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I've used a lot of hydraulics in my working life. If you've ever see the speed of drop when a strategic hose blows you become very wary from that time on. There are supposed to be restrictor valves fitted so the heavy mass drops slowly enough that you can get out of the way, but sometimes people forget. Sometimes an operator needs to get into town to have a new hose made up. Someone else may see the machine idle and needs to get it out of the way. The Tag is just a safety factor instead of going round everyone and telling them not to use the machine until you get back. Re the 1 metre off the ground..... The Falls from Heights legislation kicks in for anyone working more that two metres above the ground and follows a parade of fatals, paraplegics, quadriplegics etc. Cleaning your gutters was a good way to die; I know two people who did. You can have permanent rails, scaffolding or use a safety harness. I had to lop some trees and was very laid back with a chain saw from 30 years experience, but I buckled and bought a harness, rested an extension ladder on a branch about 4 metres up, and started to cut the outside extension. This one twisted my way and slid the ladder sideways and there I was hanging in mid air. I slid the chainsaw down on its rope, then realised the safety harness was locked and how I was going to feel when the fieries came out and said "Having a little look over the roofs this morning?" Luckily there was someone on site who put the ladder up again, I climbed on, took the weight off and lowered myself down. If I'm working on a shed roof, I throw the rope over the roof and attach it to the towbar of the ute, and someone moves the ute along as I work. I've had three slides, probably none of them where I was likely to go over the side, but it's surprising how easy it is to work with the harness.

It's a VERY important point to understand that what we've been talking about is UNintentional injury to others. The legal precedent that RA pilots, owners, administrators fly under is donaghue v stevenson [1932] ac 562.

I did read your posts. I also read the current iteration where you should have the freedom to do your own thing within reasons, not carrying passengers or flying near people. I also have a LOT of first hand experience of why things changed, how they changed and how to cope with the current era. I remember one night a Chief Steward rang me from another State. That State had asked us to investigate a death where a car had crashed head on into a safety fence, I remember him asking "He died of a massive head injury from hitting the roll cage. When the floor pan is full of blood, what does that mean?" He hadn't done his harness up. Living the dream.

Just because someone makes up a fairyland story doesn't mean he's correct. In most cases it means a person hasn't done his research. Prior to Self Administering Organizations, government departments prescribed rules you had to obey and there were consequences if you didn't. Today we have a big improvement in that we can make our own rules. If something goes wrong and we injure or kill someone, we have to pay, not the government. Characterising that is a waste of time and out of the 10,000 RAA members, most just walk away from the Sovereign Citizens. If you had read the information readily available you would know that you will be paying out if you don't inform your passenger the aircraft is not as safe as a 747 RPT flight and that its home built with some dodgy parts etc. Many advisers have reduced that down to "the warning is not worth the paper its written on." That's not quite true but close enough. A poster like you should have been up with the court cases where decisions were made on the placard. In my past we paid out about 5.6 million on points which included, we had "motor racing is dangerous" signs up but we didn't tell the victim he could make a claim. In another case a Club held a "Family night". One of the family was injured and we paid out because we hadn't said the night would be dangerous. Not addressing all the complexities of flying, is not being ready or covered, if one day you are the one the engine quit on, or you are the one the wing folded on. I would have thought from your past you would know just how many people don't bother being accountable for their actions and even abuse you when you point out the consequences. In flying the governments walked away from that crap and made us responsible. The clock is ticking.

Thread drift? CASA have a well ordered structure ranging from where they have direct responsibility through to the Sport Aviation self-administering organisations where the duty of care and responsibility moves to the Administrations, and that also ties in neatly with the Incorporated Associations that state and territory governments set up. So no secrets there. They don't have to worry about the Clag, paddle pop sticks and Bunnings bolts because the administrations carry the duty of care. That has allowed many thousands of people to fly at low cost with specifications never before allowed. At the same time it has allowed the builders of non traditional aircraft like trikes, powered parachutes etc to be administered by people who know the requirements of these sub-groups, and make their own decisions on safety rules , construction etc. Some confusion still exists because at the upper end of these groups, people have been flying into active CASA airspace and where that happens there is a need to learn and comply with CASA regulations. But generally as you say, the SAOs are on there own. Some just want freedom, not the responsibility, but there's no safety net; SAO means SAO.

No Idea.

.....his turban and asked what sort of deal he could get. Won track JR replied that for every Indian truck driver he signed them up to, he would get 30 cents, and since that was double what TTTG had offered he proudly signed a contract. and a couple of days later there was a Mail truck parked outside the front door with hundreds of affidavits. TTT created mayhem in the courts. It seems that each Raj had invented a new way of bending a truck and.......

....claim lost wages and injury to his elegant, great, and mistake-proof image, but the lawyers had to tell him their laptops were out of memory in day seven of Raj's sworn affidavit. Lead Barrister Mr Goblegravie saved the day by doing a document delete of "Oh My Goodness Gracious Me" There were 7,326 of them deleted. Raj wasn't happy .......................

Yes it is the job of RAA; they have a duty of care to ensure safe operations. In this case the material used for the part was not compatible with the heat level where it was being used, nothing to do with innovation, and something drilled into me in my first year of drafting.

True, but most companies would be using that material for the shape to build the tooling to produce the part in another material which has the specifications for the job. The aim for RA should be to strive for less failures, less injuries and less fatalities.

.......extensive tent. Not many people know that Cappy was once considered a potential Prime Minister of Australia. It was a nuisance for Turbo because he had to keep telling journalists he hadn't been shot in the XXXX up the Khyber Pass. Of course, even though it had been hard enough to get him to shoot some goat meat every day for the starving troops, we had to pretend he handle a rifle better than anyone in the British Army, and saved our lives with his last shot many times. Even Gunga Din campaigned for him but that went down when immigration named him Raj and sent him off the drive a truck. However, ...............

