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Website Updated 19th August 2010

SAAA National Annual Convention

“Back to Cowra”

Friday 17th September – Sunday 19th September 2010

All aircraft owners and pilots are invited to attend: Antique'rs, GA, RA-AUS or Warbirds. We will have something for everyone. Meet like-minded people and catch up on what is happening in the experimental arena as well as the larger aviation scene.

• Great range of trade exhibitors on-field
• Fly market – turn your leftover items from your project into cash.
• Vintage cars and motor cycles.
• On-field dinner on the Friday Evening with trivia competition and prizes
• Saturday evening SAAA Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation at the Cowra Services Club
• Tour of Cowra and it’s interesting local history.
• Aerobatic displays each day
• SAAA technical councillors (TC's) and authorised persons (AP's) will be available to answer your questions relating to amateur aircraft building
• Workshops and forums to cater for builders or would-be builder will run over the weekend
• Pilot briefing centre with NAIPS, radar images, weather forecasts
• Aircraft judging.
• Pilot advisory service on Cowra CTAF 126.7
• Flypast of homebuilt/experimental aircraft with commentary

On-field under-wing camping, as well as a camping area for those driving, is available with all facilities. Catering will be available from brunch on Friday through to breakfast on Sunday. Dinner Saturday night at RSL.

So don't miss out, start planning for your weekend now.

For those wanting to book accommodation in Cowra please visit

http://www.cowratourism.com.au

Download the flyer for more details.

Download the Aircraft Judging form.

Dinner tickets are available here.

Membership Online Services

Online facilities are now available via our secure web site for the following:-

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Members need to log in to:-

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Try our new Forum

A forum has been setup to enable members to be able to communicate to other members, topics that are of interest and relevant to aviation and safety.

The forum is only open for members and access is gained by clicking on the link in the right hand column. To post to the forum you will need to log in. The username and password are the same as your log in used for the saaa web site.

It should be pointed out that the views expressed in the forum topics are those of the poster and not necessarily that of the SAAA or of the National Council.

If you have any comments about the forum please contact the webmaster.

Maintenance Procedures Course

Background;
The authority to maintain our own aircraft is a valued privilege for amateur builders, but it carries important legal responsibilities. Having built an aircraft, in some cases many years ago, does not ensure that the holder of the maintenance authority is up to the job today.
The SAAA Maintenance Procedures Course is approved by CASA to enable all who hold maintenance authority for their amateur built experimental aircraft, the required knowledge and current obligations to meet their responsibilities associated with the authority.

Many of our older members built aircraft under the Amateur Built Aircraft Acceptance system (ABAA) which did not give them any maintenance capability. The SOAG group in Queensland, who until recently operate ABAA built aircraft, approached CASA some years ago to obtain maintenance capability similar to that for experimental amateur built (EAB) aircraft. CASA agreed with the concept provided they completed a course designed to meet the requirements of the CASA Basic Airworthiness Administration Syllabus plus demonstrating practical maintenance competence.
This course has been given freely to SAAA by SOAG. This provides great value to SAAA members, not only in helping our ABAA member builders to obtain maintenance authority, but also to educate all EAB builders and owners. Builders of EAB category aircraft must convince the Authorised Person (AP) who issues their CoA that they are capable of ‘continuous maintenance’ of their aircraft. Experience since the introduction of the EAB category has shown that many may be less than competent for this task. With the MPC now available, new CoA applicants as well as existing maintainers, can demonstrate their competency by successful completion of this course and the final exam and obtaining the course certificate.
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Members EMail Address Update

Do we have your correct email address?
From time to time we send information to members via email. This enables us to contact you quickly with up-to-date information for you to provide a convenient reply if necessary.Not all members have provided an email address, and many we have are no longer current.
If you have not received an email from us in the last week of October we probably don't have your correct email.
Simply email your name and updated contact details to: membership@saaa.com or click on the 'Update Your Details' in the Members Section of the web site.
If you don't have an email address or a relative who could receive emails for you, contact Head Office and we will arrange for any important information to be posted directly to you.
Log in as member; click on the update details prompt. This will take you to a separate, secure log in prompt that will then allow you to update your email address and other important information for our database.

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