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Haven't CASA given the authority for DAMEs to cover that?

Lets get away from the highly legalese, blame shifting and culpability side of CASA's incompetence. If a DAME issues a medical, why is that medical totally safe for four months but after that you are unsafe till the CASA "specialists" peruse your data? Surely if you are that unsafe why is it safe to continue flying for 4 months!!!!! How many more pilots are there in the system compared to 20 yers ago? How many more staff is in the CASA medical department compared to 20 years ago?

GA hasn't moved on that much Nev, there are still defective badly equiped aircraft flying in all sorts of weather.

That attitude is encouraged by some employers

Good afternoon Captain Garry. How many words does it take the relevant Australian rule/law/ regulation to say the same thing? Are the legal consequences similar in both countries? I can't be bothered looking it up I am enjoying the day too much.

Wholeheartedly agree but that is much too simple for CASA, why put something in 50 words when you can use 5000 along with penalty points and punishment for non compliance. There is no hope, CASA will only be happy when no GA aircraft are flying only then will flying be safe. 45 years flying for a living and dealing with CASA has just got worse and worse, CASA is to be avoided at all costs.

Depends who you talked to about the Go300 Nev, I know 3 people who used to own 175's and speak highly of them. The main problem I have read about with them was operator induced by not running with enough revs. Pilots were used to running low to mid 2000's, the GO300 was made to run harder at low 3000's. Those that thought they knew better ran them too slow causing problems. The only valid complaint I've seen is the cost to overhaul the 6 cyl Continentals.

Even with all that Nev, gearboxes are still used, every day in every way......

GSIO 480/540, Tiara and GO300 continental are examples of geared engines in production and use, not the last few years but were used extensively. There are all sorts of old wives tails of gearbox's and the use there of. I think Rotax and PT6 engines have proven they are not a problem.

Not only choppers, standard practice in some areas of GA. Cooking the books in all sorts of ways has been condoned/overlooked by all sorts of government agencies.

Flying over water to avoid Williamtown airspace?

There will be more ground to lease when the runways are closed. Bankstown has already ceased to be a general aviation airfield. There might be "movements" but that doesn't equate to a vibrant facility available to the public. It's only a matter of time, between greedy developers and an incompetent tone deaf regulator, GA is on a downward spiral. No matter how some try to justify the greedy antics and developer destruction of an airfield it is happening and it will destroy Bankstown as a GA airfield. Manipulation of statistics aside.

As RF Guy said it's as complicated as you want it. I have always flown A to B in a straight line, Oz runways works for me. I declutter the screen and only use a small percentage of it's capacity, good for basic navigation and radio frequencies. It does stay workable when the signals limited or being disrupted. Certified GPS drop out, Foreflight keeps going a bit longer but Oz runways keeps going.

There was a 747 parked on an English airfield with a similar engines mounted where they used to film Top Gear, it was only a prop for a film as far as I know it never flew.

On top of the 11m payout what were the legal cost's?

Seems legal jeopardy has grown exponentially in the last 20 years or so and that's impacted everything from children's playgrounds to insurance costs. Seems no answer apart from making legal the main requirement to everything you do. Legals make up the biggest cost with the likes of class actions, the aggrieved get a tiny percentage of the payout, the majority goes to law firms.

I avoid any ethanol fuels in everything I have. If sitting unused for a month or two any carb bowls or sitting areas of fuel become sludged with a green slime.

Maybe they have and those sightings by fighters in the States were their own machines? They were in a military restricted area. The speed and maneuverability of those things sighted is way beyond our current (public) knowledge. There has to be more the military aren't telling us, look at the F117 it was flying for 10 years before made public? As an example scram technology is 30 years old at a guess? How far has that progressed?

In my case it was before mobile phones and although I used to carry a camera I was amazed at what I was seeing and didn't think about pictures. What would you suggest my sighting was, swampgas? Only a year or so ago the subject came up of UFO's or stuff we couldn't explain with a few friends. I was reserved and didn't say anything about my experience, my friend told a story about a sphere or silver orb going at a terrific speed through the bush. I then told him about what my wife and I saw. His sighting was over 1,000nm from where saw the bright globe and a few years difference. I have no idea or any theory on what I saw.

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About 30ish years ago I saw what looked like a landing light headed to the airfield (it was just on dusk), I was a pax in a car that my wife was driving. The light got bigger and brighter as it got closer, the light became a silver (chrome or mercury appearance) sphere. It was hard to tell what size the thing was, as it got even closer it went below the level of the horizon as we were in a valley/gully, you could see it against the background and appeared to be a couple of hundred feet high. The speed was hard to guess but I'd say a fast aircraft. The silver ball went passed us (guessing 200m away) and looked then to be only about a metre across, I have no real idea about distance and size. We stopped the car to watch it. The globe then looked to climb to a point about 500 feet above the airfield and appeared to hover for about 10 seconds then went straight up. The track went into a silver blur as it disapeared out of sight in what seemed like a second. The thing tracked the same direction from first sighting it till it went vertical, the direction was west. From first sight to disappearing I'd guess at 5 miles and it took about a minute maybe two at the most. I have spent a bit of time both in the air and on the ground in the bush and remote areas, I never seen anything since like it. One of the pilots I used to work with said he had seen a very big rotating cylinder in an area that used to have a few night sightings of strange lights in the 60's and 70's.

It is reported they were flying low level in formation at night over water, flying into water at night is catastrophic.

Nice aircraft

Looks like they were doing beatups or flybys, the 170 previously did a flyby. The Pacer or Tri appeared to be slowed up landing and the Six was coming in hot for a beatup.

Any of the Avid/kitfox derivatives originally designed by Dean Wilson had steel tube frames and separate flaperons.