Must be close to 250+ airplanes all ready shown up, The air field is alive  with action and exhibitors, also we have great weather forecast for the next 3 days. All welcome – Come join in the great atmosphere

Tags: Raa Flyin

Simon and The Captain took some aerial pic b4 the start of Natfly, this soon will be turned in to a beehive of activity with planes form all over. Weather so far looks good. Hope to have some pics to post thought the weekend.

A reason to fly

Museum staff always happy to wave to the locals, Justin is also a local pilot with his own plane, which has just got airborne. can see some photos of Justin and Sal’s plane here posted mar 19th

This weekend a couple of our members got to have a close
up look at the Avenger, There where 2 that come down to fly
at the Museum flyin. Photo of Simon and Pilot Paul Bennet

Simon and Pilot, Paul Bennet

As you know, the High Country RV Fly-in Brekkie at Tumut from
9.00-11.00am Sunday 04OCT09, is just over a week away
(all RV’s and honorary RV’s welcome) and it leads nicely into
the nearby Jindabyne lunchtime BBQ event and presentations
from 12.00-2.00pm.

The attachments from Jindabyne provide general information
and specific airfield operational information for the day. 
They advise that a really nice day has been ordered with ideal
flying conditions from dawn to dusk, and if that works out as
ordered we’ll have to put them in charge
of weather for all our flying events.

More info can be found here Tumut Aero club

Hi Temora Aero Club members,

You are all invited to attend the fly in at Harold Rossiters farm “Youngara on September 19th & 20th. The coordinates and information about the strip are below:

36 RV and 1 F1 Rocket this year did a 37 ship formation at Oshkosh 2009, I believe it to be a world record.

The link to a heap of pics can be found here
http://picasaweb.google.com/N704TK/OSHTrip2009#

The second annual Winter RV Fly-in Brekkie, hosted by SAAA Chapter 4, is on at Wollongong Airport (YWOL) Albion Park on Sunday morning 07JUN09 from 9.00am to 12.00pm, so if you’ve got a memory like mine, write it in your book straight away. Our goal is one of each type flying in Australia. There is really nice hot breakfast and proper coffee etc at the very warm Aviator Lounge at the airport, so we invite you to fly in if you can (preferably in your RV but all aircraft welcomed), or drive in if you have an interest in the Van’s RV series of aircraft. There is also guided tours of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS)facility as an added attraction, plenty to see and plenty of like minded hangar nuts who enjoy talking the talk. Look forward to seeing you there.
more info available at www.aeroclub.com.au/events
Chapter 4 SAAA
John deBattista Events Co-ordinator 4261 2500
Phil Ayrton Secretary 0417 210731

Over 270 aircraft arrived at Narromine over Easter to check out all that is new and interesting about flying recreationally.

There were new aircraft on display, including an import from Columbia, the Ibis, the new LSA Brumby, a revamped Flying Flea on floats, and the Savage Cub tail dragger.

Jill and Norm Bailey flew up in two aircraft, with Nick McRae taking advantage of the opportunity to gain valuable navigation practice on the way in the Tecnam.

Also seen at for the day at Narromine were Rob Maslin, Simon Pike, Sam Richards, and Lindsay Wallace who enjoyed a walk around the trade displays and attending forums on all sorts of subjects.

The Ladies Tent was very well attended, with forums given by Jill on Fear of Flying, the POPE (Partners of Pilots Emergencies) course and How to Deal with Emergencies, along with other forums on the day about photography, gardening, cooking and even shared experiences from ladies who have experienced engine failures among other subjects. Guys, you should be very happy that there is now a reason for your partner to go to Narromine and she might even enjoy the visit! Many thanks to Carol Richards for initiating the Ladies Tent and to the ladies from Cessnock Aero Club for organising and running the tent so successfully.

Don’t forget our Pilot Nights at the Aero Club on Tuesday nights starting at 7.00pm. Subjects have included forced landings, diagnosing instrument troubles, controlled airspace, and short field techniques to name a few. If you have a subject you would like to raise, or just want to come along and hear more about flying, talk flying and drink coffee, come along.

Safe flying,

Jill

The club Tecnam has now clocked up over 1100 hours and still performs wonderfully.

New students include Trent Gibson from Young and the son of the new owner of the Terminus Hotel, Jon Wilson, along with conversions by Paul Sheather of Melbourne, and a POPE course graduate Anne-Marie Seve.

Congratulations also go to Damian Walker of Murrumbateman and Marty Mikosch of Nowra for RA-Aus licences along with Mitchell Liebich who can now take passengers in the Tecnam and has done just that in recent weeks.

It was good to see Nick Mcrae back in the air after a long break and Darren Price also treated his mother to a special birthday present with a Trial  Instructional Flight with Jill recently.

Other action in the sky has been formation endorsement training for Jill and Norm, Alan and Lindsay, so look out for more double trouble in the skies with two Tecnams!

Safe flying

Jill