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    Conditions of Service

    Dec 16, 2019 5 minutes
    KREISHA BALLANTYNE

    Last month, while having dinner with a friend who is also a pilot–and, indeed an aircraft owner–I heard the words I’d been waiting to hear for nearly 10 years: “Hey, I’m not flying my aeroplane enough. I’m looking for someone who’d like to fly around 50 hours a year and just share the costs.”

    After putting my tongue back in my mouth and giving a salute to the aviation gods of great fortune, I took him up on the offer immediately, in case he was one wine too many in and liable to forget.

    The very next day, he took me for a fly in his aircraft, a two-seat RAAus-registered low wing Rotax-powered single (with auto pilot!). I loved it immediately, but I couldn’t fly it immediately because despite having a CASA licence and Class 2 medical and

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