Occurrences

Date	Occurrence #	Location	State	Aircraft	Model	Engine	Model	Summary
10/3/2024	OCC3598	Narrogin	WA	Jabiru	J170	Jabiru	2200	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The motor stopped revving after take-off. There was no power...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The motor stopped revving after take-off. There was no power at 300ft. The pilot landed the aircraft in paddock in front of the airstrip. This aircraft had been unflown and dormant for approximately 4 years in an open hangar structure. An RAAus Aircraft condition Report (ACR) was completed by a local approved Level 2 RAAus maintainer. The wing tanks, and associated fuel systems were inspected and pressure and flow tested also at this time with no issues noted. The aircraft was then flown to its' home location and operated for approximately 3 hours. A further post purchase inspection and maintenance was then carried out prior to the accident by an independent Level 2 and revealed significant non complaint airworthiness requirements from numerous service bulletins not being completed as well as a cracked propeller. The accident occurred approximately 3 weeks later and approximately 4 hours additional flight time. During the initial climb the pilot chose to turn off the auxiliary fuel pump where the loss of power subsequently occurred. The pilot conducted a forced landing where minor undercarriage damage was incurred without any injuries. Post accident investigation during repair found significant debris in the form of fuel residues in the carburetor bowl. Accident repair included replacement of damaged undercarriage legs and associated hardware and a new mechanical fuel pump was fitted as a precaution. The aircraft has operated without further incident since the repair works were completed and the fuel pump replaced.
2/3/2024	OCC3608	Toowoomba	QLD	Jabiru	J230C	Jabiru 3300	Gen 4	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: RAAus was advised that during approach, the crew of an RPT ob...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: RAAus was advised that during approach, the crew of an RPT observed a Jabiru cross their path. The Jabiru pilot departed Clifton at approx. 0645 EST enroute for Toowoomba – Wellcamp – Pittsworth and return to Clifton. When approaching Cambooya they changed to Toowoomba Broadcast area frequency 127.65Mhz and broadcast intention to overfly Toowoomba. They overflew Toowoomba at 5300 feet approx. then tracked towards Wellcamp on descent to 4500 feet and made a radio call that they were tracking Toowoomba – Wellcamp for Pittsworth. When approaching Wellcamp the pilot heard an inbound call from an RPT aircraft inbound via “OMBAS”. The pilot communicated with the RPT pilot and following a response, the RPT pilot appeared confused about which aircraft was overhead Wellcamp and which aircraft was operating at Wellcamp. The Jabiru pilot then informed the RPT pilot that it was enroute to Pittsworth and that the other aircraft was actually doing circuits at Wellcamp. The Jabiru pilot then began to try to identify the location of “OMBAS” on their VTC. As confusion now existed as to the location of the RPT aircraft and The Jabiru radio conversation with the RPT pilot about who was going to Pittsworth, the Jabiru pilot thought that Pittsworth was the location where the RPT aircraft was going to be, so decided to avoid a head on conflict. They elected to turn to the north west and head towards Oakey to remain north of the runway centre line and the area to the South and South West of Wellcamp and therefore avoid crossing his inbound path and to avoid any conflict. They were very alert and looking for the RPT but at no time did they see it and assumed that they had missed it whilst trying to locate “OMBAS” on the map. At this stage the Jabiru was still slowly descending for their planned height of 3000 feet to track onwards to Pittsworth. When about 5 to 7 mile from Wellcamp and nearing the boundary of Oakey airspace they felt they were now well clear of any aircraft conflict and commenced a turn towards Pittsworth. The Jabiru plot heard no further transmissions from the RPT pilot after their initial two radio communication calls whilst the Jabiru was overhead Wellcamp at 4800 feet. The Jabiru continued their flight to Pittsworth – Felton and returned to Clifton.
25/2/2024	OCC3610	Shellharbour	NSW	Jabiru	J230-D	Jabiru	3300	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot had commenced a decent from 5500' just north of Fla...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot had commenced a decent from 5500' just north of Flagstaff point along the coast to get below the CTA step when they noticed an aircraft about 5nm and approx. 1000' below in their 12 o'clock. The aircraft was travelling in an erratic pattern, possibly doing aerobatics and was in their path as they were planning to turn westward to track to YWBN. Because of their focus on this aircraft and wanting to avoid a possible collision the pilot did not realise they had crossed into the 4500' CTA step. The pilot did hear SYD CTR advising them that they were in CTA and to commence an immediate descent, they responded to this call acknowledging CTR and starting a steep descent. About a minute later and well under the 4500' shelf the pilot noted that they had not switched to COM 1 (SYD CTR) and mistakenly broadcast their response on 127.3.
