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………… "Tool??" volunteered bull, trying to be helpful.

 

"No, no, No No No" said the Cappy, ever defensive of his best (and only) mate "He is actually a bit of a ………...

 

"....Hero!" said Hiho whose BO was high. "We.......

Wonder if the propeller is close by or not.

 

Sounds as if the pilot will be well enough to tell the investigators, but it doesn't seem, from what has been published, that it will be very far from the touch down point.

....True Blue Mate, someone you'd want next to you if there was another Gallipoli, someone who'd shoulder the load of making a decision about who was going to buy the toilet paper, someone who wasn't afraid to read a ten page report before committing the members to a doubling of  annual fees, someone who'd second the tough motions,

someone who'd bring in 10% new members every year......................a genuine Australian, and there are very few.........

Is the general opinion that there is a conflict of interest or not?

.........Turbo's mix.

"I often use it at difficult Association Meetings" he said "In the Meeting Notices I sent out I'd have the start time showing as 7:30 pm for the dodgy ones with an agenda, and 8 p.m. for the honest ones. At the 7:30 start the Scintex would be purring under the desk, this time filled with Phenyl and the dodgy ones would all be gone by 7:45. Made making decisions much easier, especia,lly.........

.....stop the XXXXXXX.

Turbo uses a Scintex fumigator filled with a mixture of liquid cow dung and Lysol. Place it over the shoulder pointing backwards and run. It lays a stream which has the March flies fighting each other for a drink, and they'll leave you alone until they've eaten the whole trail and had a good sleep,, but then they remember who was doing the running and.....

No, what I mean, is that City folk very rarely require bushfire fighters. Because they don't live in the bush.

 

Cities rarely lose multiple structures to a single fire, which is a regular outcome of bushfires due to the higher risk posed by locating the buildings too close to very large highly flammable bushland.

 

This might come as a surprise to the people of Hobart and Canberra as well as many other towns, some of which have been totally wiped out back in our history.

There is documentary film of the risk factors of a fire,  pushed by a strong wind entering a city from surrounding grassland and destroying houses for several blocks multiplied by the fire front. Once it hits the houses the first igniting houses produce the radiant heat to take out the next and create a domino effect.

In this 'user pays'world, why should tree change people avoid proper risk management, and expect others to risk their lives to protect their Greened up tree enclosed (often quite delightful) lifestyle homes?

 

They do in Victoria; does Tasmania have the equivalent Planning Zones?

.......the world's most venomous sand flies.

If they get a good bite, they'll turn your blood to water and you'll bleed out on the sand and......

........tended to wear down after a few of the Captain's famous skids, leaving the pilot's delicate parts exposed to.....

A lot of Victorian people might get a big surprise then.

Bushfire Zones were introduced following the Black Saturday fires and extend well into towns and cities where there is a bush or grass fire risk.

They don't effect existing dwellings so much, but any new extension or any new dwelling has a much more fore resistant specification.

In Victoria, enter your address in the top field of this panel and click for a property report. The report will specify whether you are in a bushfire zone.

If you are go to DELP Planning Schemes, select your Council Planning Scheme and look for Bushfire Overlay, and you will get to specifications.

https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/mapsharevic/

Ian wants to know why membership here is dwindling. The answer is in this post. Five grumpy RAA members venting. Probably ten by tomorrow, out of ten thousand or whatever. Like me, the majority just get turned off by the constant unreasonable sniping. If there is a need for an anti- RAA web site, then let it be somewhere else. If it is this site, then Ian has his answer, and most of us are gone. With the rest of the spineless yes men.

 

There is ample space for comments in the survey. I completed it without trouble. If you have extra advice for RAA, send them an email!

 

Disclaimer, I have no dog in this fight, other than a desire for RAA to continue to service my needs and not be diminished by unreasonable attacks.

 

Yep, another "I just want to fly" person trying to stifle debate; the "I'm alright Jack" attitude turns people off a lot faster.

.......he knew he had to slow it down slowly so he got Wu Fat to hang his arms and legs out the sides and it worked beautifully with....

........ordered and arrest warrant for Turbo and Wu Fat. They were coming in to land when Turbo saw the long line of Great Walls, lights flashing, beside the runway.

"friends of yours?"

"BUDDHA" yelled Wu Fat, someone must have watching us.!!!"

