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Thanks Skippy for trying👍 Past AOPA CEO Ben Morgan now works for AOR fuel? I think it’s going to be the old, “not my job deal” unfortunately.

But RAAus must product their OWN training manual, even IF they plagiarise the content from somewhere else? For their Controlled Airspace Endorsement Training?

First up RAAus are only reading THEIR room, not ours? GA may well move to MOSAIC in the US because there is more money there, than there is here? Let me say that CASA are not interested at all in MOSAIC, simply because they don’t have the staffing level and budget, to create the platform for it in Australia. CASA is currently behind on many of its projects that should have long been finalised? I don’t see them taking on anything extra in the way of workload especially what MOSAIC would present? Consider for access to controlled airspace is going to require TSO spec instruments, and appropriate endorsements, which I do not know if there is even a manual for that endorsement training by RAAus? RAAus have a lot of things to work on, including their new Online examination system for student pilots, like everything it will probably have some bugs to iron out which is understandable but all this, takes time.

Sick joke, Albo must have been visiting……GPS jammers protecting him 🤩

RAA are busy badgering CASA for MOSAIC, so the whispers from the CASA basement say? Interesting that Group G has gone quiet?

Good luck, I had NONE4 years ago getting answers on some advice? I got bitten, never went back. Back then, the WEB site was an unattended garbage dump?

Turbs, every week I speak to many people on the telephone, some within organisations, I get direct messages and all sorts of things from very knowledgeable people in Aviation. I don’t only count the forum, as a source of information, but I’ll take notice of what people tell me directly in conversation consequently, you begin to understand that some of the comments I make here are relation to information that I’ve received from people in the course of those phone conversations. Being an appointed member on one of the SAAA committees has also given me a good insight to our Aviation World.

Recreational Aviation is headed in a direction to become a clandestine hobby in many ways. ALAs will be the airstrips of choice, fly-ins will be by personal invitation, a recent Qld one saw a few unregistered aircraft turn up, ex RAAus members. As financial pressure increases by Councils/Developers? It will see people reevaluate how they structure their Aviation pursuits?

Pissing in each others Breakfast cereal serves no purpose, except wasting screen real estate. 🤔

Yes, I forked out to buy 2 tubes for the main gear tyres on my Jabiru 230D. They were $245 each plus freight. i was told by a fellow Aviator, I got ripped off, under $50 each from Bunnings Aerospace? I simply said, I am not flying a freaking ride-on mower🤩

Well, I go on the phone discussions I have, things are not rosy at RAAus? BUT, I think it’s everywhere. People are suffering cost of living pressures? Some organisations are bound to lose memberships, subscriptions etc. At the end of the day, plans need to be made in tough times for organisations to keep going. Jacking up fees will only hasten their demise as people seek alternatives, or drop out all together? From the grapevine I hear, numbers of unreg aircraft flying, are increasing all the time? No current RAAus membership means, member aircraft is unregistered?

People in the U.S. are doing a lot with Briggs and Stratton V Twins? Not big horsepower, but useable for some?

Plenty of two-stroke motors still around and people who want to fly them? The word below 500 feet is , that many people are going to drop out of RAA but simply continue to fly, unregistered ?

It’s a thankless task, But those who have taken the positions know a lot of its history, where it’s come from and trying to plan where it needs to go and I’m not so sure that that could be in a direction beneficial to members? They have left their Rag and Tube roots behind, and they’re trying to work towards the super plastic fantastic’s, and be the NEW GA? AND, RAAus are lobbying CASA for MOSAIC?

Word on the grapevine IS, the staff are not happy. I’ll leave it here……….