old man emu

PM montmartz. He operates out of Jaspers Brush.

 

 

I've suggested this before in other threads which were discussing CASA's inhibiting of light aircraft use for non-commercial purposes, but why don't we write to Senator Hanson and seek her support in bringing CASA stupidity before Parliament.

 

Now, don't let's get started attacking or defending Senator Hanson's many political ideas. That is not the point here.

 

Senator Hanson is a duly elected Senator for Queensland. As such, her role is to monitor Federal government policies so that the people of Queensland are not shafted. By extension, she can provide this service to the people of the other States ans Territories.

 

It is a fact that Senator Hanson has the experience of using light aircraft as an efficient means of transport to meet the people in places where commercial realities prevent the provision of Regular Public Transport air services. 

 

We should exploit her experience in this area to raise the subject of CASA's heavy-handedness in this volunteer activity, and to force Parliament, or at least, the Senate, to investigate CASA's stand.

 

OME

 

 

We are lucky that there is bi-lateral political agreement on preventing foreign takeover of Australian assets ... as long as the Parties don't have to give back the money.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/australia-ends-residency-of-high-profile-chinese-businessman/2019/02/06/b1ac6424-29f0-11e9-906e-9d55b6451eb4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.df4884b15f07

 

 

My wife finished a course of 33 radiation therapy treatments last Monday. She had one treatment each day (Weekends and Public Holidays excluded). She could not drive because she was receiving morphine for pain relief. Fortunately, most of out appointments were for before 9:00am, and the trip from door to door took about 25 minutes. Still, from the time we woke up until we got back home, we spent about 3-4 hours of the day. 

 

You have to either be a country resident, or have family members in the country to understand how distance adversely impacts on getting medical treatment. While the wife was undergoing her course of treatment, we met people who had to drive about an hour each way, each day to get their treatment. And these people lived in the nearby Southern Highlands. Imagine if you worked in a mining town like Cobar or Parkes and had to travel to a major city like Dubbo or Orange to see a Specialist or get treatment. Also, Specialists don't live in places like Dubbo, Orange, Wagga or Tamworth. They live in the Eastern Suburbs and take the morning flight out of Kingsford-Smith (if there is one).

 

I can't see the difference between a person undergoing  a course of treatment which does not require a hospital stay, flying in a aircraft maintained to the standards required by CASA, and a group of friends flying in the same aircraft from a rural location to a metropolitan airport in order for them  to attend a football or cricket match.

 

 

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I thought it said Full Bladder

 

 

Don't forget Dubbo for an overnight and visit to Western Plains Zoo. Or you could fly into Narromine for a look around, then see if you can hire a car to go to the Zoo at Dubbo.

 

Any flight down the coast to Moruya on a nice day is great. See if Jaspers Brush has the strip length for your plane.

 

A visit to Temora is also on the Must Do list.

 

 

Sometimes the needle on an analog instrument will continue to move in the direction of the "vehicle" at the pre-impact speed as items, such as the face of the gauge, come to a stop. (Inertia - Newton's First Law of Motion) When the needle hits the face of the gauge it can leave an imprint, especially if the backside of the needle is painted. It is a pretty rare occurrence, but is has been observed. 

 

The problem with using these marks to determine pre-impact readings is that an "accurate" reading depends on the direction of the impact force. If the force is applied directly along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, then the reading is pretty accurate. However, if the impact force is applied at an angle to the longitudinal axis , then the needle will be deflected in the direction of the impact force. If the impact force comes from the right of the longitudinal axis then the needle will deflect to the right. If at pre-impact, the needle at the 12 o'clock position and was pointing upwards, then an impact from the right would result in a mark between 12  and 1 o'clock.

 

From the report of the Holly crash, one could assume that at impact, the aircraft was in a rotating descent. Therefore, the impact force would be expected to be coming from the side of the longitudinal axis. That would cause a wise investigator to note the position of any needle mark, but only conclude, at best, that the gauge was working at the time of impact.

