turboplanner

Could not agree more! CASA is a great example.

If the SMS is as above, it might be the reason small schools go broke. I would assume people like yourself consider that to be a good thing,as you seem to think that it weeds the bad ones. The terms of compliance will continue to grow, until no-one can afford to fly legally, only then will the skies be truly safe.

Re the SMS situation.  yes, CASA wanted each school to have an SMS, and yes, RAAus organised a pro forma template for each school to produce its' own.  I changed/added quite a bit of ours, and submitted it last July. Nothing heard to date, so I assume it has been accepted. When I see what has been required in our local Part 141 GA school, we are getting off lightly! Seems to always happen when CASA promise a 'simplification'.  Reminds me of one definition of bureaucracy - a committee designing a horse but finishing with a camel!!

When an accident occurs and someone decides to sue the student or renting pilot for negligence he/she can have some, up to full protection if complying with the SMS.

If the SMS is robust and in line with benchmarks, regulations and industry safest practice, it can also  provide good protection for you.

If it's a $2 SMS then that's all the protection you can rely on for your defence.

I would not expect CASA to do anything other than acknowledge receipt of your SMS. If they were to "approve" it they open themselves up to being a co-defendant. This way you are self-administering to the way you want things done at your school. 

I've previously mentioned one possible way around that - 30 minute flights, which one of my friends used to do at Moorabbin. he rarely got out into the training area, but he had 30 minutes of high pressure decisions, radio use, aircraft control on a regular basis.

I think you've encapsulated the situation well, and one of the big frustrations is that the current RAA Ltd format means that there is a disconnect between people with practical everyday involvement like yourself and people in CASA who may or may not have practical experience and that practical experience may be what used to happen in the 1980s with a much lower population and more scattered urban areas.

You’ll all wear yourselves out responding to the nut cases.

With the obfuscation stream in full flow, you'd wonder why we need to get involved in any medicals at all. We could have a policy of "If you feel like flying you're right to fly!"

The event was 8:30 Monday; what was it like up there then?

Doesn't have to be a lorry and dog. There's plenty of deaf pedestrians wandering  into the paths of  buses, taxis and hire cars.  The drivers of those vehicles have to have medicals, but the passing of a medical does not prevent the collision.

The problem most likely is that the 7 axle truck and dog only requires a HC license and no medical. The same truck  as a 7 axle B double requires a MC(multi combination) license and medical is required. This is in NSW, so it's not only aviation that has stupid double standards.  

Some of the truck and dog combinations are operating under heavier axle allowances under PBS (Performance Based Standards) based on bridge loading formulae which in some cases is increasing draw bar length, and this may also be a factor is some cases.

The next step up 9 axle combinations (Truck and six axle dog appear to have crossed the line, with reports of truck wheelspin, and also the tri axle front pushing ahead on turns, which pushes the rear of the tipper out much as the same as the old adjustable widespreads which the industry stopped producing for this reason.

I know it's off topic, but would the truck and dog v pedestrian be at all related to use of mobile devices and stepping between the truck and dog as they pass?

Making pedestrians responsible for their own safety might actually get some results. Maybe start suing their estate for damage to property and psych caused by wandering around with their head firmly in their sphincter.

 

We always seem to try and fix the symptoms, but not address the problem.

Ummm - you are  incorrect in that. And Ben Morgan is correct. In the context of what he was trying to imply he was also making a correct generalisation. 

The EXACT same aircraft ( Jabirus) can be registered in either RAA or VH with absolutely no change to the aircraft. 

 

 And as long as it has the transponder and radio it can be flown by a ppl/RAAus pilot into CTA. 

Yes, they have the same airframe and yes they have the same engine, but it's where you are going that makes the difference, and if that con gets any traction it will soon be sorted out.

If we didn't comment there'd be no forums; we could just go to the ATSB site and get the cause for ourselves.

Of course we would lose the wealth of information in the process.

"Roger" of course was a favourite comment of Biggles.

Just following on from the last post I just noticed that The Australian Trucking Association was presenting on road safety at a Senate Rural & Regional Affairs and transport Reference Committee hearing, also last Monday, so the good Senators' eyes could have been spinning at the shortcomings of the PBS system, the high risk of allowing the new road train configurations into our city roads, the spike in truck and dog pedestrian fatalities, the use of B Doubles to deliver to urban factories without de-coupling, and mandatory noise-production devices for electric trucks.

