Gnarly Gnu

This I enjoyed watching:

Seen Rob fly many times, he practised at Murray Bridge a lot and was a very good pilot from what I could see. Now I wish I had spoken to him.... this is real sad.

There is so much wrong with that brief ABC report - which unfortunately seems a rather common occurence for them.

I have sighted both his current pilots license, (with just about every endorsement available)

Also came across this Planning Inquiry for a wind farm. Several wind turbines were planned for the splay area of a farm airstrip used for aerial spraying for that property and others. There is plenty of interesting discussion about airstrips, the effect of wind turbines on aerial spraying and general flying.

.... we are going to have an amazing event.

The RAAF are probably short of cash for fuel, also the RAN is sucking up a lot of defence funds for their coastguard operations welcoming the welfare seekers.

Such as extra fuel?

Them's hefty birds....

"the Bombardier DHC8-315 sustained a big hole in its nose, and the dead bird was stuck in it, coast guard officials said. The hole was reportedly as wide as 1 meter."

I was waiting for one of them to do their lolly but they seemed reasonably OK about it all. Like a bit of panel beating of the prop would fix it....

Well done HITC!

BTW which airfield is this?

Of course.

Site was 95% offline all day yesterday, logged in or not. All links from Google dead also.

This site has gotten a bit irregular in operation, I don't know about these things but I wonder if it is just too complex, too many features?

Well I guess statistically half the population is overweight so that would be a nice seller if compulsory.

Winsor I am a travelling brick salesman. The strength training will save you in gym fees and improve your health.

I was 20 odd.My weight was 54 KG (well under weight for my height).

I'm tired of Virgass and all their restrictions, try travelling with a bunch of tools these days....

I wonder if the Marree community will organise somebody to redo it.

"The 2011 ultralight-led Whooping crane migration is currently on hold in Alabama while the Federal Aviation Administration sorts out a regulatory issue involving OM’s pilots and aircraft.

The FAA is working with OM to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In the meantime, this year’s cohort is safely penned in Franklin County, Alabama, watched over daily by OM personnel.

The issue in question is whether or not OM’s pilots are flying “for hire,” or, for the furtherance of a non-profit."

Yeh, I like cats,but i find it hard to eat a whole one nowdays...

OK not so funny I'll admit due to the reality of it all:

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Helga is the proprietor of a bar. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. Helga keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers’ loans). Word gets around about Helga’s “drink now, pay later” marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Helga’s bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in town.

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Helga gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Helga’s gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Helga’s borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral!

At the bank’s corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS. These “securities” then are bundled and traded on international securities markets. Naive investors don’t really understand that the securities being sold to them as “AA” “Secured Bonds” really are debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation’s leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Helga’s bar. He so informs Helga. Helga then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Helga cannot fulfil her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and Helga’s 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank’s liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of Helga’s bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms’ pension funds in the BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multibillion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who’ve never been in Helga’s bar.

Now do you understand?

So lying and deceiving false prophets need to be dealt with you feel? Works for me but hucksters like Flannery and Gore might be less keen on adopting such laws of Judaism....

Probably time to drift back to topic however, those interested can read the whole prophecy for themselves to get the context rather than just the single verse.

Well how about that - 60 is the new 20!

Crazy kids.....

there shall come at the close of the days mockers

So there is no public airstrip at Yass right?

Welcome Evan and all the best with your LSA purchase. From my visits to Canberra it seems problematic in the lack of suitable airfields for RAAus aircraft?

Thanks for that info Ron, I did check out the rebelbuilders forum some time back but found it a bit difficult to follow, seemed a bit like the old 'bulletin board service' layout from the days before the internet so a new website will probably help a lot.

All the best with your flying!