old man emu

18 hours ago, old man emu said:

I'll email him tomorrow.

I sent an email to the AOPA President this morning.

10 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

One of the problems with TB20s is that the gear undercarriage horn is almost, if not identical to the stall warner.

I would say that such a situation is a serious design fault. If I was in America, I'd be suing the carp out of the manufacturer for negligence in design.

Ran off the runway? Bugger! Can't use the "plummeted from the sky" cliche.

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

 

Weather is looking good

At midday today it was calm, although some fair weather Cumulus did develop, but dispersed by sundown. Temperature around 20C. Perfect autumn weather. Forecast air pressure is around 1024 and rising to 1028 and higher on Sunday. So far 12 entrants and more to sign up as well as quite a few lookenpeepers. A good mix of VH- and RAA aircraft . The oldest C-172 in Australia will be on display. 

9 hours ago, Carbon Canary said:

AOPA CEO - Ben Morgan

 

Executive Director
Mr Benjamin Morgan
Mobile:  0415 577 724
Email:  [email protected]

I'll email him tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

"just look out the window and make sure the wheels are still there!"

But what if the starboard main has fallen off?

There are two groups of people with a retract endorsement - 

Those who have done a wheels up, and those who are going to.

And there was his comment - I was trying to work out why the speed was up on approach (paraphrased)

1 hour ago, trailer said:

 

AOPA would be interested to see that with the advocacy they are doing at the moment.

Who do I contact?

The boring part of the trip to and from Europe is the time spent in some Asian or African airport boarding lounge during a "stop-over". I know that the stopovers allow time for essential housekeeping for the aircraft, but 300+ people heading for the loos at the same time with the same internal pressures is hard to take. And armed guards with unsmiling faces don't make for a happy experience.

Has anyone ever seen the Deed made between the Commonwealth of Australia and a local Shire/Municipal Council when the Commonwealth handed over the maintenance of an aerodrome to the Local Government body? This is the first page;

As you read through the deed, you come across these little bits at Clause 2(h) and 2(k)

I obtained this from one of the files dealing with Tooraweenah aerodrome that are held in the National Archives. If you search the National Archives database for your threatened aerodrome, you will probably find a similar one.

There's a bulk strip, new prop and new CSU unit.

Another case of get-home-itis that has many lessons for us all. The first one is the need to answer the question, "Am I fit to fly". In this case, I'd say fatigue was the first link in the chain of events leading to the failure to put down the Dunlops.

Mistrust of a Nation's political leadership is the spark that has ignited so many revolutions in which real blood has been spilled. The more that is exposed, the more the mistrust grows. Acts like stacking an important body like the AAT in blatantly biased ways reeks of treasonous behaviour. However that use of the word "treasonous" is more emotional than factual since treason can only be committed by physically harming in various degrees the Sovereign, the Sovereign's family, the G-G or the Prime Minister, or by waging or aiding the waging of war or hostilities against the Commonwealth. But its use here suits the tone of teh post.

At the moment there seems to be a song and dance going on about banning Neo-Nazi groups. But those groups are too far on the fringe ever to gain power in a post-Hitler world. However, we are suffering from so many immoral acts committed by powerful Right Wing parties that one might consider banning them also. I will agree that the Left Wing's halo is tarnished as well, but that side of politics appears to have confessed its sins and set out on the path to reformation. 

5 hours ago, Old Koreelah said:

I’ve recently discovered that I’m Nigerian.

2 hours ago, Old Koreelah said:

About time I pulled my weight and did my bit!.

OK Prince Ngambo. We're awake to your little Go Fund Me scam.

Not quite sure, but I think that the Pilliga scrub is a post-European product of overgrazing.  I think I read that when first discovered,  by the explorer John Oxley in 1818, that the landscape was like a grassy parkland. This enticed graziers whose sheep soon destroyed the native grasslands which were abandoned. Following that, and the cessation of Aboriginal forestry practices (controlled burning to rejuvenate grasses) the country was invaded by the cypress pine and eucalypt forests we dee today. 

If that is true, then the scary beasts of Aboriginal culture are unlikely to be native to the area, but are the Aborigines' bogeymen who ensure that children obey their parents and learn what dangers need to be avoided. As mothers have done since raising their young became a mammalian feature.

3 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

The Police do not have the luxury of exercising judgement and may face censure if found to be doing so.

My greatest hate was in dealing with alleged domestic violence. A blind man could see that half the crap you were told was  childish. But the rule was that you had to take action. The result of that action? She's calling you a bastard for taking her meal ticket away. Try to get her into Court to repeat what she told you" Pigs might fly!. 

