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1 hour ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Turbs, you may remember how years ago I put in a submission about introducing a mid-step between the 4,000 ft and 8000 ft steps around adelaide. This would have had zero effect on the airlines coming into adelaide but would have greatly increased safety for those of us confined unnecessarily to 4000 ft.

I never got a reply except from you guys here. The very word "submission" says why it was treated with contempt by the govt.

Public submissions are not usually replied to, so you weren't singled out.

However, they are usually published and kept on the record and yours is still sitting there today for the public to see.

Submissions usually range from pro to con and are valuable to prevent things which otherwise would be missed.

In your case, as I recall, the airspace you wanted to punch through is relatively close to Adelaide Airport (in terms of RPT speeds) and is reserved as one of Adelaide Airport's holding loops so you could be hit by one coming and then one going.

....said Constable Doubtfire who was getting sick of picking up Wagga Wagga's drunks off the streets and throwing them into the divvy van, and was not only left handed but already knew how to screw.

Blakey raised his eyebrows in disdain; "we don't use the bully tactics of you coppers" he said " our methods are more subtle and longer lasting; we are prepared to shadow an offender like bull for years".

"That may be so" said Doubtfire but a good clip under the ear, headfirst into the front wall of the divvy van and a night in a cell would do wonders for his .................................

The Comment period for the proposed Williamtown airspace design is now closed. Did anyone put in a submission?

A couple of Planning lessons here, admittedly taken just from the AOPA Interview.

1. Know your threat; Know who you are up against and who thye players are.

    Initially the "NSW Government" is said to have done this, so you would wonder why? then Ben did expand further with "NSW Planning & Environment" which sounded like an environment group, out no it was apparently Department of Planning, Industry and Development. I don't know the habits of this department, but it's Victorian counterpart doesn't usually go on the attack and as a department close things down whether people want that or not.

In some cases the Victorian Minister will act on an inappropriate development, but even then he simply gets his department to do the Planning analysis and make a recommendation to him.

It wasn't Ben's job to get to the bottom of what this was all about; he's just pointing out the consequences of the loss to aircraft owners.

The question left handing is what brought this on?, what was it all about?

2. The discussion drifted into the emotional reasons for keeping Katoomba - amenity reasons - but these never carry much weight in Planning matters even though they go to the heart of the people involved.

3. What did make me sit up was when Ben said it was about "issues of prior use".  This indicated tit may have been an NCAT hearing, where Prior Use is a non-emotional and decisive factor in any Planning case.   When Ben went on to say "They failed to recognise this" and they said there was "not sufficient evidence of prior use" bells started to ring. I'll have a look for an NCAT decision. If it was an NCAT case, for prior use I would have expected the submission on 50 years use to include a dozen or so pages of photos, registrations, dates, traffic, events - positive proof.

2 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

I think the laugh was on the reporter who said ailerons instead of elevators.

It looks more formal than a local news item; looks more like a formal  accident/incident report to me.

"........a press release saying we're about to begin ramp checks at all Tasmanian Airfields.

As we know, there will be a mass exodus of Ultralight flights out of Tasmania. The first 50% will run out of fuel and finish up at the bottom of Bass Strait. The next 20% will make it to the Victorian Coastal Airfields, so we'll have FOIs here and here and here", and he pointed out twenty seven airfields.

"What about the other 30%? asked FOI Blakey."

"That cunning little rat bull will be in the 30% that turn back and we'll have "Welcome to Tasmania; CASA ramp checks ahead on all airfields except XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" (a field known to be frequented by bull because of all the broken Ultralights scattered all round.)

"That's where you come in Blakey, he'll land and you'll pounce!"

Blakey almost frothed at the mouth with excitement, but .............

The Bermuda Triangle of Melbourne; a story to rival the Marie Celeste.............

