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You’re happy with someone flying around the town at power line height? How would you feel about him if he’d hit a house and killed some of your family?

 

Alf Jessup said: Have been waiting for this day to come, I and others chipped him on his flying antics only to be told we don’t know what we are taking about, tried to tell him his continual risk taking will catch up to him and yesterday it did.

He has been judged by his peers and found wanting. 

 

Good result.

 

Obviously this bloke is one of those types who thinks that they are the centre of the Universe. I bet he'd be a B to work for.

He has been judged by his peers and found wanting. 

Good result.

https://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/234158/sub081-airports.pdf

 

THIS IS A MUST READ DOCUMENT IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH CAPITAL CITY SECONDARY AIRPORTS.

BOOKMARK THE URL. DOWNLOAD A COPY. DISTRIBUTE THE LINK

eGO electus et vidit risi, 

I selected. I saw. I laughed.

But we'll have to get Ian to fix the What's New page

I'll think of something contentious today, but it seems that Phil and Jerry are either flooded or snowed in as moisture ladened air systems sweep in from the North Sea. 

We've for heat, low humidity and fires. They have cold, wet andneed a fire.

I just discovered that Whats Up Australia is back on line.

There needs to be a return to activity there because there are lots of "Guests" hitting the site, but there is no new content.

Cancellation Insurance is very often obtained for the sole reason that adverse weather might cause an outside event to be cancelled.  Like all event-related insurance, Cancellation Insurance is the same as a bet on a horse in a race. The insurer calculates the probability of adverse weather occurring and sets the odds. You ante up enough to get paid enough to cover your liabilities if the event is cancelled. If it doesn't get cancelled, you lose the bet and the insurer keeps your stake. If the event gets cancelled, the insurer loses and pays you in relation to the odds.

So "Act of God" doesn't cause the bet to be cancelled, since the bet related to the probability of an "Act Of God".

Who was the numbskull who didn't get the event covered by Event Cancellation Insurance?

https://insuranceandrisk.com.au/article/when-the-show-doesnt-go-on/

Adrian is suffering from that well-known disorder, Newbie Lust. Typically, this lust is displayed by the novice at the beginning of their aviation life. They see their future through rose-coloured glasses, flying off hither, thither and yon at a whim, with no concept of the harsh financial realities of aircraft ownership. Newbie Lust is comparable to Puppy Love. At the start, it's all exciting and wonderful. Then the excitement and wonder start to fade as reality sets in, until the Newbie is like the eunuch at the urinal - just looking down on the unemployed. Just have a look at the number of big boats sitting idle on trailers in peoples' front yards and you'll see another example of Newbie Lust.

There should be a big warning notice posted at all flying schools saying "If you can't afford to pay for your training up front, you can't afford your own plane either."

Sure, if you have used part of your Powerball winnings to clear all your domestic debts, and don't have to work again, then buy yourself a plane, a boat and a mobile home and live worry-free. But if you are, or have been, a wage slave then hook up with an aero club, or a good flight school and use their aircraft as the urge takes you.

The main concern is with the airframe. They were never really built to last 50 years

 

Of course these aircraft weren't expected to last a lifetime. The industrial economy requires that any product only has a short useful life and has to be replaced. Couple that with a small population and we miss out on economies of scale that populous countries like the USA enjoy.

In the mid-70's I used to fly a PA-28 Cherokee out of Dubbo. That same plane is still flying out of Camden.  What percentage of the Australian private vehicle fleet are  HJ Holdens or XB Falcons? Compare that to the number of Pipers and Cessnas from the same period in the aviation fleet.

That the aircraft is still airworthy after more than 40 years (and probably closer to more than 50 years) just shows how regular maintenance can preserve any machine, but I wonder how the cumulative total of regular maintenance costs for 40 - 50 years would compare to a program of replacing the aircraft every five years or so. 

Holden, Ford; BMW, Mercedes; Toyota, Mitsubishi; Piper, Cessna - each as good as the other. 

