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2 hours ago, Captain said:

..... with that Wally perched on one foot (in his best Massai warrior stance, see below), bent his other leg and "cleaned out his pipes", while at the same time he "cut the cheese", after which he added a packet of Jatz Crackers (which he also scratched) while everyone looked on with amazement + with pegs on their noses.

 

Wal then nonchalantly sliced a tomato with which to .......

 

 

WALLY'S DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY, AND OF NANCY, MADE HIM WILDLY

POPULAR AND CROWDS SEARCHED FOR HIM.

 

 

WALLY AND TURBO OFTEN STAND LIKE THIS WHEN THEY ARE

TRYING TO SNEAK ONE OUT.

Turbo has destroyed four thousand dollar suits while taking up this stance at important board meetings. On the other hand at each of those meetings there was a unanimous vote in favour of what Turbo wanted.

“.......a favour” winning over all the Right to Lifers. Wally was asked to address the US Congress ........

Wally, a clean energy expert. Wally was found by a Reporter at his coal mine with a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush. “No one can say this coal’s dirty” he said and it won an award for the most honest quote of the week as well as........

6 hours ago, onetrack said:

.....because the Princess was beckoning him. He pulled up, set the handbrake, and jumped out to catch up with the Princess. But she was fleet of foot, and bull was soon left far behind her. Then suddenly, she disappeared, just as all truckies visual road fantasies do. Bull was stunned, how could she disappear like that? This was worse than his sighting of the Nullarbor Nymph! At least he'd been able to see the Nullarbor Nymph in daylight, and she was.........

....also easy to see because she was very wide. So wide in fact that she was required to carry a sign on her rear reading "OVERSIZE" and .........

...........eggs coque le terre with gin topping. "What's that?' asked Cappy becoming very interested and bull started to tell him the story of the stormy night when he'd been given the fleet Volvo after everyone else grabbed the KWs and he was slowly winding his way north through the Pilliga Scrub with the engine starting to gasp when there was a flash of lightning and he saw the Pilliga Princes standing there in the rain as if she was waiting for a bus. He knew then that he wasn't going to be pulling in to Brisbane the next morning...................

[In his extensive researching for new stories for the NES, Turbo checked out the Pilliga scrub a few years ago and searched around for the grave of the Pilliga Princess where she was said to have expired after a long life of frightening truckies. As he walked around in the bush he was able to get photos of a Piliga Man footprint - about twice the size of a human foot, and a part-eaten roo showing not only gouge marks from two very wide teeth, but a broken bone indicating you wouldn't want a love bite from one of them. The movement of a tree branch, a grunt, and a quick glimpse of flying hair indicated Turbo was very close to becoming the next meal so he took off out of there and never went back.]

.....blue singlet and pinch his thongs and sunnys. It was a cruel world bull had lived in at ........

...."Ice Creams With A Kick quickly shortened to ICWAK by those on the know and the girls were all over bull to the extent of................

[We must mention the contribution of Cappy, whoe shot of frozen gin gave this marketing momentum]

.....tour of the helicopter facility tasked with shipping thousands of tourists from "Gypsy Village - a New Dimen$ion!" to the vineyards.

In addition to this the Applicant must ..........

.....other services were demanded, and the applicant had to service the helicopter and ........

.............Turbo also picked up half a dozen, craned them up on top of two of Melbourne's Skyscrapers, built a walkway between the two and opened "Gypsy Village - a New Dimen$ion! featuring several purple colours.

People flocked to them, abandoning Hilton on the Park, the Highett and many other 5 star hotels.  You could fish the Yarra from the walkway, and tours of the Melbourne drainage system took place nightly. It was when Turbo was building a Helicopter [avref] Express to the Yarra Valley vineyards with all you can drink, that ............................

7 minutes ago, Flightrite said:

Looks like someone here is a CAsA supporter😉

No, got my experience from other industries and being directly involved in Cases, mostly losing until we found the solutions.

4 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

I gotta say Turbs that you have the govt on your side, but I personally will never accept some third party carrying any responsibility for my actions.

