turboplanner

"That .. -. ... --- -- . .-- .- -.-- ... .- -... .. - -.. --- - - -.-- from Tomo has shocked me something fierce" replied the Rattus (genera Muridea) "As I thought that he was a nice enthusiastic your Cecillian Plainian (or Plane-ian). And not your usual gutter mouthed Cane Toad".

"I'll get the MachismoMenstrati onto him" volunteered AHLocks, who had been quiet for a while, after getting over another saturday marathon.

 

But nobody could recognize SartiHotPants, as he had gone through a major transormation, getting rid of this leather hat and growing a beard for Natfy, then shaving and polishing his head while singing "What'll we do while the earth keeps turning".

 

"What do you reckon Bryon?" asked the RatBag "Does he look more like Peter Garret (the Minister for Edumacation & Ministerial #@&*-ups) or Gary Ablett Jnr?"

 

"No" replied Bryon with his usual Dandy-Nong force "He looks like .............................

".....an escapee from an eco-friendly nudist colony"

"I'm gittin old" said the Rat "and now need Ratspecs but I can pick bad language and salacious remarks from a hundred paces"

"I'm shocked and appalled at what you have just said about Slartipants, I thought he was normal" he added

"#@&* me, John" said one of the MachismoModerati "You can't #@&*'n say that on a public forum without some consequences."

"Don't worry about them John" said Kev "Have a look at these photos and J's map of Lismore, as I think I can see the road that goes out to your joint."

 

"What'll we do while the beds are burn'n" sang Slarts as he danced into view, carrying a sample of Pink Batts, Swanny's very own set-top-box (which he had used to test the wastefulness of it all), and .............

 

(Rat - u need to tone the language down, Nana wont be pleased, words like (#@&*'n and *^#@@ and .--. --- .-.. .. - .. -.-. .. .- -. ) MODERATI

"We'll have to get ditDot in to translate all this morse" said Turbo, although being from another Planet called Annaland where the leader wears a pink garter rather than a crown, his dialect might be different, and ...."

Acky, Guernsey, re-inventing, reversing the order can be dangerous as is the policy of 'not following formal procedures just make people aware of what I'm doing"

That's fine when the radios in all aircraft are working well, all transmissions are clear and radio traffic level is low; it will annoy some more experienced pilots but the ere's no real. safety issue there.

The danger comes when someone's radio is acting up, or the area is busy - then you can kill someone

Someone earlier referred to a radio ear and Youngster likened the understanding of transmissions to understanding an auctioneer

If the correct phraseology order is used, and the message is garbled the receiving pilot can sometimes pick up the meaning from the syllables only.

If the correct phrase is used but part of it is truncated the receiving pilot can sometimes add the missing words.

I grew up on Moorabbin traffic at 380,000 movements per year, and in the circuit you had to have split second timing to get your radio calls out, often extending a leg if you couldn't (turning without calling was a big safety issue with such a crammed circuit).

This situation is not understood well by a country pilot who may spend most of his days talking to himself or one other aircraft, but there will always come the day of an airport with heavy traffic and formal radio calls, or bad conditions for radio, or an emergency where this phraseology will make the difference.

Which is why aviation phraseology is so formal.

Unfortunately CASA contribute to the confusion by changing the regulations so often, and flying schools often seem to get behind in their procedures, so I would strongly recommend if you are in training or haven't flown for a year or so that you hit the web and get the current Regulations with the correct phrases and the latest call points.

.......... that Wayne and Julia had been caught in the back seat of a commonwealth car in a park in Queanbeyan, playing "Hide the Budget", with Peter G taking photos (although he stuffed that up too), and Slarti was teaching Pete to take decent photos while Pete was teaching Slarti to do the Midnight Oil dance steps.

Trev couldn't wait to see the happy snaps, so he jumped out of his Freightliner when he went through Dubbo and jumped into his Citation.

 

"Bugger the check-lists (aviation phrase)" he said "As I am in a hurry (aviation human factors term), and us big-time GA guys don't need such things just to flick over the Canberra for a quick ................