What frightened me was the clear fact that the Senators had no knowledge or experience of anything to do with flying - private, recreational or commercial. This enquiry would be greatly assisted by taking the Senators out to an airport used by  2 or 4-seater small aircraft and taking them for a few circuits.

Training for operations within CTAs was mentioned. I did my ab initio at Bankstown and became used to flying in CTA from my the time I did  TIF.  I can't for the life of me see why it is not possible for an RAAus student pilot to be trained in CTA procedures. Maybe by applying CTA behaviour at uncontrolled airports, fun flying and commercial operations could function seamlessly.

 

I was impressed by the AOPA representative. Clearly he knows his subject. I'd love to see his further submission of material that the Senators requested. (And what they do with it.)

 

What will become of the very serious allegations he made of misconduct by CASA?

Like journalists they are not industry-specific people like you and I where we know the legislation and habits of our industries.

I just ran a check on current Federal Government Ministerial responsibilities, and it came to 55 different industries.

And those are the parent industries.

I was in a Vicroads forward planning (40 years) group some years ago, and we were looking at the type of road designs we will need. All of us were experienced in the transport industry.

We'd been going down a path we thought was all-inclusive for an hour of so, when a guy from South Australia got up, and walked to the white board in the auditorium.

The auditorium was very large, with a capacity of 500 - 600 and the whiteboard ran the full width of the room.

He started at the left wall and wrote headings from one side of the room to the other, and then he walked back and filled in the columns, and we were gobsmacked at how much transport activity was taking place that we have never even thought about.

These Senators were probably pulled together at short notice to hear the evidence given, and decide where to go next with that information.

Depending on how long the session lasted, they could have another couple of Committee meetings that day which could be on Water Resources, Tourism, Population, Senior Australians, or Indigenous Health.

You and I would know instantly the number of hours a person can drive a truck before a break is required, but the Senators wouldn't be expected to know that.

It's a big complicated world.

I agree with you about taking them out and putting them in the equipment, when you can.

I guess everyone realises that the Jabiru registered VH and allowed into CTA is NOT the same aircraft that is registered in RAA, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Senators found out that what Ben Morgan was implying was not correct. It makes me wonder if he knows.

If what comes out of this is a directive to CASA to investigate all safety records and establish the risk factors in areas where RA aircraft operate (outside CTA, not over dense populations etc), compared to Private GA operations, add in any ICAO standards, and then look at a safe (non-liable) standard either for each or both, results in less onerous medical standards in GA, that would be a good thing, but pandora's box is being opened, and it could be that a common, non-discriminatory standard is established which would require medical testing of RA pilots, or it could result in a less onerous process for GA pilots and a higher level, with testing for RA pilots. In the meantime there could be changes in the road transport industry which is responsible to the same Minister for a higher standard.

I dare say there have been some changes since the 1960s. I got my CPL in the 1980s and I never heard of Affirmative, it was always Affirm. Over and Out are still in use (never used together of course) but mainly for HF rather than VHF. Though in cases of poor VHF reception such as was the case on the far north coasts until 10yrs or so ago, they can still be helpful for understanding.

Roger is still in everyday use, as is Wilco.

 

Here is a link to the AIP - see pages 293 & 294 (Gen 3.4 - 25 5.) This is the current version issued a few days ago.

 

A few extracts -

 

AFFIRM        Yes.

 

NEGATIVE    No or Permission is not granted or

 

                     That is not correct or Not capable.

 

OUT              This exchange of transmissions is

 

                     ended and I expect no response from

 

                     you {not normally used in VHF or

 

                     satellite communication).

 

OVER            My transmission is ended and I

 

                     expect a response from you {not

 

                      normally used in VHF or satellite

 

                     communication).

 

ROGER         I have received all of your last

 

                    transmission [under NO

 

                    circumstances to be used in reply to

 

                    a question requiring READBACK or

 

                    a direct answer in the affirmative or

 

                    negative).

 

WILCO         I understand your message and will

 

                    comply with it.

However, I can see the logic in using "Affirm" to avoid any "tive" confusion with negative.

Just one possible explanation....

Farm machinery is often parked where ever it's handy for the operator.. It's not a stretch for it to have been parked close to whatever bit of dirt passes for a strip.

I'm not sure how the season's going this year, but it could be that the Header had been dragged out of the shed for pre-season maintenance, or could have been parked next to the strip.

There's no mention of anyone driving the Header so far,  but if it does turn out that the Header was being driven at the time, it swings back towards Alf's thoughts; there's nothing like creeping up behind your next door neighbour at ground level, and shaving the top of it - he's got no RV mirrors.

