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......his manly stand on every issue, and that immortal line "I'm not here to discuss X, the X being any question a journalist asks. He departed from that this week when the journalists got their head together and remained quiet while one volunteer asked a suggestive question about Dan falling down stairs. "You'd have to interview the bottom step" answered Dan and that's all he had to say about that other than "Life is like a box of chocolates." 

For this year's MWS, Turbo is planning to fly up in an Opal Facet, and is not looking forward to the MWS opening by that effeminate wimp Pirouette. He's bringing one of his caged wasps which are so vicious that Dom won't know his annulus from a ............................

1 minute ago, onetrack said:

A mid-air collision is pilots simply not being aware of other traffic in the area they're flying into. Use every means at your disposal to alert others to your presence, especially as you approach heavily-trafficked areas such as airfields.

It's not clear what happened; the report of tow aircraft and glider could indicate a towing mishap.

1 hour ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

What's a cheque ?

Something the Knights Templar invented before they retired to live in Switzerland and make billions.

...............annulus. Mud Wasps of course are indigenous First-Nationed to Wagga Wagga  and each year at the annual Mud Wasp Stampede, thousands of peple each bring their annulus and trained wasps to see .....................

[Turbo apologises most profusely to Cappy for inferring that he was a wog, and also for the complicated hashtags in the story which require a University degree to understand. A few days ago Turbo was reading a self promotion about a new GM EV Ute all-electric with photos of it towing a huge Van and driving into the Arizona sunset on a road that looked like 500 km through the desert. The writer enhanced his story about the ute being big #huge truck!, towing anything #tow an iceberg from the Arctic and so on. When he got to 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds #CorvetteBeater something in Turbo snapped and he casually looked at the author's name suprised to find this wasn't a GM ad but a concoction of hyperbole though up by someone in a three piece grey suit titled Vice President Executive Marketing. Turbo quickly typed #RANGE, #FW, #BackToFactoryFloor and within three minutes the Ute was gone. So readers, never underestimate the power of a hashtag.

2 hours ago, Captain said:

Poor Cappy, who is just a normal battler in the NES, needs a bit of time to digest that, as his head is hurting.

 

No wonder AHlox buggered off ........... + bull and that CT from DG, apparently.

It’s always hard when English is your second language.

26 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

The fatality near Townsville. The one at mt beauty. 2 yesterday. 1 of them ra. That's just in the last few weeks. Seems a lot to me when you consider how small rec aviation is in Australia.

It does and sometimes has an emotional impact; the "how can I avoid this happening to me thought" which is why I talk a lot about fatalities.

Whether you like it or not they need to be identified on a measurable grid, for which I use one year.

For many years Pilot/Passenger deaths consistently averaged 12 per year.  

This year without checking I'd say so far it's about 5, and even before Covid the numbers were dropping.

By comparison in the Victorian truck industry,a few years ago after introducing fatlgue regulations we got the driver deaths down to 47. An industry official told me a couple of weeks ago this year it's 200.

The sort of Speedway in Victoria has not killed any car drivers for over 50 years.

These low numbers you can work with, dissect, categorise and make changes mush easier than the bigger numbers like the total road toll where the causes can get into the hundreds and people just use a generic control.

Putting it another way, if you know several people who've died doing what they do it's worthwhile looking very closely at the reasons.

The GA accident where the Chipmunk hits the tower is a worthwhile look; easy to avoid, fly legally.

...........shove the the throttle into War Power, hitting the Ki Gas button at the same time the Corsair picked up speed.

