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...........open up the throttle on a big radial with a 13 foot prop and feel it trying to turn the aircraft over, but remembering which rudder to apply to prevent it, and mostly remembering correctly. Following the Captain's comment he aimed the big nose straight for that individual's scrawny little frame, and thought, "We'll see who starts dripping when he sees this coming!"  He opened up the canons.........

......but before he could give an example of the Calculus logic of some pilots,  there was a rumble sound and then that unmistakeable whistle as a Corsair dived in in at 450 mph and............

Train a pirot these days in 30 minutes; in fact he signed me off in 25 minutes.

Only problem Capstain is you have to sit on my lap and after reading your latest posts, any funny business and you going overboard.

There was a hesitant little smile on the Captain’s face as the Zero picked up speed across the paddock but....

........hot dag.

Nobishi had come out of the Cowra RSL to meet the Captain. He'd been a member since 1943, when he managed to convince the old WW1 officials that he'd seved with the 2/39 on the Kokoda trail, and he was now speaking in his perfect Australian as a current Cowra Councillor.

He put his arm around the scrawny shoulders of Captain and said:  Welcome to Cowra son, wheat capital of the world. Inview of your frequent, if perverted posts on Wrecked Flyne, I'm going to show you something very few people have seen, and they drove out the Shovelback Road. "Lot of potholes in the road"  commented the Captain, and that was going to cost him dearly. At a hayshed on Nob's farm, they dragged tha hay away and there sat a perfectly restored Zero. "It's got full fuel" said Nob, and I'm w.......

........prone to thinking of himself as being material for Baywatch, not realising that today the only gig he would get was if the producers of Love Island added a geriatric couple to provide some laughs.

Mavis had made her point, and returned to the RSL where her job was to turf out all the old story tellers; no one ever argued with Mavis.

She also made a note to round up that little squirt bull and beat the crap our of him for dissing the bone RSL.

Back at Cowra, Nobushi had heard about the snap roll..... 

Surprising amount of accidents in Gyros, you would think they were crashproof due to their design, idiot pilots aside.

 

The early ones (1950's Benson and Australian Bee) had no roll control, and many were towed, so you would climb up on a thermal and slide down the side to your death. It never occurred to the untrained pilot to apply rudder and glide down.

The rotor originally was wound up on the ground by agricultural means such as by hand, and in many cases may have been too slow for flight.

A recent thread on here indicated instructions were very complex for the pilot and particularly centred around having to monitor rotor speed, and what that had to be for specific tasks, and that would all be hard for a low hour pilot.

Then there was the low flying excitement.........

GA have no membership fees or rego but their details are public and they are billed.

 

RAA PAY membership fees and rego but no public address.

 

That was the status quo.

 

Pilots made their choice as to which aviation avenue they prefered.

 

This is a good example of the root of the problem.

In neither case were these organisations responsible, and nor did they establish any policies for airfield owners to recover their operating costs.

The service provided by the airfield, which then asked for a fee for its use, was and is a direct relationship between the airfield and the pilot.

If an airfield charges a fee for a landing and you land, you are required to pay them.

The fact that one group of pilots hasn't been paying them led to a more direct way of identifying them.

It's a pity that the management of RAA over the years hasn't motivated the pilots to pay, and it doesn't say much for them that all of a sudden they are providing the hammer to nail them, but you cannot forget that at the root of it is people who have been landing and avoiding payment.

Push it harder and it will come back on you harder.

I see where you’re coming from Keith. RAaus policy has always been that we should pay our landing fees but of course most people would have been guilty of taking advantage of the free intermezzo which lasted for about three years. If they had advised the membership that Raaus were in negotiations with AAA over this there would have been a riot and we would probably be more annoyed than we are now. I’m not an apologist for the Board but I can understand the pressure they must have been under to find a solution given their Control Zone aspirations etc. It just doesn’t pass the pub test to on the one hand claim we are a respectable organisation and on the other hand have all these members flying around and avoiding paying landing fees. Of all the costs associated with my flying about 150 hours a year, I find the Avdata bill the most irritating. One wonders though what else might be going on behind the scenes we don’t know about?

 

Well, what has been going on is theft.

