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.........Salty to be the "Sign Monitor" and go out each morning to remove any signs indicating danger.

First day out there was a hand written sign "Salty catches crabs" in Alice's handwriting. Salty...................

............Schitt Creek East. "We want to cash in on the Insuance Ads said  Usku Aunite, First Nations Mayor, who was successfully voted in on the wave of a successful tourist attraction, a garish Totem Pole just like the other First Nationals markers in Vancouver. A wag had put a sign up "Big XXXXX" and the free-campers started turning off looking for a "Schitts Creek" sign so they could add it to their 723 "sign" photos. A few Motor Home people complained that there was no crocodile warning sign in the Murray they could use, so .............

1 hour ago, aro said:

There is a big difference between flying a circuit to a parallel runway and joining a 3 mile final. If the reports are accurate, this was the equivalent of aircraft from opposite directions joining straight in approaches to parallel runways from the boundary of the class D at Moorabbin, i.e. over the beach at Aspendale.

 

Would you typically be at 100 KIAS 3 miles from the airfield or a higher speed? If you are mixing with larger aircraft, keeping the speed up until closer in may be desirable.

Most training aircraft in the circuit are at 100-105 kts flat out. You'd normally slow to 100 as you let down then if you are behind a 152, maybe 1 stage of flap and 90 kts, or if you join ahead of a Baron and don't want the spray - full throttle and early base turn and first exit.

............but he was cut short by Alice who yelled out "We're outta XXXXXXX beef patties; get back here and make some up!!!!: Salty began to wonder why he'd left Dandenong, even though it was now branded "Unsafe" in Tourist Advisories, and ...........

Based on what F10 and Poteroo said it does seem there is room for a slight change.

It concerns me that GA dropped the endorsement for single engine aircraft class, because there are people jumping out of basic trainers and quite happily taking out high speed, difficult aircraft to fly just because they can.

If the Endorsement system was applied to RA, then F10 would not have to do 5 hours, but just enough to satisfay and instrucor. Let's say he was cleared after an hour on the Gazelle; it might take 2.5 hours on the Drifter etc. so a sliding scale based on assessing skill.

...........connection, however tenuous to the Turbine Corporation, however he needn't have worried.

He saw the Current Affair Reporter and Cameraman climbing over fences from two properties away and calmly sat reading the newpaper in his outdoor eating area by the pool, a bowl of cornflakes and a Champagne on the table.  He offered to tell them all, and gave them a champagne breakfast, yelling them amazing scandals of ASIC people and naming enough people to keep ACA busy for a year, and when they finally said they better get something on tape and staggered towards the camera. the reported in one of Turbo's spare shirts, Turbo faced the camera and said "I'm aware of the allegations, and deny all but one of them (bull's escapade); our lawyers are investigating and we will be vigorously denying all charges in court."

Nobody noticed the swaying camera shot that night, and everything went away, except that.......................................

....but bull quickly rejected their offer and left the scene and steered clear of Red Bull  because ............

.......left mandible followed by ......

29 minutes ago, jackc said:

I have no authority to check the above status of people who enter my property.  CASA probably can IF they bother to.....

Well if you have a farm property, best to come up to speed. Things have changed.

.....given a Turbine Racing jacket, a ticket to every race, and afters at the Turbine Entertainment Unit, which was the most valuable gift and this led to the Great.............................

.....sign saying "Get one of bull's NOW!"

But always there are spoilers. Two old ladies were walking by and one said ..................

[Not many people know that Red Bull is bull's cousin. He was  abandoned by his parents due to being severaly over-active when you, and bull took over and brought him up, introducing his to motor sport, skiiing, flying until Red ran out of energy each day and settled down. bull gave him all his commercial ideas and that kept him busy too.]

..............pie nights, darts nights, stout nights, meat tray nights and the occasional patrol out in the street.

The thought that there cold be TD branded gelly down there is darkest Tasmania started to worry Turbo.

