Captain

Please don't let the videocasting issue sidetrack this thread as IMHO the most important issue for the future of recreational aviation at the moment is that the members, and/or someone at the AGM, holds our rulers & senior employees to account.

One more comment on what was purported to be a submission to the Coroner (or sent to police assisting the Coroner) from Tizzard and Tully is their suggestion that the Board is unworkable and should be re-numbered and reconstituted.

IF they did that they not only acted outside their brief, but they have disrespected & undermined the existing Board.

IF repeat IF they did that they are not fit to be part of this organisation, & through their "Strict Liability" submission they are selling the members down the river. If the "IF" is proven, I call for, and demand, the immediate resignation or sacking of whoever authored and/or approved that correspondance, & if that doesn't occur it proves that the elected leadership of the RAA are either toothless or complicit , or pathetically weak.

Geez I hope Tizzard is at AusFly next weekend and makes himself available for a chat.

Regards Geoff

......as-he-raised his eyes.Shafter had noticed a statement attributed to The Rat "What are you talking about.....Queen's land!? You people are the reason the new government changed the name to PeoplesLand in keeping with Y generation pc dogma.

 

"Here we go again" said ............

... Salty, that well known southern cross-dresser, who often spent time around at the Maison-de-Turbs, wearing possum skined ...........................

".........clavicle. Thank GOD it doesn't have an exhaust pipe or I would be permanently burnt from all the welding."Rat had been curiously looking at Turbo. "Os that a Jab thru bolt through your nose?" he asked

 

"Yes, Your Honor, if you can't beat them, join them, eh" (Rat's friends always referred to him as Your Honor because if you didn't he'd wait until you were asleep and gnaw your friggin leg off.

 

"Just a minute, you're not from QUEENSLAND" roared the Rat

 

"Well, Your Honor........"

...... I'm not a Queen's Slander, I'm a Republican from Mextoria just out of Melbournistan, so same diff, we are both 50 years behind what's going on at Gumley Gumley."

"I'm ashamed to say that I have seen his Rotax tattoo" said Nanna "And it looks like it shows a torn exhaust pipe."

"Well, Your Honor" replied Tubb, who had used El Ratpoo's Barrister qualifications to defend himself in that well known case brought by Evinruder, Johnson and Yamahaha, where they ........

A bit of info has been published in this newsletter:http://www.wattsbridge.com.au/files/news_bvsac/bvsac1209_september2012.pdf

Well worth a read.

I have been in companies and on Boards where such an action would have brought instant dismissal.

I have also read and re-read John Mckeown's response ... and full marks for him for responding (so based on past behaviour I wonder whether someone from the Exec or another Board Member has tried to have a go at him for doing that).

Further, IF this letter has been sent with the approval of some members of the Executive, but not of the full Board, those members of the Exec should be sanctioned or sacked too.

Given the way that the top of the RAA is populated by ex CASA and past/current public servants, I expect that they might propose Councilling, & hand-holding in a Fairy-Circle under a crystal etc to put this right, and perhaps they may also try to hide behind the fact that it may have been only a DRAFT, but IF this is all true it is time for the Board and Members to stand up to what is going on, and IF so it is time for the RAA to get a CEO who sees his or her prime role as looking after the interests of the members.

As it is not in the Coroner's recommendation, was it REALLY the RAA that suggested that it's members be subject to "Strict Liability" (something much worse than "guilty until proven innocent"). If so, for that alone they should be terminated immediately. HOW CAN THE MEMBERS GO FORWARD WITH A CEO AND/OR OPERATIONS MANAGER THAT WOULD RECOMMEND SUCH A THING?.

And while we are at it, let's have a formal sanction for the President, the CEO and whoever else has their grubby fingers over this latest attempt to shaft Ian Baker & this forum.

These 2 actions (the letter to the Coroner & the move against IB) alone show a lack of ethics, a lack of the correct culture, a lack of leadership and the use of the organisation to further personal agendas and careers and IT JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

I can picture the AGM being a rerun of the responses at the Temora Meeting. Tizzard to respond that he "doesn't remember" and Runciman to say something like "We got it wrong, we are very sorry, leave it with us, I will put it right." That was crap then and it is crap now.