.....rainfall statistics for Central Queensland once she realised where the Captain’s thoughts were heading, and as soon as he nodded off to sleep, she was able to slip out to join Turbo at the Anzac Bar. She had flown F4 Phantoms in the Vietnam War and told some amazing stories of the low level work she used to do. After the war when she came back to Bone, she decided to get a PPL. The instructor, a mysogenist mistook her for a bimbo, and said things like “this is the prop, dear, and we don’t want to be chopped up so we stay well clear”, and other unflattering stuff, but Mavis just smiled sweetly, but as the instructor let her take off in the 172 when she had the barest margin available she flicked it on to it’s back and all but trimmed the tips in the local canefields. This was who Captain was messing with and she’d just asked him if he’d like to come up for a flight. He was thinking mike high, but she was thinking.....

 

having the time of their lives

 

AKA The Mumbai Waltz

 

...really got angry, and said “And as for that snivelling, groping, whining little Sergeant......”. Turbo cut in; “Did you mean Captain” and she replied “That’s the formless creep!. If I had my way I’d bust him back to Private!” And Turbo nodded agreement. Mavis was not one to cross and the Captain would be wise to get out of town or...

......earlier statement. Why would locals not tell locals about the Anzac Bar being open, and he stalked down the Main Street of Bone ready to make an issue.....

..... his sleeve was jammed in the throttle.

 

"That story is getting a bit repetitive" said the girls from the Rissole, who were feeling under less sexual pressure now that they knew that bull still thought the club had closed. "It's a bit sad that we couldn't tell bull, but the girls put it to a vote and it's for the best" said Mavis, "As it stops him lifting his leg on the front door & humping the leather couch if he just isn't made aware that we have reopened the joint as a JV between the Rissole and one of Jimmy P's casinos. It's called the ......

 

...Anzac Bar, and Turbo has been there many times doing research on the Captain's sordid history, but that's another story, but back to the Queen Bee where 18 posts later Foxy explained that you had to take control of an out of control aircraft and make a firm decision, so he snapped the throttle lever off and the sleeve came away............

............roll to port at an alarming rate, because.......

....43 years of bull.  Bone has a nice little RSL where the ladies serve an excellent lunch.

"Remember the night bull came home late in the Tyro and hit the tanks" said Arther Bunger "You would think.........."

.......Brendahhh hit him in the teeth with a mortar barrel and, suitably primed, ran down the trail.

What happened next is recorded in the book "Kokoda" by Paul Ham.

"....one of the few survivors of a Platoon which had been overrun and severly cut about by the enemy. [Kingsbury]  immediately volunteered to join a different platoon which had been ordered to counterattack. He rushed forward firing the Bren gun from his hip through terrific machine-gun fire and succeeded in clearing a path through the enemy. Continuing to sweep the enemy positions with his fire and inflicting an extremely high number of casualties .....Private Kingsbury was then seen to fall to the ground shot dead from the bullet from a sniper hiding in the wood...."

[in memory of Private  Kingsbury, posthumously awarded a VC  for saving his battalion's Headquarters and prevented the Japanese streaming down into Port Moresby. His actions inspired his section; ten men of the 2/14th Battalion remain the most highly decorated in military history, winning a Victoria Cross, twoMilitary Crosses, three military medals and several mentions in despatches.]

The troops were forced south by the horrific odds until they came within range of the Australian artillery which had been dragged up the mountains as far as it could be dragged. Now it was the Japanese turn to run out of food and supplies and the Australians began the steady advance north on the heels of the Nankai Shitai, with General Hori suffering from blisters bringing up the rear, and...........

......map.

"We have two ways to go" he said to the north are 40 million Japanese, and to the south is General Blamey sitting in Brisbane ad calling the shots based on who's winning at Doomben. "Which way would you prefer to go chaps?"

"NORTH!" they all shouted at once, "and we hope he's losing"

And this was the beginning of the story of the Kokoda Trail where an American commander with an Australian general sitting out in the hallway claimed victory for something they didn't do in a place they'd never been.

Brendahhh started the march north by spraying 14 Japanese off the track with the Bren gun, but twenty more stepped into their tracks and the Australian troops were forced to edge firmly south, slipping and sliding in the mud, when along came a Fuzzy Wuzzy called Mark, and from there....

