turboplanner

Sale/Lease of Oakey could open up a new airport in the region. My sister's inlaws are selling land in Highfields and Cabarlah and they keep hearing that the back half of the army base has been gifted to a party donor, they are also party donors. So the Cabarlah rumour seems legit but they also mentioned the helos leaving Oakey and a redevelopment[/QUote]That would be a crime FT, the land has to be auctioned or sold by public tender, so I'm not sure why you would post something like that.

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This is a correct statement BUT it has NEVER been policed by the ACMA. In 30 years selling radios this has never been asked of me and I have had plenty of dealings and meetings with then the ACMA, SMA and the many other dept names they have had over the past 30 years. Generally it was mainly applied to Ham radio sales but again NEVER policed.

Mark

Originally the licensing was to prevent overloading/ corruption of important/essential wireless transmissions, by untrained people, or certain individuals may have transmitted over the top of ABC News.

So it was essential to have some big sticks, and the last time I checked, the penalties were frightening. However, they've been very clever and seem to step in when someone is making a nuisance of themselves. From my experience one of them was never heard from again, the other, a notorious, truck i.e. CB troll who operated from his home and could blurt out a five minute unbroken stream of obscenities to the trickiest, was apparently dealt with so severely that he came back like a lamb, admitting he now had a licence and would not be using swear words or making a nuisance of himself.

 

 

I agree completely. I've always used Lexan visors. Apart from the strength and resilience of the material, it's also a lot more scratch resistant. It's a great polycarbonate material.

Sure is, I used to race speedway in an open face helmet with plastic dirt bike mask.

A rock came up one night and broke my nose. The mask was undamaged but just became a passenger on the big rock trying to crush my face.

 

Wore a full face with lexan after that painfull little incident.

 

 

Guy's/GirlsI have received a PM from a fellow member indicating that my language may not have been appropriate for this forum in this, I can only assume this was relating to my comments around being a moron, I apologize if I have offended anyone but please understand the importance of having and using a radio in your aircraft.

Aldo

PC alternative words might be:

 

In the place of moron: negligent

 

In the place of complete moron: culpably negligent

 

The IQ level would probably be down the scale though.

 

 

No need to get over-excited Kasper, he said he had his radio out of the aircraft when he hit the wire, so couldn't call for help.

 

Like a born again Christian, he's just taking no chances now.

 

What would be good is if all aircraft had a working, quality radio (that can hear and be heard clearly by everyone in the circuit), and the pilot had studied radio terminology and procedures - something that was pretty much standard in the late '60's of the last century.

 

That combination would be good for safe operations in any congested airports right up to the Capital City GA airports and we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

 

 

I get it, they just go to Uni for the coffee and chats and lying around on the lawns.

 

 

Wagners suing the farmers next door to the airport, the Pascoe's claims where [a bit] ridiculous but this could bankrupt them, $800K + expenses, and put their farm on the market. No doubt, the Berghoffer family will snap it up to build another high density housing estate.http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/crime-and-justice/wagners-sue-airport-opponent-for-defamation/news-story/66e227c8b81bddc941ee449587188ad0

A good example of why you should always stick to Planning facts in any public debate about a controversial planning issue, and stay away of accusing someone of being a crook, bastard or any other inflammatory language.

For all you journalist bashers, in the big news channels and newspapers mostly the stories go through their legal departments before publication, but this doesn't always happen.

 

 

He's actually Tony Abbot, but don't tell anyone.

 

 

Point and shoot again?

 

 

Not being on FaceAche I guess I miss out. Oh for the days when folks ran websites instead of exclusive facebook etc.

Time moves on, and Facebook is pulling away from the websites. FB is a lot more automatic, but it does suffer when it becomes so popular that you can't track different discussions, and that's where well managed sites like this one are holding their own. The RAA site is a good example of a dead site.

 

 

They are pretty good circuits 2t!

 

 

Cherokees are smazingly strong , built like tanks .

 

 

It can certainly be unfair country.

 

I came north a couple of days ago, and north of Bourke, NSW, the northern Australian weather pattern of green grass in December was evident.

 

At Cullamulla major highways to the east and west were closed by flood waters.

