Howdy all,

We will be holding another Human Factors Course on Sunday the 19th September.  As many of you know this subject is a mandatory part of holding an RA-Aus Pilot Certificate so even though we will be continuing to hold these throughout the year you should try to knock it over before September if you can.

Cost is $35 including lunch, and you should also bring your logbook along. The course should go from 9.00am to 2.30pm with coffee and lunch breaks.

Contact Jill on 0412 409171 or email training@temoraflighttraining.com to advise if you can attend and for further info and venue details.

Hi All,

Temora Flight Training is holding our next Human Factors course on Sunday June 27th at Temora Aero Club.

As with previous courses, it will start at 9.00am, with a sumptous sausage sandwich for lunch, continuing on til approx. 3pm for $35.

Bookings are essential to Jill on 0412 409171, and don’t forget  to bring your logbook.

See you there,

Jill

A very exciting day on September 29th, with a huge crowd at the museum to see Justin and Sal Anderson’s Luscombe arrive. Rod Luke and Simon Pike flew to Gympie the previous day to pick it up and enjoyed two of the best days flying in recent weeks to bring her home.

The Oshkosh in the background provided the appropriate welcome, along with a crowd of Aero Club and Museum onlookers. Congratulations Sal and Justin.

Congratulations also to Robyn Otley, who achieved her Pilot Certificate on the 5th October. Husband Garath has been working hard on the new hangar and was heard to be thrilled with the news. “Now I can relax and let Robyn fly me everywhere”, was one comment overheard.

Upcoming events at the Aero Club include another TAFE course and another session of Wheelies with Wings.

The other big news is the awarding of the hosting of RA-Aus Natfly to Temora for 3 years. Held over the Easter weekend, this event promises to firmly cement Temora as the hub of aviation activity and will create a lot of interest.

Safe flying,

Jill

Washington, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board today issued an urgent safety recommendation to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in which it asked the agency to prohibit further flight of a type of a small airplane that has been involved in six in-flight structural breakups since 2006.

The recommendations apply to the Zodiac CH-601XL, a low-wing, fixed-gear, single- engine, two-seat general aviation airplane designed by Zenair, Inc. In its urgent safety recommendation, the Board cited four accidents in the United States and two in Europe in which the CH-601XL broke up in-flight killing a total of ten people. Aerodynamic flutter – a phenomenon in which the control surfaces of the airplane can suddenly vibrate, and if unmitigated, can lead to catastrophic structural failure – is suspected in all of the accidents.

The CH-601XL was certified as a Special Light Sport Aircraft (S-LSA) by the FAA in 2005. This type of certification does not require that the FAA approve the airplane’s design. Instead, the airplane model is issued an airworthiness certificate if the manufacturer asserts that the plane meets industry accepted design standards and has passed a series ground and flight tests.

The Safety Board’s urgent recommendation to the FAA is to prohibit further flight of the Zodiac CH-601XL until they can determine that the airplane is no longer susceptible to aerodynamic flutter. The Safety Board’s investigations of the accidents that occurred in the U.S. point to a problem with the design of the flight control system, which makes the airplane susceptible to flutter.
Links to articles here

http://ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2009/090414a.html