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May 1st  2020

WHEN YOU WANT TO MOUNTIES TO COME FIND YOU

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WHAT TO DO AS AN AVIATOR IF SUFFERING FROM CABIN FEVER?
Well here are a few suggestions:




1. Buy a  copy of an epic story written by Lanie Anderson (an Adelaide journalist) titled The Long Flight Home.. A £10,000 prize has been offered for the first airmen to fly from England to Australia. Ross Smith is banking on an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, a biplane with a fuselage that looks ominously like a coffin. Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important – and largely forgotten – chapters in world aviation history. Lainie Anderson's ambitious and moving novel is told through her narrator, Wally Shiers.



2. There is no better book all Australian pilots should own and its the unofficial "bible" of VFR (Visual flight Rules}. Produced by CASA its available for online purchase... Best $35 you will ever spend on keeping proficient with Australian rules.



3. Close calls...Want something for nothing? Read this most recent publication online and learn from others mistakes and near misses. Well worth reading as you contemplate your return to flying when this nasty virus has left us.
 

A GIFT THAT MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE



Last newsletter I discussed at some length the scenario of an engine failure. And more importantly what will you do in the event?

Well as a starting point we should have a comprehensive "Checklist" with us EVERY TIME WE FLY. But its not there to swat flies. Its to enable you do everything possible to save your life and those who fly with you. It's all too easy to be overly confident in our abilities and not be 110% ready.

So with the help of an US pilot I follow on You-tube I have taken his checklist (which he kindly shared) and recreated my own for my Jabiru J230-D. This is for my own aircraft. It is important that you make your own. Each one will require you to adjust the list to suit your aircraft. Here it is to view online.  I have created it so that it prints to A5 paper and is spiral bound at the top (not centre as shown in this example). Each page is laminated for long term use. The file is in PowerPoint format. If you'd like a PowerPoint (you can alter it to suit) copy emailed to you (or a PDF copy) then drop me an email and I'll happily send it to you. If you don't have PowerPoint there is a free alternative program - LibreOffice that you can down load and use.

Find a copy here:  https://www.libreoffice.org/

To view my sample version on line click here. It actually flips from the top not the side but you can have it anyway you'd like:

https://flipbookpdf.net/web/site/5081d42c2d7a096ff46d16c706624adb350a58ee202004.pdf.html
 
COME FIND ME ...NOW

We are so fortunate these days in modern aviation. Technology has provided us with an array of tools that our forefathers couldn't have conceived even 10 years ago. Imagine a time now without a mobile phone or access to the internet.

Navigation has been transformed with the advent of tablets and other mobile devices. Weather is just a click away whilst we are flying.We can plan electronically and run the plan live as we fly. Quite wonderful.

As I was preparing for a relatively short flight across the water to Kangaroo Island recently, I made sure that I had my EPIRB ( Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) ...better described as a Survival Beacon  ...at the ready as a just in case scenario. The law requires us to carry a current and fully functioning EPIRB to be onboard for any trip of 50 miles or more. So what value is the device really. Well all that's required in the situation where you face imminent danger, you just trigger the EPIRB and immediately through satellite transmission our Australian Maritime Safety Authority are immediately contacted and they can follow that EPIRB until it stops transmitting. They will know within meters where the EPIRB is located at any time. Now that's technology at its best.Once the EPIRB has been triggered all safety resources are marshalled and the search for you is started. And its a free service. What a great country we live in.

It is however incumbent upon the Pilot In Command (PIC) ...you... to be totally familiar with the operating procedures of your unit to ensure the best outcome should you ever need to use it.



But it gets better. All EPIRBs must be registered with AMSA. Not much use owning one and AMSA don't know who owns it. In this instance, for the small trip I was planning, I carried my own EPIRB into a hired aircraft. In the AMSA website you can head here to this link:



You login with your registration details and there you can add a short "story" regarding the trip details.I noted the registration details of the hired aircraft, names of pilot and passengers and trip plans. So should I have to use the EPIRB during the trip, AMSA not only start searching for me but they also know my trip plans and POB crew details. It makes their life so much easier and helps in the rescue effort. You can add attachments. I added a photo of the aircraft to show its type and colour markings.

If the fan out front stops or you have an emergency or are facing danger...use the EPIRB. I'd want the "mounties" to come look for me in such events.Wouldn't you?

So next time you check that the batteries are working on your EPIRB spare a thought for what you can do to gain the most from the device in a  time of need.

FINALLY - SOMETHING FOR NOTHING...THAT WILL HELP SAVE YOU ONE DAY.

Know anything about ADS-B?

ADS-B is a system in which electronic equipment onboard an aircraft automatically broadcasts the precise location of the aircraft via a digital data link.

Automatic – Requires no pilot input or external interrogation.
Dependant – Depends on accurate position and velocity data from the aircraft’s navigation system (eg. GPS).
Surveillance – Provides aircraft position, altitude, velocity, and other surveillance data to facilities that require the information.
Broadcast – Information is continually broadcast for monitoring by appropriately equipped ground stations or aircraft.

The data can be used by other aircraft and air traffic control to show the aircraft’s position and altitude on display screens without the need for radar.

The system involves an aircraft with ADS-B determining its position using GPS. A suitable transmitter then broadcasts that position at rapid intervals, along with identity, altitude, velocity and other data. Dedicated ADS-B grounds stations receive the broadcasts and relay the information to air traffic control for precise tracking of the aircraft.

ADS-B data is broadcast every half-second on a 1090MHz, digital data link.

If you are in Australia and use either OzRunways or AvPlan as your EFB, there is now a free add-on called (AVTraffic) that can link directly to your EFB app of choice using the cellular connection on your tablet..

Why? It will then add into the display all aircraft that are using ADS-B Out. Mainly the larger aircraft that have it fitted. All commercial aircraft and some gliders have it fitted. Its just another way to see additional aircraft than either of the two EFB suppliers in Australia currently display. See below. One aircraft on OzRunways (lower right). Then 7 others on the left are via the AVTraffic ADS-B connection. Greater awareness for all.



Click here to get your app:



Installation directions here:

You wont see every aircraft around BUT it displays more that you would not have seen before.

I've used the Ipad "Shortcut" app which is part of the later IOS to join the EFB and AVTraffic. It opens both apps simultaneously.

A word of warning. Once opened the app will continue connected to your "aircraft" in the EFB. The square button top left corner needs to be closed to stop the ongoing connection in the background until you close it. Simple but remember that last step. The disconnect button...top left


Till next time...fly safe and ....

 
This months thought:
It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft .

Cheers

 Ian McDonald
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