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I don't know FH, that Avatar of yours looks very much like a sublime raging bull persona!

You raise a good question JP, if the Minutes reflect the actions requested by a decision of board members, and those requests are followed up, as you have done, then there is an incentive for a manager to keep his nose clean so to speak. If he consistently doesn't carry out the instructions without reasonable excuses, then there is a list of issues on which to get tougher - a lot more precise.

Nev frightened him away

Just need to specify the aircraft Sandman, they aren't all like us, someone will have done it I'm sure.

Normal corporate response rate is 5%, so you aren't doing too badly. Apathy is frustrating though.

I can help you with that if you want to keep it flying for more than 10 seconds - sensitive little buggers.

Get a RealFlight simulator kit which consists of a DVD and a two stick controller which you can use or link to your more upmarket controller.

It realistically simulates real flight, and gets you up to speed on things like control reversal when the helicopter is coming towards you or upside down.

Crash? You just press a button and there's a new aircraft sitting on the strip ready to go.

About $350.00 now I think.

Seems a post has gone missing.

The "well-known importer" you spoke of was unceremoniously named and shamed in the (publicly available) Coroner's report.

Chainsaw, that's the quickest

Sorry David, too slow in typing, this was an answer to Teckair.

The Police aren't useless, doing what you suggest would require major restructuring, funding and developing an investigation protocol which is standard across the six States and two Territories, and training staff to be aviation investigators.

We are interested in recreational flying, but it would be discriminating not to give rock fishermen, mountain climbers for example the same investigation level because they die too, and it would be never ending and difficult to get the skill level required for the odd State flying fatality or serious injury

The alternative of the ATSB provides an operation with skilled investigators at a National level, arms length separation from CASA and RAA, and a great history of reducing repeat accidents.

Also remember that the number of GA aircraft has reduced almost in the same proportion that RAA aircraft have increased.

However, this thread was not about the merits of how RAA accidents should be investigated, you weren't even asked about that by the board members.

It's about Elected officials issuing an instruction to one of your paid employees, who is alleged to have totally disregarded it. If true, then you aren't in control.

You mean getting six State and two Territory independent Police Forces each to make a special exception? I wouldn't call that easy.

ATSB isn't charging GA pilots for investigations.

Must have been FW by someone from Victoria?

Before Major has a coronary, it should be pointed out that this Coroner's report related to a single engine, and that the main thrust related to the condition of that engine, not the design of the engine.

The Coroner didn't provide substantiation for the "stop suddenly" comment, and the suggestion about the engine not being acceptable on General Aviation Aircraft is correct insomuch as the engine hasn't been certified, but of course it's not marketed to that market and it's reliability in the Recreational market is a different story altogether.

There's no point in getting away from written statistics which are provable. If someone wants to go through the same number of months I did, we would then have a reasonable comparison if you want to drag Rotax into the argument.

O. K. , I walked away from RAA in disgust, so I'm really only in a position to barrack from the fence.

As you can see from my rather provocative post, the key to moving forward starts with enough people being concerned about their future that the numbers are sufficient to do something decisive.

The strategy of getting good members elected bit by bit failed when the first to be elected resigned, outnumbered by the old guard.

18 months ago my assessment was that sufficient numbers of concerned members were needed to force a complete change of board members so a fresh start could be made. As difficult as that is, I still think it's the only way.

The problem is getting the large number of members necessary to understand what the issues are, and the problem in doing that is that the issues are such that publicly airing some of them can harm RAA.

Even that wouldn't be a huge problem if members actually understood the legalities and dangers of open public discussion, which in this case covers many of the issues of concern.

I'm happy just with the changes I mentioned.

I always fly to Tasmania by following the beach Pud.

The one that wasn't there six minutes ago?

We've been to the same place Pud.

and with an Instructor....who paid it!

I did, read the railway station sign under their verandah!

Like working out which town with the railway line running through East-West, and the hill to the south, and the small lake to the south east you are supposed to be over.

Agree with you about the loss of continuity, hadn't thought of that.

Sounds like a good idea.

The aim is to build up readily available good quality reference material

My solo Navex's were all done in calm conditions, with all the checkpoints coming in on the nose within one minute, and got my surprises with cross winds, ambiguous weather forecasts on my own. 10 hours ensures it's more likely to get some challenges during the training period.

OK, I found my OLD Ops manual, in regards to the cross country endorsment (per sect 2.07 issue 5 Sep 2001).The requirements at that time were a minimum of 3 hrs dual cross country nav training, and a minimum 2hrs solo nav. How did we jump from 3hrs to 10 hrs, and why? Was it because of the higher performance aircraft? Was it because there were too many fatalities due to nav issues? Have there been less fatalities and/or less airspace violations since the changes?

I just asked for the heading to be changed to add the word EFATO at the beginning, and for the fake EFATO videos top be moderated out. Can't see people being too excited about starting it all over again. When threads are split we usually lose the lot.

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