Use your common sense and tell the couple to grow up, but not arrest, charge and slap the bloke with an Order and the Domestic Violence Officer hauls you into her office (she's never seen on the street, except to get her morning coffee from the cafe down the road) and reads the Riot Act and threatens disciplinary action against you. Forgetting all the time that if you arrest a person and bring a charge before the Court which fails due to the non-appearance of the witness, you, not the Police Force, are personally liable to have the arrested person's costs awarded against you and might even be charged with making an unlawful arrest. 

At least in NSW, a person holding the Office of Constable, is an independent agent of the Crown. No other person can order you to commence criminal proceedings against another person. Note the difference between the powers of a NSW constable and an Officer of the Law in the USA. Notice how they are portrayed asking a victim if the victim wants a person charged.  

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

Probably better to keep those thoughts to yourself.

No! I fully agree with Spacey on that.

Imagine this situation. You approach a set of traffic lights and the "yellow" has been showing for a while. You do what everyone else does and keep going, only to have the "red" show as you are crossing the stop line. The next thing, you hear the "whoop whoop" behind you. Immediately fear grips you. The constable approaches you and your first words are, "I know. I know" . From here things can go two ways. The constable gives you a ticket and from then on you regale all and sundry about how the bloody copper booked you for a split second of red.

Or, the constable explains to you that actually it is an offence to run a yellow and because you did, you ended up running the red. The constable advises you that correct driving practice is to slow as you approach a yellow and prepare to stop, providing that by doing so, the idiot sitting on your tail won't run up it. The constable then bids you "Good day" and departs. 

What are you going to do the next time and the time after that when you approach a yellow that has been showing for a while? I'd say that the constable has succeeded in improving road safety, one step at a time. 

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

He meant to reply to Spacey, Skippy.

Yeah. Sorry Skippy.

33 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

a constable could or should have the discretion to issue a warning. 

Does have, but the naive young constable is lead astray by ignorant seniors.

34 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

$ 500 from a PPPENSION is a big hit ,

I agree, I did say that governments treat motorists as financial milch cows and at the same time flog people who do harm to others with cottonwool whips.

Yep. A mild trough is passing through at the moment with isolated rain showers. But there's an equally mild High Pressure cell behind

If a  deep Low Pressure area is described as "intense", what's a High Pressure area that's 20 hPa above MSL described as?

If Area QNH is 1030, OAT is 22C and aerodrome reference height is 1380 AMSL, what's the Density Height on the runway?

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Maybe you could do it for the retailing businesses  and bigger schools/charter operators also

They are classed as Tier 3 and self-report. They don't need an independent auditor. What is happening is that the companies I service are aircraft maintenance providers and they are being squeezed hard by increases in rents and overheads introduced by the head lease holder. It is pretty obvious. If you want to get compliance with the Airports (Environment Protection) Act, get rid of the sources of possible risk to the environment. A massive warehouse does not pose the environmental risks that a small hangar does with its 500 litres of waste oil awaiting collection for recycling, because a warehousing does not produce waste that is an environmental risk.

I am switching my line of attack to take in the documenting and auditing of CASA Manuals of Standards relating to maintenance. 

59 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

'  Not the police ' they're getting $millions out of us motorists .

FFS Skippy get over it will you?

How many times do you have to be told that when an constable issues a person with an infringement notice it provided the person with basically two choices - have the matter heard and determined by a Court, or, of for many, many reasons, the person decides not to take that path, then they can pay to the State Treasury a set amount as indicated on the notice. That money goes into the Treasury coffers to build the State's disposable income. From that income money is allocated to provide the services we demand from  from the State Government. 

Part of the set fine for an offence might go to buying a lifesaving piece of equipment for a hospital, or for a book for a kid in kindergarten to learn to read with. Yes, some of that money from traffic fines finances policing, but it also finances a host of other government-run activities, and benefits, like energy bill rebates and free travel for pensioners of all types.

I will admit that the motorist has always been viewed by Treasurers as a milch cow to have its teats pulled until they bleed. It is unfair that a thief can enter your house steal and ransack and cop a wrap on the wrist from a Court, but a driver trying to operate a vehicle in an environment of overwhelming visual and physical inputs can have hundreds of dollars extracted from them for say, not realising that it was 3:50 pm and that the school zone speed limit on an otherwise 80 kph length of public street was still in force, despite that by that time little Johnny and Mary were either at home, or at the local shopping center with Mum.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

The lessee can't realy tell his sub-letters how to go about their business; it's really up to them to find a model which attracts customers.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Trying to talk to the functionaries of the lessee in an attempt to work together for mutual benefit is a failure

I didn't put what I said very well. My business is auditing tenants' environmental risk management systems. These are required ultimately due to the Airports (Environment Protection) Act. The holder of the head lease has created three tiers of risk level

Tier 1: Possible major environmental risk incident e.g. Fuel Depot

Tier 2: Possible medium environmental risk incident e.g. Aircraft maintenance, Fast Food

Tier 3: Possible minor environmental risk incident e.g. warehouse, business office, hangarage only.

