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  1. turboplanner
    You don't understand what I'm saying do you. It comes with the aircraft hire. If you have six people on board sharing costs the cost per Nm is less than the hire cost of a Cessna 172 and you can carry out the formal communications required with the Airservices process.
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    There's always one. One of our members built his own aircraft, bought a three dollar compass and flew from the east coast, up over one of the highest sections of the Great Dividing Range. No problems at all. Some time later he replaced oil hoses with parts from Supercheap. On a routine local flight a hose blew, the engine stopped the ground ripped the aircraft apart and as far as I know that was the last of his flying.
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    As a personal rule, I would not fly an RA standard aircraft near or through a Designated Remote Area, because the engine failures are much more common, but the landings routine if you don't fly over the RA "Tiger Country". I would not hire a basic GA aircraft such as a 172 or Cherokee 140 or Warrior through a DRA because, in the more unlikely event of an engine out, the radio equipment would usually not be good enough to get help. A woman who lived on a Station near Cameron's corner decided one hot day that she would take the children in to the store at Moomba Gas field for an ice cream one day. The trip was only 20 to 30 minutes so she didn't bother to take any water. On the way in the Land Rover broke down/got bogged on a sand hill. The husband found the bodies later that day. I didn't check but I don't think that's a DRA. It just shows how little time things go bad in the outback if you're not covering the bases. I would hire an aircraft with the additional $10,000 or so worth of aviation standard HF radio. Which is probably why this has been the first DRA discussion I can ever remember. DRAs are not just in the outback, but can be in our Alpine areas. You won't necessarily identify one just by looking at a normal terrain map.
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    Be very careful about some of the rubbish you pick up on posts and the public domain. Designated Remote Areas have very specific requirements for Airmen - they are not just tiger country/desert terrain. You need to check through NAIPS for updates, and also the specific requirements to transit them. These are Airservices requirements. Airservices is a different body to CASA and RAA
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    ........axis, causing him to jolt, and that threw the
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    ......the Playful Pussy in Toorak. This was Turbo's first investment at the age of 14. We thank Cappy for providing a copy of the Grand Opening. Cappy of course didn't make it, being in the grips of Devil Gin at that time. He got on the tram Ok, but wasn't seen to get off in Toorak. They found him in Swanston St curled up on the roof of the tram, fast asleep and it took........
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    .........not quite as good as it used to be. It had a vaguely familiar taint to it. Bull swilled it around in his mouth, in the effeminate way of the wine industry where they would cover up cat's..................and suddenly he knew what the odour was. He'd been walking around the original Turbine Rood's Bay cat farm and nearly coked on the stench of cat ..........
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    Fuel dump housing. Bull was a lonely man, he had a conscience. He knew he had to dump fuel along the east coast and all over the Great Barrier Reef [Make the Barrier Reef Great Again (MAGBRGA ref], but that was his job. He told himself he kept the Wolfe Blass for his sanity, but ........................
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    Airservices Australia > NAIPS > Register > set password > Log on > Search for Designated Remote areas > your designated area once you see the names. Once you've registered with NAIPS you can log in before a flight to get data for your flight plan. You can also buy documents.
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    ..........-5% when the day warmed up [avref theory helper]. He had to toss something off and he looked at her big...........................
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    ........turned onto 17 instead of 71, and it was while he was taking a shortcut through the Cosco car park, that thought came to him that with her on board he might have exceeded MTOW but being a .......
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    ............mixture control, missed it and grabbed him by the......................
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    .....leather jacket when he reeled back in horror, much like a CASA ramp checker after Turbo opens the throttle .......... For purposes of authenticity, could Cappy confirm that the aircraft was built before S/N 00000000000046356476597, and had the cross piped that used to go from the No1 engine to No2 then through the fuselage under the Flight Attendents' jump seats to 3 and 4 and burn their
  15. turboplanner
    No + compression ratio to be considered. Make an interesting sound when they blow in street racing, but there the occupants can step out and push it off the road.
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    ........with the sound of a Qantas-London takeoff..................
  17. turboplanner
    ..no one would be interested in that lot. The show was canned, but that left a hole to fill. Onesie, always lurking and a dangerous character when it came to gossiping got onto a building story about the Epstein saga, today's new being Whoopie Goldberg. Onesie watched the camera panning and recognised Cappy sitting there in a white suit. The chair was covered in gold material, and Cappy looked like Royalty. Whoopie walked over to him and sat on his knee. Onesy quietly slid his phone out and started recording. Those who know Cappy know he can be corny at times and as Whoopie slid onto he lap he said "My little Whoopie cushion". Whoopie fired up and let one go; Cappy reeled back in disbelief; the cameras, and Onesie, had caught it. Just as Whoopie moved in for a second blast.......
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    What was the ATIS saying? If that was normal, it can get quiet based on the law of averages; Just as I've thought the radio was out a few times three people in a row will talk.
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    Did you call inbound in Mandarin?
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    .........went on a rampage complaining to the studio that there should be an equal number of female monsters on the set and ..........
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    Russian version of Jason "Bourne Nyet Loxette." The film is set in the remote tundra not far from Alaska, where Turbo is also the body double for Jase, and has to tramp through deep snow bare-chested with a pack of hungry wolves snarling and waiting for the opportunity to kill him and eat him. Things were a little rough yesterday when in Take 17 the Wolves had stopped fighting when Lara Smolnek's cat flashed across the "trail" which had been built over the bitumen of Sveltasky Street. Everyone fell about laughing until the cat zagged back onto the trail and there was a pile of actors, wolves, director and key grips...............
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    .......be better than the iron curtain of silence or the teddy bears go flying stories, or even................
  24. turboplanner
    .......did it, and who else can say that!? There were two other guys hanging out in WF a few years ago, and they nearly pulled off a flight under the bridge in Aerochutes, but there were two chicks sunbaking on the beach below with nothing on the clock and they didn't see the Container ship. They gave their aircraft full throttle but both got tangled up in the overhead cranes. We never heard from them again, but ..........
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    ......fear that one day his exceptional skills and instincts may be called upon by CASA itself. Turbo reassures the wider population of WF that this unlikely after CASA FoI "Pinky" caught him flying the Challenger under Westgate Bridge and didn't accept his apology and explanation that it was only because he was reading the early edition of The Age which had a story about .....................
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