Not many peple know that Turbo is an employee of the CIA, often sent in to do the jobs that no one else wants to do, where there's no champagne or beautiful blondes and he had been assigned a Clean Up Team (CUT). When there was a shoot up, and with trigger happy Turbo there were plenty the CUTS could doze the rubble and build a four bedroom home in 1948 style in 20 minutes if t was necessary, so he took them down to Tasmania.

The next morning bull was confused; there was lawn all round the house in place of the craters; original lawn too, no one planted the King George grass variety any more, the house looked the same, he'd noticed nothing through the night, but one wall was missing. When he went outside and looked again he realised one shed was missing - the one containing his Tyro and Cricket, bull ...................................

....Turbine Demolition and Removals Ltd. Charlie Smith was the Chief Exploder, and could he tell some stories. He once blew a clock to Tasmania and someone picked it up in a paddock in Deloraine, and the silly famer posted on FB that he had restored the old clock to perfect condition.

Charlie flew down with a suitcase full of gelignite marked "Handle with care - Glass" as you could in those days, found the clock and blew it up then blew up the farmhouse, every shed, pig pen cook house and outhouse on the place, then came home and ...............

8 minutes ago, timbo59 said:

Hi Kasper. Your first line says that dropping down to 500' was fine back in the early 90's - is the second line a reference to current restrictions?

 

Let me put it this way. If we're talking mid 80's here, could someone have flown there early in the morning, performed a quick circuit round the rock a few hundred feet above it, same again for Kata Tjuta, and gotten away with it as long as there was no other air traffic? Maybe it was legal back then, maybe not, I don't know. I could just wing it in the story, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'd like to be accurate if possible. 

 

As for the touch and go, the only one I can find was very recent, in 2015. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=1d3c5931-c2f2-40f6-b3e9-5787fce5bbc5#:~:text=Left Tire Marks On The,formerly known as Ayers Rock. I really don't know how anyone could manage it safely, because the top is heavily ridged - I climbed it long ago, well before the Anangu began asking people to respect their wishes and not make the climb. Last time I went there in 2011, with my American wife and kids, we just walked around the base. 

 

Given the source here is the Betoota Advocate, I'm not sure that's the actual case. A Saratoga would be much more of a handfull wheraas a Cherokee could be touched quite accurately. Giveaway is probably the tyre marks and estimated cost of $millions to remove the marks. I don't think you'd be applying the brakes up there.

Thanks, I'll have a further look at that; we had a similar case in NSW to the Action Paintball case several years after the event when the person was told he could sue, and one of the things that went against us was that the operator hadn't pointed out that even though the recreational event had significant risk, he should also have advised the plaintiff he could sue if the defendant was negligent (a safety fence gave way because cables were not attached in the correct way). So there can be some twists and turns.

You're right about some of them where the Insurance Companies opt to settle out of court just in case they lose the case and are saddled with a bigger payout, the plaintiff is often keen to go along for the same reasons, and you sit there with your mouth open.

I think it was tightened up after someone did a touch and go on the top.

I'll read the NSW Civil Liability Act, and I'd be interested if you can point me towards the amendments you are talking about, but I can assure you, having lost a few million dollars for our insurance company that I quickly learned to put a light outside a toilet block if it's in a car park, join safety fence cables in accordance with best industry practice, aim a fire extinguisher at the seat of the flames, and not around the airways of a race driver, saving his life, never to use race cars for a promo at a shopping centre without a safety fence and catch fence, never to conduct an event with a Motor Racing is Dangerous sign without adding "but a patron has the right to sue for compensation, and I've posted updates on more recent cases here which affect flying. Your example of the concrete truck is correct; she also has to prove that a duty of care was owed by whoever caused the concrete truck to hit the child. It's more clear cut and easier to understand when the victim has been made a quadriplegic and needs support for his/her life. We've had one placarded aircraft case where the judge ruled there was no claim, but on the basis that the pilot was not negligent. 

