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It could collapse and block the interior. Usual Procedure is to use a material which can be melted or collapsed inside the Carbon Fibre etc structure and extracted.

.....but Turbo just referred him to Turbine Grammar School for those whose prose is close, and signed him up for a Truster, requesting it be painted duck egg blue. Turbo patiently explained that it had taken six months to train Raj to paint using a black pot, and it would do his brain in if he was shown duck egg blue, but he could throw in heavy mains from a 1999 MAN and this ..................

Always check for sock puppets.

.........so Oh my goodness how much would you charge me per motor? "55 rupees" replied OT. Now this may see a remarkably cheap price for a complex engine in good running order, but there never was a Cat starter motor that didn't need 3 cans of Start ya Bastard and the starter motor rope tied to a Land Cruiser, or three hours with a set of SAE ring spanners. Cat would have been better off starting a relationship with Mr Briggs or Hank Stratton. The TAI Truster powered by CAT(REG) was an instant success, from that ear-shattering pop pop pop pop noise to its full fuse instead of the Thrusters appearance like a horse with its hind quarters sawn off. And they flew like birds. Very soon there were executives commuting all over India in Trusters for business, and they could carry a full suitcase including turbans. It was almost too good to be true..........................

....Approval from Raj Begum, Raj Saamuda, Raj Jandaklian, Raj Mahindra, Raj Tata and other senior members of the Australian truck industry. "We like it rough!" said Raj Peacock. Raj Mumbai came up with the great idea of ...............................

You've carried on about Part 103 for long enough. Part 103 is a United States class, not Australian, and it comes with US Safety standards. The constant BS about it send people away when they have the Australian equivalent to fly and the freedoms available in Australia. Most of these flyers operate under another Self Administering Organization where they can ger the correct information and guidance.

Which one do you want? What happens if, in an accident you become catapulted through the windscreen and the uncontrolled car kills a family vs the person with a seat belt still having control over the car. The system we have now allows high risk activity in many sports and recreational activities which might have been shut down under the previous State control on the grounds of affordability.

Obfuscation isn't going to help, it's the precedent that Australia works on, and last time I checked so did New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada.

As far as we know; the driver was quite happy wearing a safety harness and arm restraints. The driver wasn't stupid. He wasn't looking for a right not to wear a harness. The Chief Steward I mentioned was a Victorian Chief Steward flown to another state to investigate the accident. Step 1 in this case was the driver probably rushed back to the pits to jump in his car and forgot to do up his harness. Step 2 was that at all tracks there must be a Pit Steward in Pit Lane who goes down the line reaching in and grabbing the harness to make sure it's tight and fitting correctly. Normally this is enough to pick up those who forgot. Step 3 was the head on crash - unusual in racing where the car stopped dead and he was thrown up with his head hitting the roll cage. (roll cages must be roomy enough that no part of the body can hit the roll cage when you are restrained by the harness.) As far as your "Driver stupidity" is concerned which implies a normal driver wouldn't do that; having experienced the trauma of this event for all the people directly involved there was a night where we were called to the pits for an unscheduled race. We had to run back, jump in, get pushed into order in Pit Lane and get the car primed for a push start out onto the track. There was no Pit Steward in place to check the harnesses. I didn't notice that, but I always made a habit when the engine started, to pull the shoulder straps tight. This night they came loose in my hands. We were only going to get one roll around lap so I made the decision that if I couldn't get the harness done up by the time we rolled to the end of the straight (it involved both hands and some twisting), I'd pull onto the infield and out of the race. So in this case no one intended to let this go through, but just through check failures there could have been a fatal accident.

I've used a lot of hydraulics in my working life. If you've ever see the speed of drop when a strategic hose blows you become very wary from that time on. There are supposed to be restrictor valves fitted so the heavy mass drops slowly enough that you can get out of the way, but sometimes people forget. Sometimes an operator needs to get into town to have a new hose made up. Someone else may see the machine idle and needs to get it out of the way. The Tag is just a safety factor instead of going round everyone and telling them not to use the machine until you get back. Re the 1 metre off the ground..... The Falls from Heights legislation kicks in for anyone working more that two metres above the ground and follows a parade of fatals, paraplegics, quadriplegics etc. Cleaning your gutters was a good way to die; I know two people who did. You can have permanent rails, scaffolding or use a safety harness. I had to lop some trees and was very laid back with a chain saw from 30 years experience, but I buckled and bought a harness, rested an extension ladder on a branch about 4 metres up, and started to cut the outside extension. This one twisted my way and slid the ladder sideways and there I was hanging in mid air. I slid the chainsaw down on its rope, then realised the safety harness was locked and how I was going to feel when the fieries came out and said "Having a little look over the roofs this morning?" Luckily there was someone on site who put the ladder up again, I climbed on, took the weight off and lowered myself down. If I'm working on a shed roof, I throw the rope over the roof and attach it to the towbar of the ute, and someone moves the ute along as I work. I've had three slides, probably none of them where I was likely to go over the side, but it's surprising how easy it is to work with the harness.

It's a VERY important point to understand that what we've been talking about is UNintentional injury to others. The legal precedent that RA pilots, owners, administrators fly under is donaghue v stevenson [1932] ac 562.