 

 

In light aircraft operated mostly in Day VMC conditions below 10,000 ft, the biggest destroyers of wheel bearings are water and grit which are thrown up from the ground surface when the wheels are in contact with it. 

 

To extend the life of the bearings, it is advisable to remove them for servicing every 100 hours or at a minimum, annually. Service the bearings more often if the aircraft is operated from unsealed runways. Servicing involves washing all the grease and muck from them in an solvent bath.  After drying with a blast of air they must be packed with grease. A word of CAUTION. While it is fun to put the bearing on your thumb and get it to spin by blowing pressurized air across the outer shell, the friction generated if the bearing is dry can cause damage. 

 

Here's some advice on choosing a grease suitable for light aircraft wheel bearings:  https://www.skylinkintl.com/blog/wheel-bearing-grease

 

This is how to properly pack grease into a bearing:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pack+a+bearing+with+grease&rlz=1C1GGRV_enAU749AU749&oq=how+to+pack+a+bearing&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.8460j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=1

 

 

Today, 3rd February 2019 is the sixtieth anniversary of the Day the Music Died. 

 

http://www.kcbd.com/2019/02/01/lubbock-remembers-buddy-holly-th-anniversary-day-music-died/

 

Here's the investigation report:

 

https://fiftiesweb.com/music/crash-report/

 

 

Gees. I'm glad that I hold an authority from Transport New South Wales to drive a public passenger vehicle, and a licence from NSW Roads and Maritime Services to drive heavy vehicle combinations. It's a relief to know that my wife will have a perfectly safe 15-minute, each way trip to the hospital for her radiation treatment. I wonder how all those other husbands and wives drive their relatives to the hospital for treatment. The drivers can't all have the government permissions that I do. Maybe they use Uber drivers?

 

 

As Cecil B. DeMille said, "It's a wrap!"

 

 

 

 

I wonder what the comparison is in the CO2 emissions of an ocean liner going between Sydney and Southhampton, and an airliner doing the Sydney Heathrow run.

 

 

No need mate,. . .all the POLES are working in England now. . .

That's great! Nothing worse than broken poles for dropping power lines on the ground.

 

 

There's also software they use which sets the local code, then dials the individual numbers in that code. For example, Price Waterhouse Cooper's phone number in Sydney is 8266 0000. The software will dial every number in that 8266 group from 0000 to 9999. If the call is answered, the software records that number as an active connection. Then a list of all the active connections in the group can be sold off to telemarketers to annoy you. This way, the marketers can target a market. They wouldn't try to sell insulation in the 8266 group, but would target a suburban area, such as 4655 0000 to 9999.

 

What I'd like to know is how these Indiuns get business information. I was recently dealing with a car insurance claim. My insurance company does not have overseas call centres, however I received a phone call from "Roger" claiming to be from my insurer. His voice told me that he would be more likely to cheer for Virat Kohli than Tim Paine. I just told him that I refused to speak to anyone from the Sub-Continent.

 

 

You got me Phil!

 

I thought it was a thread about relocating charismatic Central European trades persons.

 

 

Ratbag, or prophet being ridiculed in his own country?

 

 

that's www.recreationalflying.com

 

 

Onetrack has expressed things pretty well, just a few clarifications.

 

ROAD RULES 2014 - REG 12 (NSW)

 

What is a road

 

12 WHAT IS A ROAD

 

(1) A "road" is an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as one of its main uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.

 

The access road to  a venue, and any parking area is a road by this definition. Police can enforce traffic laws there. Once a venue has a boundary inside which the "public" is not permitted to drive, then the area within the boundary ceases to be a "road".  The movement of motor vehicles within the boundary is then governed by Criminal Law (on a golf course) or law specific to the activity (Motor Racing Act). Of course, commonsense dictates that drivers of vehicles within the boundary would apply a method of driving that reflects the Traffic Laws.

