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How could someone fly charters unlicensed for so long until he was busted? Every week, people fly unlicensed in remote areas and never get found out, until they crash and it ends up fatal.

So, he flies for some 4 years before he gets busted? All I can say is WOW……

Volvo AQAD 40 heat exchangers are a pain 😞

It’s easy in theory, but millions of radios need to be replaced globally and it would be a mammoth task, already there have been changes in existing radios from 25Khz channel spacing to 8.33Khz which offers more frequencies with narrower bandwidth which helps with noise rejection etc, along with reducing adjacent frequency interference. To make a total design change using modern technology is very possible with a different modulation scheme etc etc but imagine rolling that out, globally. Not to mention costs and certifications etc. I think we will be stuck with what we have for a long time for our primary radios 🙂

It’s hard to find high grade Wheat when there is so much to sift and the Chaff content is overwhelming. 😞

IF you want to retrofit a BRS to a RAAus aircraft, it’s a grief stricken path. I bought a wearable chute with the ideas, IF the fan stops…..I simply fly it to the ground for a landing, IF over water I ditch it and take my chances. Irrecoverable loss of control due to a control element failure OR major structural failure…..I will do what ever it takes, to exit stage left out the door. If I stick with it…near 100% chance of death, either in the crash itself or death by fire. A parachute? Not a guarantee of survival but a better chance than NOTHING.

Well, I thought of a goofy idea today? How about ADS-B data includes the aircraft’s current radio frequency so that data is visible to all nearby aircraft. People’s ADS-B broadcasts could alert said aircraft of the frequency that are on and IF the receiving aircraft could be alerted IF they are on a wrong CTAF or Area frequency? Also IF you wish to speak to any aircraft nearby, you know what frequency they are on?

Parked on ground or being dive bombed from above is its forte, not easily seen. However, white is a bad colour…….definitely need something better. OR fly a Thruster and get a great view of everything:-)

Having thought a lot about this thread……maybe I need to make my ‘Super Bin Chicken J-230D way more visible than its existing all white livery? Vinyl wrap of bright colours. Make it at least very visible from above, to the sides, front and rear etc. Leave the undersides white? Even this looks good, it’s new callsign be ‘Chickendog 1’ 🙂

I am led to believe from an authorative third party that the glider was making all the right calls, nothing was heard from the other aircraft, he maybe was on wrong frequency?

Several things come to mind, some people think a radio is a big brown snake, they know where it is but don’t want to touch it UNLESS their aircraft is falling out of the sky. Next, they are worried about fluffing a call and be made to feel like an idiot, so they stay silent. They make a call and get confused with other traffic, some one reams them over the radio and that’s a big distraction while flying. Trouble today is…..hot shot pilots don’t mind berating others if their radio work is not perfect. It’s like many pilots don’t like their landing being ‘watched’ because all the armchair Top Guns will say , he’s coming in too slow, he flared wrong, he dropped a wing etc etc. All the ‘watchers’ make criticisms of what he should have done. BUT the plane never got wrecked 🙂

Need MESH radio network autonomy where aircraft simply are able to join a net at reasonable range and ‘talk’ between each other without intervention by th pilot. The pilot only has a display to glance at with instructions what to do. Linking with autopilot takes it to a whole new level of complexity and cost that people will not pay for. Use spread spectrum technology so the MESH network is fluid in its operation.

I was based at 85Tpt Pl in Moorebank Ave with about 15 rigs, Only 1 had the Road Ranger RTO 913 13sp gearbox. The rest had the Allison HT75 auto. Fruehoff trailers.

Those were the golden days for me, in the Military as an ECN367 Specialist Vehicle Operator on pay level 6. NO log books, NO scales, No Cops. Nice big ‘Green’ Diamond REO rigs with Cummins NTC 335 power in ‘73 and ‘74 doing Melbourne to Northam near Perth with Explosives across the Nullarbor, some of it dirt. My guard had his F1 sub machine gun. (damn it NO ammo) Best job I ever had 🙂 $17.90 a day travel allowance on top of Army pay. Then Gough Whitlam stuffed the whole show 😞

