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


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