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I know all the States have different lockdown rules at the moment, but are there any Flying schools that have managed to stay open and are still operating at the moment?

 

RAAus have not said any more than

As such RAAus strongly encourages pilots and flight training operators considering undertaking private, recreational, or flying training activities, to carefully review and to follow, the advice or regulations which have been published in relation to social distancing, travel restrictions, or any prohibited or restricted activity.

 

You should also consider your personal risk factors related to age, health status and other considerations, just as you would by using the IMSAFE check prior to flying. Flying is no different to any other activity and while it has not been explicitly mentioned as being exempt from any restrictions currently in place please keep these restrictions in mind when considering what to do.

 

COVID-19 advice and any associated regulatory requirements are made and published by Commonwealth, and/or State and Territory departments. Importantly, the advice and regulatory requirements may change very quickly and hence should be regularly monitored.

 

Different states and territories are enforcing these rules in different ways and the last thing we want to see is our members potentially receiving penalties a result of going for a fly. In NSW for example, if you travel to a regional location and you don’t live there or have business there (i.e. landing at an airfield just because you wanted to go for a fly) may see you end up with a fine of $11,000 if you’re an individual or $27,500 for your business. This was announced late into the evening of 30 March and we are sure there will be more announcements, both federally and in relation to individual states and territories. This rapid and frequent changing in policy makes it difficult to keep up.

 

Perhaps the safest thing to do is simply not go flying if you’re not sure. Our planes will still be here after this pandemic passes so let’s make sure we’re healthy and haven’t wasted valuable fuel money on pointless fines!

 

Michael Monck, Chair, and Michael Linke, CEO

RAAus

When the State of Emergency was declared in each State certain Powers shifted to the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Health Officer for that State. The RAA statement above is quite reasonable and at arms length from the sometimes daily changes made by the Chief Medical officers. The penalties have come in to deal with the people who just can't help themselves. The State Premiers have announced the decisions very clearly and unambiguously. In the words a Victorian Assistant Commissioner "You would have to have been living under a rock, or an idiot not to understand."

The NSW Commissioner of Police explained their approach this morning.

The Queensland Premier explained this morning why she had to have the Gold Coast beaches and several thouands car parking spaces blocked off.

The mood is rapidly changing against the clever dicks inventing ways to go outside the lock down conditions

No non-commercial flights should be taking place in Australia right now.

They were made by Mark Levine, chair of the New York City Council health committee:

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They generated a lot of controversy, he has walked back the suggestion of using public parks, saying it was just a contingency:

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He now says that if temporary burials are required they will be on Hart Island.

Thank goodness we live in Australia

I can't really see it being a pitch issue. It would normally be set to full fine for takeoff & a pitch system failure should revert to full fine anyway. More likely a fuel or breathing issue. Only the Pilot would know why he didn't choose the available roads.

The pilot sets it to fine pitch, unless there is some sort of automatic return to fine after the engine is shut down.

Trying to take off in coarse pitch would feel like partial power; a bit like taking off in top gear in a car.

Douglas Bader wrote off a Spitfire after he forgot.

The beauty of LPG is the total lack of carbon, leading to a cleaner engine, cleaner oil, and much less cylinder/ring/piston wear. You could take oil changes out to 15,000-20,000 kays on LPG.

Around the late 1980's, I can recall seeing a red 202 Holden motor in an LPG-powered Commodore taxi, stripped down for a valve grind at 400,000kms, and the bore wear was non-existent.

But the higher combustion temperature of LPG is murder on valve seats and valves. You need to have hardened valves seats, and preferably stellite valves, to ensure long valve/valve seat life on LPG - particularly if you're doing highway speeds.

You could in fact sum up the ideal applications for LPG as "intermittant power" applications because they allowed the combustion chamber to cool down. "Constant power demand" like highway cruise into a headwind allowed a straightline temperature increase - a bit the same as rotaries.

The customers didn't know or want to know the difference, just wanted to do the same as they did with petrol engines, so some of them slagged LPG, but in urban operations, fork lift trucks etc. the 400,000 km valve grind was the norm.