.......dutiful little soldiers into the jaws of ....... And we all remember those immortal words by Cappy on that fateful day, and the eyes down shuffling of the great unwashed. Cappy must have felt like Jesus when he turned the corner saw the cross and said "I'm XXXXXX"

.....more basic needs were met. However there was a severe backlash from both the rats and the toads. Captain Rat exploded "You are just treating us like ANIMALS!" and the meeting turned into a shambles nearly as great as the AUF's day of knives in Canberra when everyone who said they were going to say something didn't and there were 13,000 more proxy votes than voters and ...........

While I agree with loud turn indicators because they alert you to any tendency to stay on, here's a resiult despite the very loud Gear Up warning in a 182. These two were distracted, note the VERY late turn on to Final, then the immediate need to lose a lot of altitude, and at the same time not registering the loudest warning in the aircraft.

It's a mandatory requirement to provide a light which flashes, which caters for those losing their hearing. Sometimes you have to adapt to the equipment.

But Cappy, engrossed in his morning porridge combined with the latest actions of Vlodymyr, Vladimir (neither willing to share vowels), and Don forgot to add the (avref), which was a story about the Quicksilver GT400 (Avref 100%) heretofore introduced into the NES by the actions of Wontrak. ..........allow steroids in those locations to get an even chance against Wise Men From The East, and Mainlanders, but after a democratic meeting where every team had an equal vote, and .......

....up the wet and smelly rag of the Toads. Many people who saw the march that day commented that Chris had finally found his niche. Over time the movement spread with the Toads tending to spread north among friends and the rats headed for Collingwood and would march down the streets showing their teeth to goad the locals, but the locals couldn't ..............................

........massacre..........a massacre with bits of cane toad littering the roads along with the occasional cane toad appearing to dance as the rat inside tried to get out. The newspapers...........

....and in fact had registered the Company CM Stake products and was selling fence posts in the agricultural areas of Australia in the tens of thousands. The numbers went into the hundreds of thousands when the US McDonalds advisor gave them a lick. This created a very embarrassing episode for Turbine Thoughtful and Kind Farms Inc. who were running out of rat food, upsetting the balance of the delicate Cat Skinning process. Turbo engineered a rat plague up in the Mallee where millions of tonnes of grain from the season's harvest were just lying on the ground under huge tarps. The rats quickly multiply and soon there were Turbine Cleanup trucks running around the district sucking of the rats and putting them live into refrigerated semi trailers. The theory was that that rats would be both dead and frozen when they arrived at the Queensland farms, but ...............................

........part of the Millennial era where people eat cat meat disguised as stake, faking it is making it, and Won Track fitted in as a "Leader" because he'd paid $750,000.00 for a mint condition Quicksilver GT400, the Ultralight with the REAL tricycle undercarriage and full enclosed with a heater. He had a big throng of starlets and stuff hanging around him wanting to be taken up for aerobatics, which in Won Trask's case consisted of taking off flying around and making a landing without losing it or seizing the motor. One of his passengers was ......................

A single Rotax fits into the heaviest RA Applications. A lot of the Rotax type engines like CanAm were developed from the harsh environment and constant-power demand Skidoos. They had to be better than the typical two strokes of the day. Running in parallel with this class of engine were the Outboards which moved from two stroke due to emission requirements and today include 300, 320 hp. A double-in-line Rotax combination is not the future because it would fit into GA, where light mass, longer life and better reliability are the key requirements. GA engine designers have fitted radials, V, Light twins, Tandem engines and evolved to relatively simple, light, reliable engines which handle long distance and multiple flights over years of activity. There will always be one though, coming up with an invention and hoping to take over the industry.

Not many people know that this was actually Turbo's wig; Turbo had a bad case of head lice after staying up at the Spratleys resort after Cappy had been shacked up with a couple of Polynesian squeezes, apparently polishing up his Native Dancing for Beginners book. Turbo felt that Tony had been misunderstood and badly treated, and told Tony to keep it, but Tony posted it back; that's the sort of person he is. Won Track helped him out with the loan of a Cat D7 and Tony drove it from Esperance to Geraldton in three and a half days at its travel speed of 10.54 km/hr. No one took any notice of the D7 or its driver in blue singlet, shorts, thongs and spray tan like Trumps, and Tony departed on Cappy's yacht "Endeavour" without incident.

That's about on the mark GA aircraft; I quickly pulled ATSB figures as follows: 2010 to 2019 Average 32.3 fatalities per year. 2020 35 2021 * 2022 34 2023 * 2024 27 Late 2025 16 from 12 accidents RPT No fatalities since 2005 * Curiously in these years ATSB notates there are differences between calendar and financial years. GA causes are different to RA. The longer flights - 4 to 6 hours can see them in up to three or four different weather patterns from where they took off, and in some years there's a bulge around May of people flying into cloud. The longer trips also mean fatigue becomes a factor.

.......fish and chip wrapper; steak on the inside, but having to eat greasy paper to get there. Pauline knew this of course, so she came out with Paperless Steak, supplied very cheaply by Turbine Paperless Steak Company - We give you Bull every day! Pty Ltd. But those in the financial industry who knew the parent company structure wondered .......................

.......Barnaby Joyce who decided to leave the NATS after being banned from all paddocks in Australia for low flying a Thruster while on his back snoring. He has reacted harshly for being banned from ........................ Turbo has been down in the hills of southern Victoria checking out fire trucks and coming up with better systems such as fitting them with water tanks.