turboplanner

All good fatigue information, except coffee, which as a diuretic, reduces the P stop intervals....or gives you a great deal of discomfort and distraction.

However, what I posted about was for more adrenaline driven flights, which I think was similar to the McCarthy experience. It doesn't hurt to do this for all flights either.

Particularly after a two or three hour cross country, or after a challenging flight (weather/nav/people throwing up etc), I make a mental effort to get fully alert before the let down for the destination field - go through it in my head, visualise what the wind's going to do etc. If I'm not sloppy on the easy things at the start, then I don't have those little things to correct and can give each stage my full attention. I'm much better now than when I just dropped in, did the circuit half asleep, then tried to focus after the roundout.

.....goose, which remains attached to him to this day. "what's a ............................"

Got to love that they intend to have in place before the responses are due back."in order to update the Civil Aviation (Fees) Regulations 1995 with the new fees by the 31 March 2015"

 

"Responses should be received by COB 23 April 2015"

But Geoff a near miss is a hit.

Near is the adjective describing the miss.

So if CASA delegates to a private party it escapes the potential for liability if it is not negligent + massive saving A+BThis is the case with GA with delegations to issue authorisations for maintenance, experimental certificates, flight reviews etc.

When CASA starts being actively involved in the activities is when it starts having problems. Have a look at the court cases in relation to a gliding accident at Goulburn. CASA escaped scot free. In contrast the coroner was dismissive of the GFA culture in a recent hearing into a fatality at Goulburn.

"The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) was established on 6 July 1995 as an independent statutory authority. Under section 8 of the, Civil Aviation Act 1988, CASA is a body corporate separate from the Commonwealth."

When government sets up these independent authorities, and those authorities start making up rules, which previously had to go through the scrutiny of two houses of Parliament, they can sometime re-assume risk via the authority, it's usually an unfair, ad hoc system.

If you were the Minister and went along to the Sporting Shooters Association, and said "Hey, guys, we were thinking about setting up the "Sporting Shooters Safety Authority" to make up rules for you, prosecute you when you broke the rules we made up, tell you where you can and can't shoot, what specifications are legal and what are illegal (which we will decide ourselves over a cup of coffee each Monday), he would be laughed out of the office.

What I was suggesting in post #24 was:

Close down CASA and re-institute a Department of Civil Aviation (or an aviation section of DIRD), which would then free up several Incorporated Associations to self administer their specialties, more or less what the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia have today.

Limiting claims lowers cost. Insurance is not paid by government - I dont get your point.

An example was Victoria's Department of Labour and Industry which was responsible for inspecting all cranes, chains and equipment, and issuing Certificates if they passed their tests.

The DLI was closed down, and operators are now responsible for their own safety.

If someone is injured, they sue the operator for negligence.

These days:

The government isn't involved in the activity, so it's not going to be sued = massive saving A

The government doesn't have to track down every little factory, and check measurements and specifications = massive saving B

And in answer to your post #28 about my unruly content in Post #24, you realise that we have totally departed from the succinct information which I posted, and insurance has nothing to do with it.

Best wishes for your attempt to put the Genie back into the bottle.

The went the other way in the 1980's to save taxpayers' money, they've kept going further in that direction, and the system has been working very well. Costs are being paid by the careless, si I doubt that there would be a 180 turn for one tiny recreational sector.

Dont have a problem with third party insurance so long as the injured parties (including their relatives) are not in my aircraft - anyone who gets into a recreational aircraft is presumed to understand the risks - see the various court cases.

Easy fix, shut down CASA, and operate the private aviation segments as fully self administering bodies reporting direct to the Department.

Major reason against that is the unruly content on social media over the past decade. indicating the sports are not responsible enough, and the Department could have a contingent liability.

Works fine in other sports.

Based on those theories the members could do away with the board members. You don't need a group of Colonel Blimps airing their thoughts and views to people who have the job of making the day to day decisions; better to have them report what they've done monthly to the members, have delelgate an non-delegated decision guidelines, and get member guidance (by electronic vote) before making non-delegated decisions. That would have saved a heap of "board expenses" in the past 12 months, and the members would always know what was going on.

I asked for that didn't I................

Yet no one can give a simple explanation of what happened?

...Lord Gerald Hatso of Khartoum, who in his later years became very erratic in the House of Lords, recommending Capital Punishment in all the largest Cities in The Empire, which, many people might not realise, is why we call them Capital Cities today.

Gerry used to take great delight during parliamentary recesses in tormenting the geese in Hyde Park, much to the irritation of Lord Octave of Oboe, who invented a Mutation Powder which changed the DNA of the geese and gave them the personalities of pterodactyls, even though they remained a key link in the evolution of the human chain.

Scholars (which rules out Ratso and Loxette) believe this was the moment that succeeding members of the male line terminating with Hatso have always worn long dresses, and....

I agree.

Fair enough , well the other job you can do is get at least 2,500 to vote at the next election because I'm not getting excited until that happens.

Do a bit of research on Senate Committees and how they work K.

Usually it's about six people grilling someone way beyond where he wanted to go.

The base policy needs to be turned on its head to make the industry thrive, yes.

I haven't worked that out yet.

A Committee needs to uncover hard evidence before making their recommendation, and while some of the Senators are very astute, I think the subject matter needs to be narrow, like an executive summary, which will then lead to a wider number of people with detailed knowledge being able to participate.

we'll do another study and report :-(

David Forsyth handed over his report last June and it dropped like a rock.

The laugh was on the people who took part in the "blowing off steam exercise"

I'm more in favour of a Senate Committee having scouted out a couple the week before last, the benefits being:

• The agenda is a little wider than the Minister's comfort zone
   
   
  
• The Senate has the power to summons people before it and compel them to give sworn evidence
   
   
  
• A Senate Committee has members from both the major parties
   
   
  

"C c oo oo ookie was back in Cookietown", and immediately his face went bright red because he realised he had let the cat out of the bag, and from now on..............

No, there was a very fruity series of posts. Probably best if we stay away from it.

Hardly an extensive thread, Turbs... 5 replies.One of four trike pilots allegedly wrapped himself in the fence on final during a formation arrival. No injury to anyone other than himself and hopefully not serious injuries.

 

Report by one resident of residents being annoyed about allegedly low flying of trikes in formation and concern by another about the number of accidents that had allegedly occurred at YYWG. I'd suggest neither the allegation nor the concerns expressed hold up to scrutiny.

 

PPrune commentators are sometimes not the most informed in the aviation world, I find :-)

 

Kaz

The so-called Forsyth report has come and gone, which is no surprise considering that virtually all of the submissions were simple assertions rather than hard evidence which could be worked on. Simply saying the people at CASA are bastards, doesn't give the government of the day any chance of taking action.