16/2/2024	OCC3580	Murray Bridge Aerodrome	SA	Jabiru	LSA 55/3J	Jabiru	2200B	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The lesson consisted of circuits with the student flying low ...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The lesson consisted of circuits with the student flying low passes along the runway without landing to practice directional control. The runway in use was 02 and the wind was <5kt with no crosswind component. The student was demonstrating greatly improved directional control of the aircraft as the lesson progressed. On the last landing to full stop the instructor told the student the instructor would fly the final approach and landing but asked them to follow on the flight controls to experience the feel of the transition from stabilised flight above the runway to landing. The approach was ideal and the main gear touched the runway at ~65kt 50 metres from the threshold. At this point the student suddenly pulled the stick back hard and the instructor was unable to counter this quickly enough with their right hand. The aircraft rose about a metre into the air again but with insufficient airspeed to maintain flight landed heavily on all gear, damaging the nosewheel oleo under the vertical force with consequential prop tip damage from runway contact. Braking action arrested the roll on the runway centreline at taxiway Bravo. RAAus interview with the instructor indicated there was no expectation of this input from the student and they have debriefed with the CFI about ensuring clear communications with students about who is in command during nominated phases of the training.
15/2/2024	OCC3677	Holbrook Aerodrome	NSW	Jabiru	J230	Jabiru	3300A	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: Final approach lost elevator control and landed heavy on the ...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: Final approach lost elevator control and landed heavy on the main gear and nose gear and bent nose leg no other damage.
10/2/2024	OCC3605	Dubbo Aerodrome	NSW	Jabiru	J230-D	Jabiru	3300A	While descending to Dubbo at approx. 15nm, an aircraft was observed on TCAS, 1-2nm northwest of the ...
While descending to Dubbo at approx. 15nm, an aircraft was observed on TCAS, 1-2nm northwest of the 05/23 centreline at approx. 1000 ft AGL. Shortly afterward, ML CTR advised that an unidentified VFR aircraft was operating in the circuit and unconfirmed callsign. The RPT made numerous calls on CTAF and one call on ML CTA freq. to establish contact with the aircraft but no reply was received. The RPT diverted to the northeast and held 2000 ft above the runway (1000 ft above the Jabiru) to overfly for a wide crosswind leg Rwy 05 (W/V on AWIB 080/16). Additional circuit calls were made to alert Jabiru. Visual contact was made with the aircraft from early downwind position, and they observed that the Jabiru was positioning for a close-in final Runway 11. They continued to fly the circuit while maintaining visual contact with the Jabiru through its landing and until it vacated Runway 11. The aircraft temporarily entered Runway 05 to allow it to complete a 180 deg turn prior to backtracking Runway 11. The RPT was at approx. 600 ft on final approach, when this occurred and poised for a missed approach until it became clear that the Jabiru had cleared Rwy 05 and was established on its backtrack… They landed on Rwy 05 without conflict. After landing and while backtracking Rwy 05, the Jabiru was heard to report “clear of all runways”. This was the only transmission heard from the Jabiru. RAAus interviewed the Jabiru pilot who advised of a radio issue he was trying to correct. We discussed the CASR 91.245 requirement to confirm the radio was transmitting and receiving and the pilot will make use of AWIS and AFRU to confirm the radio is serviceable for the future.
5/2/2024	OCC3576	Roseworthy	SA	Jabiru	J170-D	Jabiru	2200B	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot inadvertently flew into restricted airspace due to ...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot inadvertently flew into restricted airspace due to a map reading error. Spoke with both the pilot and understands what went wrong but had stopped flying as a result. Spoke with the CFI concerned and should pilot return back to flying will do some remedial flying and then continue with the training
5/2/2024	OCC3560	Albany Aerodrome	WA	Jabiru	J170-C	Jabiru	Gen 4	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: Aircraft suffered a significant loss of power while taking of...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: Aircraft suffered a significant loss of power while taking off. This occurred at ~150-200 ft altitude AGL. Throttle was closed and aircraft landed with half flap on the remaining runway without incident. Engine continued to run at idle and subsequent run up to full power on the apron appeared to be functioning normally. The upper cowl was removed, inspection revealed nothing. Subsequent run up appeared normal. Five circuits were then flown without incident. This aircraft has a long history of suffering from carburetor ice. Relative humidity at the time was high 90s and sky was 3-4 octas of cumulus with bases at ~3500 ft. Under such conditions this aircraft is always operated with carb heat ON and that was the situation this morning. Start up, warm up, run up and take off were all conducted with carb heat ON however there have had previous similar events where the carb ice heat system was insufficient to prevent ice. In those instances the engine just ran a bit rough after take-off however in this incident the power loss was such that flight could not have been maintained.
