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  1. 440032
    CASA recently declared they will be making zero changes to Class 5 medical. No formation, no aeros, no nothing. Technical working group participation was a total WOFTAM for all involved. They tried hard, I thank them for trying.
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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.
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    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.
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    6xVW, 7xJabiru 2200. 6xRAAus, 7xVH. Approx 60 in Australia, approx 20 VH. It was a gathering, not a public advertised event.
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    Oh, there's been a couple now and then over the years.
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    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"
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    Yes, met Hoover and many others. All down to earth genuine people happy to chat.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
  11. 440032
    FIn thing - Damn, that's huge. and ugly. Wot The.
  12. 440032
    Ah, the 7252 photo - what in the hell is that at the back of the tail - underneath?
  13. 440032
    Intestine phone conversations? I've had a gutful of those. (I'll see myself out.)
  14. 440032
    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.
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    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)
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    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.
  17. 440032
    That airstrip is ridiculous. The roller coaster at Seaworld is a smoother ride.
  18. 440032
    ASIC has nothing to do with CASA. It's not their baby. The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
  19. 440032
    Seen this before in mine 20 years ago. Tacho pickup was not close enough to the two steel tabs on the flywheel. Adjust pickup or tabs to close the gap. I didn't measure anything, just set it. Rock steady ever since.
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    The petition does not call for the abolishment of ASIC for general aviation it calls to share the costs of security. Though a pilot, I am not eligible to apply for an ASIC because I don't require frequent access to a secure airport. Sure I could just say I do, but that is not true. reg 6.01 Operational need means a requirement for frequent access to all or part of a secure area. My need would be maybe twice a year at best, for one or two airports that are as dead as a dead thing that died in a ditch. One has two RPT flights a day.
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    Here is one reason I refuse to get an ASIC. It's bullshit. If suits don't need one to be on Melbourne airport with no asic, I don't either. And don't give me any "oh, they just took them off for the photo." ASICs are required to be displayed at all times when airside, no exceptions. Then SANTA. A guy, in disguise, with no asic, on Melbourne airport. Escorted by staff no less. And the ex QF CEO. One rule for them, but not for you and I. I used to work in a secure facility at Melbourne Airport, and management would just bring suits through, no ASIC, no visitors card, no nothing. The whole thing is a SCAM and I refuse to play.
  22. 440032
    That joke stinks. (give that man a cigar!) You should be expelled.
  23. 440032
    I would suggest not to go with any generic cable tension value from "I read it on the internet" to "some guy said" or a double act, "some guy on the internet said" Some designs just have no cable tension value at all. My aircraft doesn't, it's done by feel, not too loose, not too tight, very unscientific, but designed that way by an aeronautical engineer. Not even a generic value or procedure employed. My rudder cables for example cannot be tensioned, even if you wanted to. Rudder pedal (free floating) direct to rudder. With no feet on them they are floppy. Your feet apply variable tension. Some tensions are, I gather, expressed as a deflection value - eg for XX load applied to the side of the cable, the cable deflects XXX distance, and also depends on cable length. For example, half an inch deflection over 20 feet of cable might be the number specified, but half an inch deflection over 5 feet is a whole different animal. Then comes into play, 1/8" cable or 3/16", there's too many variables for a one size fits all answer it seems. It would seem to me that there's no point having a fancy cable tension meter without rock solid design specific data and procedure to follow.
  24. 440032
    Good to see not an ASIC in sight in all the coverage, even the Melb Airport CEO didn't have one. If it's good enough for all them, that's good enough for me.
  25. 440032
    Godzirra???? Will check it out. For another aviation classic from Japan. PORCO ROSSO. Get You Some O that.
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