turboplanner

Good point Captain.

I would think he could be prosecuted for any expenditure obtained from RAA in the name of board member or executive member after his resignation.

That may be a quicker way to resolve things.

It probably knows you Tomo.

Once again Ian, thank you for a wonderful service replacing Airservice's system designed for Telex.

There would be many pilots today who were born after the Telex system went out of service.

I got to use it for one year and I'm overjoyed that someone was smart enough to realise it was a crock of sh$t

It was a follow on from the telegram (which even more pilots were born after), a method of sending telegrams from your office.

Prior to that you had three options for an urgent message:

1. post a letter

2. Get in the car, go down to the PMG Office, hand write your message in capitals, charged by the word. It would be delivered by the postie at the other end, or for a suitable urgency fee would be phoned through.

3. At extra cost, phone through the words to the telephone exchange and they would be converted into a telegram.

The Telex console allowed you to key in your message, press send, and the receiving console at the other end would click clack it out, nearly in real time.

Problem was the keyboard had many buttons with many codes to tell the machine what to do, so it took some time using a set of instructions as you typed and keyed, typed and keyed, and they took forever to send.

So Codes were used to save time, and Department of Civil Aviation and the Weather Bureau adopted these.

They killed of morse code, but their successors are caught in a reckless time warp of denial.

I'd be surprised if there was a working Telex left in the Country.

Well you deserve a bit of a break.

"......say you a refugee, and we give you ruxury house on waterflont, Caderac, three little maids, and rife pension."

"Hang on a minute Comrade" said Julia who only resigned six weeks before she became Plime Minister "We thought of that one first, although it was thought up by Comrade Rudd"

"HIM!" said Chairman Meow "He..............."

"Ah Chinese in Kimono!" spat Chairman Meow "You want flight!"

"My name is Ah........"

CASA have advised they are checking 200 pages relating to the audits of RAA I requested under FoI, and have requested an extension to February 1, which I have agreed to.

...aloons.

"What are they?" asked Rocketscience

"The trousers I used to wear when I sailed with Christopher Columbus" [telling untruths is not allowed on this site, but I'll let it go a bit since you are my favourite moderator - Een] said Ahsocks

"I think I'll get some pantaloons too" said Turbo to Brine

"Can't, I've copyrighted that description" said Rocketscience

"So sue me" said Brine

"He can't" said Een because he broke my copyright so his copyright doesn't stand

"They're my pantaloons" said Christopher Columbus, courtesy of Just Landed, aka Tinhead "so Een doesn't have copyright so he can't claim the name.

"You didn't mention what they were called, and apart from that you only discovered one Caribbean island and thought it was New York" said Turbo

"Let's get MamaKas to adjudicate" said Quaver who had been "liking" every post.

MamaKas spat out the apple she'd been chewing on "These things are too slow anyway, I'll have to do it from memory.

"Poxy Loxy aka Ahsocks aka Een'smate used the word "pant"

"Turbo (you devil!) came up with aloons"

Therefore no one owns the rights to pantaloons.

So Ahsocks and Turbo formed a joint venture called Just Pantalloons and jumped a plane to China looking for a manufacturer, where they.........

If you can fly a powered building brick, you're right to go on ANY aircraft Nev.

If that's the case, then a Member who has received an email, and hadn't given him their address needs to have him investigated and charged under the Privacy Act, which is quite strong.

That might send a message through

The good news is you get through this phase, even though it seems endless. The pain goes, and hopefully most of the drugs.

Looks like the Privacy Act has been contravened to me and that's a Penalty issue, no need for a meeting there.

Also, if that email is genuine, members are being asked to breach the Constitution.

In addition to that, if that email is genuine, he has misled the members and if he's got the guts resign.

This pathetic, desperate attempt at maintaining secrecy at all costs only adds to the impression that something very big is being hidden.

Can anyone say who the board member was who sent that email, or is that a secret?

turbs , I think it IS operating 'normally'..........and that seems to be the problem! as it is ,it's dysfunctional !!

Thanks, I've edited the post.

Firstly there is no comparison whatsoever between what's been happening here and how CASA operates, and you'll find very little mention of any difficulties dealing with CASA in the many threads.

Secondly, if you go to the RAA site, you'll be able to read the RAA Constitution and By-Laws and see what the Feb 9 meeting can and cannot do. For example it can make decisions.

Thirdly there are more than 20 big threads for you to plough through before you would have a full understanding of the issues - thousands of posts. Not ideal for bringing you up to date, and forums are hopeless to sort out big issues, but if it wasn't for this forum and Ian, thousands of members would have been unaware that there were any serious issues, the first inkling possibly when the discovered they were grounded, or worse still, had an accident and found they were unregistered, and not covered by insurance.

Your reactions are perfectly reasonable for an Association which is operating normally, but...............

You're right Alfa, the slightest incident now and he could lose his house.

With four legal opinions now alleged to confirm that is no longer President, the legal implications of his actions after the date of his resignation have been steadily multiplying.

For example, if someone was to go after him for workplace bullying, the implication of a person involved in workplace bullying while impersonating an official produces a much more compelling case than someone arguing he was just doing his job, perhaps a trifle abrasively.

Heard today that a QC is to be involved by the board. Just what are they scared about????????and so much for trying to save money by having the meeting on Feb 9th. I hear Middo has to do a mail out to all the members about some forgotten detail!! What will that cost and who is footing the bill??

A QC is a Barrister, not a Solicitor and the daily cost is horrific. Barristers are normally briefed by Solicitors on an issue.

Since this meeting is about the personal actions and behaviour of individual board members, I would expect those individuals to be footing the bill.

If this is not a rumour and any board member has committed public money - maybe $5,000 to $15,000 to try to bolster his position then he is going to have to reimburse members.

Wonder what the pitch was.

Further to this, I would like to see actual figures on Jabiru engine failures with a break down of type of fuel used, type of oil used etc.

...having a cr$......

It had been a slow day with Tomo being fast asleep, even when he was driving, B12 being out of it, even though he was in it, Loxed out, and Brine still eating the last scraps of Christmas Dinner.

There was a tapping noise from the passageway, and who should walk in carrying..........................

......interplanetary explanation, before...

No, I think they are being genuine in getting the cranks back to look at, but whether they bother reading our posts or whether they get metallurgical tests done, we just don't know.

However, owners should be aware of their statutory warranty rights beyond the small print and beyond the laziness of dealers.

Sorry, I should have said threads.

The frustrating part of the discussions are that the people who have the failures seem to be allergic to metallurgists

Just a couple of thoughts - no-one's actually said where or how these through bolts break

.......snicker (sp.) ......

....set of balls, with.....