I have one client who has been classed Tier 2, but on my assessment of his level of risk, should be a Tier 3. This would mean that he could submit his own annual reports without my having to come in and charge him for an independent report every three years. After the last audit, I wrote the the head leaseholder suggesting that change. I'm still waiting for even an acknowledgement of my letter. 

The reason I got into doing this is that when the head leaseholder took over they suggested a certain company to do the audits for them. I've seen a quote from one of these companies and back in the middle teens the quote was for over $5000. At the time I was working in the industry and knew how tight money was. So I got qualified (paid for by the first few who needed the audit done) and thereafter charged them a fixed fee of well less than $1000. In that way, they comply with their lease requirements for not too much, and I get some cream on the cake. The audits are only required every three years. Last was in the 21/22 financial year. I'm wondering if there will be any still on Bankstown for the 24/25 series.

OK. Here are the answers people have been waiting for:

Before all else - get the information package. It contains a lot of safety related information.

1. The problem of cathead and Khaki weed burrs has been met with an agronomist-designed weed control programme. This was instituted last summer and the result is that you can now run barefoot down the runway and taxiways and never break into the Bindi Hop.

2. The runway and taxiways have been mown this week, so the grass is short (to CASR standards)

3. For those wishing to enter the Trophy event, we can now accept payment on the day via EFTPOS.

4. The entry form is contained in the information package and is submitted by following a link which can be found in the information package.

5. Arrangements have been made to obtain 98 octane fuel from a very clean source at the pump price applicable on the day. Use our containers or your own. $5.00 per order for the driver.

6. Refuelling aids in the form of a Mister Funnel, earthing cable and a ladder will be supplied.

7. Contact details for accommodation in Tooraweenah are in the information package.

8. If the Tooraweenah accommodation gets booked out, transport to and from Gilgandra motels will be arranged.

9. For those who can't bear to leave their aircraft alone at night, but don't want to smell like a gorilla's armpit on the flight home, showering facilities are available by donation to the local Agricultural Show Society.

10. While no formal activity has been planned for Saturday night, the pub is a short stroll way and a local community group will be running a bar-b-que at the pub.

11. Bacon 'n' egg rolls and hot coffee with be available at the aerodrome on Sunday morning.

12. If you know of any student pilots who want to share your costs, they can also enter the "Neatest Correct Flight Plan" contest for a mere $10.00, again payable by EFTPOS on the day.

So email me at [email protected] for the information package THIS WEEKEND

Basically most of those movements are indeed training flights, but Australian and foreign students doing commercial licence courses in both fixed and rotary wing. Very few people who just want to learn to fly for recreation or self transport. The Royal Aero Club died yonks ago. Chieftain , Illawarra, Navair, Schofields Aero Club - all gone. Hoxton Park Aero Club - gone. Camden Aero Club - gone. Phoenix Aero Club moved to Camden and seem to have a youthful membership.

Trying to talk to the functionaries of the lessee in an attempt to work together for mutual benefit is a failure since they don't reply. In my area of work, they change functionaries about every 6 months so that it seems to be a new broom that can't get into the corners.

4 hours ago, turboplanner said:

I thought you were selling bolts etc.

Not since 2013, but I've still got my reference book. The damned thing is 35 Mb and hard to email to people who would like it (free of course).

And I thank you, too. Friends have been made and help has been given. What a better compliment for someone's work?

Thanks to for giving me such a free rein when I've been working on The Event. We could not have spread the word so far without your tolerance. I just wish that you could get some advertising material for these sites. I wish you could be there. Toora is not far from Narromine, and I know you've been there.

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

you find your market has very much spread out,

I don't sell. I provide a service to tenants that provides information required under their lease agreements. Therefore, when a tenant leaves, and either can't sell the same business on the same site, or the site is not occupied by a certain type of activity, I lose a client.  What is happening is that businesses related to aircraft maintenance are closing and their buildings are being turned over to warehousing.  The operators of warehouses have different lease requirements in my area of service, so they don't need me. Not that I'm whinging because what I did simply gave me cream on the cake. I wasn't supporting myself or family from that work. 

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

I thought I was supposed to be working for CASA

Directly? Because it explains why when you are serious, you bring home the bacon. Onya!