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6 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

There seems to be a a lot of Jabiru knockers in Australia while in other countries around the world they have a good reputation.

Tall poppy syndrome?

7 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

The number of hours they do far oustrips any thing in private ownership.

I was talking t the owner of a C-182 on the weekend and talking about the cost on maintenance. I asked him how many hours his aircraft did in the last year. He told me 30. A flying school Jab, if he weather is good, will easily do that in a week and a half, so every 20 days or so it gets at least and oil change. How many other aircraft sit for months with the oil draining off the top end and slowly decomposing in the sump?

That plane was one of John's babies. He poured a lot of effort into maintaining it.

58 minutes ago, Roundsounds said:

Second lesson and doing circuits?

There are very few facts in this whole story.  It's more like a Tik-Tok than anything else.

Yeah, "team". Implies a group working together for a common goal. Or is it a case of "many hands make the light labour"?

8 hours ago, ClintonB said:

I was annoyed with the news stripvacross the screens this morning,

Time and time again, we have this complaint from our end of the aviation spectrum. But what do we do about it? Moan in places like this. 

What is needed is for those at the grassroots to take positive action. What about a massive campaign against this false news. Write letters of complaint to the broadcasters and any relevant government agency. Why not threaten these media outlets with litigation for telling the public untruths?

The squeaky wheel gets the oil. We can only change the media's methods by being that wheel and squeaking and squealing.

1 minute ago, facthunter said:

Australia did the first comprehensive fatigue testing of the Airframe. 

What? Flew them hard and often 'til they broke?

John is probably the most experienced pilot who uses The Oaks. He flies there in all sorts of weather, and a sou'wester is pretty much the prevailing wind. Anyone who learns to fly at The Oaks can soon gets to be able to land into a crosswind tornado. If he attained circuit height he would have the ability to turn around. The Jab he was flying was one of the very early ones and aren't they very light with good glide performance?

KG, according to the student, the plane clipped a tree and rotated to end up facing south.

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

You might find a freezing on the controls or a fight for them. We will see..   Nev

That was my thought, too. 

2 hours ago, BrendAn said:

The student was a cocky little sh#t

Exactly!!!!!

Those of us who know John would know that he would be capable of putting that Jab down anywhere he wanted to. Going by the attitude of the shit in the left seat, I'd say the argument was, 'My money. My plane." 

Geez I've messed up my reporting here. This is the weather at Camden on the 30th. Looks like there had been consistent generally westerly winds all day, so they would have been taking off in a generally southerly direction with a crosswind from the right. 

No doubt the truth of the matter will come out in Court when this bloke is suing John and Dave's Flying School. He'd be just the sort to do it.

  Time travellers!!!! The Steward is taking a selfie for the group.

I reckon so

I'd say stripped and dumped.

I got it wrong. From the video it appears that they came down at the other end

9 hours ago, BrendAn said:

Your having a go at a student that was with an instructor. 

Yes, BrendAn, I was.  I'm sure that if you had seen the report on the news you might be inclined to agree with my opinion of him. You'll notice that virtually nothing was said of the instructor, John Taru who was the one with serious injury. Of course the report also uses all the cliches, but at least they didn't call it a Cessna.

Got an email from CASA today. "Your 9TX application has been received, it is currently with an assessor and is in the queue to be processed." I wonder how many licence applications they receive per week. They all seem to be overloaded.

I'm more concerned about John Taru, the instructor from Dave's Flying School. Sounds like he got hurt bad. And that would have been one of John's early model Jabs.

Saw the student interviewed on TV. Young bloke with too much money. He'd already bought himself a plane before learning to fly. If he ever gets his licence I can see him joining the fatal statistics through showing off. That's the way he came across to me.

After lunch on the 30th, the wind was calm to light and variable. They would have taken off to the north and I reckon came down within the circled area.

23 hours ago, walrus said:

the issue may have been to do with alleged contravention of the Act.

Which Act and how was it possibly contravened? All I've seen in this thread are vague statements that this bloke may or may not have done something and that the powers that be have given him the bum's rush.

