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You have all forgotten to factor in the great holiday your package has on the way to you. Here's my example: 29 Nov 2024. Supplier - Bayswater (Melbourne) VIC - Window switch for the ute. Postage don't recall, maybe $10. After posting locally, it went straight by air to BOORNA WANGKINY MIA (PERTH) WA - Australia Posts $82M woke "flagship" parcel sorting facility. A week or so later made it back to the MELBOURNE AIRPORT sorting facility, halfway between where it started, to me. 11 Dec. to Bendigo facility. Thursday 12 DEC arrived. Distance as the crow flies travelled by my package over 14 days 5666km. Bayswater to me = 107km. All for $10! Now that's a great deal. Jetstar holidays couldn't match that.

The aircraft flew into a public airport but the gathering was at a private airpark property, hosted by an airpark resident, graciously assisted by a few other airpark residents. None had the desire or capacity to deal with a public invitation/attendance event which would have also probably required council involvement/approval. Simple as that.

6xVW, 7xJabiru 2200. 6xRAAus, 7xVH. Approx 60 in Australia, approx 20 VH. It was a gathering, not a public advertised event.

Oh, there's been a couple now and then over the years.

My last flight back from LAX, sat down next to a guy from Geelong. His phone rang, very confused conversation followed. It was QF telling him to hustle his ass to the departure gate. "But I'm ON the plane." QF "Get yr A to the gate, NOW!" "I... am... on... the... plane..." Cabin MGR comes by, checks his pass and passport. All very odd. My QF pilot friend said yesterday "Yeah, it happens more often than you might think"

Yes, met Hoover and many others. All down to earth genuine people happy to chat.

A highlight of my Oshkosh 2024 trip was actually meeting Just Plane Silly's BrYan Turner. He knew my name from comments onto his youtube videos. It was an absolute pleasure for him to meet me. (and vice versa) Youtubers you meet there are all just regular people, happy to say hello. I met lots. You might just bump into them passing by in the thousands there.

Just one Australian entry this year - Tammy Camilleri from Bathurst NSW - L29 Delphin Jet, RACE 61. Go fast, turn left. The air races are one amazing spectacle, we went in 2012 (Reno). Have also been to Roswell same trip.

BurnieM is spot on. Why would anyone want to waste their time and energy on a TWG only to have all their work essentially agreed to, then finally urinated on from a great height and ignored. $180/hr might be a starting position, plus allowances. I applied (twice) to be on a technical working group for my area of interest and known expertise, first in 2017, then a couple years later when they were still calling for interested peeples, I thought i'd nudge remind them I'm still interested. I'm sure I'll be hearing from them any day now?

FIn thing - Damn, that's huge. and ugly. Wot The.

Ah, the 7252 photo - what in the hell is that at the back of the tail - underneath?

Intestine phone conversations? I've had a gutful of those. (I'll see myself out.)

Aerosonde began their early trials using the Geelong Model Aircraft club field at Batesford. Pilot was David HOBBY. I recall one time they did a 24 hour flight or something like that. Just circling around within a few miles. Didn't stop us flying RC those days, all very casual.

Nothing super new - has been in the RAAus Tech Manual since at least DEC 2024. (I have no details as to why the change etc)

From the BOM website: Airservices Australia is the official provider of the Aeronautical Information Service which includes the delivery of the Bureau's aviation meteorological products. Therefore, all information for the purpose of flight planning should be obtained from Airservices Australia. ("should") It used to also have, maybe it still does some place, a statement like "BOM weather SHALL NOT be used for flight planning, get your info from Airservices." It's the same weather. Why the double handling? If Airservices is the official provider, why have it on BOM at all? I used to find the BOM site was easier to find things in the aviation weather section.