coljones

If you get a Sydney VTC it comes with a supplement of the various lanes around Sydney (Sydney General Flying Guide). The VTC also includes all the area and ctafs you need. You say you don't want to go to the west does that mean to the west of Camden or to the west of Katoomba. If you don't want to overfly Cambelltown then I would come down the lane from Brooklyn Bridge to Prospect @ 2500ft. Veer right to the Camden (Mayfield) reporting point @ 4500ft and then track via Mittagong to the south. Take care between Bankstown and Wallachia as this is the Bankstown training area. South of the Oaks is the Oaks training area. If you can overfly Cambelltown fly from Prospect to Horton Park (alongside the M7 - and marvel how a perfectly useful Airstrip can be turned into a mega warehouse) and the join to lane south to Cambelltown CBD. Then track to Picton and Mittagong. You could overfly Camden but the gliding fraternity seem to like pulling circling high rate climbs over the strip so flying high over reporting points seems like a better deal. The Sydney Flying Guide may be available on the CASA or Airsevices website. Enjoy.

The article did get it right. A Piper Cherokee

"Fundamental atheist"¿ something more to add to my already long list of accomplishments and awards. Thanks GN.

I saw it as Tony trying to get her back on topic and not hijacking a panel with 5 members into a Pauline only panel.

All we need is a bit of jingoism by the "Christian" west and we again descend into xenophobia. A most recent example is Germany in the late 20s, 30s and 40s which saw the systematic murder of at least 6 million people including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and anyone who wasn't aryan or christian enough. Germany, Austria, Italy and France were by and large staunch "Christian" countries. History is littered with activities either condoned by the church, ignored by the church or feebly protested by the church and carried out by "christian" people to kill, enslave or dispossess others. The odd mass murder of chinese and aboriginals in Australia was carried out by a supposedly "christian" people. You can be sure that the chinese and aboriginals did not commit suicide. By all means the world needs to contain the nutters but we need to reach through the smokescreens and call out the baddies and they are generally the mafias who run monarchies, dictatorships and pseudo democracies who enslave their own people and wage war wrapped in the cloak of Islam. Some of those mafias are on our side - so it seems.

But thousands of ministers standing around looking at the budget "black hole" and beating up on the poor but no-one to fix up the revenue black hole left by Howard and Costello.

Maybe in the Senate she will get to ask the question of CASA "what were you thinking? - please explain!"

Of course, there is the premier flying school in the Sydney Basin, Sydney Flying College at Bankstown. SFCaero.com.au 9709 8488. This is the training arm of Schofields Flying Club. SFC has an extensive flying training programme from ab initio, RPL, PPL and CPL with some parts a formal training programme with Sydney TAFE.

You could say the same about RR Merlin engines. RR weren't short on ideas but the Merlin's only seemed to have a TBO of only 25 hours - sufficient, it seems, to make a mess of the Axis powers. Perhaps it was the well trained and dedicated engine fitters the allied workforces had. Mind you these engines weren't doing the circuits and bumps that seem to be the lot of Jabiru engines.

Send the mag's to RAA. I'm not sure how good their history is and might give Michael an alternate source rather than the old boy network.

You are a strange man Geoffrey. You intend putting a modified Jabiru engine into a plane when you clearly think that they are not much chop. Keeping CASA with their boot across Jabiru's throat will solve nothing except sending it into bankruptcy. CASA is incompetent and the anti-Jabiru claque is no better. There are far worse engines than Jabiru and it appears to me that most of the most vociferous criticisms are from people jealous of Jabiru's success or from people, with spanners in their hands, who you wouldn't trust to open a pack of chewing gum, let alone chew while thinking.

wouldn't that put you into tiger country around the back of Coffs Harbour CTA?

I didn't know that you liked Jabiru's?

Speak to the lady of the house. She has been covering kids schoolbooks with contact for years and can give you a very quick and authoritative lesson in laminating without raising a sweat.

