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.....make him spit, most of it falling on the lions gathered for their performance. One of the younger lions had been watching him intently as he climbed the pole each night, and this night when a particularly big gob of spittle landed on his back, the young lion was off up the pole. He reasoned that momentum was 9/10 of the secret of climbing vertically, and reached the ring where he ...............

.......stem cell treatment which would grow goanna tails on the udders of cows.

"This has three advantages" said Turbo "We can grow multiples per udder; we can inspect the growth every day at milking time, and no goannas are killed so the process meets sustainability guidelines."

Now an old Boundary Rider was sitting next to them and heard the whole conversation.

"You realise goanna oil is very dangerous to touch don't you?"

OT shook his head and opened his eyes; the smile had gone and good old WA attitude to wise men from the east was seeping in, but Turbo moved closer and said he vaguely remembered a story on the ABC when he was travelling through the Channel country and made sure all the windows were up. A Boundary Rider had failed to check in on his morning radio schedule so the Station Manager rode out the 40 miles to his hut to find the Boundary Rider cripped with arthritis (the announcer pronounced it arthuritis). "I've got something for that" he said "rub some of this goanna oil all over you every morning" The dollar signs were back in OT's eyes. The radio schedules started coming in and the SM rode out next weekend with half a dozen bottles of goanna oil. He couldn't find the boundary rider for a while then saw him hiding behind a tree and hanging on with his hands. The BR said he was ok but the SM noticed his tounge was flicking out now and again and he didn't want to leave the tree. However the schedules were coming in and the fences were being repaired. Two weeks later the schedules stopped coming in. The SM rode out to make sure the BR was OK, but he was nowehere to be seen. He went around to the back of the hut and a loud hissing started up in the tree. The BR was lying on top of a big limb, giving him the evil eye and hissing loudly. He scratched some bark off as a warning. The SM called to him but he only hissed louder, and blinked his eyes. TheSM went home and called the cops. When they got back they said they'd surprised him but he'd scratched one of them badly and shot up the tree so they had to shoot him.

"I was that Boundary Rider" said the old man. "But the cops said they shot you!" replied OT.

"They thought they had" said the BR, but I whipped around the back of the trunk and hung on with my claws!" 

OT ................................................

........decided to sell it commercially, but ......

.....pain resistent, so his screams could hardly be heard, but OT heard them, threw a cattle rope around his neck, gunned the D7 and towed him out of the thistles.

They celebrated with a glass of Apple juice and decided to buy a dozen Aeroflites between them so they'd always have a new one when something like this happened.

"This is recreational flying at its best" said OT "we're flying for petty cash and we don't have to have one ear on the engine waiting for that bang when we least............

.......duds and luckily I was over a paddock with 2 metre high scotch thistles. Unluckily I only had a stretched cloth seat................

7 minutes ago, jackc said:

I have always agonised that Australia has no  FAA FAR Part 103 regime,  thinking that it could boost a ‘Foundation Aviation’ following and  be a future start for some people interested in Aviation.  Seeing RAAus Flying Schools now charging upwards of $300 per hour plus surcharges is starting to be unaffordable.for many.

I would not blame people if they imported one of Dennis Carley’s Aerolyte 103 RTF kits and just did final assembly and flew under the radar,

People say you need full flight instruction bla bla.  Just do a few hours RAA, and heaps of Youtube videos and study flight principles and you’re away!

 IF I knew at the start what grief I was in for in following the the RAA or GA thing, I would have gone under the radar and done my Part 103 thing.  Yeah I know this post will find its way to CASA and RAA,  but I openly state my opinion at any time and if the pussies  don’t like  it. Then go listen to Bon Jovi’s song “It’s My Life” 

That, is how I run my life 🙂 

Let's not be irresponsible. No one wants people who can't comply with regulations and can't follow safety rules. Australia has an excellent way of handling these people; they fund their own defence when people sue them, and in cases where they know that what they are doing is wrong they open themselves up to criminal charges for their culpable actions. In the prescriptive era CASA probably would have come knocking on someone's door, but in the self administration era when an individual makes statements about going rogue and flying unlicensed no one is impressed and no one cares because the lawsuits are person to person.