I did read your posts. I also read the current iteration where you should have the freedom to do your own thing within reasons, not carrying passengers or flying near people. I also have a LOT of first hand experience of why things changed, how they changed and how to cope with the current era. I remember one night a Chief Steward rang me from another State. That State had asked us to investigate a death where a car had crashed head on into a safety fence, I remember him asking "He died of a massive head injury from hitting the roll cage. When the floor pan is full of blood, what does that mean?" He hadn't done his harness up. Living the dream.

Just because someone makes up a fairyland story doesn't mean he's correct. In most cases it means a person hasn't done his research. Prior to Self Administering Organizations, government departments prescribed rules you had to obey and there were consequences if you didn't. Today we have a big improvement in that we can make our own rules. If something goes wrong and we injure or kill someone, we have to pay, not the government. Characterising that is a waste of time and out of the 10,000 RAA members, most just walk away from the Sovereign Citizens. If you had read the information readily available you would know that you will be paying out if you don't inform your passenger the aircraft is not as safe as a 747 RPT flight and that its home built with some dodgy parts etc. Many advisers have reduced that down to "the warning is not worth the paper its written on." That's not quite true but close enough. A poster like you should have been up with the court cases where decisions were made on the placard. In my past we paid out about 5.6 million on points which included, we had "motor racing is dangerous" signs up but we didn't tell the victim he could make a claim. In another case a Club held a "Family night". One of the family was injured and we paid out because we hadn't said the night would be dangerous. Not addressing all the complexities of flying, is not being ready or covered, if one day you are the one the engine quit on, or you are the one the wing folded on. I would have thought from your past you would know just how many people don't bother being accountable for their actions and even abuse you when you point out the consequences. In flying the governments walked away from that crap and made us responsible. The clock is ticking.

Thread drift? CASA have a well ordered structure ranging from where they have direct responsibility through to the Sport Aviation self-administering organisations where the duty of care and responsibility moves to the Administrations, and that also ties in neatly with the Incorporated Associations that state and territory governments set up. So no secrets there. They don't have to worry about the Clag, paddle pop sticks and Bunnings bolts because the administrations carry the duty of care. That has allowed many thousands of people to fly at low cost with specifications never before allowed. At the same time it has allowed the builders of non traditional aircraft like trikes, powered parachutes etc to be administered by people who know the requirements of these sub-groups, and make their own decisions on safety rules , construction etc. Some confusion still exists because at the upper end of these groups, people have been flying into active CASA airspace and where that happens there is a need to learn and comply with CASA regulations. But generally as you say, the SAOs are on there own. Some just want freedom, not the responsibility, but there's no safety net; SAO means SAO.

No Idea.

.....his turban and asked what sort of deal he could get. Won track JR replied that for every Indian truck driver he signed them up to, he would get 30 cents, and since that was double what TTTG had offered he proudly signed a contract. and a couple of days later there was a Mail truck parked outside the front door with hundreds of affidavits. TTT created mayhem in the courts. It seems that each Raj had invented a new way of bending a truck and.......

....claim lost wages and injury to his elegant, great, and mistake-proof image, but the lawyers had to tell him their laptops were out of memory in day seven of Raj's sworn affidavit. Lead Barrister Mr Goblegravie saved the day by doing a document delete of "Oh My Goodness Gracious Me" There were 7,326 of them deleted. Raj wasn't happy .......................

Yes it is the job of RAA; they have a duty of care to ensure safe operations. In this case the material used for the part was not compatible with the heat level where it was being used, nothing to do with innovation, and something drilled into me in my first year of drafting.

True, but most companies would be using that material for the shape to build the tooling to produce the part in another material which has the specifications for the job. The aim for RA should be to strive for less failures, less injuries and less fatalities.

.......extensive tent. Not many people know that Cappy was once considered a potential Prime Minister of Australia. It was a nuisance for Turbo because he had to keep telling journalists he hadn't been shot in the XXXX up the Khyber Pass. Of course, even though it had been hard enough to get him to shoot some goat meat every day for the starving troops, we had to pretend he handle a rifle better than anyone in the British Army, and saved our lives with his last shot many times. Even Gunga Din campaigned for him but that went down when immigration named him Raj and sent him off the drive a truck. However, ...............

.......dutiful little soldiers into the jaws of ....... And we all remember those immortal words by Cappy on that fateful day, and the eyes down shuffling of the great unwashed. Cappy must have felt like Jesus when he turned the corner saw the cross and said "I'm XXXXXX"

.....more basic needs were met. However there was a severe backlash from both the rats and the toads. Captain Rat exploded "You are just treating us like ANIMALS!" and the meeting turned into a shambles nearly as great as the AUF's day of knives in Canberra when everyone who said they were going to say something didn't and there were 13,000 more proxy votes than voters and ...........

While I agree with loud turn indicators because they alert you to any tendency to stay on, here's a resiult despite the very loud Gear Up warning in a 182. These two were distracted, note the VERY late turn on to Final, then the immediate need to lose a lot of altitude, and at the same time not registering the loudest warning in the aircraft.

It's a mandatory requirement to provide a light which flashes, which caters for those losing their hearing. Sometimes you have to adapt to the equipment.

But Cappy, engrossed in his morning porridge combined with the latest actions of Vlodymyr, Vladimir (neither willing to share vowels), and Don forgot to add the (avref), which was a story about the Quicksilver GT400 (Avref 100%) heretofore introduced into the NES by the actions of Wontrak. ..........allow steroids in those locations to get an even chance against Wise Men From The East, and Mainlanders, but after a democratic meeting where every team had an equal vote, and .......