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Every engine I have now, except the old Fergy and B275 tractors has an aluminium head. I learnt three things. 1. Plugs have a habit of seizing up in aluminium, and plenty of people have just wrenched the entire thread out of the head. 2. I use a tube of Herschell Copper grease anti-seize for all bolts into aluminium; tube has lasted for 10 years - problem solved. 3. I torque the spark plugs and all other bolts to the recommented figure. (I used to tear a lot of threads out).

it's not worth spending too much time on this, but they say passenger charges do not apply for private flights [ at the private terminal]. Of course if you blast in, park at the Commercial Terminal, you're going to be identified as using it, so Commercial, so seats apply.

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I did contribute a little of my time. The fees are based on weight for Private Pilots and weight plus passengers for Commercial. I plugged in Private, 760 kg MTOW and the landing fee was $19.20 Overnight parking: Private, 760 kg MTOW was $8.00 Total for Land and Overnight $27.20 You'll note he says "We were charged fees for the Terminal we were told we couldn't use." HI has two terminals, Private AC, and RPT/Charter (where passenger and other charges apply. From the figures quoted and the comments, it looks to me like they used the RPT Terminal, where a higher set of fees related to commercial flights are charged. The RPT/Charter fees also are not hard to find. Re the beacons, The Nav lights are not usually turned on during the day because they wouldn't make a difference, but the beacons are usually switched on at Pre-Takeoff checks, and switched off at After Landing checks. We had a thread on that some years ago, but RA aircraft beacons are still very low intensity and there's no formal procedure. It's worth having a look at these videos and picking the engine failure choices and how you would plan the flights.

This might be where Skippy's research kicks in. Horn Island advertising today landing fees $16.50 PER TONNE, min $16.50 If you want to use the RPT apron instead of the GA apron there is an extra RPT fee.

........tough questions. Turbo requests no one spread this, but he came home one night and there was a card stuck into the lock from an RSPCA Inspector (well above CASA FOI, and twenty times as officious.) It said:"A woman in a passing car had reported neglected stock to him; they had no water." It sounded like the Inspector had flown [averf] into a rage, and had written his mobile number as well looking for an urgent call back, to save the lives of the animals (which) were now well asleep in their hay. It was 11:30 pm; Standing there in the car headlights, Turbo dialled the number, and after a long time a grumpy voice said "Who's THIS!?" "Agent Turbine" replied Turbo, I'm looking at your card in my gate lock regarding no water for stock" The Inspector summoned his day persona and confidently said, in that I've got you! tone "Ah yes, bit of a worry, sir." "Did you go on to the property'?" "Oh No!" (he obviuosly knew how hard the Wallopers can hit with a telephone book), he said. "Did you look over the gate, and three metres away see a Stock Trough brimming with water, fed by a permanent pipe? The RSPCA became his best friend instantlyand from that ....................... Not many people know that Jesus was the forerunner to Siri. and Google, where you say Hey Google, can you tell me the landing fee at Canowindra and a voice says "The landing fee at Canowindra is $10.50." Prior to that people would say: "Jesus Christ!" in anger and get no answer. or they'd be driving in the wet, and say "Jesus!" as they aquaplaned and Jesus would check their record - confirmed? number of Church services, good deeds, landing fees paid, screwing around and his HP would spit out a yes or no, and he'd give the car a push back on line, or let it go into a tree. Jesus often complained to Turbo about Recreational Aviation pilots calling him all the time tosave them after they screwed up. "I can help some" he said, but I've got a lot of truckies to look after too."

Jesus! who let my cats out!!!!!!!!!

....ripple in the aviation industry, long forgotten compared to the Captain Cook II, a replica of the Endeavour made from South American balsa. Cappy was no Chemist, but he was pretty sure mentane would not lift anything. He knew though, that a cup of Nitro-Methane would blow up a basketball stadium. Nitro, after all, would send a dragster down the quarter mile in 3.51 seconds, so surely iit would hold the balsa ship in the air, and the sails would give him renewable energgy, but...........

You haven't mentioned NAIPS; Have a look at the whole current NAIPS process. When planning a flight you get different information from different sources then do your plan. If Landing Fees are a high priority, you might find a list there somewhere.

Nothing to do with ERSA OR scaremongering, someone just made a statement of fact. If there is a reasonably forseeable risk, you have the responsibility not to breach it. Someone has just posted about airports blocking access to those who don't have suitable PL coverage. I noticed the comments about Longreach; I, personally would identify that there is a reasonably foreeable risk that at Longreach I may be invvolved in a collision with an RPT or Charter aircraft and they may be arriving early or late. The reason I asked if anyone knew the cost of a $50 Million policy was to give people an idea of whether it was significant, or necessary to find a smaller airfield to use.

