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Well it’s BS trolling but a lot of good information came out.

 

 

Trustworthy surveys have continually rated the ABC as the most TRUSTED source of news in this country. Unsurprisingly you won't read that in a Murdoch rag. Nev

How about taking this over to WUA?

 

 

Thanks HF I’ll have a look at the details

 

 

Control yourself Callahan, you’ve only been hearing from the extreme left; they aren’t in power.

 

 

Be impossible to land an efficient glider without spoilers.( DRAG enhancers). Having them for roll control is another giant step. (differential action). It is in theory much better than ailerons (or wing warping) but complex and they can float. Nev

Where did that come from? An eagle can just turn his feathers.

You were an instructor, how would you train a student who was coming in too fast in his Sonnerai?

 

 

Does anyone think having a way to wash of speed (other than side slipping) provides more landing options and control? /QUOTE]You have half your flight to wash off speed if you really need it, or you can pick a distance out slow down to gear speed, put the gear down, slow down to flap stage speed, put some flap down and you have all of Downwind, all of Base, all of Final to the round out, and even some of the strip length to slow down. Quite a choice for even the most slippery aircraft. If you get a good instructor, he will show you where to be and at what speed in the circuit, so that, from your Base turn you will not need to make anymore adjustments to touch down. He usually won't show you how he does that, but that's the optimum to aim for. If you're talking about being too high on final, that's another discussion.

Here comes the red flag; I can hear the songs, and the marching feet!

 

 

There are changes afoot at Gympie,according to the new ERSA entry, apparently mostly driven by the council.

Have there been any accidents there in the past five years or so?

 

 

When everything else has been sold off, I reckon they might start charging for .other emergency services like police and fire.Imagine ringing the police and having to pay upfront...

Police charging is already in place in Victoria. A woman came out from the US recently on a speaking tour of extremist thoughts, which normally attract large crowds, and was charged tens of thousands of dollars for police costs to attend the meeting.

It's conditional though. The same police ("there are no Sudanese gangs") attended a fight involving up to a hundred, lets say tall, skinny, white challenged youths, and not only charged them nothing to attend even though one of their cars was damaged by the flying rocks, but ordered residents to go inside and lock their doors, and then told the press there was no threat to the community. It's a changing world.

 

 

The magazine (incl printing) is a separate contract. The $16k reduction in printing is the office - not printing reams of paper to tell you your Membership/Rego will lapse soon, in a month, in a few days, Thanks - here's your receipt & card. Postage should be down too, as we get most of that by email. As should wages as we don't employ someone to print, fold and envelope it.

Most organisations dropped their printed magazines some years ago. Every organisation is entitled to make it's own decision, but where there is a significant cost, it should be itemised so every member is seeing how much of his/her annual subscription is going into it. Non-itemised expenditures of tens of thousands of dollars and even over a hundred thousand dollars were raised over a decade ago, so there's no excuse.

 

The building (the biggest asset) is subject to the Canberra real estate market and has had its ups & downs in value.

Correct, same with Stock Market investments, but both relentlessly climb over time, so a realistic evaluation of their worth is about 5 to 10 years.

 

Insurance for pilots & the organisation has only one direction - UP.

Not true, I was involved in safety discussions with one Insurance Organisation where we entered into a joint programme which resulted in our insurance, in a high risk sport, being halved. If you do nothing about safety other than a few platitudes every now and again, or conduct a "safety month" here and there the performance will go down and the insurance will go up.

 

2012 annual report had 9411 members, I know they are over 10,000 now. They have muddied the waters a bit by not counting Non-Flying members (only Pilot Certificate holders) so when they quote membership numbers I am not sure which cohort they are referring to.

Unfortunately the bulk of the members down't know how critical this is to get correct statisical percentages.

Part 149 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 was, according to the CASA website made on 12/7/18, and came into force on 14/7/18.

 

However a 15 minute search failed to produce an updated Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 copy on the site, or a final, approved Part 149, or even any gazetting information.

 

Given this legislation is now in force, and since it's applicable to Self Administering Organisations, it's critical for RA members to know what they should be doing to safeguard themselves.

 

Has anyone else found an updated CASR 1998, or the approved/Gazetted Part 149 thereof?

 

 

The toxicity of farm dust must be associated with what's in the dust, resulting from (in some part) with what has been sprayed there over the last 30+ years. and how it is retained. Open cut coal mines are worse. They dampen down the dust constantly with water that seeps out of the aquifers which concentrates more and more by being reused. Nev

It used to be a badge of honour for me to come in from harrowing a paddock, wearing a pair of shorts, as black as the ace of spade all over.

If I blew my nose, there was a great long stream of black.

 

However, the particulates which do the lung damage, PM10 and PM2.5 in particular, are not visible to the naked eye, so the visible stuff was pretty harmless. I could still be exposed though through those finer particles.

 

 

You guys are right but I'm in trouble here cos the wife has just got a bill from the club for over $600.Not much of that was flying stuff.

