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11 hours ago, Markdun said:

Kasper, I agree that your analysis is correct about RAa jurisdiction.  Moreover, in law, only a court can impose a penalty. The police, or CASA, similarly cannot impose a penalty.  If the legislation allows they can issue a person with an ‘infringement notice’ (a fine) and the person issued with the notice can agree to pay the fine.  But it is every person’s legal right to not pay the fine and require the police, or CASA, to take them to court and prove, as per George Pell, beyond reasonable doubt that they committed the offence.  Raa-Aus does not have that legal power to take you to court (unless they can start a private prosecution).  In fact, I know of a case where a CASA prosecution failed (pre AUF days) because the person in CASA that authorised the prosecution didn’t have the delegated authority to do so.

 

where I think your argument comes apart is Raa-aus, does have a form of contract with members.  This is the essence of corporations.....the members (equity holders) essentially have a contract with the other members as set out in the corporation’s constitution or M&A of association.  This is what a member actually means (unlike gyms where ‘member’ really means customer). So while the RAa-Aus may go whistle Dixie in regards to imposing fines or periods of imprisonment, it probably can suspend a person’s flying privileges etc, refuse to register an aircraft etc.  The ‘rule of law’ is more than just criminal, it also includes contract, torts, and equity (something our PM needs to learn). Of-course, if the person couldn’t care less about their membership and flies contrary to the tech manual etc that’s their business.  Arguably, if Ra-Aus is aware, they could dob the person in to CASA.  But it seems the precedent set by the reluctance of churches to dob in paedophiles or our current prime minister to dob in rapists or ministers illegally spending our money, it would perhaps be prudent if they kept shtum.

Somewhere in there I think you may have pointed out where the powers come from.

There are thousands of Incorporated Associations drawng up rules, enforcing them and issuing sanctions on a regular basis. I was an Appeals Tribunal Chairman for several years and heard a lot of cases, and made decisions, usually on Disqualifcations of Licence for periods from a month up to two years, so issues that had a serious effect on the member involved. My position would have been providing Natural Justice. On a few occasions the Appellant would be represented by a lawyer. The decisions were always based on the Associations Rules and I never had a lawyer question a decision.

So maybe its the contract you mention.

The water is cloudy with RAA's history because, although RAA Inc. was set up as a Self Administering Organization, it never put the administration, compliance and enforcement policies for what it did into effect. CASA gave a specific nudge to RAA in 2010, and I pointed this out on this forum a couple of years later, but there was still no response. Incorporated Associations were specifically set up to handle self-administration, but members went along with dumping the Incporporated Association, listening to a few uninformed people who were spruiking the line that we were too big to be managed like a cricket club, and formed the current Limited Company. It hasn't picked up these obligations either.

As a result we sit out there exposed as Kasper has pointed out, facing harsh penalties for things we should have had rules and sanctions in place for.

Kasper describes RAA as toothless, but that's what you are if you are a Self Administering Organisation and don't make operational Rules.

As someone once said "If you don't have a target, how are you going to hit the bullseye.

4 hours ago, Cooee59 said:

 

 

(The precise answer to the reason for the crash will have to wait until the official report or investigation is carried out.)

Q. Where does one find these offical reports or investigation answers.

 

The Police investigate, may call in RAA or other body, Police prepare a Brief for the State Corroner. The State Coroner decides what caused the death, not the accident (but still may provide a lot of detail). If you search in the Coroners' offices you may find a report after some months, or in some cases some years.

In a very few cases ATSB investigate and post their progress on line, but they normally only handle VH registered aircraft.

.....after a lot of deliberation and consideration for the family, we have to tell NES readers that the two thugs were the sons of Loxie who had trained them in the family tradition of fire fighting. As some would know, the real work begins after a fire when the truck gets back to the station, and someone has to put the hose over their shoulder and run 300 metres down the street, flat out to keep the reel spinning until all the hose is out and can start drying. This had built up their muscles. Unfortunatel he had also taught them the family art of lock picking, and employed them as bouncers, and they had picked up the habit of stealing hub caps off customer cars. Cappy had had to replace 17 sets on his Chrysler. Like all thugs they couldn't stand seeing someone else doing the same as they did, and when Cappy kicked the hubcap off their limo they burst out sobbing, and ...................

