Hi Tinstaafl:
The Islander is a great bush plane.
Yeh I think I know sort of what they may be driving at, but there comes a point where common sense has to prevail or everyone will be afraid to fly.
By the way I have spent the last two weeks getting approval from your CASA to train some Aussie pilots on an airplane that they bought and re registered under Aus. Reg.
My, my, I had forgotten what a paper chase something like that can result in. For the first time in my career I have been asked to supply a copy of my personal log with three pages of proof on type.
Here in Canada there is no need to keep a personal log book ( except to show proof of time for a license or type upgrade, or instrument rating, etc. also for recency. ) Anyhow I haven't kept a personal log for many years mainly because I have never needed one. So there is always something exciting and new in Aviation.
Anyhow, eventually we will get it all straightened out. They agreed to accept an outline of my last thirty five years on type, because it is very simple to prove such flying.
Hope to get to Australia some time, the training for the type rating on the Aus. machine will be done in Europe, however I probably will get down your way eventually. Somehow I never got any closer to Australia than Fiji and Singapore.
Don't pay to much attention to some of my posts as I just get bored and have to join in once in a while.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.