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Skippy, they're called Dome Shelters, and they're very popular on mine sites, and even industrial sites, where fixed buildings are a wasted investment. The best part is, they're very saleable secondhand, because they can be easily dismantled and moved. The Australian-built ones are vastly better quality than the cheap Chinese rubbish. https://www.domeshelter.com.au/

No need to clear very much around Cue, you're struggling to find a tree big enough to park under at the best of times.

Skippy, I think the word you really want, is commodious. 🙂 Funnily enough, "commodious", meaning roomy and comfortable, has the same language roots as "commode", a relatively recent term for the toilet. The words come from the Latin "commodus" - meaning "convenient". A roomy cockpit is more than just convenient! 🙂

......a montage of sheeps daggy bums, roustabouts throwing fleeces and picking off the dags, sheep manure pickers raking the dags from under the woolsheds - and all the repeating imagery accompanied by the music from.......

...... the other players started producing dags to play with, which ruined Cappys great run of wins. The problem was, when a dag was flicked, it spun off little chunks of sheep poo, which besides annoying the other players who were spattered with bits of sheep poo, the chunks also made the floor sticky, which coupled with the lack of hardness in the dags, led to.........

The new BOM radar page is in this link, below - you can click on "more radars" to find the BOM radar sites. The problem is, however - I clicked on the radar site I wanted to check out, and the page came up with blank imagery! https://www.bom.gov.au/weather-and-climate/rain-radar-and-weather-maps#more-radars The new BOM website is a disaster, ABC radio had 774 callers yesterday that all stated their extreme disappointment with the new site. BOM has a long way to go to make this new site user-friendly, and to get the bugs out of it. It's all graphics-intensive, but the graphics are poor, anyway. I try to set up more than one location to check weather, and it won't allow any more than one location to be selected as "favourite". Time to rev up these website developers, they must have just bought off-the-shelf programmes.

The performance of synthetic oils should be better than straight refinery oils, as the base oil in synthetic oils is chemically manufactured, which gives it better properties than straight refined oils, due to the ability in the synthetic manufacturing process to produce purer base molecular structures, with the most desired oil properties. Oil refined directly from crude comes with a range of chemical component structures that are not necessarily ideal for lube oil use, and the oil makeup has to be balanced by adding other additives to counter the undesirable chemicals. Despite clever refining processes, the undesirable chemicals still slip through in the final base oil refinery product, because quite of number of the undesirable chemicals are either expensive to refine out, or have chemical properties that enable them to slip through hydrotreating. The bottom line is all base oils have at least 7 extra additives added to them, to make them perform to the required level or oil standard. These additives are often quite different between the various manufacturers, and the type/selection of additives would more than likely play the biggest part in an oils performance. The basic additives are; Antioxidants to prevent oil breakdown by oxidisation Acidity neutralisers Rust and corrosion inhibitors Viscosity index improvers (VIII's) to maintain oil thickness across a range of temperatures Anti-wear agents Detergents and dispersants to keep internal engine components clean Anti-foaming agents Extreme pressure (EP) additives for heavy-duty applications The oil chemists have a huge array of chemical additives to choose from, all with different properties and performance - and they keep finding new additives all the time. Plus, the chemists have to balance oil performance against their manufacturing costs, so if you want exotic, high performance additives, you have to pay. In general, the oil film will drain off metal surfaces it's supposed to be protecting, within as little as 3 months, and chemicals in the oil either settle, react slowly with each other, or simply degrade by chemical bonding breakdown, over an extended period. Therefore, using fresh oil, and keeping surfaces coated with oil, are two of the most important things you can do, to prevent engine problems related to poor oil performance.

.......because Cappy's nickname at university was "Daggs". This name came about because of Cappys propensity to continuously look for sheeps dags lying around, and to utilise them for..........

..... wanging his wang continuously over his wanton wahine Wanda, who wouldn't let him wang her - and besides, there was always the threat of a jealous Craig, who promised to drive Cappy into the ground like a tent peg, if he ever saw Cappy anywhere near his......

........"I guess you all know that Turbo was actually the major force behind the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band? He not only sang the praises of Eddie and Bucks, he also sang about the fabulous Wangaratta Wahine, a lass that Captain was absolutely besotted with in 1975, and which led to Captain becoming......... (and here we have Turbo doing his part in singing "Wangaratta Wahine" - see if you can pick him. Note, that's JC on the keyboard.... Oh - and Captain still hates blokes named Craig, that are 6 foot 6" ....)

Clinton, unfortunately the pilot was a grandfather, and his pax were his 3 small grandchildren. There was previous discussion about whether any of the children had the strength or understanding on what to do, as regards an emergency situation. I understand there's a reasonable level of strength required to pull the ballistic parachute, and if the aircraft was spinning, the pilot would've had his hands full just trying to recover - and I understand from reading survivors accounts, that an aircraft in a spin throws a fair few G's, making it even harder to move from your position, to carry out physical actions.

Simple turbos alone, are good. Turbos + lots of electronics attached to them, is bad. The Europeans are masters at making things too complicated, and then also charging much more than anyone else, to supply parts for their products.

Our money doesn't buy what it used to, it's that simple. Try comparing eating out and land prices, they've gone up enormously, since the start of COVID. Repairers and tradies charge around 50% more than what they used to, 5 years ago.

