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The MAAA is the peak body, and there have been regulations for many years, but I was stunned recently when a Council Officer approved an Unmanned Aircraft Facility where you could find scale models up to this size authorised to fly to 1000 feet in the Moorabbin D314 which is a danger zone because arriving and departing aircraft funnel through it, and it forms part of the Moorabbin Training Area.

Given the hoops we have to jump through that seems obscene

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And Turbs, it is very unfair to blame ELAAA for the fact that CASA is stonewalling them. My guess is that they need to go political, but alas there are too few votes in it for most pollies.

How are CASA stonewalling them?

....suitable.

Turbo had phoned the number in #13,463 and it was answered by the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. "Why are you phoning me Turbo?" she asked, and Turbo cringed.

He didn't want to give away his friend.

He didn't want her thinking he was a nuisance.

His decision was clear "The Rat just posted your private number in a notoriuous website; I think he's trying to set you up" said Turbo.

"Leave it to me" said the Minister and he knew what was going to happen when her troops got out and started applying pressure points and choke holds on Cappy, who, it must be said was quite familiar with extreme wrestling which happened to him on every second date but this time...........

....Response, where no people were required as security for quarantine.

"Anyone reporting sick the local council just came along with a road crew and mobile welder, and welded up their doors" said Turbo "the kicked it in two weeks".

Ratso, who had been whacked by the Black Rod as he was escorted into Parliament was feeling rather nervous. Not many people knew that the Upper House had more powers than the Supreme Court, and here he was, now kneeling and bleeding before a Justice Committee, where the Chairperson was an ex ACTU brawler, the second member was from the Greens, and the third was with family first and a proponent on drug injecting facities, and she was the first to bore her eyes into his pitiful carcass and ask ......................."

Given the behaviour of the ATSB in investigating accidents as evidenced by my knowledge of one fatal helicopter tragedy, given to me by surviving family members, there is little point in leaving evidence behind. They will make it up to suit themselves anyway.

 

As for AsA, if it would make their job easier, tell them. Best bet for rescue is a PLB, spot tracker a sat phone and a worried relative.

 

As for CASA, I. don’t think they can be trusted NOT to use any data you supply to crucify you - based on the evidence of their latest fishing expedition regarding careflight pilots.

 

To my way of thinking - based upon being an observer of a criminal investigation involving someone I know recently, any data you provide, even the most innocuous things, can and will be used against you. Provide nothing except what is required by law.

Have a look at the regulations applying to the flights you might do. I don't think you'll ne supplying information to the government.

Same for what Bruce does.

These days you have a choice as I mentioned in #3

Good subject, it seems, from comments over the years that many people don't bother to do any flight plan at all.

Some people don't care if they're not found; others have never been lost or had a forced landing so they use that logic to ignore even the basics which could save their life.

Believe it or not there are some pilots out in the country who only ever fly by roads; they don't want to be restricted by having to work things out.

If you fly by roads there's a good chance you'll be found if you're forced down, but one of the basics of flying is the freedom to go wherever you want to go, so not only is it likely that there won't be nearby roads, but it's more probable that you'll finish up down the back of a country property, because they all face the roads.

The next issue is that you may not be able to make a smooth landing, and you may finish up with serious injuries requiring urgent hospital treatment; if you can't be found you can't be treated.

There are plenty of ATSB reports which show that (a) the person didn't know how to activate his ELB, (b) the battery was flat © he couldn't reach it, and plenty of examples where someone died because he wasn't found in time.

VH MDX is the classic example of no one knowing where to look, and the aircraft never being found, despite the fact that it was reputed to be carrying $600,000 in bookies' takings on a relatively short eturn over the mountains.

Full Reporting was exceptionally good for keeping your Navigation and check systems right up to date, becaise every mistake you made got you into hot water, but within 15 minutes of you missing a checkpoint, emergency services were activated and on the way to your last reported point to search down your designated track. That was dumped because of cost, and to move full responsibility to the pilot.

SARTIME is a big psychological burden because it traps you if, tired, you leave the airport without cancelling it.

Today, you can leave advice anywhere you want with any information you want and you can include likely alternatives - doesn't seem that hard to do.

"..........BIRD TRAILER ACTIVATED STOP BE CAREFUL STOP HE MIGHT GET YOUR CAVCGHSLKDHFO]EFIK'Q STOP LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEIN GO ON YOUR..............................."

I read the full history on this topic. There are plenty of robust opinions. Both sides of the story and argument for and against have been presented ....

This is the danger of going on websites and sniffing the breeze instead of learning to fly with an isntructor providing all the details.

People don't know what they don't know.

My recommendation is to take a look at the ATSB and NTSB reports on Night VFR accidents and read them for a week or so, or you could just look at the early morning departures out of Roma in Queensland.

IFR is very safe because of the equipment, flight plans, training and recency. Night VFR is not IFR

This being a recreational flying site there may not be much history, but you never know.

I've used the taxiway from the runup bays to 22.

A lot of drainage went into the north (Centre Dandenong Rd) end.

I haven't found much detailed information from MAC in the past.

Maybe the museum has some details but they are more focused on aircraft.

City of Kingston Historical section may also have some photos you can put timelines to; Aerial photos are regularly updated for planning purposes and accidentally include the airport.

After grounding myself over 2 years ago for medical reasons, and only having flown 2.5 hours in the last half of 2018 and 1.6 hours last year accompanied by an instructor and having sold my plane.

With no recurrence of my medical condition for over 18 months, and the approval of my Doctor, I decided that it was time to try again.

