jackc

No, I will not cancel my membership at this time or take a plane off the register unless I transfer my Jabiru to VH which is something that can be done. I’m just a bit peeved with RAA at present on a few things, I know I am not popular on my Part 103 stuff, but really it is only my opinion and no one has to agree with me if they don’t want but it is on my bucket list 🤩

IF he did not ruffle the tail feathers, and have an incident, the no fly zone violation probably would not have come to light at all.

Turbs, there is a lot of things going on in the background for many people, I spend time on the phone these days, and all I hear is unhappy people, my experiences with RAA have never been good mostly, I feel,I am the enemy to them. They hammered me this week to pay my membership, a month early, I need to do an article for the mag, I bet they don’t publish it. I am a target on their lunch room dart board, because yes I am outspoken. we all have that right to express our selves.

I’m in contact looking to buy, been investigating this for a while now…….

There is, go to U.S.A and fly FAA FAR Part 103 aircraft NO licence NO rego, All rules on an A4 page. Get a check ride, hire or buy plane, free as a bird to go 🤩

So having read through bits of this, and comments made to me in conversation say that an MARAP must be RENEWED every year? MARAP even needed for simple things? I could not use factory tech documentation to fit a BRS to my 19 reg aircraft? I had to go through the MARAP process? So, I just bought a wearable parachute, open left door……..bail out, damn it watch the tail feathers, and job is done 🤩 No MARAP, no fees to pay, no RAA b/s, what is not to like 👍

I am glad the paper planes I fly in my lounge room are not regulated by RAA 🤩

You will keep hearing it, scroll right past if you don’t like it. Because I see no bright light ideas from you, only kicks in the guts for things you don’t like.

Look at what it’s doing to Recreational Aviation? Increased costs, more onerous regulation, they grounded one of my aircraft on a phone call, no supporting documentation. They could not manage a kids sandpit, from phone calls I have discussions about, it’s a mess, they have shut down flying schools and owners walked away, had enough. Yes, there are some great people in the organisation, tainted by the few. But don’t worry, plans are being made by CASA if it all goes down in a heap. Sadly, that is what it may take. For me? It’s no problem, even confiscate my planes, I will go to the U.S. get my factory built Aerolite 103, go there 4 times per year for 3-4 weeks a time and fly happy, in the most enjoyable aviation sector, who’s rules fit on one A4 page. Just image getting my radio call for the biggest air show in the World ‘Jack Aerolite, you are clear to land runway, 19 please exit taxiway J and proceed to ultralight parking’ Screw Australia, I don’t need any registration or licence to fly into the biggest Airshow in the World 🤩🤩

And……if the organisation no longer exists?

Not if the whole show folds, it’s the the problem for those charged, IF found guilty?

Winner winner, chicken dinner 🤩🤩

But are Manual of Standards ready? I suspect there is paperwork not yet ready? Show me the readiness of what is planned?

And next we have to deal with RAA and the TAFE College New South Wales project for Training? When I read the communique from RAA, I felt there was many unanswered questions there.?

Right now, the legal element is that RAA withheld certain evidence from the Coroner. RAA got busted and the amount spent to date on legal costs has been some alleged $300,000. Ordinarily, the Coroner could simply have found the pilot died by misadventure of his own doing. However, when the RAA cover-up was discovered, the wheels fell off everything. now we sit and wait and see whether the DPP do anything. I am not so sure the family has any real claim but again that is by legal determination in the future.

Regardless what happens? RAA are now liable for $300,000 legal fees at this time but we have not been told the whole picture.

Big air shows will probably go the way of the dodo, like big music festivals seem to be doing

I m writing CASA and relevant MPs for suggestions to fix……

Knowing that law is not founded on logic, it’s a no go ! But WOW, I sure would get some publicity, become well known, might even get into Parliament 🤩🤩 Trump managed to make it, could be hope for me, yet 👍

The way it is, my tenure with RAA will not continue, because I have an alternative pathway to continue on, like many of us do. Being a member of an organisation, who treats Stakeholders with disdain, is not on my agenda. Aviation and anything attached to it should be enjoyable with much camaraderie, I don’t see RAA, providing that, in the future. I don’t have much life left to waste…….

As a man said to me on the phone today, you can drive your unregistered car with no license on your own land because you own it. He suggested I remove the numbers of my aircraft, and fly in my own airspace because I own it, with no registration and no pilots license🤩 I wonder how I would go in front of the beak, on that one👍👍

Special General Meetings are generally convened for the purpose of solving any concerns, The membership may have on the direction of an organisation and to work out plans, to solve any issues relating to those concerns. They are also used to plan future direction of the organisation in its future. This is not necessarily about tearing the organisation down but to correct problems within it however. I was the President of one such organisation in another hobby where people forged signatures to convene a special general meeting. Those people having personal interest in destroying the place. For me it was simple as President . I spoke to the committee and told them of my total concerns in remaining President and all of the committee and myself decide to resign in total immediately, and gave a time for that and published that time and we all walked away from the whole organisation and left them to it. Not my doing, but many other members decide to form a new organisation which I simply joined as a member and in within 2 years I I was made President of that organisation and we continued to further our activities as we wanted in the previous organisation and did so for a number of years. I was made life member of the same organisation, and in between all of us. We made it something really worthwhile so yes some good can come out of tearing organisations down for want of a better description and it’s an unfortunate thing to ever have to do, and I would never want to do it again in my lifetime.

Neglect in duty of care to Stake holders, as we are known as………

And those white ants that are still there? Should immediately be removed, in the best interests of the RAA’s future……..

Hope they lose patronidge and make even less money. IF they employ greed tactics. Maybe it time to start a ‘Do not fly to list’ Tell them, if their rules don’t exist in ERSA, they can’t be enforced. 👍