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  1. jackc
    Sadly, some drivers are little better than steering wheel attendants. But also there many who are very good at their work but are subject to all sorts of policies, company regulations etc. A certain bus company has little pigeon hole mailboxes for each driver. at their depots, Driver returns from trip to check his ‘mailbox’ to a pile of infringement notices……your Coach idled here for more than 5 minutes, 3 notices. You were overspeed for more than 30 seconds, 3 notices with location. You were ‘off route’ in 4 places at these places (Camera does not take pics of roadworks detours etc’ Drivers camera? 27 times picking your nose? I would walk into the bosse’s office, with my fist full of infringements an tell him to wipe his rearmost facing orifice with them, drop the Coach keys on his table and tell him I am a driver, not a robot. Suggest you hire my replacement from the Robot Employment Service…..I am outta here 🙂
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    Maybe Electronic Conspicuity Devices need to be……dare I say it? Mandated? Drones ADS-B set up and mandated, so they can dodge us? Like it or not……it’s coming, one day.
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    I worked there in the middle ‘70s, drove the oldest of 104 trucks in the fleet, an AB184 Inter with a 160 Cummins in it. Training? What was that? Care? What was that? Stan, Ron’s father was a gentleman. I sadly had some horror stories of that place. Best days were crawling on the roads, loaded and as far away as possible from the yard 🙂
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    Fix that…..tell ALL Gliderists to ditch their FLARM boxes and get a Sky Echo while the subsidy is running then everyone ends up with ADS-B. Mr ‘FLARM’ can go whistle 🙂
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    I am not so sure IF the Sky Echo can accommodate the FLARM freq that is used in Australia. The best solution would have been that a global harmonised FLARM frequency be used, like ADS-B. The ACMA allocated the freq band used in Europe to some other unrelated users in Australia, Telcos etc? I suspect that is why the cost of FLARM units is so high in Australia because of its small market here with dedicated frequency not used in other parts of the World?
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    Trouble is, the Govt NEVER gives anything without strings attached. Personally, I believe people should fund their own safety equipment, Be like expecting the Govt to supply free seatbelts for your old pre 1963 car, or something like that.
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    It came to me from a third party of some authority that the Glider pilot was on the radio making all the correct calls during his flight, the other aircraft was not heard communicating at all, no calls were heard at all? One could only assume he was on a different frequency maybe? As I said, hearsay only……
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    I simply bought my SE2 and paid full price…….don’t care about waiting for subsidy, it was a piece of safety equipment I wanted, regardless. Safety will always come at a price, my motorcycle helmets were in the region of $900, my brains are worth a lot to me…….IF i won’t pay the price for good safety equipment…….I won’t undertake the relevant activity.
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    Mention retro fitment of BRS? RAAus just go ‘ballistic’ over that 🙂. Been there once and decided to simply buy a parachute I now have. Plane falls apart? Catches fire etc? I am OUT the door hoping parachute does it’s job……
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    This will be the start of arguments between peak bodies, CASA will get in the middle of it and…..3 years later nothing will have been done and then age of pilots will add to the points scoring in support of various ideas…..
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    Sounds logical to me, but people will say WHY should ADS-B be compulsory when some people only fly in low traffic areas? Should it only be in certain high traffic areas only? I checked the cost of FLARM units and they were costly, in the order of $3000 or so?
  12. jackc
    Global Radio Frequency Management starts here, then trickles down to all countries. https://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx
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    Not to mention FLARM and ADS-B don’t work together in Australia where in Europe they do? Also, nearly all gliders are primarily white in colour, sometimes rather hard to see……
  14. jackc
    Try riding motorcycles in a city environment……stress level wise I would be better off flying.
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    My related condition report I complained about, was on a plane that was about as airworthy as a 3 wheeled billycart, would be roadworthy.
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    When an RAA employee told me, they did not care IF I used Blue Tack to stick the wings on my plane…….when querying a condition report…….that was the end of it for me……. There are good people in that organisation, then there are some not so good……
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    In which case I will take future RAAus videos with a grain of salt? Bit sad really. While it’s appreciated that RAaus did the video in good faith, the content appears to be a little wanting.
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    Only way to test a Thruster with a 582, works for me with a snatch strap secured to a Landcruiser bullbar 🙂
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    Radios

    jackc replied to extralite's topic in Thruster

    Ferrite beads can be your friend 🙂
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    Rotaxaru

    jackc replied to RFguy's topic in Engines and Props

    Sometime a thread can suffer severe ‘yaw’ so long as it does not stall then spin 🙂
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    Don, Sadly I am late to the aviation ‘party’ I will get a little fun from it before EOL but being the Dinosaur that I and many others are, I wonder if Aviation as a hobby will simply die in Australia? I am a member of EAA in the U.S. and all I see is them going ahead and bounds. I joined AOPA here and tried to get them interested in the promo area for young people etc. Gave up as they did not care, busy junketing about saving airports is their deal. Banging on about Bankstown etc, that is a lost cause. They got angry when I did not renew my membership. Whilst I am still messing about with my Thruster and Aeropup, I now have a J-230D that actually flies and needs nothing done to it, except jettisoning its Microair radio 🙂 Jack.
  22. jackc
    Motorcycle riding experience teaches you the same…..
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    I need to fill in aircraft details etc?
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    Sad the the video turned out this way 😞. Obviously not proof checked for accuracy by a reputable person with knowledge. RAAus need to step up their game and the first thing would be to fix the video probably and re release ASAP, making sure the original is buried forever…….
  25. jackc
    Fortunately I have time to scout the area looking for elements of danger, in an Emergency you don’t have that luxury, but guide posts are not a risk to high wing aircraft, unlike road sighs which are far and few between in central and far west Qld.
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