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September 2010 Newsletter

Chief Pilot Chat and Club President‘s Report 2

Briefs 4

Latest Achievers and New Members 6

Competitions 7

Expensive lessons—C182 fire 8

Too much for one man— The invention of the checklist 10

Air Brained quiz 13

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screens to the existing three HD screens. The software and cabling for the new screens have been com-pleted, we are now just waiting now for the physical screens to be

mounted and the RAC-7000 will have a complete 180 degree exter-nal visual system. Next - the cock-pit platform is planning to be rede-veloped to imitate the inside a real cockpit looking through ‗windows‘ to the screens !

The Flight Planning Centre Pro-ject By the time this Airchat is published the new FPC ‗Flight Planning Centre‘ should be operational. This is the redevelopment of the ‗hut‘ next

door. We now have 3 additional fully air-conditioned, electronic briefing rooms plus a flight planning console with two NAIPS PC‘s net-worked back to the main server. Members will now be able to plan flights in quality air-conditioned

comfort and in a quiet environment with NAIPS access.

Thanks Again to Mike, Barry & The Volunteers We all need to say a big thank you to Mike Cahill and Barry Doman the next time you see those guys

about. It is through their drive and the volunteering of tremendous amounts of time that the above projects are completed for ‗parts only cost‘. We also are very ap-preciative of course of the Volun-teer Group that helps out during

the ‗working bees‘ that kick these projects along. I hence encourage everyone to become involved in the Club working bees and social activities – to keep updated place your email address on the mailing list on our website.

New Instructor – Welcome to the team Natasha Politakis (Tash). Tash joins us as a casual Grade 3 Flight Instructor and has proven to be another popular, quality addition to the team.

Safe Flying Tony Stanton

Chief Pilot Chat

Airchat September 2010

Club President’s Report

Hi All, Welcome to another great edi-

tion of Airchat. As this edition is

published we have some exciting projects nearing completion. The Sim RAC-7000 Upgrade Project Our RAC-7000 Simulator has now undergone a visuals up-

grade. The new visuals are sig-nificantly improved allowing the student to now truly identify lakes, marinas, bridges and to-pography. The visuals are best described as a ‗Google Earth

view from about 10,000 ft‘. Al-most complete - Is the addition of two more high definition

When the Moreton Bay Regional Council was established it scheduled a strategic review of its two aerodromes, Redcliffe and Caboolture, as a first term issue. The Club, along with some other Redcliffe aerodrome lessees selected by the

Council, had a degree of input at the very start of the process. The review was carried out by consultants GHD, and the Council advised the Club of the outcome

of Stage 1 of the review in August this year. In brief, the Council resolved –

* The Council will adopt a ―status quo with nominal improvements including expansion of the hangar area‖ option for the Redcliffe aerodrome development strategy. * The Council will progress Stage 2 of the review during 2010/11, subject to funds being available, and develop a Redcliffe aerodrome Master Plan together with a business model based on the option in 1 above. (However funds

have already been committed and are available for both kangaroo fencing and levee bank works). * The Council will confirm with the State Government the future of the trustee arrangement over the aerodrome site in order to maintain and encourage private aviation industry to Redcliffe Aerodrome. (This is just to confirm that there are no time limits on the current arrangement) * Planning/modelling will be undertaken for associated aerodrome infrastructure including sewer, water, drain-age, and car parking during development of the Master Plan.

* The Council will continue annual safety audit inspections.

* Senior Council staff will liaise to arrange for appropriate signage to be erected on land designated for future development in close proximity to the aerodrome, advising of the continued operations of the aerodrome. There are some obvious, very satisfactory elements in that decision – the aerodrome is clearly part of the Coun-cil‘s 10 year planning horizon, and the more work that is done on the aerodrome the more likely that horizon will stretch further into the future; and the Council is flagging to nearby residential developments that ―the aero-

drome was here first‖. Just how much work will be done (e.g. sewerage) is, however, very much in the balance at this stage. Greg McC

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Welcome to the September 2010 edition of Airchat,

If you are reading this, then you survived the change from GAAP to the new Class D,

Congratulations!

For some, the jury may still be out as to whether the new Class D is the answer that CASA was looking for but what is known is

the amount of effort put in to educating pilots

and ATC appears to have paid off. CASA state they have recorded only a few minor issues during the change over, with most pilots and ATC staff responding well. CASA say they are dedicated to maintaining this level of educa-

tion where new changes require it. A universally welcome update came in the form of the latest version of the Visual Flight Rules Guide. The new guide will not be avail-able in print in an attempt to ensure the document remains current but can be easily

viewed and downloaded from the website.

