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And today, the Qld Minister for Transport announces on the radio, he wants driving tests for existing car licence holders. All the fat cat bureaucrats will be burning their biros out tomorrow, making submissions to the minister for suggestions, so they can get their bonus points with the minister. So yep, legislation starts with the minister and the bureaucrats pour fertiliser on the ministers idea. -
I have been described as a nut case by people all my life because I am adventure driven BUT I am still alive 🙂 Thinking back…….it probably started when I got expelled from a private boarding school, they said there NO hope for me…..Wanchors!!
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Nearly every politician has that problem……and they make the rules, so essentially we are all doomed? Its just the degree of doomness 😞
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Modern day regulators make legislation and rules so complex, a lay person struggles to understand most of it. I just try read and interpret what I can……IF I fail, then I just say…..too hard and forget it. Regulators do have a duty of care to make rule interpretation that is easily achievable IF they want compliance. They have failed their task IF they don't do this and I have used this to get off the hook in the past…..relating to transport vehicle matters.
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I have just bought a house in town, so just something crazy to do, I walked to the Post Office for my mail, a round trip of 6.5km up and down many hills. I did the walk with one stop, at the Post office and drank 500ml of water and went home. No problems doing it and when I have time might do it more often. Now, I am 71 and fast become a target of medicals. I am quite fit for age as I lead an active life BUT, I could walk out the door tomorrow and have a Aortic Dissection and drop dead on my lawn 😞. Would a medical have found impending disaster? No, but a full CT/MRI would have, more probably than not. How far do we go with medicals for anything? Car, Truck, Employment etc etc? Medicals need to be unworkably intense to catch many impending Medical events. Still, there can never be 100% success. But our regulators are too fcking dumb to see the woods for the trees. Nothing can ever be perfect……
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Some 25,000 people die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest every year in Australia and many, who have no previous Cardiac problems history. Life has many elements of risk from various causes……
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Self compliance is up to the aircraft owner/pilot themselves? Being a realist, who is going to catch people breaking rules anyway? ONLY if something comes to light by way of an in incident OR someone snitches on the rule breaker? We live in a totally imperfect World and Aviation is no exception. Anyone with any brains looks at what rule they are breaking and determines if it compromises safety and breaking it cannot have a bad outcome.
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But, the RAA audit does not publish the complete audit list it has compiled?
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I wonder what is on the rest of their ‘list’ ? We are only getting half the story?
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It’s no wonder people don’t care too much for the rules and go and do their own thing and are harmless to everybody around.
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I might suggest there are people flying out there who don't fly to the rules, WHY because many are onerous and unfair in some cases. I don't care how many rules you make…….people will always die flying aircraft, same applies to cars. Education is the key……..even pilots with thousands of hours make mistakes. There are risk taking pilots, will rules force them to think different? Some maybe, others no…… Be honest, what is the chance of breaking rules and being caught? Many pilots will never see a ramp check in their flying life? People want to fly incognito? They turn their Transponder off, don't file a flight plan? and don't use their radio except to listen. fly in remote populated areas from private/property airstrips? Some probably dont have a licence nor a registered aircraft. First that CASA or RAA know they exist is when they fatally crash. How do you prosecute someone who is DEAD? Fine his Estate? They simply become another DEATH by misadventure statistic? One that CASA or RAA cannot prevent, no matter how many rules there are…….
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MY opinion is the whole RAA thing is a total crap show and needs disbanding THEN rebuilding. It CANNOT continue as a company AND regulator with compulsory membership.
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Too many Cooks, spoil the Broth……
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The CEO is ex CASA? I would allege he could have a tainted view of how RAA policies and regulatory responsibilities are and should be be applied? I believe there was a covert visit by one of their officials to the Old Station Fly In. No doubt on a data gathering mission? Is the whole RAA System too onerous? Its not correctly structured as it is being a regulator we must be a member of as well as being a company. This is MY opinion and my comments are based on that.
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It will take a disaster to force a change, CASA will make a an order on RAA and they will have a knee jerk reaction and respond with a hard nosed solution in a very short space of time, to appease CASA. Members will lose this way. IF a policy was made over time with good planning, the the outcome may be far better?
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And yet, they do not do incident/crash investigations now?
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Different to AOPA, they have a great big bus 🙂 RAA is ahead of Police Air Wing in Qld, their acting Chief Pilot does not have a Helicopter Licence, and some of their pilots are not special constables, so the land beside a suspect, but cant arrest them 🙂 Thing that bugs me is, every time I get an email from RAA its signed off as being from RAA Team 😞. Has no one in that organisation got a name? Or don’t they want to be identified? My bitchy Sunday morning!
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I would like to know what the CEO’s ‘company car’ is, and what any other ‘staff’ vehicle allocations are?
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Many are probably privy to details and don't want to publish specifics as they could end up in legal trouble? Its not hard to end up with a writ hanging around your neck, these days……. 😞 o
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No, but when you are not privy to everything as a member because I am a newbie, I sought advice from a learned member I know. I was advised dont do it…….Now I have nothing against the guy in question……I don't know him. But I had the impression a bushfire was burning, but I did not know why, or where? I have been mired in this sort of stuff before and It can be debilitating. Gee all I want to do is have fun and fly aircraft……thats it! ! No wonder I want to rip off my rego numbers, run my membership through a shredder, appoint YouTube as my new CFI and turn into a flying hermit 🙂 Organisational Wars are not my thing, too old for it.
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Maybe they should be allowed to offer training in sectors including RAA? FAA USA are looking to allow LSA Training facilities to do FAR Part 103 training.
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Enclosed pre filled in voting papers acceptable?
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It could be alleged that the organisation’s database was used by the accused to send out emails by himself to solicit votes to his possible personal advantage. I did receive one such email, being a member of the organisation.
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I would rathe be with SAAA and have SAAA rego, if it existed 🙂
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I have always applied the policy of replacement before failure. 1HZ Landcruiser get a recommended timing belt kit every 100,000km so I do waterpump, all belts, hoses, thermostat at the same time. I even keep a spare rebuilt injector pump in my spares cache 🙂. I even have brand new in boxes H55 transmission and matching transfer case too, amongst brake pads, linings., bearing kits and even a complete fan to flywheel 1HZ engine with 200k on it, 2F petrol motor 125k I bought 30 years ago. The list goes on…… Now collecting aircraft spares 🙂