 

In Cullamurra the Warrego River was half way up its banks - something the town hasn't seen in years.

 

I drove west to Eulo and found the cattle in poor condition. They had been eating out the tops of the smaller trees, and it looked like a 70 km hedge.

 

The Paroo River was flooded.

 

Cunnamulla is about 600 km south of Ilfracombe, and while it was relatively dry, there will be big benefits from the rivers flowing to he south.

 

Driving north to Charleville, a couple of hundred kilometers away from Ilfracombe, the paddocks has turned green and on the Mitchell Highway all the way to Roma, the green grass was about half knee high.

 

Heading north from Roma, around Injune the grass was at shoulder height of the cattle.

 

There were three drovers in the long paddock on the Mitchell Highway, one with a Dodge Ram/fifth wheeler caravan, new Isuzu cattle truck, new horse float, and a mob of Charolais in beautiful condition with shiny coats that will see him skiing in Aspen once they are sold.

 

 

How kind of you to offer that opportunity to him FT - feelgood quote of the day!

 

 

Two sweaty fingers south of Cunnamulla.

 

After a day stranded here I'm quite impresssed with the place. Great caravan park on the Warrego river, with roos sleeping under the trees next to your caravan, great Visitor centre museum with a simulated lift shaft down to the strata of 80 millon years ago, great mechanic, great coffee.

 

 

I know how they feel but I'm sweating off the kilos with the studs sheared off a caravan hub in 35 deg. south of Cullamulla. Tow trucks gone to get some bolts so I'll at least limpin to town within two hours. Those old drovers wouldn't see a town around here in weeks.

 

 

I guess you are sticking to reference to the video in Jill's story for a reason, and that probably explains your comments, but Jill's story is her own story, and Australian story, not some US version.

 

 

How about Jill's story?

 

 

Don't want to open old wounds but want to point out about the cricketer Chris Gayle who apparently said something like I was waiting for you to see your blue eyes, maybe we can go for a drink later or something to that effect.Now he has been fined 10,000 smackers abd faces worldwide sanctions. I don't see anything wrong with what he said, he simply said to a reporter you have nice eyes and ask her for a drink.

 

Maybe he could have done it off field and off camera, but jeez I would be bankrupt in the billions if I got fined 10K everytime I did that.

 

Now just today there is uproar because a channel 7 presenter hugged miss universe australia who is now a coworker, massive uproar yet they both have come out and said we are best mates and we joke around like that off camera.

 

Both partys concerned have said there is nothing to it so that should be the end of the matter, bit no people who have nothing to do with the matter decide to cause ****.

 

http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2016/01/09/13/20/sunrise-bombarded-with-complaints-after-sports-reporter-hugs-new-weather-presenter

Last time I posted this story, which is the personal experience of Jill Stork, you said "Seen that street video ages ago"

 

It had nothing to do with any video, but shows how the constant clumsy male gets under women's skin.

 

Almost always it's followed by "What did I do WRONG!?"

 

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/so...d-by-street-sexual-harassment-20151216-glomep

 

 

Kidman and Ned Kelly both started out by rounding up and selling their neighbour's stray cattle, both about the same year I think. Both had successful careers in their subsequent chosen fields.

Wouldn't have done Sid much good - in the beginning he needed horses to pull his coaches. With his brother Sackville, he set up coachlines in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia and built up the biggest coach business in Australia, buying out a lot of the Cobb and Co routes. Needing horses to pull the coaches he bred his own, and from that went into breeding his own. His annual Kapunda horse sales were the biggest in the world, bringing thousands of people to the town. Seems hard to believe today when you drive through this quiet little spot. Sid went into cartage for outback mining ventures and took a bullock wagon full of hardware out to Cobar. The miners didn't have meat and were prepared to pay a fortune for it, so he went out of town, cut some tree branches, and built a leafy "shop" in the main street. He then butchered his bullocks and made a handsome profit on the trip, which allowed him to buy more cattle. He went into property late in life, and developed the successful model outlined by FT.