........clock.

"That's the altimeter" said Cappy.

Turbo thought for a while and then came back with a winner: "It's got a big hand and a little hand" he said, folding his arms.

Cappy looked at OT and they both looked at bull, who was wondering .........................

6 hours ago, jackc said:

And, removing names from truck doors has made it real easy for tilt tray trucks to steal cars as bystanders can’t identify trucks so easily to report a crime.  Same for removalist thieves emptying a house out.  Police pull over a truck and check rego against door markings.  We dropped the ball on that one……..

Given that Victoria was the last and around 25 years ago I don’t think you have to be too worried. 

......the Turbine Hall of Fame where everyone who qualifies gets unlimited reruns of Days of Our Lives and Mai Tais, or the Incredible Hulk.

After a while Turbo realised he'd been set up; it wasn't any fun at all being God who had to deal with all those sinners, and he realised there weren't too many good ones.

Then he realised he'd been diverted by Cappy, so he started asking around.

Cappy hadn't been seen in his Aerolite lately, so he had a look around Kapooka and sure enough, in a dilapidated old hangar, which Cappy had crudely tried to disguise as a kids' fort with skulls and cross bones painted on in the most amateur manner was his Aerolite, bent out of shape so far that it was a write off. Gradually the information came it as Cappy's "mates" did the dirty on him and told ...........

7 hours ago, Keenaviator said:

Victoria gave away car registration labels years ago. 

I was instrumental in getting rid of the requirement for owner's name signwritten on the RH door of trucks in Victoria after one of my NSW customers was fined $300.00 for not having a door sign. I went to my contact in Vicroads and pointed out (a) the truck had NSW registration, and (b) it was time we dropped the signs because registration data had been recorded electronically on a database for years, and the number plate identified the owner more accurately than signwriting which could have been done three owners ago. Vicroads wrote to the customer withdrawing the fine and the legislation was changed to remove the door sign requirement.

For much the same reasons, transponders on all aircraft would create a Wal-Mart effect with all landing-fee events recorded, allowing the fees to be lowered across the board, and recognising a multiple circuit operation requiring only one fee to lower the cost of training and create more new pilots.

6 hours ago, coljones said:

RAAus, the company, is an "association" owned by the members, generally the financial pilot certificate holders, just like most other associations, including registered clubs and aero clubs.

No, it's not an "association", it operates autonomously. This misunderstanding is at the centre of the current position which Kasper described.

I haven't checked to see if the 2010 CASA instructions have been enacted yet, but I would be suprised if they had. I haven't seen any evidence of day to day management structure, in which case that may not have been enacted, which is probably why some people are saying on here that it works for them.

It would be interesting to find out why those board members left so fast.

17 minutes ago, jackc said:

How would you feel about VICPOL Ltd?

That would be ridiculous.

I would shut down RAA Ltd and reopen  RAA Inc. which is designed for this type of organisation.

.........problem because I've had a tray and tradie drawers put on the Commanche and can do maintenance as well through Turbine Finance, and ...........

54 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

"operation over closely settled areas should be avoided at all times" says the reg and base leg  is as low as you get.

Yes I reckon it was in the spirit of that regulation. Plus I had a local as co-pilot who agreed. Plus, at Gawler, we have a RH circuit onto 23 for the reason of avoiding low operation close to houses.  From time to time, people do a LH circuit onto 23 and nobody gets their knickers in a knot.

Where was the "horribly dangerous " part?  Visibility was good and every other aircraft in the vicinity was well under observation., I might add with two sets of eyes.

The dangerous part is that someone flying a normal LH 1,000 ft circuit as he does several time an hour for his weekly lesson may slam head on into you when both aircraft are descending towards each other, and he's not going to expect someone who's just made an executive decision to be different.

