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  1. Unfortunately, johnm, the stats prove me correct. And I have a number of relatives and friends who have homes and businesses in Northam. Northam is home to a substantial number of criminals, welfare recipients and drug users.

     

    Bindoon and Lower Chittering have a sizeable percentage of larger block owners (rural residential) and no "welfare" housing.

     

    https://www.microburbs.com.au/Crime-Disadvantage/Bindoon

     

    https://www.homely.com.au/suburb-profile/northam-wa-6401

     

    https://www.homely.com.au/suburb-profile/lower-chittering-wa-6084

     

    The major disadvantage of Bindoon airstrip is it can only used on weekends as Pearce RAAF base demands the airspace during the week for training, as the Bindoon Military Area is nearby, and this area is used for mock aerial attack training, as well as a large area around and N of Pearce, is reserved for RAAF student pilot training.

     

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  2. .....one Kiwis idea to design an aircraft that used both a nosewheel and a tailwheel, that caused a revolution in the recreational aviation field. "It luks like a shupping trulley!" exclaimed another Kiwi aviator, who bore a great resemblance to.........

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  3. Mat's small number of posts on here indicated a reasonably good understanding about the limitations involved in flying light aircraft, but it appears he succumbed to the age-old problem of poor pilot decision-making, in taking off into inclement weather, obviously feeling a pressing need to carry out his flight.

    I would opine we've all seen reports of reportedly good pilots with modest levels of experience, making poor decisions to take off, when they should've stayed grounded.

    I'm not so sure that another 15 or 20 hrs of pilot training would have benefited Mat, unless that training really hammered decision-making, relating to whether a flight would be able to be safely carried out or not.

    The problem centres around the fact that everyone is different when it comes to decision-making, and some of us are more impulsive than others.

     

    https://www.recreationalflying.com/profile/11812-mat-farrell/content/

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  4. The tubing will likely be precision seamless drawn tubing, made from aviation grade alloy, heat treated and tempered to a British or American Standard. The precision finish is required to ensure minimal unevenness in wall thickness.

    No aluminium agricultural pipe for carrying water would have any degree of strength, it is seamed (a weakness), and it would have a large variation in wall thickness over each length.

     

    However, you can purchase Unipipe, which is produced in a range of aluminium alloys, some of which are designed for high pressure piping, and which may have adequate strength.

    The "T" reference in the aluminium grades refers to the heat treatment, with T6 being the strongest and toughest aluminium grade - but it is also the grade with the lowest level of elongation.

    Elongation is the figure that shows just how much a metal stretches before it fractures. Lower strength metals will generally have higher elongation rates than high strength metals, but this is not always 100% the case.

    Good corrosion resistance is also a highly desirable characteristic of any aluminium material used in an aircraft.

     

    WWW.AIRCRAFTMATERIALS.COM

     

    WWW.BLUESCOPEDISTRIBUTION.COM.AU

    6060 is a medium strength heat treatable alloy with good corrosion resistance, weldability and responsiveness to anodising. See the data sheet here.

     

  5. ......that any London bus driver can become a billionaire if they're ruthless enough. In fact, they offer a degree in corporate shafting training, and ASIC questioning evasion skills, that is highly sought after in countries such as those run by dictators and ruthless despots.

     

    One day, the receptionist at BU fielded a call from Kim Jong-il. "How do I get one of these degrees that enables me to compete on a level playing field in the Western corporate world"?, he asked.

     

    "I've been to the best Swiss schools, but none of them gave me the skills and training needed to deal with ruthless corporate deal-makers, such as Donald Trump! I need to up my skills level, so when he announces he's going to turn North Korea into the Riviera of the East, I can be ready to........

  6. .....tasteless photo and expressing his dislike for it. One day, he asked who took the photo. When OT explained it was taken by a friend of his who lived in Moorabbistan, and who was an occasional pilot and speedway fiend, and known to be involved in selling some dodgy brands of trucks, Alan burst out with, "Well, take the XXXXXX thing down, then! That wall needs something tasteful hung on it, I'll send around a photo of Australia II, and it can replace that tasteless thing!! And let me know where I can find this Turbo bloke, there has to be something in it for me, if he's...........