I'd like someone to have a go at posting some details, or is it case that if I was told, I'd have to be shot?

I got my UPPL with George in the mid-70s. They say that a DC-3 will take off with as much weight as you can get into it and shut the doors. The same applied to a C-150 with George and me in it.

IT'S ON!!!

CAA has said, "OK". All we need now it entrants

It has been a hard slog over many long months getting permissions, doing the preparatory paperwork for CASA, and getting sponsorship to put on this event. The next step it to determine whether all the work has been worth it. Do we go ahead, or call the whole thing off? That decision rests on the response from the people for whom the event was created - recreational pilots who want something more to do than putter around their aerodrome's training area.

Right now we need to get expressions of interest from potential entrants. That interest can be heightened by obtaining the information pack, which explains how to get into Tooraweenah, and the rules for the competition. So, please, email the Organizer at the address on the poster to get that pack.

Does anyone know how long CASA takes to swap an old licence to a Part 61 licence? I notice that they have whipped the fee from my bank account.

Alo, after you submit the report of your medical, does CASA end you back something to carry while you are flying?

Although I don't have the records at hand to back up my opinion, I don't think that BAT would have operated ANK, especially since it was operated by ANA which was a competitor. In 1948 BAT had three DC-3s working hard mostly west of the Divide. I'm not sure when they introduced the Northern Rivers service.

Times change, but nothing else seems to.

Just had a look at the March 1959 issue. There's an article on bogus parts (lack of traceability) and a warning to make sure that if your seat is moveable, make sure that checking that it is locked in position is part of your "Hatches and harnesses secure" procedure.

Apart from the tip 'n' tricks given in these publications, they are a great source for historical research. There are two crashes involving Butler Air Transport aircraft that so far I only have detail from newspaper reports. I hope I can find stuff about them in the Crash Comics.

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

OME - But your document clearly states at the bottom, "Documents in this book for REFERENCE ONLY, not intended for design. Not guaranteed for accuracy". So there still could be errors in that chart.

That's there in response to the Americans' love of litigation. The producer of the handbook has obtained the data from the original specification sheets issued by the US Military in WWII to standardize hardware across industry. 

By World War II (1939–1945), virtually all national militaries and trans-national alliances of the same (Allied Forces, Axis powers) were busy standardizing and cataloguing. The U.S. AN- cataloguing system (Army-Navy) and the British Defence Standards (DEF-STAN) provide examples. For example, due to differences in dimensional tolerances, in World War II American screws, bolts, and nuts did not fit British equipment properly and were not fully interchangeable. 

National Aerospace Standards since 1941, have served as the foundation for aircraft, spacecraft, watercraft, ground vehicles, machinery, and electronics NAS parts are most well-known for state-of-the-art, high-strength, precision fasteners, electrical connectors, splices and terminations, rod end bearings, and many other types of hardware and components. Most parts are available as 3D CAD models.

MS- Military standard started around the 1950s and for the most part replaced the AN hardware series.  

Quick explanation: https://www.flywithspa.com/docs/pbm/toc453317738.html

20 hours ago, IBob said:

Looks to be plus and minus 1.5thou for the AN3, Onetrack?
http://www.zenithair.com/kit-data/ra/an.html

Here's the correct gen on bolt dimensions:

Careful! It' a crumbling Star Gate!

1 hour ago, walrus said:

Could you please post details of the event ASAP?

I will - if you post the flyer. 

Please send an email to the address on the flyer, ([email protected] ) and I will return email you the Information package which contains the means to enter.

What I intend to do is add the email addresses of people who request an information package and enter to a special contacts list In the unfortunate event that the weather looks like cruelling  the event on the proposed day, I can send a message a day or so before to everyone who has entered to stay at home.

It's finally arrived!!!!

Found in my email inbox - INSTRUMENT NUMBER CASA.AIRD.0095 - Approval - Air  Display - Tooraweenah Aerodrome (YTWN) NSW - 20 May 2023

That means that this:  is on!

Would you help to pass the word around by printing a copy the attached *.pdf file and displaying it where wing nuts gather? 

Final comp-flyer.pdf