There is the exceptional case where you may be minding a retarded child, but in general we have to have liberty not safety. There is a quote from Benjamin Frankelin...  "Those who would trade essential liberties for temporary safety will finish up with neither"

You ARE responsible for your actions.

However most people in private life, sport and industry ask for guidelines so someone has to set them, even in sports where there is no government intrusion at all.

For example, Water Slide operators, who at one stage held the lead in public liability injury cases, came up with the guideline that one employee would be stationed up at the top, and another at the bottom. When the bottom person was satisfied that the exit pool was clear, he'd signal the top one to let the next swimmer go. Broken backs, necks, arms and legs came to an end. Recently I was at a park which had a waterslide; it was all done electronically with a gate being close at the top until a beam in the pool showed it was clear. 

46 minutes ago, Garfly said:

 

I reckon Bruce was trolling a bit there Turbs; pointing out how statistics can be perverted, and very often are by bureaucrats for the consumption of pollies with different fish to fry.  

He may have been trolling but then again maybe he hasn't caught up.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

Turbo, with respect, regarding medical risk, you fall into the common CASA laid trap.

1) You talk of medical risk without quantifying its application to flying an aircraft for recreation and enjoyment.

2) You believe others(doctors) can and must exactly quantify risk.

3) You then take an absolutist position on risk management which is unsustainable.

10) This discussion arises from a possible decision to allow a 26% increase in MTOW and any increased or new risks over and above the existing levels. Before CASA can even put out out a discussion paper you are telling them what to do or what they are doing wrong. I'm commenting on the fact that if they opt to drop the PPL standard for these aircraft, the risk onus will be on you. If the standard is the Commercial standard, a doctor has to sign you off. A doctor is free not to do this. If the standard is the car driver's licence, be aware that over a certain age you are obligated by law to disclose medical conditions.

2) Based on 1, we are talking about the Commercial licence which the doctors are very familiar with, and the truckies.

It's not up to any of us to tell them how to do their business.

3) In simple terms if CASA choose the Dame, you go to the dame, if CASA choose the Commercial you go to a doctor who does Commercial licences, if CASA choose Car Driver's Licence you declare what you legally are required to declare.

I don't think they're looking for anti-absolutist ideas.

Pilots have and do die by concealing their condition. As well as the example you gave there are the inconclusive causes, just a matter of going through the ATSB records.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

 

Firstly for a known medical condition to produce what I would call an "adverse aviation event",  the pilot would have to know about the condition, ignore whatever treatment regime they are required to undergo. Then they would have to ignore warning signs of incapacitating illness, embark on flight and succumb. As per the British experience this happened 4 times in 45 years!

Pilots have and do die by concealing their condition. As well as the example you gave there are the inconclusive causes, just a matter of going through the ATSB records.  However, analysing this is not something we have to do.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

To put that another way, why not make five point harnesses, annual drivers licence medicals and retests, crash helmets and fireproof suits mandatory for all passenger cars?

The auto industry isn't perfect either, but those racing items have probably been ruled out as not having a huge effect on fatalities, or availability of alternatives such as five or six airbags.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

Furthermore have an observation to make: The entire CASA regulatory edifice is now so bad that it   is only a matter of time before it becomes unusable.

Depends what you're trying to do. Most people in RA would rarely come in contact with CASA.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

......now have two doctors: their DAME and their "Real" doctor. That's the way it has always been, so not something new.

2 hours ago, walrus said:

I have seen some flying behaviours that I would not care to do myself but nobody censures them any more.

Self Administration works that way; it's not like on the road with cops watching our speeding, driving standard, seat belt etc., but when something goes wrong and it was a reasonably forseeable risk they are the people who lose their house.

2 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

And bowls is the most dangerous game in Australia, based on mortality figures. Pro rata, more people die playing bowls than any other sport, including parachuting.

If there was anyone from CASA or RAA reading your posts  and nodding that you have a point, it wouldn't be for the bowls example where the majority of players are past retirement age, plenty in the 80 to 95 group, so of course they would be expected to have the highest death rate in any sport, probably the highest death rate in clubs and pubs too, so that one's not a credible comparison factor.

