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7 hours ago, Roundsounds said:

I work for a company who has an effective Just Culture. 
I have also seen, from the inside, the RAAus culture and I can tell you it could do with some changes to be an effective Just Culture.

I wonder if it is time for some fresh eyes and a revised safety system reporting line.

Problem is the vast majority didn't vote when the Incorporated Association was killed.

That is the platform where a sub committee made up of suitably skilled members can be formed to study subjects such and this, and adopt new policies.

RAA inc grew to what it was and conducted the iconic Natflys because it produced these roups with special skills.

Some good words here from the Mayor of Kingston, Steve Staikos. Steve and now retired Councillor Rosemary West have kept a watch on the Airport to try to minise the damage done by the large warehouses, but the Commonwealth's actions in giving 99 year leases on Commonwealth Zoning means they have to motivate airport management to do the right thing rather than order demolition.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/light-plane-crashes-in-heatherton-20210622-p5836i.html

....and he also noticed obviously illegal beach mansions with hectares of beach fenced off and people darting about on jetskis. Geelong airfield had been roofed over and he could see wild parties taking place above the strip he had intended to land on. This deck had been built overnight without any planning permits which had become the Victorian way. Tattooed naked girls were sunbaking on his normal touchdown point, and he shuddered as he thought of his recent escape, then indignant at what these uncouth nouveau riche had done, and desperate for a magnificent luch at the Edgewater where the only thing taken off the steaks are the horns, he put down in Ryrie Street.

After a few moments..............

Heatherton would place the aircraft generally here in relation to 17/35 or 13/31

He would have been thankful for that looooong nose if he had to T Bone a factory.

.....really living the dream and without a thought he strapped a bootle of water and a blow up mattress to the Tyro and headed for Geelong. About 30 miles off the northern coast of Tasmania is lonely Sir Humphrey Basinstoke Island, and this island has a dark history with whalers grabbing aboriginal women in Mordialloc and and dumping them off in SHBI. Most people would think that's a lot of trouble to go to just for a night's pleasure once a year in the whaling season, and that's what the sailors thought, leaving the women to fend for themselves. It was above this nest of hostile women that bull heard the Tyro's engine cough, splutter (avefs) and then expire. He executed a copybook forced landing and found himself surrounded by women.

At first he thought all his Christmases had come at once, but when one...................

......which bull was already acutely aware of when he suggested to a friend “They should bring the V8 Supercars to race around Hobart streets” and received a mouthful from both heads. Since then he had been very cautious when he talked about aviation subjects like headphones or aviation sunglasses or........

39 minutes ago, danny_galaga said:

Have you seen this?

 

https://arena.gov.au/blog/raygen-solar-thermal-plant-to-be-built-in-victoria/

 

If successful will net 17 hours storage each day. Bloody brilliant idea.

 

I can't wait for Allen Moans, Andrew Dolt and Peta Cretin to tell us why it won't work...

We're still awaiting the Mildura plant announced in the 1970s - much the same principle.

42 minutes ago, octave said:

 

Hydrogen fuel cells

How Hydrogen Energy Storage Works

Fuel cells are old technology.

Mercedes Benz supplied MTT Perth with three trial route buses around 2002.

They worked well, passengers were happy with the low noise level.

The buses cost three times a diesel bus so they were handed back to MB and diesel continued.

In California one manufacturer tried getting around the price problem by leasing fuel cell cars.

They brought a trial unit to Australia and I made an offer to do the introduction paperwork, but it was never leased because ultimately the high Prime Cost has to be recovered in the Lease rate. 

The electricity to operate to fuel cell was charged overnight, much like an EV, so it wasn't CO2-free.

Power Stations would have longer to recover the Prime Cost but an enormous increase in power is required to handle the step up from an autumn day to a hot summer day. From what I saw, they would have similar issues to Renewables.

.....and bull was beaten by logic.

He looked CT carefully and said "Funny you mentioned flat heads when yours .................."

20 minutes ago, facthunter said:

That's why you need storage of the cheapest power imaginable. Pumped hydro or Hydrogen etc. Both provide quick response. COAL certainly does not. New critical coal starts at about 55 cents:/Kw/ Hr. Nev

Hydro is the cleanest of all.

Pumped Hydro is a little like a perpetual motion machine - a few basics to solve yet before it's viable.

Hydrogen? How is power generated with hydrogen?