In the finish we couldn't achieve the emission standards with LPG and had to drop it.

The rules we have to comply with were made with good intentions and are probably OK for 90% of cases. The problem is that we are run by bureaucrats who have no idea of what is really happening. If we break the rules we may get pulled up by a copper who has common sense and can see that we were doing nothing against the meaning of the rule. He may even do nothing, or then again he may throw the book at us. I just wonder what will happen in the courts, if it gets that far. Magistrates are rather like police.

We are currently being "restricted" as against "run" by senior Health professionals (mostly Professors, so the top of the tree in their field). The beaurocrats are carrying out the policies set by the Chief medical Officer.

A good analogy is a school bus driver in a small town who, for the last ten years has operated his bus to the road regulations, and is told what time to start and where to pick up kids by the local Headmaster, and paid and controlled by the Education Department.

A bushfire is coming through and the local Council decides to activate their Municipal Emergency Management Plan and appoints the senior Sergeant of Police as Municipal Emergency Manager.

He decides to evacuate the school because the fire is getting close, two out of the three school buses have been cut off, so he makes the decision to take three loads of children in the same bus under slow escort away from the fire. (in other words he has sized up all risks and made the decision)

The bus driver is required to obey the orders given by the MEM, and takes the children to safety.

As ar as people breaking the rules in this crisi is concerned the NSW Commissioner explained this morning that a number of people were fined yesterday for disobeying the lock down rules in place, but these were people who had previously been dgiven seven or eight warnings.

He said "You can tell people what they have to do, but some people just don't care.

They do have a variable pitch prop, so that's something to get wrong or go wrong.

That would do it.

........ if we are grounded till say august 2020 ? (a guess) then RAA will have to allow some mechanism where owners can all go and 'run up' these planes once and a while

 

its a bit like all the other closed facilities - they need to be maintained for their eventual reuse ?

RAA is not in control at present due to the powers enacted under the State of Emergency, so that sort of decision would be made by the Chief Medical Officer. Qld Premier talking about it now. Perhaps when an area is clear of the virus it may be quarantined and the people go back to normal. Otherwise life is being protected.

Tens of millions of taxis, buses and private work mini vans in China are on CNG. I would say 1 in 3 Servos are CNG here

There may be places in the world which use CNG; there are countries using 100% ethanol, but this is Australia, and its marketing suicide not to consider the vast distances and expectations of the consumers who have proven they are quite capable of killing a new model car which is just 15% off their expectation standards.

We could also talk about steam power, but the condenser problem will eventually rule it out.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming except the customer's expectations and reluctance to pay.

.........make sure the rats haven't eaten anything and the rain hasn't seeped into the gascolator, and most of all that the bores haven't rusted up.

"Yes, particularly the bores" he said. Turbo looked at him as if he'd just crapped on the carpet. "There's only one person around here who whines about rusty bores and he's asleep. You squirt WD40 in the plug hole, it pumps out slightly brown liquid, you start the engine, and off you go. What could be harder than that?"

"When ..............."

Video not working. Any other links ?

I just clicked on the one in your post and it worked.

Has anyone looked at Professor Murphy's data yet in detail? That's the moving foundation on which Australia is working. According to him it has quite a bit of overseas content.

.....the Mayor of Gumly Gumly, Mr Frantic Bingle, who was never short of a word. Hearing his best friend being insulted as a LICKspittle prompted him go straight onto the web for inspiration, and he hit, in his opinion, paydirt. "Did you know, friends, that potato farmers in Russia predominantly grow long toenails and ............

Today's report on the National Cabinet Meeting, by the Prime Minister and details of the Modelling work which Australia is using explained by the Chief Medical Officer, Australia, Professor Brendan Murphy.

Turbo - The current info on Perth buses is a bit scarce, but we currently run Euro 4, Euro 5 and Euro 6 buses. The CNG % of the buses in the fleet has not changed in the last 10 years, and there's no sign it will change in the next 10 years.