Landing empty, and just skidded straight off to the left, and through the perimeter fence after touchdown? The airport security patrol car with the two victims was incredibly unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's hard to understand how this runway departure came about, unless it was a brake malfunction, a reverse thrust mechanism problem on one engine, or a nose gear failure. Then again, it could've been some landing configuration error on the part of the crew. I recall a B777 that screwed up a landing in Munich, caused by crew confusion when using autoland. The B777 went all over the show, but still pulled up intact, and no-one was hurt! The initiator of the landing shambles, was localiser signal interference from a departing RJ85. Autoland Runway Excursion Blamed On Pilots AVWEB.COM German investigators say a runway excursion by Boeing 777 that was on autoland was the fault of the pilots. The unusual incident happened in November of 2011

I think my first experience of seeing a jet fighter, was having the Vampires from Pearce air base (W.A.) roaring over our farm at low altitude in pairs, when I was about 6 (1955). They were pretty impressive to a 6 yr old.

What a bloody pathetic video. 10m 18s of repetitive information, and nothing produced for a summary. Just a lot of waffling that could've been condensed into 2 mins of video - and which still left us, none the wiser.

Bringing this one back to the surface - the ATSB has released its final report on this crash, and unfortunately, due to the near-total destruction of the Cirrus, the investigators are unable to definitively find a cause for the crash. Icing causing a stall, from which the pilot couldn't or didn't recover from, is certainly high on the list of likely causes. The fact that the ballistic parachute wasn't deployed is also cause for concern. https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items/2025/gundaroo-cirrus-light-aircraft-accident-final-report-published

"Myrap airport"? - and "we saw wales"??. Looks like he needs to work on his spelling, before he goes on a marketing tour! 🙂

The ATSB has released its final report on this crash, and have concluded that the crash was caused by pilot incapacitation, more than likely related to a severe gastro intestinal infection, which infection had stopped the pilot from flying the previous day. While the pilot claimed he felt better on the day of the crash, the ATSB has concluded he was still quite unwell - and coupled with other factors such as a possible lack of hydration, and prescribed medication being taken, it was highly likely all the events combined to cause the pilot to faint at the controls. Fatal plane crash in WA's Midwest likely caused by medical episode, ATSB report reveals - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU A report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau reveals the pilot of a fatal crash in Ogilvie likely suffered an "incapacitating" medical episode. Collision with terrain involving Cessna 150M, VH-WWU, 40 km north-west of Northampton, Western Australia, on 21 March 2025 | ATSB WWW.ATSB.GOV.AU

I can recall being on a Virgin flight from Perth to Brisbane and we boarded, were pushed back, got out to the taxiiway, and the aircraft halted. The Captain came on the PA and announced he was going to have to hold off on the takeoff for a short time, while he organised some adjustments in the cockpit. A LAME came on board promptly, spent about 5 mins in the cockpit, and then left. The Captain then announced the adjustments had been carried out, and we were going to take off shortly, and thanked us for our patience. We departed promptly and had a good flight. I couldn't even begin to guess at what control in the cockpit wasn't performing to the Captains expectations, but I was pleased he was careful enough to get the adjustment carried out to his satisfaction.

.....Terse Code, with the leading capital "T" used as a nod to Turbo's input, and the word itself well known as the definition for sparseness in the use of words. What wasn't well known of course, is that Turbo is also a man of few words, so when he speaks, one has to ensure one doesn't miss a word anywhere. This character trait long ago deemed him entirely unsatisfactory for the primary qualification required to become a politician, so Turbo was denied a life full of excessive pay levels, free bar tabs, free business-class travel, and lots of kickbacks, along with general public opprobium. However, Turbo made up for it, by going into the business and corporate world, where excessive pay levels, free bar tabs, free business-class travel, kickbacks, and general public opprobium still ruled, so it was all good. Turbo appeared as the primary speaker at a major conference one day, and after he cleared his throat, he launched into the start of the talk with a joke, as all good public speakers do. However, due to Turbos trait of using as few words as possible, he told a one-line joke, and condensed it into 3 words - which left the audience scratching their heads, and..........

Just having a "gut feeling" about the safe condition of an aircraft doesn't seem like a satisfactory reason to refuse to fly it. I would've expected a professional, practical reason for the refusal.

......using multiple microphone clicks, instead of Mandarin or even the English language. The Panamanians were quick to pick up on the click language, and every flyer commented on how good it was for reducing clogging of the airwaves with unnecessary and long-winded radio transmissions. Many flyers remarked on how good it was, to go back to simple Morse Code for communication. One could simply convert ones callsign to a number of microphone clicks in Morse Code, and by the time.........

Angus Mitchell has stated that the ATSB can confirm that the engine of this aircraft wasn't producing power when it impacted the ground at runway 34. Why it wasn't, is something that they have yet to find out. QUOTE: "What we do know, and all indicators are, that there wasn't any power being produced in the very final moment as it's impacted with terrain, and what we don't understand is why" Tributes to 'fantastic people' killed in light plane crash near Wollongong - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Friends and neighbours of three people killed in a plane crash at Shellharbour Airport in New South Wales say their deaths are a "big loss to the community". A fuel selector valve in an incorrect position, perhaps? Not the first time that it's happened. Improper fuel selector placement led to fuel starvation in 2024 crash that killed 5 WWW.GLOBALAIR.COM The NTSB said the pilot failed to ensure the proper placement of the fuel selector during approach and landing. The plane lost engine power and crashed, killing all five on board.

She's a real panic merchant, the media love them. I'm surprised they didn't have her saying the pilots were "fighting for control of the plane". The crew were very good, they had an engine failure indication and they managed it in a professional manner. She doesn't realise the crew concentrate on finding the problem and sorting out the solution, before they advise the pax what's going on.