Mr Crowe said that getting his license has been a challenging experience.
“I’m just lucky that I have a good instructor. Fred (Nolan) is very patient and concentrates on the main things like safety,” he said.
Mr Crowe has been in training to get his license through the Moree Aero Club and recently built up enough hours to fly solo in an Cessna 162 Skycatcher.
The two-seater Skycatcher is a newly designed aircraft from the famous Cessna manufacturer and is aimed at the rapidly expanding light sport aircraft market.
The Continental 0-200 engine has 100hp and delivers fuel economy of about 16-18 lt/hr, which at 200km/hr cruise speed, gives a very economical 8lt/100 in car talk. This is about 17 cents per kilometre aviation fuel cost.
The Cessna is based at the Moree Aero Club, of which Mr Crowe is a member.
He believes that in time he will use his license for a number of things.
“I will use my license around the farm to check up on the crops and eventually I’ll use it to go and visit relatives,” Mr Crowe said.
He has always been interested in planes and used aviation around the farm.
“I still have a lot to learn to complete the course - there is handling skills, air law, physics - so I’m an embarked student,” he said.
The Skycatcher is a new Cessna airplane and only a few of them are in Australia at present.
It is a first for Moree that it is to be based here, together with a second example owned by Malcolm Harris from Mungindi.
Mr Crowe has been in training to get his license through the Moree Aero Club and recently built up enough hours to fly solo in an Cessna 162 Skycatcher.
The two-seater Skycatcher is a newly designed aircraft from the famous Cessna manufacturer and is aimed at the rapidly expanding light sport aircraft market.
The Continental 0-200 engine has 100hp and delivers fuel economy of about 16-18 lt/hr, which at 200km/hr cruise speed, gives a very economical 8lt/100 in car talk. This is about 17 cents per kilometre aviation fuel cost.
The Cessna is based at the Moree Aero Club, of which Mr Crowe is a member.
He believes that in time he will use his license for a number of things.
“I will use my license around the farm to check up on the crops and eventually I’ll use it to go and visit relatives,” Mr Crowe said.
He has always been interested in planes and used aviation around the farm.
“I still have a lot to learn to complete the course - there is handling skills, air law, physics - so I’m an embarked student,” he said.
The Skycatcher is a new Cessna airplane and only a few of them are in Australia at present.
It is a first for Moree that it is to be based here, together with a second example owned by Malcolm Harris from Mungindi.
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