Recent content by southerndoug

Hi Alex, I tried to write you a long reply but we're limited to 140 characters here. Can I contact you at [email protected]?

"Let our Team of experienced CASA Certified pilots take you to hard to reach places and unimaginable heights" Awesome. For all the wrong reasons. Hey CASA, seen this one?

I'm with you on that one Jarado. However as a commercial operator, if you have been granted an exemption, you can operate in a CTA as long as you are more than 3 NM from the movement area of the controlled aerodrome. You need to contact the tower and tell them what you're doing. In my...

Agree. New Zealand has an opening for Shielded operations: Shielded operation means an operation of an aircraft within 100 m of, and below the top of, a natural or man-made object. Examples could be a flight that takes place in a stadium below the height of the roof, or a flight that takes...

I feel your pain dasko! But CASA is woefully under-resourced in their RPA section, so any response to illegal activity will only probably happen when there is an accident, despite there being many examples of idiocy posted online. Personally I'm amazed at some of the RPA-acquired footage I see...

My CASA guy said "I have just been told that IREX will be a requirement for BVLOS operations for the foreseeable future. Either the PIC or mission commander must hold it." A less relevant exam there could not be.... I've got the text book for home study and am wading through it now...

Money paid. Fingers crossed....

Well done that man! I know what you mean about trying to make some money back... lots of outlay; now for the insurance and marketing and door knock appeal! Oh, and the back-up Inspire....

Hey Tyrone, if you update your manuals to the new template (if you haven't already) you may save yourself 10 hours assessment fee... $1500 at least. And yes, as a one man band you can be the fat controller AND the maintenance controller.

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Mainly structural failure of CF arms at T join, and also where the landing gear mount joins at the body. The implication was poor flying skills and heavy landings. He showed me a photo of one guys Inspire that was held together with Gaffer tape.... and that was how he presented at his CASA...

The new template is pretty easy to populate with your name, company name etc. the really annoying bit as far as I was concerned was the lame MS Word document and its crappy formatting. So that will take time to sort out if you can be bothered. I bothered. The operational library is probably the...

Yep, 19 January, Ops Manual and Operational Library. The Ops Manual is what they want to see, and want submitted. The Library is up to you to maintain, and may only be reviewed by CASA if they audit you or the law becomes involved....

Yep got on with him well. I won't put his name on a public forum. He certainly offered for me to call any time for advice, but he's pretty over his job and the workload, so not sure how much longer he'll be in the game...

Thanks Lofty, it was a relief! Yeah a few interesting times coming our way in Oz, what with the sub 2kg announcement (or at least confirmed rumour). And the new manual template was a bit of a bombshell too... I can imagine there will be quite a few very pissed off people who have paid between...