 

As for leaving the farm gate open - any person has the right to approach the front door of your house by the most direct or convenient route if there is nothing permanently blocking the route (a locked gate). That's why you can't prevent evangalisers and charity collectors from coming to your front door.

 

In relation to incidents involving death or injury within the boundaries, action can be taken under the Criminal Law. The offences range from causing Actual Bodily Harm to Murder. There are Legal History reasons why the offence of Culpable Driving was introduced. That is why it is rare to hear of a driver being charged with Manslaughter as a result of a vehicle fatality. Basically, the circumstances of the driving and behaviour of the driver have to be pretty horrendous for a charge of manslaughter to be laid.

 

 

When you describe the cop from Moulamein as "old", I envisage a bloke who has found himself a quiet little hideaway where he has very little work to do and has become very, very lazy. He'd probably have about six rental properties in Sydney, subsidised rent for his housing in Moulamein, and wouldn't be much bothered by the Brass at local HQ. That type of cop is the type that deserves to be shifted around the State.

 

I thought it was a buzz to be rostered for duty at the Goulburn Speedway on Governor's Hill (before Wakefield Park was developed). 

 

 

Turbo,

 

Motor sports in New South Wales have been governed by legislation since 1957. The  Motor Vehicle Sports (Public Safety) Act and accompanying Regulations were just a tidying up of the existing legislation, probably to deal with a wider range of motor sports than existed in 1957.

 

Therefore, if the cop (and I say 'cop' with derision) did what he did, he must either have been a dickhead, or had a grudge against the speedway. What he did shows a complete lack of knowledge of the Law and discretion in applying it.

 

From the Regulations

 

24   Cessation of races or events

 

(1)  If the senior police officer on duty at a race meeting is satisfied that any person is in imminent or undue danger if further racing or events are carried on, the officer may direct the clerk of the course or any other person in charge of the conduct of the meeting to cease immediately any racing or event and not to continue until the danger has been removed.

 

Everyone in Swan Hill would know that cop. I wonder how long it was before social pressures on his wife and kids made him apply for a transfer the Kings Cross Police Station where he could continue to be a dickhead, but his family would be anonymous.

 

 

In New South Wales we have the Motor Vehicle Sports (Public Safety) Act and Regulations which set out all manner of things relating to the safe conduct of motor vehicle sports in all its organised forms. This Act and Regulations supersede the Speedway Act and Regulations of 1957.

 

According to this legislation, the racetrack Turbo mentioned would not be operating. Police have to be present and can stop any event if there is imminent danger (more danger than expected in racing). Police and also tell an unsafe driver that their racing day is over.

 

 

Turbo said: "Injure or kill someone racing in a paddock and you can expect roadworthiness inspection, third party insurance check and possibly registration check, and definitely a blood alcohol check."

 

Not 100% correct.

 

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 29

 

Culpable driving of motor vehicle

 

Sub-sections:

 

 (6)    For this section, a person shall be taken to drive a motor vehicle culpably if the person drives the vehicle—

 

        (a)     negligently; or

 

        (b)     while under the influence of alcohol, or a drug, to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the vehicle.

 

 (7)     For this section, a person shall be taken to drive a motor vehicle negligently if the person fails unjustifiably and to a gross degree to observe the standard of care that a reasonable person would have observed in all the circumstances of the case.

 

Injuring or killing someone whilst driving a vehicle on private property is an offence under the Crimes Act  (In NSW - other States & Territories are likely to have the same law).

 

Therefore compulsory Third Party insurance and vehicle registration do not come in to it. Since vehicle registration does not apply, roadworthiness standards don't apply. However, knowing about a fault in any part of the control system, and continuing to drive the vehicle would be taken to be an element in proving "drive negligently".