Different story at Gawler because the RH Circuit runways are permanent and listed in the ERSA, so there's no head-on issue.

3 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Turbs, the aim of a company is to make money for it's shareholders. Anything else is secondary.

 

How do you feel about RAA Ltd then?

....left toe, Turbo having steeped smartly sideways after learning the hard way in previous punishments.

And God verily said "FFS!" [Isaac reference] Turbo, I'm not XXXXXX Ken; be more careful when you XXXXXX type and tell that XXXX Cappy that I've got his ancestor up here trying to make a boat and asking for a compass and I'm more than happy to send him into the wilderness for 40 days and nights if Cappy will look after him. Cappy was stunned at this message from God and suddenly became pious, dressed in a sacking robe and started going to church and .....................

7 hours ago, jackc said:

I still fail to understand how a company can be a regulator……..

All Companies are able to develop policies, administer, make rules, and ensure compliance with those rules and expell people subject to natural justice. If you get a copy of the RAA Ltd Articles you should be able to find the channels that are sometimes used for the purpose of doing someting similar to an Association.

7 hours ago, Keith Page said:

Oi Turbo,

We pay membership for that, this situation simply put we are getting less for what we pay for.

How would you perform if you went to Woolies and they started giving you a kilo short of what you paid for?

RAA members actually voted for the shift from being an Incorporated Association, to handing administration over to a Company, albeit with directors being voted in by the members.

In the Incorporated Association there was local Executive representation and you could raise an issue like this, and if necessary vote it out, but with the company you don't have that hads on access, and it seems don't get to know what decisions are being made or even what the agenda is.

........but before he could blaspheme, God, who was ken to catch a glimpse of Turbo becaise he needed more wisdom now that Australia was full of refugees, smote him on the ...............

1 hour ago, kasper said:

And if they want to hand over up to 1500kg that means then the four seat GA come after 2 seat GA ... wonder how much leveled up will apply to training and maintenance on that one within RAAus ...

  I wouldn't expend too much effort thinking about it. It was gossip in 2006, so old man's talk. It didn't sound too bad for RAA then, but today RAA has shrunk into a single company with an office in Canberra, and as you've pointed out, important sectors of RAA are not receiving the focus they deserve. The people who are operating unregistered are not doing themselves any favours because when the inevitable collision or crash into a town occurs they will be taken out of the skies. Their efforts would be better applied reshaping RAA to represent its roots and separating it from GA at the dividing line of LAME maintenance.

GA has operated as an autonomous group since the inception of aviation and fly much more closely together in GA airspace than RA. The top end of RA is already knocking at the door of GA airspace with less rules and compliance and that can only lead to difficult times ahead when things go wrong.

............brought the Commanche home as usual with video showing Tomo looking at the instruments and trying to work out what they were telling him. God would look down and ask Tomo if he needed help, but Tomo as usual had his attention outside the window filming the trip on his 26 cameras, but God noticed the Jesus statue nodding furiously on the instrument panel, and added fuel/recovered from a spin/moved a mountain out of the way or whatever sh!t was needed this time, but He thought .............

......is making so much money that he doesn’t care and has even forgotten how to fly and is in danger of being replaced by 16 to Tomo who now flies a Comanche within an inch of it’s life whic ......

.............Spaceship Commander from Devonport, who ................

........et Mulford Sound.

Reluctantly Turbo had to leave New Zealand before they asked him to shear a sheep, and because he was committed to fly an Aerolite from New Zealand to Australia via a series of ship decks.

About midway across the BlueHead started to turn red..............................

........trels like Turbo always have trouble when they travel, and have to allow a few weeks to settle down when they return. The first night he was there in a pub in Whakatane there was the unfortunate reaction to the barmaid which we won't mention, then someone, recognising Turbo yelled "Sung a song!" and Turbo had to go outside, sing it, and come back in, much to the concern of the locals who ..............