Turbo had been on the web and bought his GPS made by Graet Gpswith non glear sceen. It's line wasn't magenta but hey, who really cares as long as it tells us where to go. A sister company had flashed up, which sold military equipment, and had a handy MiG 29 system available for US$29.95 fee postage, so he'd bought that and had only just finished installing it in Charlie One [AvExplanation Corsair No 1] [avref] #genderNeutral, #USMilitary, #Combat, #TopGun, #FollowTheMagentaLineClub], and the Mig system had picked up the Lock, but what the Ukrainians didn't know was that Turbo had been asked by the CIA to check out the JCurveSubDrone developed by TurbineBattleIndustriesCabooltureInc. which was a wing mounted device, fully autonomous designed to pick up a lock, detach and spear off in a circle to confuse the enemy then zoom in and destroy Battleships, Carriers, aircrtaft, whatever locked the Corsair, and at the present time it was going through the Big U like a blowfly through Wagga Wagga or .............

34 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

How many accidents have there. Been so far this year. I know we discussed this a few weeks back but there seems to be one every couple of weeks.

Not a lot in RA, people have been posting about GA accidents, helicopters, gyros, and all sorts of crashes overseas where the aircraft and operating regulations are different. RA has lifted compared with the last two or three years, but that's because of non-flying due to covid.

58 minutes ago, APenNameAndThatA said:

It would seem that RA-Aus made the video merely to raise awareness, so the stuff in the video does not actually have to be true. RA-Aus’s reply to my feedback…

 

Good afternoon Andrew,

 

Thank you for your email regarding our Loss of Control Video.

 

It is extremely disappointing to hear of your concerns in relation to this content. RAAus is extremely proud of what we have produced and believe that this can be an extremely valuable tool for raising awareness of Loss of Control for all pilots.

 

I have circulated your feedback within our team for review. Whilst I do not discount that this contains some valid general feedback, I do not agree that this content provides anything that is considered dangerous. This content is developed in order to raise awareness of some of the factors that may lead to a loss of control event. It does not replace the need for dual flight training and has been scripted, filmed, and reviewed by industry experts. The overall feedback from the video has been extremely positive.

 

I will ensure that your feedback is provided to the board for visibility, however, would like to remind you that under CASR Part 149 our key personnel, comprising of the accountable manager (CEO), Head of Safety, Head of Flight Operations and Head of Airworthiness and Maintenance are accountable and responsible for managing aviation safety. The board of directors are responsible for organisational governance and therefore, it is not the role of the board to be directly involved in operational matters under our CASR 149 accountabilities.

 

Based on the above, I can inform you that we will not be making any changes to the content, nor will we be withdrawing from the promotion of this content.

 

I would like to thank you again for your feedback and hope that you can view this content, as well as future episodes, based on its entirety for the purpose of raising awareness of the factors that can lead to Loss of Control events. 

 

Kind regards,

 

And there you are, Kind regards and all, apparently forgetting the sarcastic dialogue.

Interestingly ALL the employees of RAA are responsible for safety, particularly the board of directors. Governments are responding to slackness among management of self administering operations with a trend of Chain of Responsibilty. It might be coplicated to some so I'll explain it as the management chain becomes like a can where you throw it at the lowest employee like you always did, but this time it's full of petrol. One senior executive has recently been banned from working in the transport industry for two years and GA & RA are in the same industry Department.

I often wonder on this forum why we almost never hear from the key people in the industy, the Instructors when things like this happen; nothing special but now and again offering to contact RAA and explain that this sort of reaction might not produce the best outcome.

.......take the place of the Kardashians and rule the world.

Turbo had indeed been correct about the Chinese lobbing missiles around Japan. He had been holidaying at the Cook compound in the Spratleys at the time Cappy had been in Washington having his Abe Lincoln photo take for an esoteric Facebook profile on a site limited to heads of state. We don't think the members were the sharpest tools in the drawer becaiuse they haven't yet picked up that President Abe is no longer with us, but back to the Spratleys. Turbo was squirting WD40 down the plug holes of the Corsairs and giving each one a run when he heard several whizzing noises. He set his Iphone to Slomo and waited for the next one. The video showed a low flying missile  with something "Yu Hitohito" and then three more. They certainly weren't North Korea because Kim's just plop into the sea.