A company I drove for for a number of years in car carrying, the man who owned the place was a gentleman and a good friend, too. His son took over the business and they got a short contract hauling military vehicles to Shoalwater Bay from Gladstone Port and back, for an exercise. I was given precise instructions to have a load of beach buggy machines delivered at 6am to Samual Hill camp. I gets to the boundary gates in time to do the delivery and they are locked……I wait, no diligent diggers turn up to let me in. So me being a professional steering wheel attendant, breaks out the rigs tool box and dismantles the gates off the steel fence, drives through the the fence, stops and reassemble the gates and on my way (just remember here I have broken into an Army facility) On up to the camp to be greeted by a man in green. I will call him Major Malfunction 🙂. He questions how I got in so I told him what I did to make ‘his’ delivery on time……..I was immediately shredded for my effort. I said ‘son’ don’t ever set me a deadline and make it hard for me to deliver……because I WILL deliver, what ever it takes!! On the way out, the Army Engineers are welding gate hinges reinforcing post etc. I stop and one smarty pants say you won’t get in as easy next time……I say yes I will, bring an Oxy Set next trip. 🙂 I was fired as soon as I got to the Depot, no more job for me. The young son was never a patch on his old man….. In my later years I never did quite fit with the Transport Industry and that is one reason many fleets are closing up and drivers giving the road away. They have all had enough and it’s very hard to find good replacements…….

Sadly, some drivers are little better than steering wheel attendants. But also there many who are very good at their work but are subject to all sorts of policies, company regulations etc. A certain bus company has little pigeon hole mailboxes for each driver. at their depots, Driver returns from trip to check his ‘mailbox’ to a pile of infringement notices……your Coach idled here for more than 5 minutes, 3 notices. You were overspeed for more than 30 seconds, 3 notices with location. You were ‘off route’ in 4 places at these places (Camera does not take pics of roadworks detours etc’ Drivers camera? 27 times picking your nose? I would walk into the bosse’s office, with my fist full of infringements an tell him to wipe his rearmost facing orifice with them, drop the Coach keys on his table and tell him I am a driver, not a robot. Suggest you hire my replacement from the Robot Employment Service…..I am outta here 🙂

Maybe Electronic Conspicuity Devices need to be……dare I say it? Mandated? Drones ADS-B set up and mandated, so they can dodge us? Like it or not……it’s coming, one day.

I worked there in the middle ‘70s, drove the oldest of 104 trucks in the fleet, an AB184 Inter with a 160 Cummins in it. Training? What was that? Care? What was that? Stan, Ron’s father was a gentleman. I sadly had some horror stories of that place. Best days were crawling on the roads, loaded and as far away as possible from the yard 🙂

Fix that…..tell ALL Gliderists to ditch their FLARM boxes and get a Sky Echo while the subsidy is running then everyone ends up with ADS-B. Mr ‘FLARM’ can go whistle 🙂

I am not so sure IF the Sky Echo can accommodate the FLARM freq that is used in Australia. The best solution would have been that a global harmonised FLARM frequency be used, like ADS-B. The ACMA allocated the freq band used in Europe to some other unrelated users in Australia, Telcos etc? I suspect that is why the cost of FLARM units is so high in Australia because of its small market here with dedicated frequency not used in other parts of the World?

Trouble is, the Govt NEVER gives anything without strings attached. Personally, I believe people should fund their own safety equipment, Be like expecting the Govt to supply free seatbelts for your old pre 1963 car, or something like that.

It came to me from a third party of some authority that the Glider pilot was on the radio making all the correct calls during his flight, the other aircraft was not heard communicating at all, no calls were heard at all? One could only assume he was on a different frequency maybe? As I said, hearsay only……

I simply bought my SE2 and paid full price…….don’t care about waiting for subsidy, it was a piece of safety equipment I wanted, regardless. Safety will always come at a price, my motorcycle helmets were in the region of $900, my brains are worth a lot to me…….IF i won’t pay the price for good safety equipment…….I won’t undertake the relevant activity.

Mention retro fitment of BRS? RAAus just go ‘ballistic’ over that 🙂. Been there once and decided to simply buy a parachute I now have. Plane falls apart? Catches fire etc? I am OUT the door hoping parachute does it’s job……

This will be the start of arguments between peak bodies, CASA will get in the middle of it and…..3 years later nothing will have been done and then age of pilots will add to the points scoring in support of various ideas…..