Ultralight Aircraft Australia

You know the feeling. I’ve checked the oil level before flight for months, and the level never changes. Why bother? Or the fuel, or the coolant, or whatever. It’s tempting to pass because the level never changes, but you really never know. Take Sunday morning for example. I checked the fuel and topped up for […]

And if you remember the movie, “What ees a plethora, el Guapo?”. The answer is, of course, “many”. Well, okay, there were only three, but it was the largest collection of Piper Sports Aircraft this side of, ummm, a long way. But seriously, folks, there they were all lined up at Gatton Airpark all sparkling […]

Hi All, Amazing but true. A bunch of flyers from Boonah and Kilcoy have just returned from Central Australia in their Savannahs. Folks, these are NOT toy aeroplanes. When you can jump into an aeroplane you’ve built yourself and fly it all the way to Alice Springs and points beyond, you know you’ve got a […]

Hi All. Hands up all those who made it to the Watt’s Bridge Poker Run yesterday. I tried, but failed. Yes, I know the weather was okay, the aircraft was okay, the whole lot. But, let me tell you the story. It’s a bit like the old story about weather … if it’s getting dodgier, […]

Hi All. If you’ve been paying attention to recent goings-on in the Australian Ultralight Community, you’ll have noticed, several months back, a petition floated by a fellow RAAus member (Andrew), who was concerned that the RAAus had “dumped” on the membership the mandatory carriage of ELT’s (Emergency Locator Transmitters) by ALL aircraft. It seems that […]

Just a quick note to explain something to you folks. At the moment this site consists of two software packages stuck together side-by-side, and although they are starting to look like the one, fully integrated site, the integration is still not complete. The effect of this is that if you log in to the Blog, […]