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What a bloody rort. This is Govt greed, using the old American "nickel-and-dime-ya" technique. I'm sick of this, "fee for this, fee for that, fee for everything you touch" Govt mentality that rules today. Can't even visit a National park for free any more - out in the middle on nowhere, they'll have a system for collecting fees, just to have a look around. And once the fees are in place, they just keep getting ramped up every year. And every fee collection system introduced, involves more public servants to collect and administer the fees and charges.

It does seem odd that the pilot didn't alter the flight path to land on the other side of the highway, where the traffic was going the same way - and where the lanes were virtually empty. Note how the roadside signs will get you every time you choose a road to land on!

Unfortunately Carbon Monoxide is a tasteless, odourless, and colourless gas, known as the "silent killer", because it replaces the oxygen in your bodys cells, and kills you very effectively and very quickly, with no warning. It has killed many people. The smells from the exhaust you can normally smell, are the remnant gases from the combustion of the chemical constituents of the petrol. You do not necessarily need to smell those remnant gases smells, to be poisoned by CO.

Moneybox, the problem with a simple rat trap vent is the potential to admit CO gases into the cabin. The exhaust system cuff or wrap is a far safer arrangement.

.....total integration of cat-farming, tax advice, parts supply, interstate trucking, aviation knowledge and skills, and military strategy knowledge of the merged operations, provided an unsurpassed service to the clientele - who ranged over every facet of society. From the lowly V8 Falcon-loving, burn-out merchant from Broadmeadows, to the sleazy, cheap motel-chain owner from Kapooka, right through to the individual multi-millionaires and global corporations, TurboOT delivered the goods, no matter what the request, nor how hard it was, to fulfill. Then came the day when TurbOT HQ became stumped with a request for...........

Fuel flow operating conditions that produce "anomalies", are usually the result of something physical that can move around in the fuel system - or there's a physical fuel flow impediment that only raises its head under specific conditions. As an example, many decades ago, I was travelling with an older brother and he was driving an old International truck that belonged to his boss, a builder. The truck started and ran fine, and went well for most of the trip until we ran into some hilly country. Upon the need to have maximum power from the engine, it started to show signs of fuel starvation - to the point eventually, where it wouldn't climb one relatively small hill. The brother suspected a fuel supply problem, and as he was quite good mechanically despite being only a young man, he promptly removed the main fuel line from the fuel tank, found some fencing wire, and poked it up the fuel line. To our amazement, a piece of circular thin plate, virtually shaped like a carburettor butterfly, fell out of the end of the (steel) fuel line. This tiny piece of plate appeared to be the centre remnant from a hole punching machine. It immediately became obvious, that being a neat fit in the fuel line, when it went up the line, it was initially moving with its body parallel to the line. Then it must have reached a restriction point where it was turning at 90° to the line and effectively shutting off the fuel supply, like a tiny shutoff valve. We replaced the cleaned fuel line, and the problem was solved. I'd suggest it's possible there's a manufacturing obstruction in the fuel system, that is creating intereference in the fuel flow when it reaches a specific set of circumstances. Sometimes that restriction is where fittings have been drilled during manufacture, or holes drilled in other components such as tanks. Even an irregular shaped orifice can cause restriction or cavitation under specific conditions. Without seeing photos or the layout of the fuel system, the problem is difficult to diagnose exactly. Because there are electronics/electrics involved in the fuel system as well, this adds another layer of source potential for the problem. I would start by trying to determine if the problem is physical fuel flow restriction, or an electronics/electrics problem. Fault finding is a process of gradual elimination, and can be very time-consuming.

The Kip Motor Company, builder of the Sopwith replicas and the Gnome Monosoupape reproduction engines, is based in Dallas, Texas, not NZ. I hate to think what they cost.

An interesting historic aviation photo turned up in my FB feed. It's a TAA Fokker Friendship during a low descent into Parafield in 1959. The same aircraft crashed off Mackay a year later, killing all 29 aboard. It was Australia's worst peacetime aviation disaster. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1501913541306059

......for the cheap T-shirts that read, "U want jig-jig?", or "F*ck U" in Japanese characters. No sirree, they went there for the superb plastic surgery, which is the reason why OT today looks like a Tom Cruise body double. However, once the word got out about how good and cheap the PS was in Bali, some East Coasters with dubious family histories (involving things such as piracy on the high seas in the 1700's, and high-powered car racing involving scantily-clad voluptuous groupies, who always followed the owners and drivers into their cheap motels), then wanted their fizzoggs altered to meet a much higher level of social acceptability than they currently enjoyed - whereby, once altered in appearance, they could then much more easily fit into...........

