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    These sort of terms and conditions may not have much legal standing if you cannot renew without agreeing to them. Having to renew for your RPC to remain valid would also work against RAAus in court. Their main purpose is to try to frighten family members off making a claim/sueing them. However, if a death occurs I doubt it will stop anybody. Probably was driven by Mt Beauty but I doubt it will help RAAus in a similar future event. Plenty of blame to go around all parties at Mt Beauty.
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    I believe legally non ethanol fuels are allowed to have up to 1% ethanol to allow for ethanol previously transported in the same tanker.
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    If you are looking at fuel cost savings you need to look beyond the cost per litre. You need to look at the cost per kilometre travelled. Over several motor vehicles (2li v6, 2lit turbo, 1.8li IL4, 2li IL4, 1li v2 mc, 400cc single mc etc) in all cases I have found the cheapest petrol (cost per km) to be; 1. 95 2. 98 3. 91 4. 94E10 If you can still get 91E10 it sits at 5. I have not done the costs for planes as it would be more work and I do not have one 🙂 but similar 'least cost per km' numbers would not surprise me.
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    Lets be blunt; this is a problem created and not fixed over many years by all sides of politics. The 90 day onshore reserve is designed to mitigate these types of problems and the only 2 developed countries that do not have this reserve are Australia and New Zealand. And the Australian government even fudges the published numbers by including ships at sea.
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    I believe fuel is actually paid for 6 weeks before it is sold at the retail pump. So we should have not seen any price rise until mid April. Very blatant price gouging and the government is doing ...... In the past fuel distributors have floated the argument that they must (why must?) price at their replacement cost. So as soon as the bulk purchase price goes up the retail price goes up. I could buy into this argument IF as soon as the bulk purchase price goes down the retail price also goes down. Yet in past supply problems the price takes several months to go down. And the government does ...... Greed is understandable but must be controlled. Is the lack of government action stupidity or corruption ?
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    I think the technical term is 'f*cked'.
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    Late at night. Multiple ground units responding to another incident. Controller not on the ball.
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    Sign on the fence at Tumut said new CTAF was live on 20 Feb 2026.
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    As part of the $12mil upgrade of Tumut (mainly for fire fighting support) Tumut now has a dedicated CTAF 126.85 instead of its old shared 126.70. Tumut has low traffic levels whereas Cowra is much busier but Cowra still uses the shared 126.70 CTAF. What is required to get a dedicated CTAF for Cowra ? Is it simply a matter of all the Cowra user groups (clubs, flight schools, ag ops and maint businesses) getting together and requesting a dedicated CTAF from Air Services ? Probably one group would need to coordinate and drive this as I do not see it happening overnight.
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    Press release
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    It is part of we need more resources for fire fighting. I believe they are getting an AWIS also.
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    Show map - https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1412137364264291&set=a.436048725206498
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    Tumut Air Show and Aerodrome Official opening - Sat 21 March 2026 12.00 pm to 3.00 pm Opening Ceremony 2.00 pm Aerobatic dispaly Static aircraft showcase Water bombing demo by True North Helicopters Interactive flight simulator Defence personnel onsite Food and more Note New CTAF 126.85
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    Don’t proper engines have ECUs ?
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    What ? Are you building a fleet ?
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    Odd thing is that this 100mph limt was in place a while ago (18 months?) then Starlink upped it and introduced the mini. A lot of GA users started using Starlink. In March 26 they put the Roam plans back to 100mph max. A few people have suggested that this is based on drones using Starlink in the middle east. Starlink can disable services based on their location so this reason is probably not why we currently have this speed based restriction. Nobody is quite sure what Elons strategy is.
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    A standard Starlink Roam plan gives you 100GB up to 100mph and is AU$80 a month.
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    I believe it is all Starlinks and internationally. You cannot go over 100mph (87kt) unless you buy an aviation plan. The cheapest aviation plan (up to 300mph) is US$250 and 20GB per month.
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    While some incidents are undoubtedly due to a lower build/configuration quality it seems we are also looking at a number of low hour pilots unfamilar with a new aircraft.
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    A bit of clarification; Camden circuit height is 1300 ft MSL The Oaks circuit height is 1900. My understanding is that the Cessna climbed into the Jabiru in The Oaks circuit. A bit hard to explain as the Jab pilot and Cessna instructor had both flown in this area many times.
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    Jabiru was in the circuit at The Oaks for landing and Cessna was departing upwind from Camden.
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    Sort of. Really it is shuffling the deckchairs and I do not see it making much difference.
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    It is almost certainly there somewhere but it is a very big and very deep area. While I understand the strong emotion pushing for the search to continue there seems very little logical point in spending more millions of dollars for what, at best, will be partial body recovery.
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