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........we can do to speed up production of vegan hamburgers with.........

......he had outsmarted the Channel 9 journalist. He had thought of throwing in a couple of “Cessna” mentions, but thought he’d gotten clean away with it until.....

....had been out collecting hundreds of toilet rolls, and had missed the horrific story.

Interviewed by Channel 9 with his semi trailer half full of toilet rolls, and in response to the simple question: “Why are you buying so many toilet rolls?” The Wiley Onetrack was lost for......

I leave you with a fine quote suitable for this occasion: Laws are made for the guidance of wise men and blind obedience by fools!

Looks like he got it right.

In Victoria, IBAC has resumed questioning people associated with developers and Councillors of the City of Casey.

The former Mayor has not returned from Egypt, claiming serious illness.

In the past few days the flame has reached up with allegations touching two government Ministers and the Premier.

In today's Age story we get to see allegations relating to the CEO, his relationship to the developer, and his actions in sacking staff.

This shows why, if you want to save your airfield, you have to be makning contacts not only with State Planning staff and Ministers, and not only Councillors, but Council staff, so that in addition to strongly representing your interests in the formal process, you can develop a successful strategy for what is going on behind the scenes.

Today's link:

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/casey-council-chief-sacked-two-to-three-staff-that-woodman-did-not-like-20200304-p546v4.html

I wonder if it was the investigation into the crash below, that found the corrosion problem? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the report, but it may have been a contributing factor.

 

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2017/aair/ao-2017-102/

I haven't looked it up, but I think there were several. Nearly all were due to pilots grossly over-flying in rough weather, which would exacerbate any deterioration of strength due to corrosion, but also exceed the loads the engineers expected for their original Application Design.

The design comes from the 1950s, so nearly 70 years old, first production was 1957, 63 years ago, Cessna shut down production 34 years ago and replaced it with the C206 which has wing struts and is built like a truck.....and is still in production, so you can go out and buy a new one if you want all-weather flying.

The C210 always was a Ferrari, popular for taking six people somewhere fast from good airfield to good airfield in good weather, at a low cost per Nm when you divide it by the six people, so often used for club safaris such as Melbourne-Mildura-Coober Pedy - Uluru/Alice, Darwin - Thursday Island Weipa - and whichever Whitsunday strips you could fit it on the way home.

It's in NT News and Adelaide Now.

Google: Pilot's brush with death as plane crashes after parachute

...if you have a News Limited subscription, otherwise it's paywalled.

....was illegal of course because Planey didn't have a permit for an airshow. "I got some good video of him buzzing the crowd, but we'll keep that to ourselves just in case he goes troppo at some time in the .......

182RG

My seat belt story related to the C210, sorry about that. Better not hang out of a 182 in case the belt is further away.

182RG

DAS for CASA (Not many people know that, so NES readers, don't breath a word.

Bugger, Turbo always shops at the Pilot Shop and had been watching that new dual Garmin, waiting for Een to drop the price.

The Pilot Shop.........where Biggles used to shop.

Funny how skills are lost over time. Failing to lock down was a regular fault and the fix was easy. Engage Autopilot, climb over into the rear seats, open the door, grab the shoulder harness, lean out, loop the belt around the leg and pull it forward until it locked.

Dont dream about the engines, give hours operating for your comments to be valid please

You can get details over a lot of years, so a big sample from this link: Accident and defect summaries - RAAus

Click Filter and enter the name you want to search on.

You can see what happened in flight and what was found after landing.

People often complain there's not enough detail here, but you can only get what the owner enters.

Over the years I've found the reports good for statistics.

Of course, this method of navigation by GPS also ended the perennial reports of 'Airspace Infringement' didn't it ? ?

......and a steady flow of fuel exhaustions as people try to unlose themselves.

We have had a load of waffle about Jab engines and the thread drift is going on all the time. Here is your chance to say what you "know" about Jab engines.

I have a 2200 Jab in a Corby Starlet, it runs well although I got poor mogas and busted a piston with detonation. Avgas is the go for me. I would like to try a different carburettor from the Bing, although the Bing runs fairly well.

Don't bother talking about the engine if you don't run one or regularly fly one.

There is a very significant difference in specification between the new Gen 4 engines and the previous engines, and just lumping them all together is likely to create total confusion.

What is the benchmark Turbs?. and what do you do with the OTHER engines that fall short of it? I think you see my contribution (s) as rubbish without reading it/ them, properly. Nev

I posted the FAA policy which CASA used on the data they obtained between 2012 and 2014.

You can calculate the benchmark which triggers the action they took from that, (I didn't) the engines they assessed were five times the trigger point.

.......colour coded Caravans full of camping gear. The Tower guys were furious, but you can only chase a Caravan so for in a Land Cruiser, and the two wags had performed a star shell burst as they left. What really upset the Tower guys were the registration letters of the two aircaft, innocent while each aircraft was on its own, but when they flew side by side, spelled.........

The second one was posted as being from Jindabyne, so that could be this LSA55, Welby, reported as "south of Sydney" by the OP.

There were two forced landings recently, Welby near Mittagong due fuel exhaustion and one near Jindabyne? not yet listed on RAA with instructor and student.

The second one was posted as being from Jindabyne, so that could be this one, Welby, reported as "south of Sydney" by the OP.

......Keyboard Pilot, one of those rare aces who can land an aircraft like a feather on the keys every time, make the first taxyway every time, never forget flaps up, give the correct SMC radio call, not hit the fuel truck, and park perfectly wing tip to wing tip the regulation 100 mm apart.

"How do you do it?" old Isaac once asked.

"It's nothing" said Turbo "just airmanship"

"What's that?" asked the Captain, who'd been taught to fly in Wagga Wagga where....

I'd give ATSB a couple more weeks.

..........the tail draggers which come in like a Kangaroo Dog having a CXAP, or ......

CASA did CHOOSE make a comparison that was based on flawed analysis and dubious figures and a lot of innocent people suffered big losses.

That was not true, even though it has been repeated hundreds of times. The figures given out by Peter Gibson, the CASA public relations person, who quoted a report given to him by someone from RAA on Nov 3, 2014 and included things like flat tyres, were not needed by CASA, who had sent their own people in a couple of years before.

The CASA assessment was against FAA Policy PS-ANE100-1999-0006.

The records data used in the assessment was from January 2012 to July 2014, and the rate exceeded the benchmark.

I posted the details last week.

Anyone could have contacted CASA and found out for themselves.

ALL I'm trying to do is put Jabiru's ALLEGED BAD record in perspective, I've said all along there are PLENTY of much worse engines out there from the reliability aspect and I'm quoting the respected fully certified ones as examples. . I want to see the Jabiru be allowed to continue in this country. not be constantly bagged by those who don't have one or any personal experience with them or just read the headlines that would condemn them If you didn't get the FULL picture. I'm also trying to convey the reality that ALL engines can fail regardless of whose name is on the side of them. Nev

The GEN 4 engine has no bad record which needs to be put in any perspective!

Why are you floating this nonsense?