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You will all have received in the mail a letter from Peter Harris, regarding your need to have your say, and reply to the NPRM on Part 103. An NPRM is a "Notice of Proposed Rule Making".I will include the letter here, and at the bottom of it, you will find an address for snail mail replies. Please encourage all members to reply to this NPRM before the closing date, which is 19th February. Can"t get the logo to copy across! ThanksAUSTRALIAN SPORT ROTORCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC
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G"day all,I responded on-line to the NPRM yesterday - and it only took me three attempts.
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Daj,Hey Mate, do I have to download the whole thing to get to the questionaire?
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Mitch,I did that a whole day ago.
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Done Daj,Only took me 3 mins......Thank you Sir, you are a Gentlemen and a Scholar.
It"s too easy fellas. Fill out the form and help the membership.Cheers,Mitch.
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G"day all,I responded on-line to the NPRM yesterday - and it only took me three attempts.
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Dudes,My experience with buerocrats is that they dont give a rat"s rectum what it is that anybody "wants". What have we got? maybe 500 pilots? Not going to be any big vote winner.However, what makes bueros decidedly skittish is that they don"t want to be seen pushing people into something that is unsafe. All of the reading that my tiny "pea-sized" brain has been able to absorb about the safety issues surrounding gyros, the standout has been "slow in the early hours of flying". The last thing a low hour pilot wants to be doing is to be "up there with the big kids" while he is flying slow (i.e. safe) and trying to get experience. The other thing that comes to mind for low hour pilots is the issue of horizontal reference.Two things? Hmmmm. Must be the size of 2 peas, then.All I"m saying is that we won"t necessarily "win" because we all say we wanna fly at 300 ft. But if there are sound safety reasons why we should be able to fly at 300, then its hard for them to say "no!"
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Great to read such positive feedback and some very valid points. Everyone who reads this must respond!
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3.5.38 Gyroplanes were not permitted until very recently to fly higher than 500 feetabove ground level. This is a hang-over from the early days of ultralight aircraft flying,when there were no approved designs and no two-place training. Ultralight aeroplanesdeveloped more rapidly than rotorcraft, and this limitation was removed from them in1990. However, in order to give those gyroplane pilots who have not yet gained approvalto fly above 500 feet a very small height band for operations, gyroplanes are stillallowed to operate down to 300 feet above ground level. (In the very early days, whenlandowner permission was required for all flying areas, 300 feet was the upper limitpermitted. CASR Part 101 now allows model aeroplanes to operate up to 400 feet aboveground level.) Some gyroplane pilots have asked for this lower limit of 300 feet toremain, rather than requiring them to operate above 500 feet unless they have landownerpermission to fly lower, and the draft has been written this way to retain the status quofor consultation purposes. Feedback on this question is particularly requested, withsupporting comment for consideration.the main objective of the questionaire is this part for us gyro mob, (i am assuming i got this right ??)mattg
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