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4 hours ago, walrus said:

‘’This case, in my opinion, will scare off anyone wishing to invest in this industry, as will the sagas of Bristell, Jabiru and Angelflight.

 

Couldn’t the Act be changed to allow CASA some leeway to promote investment in aviation?

CASA is exactly what the name says, a Safety body,  the Compliance and Enforcement component of Aviation in Australia.

So many people seem to be caught like a deer in the spotlight thinking it is something it isn't, then expecting something that CASA has no power to deliver, and then capping it off by doing the same thing over and over and over again.

Think of it as the C&E department of a major Company.

It's the Marketing Department which produces the Marketing policies used to promote the Company's products, and it's the Sales Department which executes those policies. C&E just manage safety in the organisation by coming up with corporate procedures.

Same with CASA.

So for a start CASA isn't there to promote aviation; C&E is never there in Corporate structures to promote them or to reduce their costs (unless by coming up with safer standards which produce less accidents).

CASA are there to make black and white go/no go decisions; those decisions cannot have anything to do with viability of an organisation, leniency "this time" or turning a blind eye. That doesn't, or shouldn't be happening anywhere in CASA or corporate or government.

Where someone feels they've been hard done by, there are appeals processes; Natural Justice is a legal requirement in all parts of our society.

....the case is not going at all well for the RAPNG after the witchdoctor pointed the Cassowary bone at the RAPNG lawyer who immediately expired, and then turned to leer at the judge who immediately decided TCCNL were innocent of all charges and ducked under the bench where ...............

Turbo confirms there is no such company as referred to in Post # unnumbered. What happens is that whenever he is invited to Chez Capitan to a dinner cooked by his wife (a sufferer for 30 years), he carries a small bottle of indigestion tablets. Ir's as simple as that. 

Luckily, he hadn't had any invites lately,and he was focused on a memorial to the last of the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" of New Guinea, but the Australian troops around the family name of Drinkimupt or Eboni.

Turbo's grandfather was flying[avref] Dakotas on freight drops. Sometimes there were 400 feet dirt runways carved out with US Army Utility shovels by the Eboni family but mostly it was winding through the peaks of the OS as they used to call them until they reached the little flat clearing marked by the Drinkimupt family with a bull's pistle, and coming through the last two peaks at WOT under the machine guns of the Japanese. That didn't happen very often because Jock Drinkimupt would say "We put im Bibi leaf in Japo t." After the war the tribespeople had many meetings to discuss why the Dakotas didn't come any more with food clothing and petrol, which they had used to light their fires, dress and eat. It was those unexpected fires that led to them being called fuzzy wuzzies. Being skilled bird catchers, they decided that the best way to bring the Dakotas back was to build a decoy, and many were built in the mountains. This one, built by Ernie Drinkimupt and his brothers was particularly good, and attracted many aircraft of the same size. As you can see here it went on the form the basis for the design of the Jabiru with its high wing, tough undercarriage and ............

.......a pack of Siamese steaks.

Scotty was from marketing, and he had an uneasy feeling that Turbo might have just offered him something he'd regret, but Turbo had just helped him move 14 million doses of Pfizer vaccine with the subtle motto "Pfizer makes you Highzer"

The Evo52 MK3 started to sell as a result of the marketing campaign which included building BHM Community Hubs with Grant money and charging the old dears a membership fee which included all they could eat and flying lessons in the Evo52.

The Community Hubs were built at all the airfields which had been truggling and were desperate for work to there were no complaints when Turbine Labour Groups made them an offer fo $25/hour.

Things were humming along with the bomb making, Religious reading, Gun lessons and flying lessons. The ASIO guys, who had infiltrated the hubs as religious lecturers, motivational speakers, poles dancers and male strippers, observed that the BHM groups were becoming highly skilled to the point where they were talking less about "forgive thy neighbour" and more about what they'd do to that XXXX of an ex Husband, and ASIO realised they has a problem to fix so they came up with a solution called Operation Blue, and ............

C-19 performance by Country, deaths per 100,000 people (worst at top) as at 29/6/21

C-19.pdf

.........equivalent to a 1957 Piper Tri Pacer that cruises at 173 kts and carries 4 people and their baggage.