..........to mix with Riverina people, because they picked their noses and continually gossiped. Also they were inbred and all had that straight hair, wide faces and big teeth.

These two jerks putting on fake Italian accents were no exception; you could see their bums were wide from sitting on a John Deere all day.

In fact one of them had slipped up; he'd dressed up in the dark suit but still had his RMs and a John Deere peaked cap on.

He walked over to the limo and kicked one of the hub caps off; what happened next is still talked about ........................

....an opinion.

Turbine, Turbine and Turbine gave him three, charged for all three, and writing the three emails.

While this saga was going on, Salty had used his income from the film to finish the Pizza Schitt Ultralight.

It really was quite good, and flew very well, wuth very short take-off thanks to its double-Bernoulli wing, and plenty of power, and it landed like a feather in an amazingly short distance. Not even Salty was going to stiff this one up, but ..................................

5 hours ago, octave said:

Aren't we talking about hydrogen fuel cells rather than CNG?

That's the main subject but it's interwoven with the need to look at the fuel source, characteristics, engineering, emission etc. and there's a parade of them which have come through, all exciting in the beginning.

There are still some isolated operations in the east, but the main CNG action was  pretty much over by 2010. The attraction in Victoria was the ESSO BHP oilfields off the coast in Bass Strait where we were told there were hundreds of years of supply of natural gas. We are now being told there is none left and are about to buy subsidised gas from China, so someone screwed up somewhere.

Route Buses were the best hope for CNG because there was plenty of room for the big tanks, but route buses are the most power hungry application of all buses and coaches, so the 10% or so power loss wouldn't have helped timetables.

Benders in Geelong operated a fleet of CNG buses in that city, but they were all gone by about 2005.

Isuzu brought out trial trucks in both compression ignition and specific CNG spark ignition configurations, but didn't go ahead with production trucks.

As you mention, the emission advantage CNG had was eaten up by cleaner diesel fuel, and over the next decade or two the automotive industry looks like progressively introducing compression ignition petrol engines, so we'll probably see diesel drop as a front line fuel source.

4 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Correction...  it is not that cheap at the moment to make methanol from hydrogen and CO2 but there are research places trying catalysts etc and hopefully this will change.

Methanol has been mandatory in some forms of race cars for 40 years or more. because of its safer flash point than petrol.

Racing fuel is usually 95% methanol and 5% acetone for smoother burning.

It's not that expensive, and readily available in 20 litre or 200 Litre drums.

It's characteristics in an ICE are: it burns slower than petrol,  runs cooler than petrol, puts out the same amount of power, if not a little more, but requires twice the volume to get the same result.

If you translate that into a road car or aircraft, the fuel bill with be about 2.5 times petrol and the fuel tank has to be twice the size, so twice the weight of fuel.

So you wouldn't be looking at using Methanol to power aircraft or cars.

If you assess any of these alternative fuels in the way I just did, you'll find the reason we still use petrol or diesel.

An ICE burning hydrogen has to store liquid hydrigen, so requires a huge tank. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) died for much the same reason - a massive storage tak which operated at about 2000 psi, so had to be made as strong as an oxy cylinder.

A fuel cell power plant which separates hydrogen and oxygen producing electricity which powers an electric motor worked successfully in Perth's MTT Buses on an extended trialle, but was killed by its cost - three times that of a diesel bus.

Most of these exotics are coming to light as a result of relentless pressure to reduce CO2 emissions to stop global warming. The reason Hydrogen is coming to the surface now is that people have realised that electric cars might have zero tailpipe emissions but they have to be charged, and even a 50% market share of EVs would require Australia to double the number of power plants supplying the grid, so a big increase in CO2, unless we switched to nuclear.

