Captain

They were starting to get a mention now and then Captain and pretty much in every edition.......what percentage of the fleet carry VH rego anyway ?...

I accept that the VH fleet is much smaller than the RAA fleet, but if the engine issues are such, I would have expected enough turning up there to trigger CASA action.

But perhaps they are treating it like the R44 fuel tank issue and waiting for a few high profile fatalities before really doing anything.

If I were on the RAA Board like you and Andy, I would be wanting myself and the organisation to be (and be seen to be) pro-active to address the issues which are now so widely discussed if they can be adequately technically and commercially defined and actioned.

Regards Geoff

I have asked before on these Forums and I ask again.

If the 2200 and 3300 engines are exhibiting the problems that you are discussing here, why is this not showing up in the VH registered versions to an extent that CASA would be forced to take some action?

When the printed versions of the Crash Comic were coming in the mail I could never find much about 2200 & 3300 engine issues in the appropriate section of the Mag.

Regards Geoff

Ian in a nutshell you need to jump on the wankers who post nothing but negative posts...continually. Your can easily put them on the ignore list but in the meantime they have done nobody any good and have pissed the real posters off. These people do nothing for the forum .I know we have lost many good contributing posters over the year, and in most cases they say they can't handle the negative members.......your forum has gone down and will continue to go down unless you take care of this area.......Maj....

In defence of the moderation of this Forum, you might recall that myself, Turbo and others were quite vocal about goings on within the Board & Management RAA several years ago.

Some would have regarded that as strongly negative at that time and Andy was one who got quite upset with us, until he followed up on all the issues that we raised and he then became one of us.

Although we did offer positive suggestions on what was needed to set the joint straight.

That all lead to the EGM and we were vindicated in almost all of our previous negativity and criticism.

You + Andy are part of the new broom that have (thankfully) taken up the running on the Board in the aftermath of the EGM.

Similarly, I find some of the negativity here on the Jab issue to be way over the top, but there does appear to be some underlying issue there that needs attention by somebody.

In my view the Moderators have it about right in moderating the issues. They could perhaps jump on some of the negative dills a bit more often or issue a warning/sanction note more often to those that are serial offenders or way over the top negative knockers, if needed .... which I assume they probably already do.

Regards Geoff

Spot on Skepy. That is exactly what came to mind for me too.

"........his love of the parchment, the quill and the blotter in this digital age, and who.........."

......... is fully aware that a Commodore 64 is the new parchment up in F'n Q "But these screen are crappy to write on" said Madge who had been amazed at the recent RA-OZ Board Training when he saw the 1850's abacus that has been the central processor in the Cantberra office (and cleverly networked to each employee's desk with sisal string). "Until that training I thought that Abaccus was the god of mirth and wine" said Madge "Because each new moon we celebrate a nude Abaccus festival on the top of Mt Pellier when ..........

(Apologies Salty. It looks like we arrived at the same time (NTTIAWWT).

(Experienced NES'ers will also be aware that Bacchus is the spit of St Madge)

........ who amongst us doesn't like a good tummy rub, and who amongst us would cast the first kidney stone at Saint Madge of the Blessed Board Deliberation for ...........

.........all over himself and.......

...... you can rub his cute little F'n Q tummy too, before he ...........

The "tell them I love them" bit shows that this bloke is not right in the head. That is a sick addition to the script.

Has anyone searched Facebook? These types of drongos often can't resist a boast of what they have done.

.........................but then Madge walked in the door yelling over his shoulder"I don't care what you members want, I'm going to have a paper magazine if it costs you $500.00 per year! (which as we know is petty cash for aviation types)."What a %$#@" said Effie

 

"Oh I don't know" said Martha, "He seems.............."

...... such a nice young boy, and he is obviously wealthy as he owns a Heliview."

"Is he old enough for us to take advantage of him without getting a guilty conscience?" asked Eff.

"Too right" replied Martha "After what we did with that Locksmith character repeatedly over several months each time that he drove back out here for more, Madge Jayco will be a pushover ........... in fact you don't even need to push him over because he lies down all be himself and ...............

....Elrattso when he is all done up in his Gumly Gumly CWA outfit (NTTIAWWT) pretending to be a lovelorn used wife (see post 9599) looking for a jihaddist to.....

...... use and abuse, for the moto of the Gumly Gumly girls has stayed the same since when they were formed in 1835 and at each meeting they stand around an effigy of their hunky patrol Bob Menzies and chant "It doesn't matter what they wear or what lingo they speak, if it's a bloke under all that clobber, we will give him a tub and then ................

This clown (or clowns) need to be held to account to meet all costs & be prosecuted to the limits of the law .......... then get some serious mental health treatment while in the can.

What a wanka.

This is getting interestinger and interestinger.

The inch of rain from yesterday still had him locked up in the house incommunicado, so he wasn't mooven anywhere except when the 500yr old ADSL copper allowed him to communicate with the interwebs.....meanwhile in coughs the NBN meant that light speed was......

..... considered to be a pipe-dream, unless it is the speed of light through frozen sodium of 38 mph on a good day.

"Did someone call me?" asked Communicado who was a student from Colombia studying at UNE "And I have never even met Turbo, let alone allowed him to do that."