Like your optimism Don. Throughout history it has been the Dictatorship of the mafia of royalty, Dictatorship of dictators (pre-royalty), Dictatorship of religions or the Dictatorship of the proletariat. In any case it seems that a Cessna 152 will get in with a stall speed of 43kts and a MTOW of 750kg (with a 7kg load restriction)

I was hoping that no-one would prod the beast. Now we will have the usual claquing anti Jabiru and the CASA crowd out creating the usual deafening, empty hot air

Talk to Kreisha, she does that sort of thing Girl With A Stick: Biggus Trippus

Mike was elected from an electorate covering both NSW and ACT, not just a small block in ACT. Last year there wasn't even an election in Victoria. There are 2 from Vic, 3 from NSW/ACT, 4 from Qld, and 1 each from Tas, SA, WA, NT.

RAA was sitting on a pot of gold while the world was collapsing around it chalking up future liabilities that did not appear on the balance sheet. These liabilities finally came home to roost when the CASA Audits materialised and the lack of proper management of RAA was revealed. It seems that past boards had a simple policy - collect money and shove it in the bank - hell can freeze over next week. I, as a starting position, think that the reserves are still too high and that the previous and current boards were never able to come to grips with a realistic reserves policy. I don't have a problem paying fair fees calculated on a realistic basis to maintain the integrity of the business and strengthen our privileges. I am deeply offended when I am just being used as a cash cow and a bulwark to the meanderings of a lazy board. I don't have a problem with the current rundown in reserves as they represent a financial transfer to put in place systems which will work and keep RAA pointing in the right direction. Runciman had a clue as did Don and Jim, who along with the rest of the Executive and the cluey members of the board were pushing in the right direction. Learning from the mistakes of the past is a relatively new phenomena in RAA and the current executive and future board should be encouraged to spend with purpose (while maintaining a suitable level of reserves) since hiding or ignoring the unseen liabilities has never done anyone any good. Ian, you are providing a valuable service here and comment by you and others are always well read (and appreciated)

The big biggy with both AvPlan and OzRunways is who is your mobile provider. There is nothing worse than being somewhere and getting zero bars and you want info on the pad now so you can get going on your way. I am biased but the Telstra network is by far the most extensive and covers vast swathes of Australia. The Telstra $140 2 year prepaid SIM gives you 16GB of data and can be rolled over. The other App to have is NAIPS which provides access to weather and Notams on the road. Getting upfront and personal with a map, pencil and E6B will deliver you a much better big picture than any tablet. When you zoom in on a map you lose all the surroundings and when you zoom out you lose all the detail.

Let's try that again. LiFePo4 is the good one and should be called Lithium Ferrous so that it doesn't sound the same as Lithium Ion. Anyway, Kyle got in a nutshell.

Lithium IRON Phosphate batteries are a subset of Lithium Ion batteries. The ones causing all the problems are called "Lithium Ion" batteries in the form of "Lithium Cobalt Oxide". To avoid confusion LiFePo4 should really be called Lithium Ferrous Cobalt rather than Lithium Iron Phosphorous

Defence does not build. it buys. The contractor was doing the work not defence. If you rip the guts out of a biscuit box you can stuff a whole new, improved system inside. The fact that the contractor was unable to achieve that says more about the lack of competency of the contractor than than of defence. I think it is fair to say that NZ got a good deal but don't expect to get a more fully autonomous system from that contractor.

Quite clearly Kaman could not do what they had contracted to do. The perils of contracting!! It would appear that NZ does not have a 2 person auto-hover capability or in fact any auto-hover capability. If that is what NZ wants, that is their call. Just don't ask or expect Kaman to deliver bleeding edge technology.

The problem with low interest rates is that a lot of wrinkly old buggers are seeing their super income streams being imperilled even further. The GFC did a lot of damage and low interest rates don't help. My understanding was that the 10,000 figure was always a bit rubbery and the invention of a board and CEO with minds elsewhere.