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...........HiHo in a Cessna 150 down the full length of the Murray below ground level, underneath the gum trees and sometimes under the snags which......

While I understand the argument about being able to navigate the old way, the gps stuff makes it so easy that I wonder how many could cope without it. You keep the little blue plane on the thick pink line and so straight there.

 

Regardless, I agree that the old stuff  should be known by pilots. 

 

My own priority would be maintenance hands-on training. A school would be great, a lot of the good stuff comes from the interactions  of all involved.

 

If I had my way, owners or club designated people would be able to sign out their own work after completing such a school.

 

There's nothing wrong with using a gps and ozrunways, but the theory required to use CASA airspace goes a long way beyond that, however the method of study is the person's own choice.

That makes it easy then the money can be spent elsewhere.

.... unwinnable spats. 

“Remember the time I hid three dozen bottles of Brown Bros best Chardonnay under the coats in the back of your 230,  and we took out the top wire on their fence” he said to Captain. There was a rumour that a Chinese syndicate was going to buy out the winery.......

[Turbo is earned about Racism;  the above should read “Non Transparent Bros” and “ XXXXXXX “ syndicate, and this is verging on Jab bashing - MOD]

Today will give a better idea of how each asset is used.

A helicopter with its little bag of water seems a waste of space against these volumes, but last year I watched a big grass and scrub fire doused in about 20 minutes by the actions of an Ericcson sky crane which repeatedly  threw a rectagular mass of water at the downwind flanks, which where then further douse by two small helicopters allowing the fire trucks to run right up to the flanks of the fire further upwind, completely killing the flames. They just worked along the sides of the fore for about 20 minutes until they could finally snuff the front.

I suspect the 737 will be to dump a long stream of retardant along urban edges and reasonably clear of the turbulence, so that when the oncoming fire hits, the flames die down and don't ingnite so many houses/kill so many people from radiated heat.

That's only my theory; it would be good if the fire services explained in real terms what the strategy was, when they get the time, rather than the childish "make sure you have a plan".

....... rickshaw runners are endangered, XXXX is consumed, blue singlets are king, Brown Bros taste great, and .....

 

.....a few people fly from the formerl Wangaratta International Airport which these days.....

Your Captain fully understood this kind advice from his close mate Turdboy ..... but the rest of Wreck Frying went berserk. "There's that XXXX Turdo setting the forum rules again, and as usual." "What a XXXX" they added, "He must think that he's bought the forum from Eeeen." Even bill chipped in "he is a pushy xxxx" bill added.

 

Cappy's natural inclination was to defend his mate Turdy, but "XXXX him" he said.

 

You could expect a XXXX   like the Captain to blame Turbo for this censorship, but he's only trying to protect his dear friend from the WF sledge hammer. 

Here's a helpful guide:  

...........a NSW Police diesel BMW with its lights flashing hot on their tail.  "Go faster" Onestick said to the XXXXXXX rickshaw runner and they soon left the BMW behind and were on their way down the Hume Highway mixing it with Kenwurfs and caravans for Wangaratta, where......

[Turbo respectfully warns NES contributors that you can's say XXXXXX OR XXXXXXX any more but have to p ut it in this format]

.......Ahlox with a tray of fried cats (Turbo always donated a few trays from the cat farm}. The BoB crowd loved Ahlox's "Catfish Special" each night, and......

Well the Minister has specifically included Recreational aviation so you would hope so.

 

The key question is what would be submitted and how relevant that would be to all the facets of RA.

 

Sorry, it wasn't the Minister, it was Rural & Regional Affairs and Transport Chair, Senator Susan McDonald, and this is the applicable paragraph:

• Opportunities for further investment in regional aviation activities including new technologies, recreational aviation, pilot training and agriculture-related aerial work.
   
  

A lot of RAA pilots on this forum are from Rural areas, and one of the big issues I see is the difficulty of getting good training  in the theory subjects like Performance & operations, Navigation which is increasingly critical as the type of aircraft has become more suitable for medium cross-country. One thing which I think would help is a subsidy to attend training classes of up to 20 people. This environment makes learning much easier because there's always someone asking questions, and there's no doubt about what training is required now.

Assistance with networking of professional service facilities would help a lot of people.

And so on.

The announcement was last week so you're a week behind the ball; action is needed by RAA and its members.

.....slowly began to spin the BoB crowd went wild!.

At first it was quite orderly; dancers would heave their partners up on their shoulders to grab a nut, but when Constable Doubtfire walked in with her leathers on along with her gun belt there was trouble; as soon as she looked up and saw Turbo's purple nut bag she hit it with her taser.

Not many people know that Pecan Nuts conduct electricity and the nut bag exploded, spilling the pecans all over the dance floor. Captain realised that his pecans were disappearing and no one was paying and crawled all over the floor tryingh to collect them but as fast as he was the audience was faster, grabbing his nuts all over thr floor. The night was so successful that the BoB's owner, Ahlox instituted a Pecan night once a month, and..

Surely RAAus will be making a submission?

 

Well the Minister has specifically included Recreational aviation so you would hope so.

The key question is what would be submitted and how relevant that would be to all the facets of RA.

...too bland. Turbo had once dyed his purple which was much more attractive but didn’t suit everyone. Once he’d shown it to Constable Doubtfire who was on RBT duty but she gave a grimace and waved him through. Turbo remembered....

........boiling water and bicarbonate of Soda?...

