Is RACWA on finals? YOU WERE WARNED!!
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Flying Monkey. I reckon you are spot on. Trained at RACWA, fly at RACWA. Did RACWA gove you a job. A real job ??? No probably not....so go out in the real world, face off with non-RACWA tained pilt sand see how you fair. Dont comment until you have a handle on an industry standard. And.....should you still come back with the same views then i can only say you have been short changed.
1. No RACWA did not give me any job.
2. I've flown with non-RACWA trained pilots and I must say I am happy with my flying. Like I said, I have no issues with the quality of instructing at RACWA. It's the management of the entire organization that is in shambles.
3. As far as being short-changed, I believe I am not the only one.
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Unless they consider replacing some of these managers it may just continue "ops normal" with no lessons learnt.
Does anybody know how many of them hold formal qualifications as 'manager' ? How are they selected ?
Does anybody know how many of them hold formal qualifications as 'manager' ? How are they selected ?
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Things are looking up....up....up....
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Those companies (cadet training) normally bring their own instructors.
Is that the reason why they got rid of all the "older" instructors ?
These negotiations do not happen overnight......
Will WAAC be pushed out of the building / sold / get rid of / closed ?
There is no space in the building left to accommodate that type of training.
Is that the reason why they got rid of all the "older" instructors ?
These negotiations do not happen overnight......
Will WAAC be pushed out of the building / sold / get rid of / closed ?
There is no space in the building left to accommodate that type of training.
short flights long nights
How many instructors have the sacked?
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OK the fact that the silence from the committee is deafening means they have NOTHING TO TELL US! If they had solved the finance issues, they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
No, my bet is there's been a reprieve from the bank, but nothing much more. So it's back from the brink, but on the doomsday clock, it's still one minute to midnight.
No, my bet is there's been a reprieve from the bank, but nothing much more. So it's back from the brink, but on the doomsday clock, it's still one minute to midnight.
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Things are looking up....up....up....
Perhaps RACWA and the supporters on this forum have enabled us all with psychic powers and we can divine just what it is that has caused this outbreak of happiness.
Or, perhaps, it's a bit like mushrooms. The end result is a delight but the process doesn't bear thinking about.
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Skywest / virgin cadetship?
Not the first time such a thing has been tried. WAAC courted a major airline unsuccessfully several years back - the place did get a fresh lick of paint though.
Why would an airline waste money on the remains of RACWA in any case? (really? There might be a good reason, but i cant see it.)
In any case, surely as a "club" RACWA would be better off at YMUL with a small fleet of cheap, safe, LSA type aircraft, not chasing the "big" airline training dollars..
Bugger this... Minovation here I come.
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looks like they have access to some new aircraft 
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Four new aircraft online! Welcome to VH-ECU, a Cessna172SP with Garmin 1000 Glass Cockpit and VH-JTV, VH-JTO and VH-JTE, near new SportStars which can be used for ab-initio training and private hire.
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Four new aircraft online! Welcome to VH-ECU, a Cessna172SP with Garmin 1000 Glass Cockpit and VH-JTV, VH-JTO and VH-JTE, near new SportStars which can be used for ab-initio training and private hire.
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Where do these 4 aircraft now suddenly come from ?
VH-ECU : Is it the one ECU university used to have at Singapore / TAC ?
Didn't sombody say a while ago that MK joined TAC just down the drag.
Those negotiations does not happen overnight either, so is the "visibility" now increasing after all the "smoke and mirrors" of the last few months ?
What is the truth here ?
I see there is a new CEO on the WAAC website as well. Staff turnover is now so fast it is difficult to keep up.
VH-ECU : Is it the one ECU university used to have at Singapore / TAC ?
Didn't sombody say a while ago that MK joined TAC just down the drag.
Those negotiations does not happen overnight either, so is the "visibility" now increasing after all the "smoke and mirrors" of the last few months ?
What is the truth here ?
I see there is a new CEO on the WAAC website as well. Staff turnover is now so fast it is difficult to keep up.
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From my experience, using Sportstars for ab initio training is going to be an expensive short lived exercise. They are lovely little aircraft, but they are not idiot proof and can't take punishment. We had Four. now we have Two, and not for ab initio.......
Crosswind ability is limited to about Twelve knots, and even then they can be a handful because they run out of aileron authority very quickly.
They have short little landing gears, which combined with the limited aileron authority and low wings, means that wing tip and aileron tip scrapes are a certainty. Mishandling in pitch on takeoff will give the tail skid a workout too.
Directional stability on takeoff and landing is not very good and you have to be quick with the rudder.
Once airborn, they are an absolute delight, you even get to use the rudder a bit. The stall however is problematic. There is no stall warning system, probably because it doesn't really stall, it just sort of mushes down, it's quite easy to recover, however if you now get overconfident and kick it in the guts it will drop a wing on you, possibly even the other way as well when you try and recover. Turbulence also throws them around quite a bit because they are so light.
The light weight means that there is not much momentum, and on approach with flaps you can build up a very high rate of descent very quickly by closing the throttle too much, you actually need to bleed off the power all the way to the ground.
The interior and the finish is excellent, except that the vernier throttle has plastic bits in it that can break if forced. This led to a really interesting situation one day when closing the Throttle in the flare actually increased power. The Rotax engine is a joy, but be sure to teach students how to "burp" the dry sump oil system before checking oil quantity.
I try to fly them when it's relatively calm because they do sharpen your reflexes compared to Cessnas and Pipers.
Crosswind ability is limited to about Twelve knots, and even then they can be a handful because they run out of aileron authority very quickly.
They have short little landing gears, which combined with the limited aileron authority and low wings, means that wing tip and aileron tip scrapes are a certainty. Mishandling in pitch on takeoff will give the tail skid a workout too.
Directional stability on takeoff and landing is not very good and you have to be quick with the rudder.
Once airborn, they are an absolute delight, you even get to use the rudder a bit. The stall however is problematic. There is no stall warning system, probably because it doesn't really stall, it just sort of mushes down, it's quite easy to recover, however if you now get overconfident and kick it in the guts it will drop a wing on you, possibly even the other way as well when you try and recover. Turbulence also throws them around quite a bit because they are so light.
The light weight means that there is not much momentum, and on approach with flaps you can build up a very high rate of descent very quickly by closing the throttle too much, you actually need to bleed off the power all the way to the ground.
The interior and the finish is excellent, except that the vernier throttle has plastic bits in it that can break if forced. This led to a really interesting situation one day when closing the Throttle in the flare actually increased power. The Rotax engine is a joy, but be sure to teach students how to "burp" the dry sump oil system before checking oil quantity.
I try to fly them when it's relatively calm because they do sharpen your reflexes compared to Cessnas and Pipers.