With all this change it is easy to forget some of the longer running programs and with around 12,000 SAR times a year not being cancelled by pilots, Airservices Australia are ramping up their SAR minus 5 campaign, de-

tails on page 4.

A little closer to home, I am sure you have noticed the results from the latest working bee. The new briefing rooms look great. A huge thanks goes to all involved in this proc-ess. If you can help in anyway with future projects, let the team know.

The team have worked hard to ensure

another very successful NVFR program this winter. The added weather constraints involved with this type of training require exceptional planning by the instructional staff to limit lost time. Thanks to all of the team

involved with this. Both new holders of this rating and those experienced night pilots attended the night flying social on 21/08/2010. Ben Yaxley was available with the C310 for flights over the city. Ben offered seats on this flight on a cost share basis so pilots with and without the night rating could

enjoy the very different conditions of night flight is this great aircraft, Thanks Ben.

Safe Flying Tom Hassall

[email protected]

Short Final

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Briefs

SARTIME Management

Managing Search and Rescue times (SARTIMEs) and cancelling them at the end

of a safe flight is a critical responsibility of pi-lots in command. It ensures that Airservices

and emergency response authorities such as AusSAR (Australian Search and Rescue) or

the police know that you've arrived safely. It also prevents unnecessary search and rescue

operations - a highly resource intensive, and

at times costly, process.

Each year, around 12,000 SARTIMES expire without being cancelled by pilots. Up to 1800

of these are passed on to AusSAR when pilots cannot be contacted by Airservices Australia

within 15 minutes. From there AusSAR may alert and dispatch search and rescue teams.

However, the reality is that very few expired SARTIMES are the result of an aircraft in distress. Most are simply because pilots for-

get to extend or cancel their SARTIME prior to expiry.

Don't become the target of an unnecessary search and rescue effort. Set the alarm on your watch or mobile phone for your SARTIME minus 5 minutes. That way, five

minutes before your SARTIME is due to expire, you'll get a reminder to ring Airser-vices.

To cancel your SARTIME, phone CENSAR on 1800 814 931.

Airservices Safety Programs & Promotions has produced a printable SARTIME man-

agement fact sheet, and 'SARTIME minus 5' poster and sticker, which will assist you

to manage your SARTIME. For more information, or to obtain a copy of the poster or

sticker, email [email protected].

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Our AGM is scheduled for 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 26 October 2010 at the Clubhouse.

You will be receiving a formal notice shortly. It‘s important that we have a good roll-

up at the AGM to ensure there is a range of feedback to the Committee, and appro-

priate recognition of the efforts of staff during the year. I look forward to seeing

many of you there.

Greg McCallum, President

mailto:[email protected]

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Working Bee a HUGE success!

RAC Volunteers

From building state of the art simula-

tors to producing 3 new work spaces ,

not to mention the petrol driven

―landscaping‖, the team continue to

make an outstanding contribution to

the club !

Mike Cahill and Barry Doman organ-

ised another hugely successful working

bee last month. Transforming the out

building into a valuable space for all

members. The new space provides:

3 Fully functional briefing rooms.

A planning area with access to

NAIPs.

The building is air conditioned, pro-

viding a great place to plan those

summer flights.

But the team are not finished here yet

and they need your help!

The second phase of this conversion is

to add a deck from the main covered

area to ensure safe (and clean) pas-

sage to the new area when the ground

gets wet.

If you can help in anyway, please con-

tact any of the team at the club.

Thank you to all involved!

