Some good flying days were available in the last month and I was able to accumulate the remaining hours to complete the 40 hour test program on my Onex which went very well. I have now gathered all the paperwork together, which took nearly as long as the test flying, and await unrestricted flying approval….
The Adelaide Aero Club invites you along to a rare and informative evening on Friday 16th March where Angel Flight CEO and founding member, Marjorie Pagani, will be visiting Adelaide to create awareness of Angel Flight to the general community and to recruit volunteer pilots and ground crew in South Australia. See the Calendar entry…
Join us to commemorate the life of Roger Duance at 17:00 on Thursday 22 February at the South Australian Aviation Museum. Click here for Calendar entry.
I trust you have all had an enjoyable holiday season which included some fun activities like BBQs and flying. I have been busy accumulating hours on my Onex to lift the test flying restrictions. I am now up to 32 hours with another 8 hours needed to complete the test flying. The has been some…
The Club Christmas dinner is behind us for another year as we move into the festive season. Some 55 people were at the dinner, held at the Public Schools Club dining room. I believe everyone had a good time with feedback to me such as: “Very nice food”, Excellent value at $50”, “Nice ambience”, “Good…
100 years ago, on Thursday 23rd November, the first air mail deliver occurred to to Gawler. To mark the occasion, John Couper-Smartt, with others, have organised a day to celebrate this occasion, with a mail deliver occurring to the Adelaide Soaring Club, by air of course!! Click here for more details on the Calendar
The nicer weather has meant I am able to do more test flying on my Onex. The test program is progressing well with over 12 hours achieved since the maiden flight in early September. The usual adjustments on the carburettor were needed, (this is a VW derivative engine after all!), but I am closing in…
Dinner bookings and cancellations in the future will only be via the website. You need to be logged in the SAC website to make a booking. If you don’t already have an account, you can create one with your first booking (see below). Bookings will close at 12 midday on the Monday before the monthly…
Well spring has arrived and I hope you are dusting off the cobwebs and getting back into some aviating now that the better weather is upon us. In the last couple of weeks Dominie and I did something unique that I had intended to do for years. We were invited to go sailing with some…
Following requests from the aviation industry, the Bureau of Meteorology will be changing the format of Area Forecasts (ARFORs) from text based to graphical on 9 November 2017. The new format is known as a Graphical Area Forecast (GAF). The GAF will be a combination of graphical and textual information. The graphic will be divided…
