fly_tornado

Hi, nice weather for it!

oops

precautionary groundings!

engine is for sale on barnstormers if you are interested.

Hoping the board doesn't vote Myles as President and Gavin as Treasurer, one option that makes the current situation seem not so bad.

Tim's Tornado threw a rod @ 300 hours...

just another slow day down in tassie?

did they all crash?

I have no financial training what so ever, I picked up on the revenue side being down a fair bit below what it should have been. This led to a discussion with the board who audited the membership figures.

Bingo, we go from 13000 members to less than 10,000.

I feel that I have made a positive contribution to the RAA.

I'll admit picking through the records is painful but at this point of time with the dysfunctional exec control of the board, its just about having a go until we can resolve the exec/board issue. This threads help explain why the exec/board needs a good shake up.

I can't see the RAA surviving without some sort of dramatic change in the direction. If the RAA can't prove competency in meeting its legal obligations, CASA is going to be forced to audit the pilot register and its going to get very very messy.

I am pretty sure if Jabiru divulged the true engine failure rate they would be out of that business pretty quickly.

Volunteers like you Pete are what makes the RAA so great

Ar you guys still wading through those heavy tomes? Fallen asleep maybe?There's lots of us common unwashed folk waiting with baited breath for some gems of wisdom to fall. (Or bombshells, strike out that which does not apply)

It must require a supercomputer called "deep thought"........

USJabiru has only sold about 109 planes as LSAs.

I am a bit suspicious of USJabirus ability to correlate facts into logical arguments. A while back they started talking about "fuel dropout" to explain issues with Jabirus running lean.

pg aviation

shuffling paper keeps a lot of people busy

do it

seriously, you should switch to a generic install of centos, its stable as and bullet proof. easy as to administer. 150 users isn't a lot.

I don't think a lot of older pilots are as capable as they think they are. How many engine failures have you seen that ended with a stall?

There's been an article recently about a Cirrus in Australia that has deployed a BRS.It came with a picture of a plane with collapsed landing gear on a perfectly flat open field with no trees, power lines or anything that would prevent a normal dead stick landing.

The pilot was very happy about how he handled the situation, and didn't even attempt to land the plane.

 

I think the fact that it wasn't his own aircraft may have had a huge impact, cause he was very happy that the whole landing gear collapsed as it was designed to do.

Has a representative of CASA been invited to explain the groundings?

I didn't realise they made pilots so dangerous. During the first world war, they banned pilots from wearing parachutes. Apparently, they made pilots a bit weak and lack the ticker to take the fight to the enemy!

A BRS will not make you a better pilot.A BRS will not improve your judgement of conditions.

A BRS will not manufacture confidence from thin air...if you need a BRS to get enough confidence to fly, stop flying!

 

A BRS might save you after a mid-air - provided you aren't already dead from the impact or fire.

 

A BRS might save you in the event of structural failure...but how and why did you get into a situation where the structure failed in the first place?

 

A BRS will deny you any further control over the aircraft's position, attitude and landing after you deploy it. You're just along for the ride.

 

A BRS might save you if you are flying extreme manoeuvres...but why would a recreational pilot be flying in such a manner?

 

A BRS will probably kill you if the aircraft catches fire in mid-air.

 

A BRS might save you if you have an engine failure over inhospitable terrain...but why are you flying a recreational aircraft over such terrain in the first place?

 

A BRS is no substitute for good judgement, proper maintenance, a thorough pre-flight inspection, a proper lookout and adequate situational awareness.

 

A BRS is "a device of last-resort". The pilot and aircraft have been defeated by whatever caused the BRS to be activated.

 

Ultimately each aircraft-owner must decide whether to install one or not - and accept the consequences of that decision.

Never underestimate the veracity of the OBC, if they think they can get by underhanded means, they will try it. It will be interesting to see how much support they garner from the members, I am guessing at this late stage not much as they have no good answer to the question of the groundings.

I don't know why people are so against them. Dead pilots have no regrets?

The candidate must enjoy working with obstructionist and incompetent exec.

no mention of the fuel burn, the wankel's achilles heel