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.......the XT582 Microlight can fly by itself. When the designers were developing this aircraft, research showed there was a gap in the market; scottish flyers weren't buying Trikes. Further investation revealed that Scottish buyers had to sell their trikes when they found out they went blind while flying them. This was not due to what Cappy might be thinking, but with one hand on the throttle and one hand on the bar, their kilts would fly up and cover their faces. The designers got some Sceet, some light cable, some pulleys and a small lead weight and produced a cheap and effective autopilot, so our Scottish friends could have one hand on the throttle and one on the kilt. Vision was restored. By cutting the Sceet and making it tapered, the tumbling habit of trikes could be eliminated because the lead weight couldn't climb the taper. Scottish sales exploded as reported by Alistair McQuorkindale (who goes by the name of Mate.) Another .........

It's also got nothing to do with Recreational Aviation at a time when RA is under threat.

Any reason for the panic?

I'll PM you; I've done some research and a few things have started to explain themselves.

In this case the ABC simply reported what people told them.

9,000 views after 3 days. Note the comments Aviation experts are concerned about the future of the hobby aircraft sector after a string of fatal crashes in 2024. Of this string of fatal crashes just 6 of the 27 fatalities were in Recreational Aviation. This shows how fast things can get out of control; the players in this have a small window of opportunity to correct this.

......flying an XT582 Tundra Microlight 250 km west of Longreach when he was caught by a Willy Willy and thrown about so violently that all but his left leg was outside the aircraft and he had to hang on by his toes. It's a long title but the story is short and .........

.....headed for the stage. The subject of his oratory submission was ..........

Not so smart in Australia; As I mentioned, our laws are different and there are consequences to flying without a licence and or medical. Not only any prescriptive penalties but paying for the consequences of accidents that hurt or kill people.

That's the normal way of checking there's been no deterioration. At 77 wouldn't costs be covered for that?

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If you are talking to me, I wasn't about to write a thesis just for a few cheats. Yes, if you make a truthful declaration there are pathways back. It was the BS declarations where someone has been sick for some time but won't give up his daily trip down to the RSL etc, or knows he has pains but won't go to a specialist and keeps on flying until one day it's all over.

You're looking at it back to front. Of course there is a tiny risk, of course people still die immediately after checks and always did. However the diagnostics pick up many in the community with major problems and take those people of the roads and out of the air. The self reported system is problematic with a few too may cases of a crash on the road or from the air and everyone saying "Nooooooooo" we never even knew he had a bad heart." You will have seen the reassurances of "virtually no pilots hjave died from heart attacks in the air". Digital, which records every vaccination you've ever had, every test, every medication you've been put on, will tell you with just a couple of clicks on the phone when you last had a tetanus injection. Authorities can see blood thinners etc too.

.......foredeck of the new Titanic. "These are the days!" said Hiram C. Cook , who owned a string of Scottish hotels (and string was about all you got for breakfast) "Livin' the dream!" replied Sir Charles Turbine, who was still kicking himself for not inventing the telephone, but he just had to go to the races to see his horse win on the day before Alexander Graham Bell made that immortal broadcast "Who's calling?" They struck up a conversation, and found they'd both fought in the Crimea. Then they found they'd both been Members of the Light Brigade, Hiram a Brigadier in brilliant red suit and gleaming brass, Charlie a Private in drab brown dress and brown "Turbine" family tartan kilt. Sir Charles remembered Hiram giving that fateful order "Forward the Light Brigade, charge for the guns" Charles had thought it was a stupid thing to do with the Russians entrenched with cannons all pointing into the valley. Then into the valley of death rode the 600, cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them, cannon in front of them, and cannon pivoting around behind them volleyed and thundered. (Not many people know that with the cannon pointing at each other 3500 Russian soldiers died that day) Boldly they rode and well. Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred. The Brigadier was taking heavy fire and realised it was his red coat; just as he took it off he was hit in the shoulder by cannon fire, luckily a clean wound with the shot going right through. As Charlie rode past he leaned down and snatched what he thought was a fellow soldier, and rode to the end of the valley. In this position they were trapped, but the bridadier was a forward thinker and had bought Serial No 000002 of the Wright Flyer [avref]production from his mate Wilbur, and parked it at the end of the valley just in case. They had to use a can of Start Ya Bastard on it but were soon fluttering over the hill to safety 73 feet away. Sir Charles said to Hiram "Weather doesn't look too good; hope we don't hit an Iceberg!" Hiram .......