1 hour ago, walrus said:

 Want to phase out coal and. gas - multiply renewables by eleven or twelve times - and distribute the electricity.

 

That's the general direction, but it's a lot more than that.

After 40 years of subsidies to Solar and Wind Farm facilities, Victorian renewables recently hit a record of just over 50% of all power supplied to the grid in autumn/winter conditions.

This is because they can undersell the coal-fired power stations which have to cost in their requirement to keep producing a Base Load at night instead of switching off like renewables can.

So renewables are able to undercut Coal and grab a bigger market share. Sounds impressive, doesn't it? 

However, consumers also need a Peak Power supply once the temperature starts to rise and people turn on their air conditioning. When that happens the maximum power output of all renewables is around 1% of the total Peak Power with Coal and Gas plants at full capacity.

This is what the official AEMO dashboard showed on the night when we tripped the max. power demand and power was switched off to 100,000 homes to save the system.

.......but bull explained that this was only a cover for the secret ingredient which was XXXXXX.

They were sitting on the front balcony of the Shades mansion overlooking Thylacine Valley, sipping gins, and bull said "Sorry about getting my thumbs all mixed up and damaging the Moth Shades."

"Don't worry about it" replied Shades "I have trouble with my heads all the time" and they lapsed into a silence which was broken by "Not MY fault........................."

The Devil’s Carbuncle.

Shades had a Moth Minor and invited bull to DC for a flight. The Moth Minor is a very old aircraft and the best way to describe it is like the Minor Keys on. Piano. They’re smaller than the white ones and don’t have a wing on top.

 
No sooner had bull applied his Queensland Fingers and thumbs to the joystick than.........

[Cappy is to be congratulated for his 7000 posts, beating Colleen McCulloch by 40,000 words, albeit most spelt wrong]

.......hunting.

Not many people know that Earl Gray, as well as owning Tea Plantations in the Sub Continent, which originated the Marketing Policy adopted by   ...........owned vast hunting Estates in southern Tasmania, a legacy from his great grandfather Hiram Grey and his wife, born Black.

The Unique and wonderful Tasmanian Tiger lived in this area, a creature well-suited to climate change which could find food anywhere, and always shared it with his family and friends. It never killed prey unless it needed a meal, and even then would leave good looking birds alone. The mating call of the Tasmanian Tiger was remarkably similar to the voice of David Attenborough who recorded extinct tigers calling in the wild.

Hiram, his son Arthur (Port Arthur was named after him), Sheldon and Earl relentlessly shot the tigers out.

It was a sad day when Harry Turbine managed to grab the hind leg of the last remaining tiger and give it to the Hobart Zooo where the keepers locked it up and forgot to feed it, and then stuffed ........................

Well they'd probably just say "There goes Sunny again" and get a cup of coffee.

Legislation has to spell out what is included and what is not included, where something is allowed and where it is not etc. 

It takes longer to read a piece of legislation than its much simpler meaning, but after a while your eye tends to skim the positioning statements and focus on the subject matter.

There will be another piece of legsilation somewhere specifiying which aircraft are to carry radios and which aircraft are required to carry specific types of radios or multiple radios, and additional instruments.

These are all little pieces of the big jigsaw.

........were able to conquer it.

It was a poem wrtiten by Cappy when he was a Spitfar Pilot in the Battle of Britain.

These brave boys would have to sit around on the lawns in old two shilling lounge chairs until the radar operators picked up huns inbound.

They would then Scramble; some would run to the aircraft, but Cappy would run for the forest, but that's another story.

On one of these waits, Cappy had written, and the Bletchley girls had decoded (except for the parts they thought would harm 21st century readers:

"The body stood on the burning deck

His heart was all a flutter

He was in XX XX XX XXX neck

XX XXXX XXXXXXX XX butter

XXXX XX XXXXX XXX XXX

X XX XXXX caused him to ...................................

[Just some background on the Royal Darraweit Guim Clay Pigeon Association; originally they released pigeons to shot but Animal Justice threatened to close them down so  one of Cappy's friends pressed up some clay discs and they called them "Clays", then the Premier came out for a visit and asked: "What's the point of shooting at dirt?" and they changed the name to Clay Pigeons (AJs please note ha ha they weren't pigeons). The AJs said this disrespected pigeons past and present, so Cappy came up the with the name "Skeet" which fell into disuse beause Tourists were paying to attend championships and kept asking what Skeet were, and stopped coming when they were told it was a name for dirt, and now all the members had problems with their eyesight and found the clays hard to see, so they reintroduced big fat pigeons, and now the AJ etc.]