15 minutes ago, rhtrudder said:

Just noticed on a post on Facebook about a 24 rego Tecnam landing at Gold Coast, I asked the question and was told they had a transponder and submitted a flight plan and unless you have CTA experience it should not be done , is this legal , Greg 

There's a thread somewhere discussing this. Pilot training and Aircraft equipment level are involved, can't think of the section covering CTA, but you should be able to find the list.

21 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Turbs is falling for the "flying is especially dangerous" line.

I'm not falling for anything, just pointing out your current obligations and the fact that if increasing the MTOW results in an increase in risk, then someone has a duty of care to eliminate that risk. Nothing new in that.

21 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

You will see the problems if you apply the same arguments to other pursuits.

For example ,ladders, playing bowls, driving to church on sunday.

Put a ladder up incorrectly or use it incorrectly and you are paying.

Employ someone to use a ladder and you assume the duty of care to see that they put it up and use it correctly, and  are likely to be found negligent if you don't.  Nothing new about that except that the Guideline "Falls from Heights" specifies additional steps that need to be taken above two metres.

Playing bowls the management has a duty of care to ensure there are no forseeable risks present like trip hazards. Nothing new about that.

Driving to church on a Sunday is an exception because our State Governments still cover the risk with third party insurance, and they have a LOT of prescriptive rules which they'll fine you for if you don't adhere to them.

21 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Why single out flying for the draconian application of liability rules? 

No one is singling out anyone, just some people slow on the uptake that these days they own the duty of care in sporting and recreational activies just like many other activities. Where in the presriptive era they could flout the rules and when it all went wrong and someone was injured or killed the State picked up the bill or the injured suffered at their own expense.

21 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

For myself, I am happy to be responsible for harm and damage I do. What I don't want is for some stupid bureaucrat to fence me in with stupid rules which assume I am a complete idiot.

1 hour ago, walrus said:

CASA has a habit of living by the old Lawyers joke: "we will give you all assistance short of actual help."

 

That is what they did to the Basic class 2 medical. On the surface it appeared to be reasonable - then you discover it was a commercial licence standard, there were a range of common conditions that excluded many and CASA asked for the examining doctors "unconditional" approval. My doctor looked at the paperwork , made a phone call to his lawyers and then told me he wasn't issuing any of these because CASA had neatly made him liable for anything that happened to me.

It shouldn't be any suprise to anyone by now that governments are progressively offloading risk on to the people gaining from an activity whether it be money or excitement.

The common conditions represent a reasonably forseeable risk so the law requires CASA to take action. Having a doctor assess the risk is to be expected. It's exactly the same as you getting an electrician to fix any doubtful issues around the house. The doctor assumes the duty of care; the electrician assumes the duty of care.

Given that a fair volume of pilots are stepping out of GA because they know they are medically unfit to fly there, it's not surprising that doctors would be right onto that tactic, and not prepared to approve someone who is less than safe.

With the Driver's licence medical standard the pilot assumes the liability, and where we read in social media walking past the graveyard admissions that pilots are flying with serious defects and likely to drop of the perch at a moment's notice, just remember that nothing happens while nothing happens, but when they've just taken out a passenger or someone on the ground, they'll pay because they had the duty of care, and into the bargain may lose their driver's licence for making a false statement, because the conditions which are tested in the Commercial licence, are required to be stated on the standard driver's licence.

Solo isn't an exception. From time to time people boast on social media they don't need registration, licence or medical ever though they are sick because they are the only ones flying and it doesn't matter, but they forget they leave an estate and the estate can be sued for their negligence and if their falling aircraft happens to kill or injure someone, the family can be left destitute.

1 hour ago, walrus said:

 

I expect the same this time, for example:

 

1) Allowing 760 kgs but requiring all work on the aircraft to be performed by a LAME or L2 or some other way of preventing owner maintenance.