21/1/2024	OCC3550	Muchea/Greenside	WA	Jabiru	J170-C	Jabiru	J2200	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The Instructor was undertaking a Stalls lesson with a student...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The Instructor was undertaking a Stalls lesson with a student. Approx. 50 minutes into the flight at a location approx. 15NM north of YGSD and 3500'AGL, after conducting a stall, the student attempted to recover using power but the engine only revved up to 2300 RPM and ran lumpy. The lesson was immediately terminated and returned to YGSD by the shortest route. After engine recovery steps made no impact on the engine performance, removing carb heat and then cycling the throttle made the engine recover power as per normal. The aircraft was landed without further incident and the aircraft was taxied back to the hangar. Inspection of the engine found that the idle mixture adjustment screw had worked loose to 3 1/2 turns from closed (should be 3/4 of a turn), and the O ring on the needle was worn which would have reduced the friction on the needle allowing it to rotate when the engine was running.
21/1/2024	OCC3551	Myrup Aerodrome	WA	Jabiru	J120-C	Jabiru	2200B	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot completed the usual preflight, runup and pre-take-o...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot completed the usual preflight, runup and pre-take-off checks. Taxied to RWY 04 and rolled out. The take-off was normal until they completed their ATO checklist at 300ft. It was then the aircraft lost 500-700RPM and the engine was running a bit rough. The pilot enacted their engine failure procedure and that was when they forgot to pump the electric pump on. They switch both Carby heat and fuel pump on but no improvement, so turned them off. The pilot levelled out at 500 ft. and pulled the power back to reduce the strain on the engine then turned crosswind and declared a Mayday. The pilot made the decision to land on RWY 14. The pilot followed the normal landing procedure and landed on RWY 14 and broadcasted they were safe on the ground. DETERMINED OUTCOME REVIEW: A remote investigation was conducted and determined that lack of recency and reduced discipline to pre take off fuel checklists contributed to the partial starvation event. No mechanical faults or issues were identified. Pilots are reminded of the importance of checklist disciplines- to verbalise, identify and confirm all checklist items and be slow and deliberate in these checks, especially if extenuating factors such as rushing, normalised deviance or distraction are prevalent.
10/1/2024	OCC3542	Ballarat Aerodrome	VIC	Jabiru	J230-D	Jabiru	3300A	With multiple aircraft operating in the circuit pattern including multiple callsigns in the same typ...
With multiple aircraft operating in the circuit pattern including multiple callsigns in the same type aircraft C172, the SA (Situational Awareness) of the Jabiru pilot was lost with another training aircraft on final until a broadcast was heard, The Jabiru pilot immediately stopped descending and turned to the right of runway centreline and saw an aircraft pass below to their left maintaining approach to the runway. The Jabiru pilot instigated a go around and broadcast this action. Once established on downwind a broadcast turning base 23 touch and go is heard. The Jabiru pilot saw an aircraft on extended downwind commencing a base turn. They completed a few more touch and go's before landing. Each time observing the 172 aircraft were flying an extended downwind before turning on base. The Jabiru pilot had the opportunity to discuss this incident with an instructor soon afterwards covering issues of situational awareness, multiple callsigns on same aircraft type and circuit patterns.
17/12/2023	OCC3530	Wongulla	SA	jabiru	J160-C	Jabiru	2200J	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The aircraft took off from YTFA tracked east to the river Mur...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The aircraft took off from YTFA tracked east to the river Murray then tracked south following the Murray at 1000 feet AGL. Just before Wongulla the pilot saw pelicans to left of their flight path. As they flew past them pelicans from above started diving across in front of the aircraft, one of them hitting it and breaking the windscreen. after the shock of the impact the PIC elected to conduct an emergency landing into a field. RAAus continues to monitor bird strike and wildlife reports at aerodromes to ensure correct ERSA/NOTAM information is in place and to enable reporting to the aerodrome proprietor.
15/12/2023	OCC3517	Gawler Aerodrome	SA	Jabiru	J170-C	Jabiru	2200B	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot of a Jabiru chose runway 05 for landing, this may h...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: The pilot of a Jabiru chose runway 05 for landing, this may have resulted in a tail wind landing (approx. 13kts). an Instructor on the ground made a broadcast referencing the into wind RWY instead. The pilot acknowledged to land on runway 23, joined relevant circuit and competed landing. No other aircraft where airborne at the airfield at that moment. In the future the PIC will take more care when choosing the preferred RWY.
8/12/2023	OCC3512	Thangool Aerodrome	QLD	Jabiru	J230	Jabiru	3300A	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: On landing there was a loud ripping sound from under carriage...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: On landing there was a loud ripping sound from under carriage. The RH main undercarriage leg delaminated.
1/12/2023	OCC3504	Freeling	SA	Jabiru	J170-C	Jabiru	2200B	OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: While demonstrating turns to a student, north-east of Freelin...
OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: While demonstrating turns to a student, north-east of Freeling at approx. 3,500 feet, the instructor lost orientation within the training area and proximity to RAAF Edinburgh's restricted area R234. The aircraft wandered in by about one km and conducted the training activity. When the instructor looked back at Freeling, they realised they’d never seen it from that perspective and knew that they had strayed into restricted airspace.