There are many organizations which can just pass costs onwards and so they don't have any incentive to minimize the costs. The government, the council, RAAus, the GFA, the ASC. Bugger I'm a member or constituent of all of them.

 

Well at least the knackery truck will be the last bill. And in the meantime I'm too scared to do a mayday.

I see layering costs upon costs as the biggest threat facing struggling families.

Examples:

 

Price of something worth $50.00 goes up10%, that triggers a 10% rise in the GST, SO THE COST GOES UP $5.00 PLUS 50 CENTS = $5.50

 

Private power companies have split themselves into two; the wholesale company which buys power off the power generator (both making a profit), and the retail company who not only sells the power at the elevated price but adds a margin on also, plus GST.

 

For people in the City - Toll accounts with prices based on formulae which return a full cpi increase, when their costs are going down - My tolol bill now is about $700.00 per year.

 

Meat and other primary produce where three or four selling and distribution companies may take a profit before the product is sold, for example some bacon sold in Australia onlly has packaging and distribution done here.

 

Spare parts some parts, such as some spark plug leads have gone from around 500 profit to 170 times the cost, and the GST goes on top of the sale price.

 

LP Gas, where we now buy gas pumped from Bass Strait, from China.

 

Land, which is bought from farmers at around $6000.00 per hectare and goes up though agent upon agent to finally be land-banked for a few years, creating the "Shortage" for which young couples have to pay (guess) $600,000 per block (and they aren't quarter acre blocks).

 

There's a LOT of fat in that lot to ease your burden Bruce.

 

 

We live in a nanny state looking for someone to pay out for the stupidity or self-interest of others IMHO, while collecting significant fees. I have seen it play out during jury duty

You mentioned you were not up with the latest regulations and rules; this thread shows the precedent case for public liability Donoghue v Stevenson - Wikipedia,

and the "Public Liability" thread has a lot of examples of how things are now different to the way they were. Once you get the hang of it, it can be easier to work with because to have a lot more control over how you meet safe standards.

 

Regarding Asbestos, USEPA has just moved responsibility over to Industry, but if the other information about air quality are correct, PM10 and PM2.5 emission levels could become important for aircraft engine builders. The car and truck industry has reduced particulates by 97% since 1992, and that would be the likely starting benchmark.

 

 

I would not have used the ambulance ever, so the $80 a year is a lot of money I reckon.Gosh its getting harder to be a cheapskate. But I'm going to keep trying.

The Edenhope knackery truck will cost you more.

 

 

Not using asbestos isn’t going to hurt you.

 

Not keeping up with your legal obligations could.

 

 

I'm not suggesting anything, but to do your own research. . That's pretty clear in my post.. I think most have had enough of the matter and enough damage has been done already. Nev

Which is a good reason not to pour petrol onto an election. The RAA figures, which no one has contradicted cover 43 aircraft published in the RAA magazines from Feb 07, to March 12 and includes 2 engine makes and is included in the information you are referring to.

 

 

Are you suggesting they posted information in their magazine that didn’t occur?

 

 

I am not up to date with changes to regulations and laws. Hopefully someone with infinitely more wisdom than I will get it right.

If you ignore them, your first piece of education is likely to come in the form of a writ.

 

 

Just forgetting PFAS for the moment, USEPA changes mean that US manufacturers can reintroduce asbestos, but any medical issues become their responsibility. That could lead to something as simple as encapsulated asbestos heat shields, lowering costs and posing no risk to the community.

 

 

Only Trump will stand up to the EPAEPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

I can understand the need to explain the changing legal era 30 times to some people, but I thought you would pick up on it. It’s no longer possible to sue USEPA over asbestos, and apparently other airborne materials. The victims now go straight to the perps, which is a quicker and more cost effective way of wiping them out. Previously offenders could tie EPA up in the courts arguing that EPA figures were wrong/unfair etc

 

 

are the mob are overstating the threat of PFAS to force the cleanup?

If this is really of any interest to you, go to the USEPA website and you'll be able to find out for yourself; I've found over the years that they are one of the most conscientious and thorough public bodies in the world. It's not always easy to get the definitive and compelling data, but it's always there.

 

 

CAAP 166-1 (3)

 

7.2.1 “Effective radio communication requires the pilot to use standard aviation phraseology as detailed in the Flight Radiotelephone Operator Licence Syllabus of Training.”

 

Link to Flight Radiotelephone Operator Licence Syllabus of Training

 

Flight Radiotelephone Operator Licence – Syllabus of Training

 

CAR 183 1988 - replaces Aeronautical radio operator certificate of proficiency.

 

Aeronautical Radio Operator Certificate (AROC)

 

The Syllabus calls up this book:

 

http://aviationtheory.net.au/shop/student-and-recreational/flight-radio-for-pilots-vfr-operations/

 

There is some information on standard words, pronunciation, and phrases here:

 

https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/aip/general.pdf

 

 

There’s a Tunks Alert for the Lower South East and Western Victoria, but it didn’t go to the vets.

 

 

Might have been a slight exaggeration.