Interesting and scary post from Maurice Little of VSA ...
On this basis, with AT LEAST two state associations (VSA and NSWGA) are
struggling to attract members to meetings (and given the vast distances
involved in this great country of ours, who can blame people for not
wanting to drive / fly
Thank you Jason & Maurice for putting the meetings call on the list.
The note below is simply to add to the feel of what is happening around Oz.
[perhaps similar summaries are available for other regions?]
For South Australia -
- our thanks to GFA Development Officer Terry Cubley who has been to
Dear List,
There seems to be a paucity of published articles (searching Pub-MED) about
the physiology of gliding flight.
Much of the research about heat stress has been done in a civil powered
aviation or military aviation context.
I think a cross country flight in a glider on a hot day in Aust
Are there any clubs out there that use pilots with a restricted PPL to perform
aerotows?
If you are using a Pawnee or similar. you will be affected by the replacement of the
Restricted PPL with the new Recreational PPL then the new regs come into effect:
4.2 The aircraft must:
a) be certificate
Michael.
There are numerous articles in Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.
There is a very real need to monitor personal heat stress levels in Egrett
ops and I've adopted a sysstem USAF fighter pilots are required to comply
with in this regard.
If you or anyone else would like to view t
> If you are using a Pawnee or similar. you will be affected by the
> replacement of the Restricted PPL with the new Recreational PPL then
> the new regs come into effect:
Will it replace the rules for existing RPPLs?
> b) in the case of powered aircraft, have a maximum piston-engine power
> no
At 01:27 PM 31/05/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Are there any clubs out there that use pilots with a restricted PPL to
perform aerotows?
>If you are using a Pawnee or similar. you will be affected by the
replacement of the Restricted PPL with the new Recreational PPL then the
new regs come into effect:
>
At 11:19 PM 30/05/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Interesting and scary post from Maurice Little of VSA ...
>
>On this basis, with AT LEAST two state associations (VSA and NSWGA) are
>struggling to attract members to meetings (and given the vast distances
>involved in this great country of ours, who can b
Mike,
I asked a similar question when I first saw the proposal for the
recreational pilots license, and it was suggested to me that
recreational license holders who wanted/needed to fly aircraft larger than
allowed on the recreational license could upgrade. It was also
suggested that the u