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Latest Achievers

Kate Goldson

Chris Hogan

Kelby Cheyne

James Sheffield

Craig Paulsen

Zechariah Lawson

Kevin Humphries

Andrew Sim

Adam Hocken

Ian Leung

Christopher Lewis

Wayne Morgan

Torkel Lawn

Josh Noonan

Ryan Matthews

Bill Melksham

Chris Adams

Brendan Taylor

Luke Reeves

James Marsden

Mark Thompson

Bradley Milliken

Dean Gilligan

Mr G Reutter

Les Simonsen

Werner Leist

Philip Arthur

Bevan Anderson

Welcome New Members


FIRST SOLO

Stuart Weavell

Michael Roebig

Kent Lindberg

James Sheffield

Joshua East

Nick Palmer

GFPT

Michael Rosenberg

Benjamin Kadletz

James Sheffield

Ian Daniel Michael Klingner

FIRST NIGHT SOLO

Tom Hassall

Cameron Dejong

Tom Carey

Jarrad Smith

Michael Rohrlach

Jackson Woodforde

Anthony Blansjaar

Craig Menerey

Jeremy Higgins

Kevin Manikkavasagar

PPLA

Ross Holland

Felix Duffy

Gavin Kelly

CLPA

Stephen White

NVFR

Barry Sutton

Tom Carey

Cameron Dejong

Nathan Black

David Nelson

Robert Rey

Tom Hassall

Daniel Lyons

John Walker

Phillip Loney

Daniel Valzan

David Geers

Daryl Allen

Benjamin Angus

Louise Clark

Neale Heal

Matthew Young

Peter Law

Joseph Martin

Firth Haigh

Murray Norris

James Murray

Ashley Browne

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Competition

Brit takes 2010 RBAR.

Paul Bonhomme won the 2010 Red

Bull Air Race season, earning the most

points during an international series

that was shortened by two races.

Hannes Arch of Austria was second in

the overall standings while Nigel Lamb

was third. Overall points were tallied

for the year after the season‘s final

race in Germany in early August won by Hannes Arch, with Paul Bonhomme second,

and Matt Hall of Australia in third place.

Australian Pilot Matt Hall is hoping to return to the series in 2012 after pilot error

saw his plane hit the water in Detroit. His amazing recovery can be seen at

www.redbullairrace.com

Club Competition.

Compete for the flying competition TROPHY at Wings Dinner 2010. Spot Landings,

Blind circuits....How good a pilot are you? Are you one of our best ??

The 2nd round of the Redcliffe Aero Club flying competition was held on 19th Sep-tember. The event was another great opportunity to meet other club members and

test your flying skills.

Pilots had to set attitudes and altitudes without the aid of the ASI or altimeter before

setting up for flour bombing and a spot landing!

A huge thanks to Dan Smith for again providing his services to ensure the smooth running of the event.

Round 2 Results

First Place — Ash Pickering Second Place — James Redgrave

Third Place — Tom Hassall Fourth Place — Rob Ray

Email [email protected] or talk to the team at the club for more info

on the next round.

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News

CESSNA 182 FIRE

For those of you not familiar with a Cessna 182, do not be misled by the photos.

The 182 is a high wing aircraft.

This 182 was brand new, glass cockpit and all, with a total of only 80 hours on it.

Its pilot was flying to a camp carrying a lawn mower (with gas in it) in the back seat.

He also had a 12v to 110v inverter plugged in with the inverter sitting on the floor in

the back, running his laptop computer.

He landed on the grass runway and smelled gas fumes during rollout.

He stopped, turned the airplane around to back-taxi, and reached back to feel the lawn mower

and stop the fuel leak before it messed up the carpet any more than it already had, when

POOF! the entire back seat area ignited.

He pulled the mixture out, jumped out, called 911, and began running to the line shack in

hopes of finding a fire extinguisher (he had removed his from the aircraft as he did not think

his plane would ever catch fire and what is more, mounted between the front seats it was a

nuisance when he reached down there every time to disengage his seat rail lock).

He got half way to the line shack and turned around to see the wings fold down to the ground.

Fire trucks arrived 12-15 minutes later and put out the fire. Best guess is that the inverter

somehow sparked and ignited the gas fumes. He admitted if this had happened in the air there

would not have been enough time to land and escape before the smoke and flames overpow-

ered him or the airplane disintegrated in mid-air.

The pilot was known to be good. He was obviously not a very good judge of what to carry in

the back of an airplane, or, anything can go wrong, or the conviction that has killed many a

pilot: "It can't happen to me".

Morals to the story:

1. Never carry any fuel on board other than what is in the airplane's tanks.

2. Always have your fire extinguisher handy on board; you never know when you will need it!!!

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"too much airplane for one man to fly.”

Last Airchat we asked which aircraft type was the first for which a checklist was

developed? The correct answer was the Boeingtype 299. This issue, thanks to Phil

Ware, the answer is more fully explained.

On October 30, 1935, at Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio, the U.S. Army Air Corps

held a flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build its next-generation

long-range bomber. It wasn't supposed to be much of a competition. In early evalua-

tions, the Boeing Corporation's gleaming aluminum-alloy Model 299 had trounced the

designs of Martin and Douglas. Boeing's plane could carry five times as many bombs as

the Army had requested; it could fly faster than previous bombers and almost twice as

far.