They certainly say they run Euro 5 and 6 diesels, but the million dollar question is whether they've been able to get CNG past Euro 4.

I like their exhaust fumes, they are very clean.

The two key factors are the amount of NOx, PM10 and PM2.5 they produce, these all causing cancers.

The new factor, which will start when and now if Euro VI is gazetted in Australia is CO2 emissions

That Qld health directive is certainly not being observed. As I see it the government wants us all to spend money to keep the economy moving, but the directive does not allow us to go out to buy anything except essentials.

On the one hand we are being told to hide away and on the other hand we are being told to go out and spend, in fact I think pensioners are supposedly getting a lump sum to do just that.

It will be interesting to see if anyone is taken to court and also what transpires. I am all for controls to keep us safe, but as usual they are not thought through and are poorly worded.

We are in partial lockdown where people are allowed out to buy essentials.

Under full lockdown we would be relying on the government to deliver food parcels, medication etc.

At the present time we can at least get out of the house to buy the essentials we want, where we want them, and we can get to doctors and dentists for emergency work.

So we have this twilight zone where the Health people are balancing the risk of letting people out of their homes vs the risk of them spreading or picking up the virus.

The balancing act is being done on the run as the data comes in.

The take up of Stage 3 has been excellent, but as we saw with photos of crowded Queenlsand beaches this wwekend, and complaining from people involved in outdoor sport and hobbies, there is still a rump of people who either don't understand this is an exponential virus with no vaccine, or don't care.

So far, so good, but the cure for them is Stage 4.

As to controls not thought through or poorly worded, the decisions are being made by people with outstanding Health Skills, just about all Professors as far as I can see, at a very fast rate of change. Sometimes, as data comes in it becomes necessary to up the effort within three or four days with a new set of standards. Bills normally take several months to pass through Parliament; compressing that amount of meaning into four days is going to leave some blanks.

Reminds me of the story of when the Japanese bombed the Darwin Hospital for the first time and the Air Raid siren started. Nurses and doctors ran for the bunkers with one nurse running in the opposite direction. A doctor queried her and she said "I'm just going to get my teeth"

"move nurse" he said "It's bombs they're dropping, not sandwiches."

So far in the trade off where maybe 5% can't understand what's wanted of them, and fast action can prevent that exponential spread, Australia is looking very good.

It's not true that CNG is a failure in vehicles. Currently, nearly a third of the Perth bus fleet (515 buses) of approximately 1600 buses in total, is running on CNG - successfully - and has been, for around 16 years.

TransPerth had a few gas buses catch fire, largely due to faulty installation of CNG arrangements, but they've got a handle on it, and the CNG fires have ceased.

You cannot say CNG is a failure when use of CNG in ground transportation has doubled in the last 5 years, globally.

 

http://legacy.atcogas.com.au/Natural-Gas/Benefits-of-Gas-for-Vehicles

 

https://www.energynetworks.com.au/resources/fact-sheets/compressed-natural-gas-for-vehicles-clean-abundant-australian/

Sorry, I hadn't caught up with TransPerth's buses, but a failure in the transport industy is usually less than 5% market share.

I was commenting in the context of Flying Binghi's theme of a very cheap fuel suitable for aircraft.

Your first (ATCO) link report is in 2012 and talks about 15 million CNG world wide in 2011.

They projected CNG vehicles would grow to 65 million by 2020

They were saying the CBG buses met Euro IV emission level.

The second link gave a total NGV worldwide of 16.7 million, so may have been written about the same time.

that's about when people started to bail out of the NGV industry here in Australia.

I tried to find on the PTA site what the CNG percentage was in the fleet today, and if they were able to get up to Euro V, but couldn't get any real information.

In 2005/6 the PTA were working with Mercedes Benz on Hydrogen Fuel Cell buses, but the cost was around 3x a diesel bus, and no one has been able to solve that yet.

People in authority need to be held accountable for that shipload of virus cases. 600 of the 2700 walked off the ship with the virus and without even a temperature check. Ruby Princess/ Diamond Princess. You’d think that’d have raised alarm bells. Complacent, clueless or dismissive decision makers need to be held accountable.