The Great Walls were now positioned across the runway, so Turbo went ahead and dropped down for a conventional landing, but he had read about a pilot on WreckFlying who did a big zoom with every take off, so just as the Drifter looked as if it would touch the bumper of a Great Wall he gave it full throttle and pulled the stick back.

The Drifter reared into the air and they were gone. "Now we have to ........"

........The Krugerrand exchange rate these days is so bad you could hardly buy a Big Mac, and most people thought they were old useless coins, but the stopover in PNG, which Turbo and WF had agreed to,  gave them enough times to take a few bags up and bury them on the Kokoda Trail. Not many people knew that Krugerrand were stamped in pure gold, and nor did the Chinese Minister for Finance until........

......shipping the bag money to honorable government, which......

Not doing a great job 106 fires with 53 out of control after weeks of fighting these fires. Need 3-4 times more volunteers if they want to get on top of the fires

 

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The 737 just does selective jobs where other methods aren't as fast or practical.

Victoria often has numbers like this in summer; the system shows all fires logged; with the CFA that includes house fires in outer Melbourne.

The NSW Assistant Fire commissioner has just said they are hoping to take advantage of todays's NSW to know most of those down.

Od course the weather is unpredictable and bad things can happen, but a lot of today's action would be backburning fire brakes then burning back up towards the fires where hundreds of kilometres can be knocked down without the fire trucks having to hit every metre of fireline.

Don’t know, but I could get lost on the way down.

Just an engine failure from 16 000 feet should have been exactly the opposite. Absurdly easy to make the runway....

 

How would you do it?

For goodness sake, this is becoming a lottery, who's next.   Makes me start to think.

 

This is just an engine failure from 16,000 feet with a misjudgement at the end; easy to do because you’re concentrating on losing a lot of height in an orderly fashion and you can get out of position. Also it is GA. If you take out the GA discussions, not so bad.

....I don’t believe in flying without an engine, especially.....

.....just because three spat pistons out the exhaust. Two with rods through the side, one with plugs melted, two seized and one which threw props every time there was an off-shore wind, didn’t mean this one would have problems. Turbo was going out to rescue Gina from Wu Fat; he gave it full throttle.....

.......story best kept from the thousands of ears of NES readers and focus on the boat which carried.....

In our area the roadsides are choked with fallen branches and trees, so slashing or baling isn't possible. Locals kept them clear for free firewood but that became illegal about twenty years ago. They now form habitat for little creatures until a fire burns them out.

 

A nightmare to fix those.

.......ends with a Ford Everest launching a boat. This caused much scratching of heads, but  Turbo and the Captain wouldn’t  tell......

As soon as dedicated volunteers get some sort of payment the dynamic starts to shift, eventually corrupting their priorities. Does payment improve their performance? Can this country afford the push by paid firefighter unions to displace volunteers?

 

That's just one of the reason we should have an open inquiry into this fire season.

 

Another reason is to investigate the role played in these fires by roadside grass. I suspect that a large proportion of fires start next to roads; the best firebreaks may be well-grazed roadsides. Finding a way to make it much easier for farmers to "graze the long paddock" might be a very cost-effective fire management strategy.

 

The DELWP firefighters in Victoria are also paid, and no one's talking about paid CFA any more except for the few wary managers,. The Parks people have a different structure and spend a lot of time in the forests doing burn offs in the off season.

Bev McArthur, the Member for Western Victorian Region has been trying to get the Victorian government to allow stock grazing in areas with long roadside grass, but it's problematic. The long paddocks were three chain roads and there aren't too many of them left, the dought obviously hasn't hit the areas with long grass, so stock would have to be trucked in and a whole generation of new drivers would have to be taught how to negotiate a mob on the road so there are safety issues. The best solutsions I've seen in grass districts is for adjoining owners to bale the hay, and that leans a very neat looking road. Parts of the Western District burn off their roads about now and while it makes an excellent forebreak, it doesn't look too good. On the Kidman Way once around Cunnamulla we drive for about 50 km with the roadsides burnt each side and there's been an Oh Sh!t moment where the fire swung across to the left and ran to the horizon for the next 30 km or so; That would have been a fodder lost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In much of Australia there's bush and short of cutting all the trees and scrub down, offset by the cost of fitting cable barriers, most Councils decide to leave it there. On a calm day with the wind across the road, either then road can be used as a break, or the wind is too strong and there's a momentary flare up then the fire just continued through the paddocks until it hits a better barrier. It's not so good if it runs along the road, and Jim mentioned losing a house when that happened.