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$81,500 for the 800 hour VH registered Bristell.
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Fark! The Tecnam Twins were $400000 each when they were new. These aren’t. I have flown both of them in their previous life at anther flight school and I can confirm that they were a maintenance nightmare. Gee, buy two good recent year model Seminoles for $500k if you want a good IFR Twin trainer.
Aeroprakt Foxbat.
Close to 4K hours. Probably pretty tired if still in one piece.
My contacts that viewed the aircraft and logs all said that they was a lot of bent, broken, replaced and upgraded nose legs, even on the newer Tecnams.
Close to 4K hours. Probably pretty tired if still in one piece.
My contacts that viewed the aircraft and logs all said that they was a lot of bent, broken, replaced and upgraded nose legs, even on the newer Tecnams.
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The rear fuse had an inspection hole cut in it but this compromised the structural integrity of the rear fuselage, So I have been told. Look at the foxbat SB on their website apropos the rudder cable replacement. I was told by a soar engineer, well he wore a soar jacket and said he was an engineer, they had developed a tool to replace those components but IMHO it was BS. Hence the new rear fuse as part of the YBSK auction. I was told by the horse it was over 35k to get it back in the air. Did anyone notice with numerous aircraft the similarity between leak down tests, i.e., 78/80 for every cylinder?
Australian Aviation reporting that the (ex) students from SOAR are facing a long wait to get to Court.....
The reported delay until Sept 2022 means that many of the (ex)students will be unable to afford to enroll for alternative qualifications because they have used up their limited VET student loans.
What a 'sh1t' situation to be in!
(Not that there's a 'lot' of vacancies right now.....
Maybe a quick course in tennis could expedite their case, like, have it this weekend...)
The reported delay until Sept 2022 means that many of the (ex)students will be unable to afford to enroll for alternative qualifications because they have used up their limited VET student loans.
What a 'sh1t' situation to be in!
(Not that there's a 'lot' of vacancies right now.....
Maybe a quick course in tennis could expedite their case, like, have it this weekend...)
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Compare CASAs approaches to SOAR with APT
So the question has to be asked. How did CASA allow SOAR to continue to operate after having numerous safety events and probably other indirect evidence of shonkiness, and Glen Buckley's APT to be nailed with (as far as I am aware) none.
Also how does Box Hill institute continue to function? TEQSA should have shut down the accreditation after the SOAR problems started to surface.
I reckon more names need to appear in this forum to let us all know who are the incompetent shonks.
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Also how does Box Hill institute continue to function? TEQSA should have shut down the accreditation after the SOAR problems started to surface.
I reckon more names need to appear in this forum to let us all know who are the incompetent shonks.
Seabreeze
(As a small aside, I do find it amusing that the 08 Sep ERSA entry for YMMB specifically added RAAus aircraft to the PPR list. Maybe, like many who grew up herding Foxbats in the circuit, they never want to see one of them yellow perils ever again.
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The Age is reporting that only around 10% of the approximately 1000 students got their CPL.
(As a small aside, I do find it amusing that the 08 Sep ERSA entry for YMMB specifically added RAAus aircraft to the PPR list. Maybe, like many who grew up herding Foxbats in the circuit, they never want to see one of them yellow perils ever again. )
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nearly 10 mill of that in legal and administration fees!
Those poor students! How many of them were involved in the class action?
And Neel gets away with it.
Supreme Court approves Soar Payout - Australian Flying
Those poor students! How many of them were involved in the class action?
And Neel gets away with it.
Supreme Court approves Soar Payout - Australian Flying
I personally worked with the Kingston Council (Moorabbin) and RAAus to get the $300+ landing fee for RAAus aircraft removed! Happened a few months ago.
It was about landing fee collection, not the aircraft or operator.
It was about landing fee collection, not the aircraft or operator.
ymmb is still off limits since it’s class D airspace. No entry without a PPL and medical and a factory built aircraft. There is nothing about reduced charges on their website. I can’t wait for it to be redeveloped, then the NIMBYs can complain about traffic, parking, crime and pollution. The developers are just the usual sharks and should be treated as such. A plague on the lot of them.
ymmb is still off limits since it’s class D airspace. No entry without a PPL and medical and a factory built aircraft. There is nothing about reduced charges on their website. I can’t wait for it to be redeveloped, then the NIMBYs can complain about traffic, parking, crime and pollution. The developers are just the usual sharks and should be treated as such. A plague on the lot of them.
I’m not sure where you get your little outbursts from, as I’ve been operating my amateur built aircraft into YMMB legally for years!