Regards Geoff

.........his tractor troops, and Rat was obviously asleep at the Reception Counter, which was an event so frequent that kids who had drawn fish eyes on his head in texta in years gone by were now sticking on the wrinkled dome, fake tattoos of.......

..... the RAA Logo on his neck.

"That's not a FAKE tattoo" said El Ratsack "That one is fair-dinkum, and I use it to inspire my management style, as it reminds me that a CEO does not need to be beholding to a Board when he has mates at CASA."

"And look here Tubb" the Rodent added "I have an AUF logo near my heart, to remind me of the (good) old days when the CEO's prime role used to be to look after the interests of the members, (and not use some Coronial Inquiry to sell them down the river). Back then the members felt like they were part of the organisation. I also have a Lycoming tat on my arm, a Continental emblem on my shoulder, a (whole) Jab thru-bolt on my wrist, the Rec Flying CD/Flying Saucer tattoo'd behind my right ear and a Rotax logo hidden away, which has the "O" made out of my .........

"Wow" said Swenky "Tubb sure knows lots of words. He must be well edumacated."

"I agree" replied Slatts 'We had better be careful as he may know more words than are in our letter to Eeeen, AND Tubb has almost put them in the right order on a couple of occasions."

"Let's also write to the NES and make sure that they don't renew the TaudryPlankton's membership. It'll be such fun."

"We are more interested in those overalls" chorused Nanna & Mavis, as they usually provide ease of access, & .............

".....prevent members of the local CWA tittering about his fur while they are making sandwiches, lamingtons and giving the Hall Caretaker (his name and title are on his Hall blazer)"

"They weren't tittering (although Nanna is interested)" said Mavis "They were Twittering" she added.

"And up yours Turps, as I have 756 FaceBook friends" claimed Henty "Although I must admit that most of 'em have befriended me because they think I am either The Hulk, the Green Lantern, or just A Hunk."

"How much of you is green" asked Mave, as she glanced down.

And bugger me, another no-win no-fee letter lobbed on Eeeen's desk claiming to represent the .......

....... Acki was interrupted by a "clump", clump", "clump" sound coming up the Cowla Cowra Road and soon a huge ape-like green figure strode into view; it was Henty Swek, the flying farmer.....

"Ahhhhhh, Geeeeez" thought Eeeeen "This is no good at all" as he considered the letter from the FFFA (The Flying Farmers Federation of Australasia) who advised that the TubbyPlonker's description of Mr Swek has brought the Federation into direpute, and they had hired Slatts and Gorgonzola to represent 'em.

The letter began "Mr Swek is not huge, the description of him as ape-like is a bit over the top, he is not really "green", but the most vile part of the Plonker's actions is that he brought the NES to a shuddering halt and poor old Henty wants to ..............................

"Ah love roxyroad" said Nobu passionately "any brand anytime....except that RAARoxyroad ahead brand, it break teeth and cause my gizzard to go all tizzy suspect there may be recall issued soon.......

...... and Daryl Lea for President" added Andy Sat while he coughed.

"That's bringing the sport into disrepute" thought the Executive "As we demand total loyalty by all for all (and us) and for all our minions to mind their pee's and que's, not to mention your R's and A's and A's."

"I'd vote for Dalyl" said Acki "Particurarry if he fries a Boomalang (Cowla's own) powered by a Lotax, painted led, using unreaded petlol, while frying closs countly & watching Flee Wirrey on his Ipod grass pannel, with a .....................

"... and that is that boobs without nipples ( )( ) are pointless."

So with the two top dogs around these Forums (Fora?) contributing to the NES in posts #6497 & #6498, it has plunged to the depths of depravity.

Where of where is an ambulance chaser when you need one to send a letter. And someone should go and alert the major Major and his C*% of a side-kick.

"I can plunge much deeper than that" said Brine "Why, when I was a nipper I used to ...........

