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    Gentlemen, please! If you wish to know the status of the tech manager position in RAAus, just phone the number in the front of Sport Pilot magazine, and ask. Blind speculation is not constructive.
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    The Lightwing thread has been quiet lately. I hope thats because the Lightwing fraternity are all too busy flying, to post. My GA-912 has been a long project and now very near to completion. It's registered, and I've done the flight testing required to legally run a Bolly propeller (performs really well, too). Still awaiting final MARAP approval but that looks very close now. My circumstances have changed. I must sell. Anybody interested, please contact me for details and make an offer. Peter, 0435-318-731
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    This is unbeloodybelievable. I've been dealing with Darren regarding my MARAP application after I submitted all flight testing paperwork 4 months ago. Last week he wasn't answering my phone calls or emails and when I finally got on to Jared, it seemed Darren was on annual leave and about to return to work. And once again was told my MARAP had been found and I should have an answer in a week. Sounds to me like there was no handover of work in progress. The implication was that staff of RAA didn't know he was leaving? In fact, staff told me he should already be back at work and they didn't understand why he hadn't undiverted his phone? I get the feeling that RAA is successfully taking the CASA method of (slowly) dealing with members. Not impressed at all.
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    I believe that one in four DV deaths is a male. (Add an in counted number of male suicides that probably result from DV victims unable to cope). So since the number of dead males is smaller than the number of deceased females, it goes unreported by the media! Or worse, there is an assumption that the male victim either caused the situation or deserved it. I know this because that was the response I got when I phoned a DV hotline to seek help after my partner put me in hospital. Anyway, this discussion should move offshore to the WUA forum. It's got little to do with either recreation or flying.
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    Utah? Perhaps he was religious? Maybe it was an act of god to turn out this way?
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    Sorry Ian. Don't go on a mission. It's not a big deal
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    Ian, can you close a thread, and leave a link to WUA? That might stop unsuitable thread drift. And maybe discourage some of the hijack/trolling/baiting. Once a thread has drifted into a unrelated (non recflying) theme where a couple of posters start airing their passions, it can be impossible to drag it back to the original theme.
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    So why aren't you building a hang glider?
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    BTW Don't think for a moment that US or UK give a rat's ass about us, no matter how much brown nosing our petty little pollies do.
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    Cynic!
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    Congratulations. To you both.
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    With all this rain, you should be out in your shed, working beaverishly to stay warm. (may I call it a mini hangar now that there is a aeroplane shape in it?)
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    Joyce a joke? All our pollies are a joke. But some are more so than others.
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    What changed your mind?
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    Dick did, did Dick?
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    When I started learning to fly noisy aeroplanes, I got quite a few work colleagues asking me "Why would you want to learn to fly at your age?" I was only 50. There will always be people ready to question your choices especially if you decide to do something a little unconventional. (Not fitting their stereotype). I use it as a extra motivation. Life is too short to let others spoil my fun.
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    Some famous Australian pioneer avaitrix: Millicent Bryant 1878 - 1927 Florence Taylor Bonney, Lores 1897 - 1994 Freda Thompson 1906 - 1980 Jean Batten 1909 - 1982 Peggy McKillop 1909 - 1999 Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller 1910-1972 Nancy Bird-Walton 1915 - Suzanne Duigan 1924 - 1993 Fran West 1952 - Gaby Kennard Janine Shepherd 1962 - Allana Arnot 1967 - Neither gender nor age should discourage you from adventure. Learning something as complex as driving a flying machine will have its ups and downs but if you are keen to succeed and willing to keep learning, you will succeed. And it is so very rewarding.
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    FNG

    nomadpete replied to AV8R's topic in Just Landed - Welcome

    Or if it was steaming fast, you might not actually catch up with it.
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    I think it's cheaper than getting a driver's licence. It takes a log book of 100hours for a driver's licence. Most of us get a recreational pilot's certificate in a lot less those hours.
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    I believe it wasn't Wagner's idea to call it Brisbane West.
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    Apart from all that cynicism, If you ask no questions, you have no answers.
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    This survey is a great opportunity for everyone to tell RAAus in no uncertain terms, what we think about all the stuff I see posters here complaining about:- The push for CTA (access or transit only, and under what proviso) The push for 1500kg MTOW (or other weight, and under what conditions) The lack of feedback after a survey The lack of information to confirm what policy or rule changes are (or are not) happening. Etc....... Don't complain about the survey. Just do it.
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    Yeah, I'd rather buy it from Clear Prop anyway, thanks Ian!
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    As far as CASA care, if the hand held is labelled with the correct model, they'd be hard pressed to complain. But if you want to know if the radio actually transmits a good signal, you'd have to get a qualified tech to put it on a spectrum analyser, modulation monitor, etc.
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    That's only $6 cheaper than your 'fairly tight band' of prices (assuming the price band was plus postage). Not radically cheaper. Anyway are Icom made in china?
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