If you hadn't followed correct tracking, radio procedures, runway selection and you took out an RPT, or the RPT hit you and subsequently crashed, you could be up for an amount like this with a full load and deaths/long term injuries. Does anyone have any current policy prices for this coverage? I would think the extra distance to fly around these locations in a Recreational Aircraft would be a lot cheaper.

.......nursed his bruises. This was in the Real Time, when the bros switched from digging up clams, to eating fush and chups. New Zealand was getting a name as a tourist destination (if you like grass and sheep). A tourist couple from California had noticed the clever rugby play in the paddock, swore each other to silence, flew [avre] back to California and Copyrighted "The Los Angeles Rams" They quickly learned OT's moves, and became the most feared team in football. It's said that if you played them you always had to count your bits before you left the ground. In Western Australia (always know as "New Holland" because of their Dutch ........

.......studies. Albo in particular was not keen to lift the lid on this part of history, maintaining that there was enough New Zealand data out there already. I've read the book "The top one hundred sheep runs" That's what they are called over there, not "Stations" or "farms" - the NZ sheep are perpetually running and that's why...............

.........WOC protection throught the world. It's interesting the Cappy has brought us in print to the interesting prehistory of our Country. Not many people know the Dreamtime was real........but Uncle Turbo cautions that all the Bros know that it refers to BS stories. That's where the European saying "Yer Dreaman Eh" Some aboriginal historians have written amazing stories of the dreamtime, how aborigines were cropping most of Australia and breeding huge herds of sheep and cattle 60,000 years ago. Cappy's WOC story explains why we never see any evidence of this, and the reason is the sheep and cattle back 60,000 years had all named themselves. When the first settlers arrived they knew animals couldn't talk, so they killed and ate them, often at the BSB weekly Balls in the 1830s. They ran out of sheep and cattle, and had to import meat from His Majesty's Birmingham Meat Packing Ltd, but THEY, unlikee their predecessors learnt to breed sheep and cattle, and .......

.......down tower after tower,solider's memorials all over town. Cappy was in a panic; it wasonly one cat, they'd all say. He reached for his 357 Magnum, aimed for the nearest tower and shot it in the pussy. The reaction was unexpected.................

Most GA aircraft are four place and suited for cross-country flyingThere might only be one person around the hangar, but you may have missed the two that left at 4 am with 8 people, or the big singles with six on board going duck shooting on the rice. There's really not a lot of point in comparing two aircraft built for different application then one person slagging the guy who's perfectly happy in another application. I like Cherokee Sixes because they can land in scrub up to the wings, and when you have six sharing cross country trips out in the west or the outback vs one person flying an RA aircraft where it can go, you can see there are horses for courses.

.......runway, flicked it into a roll as the wheels left the ground, wings 90degrees on the roll into crosswind where he made his departure. And then the alarm clock went off, and he ..........

.......he knew that Cappy never gives up. He was 33 before he could ride his bike without falling off. His race car was a Gone Car because it was rarely off the grass, He flew like a kite; the J230 would be wallowing more than they normallydo; and he was sure to quietly reach into his pocket and pull out a can of OCPC...............

....So when Turbo wasn't looking, Cappy furtively brought out his "One Can Per Car" paint stripper, and removed the nice paint. Turbo was coughing for days and had lost most of his face, but Cappy helpfully said it would grow back again. When Turbo offered Cappy a Welcome to country, it became clear it didn't pay to be a First National or whatever they are now, so........................

.....tattooed Gurrugurrang style and dyed with Candy Apple Chevrolet Yellow. The GG Bros were into recreational flying with a smart line up of curved wing Thrusters. When Turbo asked them why the curve, Anthony replied, "Dey come back always then", and Turbo nodded his head with agreement. He was agreeing with everyone this week because you never know if Langley's looking at you, and for Cappy, this ................

....launched BrasRUs featuring rainbow colours worn by ................ Turbo is embarrassed to report that he failed the recent CIA Gun Tests. Sure, he had been out the night before at the IRISH bash and crash but it's just not fair.

It was upside down; this is quite common; come in for a landing with the nose too high, and the upwind wing too high and the aircraft will try to run off the runeway, lift off a rear wheel and run along headed off the runway on the nosewheel and downwind rear. A bit more wind and it will tip over and finish up on its back. This could have been the full tip.

......being pinched daily by the local coke consumers who.............

.....could remember every serial number of the boxes of Rinso which the drug cartels used as a base for Heroin (not many people know that, so NES readers are advised not to tell anyone of the might get garrotted or even worse ........)