A Seattle newspaperman who had glimpsed the plane called it the "flying fortress" and

the name stuck. The flight "competition", according to the military historian Phillip

Meilinger, was regarded as a mere formality. The Army planned to order at least sixty

-five of the aircraft.

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A small crowd of Army brass and manufacturing executives watched as the Model 299

test plane taxied onto the runway. It was sleek and impressive, with a hundred-and-

three-foot wingspan and four engines jutting out from the wings, rather than the usual

two. The plane roared down the tarmac, lifted off smoothly and climbed sharply to

three hundred feet. Then it stalled, turned on one wing and crashed in a fiery explo-

sion. Two of the five crew members died, including the pilot, Major Ployer P. Hill (thus

Hill AFB, Ogden , UT ).

An investigation revealed that nothing mechanical had gone wrong. The crash had been

due to "pilot error," the report said. Substantially more complex than previous air-

craft, the new plane required the pilot to attend to the four engines, a retractable

landing gear, new wing flaps, electric trim tabs that needed adjustment to maintain

control at different airspeeds and constant-speed propellers whose pitch had to be

regulated with hydraulic controls, among other features.

While doing all this, Hill had forgotten to release a new locking mechanism on the ele-

vator and rudder controls. The Boeing model was deemed, as a newspaper put it, "too

much airplane for one man to fly.” The Army Air Corps declared Douglas's smaller

design the winner. Boeing nearly went bankrupt.

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Still, the Army purchased a few aircraft from Boeing as test planes and some insiders

remained convinced that the aircraft was flyable. So a group of test pilots got to-

gether and considered what to do.

They could have required Model 299 pilots to undergo more training. But it was hard

to imagine having more experience and expertise than Major Hill, who had been the

U.S. Army Air Corps' Chief of Flight Testing. Instead, they came up with an ingen-

iously simple approach: they created a pilot's checklist, with step-by-step checks for

takeoff, flight, landing and taxiing. Its mere existence indicated how far aeronautics

had advanced.

In the early years of flight, getting an aircraft into the air might have been nerve-

racking, but it was hardly complex. Using a checklist for takeoff would no more have

occurred to a pilot than to a driver backing a car out of the garage, but this new

plane was too complicated to be left to the memory of any pilot, however expert

With the checklist in hand, the pilots went on to fly the Model 299 a total of 18 mil-

lion miles without one accident. The Army ultimately ordered almost thirteen thousand

of the aircraft, which it dubbed the B-17. And, because flying the behemoth was

now possible, the Army gained a decisive air advantage in the Second World War which

enabled its devastating bombing campaign across Nazi Germany.

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How air-brained are you?

1. Every physical process of weather is accompanied by, or is the result

of a, A. Movement of air.

B. Heat exchange. C. Pressure differential

D. The Coriolis Force

2. When may an emergency locator

transmitter (ELT) be tested? A. Anytime.

B. At 15 and 45 minutes past the hour. C. During the first 5 minutes after the

hour.

D. During civil twilight.

3. Which cruising altitude is appro-

priate for a VFR flight on a magnetic course of 135 degrees?

A. Even Thousand B. Even thousand plus 500 feet

C. Odd Thousand plus 500 feet D. Any altitude

4. In what Airspace are VFR flight Prohibited?

A. Class B

B. Class A C. Class G

D. Military Operations Area's

5. Which aircraft has the right of way over the other aircraft listed?

A. Helicopter B. Aircraft refueling another aircraft

C. Airship D. Glider

6. Who is responsible for determining

if an aircraft is in condition for safe flight?

A. The Owner. B. The Mechanic.

C. The Pilot in Command

D. The Line Guy

7. Each private pilot is required to

have a? A. Annual flight review.

B. Biennial flight review C. Semiannual flight review

D. Check ride every 12 calendar months

1. B - The difference in temperature between two air masses causes all weather and is hap-

pening all the time. heating, cooling, updrafts, downdrafts, winds, etc…

2. C - ELTs should only be tested on the ground during the first 5 minutes of each hour.

3. C - You must operate at the correct hemispherical altitude above 5000ft and should at-

tempt to apply these levels at all altitudes. I’ve heard lots of different ways to remem-

ber this but I like - it’s always ODD returning to the EAST coast.

4. B - Class A airspace (from 18,000 - FL600) Requires you to be on an IFR flight plan.

5. D.

6. C –Easy one!

7. B -Each private pilot must have a biennial flight review (every 2 years) (24 calendar

months)

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Kulula Airline has unveiled their new livery, and it‘s ...‖different‖!

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