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This evolving story makes for fascinating reading

 

Mr Neel's flight school and BHI  are being investigated by AQSA, and have had  RTO status revoked (which qualifies them for  receipt of VET student loans).

 

Perhaps there are some safety issues and aviation standards breaches that impact on its operation as a flight school, but is  does it strike anybody else that Neel seems only interested  in operating a school that receives VET loans? 

 

An alternative business model would be just to run a regular flight school like others where student pilots pay as they go from their own pockets.  Perhaps SORE could  offer PPL  and RAA certificate courses to mature pilots? But as soon as the VET  government dollars seem to be drying up, the proprietor is flogging off his fleet and shutting up shop.  Is it cheeky to suggest be there's not enough money in 'honest' flight instruction?

 

Alan

 

No, but doesn’t mean. VET structure isn’t possible also. It doesn’t have to make you the richest person in the universe.

.......the Overflow, and the message.....

*cough* Its an MRH-90 Taipan

 

LOL, a "Cessna" report from within!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

 

You don't hear from the ones that didn't make it.

 

Have you read "We, the Navigators?"

.......Level 12 Autonomous control which can identify the Nationality or sobriety status of a driver, or even whether a millenial is on their phone, and fly their aircraft for them, usually out of his way, and if he's in a humorous mood, into a paddock full of cow pats, where....

Yea, but out all the trips they did I bet most were lost at sea. These days we seem to create 'touchy-feely-stories' that defy the odds. Some are so ridiculous, it's laughable.

 

Others are well documented though.

In 1991 the satellite constellation was not complete. There were outages when you couldn't get a fix. The 1991 Gulf War had plenty of times when GPS wasn't available when the coalition forces were trying to locate for later reference, Iraqi graves in the featureless desert.

 

So tell me guys.  Suppose I'm going to fly my BD-4 to New Zealand via Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. It is well with the capability of the aircraft. How do I find the islands? Dead reckoning or multiple GPS's?

 

Well since we're in the pretend area, after reading "We the Navigators" and trying it out. I'm pretty confident about flying direct to New Zealand by the stars only. The Pacific Islanders used to travel longer distances than that and not only hit a minute island, but arrive at the entrance to the reef.

BTW you keft out the Navigation Beacons I would probably use as a backup.

That is true of nearly all the "reports". Not written in aviation language and never any follow up in the case of engine failures or service difficulties.  If i struggle to learn anything from reading them someone new to the game has no chance. One of the reasons i am not a fan of RAA. 

 

The ATSB reports are very good because they provide sufficient information to understand how and why an accident has occurred. Although they rarely cover numbered aircraft the learning is very valid because light GA and recreational aircraft crash for all the same reasons.  

 

I think many of them could be vastly improved if, when RAA received the report, someone with good aviation knowledge, asked a few questions, tidied up the terminology, and write a littel summary to make the lesson obvious. For example, at one stage I must have seen about 20 noseovers on landing resulting in broken nose legs to rolling along on the nose wheel, downwind wheel, then including the wingtip, with some completing the flop onto the orcraft's back. It was a rich opportunity to take them all as a group and give the logical reason how this occurs, and the actions needed to avoid it.

It appears the wankers who create the news articles added the 'old' news, creating a false belief. Such unprofessional behavior.

 

We need to be able to edit Thread  headings to tidy up problems like this, correct incorrect models, correct spelling errors.

There we go.

Personally I’d give preference to a Naips report.

.........aim, which with the zero choke would have had the same effect aimed 20 degrees out in any direction, had no effect on the drone which was climbing like a homseick Angel.

Turbo has to step up with his full choke barrels (which required an expert shot but had three times the range), and Swan Gauge cartridges, gave it both barrels and blew the drone to bits. The encabulator started to fall and........

Last time was going in to Caloundra from the south. About 10 miles out low enough to just make a shadow on the ground 

 

I don't think he would have his head down doing 1 in 60 calcs at that point, although you never know.

Agreed, use maps as well. LSAT has no place in VFR really, if it's non VFR then no fly.

 

LSAT is for IMC or NVFR, however.......