There is a medical term for obsessive focus, but in this area there can be thousand acre paddocks; I scaled one on Jerrybang Road at 1900 m (6234') x 1330 m (4365'), so there's plenty of room, and $300,000 headers are usually parked in the shed, at the discharge site, in which case there's usually some infrastructure like semi trailers or mobile bins, or........around the homestead having maintenance work done.

That's correct FH, our terminology and phrases were developed in the blood of misunderstandings from WW2.

Radio has been allowed to deteriorate into a rabble in Australia, and people will pay for it.

It's also taken for procedure.

Roger is alive and kicking, but note that these days it only means you have received the last message, not that you have understood it! Affirmative is abbreviated to 'Affirm' to avoid confusion with negative in the case of clipped transmissions.

I'd like to look at the sonic waves to optimise the bounce. Overpacking the cylinder with gas can increase power, but filling the cylinder with mixture and then sucking it back out again before the valve is fully closed costs power.

If you can measure the distance between the piston face (measured with the plenum off) to the cylinder flange face plus the mean distance from that face to the carby flange face of the manifold for each cylinder plus the distance, if any from the manifold flange face to tha carby flange face, and what rpm you want your power delivered at, plus perhaps a carby internal measurement I’ll let you know about, I should be able to tell you if the flow is being impeded or enhanced at that rpm and what length to add to optimise combustion. 

I realise measuring inside the manifold is a piece of string, so just for this exercise you could use a length of string to give us a manifold length for each cyl.  That would tell us if the engine is sucking or blowing, and if the temp figures correspond, then some serious improvement is possible.

It is now 6 months since SmugMug took over Flickr. Received an email with an ultimatum - Pay a membership subscription for a Pro account, or you will be limited to 1000 photos. If you have more than 1000 photos and do not wish to have a Pro membership, download and delete the extra photos by February, or we will start deleting them, oldest first. I had 1710 photos uploaded, sorted into subject based albums. I have deleted the albums that will not be added to such as Avalon 2009/11/13/15. I will leave 2017 until I (hopefully) attend 2019. I have retained albums which may have further photos added. I had used less than 1.5% of the storage space we were originally allocated. I have reduced my photo count to 863, so can upload a further 137 before having to delete more.

I'm not as badly off as some who had 20,000 or more photos. The benefits of Flickr were a.) Storage backup for you photos, with the ability to set access security, and b.) somewhere you could share your photos by setting Public access. 

I have several of them, some remote from the house; if the house goes up in flames or they and the computer catch fire etc. I'm back in business with the lot in a couple of hours.

I have a lot of data stored on various "systems of the age" going back to reel to reel tapes, 8 mm movie film etc.  None of the people who sold the systems had any idea they'd be out of business in such a short time including Kodak (and for that matter my advice above could become out of date in the blink of an eye too.

I haven't mentioned the Cloud, because that is just a server, just a computer, somewhere in the world, which itself could fail, or for whatever reason be junked along with your files.

We have new challenges to deal with; one of mine is to develop an indexing system; in the 1980s we had to keep files small and limit the amount on the tiny hard drives, so the file system had to work a bit like a folder or book system, but we've gone all the way through having to dump files off the hard drive to get the speed back etc. to the global searching we do today where having a filing index which is based on a single subject, is too limiting because with global search you can look for things which may only be peripheral to the subject, and it slows you down to have to go through the search subject by subject.

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Aircraft Pilots is not a regular term in the aviation industry, but the biggest issue was that it cuts out the people who build the aircraft, and these days almost provide all the aircraft the pilots fly, as well as the people who service the aircraft, the ATC people who provide valuable advice on this forum from time to time, and all the other people who are interested in aviation and join the discussion.

The GA training and flying system is a LOT more regimented with a lot less loose ends to discuss; In that category the people really do learn to fly and go on the hire or buy an aircraft that is a lot more highly developed and a lot more predictable for flying and service life (in general terms); the people don't get into the same detail as they do here, but most of GA is technically recreational flying, so I don't see anything wrong with the name.

On Monday 19/11/18.. RAAus is up before the Senate.

Do not know:- *Time *Reason *Who will be answering the questions.

 

I only know the senate appearance.

 

Needs to have some research done.

 

KP

These are going on all the time about all sorts of things and consist of a bipartisan committee chaired by a member of the sitting Government.

They cover all sorts of issues which provides the Parliament with first hand information to inform its decisions.

I would feel very uncomfortable being represented at a Committee Hearing by third parties not representative of an industry.