Already there would be an expectation from GA owners of 760 aircraft that they will not be discriminated against for identical operations, and they are probably broadcasting this on their favourite social media platforms.                                           

Given that Ultralights were allowed owner maintenance when they had lawn mower engines and a few bits of tube, this could open up pandora's box and see a complete reassessment of the RA class with the upper end shifting to LAME. Don't forget that when in recent times there have been engine issues, quite a large number of members claimed it was due to unprofessional maintanance standards.

1 hour ago, walrus said:

 

2) Allowing PPL self certification - but removing their access to controlled airspace.

Given the training for controlled airspace is very simple and the aircraft already qualifies and there is no change to risk, why would anyone want to change this.

1 hour ago, walrus said:

 

3) Allowing access to controlled airspace to RAA pilots, but only if the aircraft MTOW is less than 600kg and it is fitted and approved for IFR.

There is already a working pathway for an RA Pilot/Aircraft to use controlled airspace.

In a recent discussion it was surprising to see the number of people who simply hadn't opened the books to see what this was.

.......followed the "landiing" of spit upon a subcontinental and the need thereof to go forth as unclean and from there climb the ladder, particularly if the SC was middle-aged. There were ways out of the shame though. If you built an Ultralight (Avref) from Verygoodsirbunningsgiveyou wings, you went up three steps immediately and qualified to be a train Stationmaster. The system wasn't perfect .................

.......but before he got any more out than g there was the ping of the bully beef can and Mahatma was marked by a red spot in the middle of the forehead. Many people will remember these red spots throughout the Sub-Contine t and indeed throughout the world, but few know they are a sign that Turbo has been there recently and has been forced to defend his reputation. Not even "Billy the Kid" Turbine was .............................

.....his Spittle Gun. He'd made it to tame the sub-continents of the Raj who had a religious fear of anyone spitting on them, becaise without fail it would bring 30 years bad luck or a swift end for even a tiny drolet to land on their boot. Turbo had made is from a 200 mm length of banboo, a 5/8" whitworth bolt, two indiarubber bands, W. Angliss & Sons Bully Beef tin and a block of wood. No one was faster on the draw than Turbo, even the Indian pickpockets, and they soon ........

....being mistaken for Hugh Hefner.........and we know what that means...............

55 minutes ago, Geoff_H said:

The discs are 15mm larger than the rim.  With two side walls and tread roughly calculated at 15mm the discs may touch the ground but only just.  The calipers are very small and fully floating.  I did some tests some time ago and the discs were extremely difficult to twist. The craft AUW is 200kg.  

Have you had a chance to try them out in a spike stop Geoff (with the AC mass)?

In making disc brakes for race cars I've found the braking is exponentially better to the diameter, so I usually have a bigger disk turned up until I can produce a lock up.

For this reason I'm reluctant to say anything about turning off some diameter, but another more common operational issue is bogging down in soft ground. 

On 18/11/2021 at 12:40 PM, Old Koreelah said:

What does the methanol do? I presume it helps avoid icing and adds power;

 I don’t need any more power and I’m wary of any alcohol getting near all those rubber seals.

Methanol is Methanol; NEVER put it into your fuel system unless you are prepared to run half a litre of petrol through behind it after your system is drained. It eats a lot more than rubber; makes a nice meal out of an aluminium carby bowl, turning the result into a white powder which blocks airway and fuel galleries and if left long enough; a few months; completely block main jets and float valves.

Have a look at the MSDS sheet attached.

You could look at injecting methanol into the intake manifold after the carby becaise it would be going straight into the chamber at around 1300 < 1500 degrees and vaporising, but you're already on a winner with your system, and could look at cautiously upping the water in small increments; if I remember, you're after cooling. 

Cooling by methanol is practical in race engines because the engine will tolerate a level of richness that would drown it with petrol. You can certainly control your temperatures just by the main jets on methanol, and was able to eliminate first, cooling fans, and then air scoops and openings; engine cooling is totally by fuel. Have a look at a Top Fuelers dragster - no radiator. You could convert your aircraft engine to methanol easily, however two things are going against you (a) cost and infrastructure of the fuel, and (b) the nuisance factor of spening 20 minutes after you've used the engine to connect a petrol pot and run it through the carb.

WX00172.pdf

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