If you get caught out by weather, knowing the LSAT for your route envelope gives you immediate knowledge of what you can drop down to, and breathing space, and you have your course marked on a WAC chart, you can immediately see which way you can turn without being trapped by high ground, and you can plan a way out by immediately finding the low ground, and you can avoid being trapped up a narrow valley and so on.

Just those things would have saved several lives in the past few years.

g'day guys, thanks for the responses..

 

page 66

 

"the piece of debris was too light to be stainless steel and its workmanship was very advanced.  It looked like part of the leading edge of a sharply swept-back wing and appeared to be made of titanium.  I had been able to obtain a fragment in Wakkanai; and a little later in Tokyo I had it analyzed.  The metal was an alloy, 89 percent titanium.  This triangular piece of high-tech aviation debris could, indeed, been the forward point of a wing from an SR-71"

 

the complete breakdown of materials are as follows:  titanium 88.96%, aluminium 5.70%, molybdenum 4.12%, silicon 0.73%, tin 0.39%, vanadium 0.11%.  I agree that with "normal" aircraft any loss would be common knowledge, but the SR-71 "type" of aircraft had 3 variants totalling 50 aircraft - Thruster88 is spot on about the 32 SR-71 variants.  As far as accidents/losses are concerned, there were a LOT in the early years, starting in 1967.  The last loss is listed on the SR-71 website is listed as occurring in 1989, so they were definitely still flying in 1983 when the air battle occurred.  One thing we must always keep in mind is that we really have no idea what the U.S. was flying at the time, or where they ended up.

 

also, page 138

 

"if, however, it did not come from an SR-71, it came from a similar high performance U.S. military or intelligence aircraft"

 

at the moment the U.S. losses as detailed in the book are (perhaps): 1 or 2 RC-135, 1 or 2 F-111, and 1 "who knows" but obviously a very high tech aircraft....

 

watch this space !

 

BP

 

CIA were flying the original Oxcart version, so not SR71 if they were involved.

No one to my Knowledge has EVER looked  seriously at the piston crown temps achieved in a Jabiru motor which is after all quipped with Max oversize piston (so you can't rebore it) out of a Holden. The head temps we agonise over but cant measure the piston crown temps. so conveniently don't think about it (and it will go away), but we do know the rings often carbon a lot in the grooves and the bores go blue near the exhaust valves.  and the engines often have a lot of blow by.  Nev

 

I’ve mentioned combustion chamber temperature several times but been ignored each time in favour of people waffling on about EGT. Like trying to put a fire out by blowing through the hose.

I learnt to fly in a Warrior. For navs it was 30 minutes on one tank, then switch and 60 minutes each tank from then on. I always thought that was how it would be done universally?

 

Fuel management needs to be done on every aircraft, but it's not uinversally the same because of the thousands of different systems each requiring their own procedure. The POH is a start, but best to study the aircraft you will be flying rather than adopt a universal rule of thumb. You can be caught out applying principles for a full draining system when flying an aircraft that exhausts fuel when flying and extended turn and so on.

..........n ironic smile and gave HiHo a tissue. "No", she said, It's the name of a romantic song. Haven't you heard of 'Allegory Moon'?"

But Hi Ho, a redneck from the hills of South East Gipsland only knew hillbilly Bluegrass and was quickly rejected by Mavis.

he would have to return to Greta, who by now had turned her attention to.............

HiHo at the height of his Bluegrass career

.”........ Climate change for me.” Hi Ho was still looking at the grinning and missed the first two words but went weak at the knees when he heard the last two. He was in a dream......

.......Turbo turned to OneTrack and said “She’s all yours”, and stepped smartly back, but......

........shutting her up.......but she moved even closer. He could see the pieces of rotten meat between her teeth; she never wasted water to clean them, or wash. Cappy looked pleadingly across to Turbo for help, Turbo gave him a wave, and.....

giving the Captain the eye. Cappy drew back. Greta moved forward.....

..... for water?"

 

"Don't be a dick" responded HoHo who is well known as a rule bender (about which Planey made a note in his diaria) "Nobody actually does that any more before a flight, as it ..........."

 

.....might not have enough to avoid making that new Mayday call thingy, and....................

Yes, I think Indians are the biggest immigrant group at present.

He seems to have lasted though. Last time I saw him he had a show at a place south of Alice Springs.