Cappy was quite keen on it, but as we know, some people carry more baggage than others.

Turbo methodically worked on the issues, and followed an old marketing princople "if your products stuffed, call it exquisite." He called the changes "Evolutions" one of the buzz words of the millenials which can mean anything.

By Evo37 the aicraft were flying nicely and the facility turned a profit at Evo52. Just when ........

....Texas Oil Agreement 2021 in which Turbo handed over 15 cases of Ben Ean (delivered by Turbine Exotic Wines (TEW), and received an order for 1,000 trucks, and royalties on 15 oil wells in Los Indios which Turbo had agreed too dig for free. Turbo also picked up a small recreational aircraft [avref] manufacturing facility in Los Indios after Dick told him he was going to use it as a truck park. In production was a very slippery aircraft called the Toucan, and it ..................

1 hour ago, Jaba-who said:

This is the problem with statistics. Sweden only had about 9000 deaths so in that list given above they were dropped right off the bottom somewhere. so the unknowing would look at it suggest the did well with the strategy. The truth is a bit different.
But Sweden only has a small population ( I forget what but about 10 million seems to stick in my mind) anyway the point being that the death rate in Sweden ended up being about 3 times that of the nearest Scandinavian/Northern European country. And not only that. They were one of the first European countries to run out of hospital & ICU  beds, ventilators and hospital staff. 
 

I’ve got the figures, haven’t had time yet to find the populations. You are right. Several countries have no deaths.

......Barossa Pearl to a Republican function. At the time BP was the benchmark in fine wines in Australia, but by world standards you might as well have followed the cat around with a cup for a day. and the four Republicans he was to meet were Oil billionaires, one of them named Dick [No further ID:ASIO] who was in the market for some trucks for his oilfields - about a thousand trucks. When the main findraising meeting was over, and Turbo had promised $6 million more than Cappy had said he would donate, Turbo broke out the Barossa Pearl to this exclusive group. They all took one sip and started coughing, spitting, spluttering and ....................

2 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

What I can't understand is why they are so bad at the quarantine stuff. In the olden days, they used islands...  today they fly people in from india and give them only 14 days in a cbd hotel!. No wonder we are getting new cases all the time, then they do ridiculous restrictions on people who have never even been near a covid case..

I bet if they used islands, or remote camps, and had an extra 2 weeks spent in quarantine without contact with new arrivals, we would be clear of the virus by now.

We would indeed, but people want their freedom and don't care if the elderly die. 

I just happened to have pulled the figures, at 3:30 pm today from Johns Hopkins University Medical, for the death totals from 177 countries.

Australia has hit way above its weight, right down at position 102 with 910 deaths, NZ even better at position 155 with just 26.

The top 23 are shown here - just the total per country, not yet weighted. 

The rat always did have a yellow streak down his back, but history shows he would have managed to insult us both.

There's an old poem that shows us the way.

"Two men looking out through bars

One saw mud, the other stars"

So we can go with both leads.

.........Rudi Giuliani.

On of the press yelled out "Haven't you just been disbarred?"

"Yes", said Rudi, but I was sick of being a lawyer anyway. Your clients all lie to you and...............

.......you're a bunch of losers, as well as ...........................

......profitable ventures such as The Happy Polster. This Polling Company doesn't mess around talking to the Chucks, Bobbies, and Billies and the Sue-Ellens, Dianes and Ethels that make up Middle America, they just give the candidate what he wants to hear, he campaigns twice as hard,  so of course usually wins. Trump has bought into this package so the Democrats should be quaking in their shoes. It's a nice clean system, explained the Head of Turbine PR, ........

...............the crack in South LA.

The Stars all got their Challengers back out of Hock and Van Nuys came alive again. The lights came on in Vegas, and .......

....and so the Governor sent California into Chapter 11.

Since the State could no longer pay its debts, South Dakota, Rhode Island, and Ohio froze any travel to California, New York donated $600 million provided it was used to get the drunks and beggars off the streets, and Texas donated some old Street lights they'd removed in favour of solar, 14 northern States followed suit even though solar didn't work up there.

