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Andy insurance charge aside they don't need an annual registration fee as there is no service involved = owners are paying money for nothing.

Besides I understand the current fees are already more than covering Ra-Aus operating costs so they don't need to "collect revenue somehow" they already have it from us and in addition would save money by not doing this unnecessary paperwork and processing each year. The organisation should not be operated like the government IMO.

John as I pointed out earlier I don't believe Ra-Aus has any basis for an annual registration, only an annual insurance fee. Registration should be a one-off process when an aircraft is purchased and cost should be minimal (sufficient to cover the perhaps one hour max work involved).

Yo Joe!

Sorry folks, please ignore that ^ I forgot this was the humour section.....

If you oppose imported goods at least be consistent and oppose Australian exports also.

(Totally agree about the waste and failure of each of the stimulus measures).

Why care what they say? Why do you even follow their crud product?

Very well done, nice three pointers also.

Yenn use the Google site-specific search function -

In Google type "site:casa.gov.au" followed by the term you are looking for. So if you are looking for the 'Zombies eating aircraft' report on Google type

site:casa.gov.au "zombies eating aircraft"

(or leave out the quotation marks if you are not 100% sure of the exact article title).

I noticed The Australian has this article (cut and past headline into Google to read full article, don't fund Rupert):

Amateur-built planes more likely than factory counterparts to crash, study finds

"Most accidents happened during private operations..." as opposed to commercial and training flights using amateur-built aircraft?

Hopefully not a precursor to more regulation and bureaucracy.

CASA funding should be reviewed annually and tied to the number of flights taken in Australia within that year. No reason why they need to grow if aviation is shrinking.

Welcome Karl, I also sometime hang about in the air above Strath.

Can someone fix the spelling in the title of this thread? It's driving me crazy.

Well I must say it's a nice day here skulking about at the bottom end of the gene pool!

"CASA suspended Barrier Aviation’s operations on 23 December 2012 due to a serious and imminent risk to air safety. On 22 February 2013, the Federal Court of Australia made an order prohibiting Barrier Aviation from conducting operations. CASA conducted a thorough investigation which confirmed Barrier Aviation had been operating aircraft with serious and known defects, as well as directing pilots to fly these aircraft. Known defects were also not being recorded on aircraft maintenance documentation. Following the Federal Court order and the completion of CASA’s investigation, CASA was not satisfied that Barrier Aviation would not operate aircraft with known defects if allowed to resume operations. CASA determined Barrier Aviation had a poor safety culture and placed commercial imperatives before safety. In a statement CASA said it regretted the inconvenience the cancellation of the air operator’s certificate has caused for passengers and Barrier's employees. However, CASA's primary and overriding priority must be aviation safety."

Yes the new videos are sweet and all John but we want to know who is auditing CASA?

Might have defected to the Greens or something?

Then there are the "theoreticians" who repudiate a hundred years of aviation lore and design in favour of their own crackpot ideas of what constitutes safe Aviation. They won't learn because what you are trying to tell them disagrees with their own notions. They differ from true innovators and experimenters because those groups understand and manage risk actively. The Theoreticians don't even understand the risks, let alone manage them. How many times have you heard one of them opine that instrument flying "can't possibly be all that difficult"?

I remember seeing a powered parachute trike on a trailer in country Victoria and thinking that I wouldn't let my worst enemy fly in this.

Thanks for that Pontius and welcome.... innovative name BTW!!

Andrew Carter who imported the Fokker Triplane into Brisbane last year is one of the orders I believe.http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/8459272/Old-technology-wins-new-interest

Very interesting Scotty. I give NZ'ers top marks for innovation, when I was in Alaska the guys at the Anchorage aviation museum were telling me they get many replacement aircraft parts custom made in NZ, apparently better and cheaper than having them made in California just down the coast.

I'd love to build a WW1 replica also but they seem to be all single seat? Wouldn't get approval if it wasn't two seats. Still remember talking to my WW1 vet friend as a child, he would tell us stories of hiding from Fokkers in the Somme and other parts of France. Just a few years after the first powered flight at that point.

Yeah, no problem doing a 60 - 75 degree power off banked turn in a Jab at slow speed M61A1, just have to unload the wing or it won't work. For anyone reading don't practise this at low level!

Sunfish (or others, HH?) what method do the ATPL folk use? Is it standardised? (sorry if this was already discussed, might have forgotten)

Can't unload the wing AND tighten the turn.

In short, if you want to tighten your turn, best have some more airspeed, if you can't get the airspeed, you can't afford to tighten that turn(assuming you're fond of living).

Ahhh, I see it all now. This Peter Schuback is running for political office

Yes, welcome folks!