The ship is docked, there is a Criminal Investigation taking place, and a Class Action is being formed.

Victoria opening schools next week but you cannot go fishing or play golf or FLYING by yourself. Have we gone insane?

Lock downs ending soon.

Wondering how they are going to whined it back after the retoric.

Get it right; if your child can stay home he/she MUST stay home.

What Daniel Andrews said is that we have a million students in Victoria and if we allow them to move all over the place they will be spreading the virus. We are now in the Community Transmission phase.

What the schools will be open for are only the children of Emergency workers such as nurses, doctors, police, and those whose children can't stay home to be schooled online.

................Loxie had to go. The problem was, who was going to tell him. Anyone can see by the above picture of him with that surly mouth under the beard/breakfast, that it wouldn't end well. And Loxie was a fairy firey, and they are always fighting. Maybe we should just put a sticker on his car "Fierys need Fumigating" said Hi Ho tentatively, "although ......"

Looks like the whole running out of ventilators thing is a bust.

There are only about 10 Aus patients currently on ventilators. Lucky we have over 4000 ICU bed's

If you require a ventilator your chance of survival is about 20% so patients don't spend much time on them anyway.

Remind me again what the lock down was for?

The covid-19 scare for the mathematical illiterate.

We have just about finished the phase where infected people were coming in from overseas, and are in week 2 of Community transmissions where explosions tend to happen. The peak is expected April, May, but we've bought valuable time on a lot of fronts, so I suspect the best case sceanrio has substantially improved.

..........a Capulet sword used in the battle of Capul (now Kabul). The Pink Lady was suspicious about the Capulet man who looked familiar. He was wearing makeup and she realised it was Loxie from the BoB. She.....

Yes Turbo , we get that, but you were trying to tell us that the previous document was stage 2, and that stage 3 (on Monday) came in after the article that was published on Thursday.

The ABC Article is about stage 3 home confinement. When you become the QLD health minister, I might start listening.

 

What I can tell you for fact is that the original issue of the Home confinement directive had fewer exceptions (5), it was then updated to show more (14), and then it was updated with some very minor corrections that I haven't been able to pick, so as often occurs with govt documents, it's likely they were spelling/grammar corrections. They have also changed the site layout, which is bloody annoying, as previously it had a link to the previous directives and you could easily see what had changed, which is what I have been doing.

I don't take my directives from flying forum members.

Directives are issued by the Chief Medical Officer or Chief Health Officer, not by the Minister, and absolutely not by an interview between a Staffer and an ABC reporter, so I can see where you’re coming from.

I will assume 1 cubic metre of natural gas at 1 atmosphere pressure is roughly equal to 1 litre of jet a1.

So they got enough to refuel 4 747's except the tanks required won't and never will fit in the the 747 or any[ATTACH type=full" alt="gettyimages-85815450-612x612.jpg]52040[/ATTACH] aircraft

You’re right on the money there. You can pretty much decide whether a fuel is viable by looking at its law per cubic metre performance for vehicles or aircraft. In this case a lot more cubic metres has to be burned for about 15% less power than ICE. The golden era so far for this gas was the late 1980s. The transport industry solved the volume problem by compressing it to 2000 psi and making huge tanks from fibreglass rovings and resin. In that era for some reason people didn’t like calling gases by their real name in the transport industry and it was called CNG, Compressed Natiral Gas. The tanks would be too big and heavy for aircraft. Benders Buslines in Geelong had 105 buses on CNG. All the truck trials failed and Benders reverted to diesel.Within 10 years it was all over. Currently works in gas-fires power stations.

There is a university of Arizona prof who says that we will all be extinct in ten years. Due to methane release from tundra.

He must be the son of the Academic who gave a speech around 2000 saying the ice over the Tundra was melting at an exponential rate as the exposed areas of the Tundra evaporated and released greenhouse gases and this would lead to runaway temperature of the land and sea, drowing hundreds of milions of people unless we reversed global warming by, and I think it was, 2005.