed to be landed on. But then no nosewheel is. For a while, during a particular period in time, nosewheel collapses at Moorabbin were almost common. None of these were in RV's.
  16. Love to fly
    Doubt that's why pilots build or buy them. Certainly wasn't a consideration for us.
  17. Love to fly
    All way outside my knowledge & experience, but I think once the Oceanic Datalink Comms transmission was triggered so was the Squawk 7700. Media and many others monitor FlightRadar24 and similar for any aircraft squawking 7700.
  18. Love to fly
    From an airline pilot, 'Oceanic on Datalink Comms, there’s only one option, and that’s to hit the emergency button. There’s no lesser option, such as a PAN call or a simple heads-up, that you use on voice comms.' My understanding is once they established radio comms closer to Sydney then then downgraded it to a PAN. Perhaps those questioning are accepting the media advice that it was initially a MayDay call, as in over the radio?
  19. Love to fly
    Maybe have a look a this document. Excerpts below. When did base calls become mandatory? And for many of us if we're doing a tight circuit the timing won't be much difference between base and final anyway. 'WHEN YOU MUST MAKE A BROADCAST The one time you must make a broadcast is in a situation where you recognise a potential conflict between your aircraft and another in the vicinity of a noncontrolled aerodrome. In this case, it is your responsibility to acknowledge the situation by transmitting your callsign and, as appropriate, your aircraft type, position, level and intentions.' Following tables in the document give recommendations for when calls should be made. Nothing prohibits a final call that I can find. radio-procedures-in-non-controlled-airspace.pdf
  20. Love to fly
    Block going for auction in February at Tocumwal Airport. Another block recently sold. Interest seems really high.
  21. Love to fly
    Sure. But no lights at Porepunkah.
  22. Love to fly
    Lucky we are all different I guess. I don't buy OzR at all. I do buy AvPlan for the current complete document set in a convenient searchable format. ERSA, AIP, DAPs etc. And very much for flight planning. Not for navigation - I have other tools onboard for that. Traffic is a major bonus. And AvPlan showing Flarm (lots of gliders around here) and some ADSB is great, more complete traffic would be better.
  23. Love to fly
    AvPlan natively (without SkyEcho or similar) shows ADSB traffic from ground receivers. So its fairly effective. You can of course add a Sky Echo to make it ADSB out etc. "In 2013 we introduced the first ADSB-in capability into AvPlan EFB and in 2015 introduced AvPlan Live which expanded this to include other AvPlan EFB users. In 2018 AvPlan Live traffic was expanded to include data via a network of ground based receives to show some ADSB and FLARM traffic as well."
  24. Love to fly
    No idea re Bristells but I always leave mine down on the RV. Easier for me to get down and stops others from standing on them.
  25. Love to fly
    Seriously?
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