BurnieM

Pan Pan is an urgency call not an emergency. Mayday is when your aircraft is in grave and imminent danger (in the judgement of the PIC). What is grave ? whatever the PIC thinks it is. What is imminent ? It is actually the time it would take a rescue resource to reach you. In the Sydney metro area this would probably be 2-5 minutes. So legally to make a Mayday call a grave danger would need to be likely to occur (in the judgement of the PIC) in the next 2-5 minutes. If it is already occurring then you are covered. The idea is you do not wait until it occurs and what is a reasonable time ahead to call. In Central Australia this may be 6-8 hours.

It is not about a life being at risk. Mayday is used when your aircraft/vessel is in grave and imminent danger. In most urgent situations Pan Pan (x 3) is correct. If, for example, you see a mid air collision between other aircraft the correct call would be Mayday Relay (x 3). However... .... a lot of people do not understand Pan Pan or Mayday Relay so I would probably use Mayday in most situations.

And you dont have to run ADS-B either but maybe both of these are a good idea if you want to stay alive.

Yep, thats not bad but it only gives the vendor declared prices at 6am today and 6am tomorrow. NSW Fuelcheck app (government owned) gives realtime pricing updates and I have seen updates appear less that a minute after the price changes. Then again NSW servos can change their pricing at the drop of a hat. Looks like WA has regs saying only daily changes.

Anybody have a fuel pricing app for SA and WA like Fuelcheck NSW ?

I good way to see how the world judges Chinese quality control would be to list non-Chinese companies and countries who have purchased Chinese aircraft and miltary equipment. Please also include whether those companies/countries are using Chinese finance for these purchases. Yes, China will get there but they are not there yet.

I believe many (most?) Chinese goods are of high quality. However, except for the most simple products, all products use components from multiple suppliers. All you need is a single sub-supplier trying to save 1 cent on a 50 cent component and you destroy the reliability and reputation of a $30,000 product. While some Chinese manufacturers understand this, a significant number do not. An engine gets a bad rep and 5 years later nobody wants to buy it. Rebrand it, make small changes to its appearance and you are good for another 5 years. Chinese motorcycles have a poor reputation in the Australian market but they are cheap so some still sell. I would really like the Rotax clone to succeed but it comes from a high volume engine/motorcycle manufacturer. Their product may be good but I do not know. My western mind says if they do not want to prove it in Australia then there is probably something that they know that I do not. Like I said, China will eventually get there. I was in China in 2012 and I thought China will be a force in 20 years when they sort out their quality control. Now I am thinking 50 years. Undoubtedly others are thinking this also. Probably why nobody seems too fussed about the buildup of Chinese warships who have not been tested in any battle. This is not to say that you cannot inflict a lot of damage with a large number of men and warships. I would not like to be Taiwan.

PS How are those Rotax clones going ? and why do they not understand they need to prove them in a western (read transparent) environment ?

Yes, I have been to China and ridden on a bullet train. Also stayed in a 5 year old 20 story hotel that had major plumbing problems (leaks inside the walls) and needed to be pulled down. Custom king sized beds and decor was great. Structural integrity not so much. China will get there but there is still way too much 'copying' of western goods without really understanding what needs to go into them.

Not a dark art just a quarter wave (middle of the frquency range) radiator roughly vertical with a ground plane (you can even get away with a 15cm x 15cm alu square). You want your quarter wave radiator outside any metal frame. Do NOT connect your ground plane to your electrical ground. You can even have your radiator pointing down (again outside any metal frame) but your strength will be poor on the ground.

Finland, Finland, Finland ...... Yep, Nokia has been dead for yonks. Keep up.

I am currently on Vodafone because I am mainly in metro areas and the pricing is better including international calls. Yes, the combined VF/Optus coverage is better than the VF coverage previously but I think it is misleading to say it is better than Telstra. In pretty much every area the Telstra coverage is better and if you regularly travel in rural areas you still want Telstra.

Loud and clear came about people got confused with '5 by 5' or '5 by 9' none of which is that complicated. I recommend you only use 'loud and clear' or a short plain language description ie "muffled", "understandable but lot of background noise"(borderline too long), "weak but clear" etc

I do not know the panel layout of this particular plane but it surprises me the number of critical switches on all type of planes that are not guarded.

In Australia credit card charges are generally not more than 1.5%.

He was as shonky as f*ck. Gladys was not stupid and knew this. What does this say about the rest of the party if he was a good option ?

Just a bit of a clarification on the Magna Carta; this was not bought about to make the peasants equal to the Lords. This was bought about so the King could not rip off the Lords. These same Lords did not give a damn about the peasants.

Maybe we could merge the 2 threads ?

Read a newspaper article (that I now cannot find) that the owner bought it 6 months ago for $60,000.

It had earlier travelled Shell Harbour to Camden then west of Sydney, then north of Hornsby down Broken Bay then southbound coastal near Newport at approx 1000ft when the engine problems occurred.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vh-bun#3bc59f1c

VH-BUN Piper Cherokee https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/538365 https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/two-men-injured-after-light-plane-crashes-on-mona-vale-golf-course/news-story/a1e4ef24416c4161b35e79a2c37fcfa2 https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/light-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-mona-vale-golf-range-20250817-p5mnm6.html

Can we stop ignoring the fact that except for AZ and the chinese vaccines all the Covid vaccines were mRNA vaccines. Proir to Covid no mRNA vaccine had been approved for general use in humans anywhere in the world. Mainly this was because previous mRNA vaccines were largely ineffective but odd side effects were noted and reported on. Even today no mRNA Covid vaccine has a standard approval and all are currently being given on their original emergency approvals. There is no other vaccine type in Australia, NZ, UK, USA, Canada and western Europe being dispensed on the basis of an emergency approval. The Australia governement advised us that the pandemic emergency was over in February 2022. I would have expected that these emergency approvals would have been withdrawn at the same time. The TGA could have then requested trial data and put the vaccines through the normal approval process. By February 2022 millions of doses had been dispensed and the pharma companies had a huge amount of data. This has still not occurred. Please explain this to me.