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  1. BurnieM
    Stiffens the joystick ?
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    Western Sydney International opens December 2026. Ideally we should have had approvals and training manuals ready 2 years before that. Pre Dec 26 we will have a complete re-arrangement of Sydney metro airspace. Controlled Airspace endorsements available only 6 (or even 12) months before hand will be a nightmare with current numbers of instructors available.
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    RPL is your friend
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    Around the world aviation safety authorities take a long time to confirm even the basic facts. Often this is over a year. This is the main reason so much discussion and conjecture occur. Some of this discussion is off or even completely wrong but some of it is not. As long as we all operate with high level filters on, review the source of each piece of info and apply logic to how it all fits together I believe the benefit (safety lessons much earlier) is worth it. Or offical safety bodys could release what they know much earlier.
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    https://www.australianflying.com.au/the-last-minute-hitch/the-last-minute-hitch-31-january-2025 Lets get those submissions in !
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    I believe that the primary justification for the ASIC was to stop unauthorised persons from being airside in any capacity at a security controlled field. Yet you can land, taxi and walk from the apron to the toilet with almost no chance (once in 18 months) of being intercepted. We have fences but limited checks there are no holes. Manual locks on gates with no recording of who used them. Almost no patrols of apron areas. All because nobody, not Home Affairs, not airfield owners (mainly councils) and certainly not CASA wants to fund it. But lets hit users for $300 every 2 years for something we know is ineffective.
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    325 and 200 feet would lead to an underpants moment but not a collision so one or both of these numbers is incorrect. Appears that both aircraft had lights and ADS-B operating. There is a history of ATC problems and complaints about helo flight height. Discussion on whether low level helo ops close to a high traffic field should be occurring at all has been ongoing for years. Political pressure to 'protect politicians' should also not be discounted.
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    In the 18 months I have been going to Shell Harbour, a security controlled field, I have only been asked for my ASIC once. I did not have one at that stage. Nothing happended; no fine, no leave airside immediately, no report to Police etc etc. The council officer that asked me knew it was a joke and simply told me to get one. The main point is that ASIC is not a security system. It is a 'pretend you are doing something about security' psuedo-action to justify a government departments existance. It literally protects nobody.
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    Getting back to the facts; Juans second video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gD_lnBNu0 Main facts; Helo route 1 has a height limit of 200 feet Helo PAT25 was between 300 and 350 feet at time of collison as JIA5342 was descending on final Helo was deviating slighty right of route 1 At least some of the 3 man crew were wearing night vision
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    Reading up on 'Instrument number CASA EX01/24" which not part of the regulations but is an exemption to them. If I have a RPL and a class 5 med (and obviously a current BFR) I can fly a plane up to 2000kg. Under the regs if I have an RPL and either a class 2 or class 1 med then I can fly a plane up to 1500kg. I thought this was interesting. Probably not a lot of practical difference as with RPL and higher med you can only have 3 passengers and an aircraft like a Cessna 172 is 1,157 kg MTOW.
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    So a government department that does not own, run or fund any public or private airport has responsibility for aviation security. Yep, that was always going to work.
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    My understanding is that it did an instrument approach to 01 then a dog leg to visual for 33 and that this was planned for from the beginning. Apparently this is common approach.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDAnO8eMf8
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    We have daily half a dozen navy helos and the occassional low level C130 around Shellharbour and they all have ADS-B.
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    Temp is probably from inside the receiver case.
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    Interesting. Sounds like you are fulling in quite a hole in their previous coverage.
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    Number of bars only measures signal strength. It does not measure how much capacity is unused on a particular base station. Users in rural areas often attach a directional yagi antenna to their 3g/4g/5g broadband modem/router so they can point at a lessor used but weaker signal out of town base station. Regardless, I would not be relying on mobile phones for critical comms. Have a look at something like Garmins inReach Mini 2.
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    A lot of this is already available for free and more if you are prepared to pay. Really not something new. Detailed , high zoom level, current aerial photos of all of Australia would be great but I do not see it happening. Everybody wants 10 times the bucks they spent producing these images. I do not see many uploading their data to Soar not after the politics that occurred with MapsMe.
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    https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/reports-of-fatalities-after-light-plane-crash-off-nambucca-heads/news-story/03d440da266c56d369aaf765ee7d06d5
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    Agreed, if more investigations occur then the cost will go up. Currently they are not travelling to incident sites and only doing (very) limited information gathering before deciding not to investigate. I am suggesting, for now, that the ATSB publicaly explain why they are not performing many investigations. I suspect that some of their reasoning is less than robust.
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    We are already paying for it. ATSB produce internal documentation including on incidents they do not investigate. I am asking that this be put in the public arena and if the justifications do not stand up then negative public comment.
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    At Shellharbour we have GA, RA, jump planes and scheduled services in uncontrolled airspace. ie it is all intermingled as is risk and learnings. If ATSB is not going to invesigate an incident we should a least get a 1 pager on why. As they seem to decide very quickly I see no reason why this reason paper could not be published within 30 days.
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    We are already funding it with our taxes. The real question is are ATSB investigations occurring were they should be regardless of aircraft registration?
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    I hate this shit. The ride operator did not have enough staff/fences in place to stop a customer doing something really stupid. We all pay and the next operator (of anything) hesitates setting up a similar business.
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    I would run your config past a Garmin dealer or Garmin Aus support line first. Bert Flood Rotax may also be able to confirm what you need to interface the 916 engine sensors to a Garmin G3X Touch. Some retailers are a bit hit and miss with what you need. You do not want to pay too much (or too little) and cause delays to your installation.
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