In the meanwhilst Life Memberships of RA-OZ were being chucked around like confetti and Andy had his eye on one. "I'll work the proxy system to death at the next EGM" he explained "As that's sure to get me one, and .............

..........gulping in the face of a new post from the Reverend Mr Black. Who was he? Had he been reincarnated from Sqwak7 or one of his many realtives? Why did he have someone else's underpants on? These were the questions running through the Rat's mind. Could this be a challenger to his position as Number...........

......... 1,358,429, which is one of his favourites .................. and used as the basis for his Keno bets.

"There has been multiple overdubbing on the NES this morning and what is left of my mind has gone into overload trying to keep all these storylines going, because I want HavaBigSet,Salty and HatShat to keep coming back in order to ..........

.....Activite who had been crutching sheep when he read the reverend's first post (graziers clip their Ipad to their knee, which is one of the things city people wouldn't understand), and his plea to be treated as a real person rather than a man of God. However Ahlox had been listening and began to have a fit, almost begating a...................

.......... crossbreed Ram (NTTIAWWT), but then decided to spill his seed upon the ground, like he usually did, before he looked up and saw a vision of a lovely white ............

PS - While we were having coffee and cake last week, Ahlow told me that he was only scalping those tickets to the Pearly Gates while he was going through his latest one week ban. He also let me know that they are not really "Pearly" but are painted in a faux pearl-effect spray from Dulux.

........new member Reverend Mr Black was explaining how to open....................

....... a Boy's Home disguised as a gated Aviation Community, however the Royal Commission quickly got wind of this plan and Deputised Moderattori Virginattori Extraodinattori Ahlox to head down there immediately to investigate, as Poxylox had ..............

If you guys don't believe me, you can download a snippet of the liveatc.net recordings yourself. I do not have the free time to make up a hoax ATC recording. Download at http://www.liveatc.net/archive.php, choose YBBN Grd/Tow/App/Dep and choose zulu time of around 13:00.

They are just examining what might have happened.

Could be real, could be not, but given the nature of the drama that you heard, you would expect this to be all over the news this morning if it were kosher. Imagine the headline ...... 'Ultralight Lost on Cloud"

"So" said the 12 Incher, "If I put all that together we have ISIL bomb-chuckers, heaps of chicks who claim to be virgins, a bunch of paralytic Russians eating KFC, and a couple of blokes on a GeeSoft campaign. That is just downtown Dandenong every Saturday night, where the only real virgins are a couple of sad blokes playing computer games on the free WiFi at Mackas. Meanwhile, at the AeroClub ..............

Vim vigor and lil blue tabs of viagrah seem to be over there near them jihardist......who seem to have taken to smoking them under an umbrella.......which gave Tubs an idea, there wasn't much that he hadn't smoked over the years, if some of his forum posts were to go by..... but viagrah taken smokily wasn't in that long list......as he watched the Jihardist he noted their Kalashnikovs seemed to point more strongly towards the sky......If I smoke the crushed little blue tab then I reckon my.................

....... reputation with the Lygon St Chicky-babes will be enhanced and I'll be known as Viagraman (see below selfie taken by Tubb while attending the recent RA-OZ AGM, before he headed off to the middle-east to ..................

.....an outbreak of screaming Atheists, all wanting to be..................

....... Little Miss Helpful and suggesting stuff to Hatshat on the Forum now that the Board is stable and working well.

But Tubb is a tough cookie and had never before been wary of being ankle deep in anything, for he had often been ankle deep in outboard spare parts, in Speedway controversy, in Forum backlash to his outspoken comments ......... however now he realised that he actually was ankle deep in water as he stood ankle deep near the shores of the Mosul dam. Tubb did a spoonful and said "I have always wanted to be involved in JiHard, but now that I am over here it has gone GeeSoft and my ............

Well that can be done Geoff, I image it'll go something like this....... in going digital we owe you $30 (for example) but to maintain RAAus as a going concern while we change things to make them more efficient you owe us $30 (for example)....If you want paper then that will be an additional $60 (for example) per year because that is the per paper user costs born by those members and not all members.......Andy

 

These are my personal views not RAAus board views

Don't believe that's going to happen......

And to think that some are still calling for a reduction in the membership fee if the mag goes digital.

Geez Louise.

I hope that you RAA members appreciate how good it is to have Andy and Ross communicating in the way that they are.

A few years ago they would have been drawn and quartered for this.

Regards Geoff

My six-peneth is that about the only thing that the OBC gets a partial tick for is the accumulation of that reserve.

Imagine RAA's position over the set of c*ck-ups in the 2000 - 2013 period (and their flow-on more recently) if there had not been funds available to address those issues.

Although on the downside, I suspect that the existence of that reserve made everybody administratively fat, happy and slack.

In my experience, having money assists in quickly addressing problems and one example is that the organisation has the reserves to allow the existing Board to address the paper- files issue and implement a new computer based system. The paper filing system was woefully inadequate but the OBC and some of the dill EO's just kept on keeping on with it for a decade or two after they should have updated, but at least the existing Board had funds to allocate to that problem.

I'm sorry but I just don't understand how any member can argue against an organisation having a reasonable & over-adequate reserve. Money is good when you have it.