Well, Christmas and New Years Eve are well and truly over and we are starting to settle back into our routines.

We are planning another human factors course on Saturday 13th February, with the course running along the same lines as last time. Beginning at 9.00am with a break for lunch and continuing until 3.00pm, the course costs $25 including lunch and will give attendees the required pass in Human Factors for their RA-Aus licences.

New students include Emma Turner, daughter of Junee local and club member Roger Turner, along with Peter Halls of Sydney. Other activities include Paul Westman dusting off his gliding instructor rating to begin the process of converting to an RA-Aus instructor rating, along with Paul spending a weekend up at Bathurst recently to complete his Glider Towing endorsement.

Congratulations also go to Cootamundra local Scott Sharman who recently completed his PPL under Graham White.

Over the last week one of our members Grant booth (Upside Down Websites), has
revamped the website to start off 2010, with the header logo supplied form Irvines
Signs. the aim to make it a bit more user friendly with new style layout. only
one page (Club Aircraft) left to do, that should be finished early next year, after
the new Tecnam gets all its sign writing and all new photos taken.

Some photos from the Xmas party “enjoy”

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

On Saturday 21st November 14 brave souls assembled at the Temora Aero Club to undertake human factors training as part of their RA-Aus Pilot Certificate requirements. For $25 they enjoyed a well presented course relating to Human Factors, along with a delicious sausage sandwich.

Boorowa based ambulance man and pilot Brad Lochrin presented the course, which had been approved by Mick Poole for use by Temora Flight Training.  The course was well received by the pilots and students attending, with Brad managing to make a complex subject enjoyable, relevant and meaningful to all who attended.

Human Factors is all about how pilots and passengers react, respond and cope with the often difficult environment we as pilots operate in, along with developing personal minimums and strategies for anticipating and dealing with situations both usual and unusual.

Temora Flight Training will be holding these courses on a regular basis in 2010, as all RA-Aus pilots need to complete the course by September 2010 to continue exercising the privileges of the Pilot Certificate. Contact Jill Bailey on 0412 409171 for more information and to book a place.

All students training and current RA-Aus pilots need to have completed the human factors training by September 2010 as part of their requirements for a licence.

To make life easier for everyone, I have organised a course for pilots and students to attend, and intend to offer the course throughout 2010 on a monthly basis.

Operating on Saturday 21st November from 9.00am for $25 with a BBQ lunch included, the course will give pilots the endorsement required, and also offer a chance to talk about experiences and scenarios, to make the course as interesting as possible.

Please advise Jill on 0412 409171 if you can attend as we need confirmed numbers, and if you can’t attend, please advise of your interest for a course on a different date.

Matt Hall and Kenny Love form the Temora Aviation Museum headed out of here on Wednesday to head back to Maitland
with the P51 Mustang, which Matt Hall did a fantastic routine on
Sat & Sunday at the Airshow.
More photos from the weekend can be found here

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

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

Father and son team Terry and Peter Franke had a great visit to the SAAA weekend at Cowra, coming away with the award for Best RA-Aus Home Built aircraft.

Terry and Peter have spend quite a bit of time and effort on their Zenith CH601XL and deserve this award.

Well done boys.