In Victoria the Wrongs Act is the key piece of legislation, and there are a few current cases that make the news, so I'm interested in details of any amendments, because they could take a big financial cost off people in some industries.

.......was about to take off as the Millennials (#) changed theircollective fads once again, and this time swerved away from Lattes which had attracted older people (those born before 1980), to juices.

In a stroke of genius, bull named his product "bull's pizz"; the Millennials tested each other what pizz meant and how the juice was an acquired taste, and sales started to move.

They nearly died again when bull's marketing department adopted CRM and sent a text to every Millennial asking how there experience was, and offering to sell them bull's pizz arthritis remedy, a dozen plastic mugs, a set of Drifter registration letters and 12 months subscription to LBGTIAW daily. bull fired the CRM department and its denim-clad leader, and sales picked up again.

But there was trouble on the Western Australian Horizon, which despite extreme efforts by the Premier, could never rise less that two hours later than the Eastern Sates (SA being too small to count); Cappy had developed ..................

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"Psychologist Jean Twenge defines millennials as those born 1980–1994. The United States Census Bureau ended millennials in 1996 in a 2020 news release, but they have stated that "there is no official start and end date for when millennials were born" and they do not officially define millennials."  Source: Wikipedia

12 minutes ago, jackc said:

Best policy is to stay away from Courts and Lawyers, either way.....right or wrong it’s gonna cost grief and money, regardless.......

As a defendant you don’t get that option.

30 minutes ago, jackc said:

Not sure how/if legal action could be taken against a dead PIC as an investigation could not be completed.......dead people can’t talk.  Assuming the the crash was fatal for the PIC:-( 

It's actually a routine procedure; the plaintiff sues the Pilot's Estate.

The plaintiff has to prove that a duty of care was owed and breached and in doing that it's not required that the PIC is alive; in fact most defendants who are alive don't talk on legal advice.

There are also penalties, where the defendant has taken action to remove assets for just such a  case as this.

Sometime people say they can do what they like, it's their life but if someone else is disadvantaged in a subsequent accident, there will be a claim.

A typical example of tis is where the husband was flying illegally, or more commonly not complying with safety standards, and a wife and young children are left behind. They will usually be awarded an amount of money to allow the wife to live on as if she were still married, and raise the chidren in the home and the children are financed through their school years.

This is not legal advice, just a general description of what might happen. The best way to bring yourself up to speed is spend about the cost of an hours duel, and get the information direct from a lawyer who specialises in public liability.

22 minutes ago, Garfly said:

To me the Denver midair shows again that 'see and avoid' and 'a proper lookout' while good and necessary are not sufficient, even when alerted to danger - in this case by the tower.  How often do we need to be told that the best of scans are blocked by solid objects, often in crucial directions.  

A scan of a screen display (for nearby threats) - even in the circuit - need be no more distracting than a glance in your mirrors when driving. Nobody suggests mirrors are dangerous or 'useless' on motor vehicles - though, to be sure, fixating on one could be. Mirrors show us what no amount of peering out front can. So does ADSB. Why must it be either/or?

 

Anyway, here's yet another video showing the failure of X-ray vision (as back-stop to radio failure): 

 

 

 

 

Public Liability - With See and Avoid the Duty of Care is totally with the PIC, legals are clear and risk to authorities is minimal.

......there was no doubt that Moderator 17 had adulterated the Quince juice with W.A "hard" water, and it tasted like ...............

Like this?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2840247/The-obvious-message-dont-drive-plane-street-Pilot-drove-small-aircraft-pub-fined.html

....adulterated..................

.......employed Moderator 17.

Turbo turned white

Salty turned white

Loxie turned white (but said he would return to Feiry Red)

OT turned white

Cappy turned [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] expunged for historical reasons; ASIO 233342563746B

bull wondered what he'd done now...............................