G'day and welcome Serge. Airfields for GA/Sport in Sydney are Bankstown (YSBK, Towered), Hoxton Park (YHOX, Uncontrolled), RAAF Richmond (YSRI, Military controlled, but I have a suspicion you are working with Airbus (the A330 MRTT??)), The Oaks out past Camden and Camden itself (Towered on W/ends).
Hoxton Park or The Oaks are the best bet. Garry Morgan has his Joey 2 at The Oaks and I did my RAA Recert there. Nice bunch of people. Hoxton Park is fairly close to everything in Western Sydney and has a nice new freeway right beside it. Just the thing to land on when your engine fails on your first flight... The RAA will not let you raise the MTOW although it is set at 1000 Lbs, that being what CASA has said is "safe". If you go and register it as "experimental" you cn presumable set whatever weight you want. I asked about upping the MTOW to 1200 lbs but the answer was a definite negative. Homebuilders Ass'n here is the SAAA or for lighter aircraft, the RAA. Homebuilders Clubs in Sydney or Canberra come under the various "Chapters" of the SAAA or the aero clubs of the RAA. I live in Narrabri, about 6 hours NW of Sydney, but the better half lives and works in Sydney's west, so if you are in need of a hand to look around, feel free to give me a yell and I will see what I can organise. Just a short note on you "commuting" to Canberra from Sydney. There is the F3/Hume Highway an excellent bit of road to do that, but it is around a 4 hour trip one way. To get anywhere in Australia you need to travel for a long time. Just so you know... On another topic, my KR is progressing slowly, the new gear is on and the wings are done for the first time. I am not happy with how they turned out so am going to redo the foam and glasswork. The foam swelled for some reason after the application of the glass and is now well above the wing contour. Not happy Jan. Might be time to go with the old method of Polystyrene.... Cheers, Rob. Robin Wills Second Person, Pacific National KR-2 19-4594, Ser# N111 krvia...@bigpond.com