The Governor then levied a tax on Hollywood, and all hell........................

.......ad for Pluto Roast Chicken Dinners at Mels Diner.

This ad was in the form of a projected hologram of a roast chicken with all you can eat on a 12 inch plate. Tinkerbell had a backpack with a 2 stroke Honda pumping out a roast chicken odour, and as the float passed about 20% of the audience rushed for Mels Diner elbowing and kicking each other for an 8 inch high stack of sliced chicken.

After the failure of the Red Bull Air Races [avref on Disney ref] which came to a halt when an extra punched through both sides of Magic Mountain, Turbine Entertainment tried to capitalise on Mels Drive In (American Graffiti) by running drag races from the parking lot up Main Street, but the Nanny-State Disney Management shut the races down becase little kiddies were wandering across Main Street, and 

........." and then lost his nerve " can I borrow a book from the library?"

Not many people know that Walt Disney was a very hard task master. The girls and fairies were allowed to parade in skimpy outfits to catch the eye of Holywood producers, but the deal was Walt got a handy 1% of their earnings when they made it, and they had to work in Disneyland Admin for 16 hours a day. Tinkerbell was one of the Security Officers who had to move the drunks out of Hamburgerland, Steak House, Red Dog Saloon, Klondike Strike and Lasseters Last Ride, you'd be surprised what she could do with just a baton, and they all went meekly home every night. She looked back at Cappy, who unfortunately lost his footing on a discarded DisneyCone right at that moment, and she pulled out her baton and .................

.....manage the long march in the Evening Parade every night on those skinny little legs.

Cappy smiled and said "It was always worth it for the reward at the end""

Knowing that with Cappy it wouldn't be the left over cooked hot dogs, and he said "Minnie"

A geam came into Cappy's eyes as he said "Tinkerbell, ..............................

......next go to Paris she's offered to come up with me in a Moth Minor, and ..................

13 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

If the seat fails, you pull back on the control yoke/stick, usually your feet are off the ground under the panel. nowhere near the pedals ?

 

Experience with a 182, i know what i am talking about and survived because the aircraft was in trim.  I then had to move to the other seat at about 300 feet to keep flying the plane cause the seat had come right out of its rails and was not moving back.  There is an ATSB report somewhere

I think he was referring to an earlier response FB

4 hours ago, octave said:

This really should be in off topic, it is a long way from rag and tube electric.   I do take some responsibility for drift but how about we move it to a forum that is more appropriate.   Having said that..........  

 

 

 

 

No,      It is quite easy to cherry pick (on both sides) articles.

 

Yes, India really is moving away from coal and toward green energy

 

Profiling the five largest solar power plants in India

 

 

What ever the case is at India has a huge renewable sector.

 

Here is the 2020 breakdown of installed power capacity.  My question is, are you confidently asserting that the percentage of renewables will fall dramatically and the percentage of coal will grow dramatically in the next few years?  This is something we can look at next year and the year after.

 

It is quite easy to list proposed coal projects but these are up against proposed renewable projects. 5th largest installed capacity of renewable energy in the world

 

in this country there seems to little appetite for building new coal fired power stations.   

 

 

 

Oh Dear, it must be a full moon again.

....squeeze.

Don't tell anyone, NES readers, bu Cappy has had a thing for Hillary for years, at one time imagined himself as First Guy before Trump came along and took him on as his No 2 Secret Service Agent. Cappy forgot about Hillary in a nanosecond, lost in the excitement of being able to knee people like Emmanuel Macron in the nuts to clear a path for the Don and ride in Marine One, clipping the White House trees; he even ......................

7 hours ago, RFguy said:

was listening /watching an  ABC report 5 min ago, the Aerobat. It is reported, no mayday call was heard. That's about the only interesting tidbit. just a tv report of course... ...

It happens.

When we are going out training with an instructor and he says "Today we're going to do some forced landings" it's possible to do 4 or 5 perfect ones becaise our brain has been alerted and dragged up the checks and radio phrase.