"...........I got away with that one." Sadly this was becoming a regular happening with Bull; a GT500 perched forlornly on the Reef 30 miles east of bone, it's owner never identified, but a grainy photo of someone swimming towards shore very fast with six sharks on his tail. Turbo recognised the distinctive tattoo of an anchor as the shoulder flashed clear of the water, but didn't divulge who it was and now regretted that he could have prevented this trend. There were no less than four sportairs wrecked in various parts of Australia and it wasn't hard to find out who owned them. Three jackaroos bit the  dust as a result of this ten foot flight pattern also; a Jabiru with half a wing missing dowstream of powerlines in the Coldstream circuit in Victoria, now a beautiful little Pegasus lost to recreational flying.

Deep in the depths of CQ where most RA flying offences occurred, an iPhone message beeper went off, and FOI (Flying Operations Inspector) Blakey grumbled as he reached around trying to find the phone, but his teeth in and read: "Come to CASA HQ urgently, any means, any cost". His bad mood turned into a sniggering smile as he phoned the only Executive Jet company in CQ, and booked a flight. He had been head hunted from and English bus company, famous throughout the world for finding the slightest infrigement, ad he wondered what was in store. bull was in store, and when he arrived, there were fifteen other FOIs already waiting for the meeting to begin. "Comrades" The Chief FOI began, "........."

FOI Blakey in his bus uniform before joining CASA; no infringement had ever escaped him.

.........use a lot more caution when touching on the subjects sensitive to bull who followed an unwritten law never to blame an Ultralight.

bull won the ATSB Annual Pilot Accident Report competition one year with this.

"I was cruising at an altitude which enable me to see the ground (10 feet), and some bad air cut the engine out, pointing me at a clothes line which became caught in the undercarriage. On the clothesline were braless loose tops which caused me to lose altitude and slightly clip a hen house, dragging the roof off. I would have been OK but the dragging roof and braless tops were slowing me down even more.I had made it to a successful forced landing, except a pig pen jumped up at the last minute and I finished up covered in mud and was blinded and this caused the Ultralight to crash, but not before ......"

........they saw Cappy coming over for his morning coffee. It wasn't so much Cappy, but the voluptuous blonde handing off his arm that caused the catastrophe as tilers twisted for a better look from above, slipped and dropped their hods which sent tile crashing down on lower tilers, knocking them over and so on all the way down the gable, followed by the mess as tilers and tiles cascaded off the roof crashing into all the tradies dogs sleeping on the sand below. This was followed by ........

.saw.

.........pulled the starter cord, the Victa started instantly and the Pegasus whipped down the drive befopre he could get in.

Turbo had shut the front gate just in case this happened, so after some more gorilla tape, now with one leg on the step of the Pegasus (which had no floor) he pulled the cord again and nothing happened. Victa owners will be very familiar with the ritual that was about to follow so to prevent tears and sympathy cards we'll move forward to when it finally started, screamed down the drive with Turbo's right leg up in the air as he fell backwards into the seat, and he was able to make the sharp turn and took off in the street. The problem was that having to stay below 20 feet to avoid getting out of the nose and smoke envelope he had to remember every street in order and which side its power lines were on, however he had an enjoyable flight and arrived safely back in his driveway where .......................

On 22/10/2021 at 3:08 PM, Thruster88 said:

A simple angle of attack stall warning system. Works at any airspeed. Works while being distracted by birds.😉 This is old technology so it is probably shit.

 

Standard on the Cherokee along with the sound warning. Amazing how far you can get into the delaminating state with the aircraft still flying, and the "stalling/not stalling/stalling" as the indicator reacts to temporay buffets.This would be very helpful in a steep turn where you didn't have enough power on.

However, this is a very good video and lifetime explanation of what inattention can do, and the thread title is apt.

This distraction scenario most often occurs when you start taking passengers, beginning with kids who start pulling knobs to adults who don't realise the concentration needed, and burst out with a question on the base final phase. The risk increases when a passenger wants to take a photo and directs you into tighter and tighter turns; they have no undestanding of how an aircraft flies.  It multiplies with a four seater with kids being sick and people telling you to slow down while they attend to them etc.

A good book when you've just got your Certificate/licence is Paul A. Craig's "The Killing Zone" which gives similar examples to the hawk distraction that Paul Bertorelli explained.

