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...MODERATED, you should not give Madge an opportunity because.......

.........he is such an elegant writer; original too, with humour to die for; probabily the best we've seen in.....

All true Turbs, but I'm tired of hearing that horey old excuse about our small local market.Sweden, with less than half our population (and NOT part of the EU) built two successful indigenous car brands; their armaments industry manufactured their own weapons systems, fighter planes, subs... and still had money left over for a high living standard.

I just corrected your last loony left statement FT, but I can't entertain myself all day with each new fantasy as it unfolds.

I'm old enough to remember how Australia was in panic after WW2 because the country couldn't build an engine, let alone an aero one. So the government orchestrated Holden cars and then others, to make us more self-reliant.Now the government is doing the opposite. How can they justify this ? Maybe they want everybody to be on Newstart.

...Bruce

Gough Whitlam started it with the wishful thought that Australians should get off their backside and compete on the world market.

Senator Button set it on a course beyond any return with the Button Plan.

The problem with their line of thinking was that the Australian annual car volume was about a morning's work for any of the European, American or Japanese manufacturers, with similar critical mass issues for many other industries.

The woollen goods industries went first, lowering the incomes of sheep producers to near break even.

Food industries crashed.

The automotive industry took a long time to die, mainly because successive governments realised the horrible mistake which had been made, and tried to pump money into the industries, but this only made things worse. For example Holden had reached a point of building about 500 cars a day in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, providing benefits for thousands of families in those cities, but in the continuing effort to get competitive with the overseas manufacturers, shut down the old plants and built a single computer aided manufacturing line at Elizabeth in South Australia.

Even that has finally succumbed.

So yes, it was the government, but two governments several decades ago which produced the result you see now.

Congratulations to Dick this morning for getting an Order of Australia award.

Main reason was his philanthropy and contribution to Australia.

Among other things he started the Variety Bash, which over the years has raised $200 million for charity.

Problem solved out here; you can now buy a 3/4 Latte. You can look the part on the street, have a lower fat and caffeine intake, and save some money.

What is amazing though is people buying bottled tap water and paying more than for petrol, milk, or any number of complex drinks.

You need to try your theories out on CASA; they'll be the ones ramp checking you and asking the questions if there's an incident.

There is no difference between RAA and any other sport. It's been user pays for years. Where have you been.

..........."the Rotax 912 is the best engine ever known to man, but....."

And just an aside ,,has anyone tried to open and use a paper chart in an open cockpit machine or seen the lack of space to store paper ersa,s etc that we are REQUIRED to carry and use if we would like to attend flyins etc .This not only impractical ,but also dangerous especially in a pusher aircraft ,, and the reliability of modern gps/tablets need to be addressed {turbo take note} and maybe to allow more 95.10 machines to attend an exemption to carry and use paper should be investigated,,,the 95.10 machines are not dissapearing they are still out there, just to much impractical rules to0 attend ,so most just say bugger it let the plastics/spam cans do their thing ,i,ll just fly around the paddock...........Also being made to feel like lepers the rag and tube mob have a bit of pride and that hurts too.

Paper charts have been used in cockpits since the beginning of aviation. There are techniques you can use to handle them, which are usually taught during navigation training, starting with clear overlay which allows multiple routes to be marked in chinagraph, and stops most of the flapping........talk to an old hand.

I'm not sure what I need to take note of about gps/tablets, but here's a link to a fairly well specified GA aircraft which crashed due to gps error: https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24535/AO200402797.pdf

bull, I have made at least two attempts to get the rag and tube people to come together on this forum and discuss any issues which are holding back this section, because I don't believe the board or the association are putting impediments, or costs, in the way of affordable flying.

On the two occasions where it looked like a conversation might get going, no one came up with any financial impediment to flying at all, no one came up with any evidence of where the pseudo GA aircraft and members were squeezing them out, and both threads petered out very quickly.

The truth is, you can still build your aircraft and you can still fly your aircraft.

As for the electronic magazine, I also operate a prepaid modem to get fast download speeds, and sometimes work right through the night with a continuous live download. For that I buy modem time from Telstra in $100.00 blocks and it costs me between $5.00 and $7.50 for the whole night.

In my local shipping centre there once was a large Newsagent, with three long aisles, six displays, around 20 metres long, with magazines from all round the world. It has disappeared and today there is a short line of daily newspapers in the Supermarket tobacco section.

Time to move into the 21st Century.

......morse control, kicking the engine to full throttle. He pis.................

..........Salty, who'd loved seafood and had never been to the BoB. He'd been brought up in downtown Dandenong, when it wasn't......

Agree Andy, but RAA have done a hopeless job of explaining the seriousness of the situation.

......she sized him up, she sized him down, then......

.......get the courage up enough to make......

Even on stupidly long bike trips I have never nodded off; but have done so far too often in the comfort of my insulated road box.

....view of the beautiful hills and streams"

"Because he's had years to perfect those CF (NOT avref) prisms after starting with duct tape and Ford F100 mirrors on his Drifter" called Turbo over the radio, using normal RA radio protocol.

"They were very obvious" continued Turbo, whose squelch was really something to see, but the girls were Queen.........."

Just then a Dash Hate broke in "Y................."

Franco, Sue has already told us that the AUF/RAA got fatalities down to 1 in 1996 and 1 in 2008.

Right now, with a lot of Jabiru owners wanting to get the CASA instrument lifted, is not the time to be publicly broadcasting against anything other than a maximum safety effort.

I haven't checked the statistics, but I would think there would be less fatigue crashes and highway excursions with bikes than cars, mainly because they are away from the stop/start/didn't see you issues and able to cruise at a more constant speed. BTE have an online record of every fatal in Australia, going back a lot of years, with quite a lot available to the public, but I haven't checked the bikes to see if wire cables feature in any of the crashes.

I've been expecting the hockey-stick effect for about five years now, because we are coming to the end of the "big change" impact of seat belts/RBT/massive crash improvements in construction (so these days someone can do the most stupid thing, and there they are still sitting uninjured inside a completely trashed car. I think the reason it hasn't happened before now is the huge improvement in highway infrastructure with cabling.

I know you'll say the bikes go through the grater, but I've been having a few discussions lately and it seems that where people have been hurt it is more a case of incorrect cable installation. As much as they look tight, they are designed as a slack resistance, to deform quite substantially, progressively like an aircraft carrier arrestor. It would be interesting now with a few years under the belt to see what the bike guys are saying.

.....has that look in his which says "this is going to work out very well indeed"

She has that look in here eye that says "I'll pull the throttle on downwind, and he'll be shaking so much that he'll forget all about it, but if that doesn't work, I'll........"

........sharer Madge is, especially when he..............

...Hatso's Annual Shower, or even Ratso's ten second effort, and without...................

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Try googling "CASA caves in" which was how I got it.