FlyBoy1960

The Mudgee aeroclub brought a thruster that did exactly this, it would porpoise at different power settings, really aggressively. I know one of the guys down there and will see if they can remember the cure. It must be at least 30 years ago now that they got this aircraft and they crashed it on Boxing Day rolling it up into a ball but it did fly again. I have a vague memory it was something to do with the fabric on the tail feathers but I will have to ask them because I just don't remember.

You are missing the inspection of the aircraft step, It HAS to be inspected by L2 or a CASA appointed person, then issued with a CofA, THEN you can fly

I do believe you need some clarification here. the RA-Aus will register anything, registration is only one of the processes of putting an aircraft into the air. Honestly, I could register a wheelbarrrow with a plank across it but that doesn't mean anything it just gives it a registration number. If you don't progress to the next step in the regisstration process your registration will automatically expire after I think 12 months. The next step after registration is to get a certificate of airworthiness. The registration doesn't mean anything at all, it is the certificate of airworthiness which is the document that allows you to go flying. The certificate of airworthiness is available to the owner of a new aircraft after inspection by the appropriate authority, these vary from what I understand depending on the category of registration and the origins of the aircraft (e.g. kit built from an approved kit, factory built or designed yourself) Saying that the RA-Aus deregistered your aircraft is not true, if you did not proceed with a certificate of airworthiness within the 12 months or you did not pay for the renewal of the registration then your registration simply lapses just like it would give you registered a car for 12 months and didn't renew it. Remember just like a car, it has to get inspected and signed off before it can be registered and in some states it needs to be inspected every 12 months or whatever it is based on the year of the car and the RA-Aus is exactly the same.

it proved one thing to me, hot chicks like science ! Shame I am not smart enough !

CASA is there is a safety regulator. To get the absolute best safety results you need to minimise your exposure. In this case if you stop aircraft from flying then you are significantly reducing your exposure risk. In a perfect world from a CASA perspective, I am sure that they would only like to see Qantas and Virgin type of operations which are by statistics very safe, they can then, pack their back, give themselves a wage rise and declare they are doing a fantastic job. All they need to do is to get rid of GA and RA-Aus because these are the segments which are affecting their safety ratings. It can only be in their interests to reduce their risk exposure by stopping GA and recreational aviation for the reasons given above

it is by their own admission that they had mistakes in the POH and all of the weight and balance documents. That is one simple fact that they can't avoid. The other fact is as I have mentioned previously, they lied on the weight and balance documents in Australia so that the aircraft were not overweight. Some of them were listed 60 kg underweight !

Now they have cancelled AusFly at Narromine ? What's going on.

Sweden = cold. More people inside = more spreading Just guessing

NOT HAPPY JAN !

Just received an update from the organisers that Queensland health is not restricting the event because it is an outdoor event and people have purchased tickets for attendance which satisfies the registration requirements for visitors. Depending on which forecast you look at it is either going to be raining on Saturday and clear on Sunday or clear on both days, hard to work out which one is going to be correct. I have my bag packed, my camera charged and nothing can stop me attitude ! Bring on the Brisbane airshow !

Apparently not, several have been caught out from what they were saying today so the new rule stays in effect forever. You would think so but its now not enough - a few rotten apples have ruined it for everyone !

What's prompted the actions ? Factories and importers lying and falsifying documentation to make heavy planes lighter so they can be registered. Its screwed up the industry with EVERY newly registered or transferred CASA to RA-Aus aircraft requiring a W&B to be completed by a specially approved CASA weight and balance officer, I understand there are only about 6 in all of Australia. All of this has happened because of a couple of lying importers in Victoria, think Bristell, Carbon Cub and Rocko. The importers at our airport are very unhappy and I believe one is taking legal action against the guy that imports the Bristell for the additional costs he has incurred due to his falsifying documents and is now affecting all new planes he imports by upping the price by $500 on each aircraft.

If the seat fails, you pull back on the control yoke/stick, usually your feet are off the ground under the panel. nowhere near the pedals ? Experience with a 182, i know what i am talking about and survived because the aircraft was in trim. I then had to move to the other seat at about 300 feet to keep flying the plane cause the seat had come right out of its rails and was not moving back. There is an ATSB report somewhere

They are putting these units at airports in the US, they can be used to charge electric aircraft and also vehicles, especially the vehicles that are used at the actual airport. They have a semi tracking solar panel system on the top, they have battery storage in the stand, they have a pad which acts as the balancing system to stop them getting blown over and you simply drive up onto the pad, plug-in and you get a fast charge from the batteries in the system so it is DC to DC which is much quicker than AC to DC (I am told) apparently there is enough to charge 3 Tesla vehicles in the battery system alone and any time there is no sun it operates from mains electricity. These systems can be put out in rows like parking bays and they are standalone, there is no other infrastructure needed, just place them on the ground and wait for the sun to come up. They can also use a couple of extra banks of solar panels on the roof of a building or something or in our case a hangar if the units are getting a lot of use. The panels are roughly 5 kW and you can have remote panels connected up to, I think 35 kW if you wish. It used to be called the EV Ark but apparently someone jumped in and trademarked the name so it is now called BEAM and I have seen about 10 of these in California in some rural airports

Here is a map of the Australian charging stations, if you can get 300 kilometres on a charge you are certainly not going to have any problems in a lot of the populated areas. I think you have "premature range anxiety" but I'm told there is a little blue tablet for this 😇

it's not so much the error it is a fact that they refused to validate anything and basically told CASA and the rest to go away in mind their own business. This is where the real problems came from I think not from the fact that the aircraft were falling out of the sky

when adjusting the side tone make sure to use a plastic bladed screwdriver because I was walking past a hangar one day to hear a lot of swearing and stuck my head inside and the guy was using a jewellers screwdriver and it slipped off whatever he was adjusting and went on to the circuit boards, he heard a loud bang and then saw smoke ! Expensive lesson to learn

reference to the AOPA information, I have no idea where they get the information from. As requested a long time ago CASA has been asking for additional information to validate the airworthiness approvals that the manufacturer could not validate at the time. It seems sometime in March they did provide the information to CASA, they then did distribute the information to owners as advised, they made corrections to the aircraft operating instructions and now they are free to go on their way again. Personally, I can't see that CASA had any other option but to ground the aircraft when the information supplied with them was grossly negligent by the manufacturers own admission by having incorrect information in the aircraft operating instructions and the weight and balance documentation. CASA could not have turned a blind eye to this and acted appropriately even though they can see into the future

CASA are even now predicting the future ! this evidence of straight off their own website ! In the screenshot below I have proof that they are already issuing documents dated the 28th of July 2021, more than a month into the future. How do they do that ? I wonder if they can get me the lotto numbers ? And these are the regulators

AOPA has "no skin in the game" so can pretty much say what they want, they just lose credibility at times when they go off track in my opinion

if they do close it down will CASA want to oversee and license/register all of the RA-Aus aircraft ? I don't think so

Morgan hates RA-Aus as evidenced in every time he gets a chance to dig into them. Remember this is just HIS opinion, i would like to read the CASA document without his interpretations.

If you dont mind a drive of a couple hours Rylstone / Mudgee is a great triking area, there are also lots of trike activity in Woolongong as well

Spec Savers have a special at the moment