........wrong.  "bull" said Turbo. "Whaddayamean" snarled Bill. "I don't mean anything" said Turbo, "I'm just calling you by your correct name, and while we're on the subject these are the best identity thieves in the business, so I'd check your banks if I were you.

"Before you jumped in, I was about to correct your comment" said Turbo, and, opening the nutsack, brought out a handful of nuts. "Here try a few of these pecans bull, there's nothing wrong with them" and the old Captain, who seemed to be getting his posts mixed up this morning, screamed "They're a dollar each!" but it was too late Turbo and bull's cheeks were bulging and Turbo was walking around the bar filling any receptacle he could find with nuts, and leaving a big heap in the coackatoo's cage.  Handing Captain back the empty sack, he said "......

LOL, you want bureacrats responsible for affordability? I can just seee the newly set up  CAAA (Civil Aviation Affordability Authority), with a staff of 800, 600 of which are permanently rotating around the world on study tours at taxpayer expense, 190 who are away at retreats debating the best methods of ensuring affordability, 8 who are flat out typing reasons why the 790 should be fired, one paying an endless stream of expenses and one who phones you up (because we rang the hot line and nominated you as the person who is driving us nuts about affordability), and he rings up and asks if you would mind him tacking on or a week noting your activities in order to make your flying more affordable, and then arrives with a CASA FoI for technical support, and they walk around Gawler and find heaps of things that could not only make flying more affordable, but safer too, and........

…… The ontrack mind turned to your delightful Skipper, for he, bull and the Skipper were out at the club to discuss what to do about the TurdyPlunger.

 

"I reckon that Turds is a XXXX, just like you have said (bravely) a couple of times Cappy" volunteered the onetrack.

 

"He used to be a mate" said Crappy sadly "But I reluctantly must agree with you Onesy. Your the most perceptive of us, bill, so what is your considered opinion of the Turdster?"

 

"i reckon you are both right, he's a definite XXXX" said bill.

 

"Don't leave me out either" commented Eeen, who was in a nearby booth moderating one of Turdy's other posts for technical merit. Then Eeen shocked everyone by saying "He's worse that just a XXXX, he's a ……...

 

........but he never got any further, because Turbo walked in and flung four photos on to the table. he looked up and said "Drinks are on me......except for these four XXXXX, and you should all have a look at these photos before you sit anywhere near them. And off he went, whistling a happy tune because today was the day the RAAF were trusting him with the Long-Horn, and......

So this operator has produced 63? CPL x 200 hours  each = 12,000 hours. Even with only a 20% success rate not many hours over a few years ? 

 

12,000 hours divided by five years divided by 40 aircraft is 60 hours per aircraft per year, 80 hours for 30 aircraft, so pretty much in the ballpark for Moorabbin.

.........moved well clear of the scrawny little dude with the sagging jowls and BO which was drowning out his 2AOs, which he'd bought at a local market.

"Tell us about your achievements" said Turbo sweetly, knowing  the Captain would have to invent something, but for once the Captain was speechless (thank God). To add insult to injury he was fined for swearing in the bar, and turned on Onetrick with an effeminate little snarl, saying......

.......he could run a tab, so he offered Turbo a beer and said “This is clearly Beat Up Turbo Week, so what would you like to do to pay them back. Turbo smiled and .....

……. up who, but that never mattered to Tubb because he was a racist XXXX and related to a …….

 

.......Jedi?,  who got him out of trouble whenever necessary, which quite possibly was going to be soon because in return for a substantial donation by Turbo, Point Cook Air Museum has agreed to let him have a fly of its Maurice Farman Long-Horn with its Renault engine, the only flying Long-Horn in the world. He has been limited to one circuit only in totally calm conditions...............

[Captain is warned that he should not use disguised lettering when everyone knows what he means - MOD]

[Turbo advises NES readers that he will do his best to avoid the new racist rules]

.............XXXXX.  He was not of course; his father was a XXXXXXXXX, his mother was XXXXXX, and spoke fluent XXXXXXXX. 

When he asked bull why he had changed his name to bill, poor old bull bill became very embarrassed and explained that his Uncle, who was a XXXXX, the local storekeeper who was a XXXXX (not the colour XXXXX), and a boundary rider who was an XXX  and only spoke pidgin SSS were never too sure who was...........

Gosh Downunder, you would need to be flying in controlled airspace to be anywhere near those planes .

 

What about high speed RFDS; are they expendable? or Charter? write them off?

Its hard to have a open mind when you hear all the horror story's about CASA.

 

Read the book by the original flying doctor, Clyde Fenton and you will get the cat and mouse game which started long before CASA even existed.

Where a story affects you, there's nothing like hitting the net and books and finding out the facts; they won't always go your way, but at least you'll know the real reason.

Comparing the differences between what is allowed by FAA and CASA is particularly hazardous because both are at different stages of complying with more ICAO standards, and both have different reasons for rejecting different compliances in different areas as is their right as sovereign States, and even if they want to do someting they still have to comply with the different laws of their lands..........and that would have to add up to millions of potential differences.

At the evening conference, bull made his position clear.

He also castigated the rat-headed Captain for his abuse of Turbo after such nice compliments Turbo had made about the Captain, and pointed out that if Captain had put his glasses (imagine the bottoms of two soft drink bottles) on, he would have noticed the comma which denoted the primary possessive which came before the adverbial adjunct).

bill closed by challenging the Captain to tell the press what information he.........