15 hours ago, Flying Binghi said:

Going off his YouTube interview series “Conversations With John Anderson” I’d say He is taking a new approach to things. He comes across as far more intelligent then I once thought.

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He is; the descriptions above aren't correct; he cares about a lot more than his property.

I once got him to stop a half billion dollar spend of taxpayer money on a problematic development by laying out the pros and cons in detail.

He had to give up parliament in the last stint due to prostate issues; long meetings can be near impossible to handle.

This time he's standing for the Senate, the House of the people, so if he gets up his job would be quite different.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Ouch" he said as the bullet shaved his ankle and richocheted into the nice new RFDS PC12 nearby, where a CASA F............

...................in the nearby levee bank where Paddy was having a sleep. "What are you doing under that corrugated iron" yelled Doubtfie. "That's my doona" replied Paddy, who .............

.......................rat Loxie, when he .................

????????????and does it need ointment? but he was reassured that the word came from an old Viking term meaning "Saves Cuts and other problems" after several hundred rampaging Vikings invading England were cut about the middle parts when they strapped bare swords to their waist belts, and more were injured riding horses bare-sword, causing ..................

[Turbo now gets the subliminal teasing of Cappy; the trick is to make a lead mark out of his last keystroke and create  multiple lead ins]

....Range Controller, Captain Jeremy Cook, even if you have to wake him up, and even if he's .......

[Point of clarity for NES readers: In unnumbered Post # above the Captain refers to ending his unnumbered Post # above with '............s?' when in fact it the ordinary post, above the side comment which started with bold text in the above unnumbered Post #, ends with 'alive." ' indicating the end of a sentence as clearly as the buffers at the end of the railway line into Wagga Wagga.]

Turbo draws the attention of the entire social media world including his 3.2 billion followers to Cappy's regular gaffe, the locked NES, ended with a full stop.

This happens when Cappy gets excited; he gets worked up to the point were he involuntarily jerks his leg up which then kicks out and this goes on repeatedly with a short stream of p slipping out with each kick, manking a mess on the footpath - very similar to a young dog when he gets excited.

What brought this on was Turbo dropping a bait about a rifle sight, branding it a Bushnell, knowinghe is mad about the LGBTQI preferred Leupold.

The boys at the club are still laughing and whistling "Here Spot, here Spot" and............

5 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

To get more ponies; There are a host of engine modifications which always result in more heat, greater pressures, shorter in service life. Then there is what we used to call "Blue Printing" which I understand to be, pedantic/anal attention to engine build (fit, finish, matching component weights/balance, etc), ignition timing , fuel delivery and exhaust flow all without changing the engine specifications. The later should not create additional heat and if anything has the potential to extend the service life of the engine - if you have the time & dosh this might be for you.

Blueprinting is very expensive; worth it for a race engine, but not for an aircraft engine you're going to replace every few hundred hours. Holman and Moody used to go through hundreds of pistons at the Ford factory to find 8 matched to what they were looking for. You can only buy so many and get a credit. In some areas you're removing resistance, so power gain through eliminating power demand, in others you might be bring one cyclinder up to the performance of the other three, so the other three cylinders get an easy life, and if you set the installation up so you only use the same power, then logically you could expect the engine to run cooler, but if you're going to cash in and use the extra power available, the cooling you gained may well be offset by the higher power you demand. For example, if blueprinting gets you 10 hp, so you put a coarser prop on the engine's going to work harder.

"........"could you show me how to shoot like that?"

"You need button rifling in your barrel" said OT "and you need to breathe out and hold your breathe when you are ready to pull the trigget" OT continued.

A few days later they spoke again and OT asked how many bunnies he'd busted. "I paid $2,000 for a rifle with a button groove, fitted a 12 power Bushnell scope, zeroed the barrel in to the stock with epoxy resin, and held my breath, but I haven't got one!" replied OT.

"Did you hold your breathe when you pulled the trigger?" asked OT.

"I did, but you didn't tell me to pull the trigger" replied CT, and ...........

.....up to then successfully wiping out the enemy.

NES readers can see OT’s not backward in padding a story, but the waffle was now going to have to change into action. OT was up to the job, crack! his rifle rang out and a few leaves at the top of a nearby tree floated down. The men sniggered but then three VC snipers dropped down; three with one bullet. Cappy ......

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