"Worry not, Madge the Duck" said Loxly "As I have designed a thru bolt that will solve the problem. It may be 13 mm dia HTS (I make them from old lockwood shanks), but if that's what it takes to keep those charging Bundy horses under control, then so be it ....... and while they may be a tad on the heavy side (like some of my moderations), all it takes is for all owners to move the engine back about 300 mm, but as that might make those lithe Jabs look a bit like an ST, some of yez may just choose to fly a little front heavy with your weight & balance chart faked temporarily (just texta out the wrong numbers)."

"Beauty" said the Tube-of-Plonk "That's a Major success (unlike the other one), now as long as we don't get a Cease & Desist letter from some ambulance chaser we can ..................

... Running a spanner over your nuts (NTTAWWT) is understandable, but this cuphead fetish that Jabertoo owners exhibit is just plain lewd.

"Outrageous" roared.......

.... Madge the Mallard "Jabs are a magic machine in which the cup-head overfloweth. I just love 'em and won't hear a bad word said about this fine Aussie product, which haven't had a gearbox or radiator failure in over 6 million hours flown, but then again ..........................

......gumley gumley boys from the footy team with four teeth watch her swallow the maltesers eh.

Then the magnificent moderati struck and deleted the next 15 posts that were made after the TubbyPlonker's 7.26 am'er.

When asked why, Ahbollocks resplied:

1 The residents of Gumley Gumley don't deserve what was said about them.

2 You can"t fit a 912 up there.

3 Maltesers shouldn't be used as a casual *$% toy.

4 The Szara is not that colour.

5 And ...........

........roll down the steps of the bone picture theatre, and......

..... and for those of us that are capital letter deprived ...eh, she said that she would let us upper ........

.......the-bone-community-hall-was-awash-with-rumour(ah stuff it this is getting too hard) after bull did the Kamikaze thing and destroyed the men's dunny.....and there was a story that when he walked back into the Hall he said to the Shire President "Heckledy Specledy, why so freckledy".And the Sire President replied "It's alright for you Spick and Span, where were you when the Sh$t hit the fan"

"Hey, sp" responded bull "I'm not guilty ... eh"

"Well where were ya when the fan was bespeckled ... eh?" asked the bone sp again with a bit more force (... eh).

" I have an alibaba for when the excreta was splattered ...eh" replied bull "As I was flying my tjc at near vne south into nsw so that I could get down to nanna's joint, where she had her maltesers out ... eh, and was offering any of us flyboys a ..............................

"Now I'm confused" confessed bull "We have more Majors in the NES than we can shake a stick at (and I hope someone does take a well considered verbal stick to one of 'em at the AGM), we also have a Rikugun Shōsa, that are all trumped by a Colonel, a Kernel and a Rikugun Taisa, the Jabs are dropping thru-bolts and the Axes are splitting exhausts and gearboxes. What is the world coming to?" he mused.

"It's all caused by you not using capital letters when you logged on here" said ................

.........listen to the advice of people about how to prepare for gearbox fracture and exhaust pipe cracking and...

"I'm not letting anyone (except Nanna, who has a proven capability & lovely Maltesers) near my gearbox or exhaust pipe" declared the Firey Locky with the 912 powered XXXX can, "And that is more than I can say for ..............

.......but they are being technically unfair to Lox on that whereas morally.......

.... morally the Loxster prefers it orally, and that is to say that he & the beer-can just love to ........

Summer vegetables, dish of the day??????? and something thats good with beer.......Hmm when your XXXL vegetables arent of the day, more accurate to say once a year vegetables.....more chips please! and some of that beer accompanying thing.......

With a loxs uped tighter that a fishes rear look he raised his eyebrows at the tuba player and said I raise you one translate.google.com......

.... which will prove, once and for all, that there is very little difference between the derivation of an A Lox and an A Hole, in fact some on this forum think that ......

..........Watanabe San, "we are just hearing a rabyrinth of racquered spin which crimes the radder of disberief, and we know, Ratsack San, that ress is usually more, so rets end this shamfoor episode, which (not to mention the War) like what our Emperor did.

