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AirCentre News     January 2001

Week Five
  Disaster for OZ Light Aircraft on Australia Day Holiday
Good Flying Record Shattered - CASA Making the News Media

CASA is still in trouble, this time it involves the aircraft registration fiasco that has been going on for more than two years

During the past week champion spokesman for the private pilot, Boyd Munro, sent a letter to all registered aircraft owners here in OZ explaining the facts as he sees it about CASA's proposed changes on how an aircraft is to be registered

Boyd's comments can be accessed by clicking HERE


Boyd Munro's past expenses in support of private flying are detailed HERE and HERE

This latest expense for Boyd last week cost him around $10,000

Adding this amount to his previous above mentioned expenses in highlighting CASA's errors must now amount to quite a sizeable sum of money with no recourse for recovery !


Click to enlarge A Pitts aerobatic aircraft from Archerfield was lost along with the pilot when it hit the ground in Archerfield's training area near Logan Village during an airshow practice session with a Yak-50 mid-morning Sunday 28

Source:- VH-IFI on VHF 125.7 and 118.1mhz

Click to enlarge The pilot was a local media personality Anthony Gordon with his ex Hempel S-1E Pitts VH-SIS

Source:- www.news.com.au

Three light aircraft accidents over the Australia Day weekend have claimed nine lives

Source:- www.abc.net.au

On Friday night a twin engined Cessna C310 experienced problems and hit the ground in WA claiming the lives of all four police officers on board

Source:- www.abc.net.au  www.news.com.au

On Sunday, as well as the Pitts accident near Archerfield, a low powered Beech A 23 aircraft, with four people on board impacted the ground shortly after take-off from Canberra airport

Source:- www.abc.net.au



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