turboplanner

There's some more information on this link; doesn't look like equipment failure.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/injured-bushwalker-dies-while-being-winched-to-safety-by-ambulance-officers-in-a-helicopter-near-mansfield/story-fni0fit3-1226708104914

Nothing at all within the CASA stuff for Aircraft Weight Control.Some years ago I recall there was an Australian equivalent to

 

BS 185-1:1969, Glossary of aeronautical and astronautical termsGeneral

 

from http://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000000126461

 

This book may do you http://www.asa2fly.com/Dictionary-of-Aeronautical-Terms-P1763C58.aspx but I don't know if it is in there.

 

AUW can be greater than MTOW (may not be legal - or it could be legal). Words have specific meanings and AUW is simply an abbreviation for All Up Weight as you stated - no definition required - it is what those words state it is. Weight, all up.

 

Feel free to quote me.

So you would get an AUW figure from overheads scales/weighbridge etc., and PROVIDED the specification meat that required for MTOW, then you could see whether you were legal, or overweight.

Because the authorities are only interested in whether a machine meets the critical specifications they require they only need to publish the critical acronyms.

Constable Doubtfire.

It was all because Constable Doubtfire hadn't given the secret signal which says "I'm Constable or I'm a fairy fiary" (full details will be posted on the members portal in a month or so)

Lox had made the move and.......

(a) Kaz, you aren't doing any of us any favours

(b) Knowing what I know now, and particularly in the light of the Tatlock statement 2 above, agreeing that he should be left alone, I'd recommend that all members make sure they find out what went on, and not from the board members.

Yep....Kaz

In this case the employer is the membership of RAA, who have every right to know what is going on, and who should be fired.

I'm afraid Major you're going to have to get in there and kick arse - this is absolutely disgraceful.

....stroking his slimy grey skin, and.....

With the personalities involved it would be more reliable to write a letter to Santa.

But the springs were loose in the bed.

"...that dirty rat made up a poem about me, which went:

Ahlot the harlot lay dying

A P$sspot supported his head

....

We run GA and RAAus schools 'back-to-back'. There is an imperative here to have the same SMS for both.happy days,

However the most serious issue at present is that you are operating without ANY safety management system and there are huge legal implications in that.

Yes, I agree, but one must vent their spleen. I've been on the other side of the fence many times. I am however a little confused, is not this entire debacle a result of RAAus NOT doing their job properly in the first place or have I been mislead? I rang today and politely asked what's going on. I was told I might get my rego before the weekend. That would be nice.

They in turn put pressure on one or two employees of RAA, who, instead of grounding the aircraft until they became compliant, tried to be helpful by re-registering the aircraft.

Over many years, many hundreds of aircraft became non-compliant; you only have to read the threads on this site to see some of the attitudes which led to that.

CASA was forced to establish a procedure which, when completed, will ensure every single aircraft is identifiable, and conforms to legal specifications.

If the members had been less apathetic and made sure their board members actually stopped the imbeciles doing what they did, you would not have any delay; look on it as a bit of rough justice.

The clock is ticking

...the funniest thing since the day the Sergeant solved the problem of the Hog's Breath Cafe dog coming over and mating with the Police dog by pouring petrol on its........

"....first relative of one of the Roswell crash victims who got away before they could embalm him in blue liquid."

"His head IS bigger than normal, and he's got those squinty eyes" said Turbo helpfully "And he's...."

".......first rate fairy by us FNQuties."

"Don't you mean firey?" asked Turbo who was always nice to people.

"........."

"rebranded as Flighty Vision Dingo Grease."

"Another ploduct" said Nobu "they making more ploducts than Mirey Cylus"

It was already dark in North Queensland, it gets dark every morning at 8:30 am, and when...............

I agree FH; with probably a dozen engines around a farm from whipper snippers to bulldozers, the biggest killer is not starting them and boiling off the moisture, and getting oil into the top halves of the seals. A simple enough thing to do, but you just have to (a) remember and (b) not put it off.

Yes, cool Mike, thank you, that is the one. Would be fun to get in touch with the owner. And I got more excited about the move of the plane, when someone told me, that I would be allowed to fly it with the Dutch registration (PH-CBO). Even if that is only temporarily, it would give me heaps of time for paperwork.I could try and fill the tanks with applestroop, or do you think the customs would find out?

'.....I'm about to slur another wuddled murd"

"GEEZ" said Turbo in the rush for the door. "You dropped a live one that time!"

As they all stood out in the freezing cold waiting for the room to hear, there was the familiar sound overhead of an engine with terminal knocking..........

I just read the life cycle of a B29 engine just after WW2 was 65 hours FH.

Bogan.

"I'm not from Logan" said Logan the Bogan.

"What are you inferring!" Said ....

"...are you a member of the old wives club?"

"Are you from Logan? said..............

Well that's not exactly what you were saying Herm, you were suggesting that because Jabiru had the greatest volume it follows that they should have the most problems.

In terms of general problems that is correct, logical, and will show up in statistics. However when a product has a specific issue, such as through bolt failures, and the statistics clearly show that competitive products do not have that issue, the argument doesn't work and it's time to buckle down and get the issue fixed.

You can make a similar argument that because RA allows self maintenance, and many owners couldn't find a dipstick then this could be causing many of the failures, but the statistics show that with an even number of amateurs maintaining their aircraft on both Jabiru and Rotax, the Rotax engines don't have the same specific problems.

With my design and manufacturing background I have no axe to grind with a particular manufacturer because design faults and service failures are not something which might or might not occur, they WILL occur, and solving them is part of the job specification.

The automotive industry has learnt (with the recent exception of a European manufacturer) that there are no sales losses when they issue a recall to fix a fault; my Nissan had five new mag wheels, a new tow bar and a chassis modification because something has happened on one or two vehicles and MIGHT happen on mine.

We need to be objective rather than like barrackers for football teams.