It all comes down to:

1. Sit in the shade while flying, or see what's beside you in a turn.
    
   
2. A door on each side, or only on the passenger's side.
    
   
3. Step on the seats getting in, or not.
    
   
4. Stand on the ground to refuel, or climb a ladder.
    
   
5. A lot of ground effect at flare, or little.
    
   

How is it RAAus aircraft are being used for other than recreational training purposes? (training aspiring professional pilots from the get go)

 

It would appear that they use RAAus for training up to RAAus Pilot Certificate with cross-country and pax endorsements, then move over to VH- aircraft for CSU, retractable and multi conversions. I wonder which type of aircraft they use for building hours for the CPL licence.

Soar won't be missed. The  students had poor English! 

 

But surely they had all the ELP they needed.

An aviation ELP assessment involves a candidate being tested on their ability to communicate in English in the aviation environment, where safety is paramount. The assessment involves two-way communications between the assessor and the candidate, and covers:

• pronunciation
   
  
• grammatical structures and sentence patterns
   
  
• vocabulary
   
  
• fluency
   
  
• comprehension
   
  
• interactions while communicating.
   
  

Looking at the CASA approved training organisations in ACT, there are only two listed - the police and Wing. The police would have obtained their approval so they could train their own people for surveillance work, and I imaging that WING needs it to train their delivery staff.

Looks like you'll have to cast your net further.

Looks like Wing Aviation is the only private, CASA approved training organisation on the A.C.T.

https://wing.com/en_au/opensky-faq/

What we need to understand is that politicians don't run Government - the Public Service does.

Sir Humphrey: Minister, the traditional allocation of executive responsibilities has always been so determined as to liberate the ministerial incumbent from the administrative minutiae by devolving the managerial functions to those whose experience and qualifications have better formed them for the performance of such humble offices, thereby releasing their political overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations which are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position.

Fair enough

You should get the quote correct! It states: "You'll also be eligible to undertake the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) licence tests for Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL)." Not that hard to read and get the info correct (I hope)

 

I said, 

leaves the student with an RAAus pilot CERTIFICATE and the theory knowledge to pass the CASA theory exams for a CPL.

 

The wording from Soar is a bit ambiguous. Are they referring to the CPL theory exams or the CPL flight test?

Actually anyone can undertake the CPL licence tests, but unless you have the theory knowledge you will not pass the exam. There is a big difference between being able to undertake an examination (ie attend an examination centre and work on an exam paper) and getting over the Pass/Fail boundary.

CAR 228 (Unauthorised persons not to manipulate controls) has to be read and acted upon from its position within the Regulations. 

It falls in under Part 14 - Air Service Operations

Division 3 - Conduct of operations

and follows on from Reg 227 - Admission to crew compartment

So CAR 228 takes effect if the aircraft is 

1. Being used for a commercial flight
    
   
2. Has a separate compartment for the authorised persons operating the aircraft in flight, and
    
   
3. Access to the compartment from the rest of the aircraft whilst in flight can be prevented.
    
   

CASA Instrument 59/17 directs the pilot of an aircraft in which an unauthorised person could interfere with aircraft controls to tell the person how to avoid interfering with them.

But it's a wonderful, ethical business plan that we should embrace for self-betterment.

This is interesting. The collaboration between Box Hill Institute and Soar Aviation leaves the student with an RAAus pilot CERTIFICATE and the theory knowledge to pass the CASA theory exams for a CPL. Their fee for the course is $47,500

https://www.boxhill.edu.au/courses/diploma-of-aviation-commercial-pilot-licence-aeroplane-davcn-d/

Posts have had to be removed due to racism. This site does not support these types of posts...please help to keep this a great site for everyone, thanks

 

Sorry, but how does one state facts without having those statements labelled "racist"? I was writing from my personal experience when dealing with these aged care facilities. Don't expect all cultures to comply with the innate morality of the West European Judaeo-Christian culture, then you will not be hurt. Unfortunately the World is now also suffering from the effects of the worship of Mammon by the USA. 

Have a read of what I've put in this post. 

You can bet your bottom dollar that submissions to the government policy will only be accepted from big business. It's all about the "travelling public", nothing to assist the grass roots segment of aviation.

And this: http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/federal-government-to-develop-regional-aviation-policy

It looks like the people- smugglers' boat that was migrating Whatsup to reacreationalflying has sunk en route.