17 hours ago, BirdDog said:

Was it just me or was anyone else uncomfortable when he got out of the seat with the engine running?

Good pickup. When you do that you can no longer control the unknown. A clot of dirt breaking allowing a wheel to roll, a gust of wind, just the reduced weight of getting out lowering the rolling resistence etc and you aren't in the seat to simply pull back the throttle lever. Used to happen a lot in the 1920s.

.....object to this devious behaviour by certain sock puppets who sometimes pretended to argue with each other but in the end always turned on the chosen victim. It was while running a seach on one of the SPs that Turbo found a site that specialised in RA Flying just like it was in the AUF days where you helped each other find plastic chairs from lunch rooms to make seats, and the old steel tubing which in the 19th Century was used to contain electrical wiring and springy enough to use for undercarriages, and how to get the wheels off the wife's washing trolley.

On this site were plans for the Pegasus, an aircraft you could build in four hours powered by your Victa lawn mower engine.

There was no radio, but the designer reckoned you would be up and down before ATC knew you were there.

Turbo built one in an afternoon and over the next three weeks painted it in camo after reading all the posts from the WF Paint thread. 

As he pulled the starter cord and started to roll .................................

........he had an excuse when he posted thread drift after thread drift to get out of trouble, the most reliable excuse being "Sorry, I couldn't hear your last question" which was never challenged by the Mods, even Mod .................

....your typical Wreckflying poster without the specially curled hair and DDC Headphones to......

3 hours ago, RossK said:

From the RAA Ops Manual

"Controlled Airspace may only be entered by recreational pilots complying with specific criteria as outlined in CAO 95.32 and 95.55, upon receipt of a clearance."

 

CAO 95.55 Section 7.3(d)

"(d) the aeroplane is flown by the holder of a valid pilot licence (not being a student pilot licence): (i) issued under Part 5 of CAR 1988; and (ii) that allows the holder to fly inside the controlled airspace;"

 

So RAA need to get CASA to amend CAO 95.55 and remove 7.3(d)

 

That's my understanding of the situation.

1. My comments relate to the Aviation State Engagement Forum by Airservices Australia which closes in six days time.

2. If you trawl through all the regulations we have to comply with there will be some links like the ones you point out, but in this case I don't think Airservices is considering any fundamental changes to the existence of RAA or other SAOs, or Controlled Airspace in general, just looking at one locality.

......an SAU diploma earned him membership of The Greens, a Party he had long admired because of their ...............

....and the two jumped into the Thruster or more correctly jumped on it, and in a minute the sound of a two stroke, like ball bearings rattling in a can cold be heard over the exhaust noise.

They looked back; the nuclear close was heading omiously for Victoria so they flew round the beach to Victor Harbout in South Australia, and were soon laying on the beach. However Chairman Dan's VSIO operative had seen the cloud and Dan, prepared for this day, no matter how unlikely simply cranked up the coal-fired power stations in the Latrobe Valley, threw the lever to reverse the direction on the grid and turned all the millions of wind farms in Victoria from being utterly useless into a producing a gale force easterly wind which caught the nuclear cloud and blew it to South Australia along with a billion tonnes of choking coal dust. Overnight all South Australians had turned African American (we can't say bXXXk), and .............

[Well said by Captain Contiguous himself - MOD16, "the snoozer"]

.........just as they were enjoying this cute little spectacle, the cloud rolled in and they started chkong of the smoke which consisted of fried Tasmania. Bull looked at Doubtfire and said "..................................

Go Karts don't have suspensions; a lot of tube/welding technology there.

On 23/10/2021 at 3:32 PM, skippydiesel said:

Just the" NORM" !!!1 ???????. So I guess you just role over for ASIC as well??? 

 

As a group & as members of our society we must not role over for every slight, injustice, imposition or plainly ridiculous levy/legislation. Not all of us are up to lobbying the relevant authority/minister but we can do the passive protest by avoiding (when possible) airfields with unjust/ridiculous landing fees for RAA class aircraft. We can not get an ASIC.

 

Don't let these things just become the NORM!

...after ten years you think it's not?

....demonstration against Nuclear War................