........make a second lake closer to Parliament House with another avgas fountain so they could just look out the windows, and remember the old days of the service station giveaways and steak and egg breakfasts for three dollars and .......

If you were to title your thread RAA Fuel offers that might be true.

The RAA site will have all those details.

....setting fire to the fountain in the lake which.....

"I've never been near her!" (thinking he'd been summoned to give evidence on another embarrassing matter), "but it wouldn't surprise me if that reprobate descendant of Captain Cook hadn't been over there......"

Talk to a lawyer.

As we've learned on this site time and time again from real cases, the buck stops with the person/organization which had the duty of care, and breached that duty of care. They knew back in 1932 in the first lawsuit that a woman drinking from a bottle of ginger beer wasn't responsible to see through the opaque bottle that a snail had been accidentally left in the bottle during cleaning.

........telling her stories of the Great Australian Outback where the Turbines had massive land holdings with millions of sheep and cattle. Vic, as she was known to the Turbine boys was enthralled by the exciting stories so she phoned up the SA Governor and said "Gov, I'm sending two of my sons out to Orstralia and I want you to organise a horse ride from Adelaide to Melbourne." Six months later two miserable little pricks landed at Port Adelaide, were equipped in R. M. Williams gear, and joined the group of stockmen and wagon operators for the trip to Melbourne. The names have been changed in this next part to protect the current families. They rode quite long days from Station to Station where they spent most nights in the luxurious homes in the Colony. One Station owner, John Conlon had his mansion recarpeted in bright red after the Princes left so he could stick it up the outlying Station owners who weren't on the Princes' route. When the Princes rode into Melbourne they were tanned, expert horsemen and wanted to stay, but duty called or more precisely Vic, with her renowned temper sent a letter telling them to get their asses out of the pubs and get home. She was so impressed when her sons returned that she said the Governor could use her name for the local State...and they did. Six months later the Queen invited all the Station hosts to Buckingham Palace to knight them all for the wonderful job they'd done. As they proceeded towards the sword the Queen would ask their name, and when they said "Syd Smith" and kneeled, the Queen would tap them on the shoulder and say "Arise, Sir Sydney Smith" When it was John Conlan's turn, she asked his name and the pompous mysogenist who would have preferred a King said "MR John Conlan!" The Queen with her notoriously short fuse, tapped him on the shoulder and said "Arise MR John Conlan." A similar thing happened ........

No, RAA only handle single engine aircraft.

You must have you missed the hundreds of discussions on the reason CASA wouldn't even think of indemnifying them. The reason RAA and every other high risk sporting activity has to pay its own way followed ALL governments, State, Territory, Commonwealth moving in bipartisan unison to off load the growing legal costs from liability directly onto the people who were engaged and caused the costs. Before the change to Company status one of the board members told us they were just one case away from bankruptcy, then the accident cases dropped off and they could breathe again. Claims fluctute a lot more than the accidents themselves so it must be very hard to budget for.

If you're a a Member for RAA, I'd suggest you go onto their site and see the RAA classes available, even if you're not, there should be some information there if you're interested in entry level aircraft. FAA Part 103 is based on the US legal system; ours is based on the Australian system, so before condemning the industry, best to see what you can legally fly. If anyone thinks they can talk to a politician and he'll immediately say "No Problems mate, I'll get that through for you. there are procedures they follow and they involve referring to the same paperwork I'm suggesting.