 

 

sell to your neighbours when its good, buy when its bad. get a job when your not farming

Been done already FT, by Sir Sidney Kidman, who started out with a horse and became around the fourth largest land owner in the world and immensely rich. He would buy a failing sheep station for very low money, fire the 40 employees, and replace them with 3 or 4, pull all the fences up and cart them down to the steel buyers in Adelaide, and in some cases spell the. usually, overgrazed land for up to five years, then put cattle on it, fatten them up, and start droving them towards the Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane market. At times he had ten thousand cattle on the roads to market. When prices went up he would speed up the mobs, and vice versa, with an uncanny ability to match the arrival of his stock with peak prices. His key tool in co-ordinating all this was the telegram, the forerunner to the text. When he arrived in a town in his horse and buggy, there would be a stack of telegrammes waiting for him with reports and prices etc. He returned his instructions by telegram, and then moved out in his horse and buggy. He usually did three round trips from Kapunda (SA) through Broken Hill, up into north west Queensland, down through western NSW and back to Kapunda. Nobody can sa he didn't work for his success.

 

 

sell to your neighbours when its good, buy when its bad. get a job when your not farming

Been done already FT, by Sir Sidney Kidman, who started out with a horse and became around the fourth largest land owner in the world and immensely rich. He would buy a failing sheep station for very low money, fire the 40 employees, and replace them with 3 or 4, pull all the fences up and cart them down to the steel buyers in Adelaide, and in some cases spell the. usually, overgrazed land for up to five years, then put cattle on it, fatten them up, and start droving them towards the Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane market. At times he had ten thousand cattle on the roads to market. When prices went up he would speed up the mobs, and vice versa, with an uncanny ability to match the arrival of his stock with peak prices. His key tool in co-ordinating all this was the telegram, the forerunner to the text. When he arrived in a town in his horse and buggy, there would be a stack of telegrammes waiting for him with reports and prices etc. He returned his instructions by telegram, and then moved out in his horse and buggy. He usually did three round trips from Kapunda (SA) through Broken Hill, up into north west Queensland, down through western NSW and back to Kapunda. Many people said he was an opportunist, or lucky, but none of them match his level of work.

 

 

Yes, it is entirely possible that a 'botched' 100-hourly could cause engine failure ( in any brand of engine). Hopefully, there will be a proper forensic analysis of the cause of failure and we will get the results.Proper forensic analysis (or, more accurately, the almost total lack thereof) of the causes of engine failures is a major problem in accepting the CASA justification for its determination on Jabiru engines. I don't wish to re-ignite this debate, but when, eventually, the actual CASA 'DATA' compilation that it has pinned it action upon is publicly revealed (as sometime it must), even the most die-hard antagonist against Jabiru engines will be forced to admit that the CASA 'DATA' is seriously suspect. The RAA has already stated as much.

 

Based on 'conventional wisdom' - always a dodgy measure - of Rotax engine failure analysis, the most likely cause of con-rods exiting the block is crankshaft failure. I refer you to : https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwibmOzKuJnKAhWi3aYKHYAVAsQQFgggMAE&url=http://www.recreationalflying.com/images/Smith%20and%20Guthrie%20Finding%20-%20Final.doc&usg=AFQjCNGM2DoUc4oFTxfiyw141_kLZuo3DA&cad=rja

 

Those who have followed engine failure sagas will be aware of the major Rotax SB on replacement of crankshafts.

 

Since the crankshaft and rods on a Rotax 912 are a 'one-piece' assembly, it is impossible for a 100-hourly to have any adverse effect on that assembly. As Nev has said above, inadequate lubrication would cause the mains to fail, which could have the cumulative effect of a broken shaft.

 

Given the circumstances of this particular forced landing, a tear-down of the engine SHOULD produce conclusive evidence of the root cause of the failure. For the sake of the safety of all Rotax 912 engine owners, hopefully this will happen and if any remedial action is required, it will be undertaken.

Go and have a cry Oscar, most of us are well aware of the spiders web of public statements at the times vs the routine reports compiled by RAA and none of all that relates to this forced landing

 

 

I'd like a good meal for everytime I've written here to get a good motor and find out what it feels like and you can compare yours with it, once you know what you are looking for.

Don't worry, I'll get on to meals on wheels for you.

 

Some verygood posts