 

Intoxication by any substance would also be an element in proving the offence. However, Police do not have the power to require testing when an incident occurs on private land (paddock bashing) unless the incident happened in the course of employment. Since Police cannot carry out the usual testing that they can when the incident happens in a public place, they have to revert to the proofs of Drive Under the Influence, which generally involves the formation of an opinion that a person was under the influence following the detection of the usual signs of intoxication. That opinion can be backed up by evidence from witnesses who saw the person consume intoxicants, or who themselves formed the opinion that the person was intoxicated before the incident.

 

Note that Sub-section (7) says that the driver must be so Mozart and Liszt that they are incapable of having proper control. Is that the same BAC for everyone?

 

 

 but don't tell me the Rum Corp was comprised of reformers dedicated to the betterment of their convict employees. 

I don't deny that, but the The New South Wales Corps' (Rum Corps') domination of the colony's economy through its monopoly on the supply of spirituous liquors ("rum" was a generic term for alcoholic beverages) only extended from January 1793 to December 1808 when Macquarie arrived and the Rum Corps transferred to England in May 1810.  Most of the officers who had been granted land by Major Grose, who had been left in temporary command of the colony after Capt. Arthur Phillip returned to England in December 1792, gave up their commissions to remain in the Colony. 

 

Grose immediately abandoned Phillip's plans for governing the colony. A staunch military man, he established military rule and set out to secure the authority of the Corps. He abolished the civilian courts and transferred the magistrates to the authority of Captain Joseph Foveaux. After the poor crops of 1793 he cut the rations of the convicts but not those of the Corps, overturning Phillip's policy of equal rations for all. In a connived attempt to improve agricultural production and make the colony more self-sufficient, Grose turned away from collective farming and made generous land grants to officers of the Corps. They were also provided with government-fed and clothed convicts as farm labour.

 

 

But for the rebellious Irish element among the convicts, Australia might easily have followed the example of Latin America: John MacArthur and the Rum Corps tried to set up a landed aristocracy, supported by ex-convict serfs.

What a crock of shite!

 

Most of those sentenced for transportation were given that sentence because they could read and or/write; or had a trade, or been employed in trades. They were mostly young people in their late teens to mid-twenties, who did their time acclimatizing to Australian conditions, then were young enough to establish themselves after their sentence was completed.

 

Sure there were some rebellious souls amongst the convicts. English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, West Indian - a polyglot population. But if you look at the ratio of rebels to total prisoner population, the rebels were well in the minority.

 

Macarthur and the Rum Corps? Sure they took advantage of the labour force that only had to be fed, clothed and housed. But at the same time, they provided the training that many of these people needed to make successes of their lives upon completion of their time. They weren't 'bound down with iron chains' on  the places they were assigned to.  Upon completion of their sentences, many ex-cons took up small holdings, or went into Trade and started successful dynasties that exist to the present time.

 

Around Camden, Cawdor and west to the Burragorang Valley families still exist who can trace their origins back to convicts assigned to the likes of Macarthur, Oxley, Howe, Hume, Hovell and other well-known early recipients of Government land grants. 

 

You have to remember that the British settlement of eastern Australia was not intended wholly and solely as a dumping ground for the dregs of British cities. It was established to provide a refit base for the British Navy in order to limit the empire building of France and Russia. This had to be done quickly, so they used the most readily available workforce - convicts.  The likes of Macarthur and the Rum Corp officers often sold their commissions when their regiments were due to leave Sydney Town. They lead the development of the infant economy into which ex-cons moved.

 

The early European history of Australia is being re-written due to the development of a proletarian emphasis based on a re-examination of the records of private individuals and a burgeoning interest in family history which is bringing to light the experiences of the Common People. So forget what you were taught of Australian history in school. Before regurgitating that mid-twentieth century twaddle, read some of the current history publications, or go to the source material - http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/digitised-newspapers/browsing-in-newspapers-and-gazettes

 

 

. ultimately I would like to put a set of Aeroclassic 22'' tyres on but the money will be best spent else where. I will get her in the air first.

 

At last! a new aircraft owner with a modicum of good sense.

 

Keep thinking like that!