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  1. jackc
    Well, it’s a 2 seat aircraft? If others have had MTOW adjusted upward and it must have been engineering checked to do this? I do have other options? But RAAus, MAY demand a Weight and Balance IF an increase in MTOW is requested? To scare people off? THAT needs to be done by a CASA W&B person, at great cost?
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    Well, I will wait and see, maybe I should ask for higher MTOW based on precedents being set? OR I have other options I have already investigated? Or just ignore my MTOW within reason, if I have to…….simply fly the machine, and be happy 😃
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    So RAAus just change things at whim? I suspect they are even rated higher in other countries? Who is gonna weigh me at takeoff anyway, it’s just a number well under what others are rated at?
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    450 KG
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    Condition Report in with Rego transfer to RAAus, paid money, up to 10 days to process paper work reply from them? I just wonder what grief will come from this process? Probably throw a weight and balance order on me? Sorry for negative thinking 🧐 Got an extra charge on rego, because of time unpaid? Total for rego and transfer $504
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    I looked at doing it that way but, using a proper tensioning tool could be a problem, so I used Panduit Cable Ties being a recognised good brand?
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    X-Air update, in acquiring my machine, I have gone over it with a fine tooth comb because it ain’t a $300 Rusty Corolla 🤩 One of the things I decider to do was replace ALL the Crescent Batten ends, 20 of them p/n 120179 due to some broken etc. the last person who worked on them did secure them with cable ties, but it was an average job. I did them a different way and it worked well 👌
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    I think we have now reached a point that when you look at taking a policy from an insurance company you get their PDS which is very intricately worded, you take that to a lawyer and ask him what am I really not covered for here because the last thing anybody wants to do is to make an insurance claim because these days the whole thing becomes a nightmare, regardless. It’s like reading the warranty statement in a new car handbook and I discovered that when I bought a new Mahindra Ute, the supposed it many year warranty only covered certain things for three months and all this sort of rubbish. In other words I told the dealer the warranty was not worth the paper was written on. I tend to think that many insurance policies are similar………..
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    RAA insurance public liability is only good for $1 million. Some Councils now require $20 million to use their airfields, on which you generally pay landing fees. So I have to ask, has anyone been asked to provide their insurance policy to gain permission to land at a council owned airstrip? It’s a wonder Avdata are not involved in some of this, them keeping this Insurance information on their database, so when you ask for permission to land somewhere, the Council can search your details to either approve or deny your rights to land at a particular airport?
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    Too many Maintenance Releases to look after, not to mention hundred hourlys. What are the rules are for flying Brooms ‘on condition’ ? No controlled Air Space, Brooms are not good IF they get tangled up in 737 engines 🤩
  11. jackc
    No one could force me to work on anything, unless I was a Gaol Inmate 🤩
  12. jackc
    Don’t forget the Popcorn Stall 🤩
  13. jackc
    All I can say at this stage are……changes in the pipeline coming 🤩
  14. jackc
    L2s can migrate to SAAA, IF RAAus keep up the pressure, there will be no one left to work on RAAus Aircraft, be the same for Instructors soon, they will be able to migrate to do RPL training soon?
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    My thoughts personally, RAAus should have stayed incorporated, BUT the members voted to change it? WHY? Because the members of the day probably were not aware it was a scheme by the hierarchy to take almost total control. NOW, we are not even members…..we are Stakeholders, RAAus words 😕 Well, that may not end well, for us. But never fear, we can go VH and maintain our aircraft that we did not build, subject to getting a certificate after qualifying the SAAA approved Maintainer Course. CASA then issue you with your approval to repair and maintain 👍 Happy days, goodbye RAAus…….. The chickens are coming home to roost 🤩
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    Simply reach into his Aircraft, pull out the key and tell him, he is going nowhere. But who is game to stand the personal ramifications of doing that? Someone close by will create a major scene questioning the action taken, by someone who cared, regardless? You are dealing with human beings, some who are not real bright, and that started with the Pilot 😕
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    Yes you are 100% right, the pilot was his own worst enemy. However, I would allege RAAus tried a coverup on their part, which in essence was not a smart thing to do in a Coroner’s Court. If RAAus left it all as it was, they MAY have got a smack on the hand? My comment is not really qualified, as I was not party to the intimate details of the whole incident. The facts of the outcome of this crash are sad everywhere, but what is done…..is done
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    It would take a serious legal action to be lost, for that to happen, and what I see on the table from Mt Beauty, I don’t see it causing big problem, but then what would I know? Not sure IF the Bristell incident will cause something, but that maybe water under the bridge?
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    Well, now we have everyone thinking? We just wait and see the final Terms and Conditions that RAAus publish, for us to abide by. Like everything these days, the membership have not been consulted for ideas to contribute. Never give people a chance for input, as the organisation may get to hear, what they don’t like. Insurance policies these days are full of escape clauses etc. With the new T’s and C’s don’t expect protection from anything as a member, because it will be only to protect RAAus and its hierarchy, which is logical in this day and age. It will be interesting to see what’s in it for members, OR what’s out of it? Just think, IF RAAus was still Incorporated, the new T’s and C’s may not have had any potential, to be a problem?
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    I somehow don’t think this happened in RAAus case that was under investigation?
  21. jackc
    Thinking a bit more about this, I think it might be off the back of the investigation on the Jabiru from Mount Beauty crash, and the family wanting to sue RAAus. But on top of that CASA, is not impressed on the RAAus FUBAR allegedly withholding information from the Coroner’s Inquest? we will just have to wait and see what the terms and conditions are, and what they contain and work it out from there. Even CASA could be behind all this, and have instructed RAAus to tighten up on the legal side of things to protect themselves.
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    In that case, I can cease to be an RAAus member and register my Aircraft in my business name that has an ABN?
  23. jackc
    Part of this is probably in response to the fact that RAAus have outsourced the MARAP process to a private company and that probably brings insurance problems with it as well. So part of the terms and conditions may be amended or change to consider that situation and no doubt anything in the future that.RAAus does. The fact will simply be, you have no choice but to sign them even if you don’t like them or agree with them, because quite simply you won’t have membership if you do not agree and sign.
  24. jackc
    Very true but what you find somewhere in the wording will be if you breach the terms and conditions your membership could be cancelled. This happened to me with a bank account when I went to pay my gliding club membership by a bank transfer I got contacted by the fraud department saying I was transferring to a fraudulent account. I had breached the terms and conditions the bank cancelled my account and closed it. That’s the worst of these kinds of things the other problem I have with all this sort of thing is no one changes these kinds of things without disadvantaging somebody somewhere and it’s usually the membership that will suffer. I’d like to think I’m very wrong and hope it is that way.
  25. jackc
    But you can’t have an RAAus registered aircraft, without being a member of. RAAus
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