"look at the Budget document"

After tracking a direct line for Runway 25 at Fairbairn Air Base, and giving the obligatory trucky based radio calls (he was one of the school who believed that it was more important to give people your intentions rather than use prissy formal phrases), which consisted of (to the C130 on take off roll) "Fuck off you moron, ya mutha worked out the back of the Wagga Roadhouse" he set the Citation down on one of the taxiways to save time and was soon engrossed in the large Budget volume.

"This is a good one" he said to himself "all the old people are going to get set top boxes so they can watch television"

"It would have been cheaper to give them a bottle of Cab Sav every night and clear the wine industries stocks"

"Fuck me, it's going to cost taxpayers $330.00 each!...........to put a set top box on some old heap of crap that's 30 years old!

"Why wouldn't they just buy them a new digital TV at $249.00?"

It looks like his closet is now empty

I've only just finished re-reading Fate is the Hunter, and one day must count up how many times he says "It was about this time Williams and Alcock found a cliff faced in the Sierra Nevadas, It was about .......etc, etc, all of them airliners with passengers He would have to have mentioned at least 50 of his old classmates, friends etc.

I liked the one about finding whether he had taken the correct fijord of two when he had to skim between the cloud base and the sea until he found a wrecked ship a few miles into the fijord by which time he didn't have enough room to make a 180 in the DC3.

Life was cheap in those days.

"Too right" said the boke in the blue singlet (with what looked like an inbuilt airbag) "I don't care whether they implode or explode, just as long as they plode."

"Blue singlets aren't safe "said the RTA Inspector, who jumped from the bushes and said "Taa Daaa .................... where is your fluoro vest?"

 

"You look just like the CASA Inspector" relied Trevor the trucky "So go and do what I told him to do when he wanted a drug test sample when I landed my Citation 4 in Dubbo last week (Trev owned a few trucks and made Lindsay Fox look like an amateur), and stick your head up .......................

..... but that was a far as he got, because the RTA Inspector was dual-employed (a new reform introduced by Wayne Swann to show more jo0bs in the workforce, and too late Trevor caught a glimpse of the Puma (provided by Julia as part of the scheme to assist the dual-work certified to get between their jobs at the taxpayers expense.

As Trevor looked around in desperation for something to mow down, over his CB came the welcome news ...-.--..-.-.-.-

...thrive on days gone by...

"and now only in our dreams do we rip down the highways looking for a caravan to implode."

"Yes we do" answered the Rodent (and welcome back to the NES, dotdit) "And always remember, Young Enthusiast (although personally, I have found Young to be a bit on the cold side, and not all that compelling, although Zouch St is always quite nice) that a clean pilot is a happy pilot, a clean prop is an efficient prop, and a clean Young Enthusiast is a ....................

"sign to all the others who only shower fortnightly, that saving water is not everything"

We should take bets Slarti

The bugger knows when to end a chapter too doesn't he

..."Prop wash?" asked ditdot in amazement... "you mean you wash props?"

"Yes I do" said Liz, I keep my sponges and bristles in the hangar, where I also keep my coat hangers, and tie downs (aviation term)"

"Yep, they lift you up....and then drop you back down when the fan up the front stops...........

"....then the no prop wash thingy (aviation term) starts..."

Hey Turbo, I have one of those but you see it, has numbers on it and thats my problem, numbers.I can use it to a degree(pun) time and distance, but have to be shown each time before flight or its just another jumble of numbers.

Bernie.

"There are no flies on me, Tubbster" replied Liz "But I do enjoy a Jab because ......................

...there's that element of excitement about them.

......... although Liz has more than Nanna does, because ..................

.....flies a Jabiru?

"........have a wonderful forest#1 with no problemms#2, have a cup of coffee with Mercator#3, in Lismore#4, if only I could........., sorry I'm repeating myself"

#1 Reference CFI Outburst

#2 Reference Dictionary of Tasmania

#3 Reference Candidate for board member NSW

$4 Reference Somewhere near Australia's arm pit

Hi Joe, how bout a pic of your Nav-Aid Rule.Bernie.