In the last 4 weeks I have flown 5.8 hours in 2 different aircraft and am feeling confident in both my health and my flying.

It is wonderful to get back up there a do what I love doing.

 

I do not regret grounding myself or selling my plane, as both were done for the right reasons, but I did not realise how much I missed flying.

But I am back now and looking forward to the next chapter of my flying journey.

Great result!

Oi! Turbo...I want the truth.

Well I'm not going to bother getting it, and you've had years to get your operation going, and I doubt it will make much difference for a remote company's CEO to move on. There are bigger issues to be concerned about.

This is the second thread on this; if you want to know why not phone RAA?

....bounds of his instructor's wishes. (everyone knows that you can land a C152 on a typical house roof with full flaps, and Turbo had made a mistake of explaining this at a Club BBQ. One of the new students, an Irish Immigrant, had tried it on second solo and made a perfect landing on a triple fronted brick veneer in Parkdale)

Turbo had heard the maggie story, and knew that some FoIs trained them to talk and identify misdemeanors.

Not many people know that Turbo sponsored a bird trailer, Elsworth from Madagascar to train cockatoos to neutralise this situation by intimidating the magpies, and it worked very well until .....

Elsworth training a cockatoo in anti FoI tactics:

.....a mapie's nest right where he had planned to pull out of his dive. Now, good readers, you might be wondering why you would put a Cessna 152 into a steep dive to clear some gum trees. Perhaps someone had planted them upside down? These were Mountain Ash, some 300 feet high, the airstrip had been built by an old AUF pilot and he had never thought to clear them from the splay; in fact he didn't know what a splay was, other than what you had the vet do to female sheep dogs. By a process of elimination, something common to RA pilots, it had been found that if you could squeeze between the fourth and fifth branches, which were some distance apart, you could land short enough to stop before the end of the strip. This year however, a pair of magpies had decided to nest on the fourth branch, but Turbo lifted the port wing ever so gently and the wheel slid over the top of the nest, and he landed uneventfully as usual. The magpies however ...........................

Not Turbo however; he had become perspicacious at the age of 25. At the time he was flying a Cessna 152 owned by a crop spraying company which.....

..........no replacement parts available and Cappy fainted.

The NES crew were at an off road course deep in the forest and the trainer was explaining how the Ford Rangers lined up didn't need to be reproduced because they were already ................

.....learn more because I thought he is very reluctant to go beyond chatting and he should be prepared like ze boyscout", and she winked knowingly before .....................

This burst of schoolboy mix of French and bulldust reminded Turbo of a caravan trip where Turbo stayed at the Hill End Caravan Park for several days to do some prospecting.

There was an eccentric Frenchman living in a tent in the park who had a pet hen which was tied to a tree. Each morning he'd take it for a walk, and give it loving cuddles.

One morning we woke up to hear squawks and got out to the sight of the chook, now headless bouncing around after having its head chopped off. Thinking the Park was under attack we rushed over to the Frenchman and founding axe in hand. It was Bastille day and he'd bought the hen for dinner.

That reminded............

......zero, and he thought to himself: "Just my luck; when I want to head south I finish up with a disrespecting compass like Annastacia Palaszczuk" (who represented all Queenslanders who didn't know Mexico from Brisbane.)

And by a 50% chance he crawled out the end of the tunnel in South Korea to find ..........

NOTE TO NES READERS - To give you an example of Cappy's state of mind, yesterday was RUOK day so Turbo dropped in with a bottle of Glenfiddich. Cappy was sitting on his front veranda next to his shagged dog Spot, with a camera watching for any Victorian cars which might be driving past. Turbo had taken the plates off the Corvette, a smart move given that six photos of the car were later found on the card handed in to Wagga Wagga police.

Turbo leaned over caringly and asked "R U O K" and was greeted by XXXX OFF! you XXXXXXX XXXX, and then lapsed into his native tongue, French.

............hadn't expected. Jesus said that there was no hell like a woman scorned, but Kimmy hadn't been invented yet.

She ordered the Palace Howitzers to lay down a barrage centred on the end of the titanuium rope which was a thousand cubits long.

Purely by accident the rope had brought Bull to earth precisely................................

.......for about a second when the Titanium rope attached a ring in Kimmy Star's driveway snapped him to a stop.

Bull had never been in the trouble that was about to drop on him........................

........need to be reprogrammed to release further away from our Great and Powerful friend, China.

Bull was wiring furiously while trying not to be noticed, but Kim noticed (as they always do), and quietly told him he was for the firing squad.

This sent Bull into a spin (avref); his temperature rose sharply (avref warning ref), and he said "..............................

.........unfortunate position of being the only person in the world who could stop the impending doom.

"Kimmy, he said "if you nuke them you get us!"

"I hadn't thought about that" said his blonde companion, "we'll have to ..............................

.......the Star family were not happy.

"The US now has more four star generals than troops" said Ben Star

"Do we need to interfere again" asked Zac Star "We try not to interfere more than once every five hundred years, and I know Ebenezer Star introduced the Black Plague when Europe started to screw up, but do we have to move now?

"Di it!" said Skye Star, "stop XXXXXXX around and nuke the XXXXXXX" she continued.

Even though the world had no idea they were on the brink of extinction, at the whim of spoilt brats, they still criticised the great Don Trump, and ignored Hilary's puppet who'd agreed st step down the day after Inauguration Day, and Vlad's Tea was still being critised, but ..............

Hence, like I said, no helmet modifications or warts permitted. About as far as I would go is some cable ties stopping say a head band falling down.

Even that creates a potential cracking point; the helmet would disqualify you in racing.