You already have the co-ordinate figures to punch into CAD, but It takes a while to get your head around CAD’s treatment of space.

If there’s someone in the district doing CNC work it may not cost much for them to provide an aluminium template to your co ordinates.

Alternatively signwriters can print and cut them in vinyl.

......jigs under a corrugated iron awning on the banks of SC.

The storm hit ...............

......Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, with Salty playing Elizabeth Swann.

The budget for the film was $140 million, and $60 million of that was spent in attempting to remodel Salty'sc oarse features into something that resembled a woman, such is the nature of Hollywood.

NES readers haven't seen much of Salty lately, but we can now tell you he has been busy building a mansion on the banks of Schitt Creek where he built a Yabby Farm (with Turbo as Consultant).

Lest NES readers think the reference to Schitt creek may be fantasy, we can tell you there really is a tributary of the Murray River called Schitt Creek which was 18 mile south of Remnark. German grape growers in the Barossa Valley used to travel up to the Murray for their summer holidays. The problem was, there was a sweeping bend to the right 5 miles out of Remnark, and there were more German Carts travelling to the holiday destination they had named Schitt Creek, than went to Remnark, so thousands of travellers found themselves up Schitt Creek, and the legend has lived on. Salty......................

A bit laborious, but set an Excel file to print the actual square size you want on A4 then print as many sheets as you want and glue them together using a long stel rule or straight edge for accuracy.

....manipulation on what was usually a fruitless task.

Not many people know that the Rolling Stones got their name from Cappy.

Cappy and Turbo used to shoot Tiger in India each year, personal guests of the Maharajah of Mysore.

Cappy had fought several battles for the British Raj including the battles of Mysore, Eyesore and Seesore, and he was very handy with a knife, particularly into the back of his comrades, as Turbo has found out many times over the years.

He was a good shot in the mornings, but after a gin lunch, with his .470 Holland and Holland crooked in his arm he was a dangerous man both for the tiger and those in the howdar.

From time to time the Maharajah would invite film stars and up and coming pop stars on his hunts. On one occasion the soon-to-be Rolling Stones visted at the same time as the two SAS soldiers Cappy and Turbo.

Turbo had been sitting to the right of the elephant driver when they flushed a tiger. Cappy had the gun but was looking the other way and singing, so the driver and Turbo were luck to escape being clawed and bitten, and back at camp Turbo was not happy with his gin-sodden partner.

Around the camp fire Mick, Ronnie and Keith were telling groupie stories and Turbo was telling the real story of what happened on the Khyber Pass, when Cappy dashed off to let out some of the gin.

"What's with him?' asked Mick "he hasn't said a word all night"

Turbo would not normally put down his best mate, but the teeth of the tiger were still fresh in his mind and he said "Cappy's got the personality of a Rolling Stone"  and the rest is history, and Cappy ..............

Film of the tiger attack with Cappy (out of sight) absent mindedly humming "Men of Harlech" and looking in the opposite direction.

.....had been exposed as a .....Cappy's iNate.....Benefactor who in the 1960s offered Cappy the same chance Elvis Presley was given when he was push on to the stage at the Luisiana Hayride.  Turbo took a young Cappy to Shreveporte, hired the Shreveport Dodgers Cheer Squad (without batons), put them allthough SueAnn's Beauty Shop and turned them loose at the Hayride seated in the front row.

Then he pushed Cappy, with his guitar on to the stage, just like Elvis. Cappy only had to wrigle slightly and he would have a guaranteed response which would send him to Las Vegas making enough money to buy gold plated Cadillacs.

Cappy involuntarily shivered in fear, but that was all the Cheer Squad needed. They kicked high in the air and went live all over the US on the Hayride TV. There was so much outrage that the bewildered Cappy was banned from ever appearing on US Television and given a............

..................................................................as he rolled a cigarette, and time his match precisely with the roll of the ship, said: "Before I tell you the story, how's that flog Cappy trying to buy time by repeating the intro over and over again, then failing to fire!" The sailors all nodded because they'd had a gutfull of six repetitions every time Cappy replied to them. "It's a crappy dark stormy night" began one and their heads snapped around think Cappy had started up again, but after a few minutes it was decided they would throw him over the side, but they hadn't counted on................

