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Most pilots,RAA or GA, are Day VFR only. CTA access will continue to be Day VFR for most pilots. Planes in Class C&E require TSO transponder. Pilots in Class C&D require a CTA endorsement. Planes in controlled airspace require a serviceable Aero Radio.
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Not at all,. My logbook is stamped with the Class C&D endo. There is nothing else to do. There may be a need to demonstrate CTA procedures as part of my AFR/BFR but that is it. I don't see that the CTA endo is beyond the vast bulk of RAA Certificate holders nor an imposition on RAA. I think you are overthinking this.
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You don't need a dispensation for your Technam to fly into Class D. An RAA trading school maybe given a dispensation for flying STUDENTS at some controlled airports. The plane is not constrained. If RAA was given the same right as your GA instructor to issue a Class C/D endo then you would be good to go into Class D. If you have a TSO'd transponder you could fly in Class C and E as well. The cost of the Endo is.for the pilot to cover. The cost of the transponder is for the plane owner to cover. RAA has no costs different from any of its other endos. It is called user pays
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Perhaps you could articulate your knowledge of the requirements on a plane going into the various classes of controlled airspace and the requirements of a plot going into that airspace. You might surprise yourself. There is no basis to the claim that the cost to RAA to issue a CTA Endo will be any higher than the cost of putting a CTA onto the members card at renewal time.
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Your Technam is quite capable of flying Class D now.
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No, it wasn't your comments. I understood where you were heading.
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RAA planes are, if suitably equipped, able to request and be given clearance to fly into and through controlled airspace. The PIC must have a CTA end. This means that the PIC needs 3 qualifying bits of paper. An RAA Cert for the plane in question, a CASA License AND a CASA CTA Endo. This is the current law. I am not sure where some of those on these forums get off claiming that 1. You can't currently fly RAA through CTA, 2. The world as we know it will somehow vanish if RAA Certificate holders are given the opportunity to qualify for a CTA Endorsement without the need to hold CASA Licence.
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I can at the moment fly an RAA plane into CTA based on my PPL CTA endo. Why can't a RAA Cert holder not allowed to get a CTA Endo. What is the knowledge gap? Same plane, 2 outcomes!!
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I don't recall turbines in the RAA course material. Nor in the PPL basic syllabus. -
Suggestions for amendments to Constitution
coljones replied to DonRamsay's topic in Governing Bodies
We beg to differ but I hope we both win for the sake of better flying for everyone. -
Suggestions for amendments to Constitution
coljones replied to DonRamsay's topic in Governing Bodies
RAA was in an uncontrolled spiral dive of death 5 years ago. Correction was applied at the Qeanbeyan EGM and while there are a few wrinkles the organisation is now doing relatively well despite all the issues the Reid/Runciman board refused to face. There were some good guys there but they were whistling in the wind. I am not sure of the predilection of the new board but I hope they have moved to singing the same song from the same song sheet but with equal independent input. -
Did you manage to get within 6.5 to 8 HbA1c? or did the grief start after that?
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What is the basis and quantum of these extra costs you are talking about? Why will having plastics and CTA cost more? Pilots with a GA Licence and CTA endo can currently fly CTA in an RAA plane, why do you think that CTA endos for RAA pilots will cost RAA rather than the pilot
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Well we don't actually know if the Camit engine is better as it has not been on the block all that long. There are those that proclaim long and loud that they are the new sliced white. Jabiru is still having engines made to their design and specs. There had been a number of mods and processes made to the various types, early solid lifters, hydraulic lifters and post hydraulic fixed lifters. The Jabiru site will list the models, serial numbers and mods that have the CASA blessing. Buying a Camit could be problematical as they appear to be in receivership.
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And on any case you don't need a transponder in D space which makes it easier to get into and through place's like YSBK, YSCN, YMAY, YCFS, YMMB, YMAV, YPPF etc. William town and Surfers are both Mil or Cspace so need a higher level of equipment. In any case ASA is proposing low level E-space in the Sydney basin to the west of YSBK down to 700 feet near the Lane North. This will impact both transponders and clearance from cloud base.
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If we painted greyhounds on the sides of the plane and called it something like "Mother's Boy" the Country Party might be interested. In its failure to maintain the tax base the Liberals are just as likely to say that the payment to RAA should be user pay and no, you can't get a slice of the GST on Mogas used in RAA planes. But you are right we do need to go and muscle the politicians.
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Suggestions for amendments to Constitution
coljones replied to DonRamsay's topic in Governing Bodies
Thanks Don, we also need to have a bit of philosophy before we craft a rule to suit. ie. 1. Notice of meeting and call for proposals and supporting narrative 56 days out 2. Close of proposals and supporting narrative 28 days out 3. Issue of formal agenda including proposals to receive reports individually, and proposals received at least 28 days out and the supporting narrative and proxy forms (21 days out) 4. Receive from members comments on prposals (14 days out) 5. Circulate comments (10 days out). We also need to determine what resolutions can be put to the meeting without notice eg procedural motions and receipt of reports and thank yous or condemnation of the board I will have to think up some Electoral rules but we need to work out if we want preferential where each candidate needs the support of the majority to get elected or proportional representation where each candidate gets elected in proportion to their support. The difficulty with the last process was that it went away to cut rules without floating philosophy to the members first. -
More the point of who owns the coding for the CNC machines? Is it Ian's or does it belong to Camit? If it belongs to Ian he can probably deal with it independently of the fate of Camit.
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Is it Ian's IP or Camit's?
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RAAus AGM member resolution - request for proxy
coljones replied to kasper's topic in Governing Bodies
The Qeanbeyan meeting was famous. What was infamous was the behaviour of the, then, board, who gamed the system. -
Thanks Bruce. I pay my taxes and I am grateful that the poor are getting a bit of it rather than some scumbag politician and his/her scumbag tax dodging mates. Under/in employment stats should be broken out into categories such as under employed of which quite a few are at or below the poverty line and don't end up in the stats, those who have finished one job and on their way to another, those that are shorterm unemployed and looking for work and the long term unemployed a number of who should really be on disability pensions because it is hard to walk from Sydney to Newcastle when you have no legs. Out of all those categories there are few who could be regarded as workshy or bludgers. The people that I despise most are politicians who game unemployment to satisfy their political fantasies and those of their supporters and employers who lean on desperate job seekers by extracting punishing conditions on them aka 7-11 and their ilk. The vast majority of unemployed, workers and employers are good people and deserve our support. I was going to do a thesis on the US Presidential Electoral system - interesting, twisting, confusing and very scary. Maybe I should do it on popular myths on unemployment in Australia instead.
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30,000 in an electorate of 100,000????
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We are moving (have moved) into an era of extensive underemployment where the workers are getting an amount of hours that makes them employed but not the hours that they want. In some cases they are living below the poverty level and/or working in areas and at times which are unsociable or on zero hour contracts that binds them without offering any money. The workers being let off in the car industry and, perhaps, Camit are going to face issues because of their age, lack of relevant training and lack of jobs where they live.
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As long as the loan is for the reengineering of the local operation as opposed to immediate repatriation to the foreign owner - another way to cause a tax leakage offshore. Business should be predicated on a genuine business plan, not a wish list of handouts from the government nor a trick up for offshoring the tax to havens (which add no value, do not work and are just conduits for legal black money)
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Teachers have probably worked out that it is better to teach good maths and science than to replicate bad, illogical spelling perverted by dictionary compilers who should have known better. We should have more science and less spelling circuses. Great, they can spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but can they fill in a simple tax return???