It was while Turbo was out doing a few aerobatics and circling around radio masts and sh!t, that he saw................

....had him tied to the next ICBM test missile and dropped in the sea of Japan, just to give the Japanes an idea of what they were in for if they laughed.

The Emperor ............

......squirts because they had modelled their whole defence system on Russia’s, and the Ukrainians had just shown that a 14 year old with the right software could take them out before he opened his next coke can. There was only one person they could talk to......

8 hours ago, Captain said:

..... was the 1st appearance of the Boomerdrone that has since been advanced and perfected, such that OZ doesn't need any nuclear submarines any more.

 

With a fleet of Boomerdrones that were waterproof and powered by a pocket-sized nuclear reactor, Xi crapped himself after the Chinese stole the plans, and the Russians surrendered immediately, which lead to ......

 

 

THE FINAL SHAPE OF THE BOOMERDROME. IT WAS ORIGINALLY

GOING TO BE A BENT STICK WITH A FEW DOTS ON IT, BUT THE

1ST NATIONS WANTED A 40% ROYALTY, WHICH EVEN ALBO

AND HIS BLEEDING HEART FOUND TO BE A LITTLE EXCESSIVE.

 

 

A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTO OF AH IN DRAG,

TAKEN WITH ONESIE'S BOX BROWNIE IN THE CRIB

ROOM AT PERSISTANT AEROSPACE

....the Ukrainians incorporating all of Russia into Ukraine, releasing 30 million political prisoners in Siberia and banning the use of salt on every meal and in every drink in Russia. Within this 30 million were some of the smartest brains in the world, including ..................

........Deutsch. "Achtung!, vot a thing!" he started "Joosten like my V1" and then reeled at his gaffe, but the WA dude was slow on the uptake as they are in that state where the old post war greeting "G'day knackers" with a grab at the end was still used by males and the females still had to sit up one end of the hall, so they didn't hear AH's slip.

Adolph asked the price and thought it was very reasonable so he asked for a deal on 10,000 drones.

What he didn't know was that these drones had a "return home" module, with the all important "Weapons OFF" dongle, and DoubleTrack was able to sell them over and over again, because who was to know where they went once they disappeared over the horizon, and this .....................

.......over Hitler's Retirement Home.

Not many people know that Hitler, who was OneTrick's Great Uncle through his Austrian connection (none of the family recognised the relationship) did not die in the bunker that day but caught a Qantas flight from Berlin to Perth dressed as a WA BNS belle, and no one on the flight noticed, even with that moustache. When he got there the biggest structure in the State was the rabbit proof fence where the Aboriginal children walked along when they were trying to wag school, some weeds on top if the escarpment, and a marsh along the Swannee River. Hitler was made Minister for Womens Affairs and used that position to groom the famous women in WA Government. The 80's were his last big effort in Government where he mentored afrikaaners Adolph Band, and Janco Homscort. By that stage they were all flying Stukas [avef] and Hitler had financed the construction of the all-weather Jannikot airfield. No one thought anything unusual about the fliers becaise WA people were very trusting then, but OneTraak ........................

Trikes fly in a different way to conventional aircraft.

Tumbling

....converted to kilometres by CASA in a sneaky attempt to shorten them which failed because the AUF pilot argued they hadn't been told. CASA replied that they had on page 723 (b) (iii), Section IXIIV1, para 33 line 27.

This worked quite well as 2/3 of the AUF came into conformity until, one of the members pointed out, that they'd beenc reading from the wrong book.  The debate raged with one member suggesting that cornflakes made you sick, and another shot that down in flames by saying the school term started on the fifth, and yet another spat about thread drift, his only post for 2022, but OneTrap .......................

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

The trike appeared to almost do a forward roll, before the structural collapse - perhaps wind shear forced the wing downwards, and it just folded?

They're not the most robust design for resisting negative wing loads, their Euler Critical Buckling Load is low, and you'd only need one top support cable to let go, and you're history.