............in an institution. Cappy is not one to criticise other people, but you'll note that he only used lower case for the word instructor. Dalton was not excactly a forceful character, but after a 15 minute cup of tea, did bring up the "void" issue with Turbo, who went to he briefcase and pulled out the CASA document, went to 186-345 (i) sub section 6 and there it was "In the circuit area it is the responsibility of the pilot to sea and void"

What could Dalton say? He knew that sometimes CASA made transcrition mistakes, but they were always followed by reams of correspondence explaining why the mistake was unavoidable, how it had been fixed, and how the pilot had no excuse in the meantime. 

Turbo explained to a red-faced Dalton that he was complying with the CASA paragraph because he would be grounded if he didn't.

Dalton's next test was with Cappy, and as Cappy swivelled his head like one of those sideshow clowns with the wide-open mouth, Dalton suggested a turn towards the sea, hoping Cappy would take the hint, but .....................

.......undercarriage with its big low flotation tyres.. He’d seen others flying along with the big wheels touching the surface but his seemed to go down and then.......

........extensions, or ...........

.....way through the hordes of these spiny fish without being................

"........keen to use the concept, which generates extra lift, being based on the reverse Bernouli effect where air flowing over the inderside bulge of the pod generates negative lift, which is reversed into positive lift by tiny air intakes at the front. This does cause some discomfort for the passenger. They usually come out blue and shivering, but we hope to solve that problem shortly with a little gozmo used by the EV industry where a small turbine eats up CO2 and the byproduct is heat which is used to produce steam, which drive the windscreen wipers thus reducing battery consumption by 2%."

Orders began flowing in by the thousand which was interesting because there were only a few hundred RA machines still flying, but ...........

...Part 150 at any time, and pods will become mandatory then because pods are safer."

"How can that be?" asked OT, who was a doubting little beggar at the best of times, but now since WA's Gestapo Government had been reinstalled, there was no holding him back.

"Well" said Dr Turbo, "Well, Podflying in RA stops wives getting in the passenger seat and contradicting the Pilot (NTTIAWWCTH), NTTIAWWFWDI), and this is less safe than the old way. As our switched on expert Foxhunter keeps on telling us, they have deep pockets and are here to help you. "Podflying is the way of the future!" and Dr Turbo was off on his Rotax powered Jetski heading for Smugglers Rock where unbeknown to him...........

.....whether we got crackling with our roast pork.  Turbo had tried to help Ahlo with Eucalyptus Oil, kerosene, vingegar and crushed ginger, and even Phenyl. Phenyl certainly took the smell away, but when he walked down the street a wave of people parted in front of him. Knowing this, and the vaue people put on taking their partners with them when they go flying, Turbine Industries have just released the "Buddypod" , based on the Cessna Caravan, but small enough to fit under any Recreational Aircraft. You just put the partner in the pod, lock the hatch, and you are C-19 compliant for the flight. This idea seemed so go that Turbo hadn't even bothered to do customer research, so ...............

.......imagined himself as the Red Baron, he pulled back the machine gun lever, but in reality it was the fuel tank lever and a few seconds later the engine stopped, and he was one of those people who flew over tiger country because he would never have an engine failure, and he could see tigers below; both the red ones and the white ones, and ...............

........Tomo who towed Turbo's boat to Antarctica by flying an R22 backwards, has been abused by M12, who suggested Tomo was "just a potato grower from Thethil Plainth who couldn't fly a kite, and probably couldn't even start a Rotax, but M12 always left a trail which caught him out and one day ..............

.......Turbo, as it happens registered the name NESER, and has posted before Good Friday so the NES is saved, no thanks to Cappy who went to that extraordinary length to cover up his increasing fear of dots. You'll notice he avoids providing lead-ins wherever he can leaving us in the .............