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jackc

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    Aeropup/Thruster T300/J-230D
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    Rockhampton
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    Australia

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  1. I have no sympathy for Council and State Water Supply SCADA systems that once used dedicated UHF commercial radio links and smart engineers changed over to 3rd party mobile phone systems to carry the system data. I always said, never put your data bearers in the hands of a third party. Every system I designed or commissioned used dedicated radio links that were owner maintained, by their nominated equipment supplier. Seems the wheel has turned now, with 3G disappearing. I will watch and…….wait.
  2. Yep, my old iPhone 4S is still running like a clock, until ‘D’ (disconnect) day…….
  3. I have global Internet coverage via HF Radio…….cant talk, but can send emails IF the whole of the Internet crashes all over Australia.
  4. Word on the street is SAAA are leaving Narromine for greener pastures, the lease charges have seen to that……
  5. I suspect you have fallen foul of an increasingly complex system that will see RAA want, possibly serious money to get signed off in the long run. I started down this road to fit a Ballistic Recovery Chute to my 19 reg aircraft. MARAP was all too hard. So, I have a wearable slim pack chute I can wear while flying, if thinks turn bad I can just bail out 🤩
  6. Well, way above what I thought it would be. Watch Cessna 150’s go up in value?
  7. No Kieth, Us lemming members will just suck it up and keep paying as there is nowhere else to go, well there is but……..
  8. If that is the case, no point moaning here about what was done in changing the structure, those that voted for that, screwed the pooch by the look of it. I would allege RAAus doing nothing except collect membership dues, aircraft rego, and browbeat the current maintenance regime into the ground, until many people give up. They turn up at air shows, flying-ins to foster Aviation on one hand but on the other the maintenance training regime does not exist as it should. Handballing it to TAFE, is a cop out. CASA should pull RAAus ticket and look at SAAA.
  9. Well, I hear horror stories from people I actually speak to, been aviators for years and RAAus is not very popular, for a long time with many people. There are many incorrectly maintained aircraft flying, but I won’t say anymore on that. Suffice to say the current L2 situation getting worse over time, and the standover attitude of RAAus has caused problems in the past and not looking any better for the future, unless they change attitude and get a bit more professional. The company structure principle has stuffed it, in my opinion.
  10. Word on the street is……no one has applied for. 760kg yet, if it’s true?
  11. RAAus are interested in training pilots and L1’s and after that…….?
  12. The money cost to RAAus would probably prohibit their interest, because what TAFE would want. But in reality it really should be run by RAAus or SAAA themselves.
  13. Myself being an SAAA member, I have enquired there and I believe they have training plans afoot but not sure how progressed it is, and I am not sure of the syllabus planning either, I may have more info after the Wentworth Flyin. I wanted to attend that but unfortunately I cannot. RAA in handballing it off to TAFE? Well I guess that will be the end of any L2 training? Maybe CASA need to make it part of their charter?
  14. Correct me IF I am wrong, but I have never seen an L2 Maintainers Course advertised by RAAus? Applications for Scolarships? Thanks for link.
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