I think that's a key component of Trike training isn't it?

Bit hard to see as it was obscured, but looked like it started with a roll, perhaps for a vertical turn, and it tumbled.

Also hunting deer does too.

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

I've not said they RAAus have done it well. The "experienced ' Pilots who have not maintained speed in turns obviously did not manage energy well. These things keep on happening. (as well as turning with unbalanced controls perhaps in some cases because of the 30 degree max bank angle)  Nev. 

The RAA max bank angle is 60 degrees, above which is classified aerobatics.

......n "AUF Salute" and was adopted by AUF pilots all over Australia, mainly because none of them were ever taught to fly a circuit anyway, and they weren't affected by the hostile traffic from the Qantas pilots anyway because Member No 232 had researched the Regulations looking for loopholes, spending five times as long on the loopholes as he spent learning the rules, and found that it wasn't mandatory to use a transmit button. CASA had given the AUF members credit for knowing that to make a compulsory transmission you need to use the button, but they'd been outsmarted and the remembered that for 40 years extracting a terrible toll on the honest ones like OneTrack, Cappy, bull, CT and even Planey.  the 50 mile straight in came to an end one day when a trike was seen to nip in front of a Dash 8 some 51 miles out. The passengers heard the Captain say, "Folks (Qantas now uses that neutralgender term now), not many people know the Dash 8 is a fully aerobatic aircraft and today we're going to give you a ride which is better than Dreamworld's long drop, and the passengers were pushed back into their seats by the g forces of a perfectly executed barrel roll around the trike which left the Dash 8 in front and wake turbulence like a Louisiana hurricane. The Drifter sat upside down with it's legs in the air for a moment then disappeared in a bundle of rags tubes and string. The AUF Salute was never performed again, until ............

ster. The word was derived from Onesie's cousin who was also an Afrikaaner; George Custer, who had long red curly hair and was a bit of a girl. As we know he was prone to calling his troops "Kaffirs" a derogatory term meaning "cats eyes" a term denoting troops which retreaded more often than they advanced. At little Big Horn, as we know, or to be correct those of us who went to school know because the AUF is an inclusive body, General Custer drew a line in the sand, opposite General Pocahontus and his troops quickly hopped over it to the Indian side, Custer was beaten and scalped, and so the term "a bit of a custer" was born.

And so it was applied to Ein Snit, him being family and all.

Ein Snit flew an unusual aircraft called a .....................................

1 minute ago, RFguy said:

alright , no more MOGAS talk. how about autoULP ?

No broad terms when the fuel system clogging is just in two or three of the grades. We need the exact grade, and the best discussion was probably the last one which I thing included the grades to avoid at all costs even if it means staying on the ground, and the calayzing of aromatics which, when understood, get an engine started without a lot of wasted time and drained fuel tanks.

24 minutes ago, RFguy said:

Indeed. And well written up KG. aux fuel pump should have enough pressure at WOT flow to keep things pressurized. There are, on evidence, few problems with Jabiru airframes and engines and MOGAS. Only thing left to hurt you there is a clogged fuel filter. 

I've previously mentioned that MOGAS is a US term for US gasoline.  It comes from different sources, the raw material will be different, the refining may also be different to Australia which has its own grades of petrol.

For a group of people who are anal when a reporter calls a crashed aircraft a "Cessna", which can't kill you, then calling Australian petrol "Mogas"  when many people on this site have pointed out issues on certain Australian blends which will clog carburettor galleries, eat hoses, and delaminate fuel tank linings which CAN kill you if you misjudge a forced landing, or are flying over topography you can't land on, we should be past this.

"...I get clothes."

" Pluz yoursilf" said the Afrikaaner "bot it's gitting dork and you well be mos tlahkly itten baha lahn"

A cold shiver went down Cappy's spine and in that moment he realised he preferred the CASA operatives he'd cursed all his life.......which is saying something, and he knelt and ...........................