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.......handfull of free passes to the next Fieries Competition day where fieries run, squirt hoses, climb up ladders and tell stories.

"What do they talk about?" asked FlyingVisual.

"Oh, registration delays and things" said A5 "which Hatshat knows nothing about" he added just to keep the conversation going.

He'd hit a bit closer to home than he usually did because when Hatshat had done the leakdown test and found all the life had leaked out of the UNOWAT (see Harriet, I didn't bash it), he decided to go for a fly in the White Knuckle bar driven hedge banger (which most of them seem to be used for.

Firstly it didn't have a sticker, then there were the modifications - the club armchair which was the only thing big enough to take his rear end.

And then, to cap it all off.......

I wonder what will it take to get the message to the Board that not enough is being done - soon enough?

'........crawler like SmirkingRat who not only gives compliments he doesn't mean but sits beside the Olympic Highway with bunches of daffodils he's picked from the Wagga Wagga Botanical Garden (no that's not a spelling mistake Duzza) with a sign saying $10.00 per bag, and......."

Great work Ayavner, so after having gone through the exercise, and recovered track, what is your advice to people who just take off on cross countries with a gps and no nav skills or maps?

.......which as we all know has a similar use to the number of Black Orpington chooks with one leg and a smile on their face slaughtered each year, or.....

.........builds up pressure and then there's the inevitable explosion. Dorothea MacKellar didn't write "this wide brown land for me" accidentally - she lived in the area!

"Where was that?" asked A6, always keen for knowledge. "I...."

.....spar [AT]

Mr Blank was the academic who reported the drowning of a fellow academic in a creek "of average depth eighteen inches", but when it came to practical avoidance he had no statistics for pins hitting spars, and so had been unable to simply use the non-academic solution and pull his spar out of the way.

"OW!" he said "What....."

This is a bit delicate dodo; it wasn't that long ago that someone was trying to morph it into and Industrial estate, and it has certain value in that case.

If the flyers can come together a 45/50 year loan might be worth looking at.

..........."OH NO" he gasped when he saw Hatshat topple over; the pressure had been building for days and the Rat had unwittingly walked up to Hat at a perilous moment just as he crested a hill.

Over he went and after one full circle roll there was a loud "PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPP", which like a jet thruster on a lunar module increased the revolutions.

The brown spray caught Ratso on the whiskers and he wasn't quite quick enough closing his mouth. "PPPPPPPRRRRRRRPPPPPPP" is went again and Hatshat's velocity reach catherine wheel proportions and he was rolling along at near 50 km/hr "PPPPPRRRRRRRRPPPPPP" it went again, and he took off and flew through the air. "PPPPRRRRPPPP" and he broke five hundred feet. No crop sprayer looked so spectacular with the setting sun behind him.

Hatshat was still rotating like a catherine wheel and had reached seven hundred feet, although he was having problems orientating himself. "PPPprrrrrpppptttt...t....t....t and a very familar circumstance presented itself.

Like a homer pigeon he assumed the position and headed for the nearest paddock. With a red face and one last PPPRRRP he arrested his descent (decent), and landed as lightly as a feather.

"That's the longest flight I've ever had!" he exclaimed joyously, "and if....."

COSTS

I should have said the potential liabilities

These are from crashes, aftermath of crashes, legal costs, claims, need to take constant action, redraft legislation etc to minimise claims etc in terms of costs to the Government.

BENEFITS

It's hard to get these up into the tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

"The Coalition supports efforts to facilitate..."WTF? the weasel words were coming thick and fast, but not saying much of any substance.

OME

The liability implications far outweigh expanding non-RPT flying in Australia financially right now; We (and I'm including GA) brought that on ourselves with our safety standards. Fix that and the equation changes to the point where expanding it might be practical. They aren't looking at it from the same viewpoint we are.

....bloody young female Drifter riders could become full Army Majors in just 16 years, and pretty ones at that....why I 'll tell ya.........those bloody Drifter pilots should all be..............

Marmalade was showing an unusually fast turn of speed since discovering that of all his passengers, six were still alive; three were due to come out of trauma training in 2017, two had been found plaiting dingo pelts for the Cecil Plains Ristorante chairs, and one after a long sixteen years had finally been promoted to the level of Major, which we all know to our acute pain and embarrassment can mean almost anything, except.......

Hatshat exuded at Natfly and fire appliances were called in from all over southern NSW, including the land cruiser from Gumley Gumley. "Bring your own water" came over the radio "we've run out here"

It took us two weeks of hard hosing to get Temora recognisable as a Riverina town and not an outback shantytown.

"Of course, to make it really authentic we had to tow in 35 VE Valiants, 40 HQ's and 17 Land Rovers, but it looks OK now" he reported

The Rat had remained rather quiet.............

.....couldn't do a leak down test if his life depended on it whereas.......

Here's one I didn't expect to find http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/47842477

A situation never to be repeated I would say Turbs. I didn't find the handshake that inspiring, but later I read of his achievements. Similar to finding that a bloke I was friends with and communicated on race car preparation for years was "Blackjack" Walker. Beauforts in the Coral Sea etc. They NEVER talked about it. He would come to the aero club and do a few circuits in his Auster, and put it away. No fuss no nuthin. Nev

It's peanuts. (The amount of money allocated) Nobody considers anything but airlines, and feeder services. The sale of airports goes on unabated . We used to have a minister for Civil Aviation. I shook D,G. Andersons hand when I got my private pilot's licence (with some others).. It's just not important anymore. Nev

It would be interesting to compare the cost of administering aviation, and the numbers of people administering in those pre-computer, pre-electronic communication days when we had one of the safest aviation systems in the world, if not the safest, with today.

With DIT we are paying for administration and diluted focus in all forms of transport, particularly rail, shipping etc. along with the completely different subject of Infrastructure.

If you shook the current equivalent's hand today FH, I'd be surprised if he understood what you were talking about.

6 million to invest. How far will that go?. Nothing here folks, move along.. Did I see GA or light aircraft mentioned? Nev

In the light of that, some of the one liners seem to infer things without saying them.

They have to win government first though, and a new Minister may take off in a different direction, whether he be Liberal/NP, or ALP

.......doesn't get his proxies, and Major Bumsore hasn't had his weeties in the morning, and............

"Have the p extracted and shipped to the southern markets - the mexicans eat them"

He heard a whining and looked over, recognising Harriet who had a protruding pineapple and was waiting for a PPRP.

"Jab basher ay" she yelled out, poor thing,.......

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.....and so on and so on.

There was a rumbling sound, and the ground began to shake. Could it be a Tsunami (soonarmy)?

Ten thousand hats flew past heading for the mountains.

To regular NES members (more information on the NES members forum where tales are told which rival those of Robert Louis Wilkinson), these were ominous signs that there wasn't going to be a leak this time;it would be the full service, and.................

....diplomatically get out of this one.

"Hello old chap" said Keith with Biggles like cameraderie (comradery)

"***^&%$##$##$" was the reply "%$%$#$#$ and get.............."

"....and make that much noise?"

But Keith had got the information from the horses mouth, and knew the true story, and there was a "shlumff" as the pineapple slammed home in an unexpected way which....

There's nothing like the grapevine for speed and accuracy Octave, you should talk to your own members.

I find it very disappointing that you would attempt to denigrate my sources without even knowing who they are.

I'm concerned with what has been done to a decent and honourable man, and that's why I recommended members find out for themselves.