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The family always keeps a seat in their corporate boxes at the football, soccer, and the Melbourne Cup for Turbo, who helped them out after that smash by grafting an old B727 front on, and the airliner now does steady work in West Africa.

The gold logo shown on the banged up plane was designed by Turbo, and is aboriginal for "place of plenty concrete", or it can mean..........

It was a Pom story, along with the other one about the driver who hit and badly injured a roo, so he took off his coat and put it around the roo which promptly recovered its sense and hopped off with his coat containing his wallet.

I remember that Broken Hill mail plane. Whose was it, Arthur something? It always looked knocked about.

....breeze.

"He's the ONLY one attending AUF Board Meetings" laughed Harriet who had a thing for Madge, and...

....."as Barnaby Joyce said today, unless Bronwyn resigns, they'll investigate everyone, and the only person left will be........"

Wonder who put the Youtube video together and why they used digital script.

Monday.

In the last photo you can see luxuriant growth from a line of Pearus Prickulos supplied from Turbo's "Just Paspalum, Prickly Pear and Pattersons Delight" business.

You can see how fast they grown from the heap of potting mix our Centrelink helpers had to run from.

This photo was taken by one of Turbo's secret cameras, on his private road (well he considers it that) down to his water ski holiday house at Half Moon Bay.

He'd had problems with bike riders holding up the Corvette, not paying toll fees or registration, and p$ssing by the side of the road. You can't hear the sound here, but one of them has been caught by the elevator (avref) in the PP, which will quickly grow out toward the road forcing these cyclists into the path of people who tow ski boats (and we know what THEY'RE like.)

"It solve several problems at once" said Turbo, holding up a "Just PP" pamphlet, and not only that ........"

......Loxie has joined.............................

No, go and have a look at the definition of VFR.

The "horizon" I'm referring to can be a series of lights.

Night flying is a big, and sometimes scary (depending on how much equipment the aircraft has) step up from day flying. On a dark night I fail to see the deference between IMC if you are in sparsely populated country.

Too many people have confused that meaning over the years and paid for it with their lives - it is not an IMC rating.

It isn't suitable for cross-country flying at night since weather patterns change, and farm density varies - in wheat country the house lights are too far apart to provide a horizon.

Many people get the endorsement in case they fail to make their destination by last light, but again, unless you can see a horizon, you need an IMC rating, as we saw with the Angel Flight crash in the Wimmera.

.......shown the door.

"We have enough trouble with the real thing" said Turbo "without letting........................."

Nev is though.....

Now I dont think that would in any way class as a comercial purpose.

Where does it say that CAR 2(7) etc. is an exemption from CAR 206?CAR 2(7) are definitions for the purposes of the (Civil Aviation) Regulations i.e. general blanket definitions

 

CAR 206 are definitions for subsection 27(9) of the (Civil Aviation) Act i.e. very specific - and also referenced in part by CAR 2(7)

 

So CAR 206 should override CAR 2(7), for the specific sections to which it applies.

CAR 206 gives the blanket definition - making this flight illegal.

CAR 2(7)(iv) gives and exemption when NO MONEY AT ALL changes hands either for the pilot or aircraft - again confirming this flight was illegal.

Nothing murky about that.

CASA's interest in ensuring Private Pilots and RPCs don't charge, or take more than a 50% share, is to ensure commercial flights are carried out by people who are trained and skilled to Commercial Pilot Licence level.

.........men are men, and women are fast, and.............

but if you payed $1 for aircraft hire, then its a cost share... all good.

"........I dance like Michael Johnson.; in fact................................."

Nes readers will note the name of the group in front of Turbo's home, Bangtan Boys.

The last part of the name for this group of young Australian locals comes from their names; Tan Shu, Tan Phu, Tan Ou, Tan Du and Tan Wu.

I agree with you Chocolate, there's no excuse for acronyms in the digital age, and worse, it seems they create enough confusion and reluctance to learn that it's affecting safety.

When thousands of pilots were flying every day in WW2 and there were no word processors, acronyms made sense, and in daily use were easily remembered along with morse code.

In the 1950 - 1980 period it was fashionable to fling the acronyms around the bars and tables to impress students and families, some people being able to concoct almost complete sentences of acronyms. Their flying of course usually didn't reflect this superior knowledge.

This habit has carried over to today where people boast about a flying trip to YSMI when even they had to look it up, and virtually no one reading the story has a clue where it is.

Today a commercial pilot flying every day would know them, but starts to get dangerous to expect recreational pilots, flying 20 - 50 hours a week to remember them.

You're just as bad as the people you accuse.

Read it again, the ABC didn't say "We said etc", they said "AUTHORITIES said"

The Broken Hill mail plane was a Cherokee six. You could pay about $30.00 and go for the day, with lunch at one of the stations, a quick tour around Mootwingee (the real one) and about 20 landings.

On one one occasion we landed in scrub with shrubbery thumping the leading edge of the wings and an emu running beside us.

I think I described my conversion from GA to RA as "standing up in a canoe" - a major difference in skills required compared to a high speed cruising aircraft, the differences primarily being aeronautical knowledge rather than which lever to pull and push.

Interesting to know who his RA instructor was.

This was a Lance, not a Cherokee six. Lances need power on approach or they sink like a brick, they usually settle well, they certainly do NOT float unless you have way too much speed.

The pilot converted it to a Lance during the landing.

So, landing downwind, flopped on and skidded off before the bitumen - wonder if he'd ever done an endorsement, or just exercised his current right to fly a bigger single?

Yes the ATSB report confirms aerial mustering.

Interesting that ATSB is on the case as well as RAA.