  7. The wreckage of the Caravan has been found and there are no survivors, the aircraft crashed onto sea ice and was totally destroyed.

     

    Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin McIntyre-Coble is reported as saying, "(the aircraft was involved in) some kind of event which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation, and a rapid loss in speed. What that event is, I can't speculate to."

     

    WWW.AVWEB.COM

    Plane went down in fog on sea about 12 miles offshore.

     

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  8. The sheer idiocy is in the allowing of intersecting air traffic at low level, with only 100 feet clearance, where height measurement can only be done reliably by very precise instruments.

    FFS, the NTSB is still struggling with altitude accuracy of the Blackhawk from its FDR, which wasn't even time-stamped. They're talking about trying to define to more accuracy, a 50 foot altitude variation at 300 feet! Even the ATC screens only report 100' variations.

    And why did the Blackhawk pilot request "visual separation" when ATC were in a far better position to advise track and altitude? The U.S. military has to wear a lot of blame for this crash, with procedures that act as if they're the only ones in the sky.

     

    WWW.AVWEB.COM

    Blackhawk’s FDR data was missing time stamps.

     

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  9. .....the Jaguar badges won't be regularly pilfered by the multitude of Indian poverty-stricken Indian orphans, who have been known to even nick engines from running Drifters and Thrusters - thus leading to great mystification amongst Drifter and Thruster pilots, as to why zero thrust was available, despite full throttle being applied.

     

    One of these notorious orphans, a quick-witted youngster named Paramjit Turbonakshi, was the primary suspect involved in a large blackmarket of near-new Drifter and Thruster engines regularly available cheaply, in many States on the Sub-Continent. The Indian Police were regularly outsmarted by Paramjit Turbonakshi, as it appeared he always had prior knowledge of policing actions that were planned.

     

    Finally, a trap was devised, whereby a police stooge by the name of Onkar Cappiranjit - who had formerly been a good friend of Paramjit Turbonakshi, before they had a falling-out over an entire shipload of blackmarket gin, that disappeared whilst supposedly under Onkar Cappiranjit's supervision - was to act as a............

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  10. Do you understand there will also have to be a comprehensive tree danger audit, within the complete aerodrome boundaries? Every standing tree will require a full assessment, as to its particular danger to aviation and aviators!

    Just imagine, you could've easily been the first "falling timber" aerodrome fatality. The aerodrome rules will need to be re-written!

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  11. .....goad CASA inspectors (and Fisheries Inspectors) any time they wanted to take a peek at bull's equipment. Now, when we say "equipment"; people with low-level thoughts (such as Cappy) would be drooling at the thought of acquiring a photo of a CASA inspector, inspecting bulls "equipment" - but the truth is, when the word "equipment" is used in this context, it doesn't refer to any of bulls wedding tackle, it refers to items he's using during flying or fishing, which have a level of safety requirements attached to them. As bull is known to regularly ignore a lot of safety regulations and other...........

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    most of those studies are manipulated to get the required outcome

    I think that statements a bit of a cheap shot - without providing any evidence - at a lot of people who do a lot of hard work to try and define causes behind crashes.

    There may be some studies, initiated by companies with a vested interest, to get a desired study outcome, but the studies by the universities are generally even-handed.

     

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  13. It's around 12% for car and truck drivers, surprisingly. The University of Adelaide did a study on it in 2008. For pilots, quite likely a lot less, but possibly more than you might expect, too.

    After a serious aviation crash, often with accompanying fire, it can be difficult to determine precisely whether a medical event precipitated the crash.

    For older pilots (over 65), the potential of a medical episode causing a crash would be greatly increased.

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    WWW.PHRAXLASER.COM.AU

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