old man emu

Go flying this weekend and come home to a meal of cold shoulder and hot tongue.

"all telling the CASA about this issue so they are very well aware of it & we were told it would be discussed with the FTFs with foreign students. That was nearly a year ago & there has been no change. "

No 1 rule when dealing with any level of Government - Put it on paper. Not email. Not verbally. Ink on paper only. Every bit of correspondence that a government body, from Local to Federal, is given an ID number and a file location.

Bernard Woolley:

Shall I file it?

James Hacker:

Shall you file it? Shred it!

Bernard Woolley:

Shred it?

James Hacker:

Nobody must ever be able to find it again.

Bernard Woolley:

In that case, Minister, I think it's best I file it.

You mean like it is here?

Ken Oath.

There's always the opportunity to harness the NIMBY forces. Get in touch with a reported from your local newspaper and spin a yarn that there is danger in the skies over their town because of the failure of clear radio communication.

This might not be the right time to use this method at Grafton, with REX pulling out due to excessive landing fees charged by the local council, and Albury losing services due to Virgin's demise. Both these are making aviation a bit on the nose in those places.

{Please don't go off topic with witty comments about "Virgin's demise" }

There's no good whinging and bitching about this serious safety issue and then not doing something about it. It's no good for us to read in the Accidents and Incidents section that someone we know has had a mid-air, and for us to say, "Oh, yeah. He was talking about radio transmissions that were unintelligible at that airport."

If it is a matter of concern, then submit a REPCON. REPCON is a voluntary and confidential reporting scheme. REPCON – Aviation Confidential Reporting Scheme REPCON allows any person who has an aviation safety concern to report it to the ATSB confidentially. Protection of the reporter's identity and any individual referred to in the report is a primary element of the scheme.

Here's the link to the on-line reporting form: REPCON - Aviation Confidential Reporting Scheme

Remember that it is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. If CASA gets enough of these reports, then it is duty bound to investigate.

what do you own and/or fly, Old Man Emu?

I only undertake flights of fancy. If I had my d'ruthers I would have either a Gere Sport or a Pietenpol.

Is the need for speed and love of electronic toys killing the rag & bone, map & compass joy of flying?

You can cover a lot of country in a day at 80 kts, and getting there by using the Mk 1 Grey Matter chip eater is a great challenge.

Yahoo! It's like getting a negative result from a Covid-19 test!

On your marks!

in power to support the masses,GA aviation enthusiasts are a very small 'mass'

Leaving out the "enthusiast" sector, what about the general population in rural areas? There has been little development of short-haul services between rural centres themselves.

There goes my day!

I'll have to go do some work now

How many have seen that we have an air show this weekend, online

A link would be nice

But in America, if I believe the EAA, there are hundreds of cross-generation teams building RVs or restoring rag and tubes together.

"hundreds" in a population of 330 million. The thing is that the US has been very air-minded since 1919, and their State and Federal governments have supported and fostered aviation at all levels. In Australia, during the first 2/3rds of the Century, the Australian State and Federal governments strongly defended their monopolies on rail transport and maintained a an attitude of colonial subservience to Britain in relation to aircraft. Then the Federal Government brought in the "Two Airline" policy to stifle air transport in rural areas.

Australian aviation enthusiasts were buying magazines like Popular Mechanics and Flying Manual between the wars and using the plans in them to build small aircraft. But there was no governmental interest in developing an aviation industry until the outbreak of WWll. Unfortunately, before the ink was dried on surrender documents, the governmental support for aviation disappeared.

Fewer people choosing to go through flight training

A possible reason is that the young people of today don't have the flying heroes that we oldies did. What Boomers didn't have the likes of Bader and the rest of the Battle of Britain pilots as heroes. Who of those didn't glue together an Airfix Spitfire and immediately shoot down any 109 that dared cross our coastline? The same for the motoring fans. Many wanted to be Jack Brabham. So it was out in the garage to make a $100 rust bucket the fastest thing around.

What heroes do our young people have now? Spiderman, Thor, The Hulk and Ironman. Transformers and Autobots. Violent and amoral characters who do nothing to improve society.

No doubt you could call the period 1945-1954 a period of economic recession in those European countries impacted by the war. With Europe (including Great Britain) in the doldrums, the USA was the only industrial society that really did not have to do much to switch back from a military economy to a civilian one. It was unfortunate that the USA chose to implement the Marshall Plan for the recovery of the former Axis Powers, yet demanded that its allies pay back their war debts. Great way to gain economic power and political control.

They sit unused too which is a safety issue.. Nev

It's probably the lack of use that is the main cause of wear in engines of small aircraft. Sounds back to front, but an engine sitting unused can't cough out the nasty combustion products, nor can it prevent corrosion caused by the engine 'breathing' with changes in air pressure as weather systems move by.

Perhaps instead of going through the process of getting oil condition tests, a wise owner might spend some time plugging the tail pipe and the air intake. Whip out a plug from each cylinder and squirt in some inhibiting oil and put the plugs back in.

I find it interesting that it appears that LSA owners don't see the value in oil testing as a preventative measure.

There's no argument that oil testing has some sort of value in it. For LSA owners there can be many types of value from oil testing. Some are economic. Some are for assurance and protection against possible engine failure. One could add more to the list. It is, however, the result of a cost/benefit analysis.

Geoff H said it cost him $400 for ten samples going to the USA. There are labs here in Australia, but I haven't got pricing information. Take a Jabiru engine as an example. It takes 2.3 litres of oil. That's a tad under $30 per oil change. 400/30 = 13.3 oil changes. If you change the oil every 25 hours, $400 will buy you 13 x 25 = 325 hours. To establish a trend, you would have to send away a sample every 25 hours, and how many 25-hour tests would you decide upon to be the number to determine a trend?

And how many months would the averagely used LSA aircraft take to log 325 hours?

Wouldn't the number of hours an engine runs be one of the factors in deciding if oil condition monitoring was needed? Big machinery, say in mines, works for about 3000 hours per month, so that's a lot of wear and tear. How many light aircraft would rack up even 50+ hours per month? I agree with Downunder - better to change the oil and filter regularly. The trends highlighted by conditioning monitoring take a lot of hours to show up.

Have a look at the charges at Sydney Airport

It could be one of these: Search Results | Aircraft Spruce

Actually, I'm getting sick and tired of these messages. Go to a shopping centre and they seem to be on and endless loop. It's worse than Christmas carols being played from the first of September.

And since the rules are more ignored than followed, it's a waste of good electrons. As for the broadcasts on radio and TV, I'm glad that the Murdoch empire is not suffering financially from the pandemic.

It's amazing how the bedroom threshold causes brewer's droop.

I've never seen so many "heavy" commercial aircraft parked at Bankstown, and so few "light" GA. All the time the lease-holder will tell you that they are meeting their requirement to support aviation. They are turning the place into a transport inter-modal site - air and road freight.

OOPS!

Are we going to start a p|ssing contest?

Normally the "psi" is not used.

There's no real need to identify the units used in a measurement when everyone knows what units the measurement is taken in. We all understand what is meant when someone says they were book for doing 80 in a 60 zone. Quoting the units of measurement in this case is a bit like the "f" in "use".