"No wuckers" leplied Nobu and aporogized to the TuberPlayer by jumping to his feet and without consulting with Acki or any others, and said "We are solly, Tubb, we got it long, we aporogise to the folum members, we will investigate what went long and we will put it light" for Nobu had not been stuck at the level of a Rikugun Shōsa (陸軍少佐?) and had been promoted to be a Rikugun Taisa (陸軍大佐?).

"Wow" said Nanna "No wonder he likes a good .........................

"......that almost EVERYONE is failing to give me due homage. In fact I haven't been home in weeks, and this will have to CHANGE......

....... as we got it wrong, we will look into it and we will put it right" added El Prez in a rerun of his Temora performance "Just give me a few more years and as soon as we sort out the Board and we consult with the constituancy about the non-contemporaneous continuously constipated constitution (there are a lot of "cons" there going on about the constitution)"

"I strongly support Don Lamsey's ploposed ammendments" yelled Nobu (who was a thoughful soul and who had studied constitutional law thru a correspondance course from Hokido U while rocked up in Cowla).

"Me too" said .............

".......Colonel's Club." in September."Heeth not a Colonel" whispered Locksock.....

"Although perhaps he might be a kernel" added Loxlie "But I want to make it ABSOLUTELY clear that this does not insinuate anything about anyone being anything to do with the ovary of a nut, however I do have to say that I have noticed .....

"...call in an Indian from Arizona, you may have heard of him, And He Coughs."The Rat gave an irritated sneeze: "What's HE going to do?" he asked "When I was a kid we beat them every time"

 

"It's for the numbers" explained Plays With Lox "We need people to vote, and he got Obama in last time"

 

"Where would you find Indians here?" asked the Rat beginning to show some interest.

 

"Well we've got Fly In the Ointment, Guernsey Cowfly, Crazy Dot Tom, Dances with Ferris Wheels, Welds Up Exhausts, and that's only the early volunteers" said PlaysWithLox

 

Scratching his posterior, with his blue eyes staring at the sky, the Rat thought for a moment........

...... rose to his feet, took the microphone without talking to anyone else and said "We got it wrong, I apologise to all members, we'll review all that we did and we will put it right (so by implication dump the incumbent and vote for me)".

"Hang on" called the not-quite-a-Colonel (& not-quite-a-Colonial) "That's my speech and as well as running Obama's "Hope & Change" line, I have it patented for reuse at the ......................

"I know about them lawyer folks" said Mavis"They have long silver tongues".....

 

"Dont talk to me about long tongues" said Nana

 

"I was in a rathole in Wagga once and this less than nefarious person with a gold toof gave me a good tongue lashing which I will never forget" she said with a tear running down her cheek

 

"Even the Major Major ............

...... is wanting to give this website a good "lashing".

"The Major Minor Major doesn't like being called that" said one of his lackies "He should be referred to as El Prezidente and due respect should be shown, as he is (now) an expert on Bye-Laws".

Just then, Ahrox-off went all aggressive, as he is often want to do and yelled "I reckon that anyone who is turned on by a uniform and who is an expert on Bye-Laws (but I don't mean Disaac or Dramsey) must be bi-......................

"six years before I have to face the members again"

But no one was listening.

 

PowerKero had become a lawyer and was making more money than he ever had from canola, and the others were all engrossed in watching a train wreck.

 

Nor did they notice the pale complexion of The Rat when he made his very tentative appearance, then scuttled back into his hole.

 

"What was it like inside?" asked Turbo diplomatically. "How long are you on parole?"

 

The Rat lifted his lip exposing a gap where the gold molar used to be: "You........"

....... are-a attracted-a to one goat and look-a what-a happens?" responded El Ratsack with-a his betht thpanish acthent.

"Don't wully" interjected Nobu "I was incartherated at Cowla duling the war and we did a lot worse that that, as me and Acki came up with the initial design of the Sport Szara at Cowla in 1952 (the bastards didn't tell us the war was over until 1955 after we built the Japanese Gardens and provided free labour alound Cowla for 15 years)."

"That's a cointhidence" said Robin of Locksly-smith "As I am going out to fly the Szara today and will see if I can get to 8/8, although that is not as easy as it used to be. The problem with Nob's design is that with the bubble cannopy everyone can see my ....................