I suspect this would totally solve your problem

Before anyone starts complaining, it's Tasmanian culture to start every sentence with a proposition, although the old master has given us a difficult conundrum here.

Turbo had always been very careful to preserve his aboriginal artifact, and he knew the Rat never went anywhere without his, and Brine didn't have one, while Planey's was missing, which really left Skinnilocks as the perpetrator.

"I lost my artifact when I was 15" whimpered Skinnilocks.

"Well" growled CiFI, " how mamny litres of effluent do you pummp?

Turboplanner,I gave an explanation of the finances at the meeting of members and after having explained it I did not get questions from the floor, however, I realise that you may not have been at the meeting. If you would like to give me a ring I will explain to you what I explained at the meeting. I have said many, many, many times before that if you have a question - ask.

In corporate circles what you did is known as the Delphi technique, where someone asking embarrasing questions which could open a can or worms is isolated quickly from the rest of the group by individual private responses.

I'm not saying you are aware of the Delphi technique or knew you were doing it or even intended it, but it does show you don't understand that you were elected to keep ALL 9600 members informed.

At Natfly you reached about 0.4% of the population, and if I phoned you that would make only one more, and I would be reporting back here anyway, it's better you report here clearly and transparently yourself to at least reach several thousand members.

If you did give an explanation at Natfly, it hasn't gravitated on to the site, because all we've seen is a single page with simple diagrammes for the current period, and that in itself is significantly lacking in detail. We haven't yet seen the real issue of what has happened from the 2009 Surplus year to the current year in terms of Asset/funds value, Surplus/deficit, and where any shortfall has gone. That's what you owe the 9600 members.

To suggest that this can only be given to members is not valid ( apart from the fact that no members I know have been told anyway).

You are not part of a Board of Directors (and I accept that the crazy egotistical notion of renaming Area Representatives to Board Members has led to a lot of the present confusion), of a registered Company administering its own funds and therefore entitled to keep its own business within house as much as it can.

You are a members representative of an Incorporated Association operating on PUBLIC MONEY which your have an obligation to account for within the rules laid down for that Incorporated Association as laid down in its Constitution.

As such all dispersal of the money collected from the public must be authorised and accounted for and that information is public information.

In the case of RA Aus, CASA are entitled to know what's going on day by day, and I don't have a shadow of a doubt that the grapevine has been running hot for months, so there's nothing to be gained from hiding the situation from them, potential investors in airparks, aircraft etc., along with the healthy dialogue coming from very responsible potential Candidates, and also the very responsible existing board members who have been openly explaining the situation and trying to get the present unsatisfactory situation out in the open so it can be addressed and we can move on.

I was prepared to wait until the next magazine came out to see of the explanations from the President, CEO and yourself indicated the secrecy was at an end, but in the light of your response, I'll be contacting the ACT Department of Justice & Community Safety today, to see what information is available externally.

SLR stands for Single Lense Reflex Oz, so I don't know where these twin lenses are coming from.

I've got a Canon EOS 550D with 18-55mm lense as standard

You can then buy tele, macro, fish eye lenses for specialist work

Quality is good enough to see feather structures in parrots, and mechanical shots are crisp as well

You seem to be talking only about this year?

Have a look at what I actually said, the start point is 2009, and if you go back over the threads you' ll find what the surplus for that year was.

Then research what happened in 2010

Then apply this year

That will then give you the figures to base your assumption on

Would hundreds of thousands be OK?

Option 1. RAA board member

Option2. proceeded to repair, under the glare of television lights, the only Rotax (according to Colonel Blimp) which had ever banged

Option 3. Tow parallel stories. Isn't Rat soooo clever, introducing the gliding community into the NES fold. They do it without power, so please treat them gently

Option 4. table between the knives and forks