Here's a couple more videos showing the approach into Newark. The "near-miss" with the semi-trailer is possibly not as bad as it appears. However, the landing aircraft are all coming in low over the turnpike - but not as low as that flight that hit the bakery semi-trailer. The news reports are stating the aircraft took out a light pole as well. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX_upm4DheT/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX9rfNEB1yW/

The FAA information page relating to PAPI .... "4 whites, you're high as a kite - 4 reds, you're dead". Well maybe not 100% true, but this crew should've been seeing 4 glaring red lights. VGLS - Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI) WWW.FAA.GOV VGLS - Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI)

According to the airport facilities list, Newark airport has PAPI, which the Americans claim to be superior to the VASI system. PAPI uses a four light system which reportedly gives more accurate landing path information to pilots.

I'd place that news item right into the field of Mayoral Dreams.

Well, Nev, in that case, perhaps the crew need to visit SpecsSavers??

That's pilot/crew incompetence at a pretty high level. They obviously weren't even looking at the instruments. I trust they get suspended and have to undergo further training. Imagine if the bakery truck had been a solid load of heavy equipment on a semi-trailer? It would've caused structural damage to the undercarriage and ended up in an aircraft crash. Aviation in the U.S. seems to get more hairy by the day.

A sizeable number of super funds have mind-boggling amounts of money to invest. Aware has just merged with Telstra Super, and that merger has turned them into Australia's largest Super fund. The problem i, these funds are constantly chasing increased % returns (which the members love, of course), so it's a two-edged sword, and the Super funds are strictly dollar-driven, with little consideration for social factors. The simple fact is, that as airfields in towns and cities become increasingly more valuable due to ballistic land pricing, there is no way that these central airfields will ever remain economic for the low-cost aviators. So, the only solution is to move out of the cities and towns to rural areas, where low-cost aviation is still feasible.

........at their navel and chanting Himalayan prayers for peace and world reconciliation. When the news got out to the rank and file over what had happened to the Enforcer, there was a collective sigh of relief, as they now knew, that at long last, there was no need to..........

This is interesting - QUOTE: "For autonomous logistics to become a reality, these robotic aircraft must be able to navigate crowded or contested airspace as safely as a human pilot. This is the mission of Project Arena. Partnering with Sydney-based company Mission Systems, JDI is developing Boobook-DAA, a compact detect-and-avoid radar. Boobook-DAA functions as the aircraft’s 'eyes', replicating a pilot’s ability to detect and avoid other airspace users. The radar is designed to detect other aircraft in the sky, day and night, out to at least 7km." I wonder what the accuracy is like, at 7kms? Could the system start evasive action at 7kms out, or would it take until the other aircraft was only a km away before it initiated evasive action? An oncoming RPT aircraft doing 250kts would only take 54 seconds to cover that 7kms. You wouldn't want any lag or delay in identifying another aircraft. And what about wedgetail eagles diving on a JabX from up on high?

Here's another, almost identical crash caused by an almost identical problem. Could YOU have picked up the assembly fault in the wing strut here? (see photos, page 7 of the NTSB report). https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateFactualReport/99569/pdf

It would have paid to advise readers that you're located in Michigan, in the U.S. This site is based in Australia, and there are major electrical incompabilities between U.S. single phase and three phase power voltages and plugs, and Australian single phase and three phase power voltages and plugs - so there will be little interest from Australian users - let alone the distance/cost factors in shipping any items from the U.S. to Australia.

Well, you just got to wonder about some peoples attention to personal safety. QUOTE: "Inspection of the hangar where the airplane was assembled revealed that no assembly checklist or assembly manual was present in the work area. The airplane did not have a data plate installed and had not been inspected by a Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) or an FAA Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) inspector. No airworthiness certificate or operating limitations had been issued for the airplane." And there was no way a pre-flight inspection could have picked up the assemblers failure to ensure the bolt was inserted into wing strut support block. This was multiple failures in assembly procedures and checks. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194119/pdf

I'd imagine there was more than a little above the normal parasitic wing losses with that amazing setup? Going by that blokes style of thinking, I guess he was frightened of losing a wing, as well? So, the more the better?

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....then thought about it, had a meeting about it, then considered their options, and looked up "banking charges and fees" in their filing systems, to reference what they should charge - had another meeting to determine that the charge they selected was within their legal rights to charge, and then called for a show of hands (or legs - or horns) to settle their final decision - and then proceeded to apply the charge to..........

I reckon I know of some Air France Airbus A330 pilots currently residing at the bottom of the Atlantic, who could've done with one of those devices, to counter their lack of hands-on skills.