......involved taking someone's eyeball out while conversationallly inviting them to give away classified information, like what they were given for breakfast, how they found the Sergeant Major, did they get blisters and other military stuff. If you helped him, he would put your eyeball back and give you a friendly wave goodbye, but this time he was to meet his match in a Bren Gun toting Sergeant named.........

Abbot used the ATSB for political glory seeking trying to find mh 370. 

 

$100 odd million later (and the budget blown)  Abbot and mh370 are nowhere to be found.

 

There was also a massive investigation into an illegal immigrant boat hitting rocks and people drowning. This was also politically motivated.

 

My point is that tax paying Australian citizens dying in tragic accidents are not being investigated. 

 

RAA accidents are a clear example of this. 

 

I am not questioning their ability, but it IS a government department and obviously they have political masters and as such politically motivated investigations. 

 

You must have missed the news that MH370 was believed to have gone down in Australian waters and that automatically triggered the Australian response. If a boat hit rocks and people drowned then guess who has to investigate? ATSB.

So no political motivation.

No Australian death in an accident is not investigated; there are protocols in place to see that Coroners do this

RAA accidents ARE investigated, and I gave you the information on who investigates - State Police. They in turn provide evidence to the Coroner.

ATSB is NOT a government department, and if you check you will find there are safeguards against politically motivated investigations.

I am starting to wonder if the site is really worth having any more given that of the hundreds that visit the site only 9 people have bothered to vote...has the site now run its course?

 

No it hasn't, not by any means; it is picking up new active participants.

However, you'll notice that the Americans come for a while and they go; not because they don't like the content but because it just doesn't relate to them or their industry.

Given the award winning apathy of the claimed 13,000 RAA members, you'd have to expect anything that might detract lying on the couch scratching their balls would be an interruption to their day.

Also, bear in mind that a successful business promotion gets around 3% response.

However, in recent weeks there have been some good knowledgable contributors to the forums and some good discussions.

The advertising insertions seem to be accepted very well, and that's good for long term income.

......was always out of tune and required a specialist to make him work. The specialist was bull's uncle, whose grandfather had taught him how to sort out people of German descent, primarily by a 303 bullet  to the front of the head, but Weber's grandmother's second husband was......

.......these three formed the Australian War Committee (Bob Menzies being in London as part of the British Cabinet) which sent 105 Australian kids up to Kokoda to take on 2000 Japanese, who must have been led by .......

The ATSB is politically funded, driven and controlled. The last few years have seen more focus on "international" investigations to the detriment of injured and killed Australian citizens. Politicians seeking glory and foreign government adulation could not care less about dying Australian tax payers. A death in a RAA aircraft and a death in a GA aircraft... is still a death. 

 

Well you're certainly not talking about our ATSB. It certainly has a cap to its budget, and remember it has to investigate land and sea accidents as well as air, but its false to say it is politically driven or controlled.  It's not legally possible these days for any organisation to say what used to be said up until the end of the 1970s, and people are critical of them for that, and I certainly miss the Macarthur Job reports, where they were able to get to the guts of a fataility and report that, for example the pilot frequented the club lounge, and was known for boasting that he could fly in cloud, had done it on several occasions, this one, with the rock filled cloud being his last. It gave you the real reason, and the specific thing to avoid. Having been called in to one investigation (which they picked up from my comment on social media)  and asked to give evidence, I can attest to their clinical, compartmental, and very thorough process.

..............jumped into he Beech Staggerwing and got out of there fast.

Not many people know that Mel Blanc, who made millions impersonating a rabbit was a member of the OSS near the end of WW2. The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA.

With his wacky style of speaking and expert acting he was chosen as the person to go in to Japan and find the best targets for the new weapon, the atomic bomb, which.....

The ATSB publish all reports. It would nice to know the causes of accidents so we can prevent it from happening again. If there was a fault with Drifters causing accidents I would certainly want to know.

 

But for some reason the RAA decide not to publish this information. Why?

 

With very few exceptions the ATSB don’t get involved in RA crashes, the State Police do that, and call in RAA for assistance when they need it.