I had an instructor who liked to push things to the edge pulling engine failures in the most unlikely places, and then it's not so easy. Once at 1000' he get me into a very awkward place to make a forced landing from and I really had to work hard to find a suitable paddock, and harder to get in position to use its length but I'd pulled it off.

 Suddenly he yelled "WE'RE GONNA DIE!, WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!! and nobody knows where we are!"

12 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Anyone who raced slot cars knows electric's explosive power off the line.

The balancing act is: Power Demand vs Battery Capacity; If you want to exponentially maximise one the price is that you exponentially minimise the other.

BexRbetter gave us a classic example with the story about his trip to another city. Had plenty of quoted range for the journey at the start where he flew down the freeway passing cars left and right. Suddenly a battery warning came on, so he slowed down, the battery info showed he couldn't reach his destination so he slowed down more. That didn't help so he went into limp home mode - very slow, and from memory his one hour trip took about two hours.

People who don't understand, or might like to know exactly, to the last minute detail how long Bex's trip was, what was showng on the dash, how he managed to get there etc. need only to surf back to the actual story.

In the meantime the principle of physics I outlined isn't going anywhere.

Cars require intermittant power so there's some relief from battery drain slowing down and going down the hills, slowing down in towns etc.  

Aircraft require constant speed power in cuise, so there's a more constant drain that needs to be dealt with.

What is emerging with the use of tradie tools is the OPERATING management technique of not running a battery fully flat, but having multiple batteries for the skin.

What I've found with farm jobs which can be several kilometres from the shed is that quite heavy work, such as angle grinding can be achieved until a job is complete by taking multiple batteries out so no need to load the big generator.

Traditionallly when we book lessons or book an aircraft for a local flight, we fly for an hour.

If the electric aircraft range is 5 circuits, then if we adopt a policy based on modules of 4 circuits then a break for a battery swap then another 4 circuits, or something like this, we can achieve satisfacory training with today's technology rather than dreaming up battery capacity/mass that hasn't been invented yet.

This would also allow more time for students to get ground briefing as they struggle with landing techniques etc.

It would also get people thinking about a 30 minute session at regular intervals through the year instead of the 2 or 3 hours they might be doing now.

........minor.

Not many people know that Geelong originated from a tin mine which was discovered by William Buckley, one of the founders of the Buckley and Nunn Emporium. Bucks was out digging yams with the bros one day when one of the tribe said "Do you want to see where we get the tin from?"

"What's tin?" asked Bucks.

"You stupid white fella" replied Darryl, "we use it to make tins to cook our dampers in"

Unfortunately the damper tins didn't tak off; it was quicker just to throw the damper on the fire, but William Buckley started digging it up and selling it to the English Captains who arrived with squatters. The squatters began to use it for all sorts of kitchen products, farm equipment and building. Tin made a much better roof than sod.

Bucks made enough money to build his Emporium, and hired young Ruben Myer to run it.

Soon Bucks was organising fashion parades where he helped the young women change outfits quickly, and became bored with tin mining and sold it to Jack Lysaght who increased tin prices so greatly that the Australian tin industry collapsed, the first example of Australia's litany of price-collapse, the most famous being wool.

Peter Lalor fitted into the Geelong Society very well, telling his story about the famous days of the fight at the Eureka Stockade. They wanted to call it the OK Corral, but that name had been taken.

One story he used to tell was...........

[Tin story kindly approved for publishing by Turbine Dark Emu Publishing Inc.]

10 hours ago, kgwilson said:

And this is a slow Tesla at 3.3 seconds to 100kmh.

Anyone who raced slot cars knows electric's explosive power off the line.

The balancing act is: Power Demand vs Battery Capacity; If you want to exponentially maximise one the price is that you exponentially minimise the other.

BexRbetter gave us a classic example with the story about his trip to another city. Had plenty of quoted range for the journey at the start where he flew down the freeway passing cars left and right. Suddenly a battery warning came on, so he slowed down, the battery info showed he couldn't reach his destination so he slowed down more. That didn't help so he went into limp home mode - very slow, and from memory his one hour trip took about two hours.