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I think exiting that modified machine would be more than difficult after ditching.

I have never noticed any one direction, I would think they would circle into the highest lift either direction like a glider.

Issued by a third party contracted to gov?

How many times has the aircraft been "found"? Needs a History channel special along with the mandatory tattooed expurt proclaiming what if? Could it be? Along with lots of blurry shots of sediment obscured seabed with aircraft shaped coral.

How many truck drivers have to have security checks? Any person with a heavy rigid truck licence can drive a truck with a 15 ton load, a truck driven into the right target could be devastating. There are still airports in Australia where Dash 8 or Saab passengers do not get searched or x-rayed. As stated before ASIO have a file for every person with a pilots licence along with the associated security investigations. Don't trust ASIO? Some private contracted company can do a better job by supplying a plastic card and checked by the bloke who mows the grass on a council airfield. What a joke.

Yes and a $2 pair of sidecutters will overcome not having an asic

It's hardly a mystery what happened. Got too close, misjudged. Hold my beer and watch this.......

For the price this will retail at you will be able to buy a Bonanza and take 4 of your friends with you.

I remember seeing a Mustang with a RR Dart in Canberra more than a few years ago, I recently read it had been converted back the Merlin and an ex Apollo astronaut once owned it.

They've had VHS and CD's since then 🤪

Specting a bit much there Nev 😆

There are ag strips along the river that used to be used regularly, there was also a Jetranger that struck a line and crashed there about 20+ years ago.

😂 What a great idea! My DAME has no clue why CASA make the demands they do. His last question to CASA as to why still goes unanswered. I don't think some of you know what is involved in a medical. If you live in a rural area with little or no net coverage you can't even log onto the CASA portal to do the pre medical questionnaire. Well you can but it keeps timing out. Any other tests required you have to go to a major regional or capital city to access specialists. Those same highly regarded specialists CASA then ignore and do their own diagnosis. What is the good of getting a leader in the particular field of medicine make a report giving you the all clear then only to have CASA ignore it. DAMEs are getting harder to find, they are leaving the CASA system because it's getting too hard. Turbo, you seem to be a CASA apologist, are you employed by CASA as a consultant to defend them? Do you do a class one medical? If so how long does it take to get your class one medical issued by CASA after you see a DAME? How many pilots over 45 do you know who get a medical issued immediately after the DAME signing your medical OK? Do you think 4 months is a reasonable time to get a decision from CASA when the medical only goes for 12 months? Why any delay? How many licences are processed a year by how many people? DAMEs are not the problem, never have been.

Haven't CASA given the authority for DAMEs to cover that?

Lets get away from the highly legalese, blame shifting and culpability side of CASA's incompetence. If a DAME issues a medical, why is that medical totally safe for four months but after that you are unsafe till the CASA "specialists" peruse your data? Surely if you are that unsafe why is it safe to continue flying for 4 months!!!!! How many more pilots are there in the system compared to 20 yers ago? How many more staff is in the CASA medical department compared to 20 years ago?

GA hasn't moved on that much Nev, there are still defective badly equiped aircraft flying in all sorts of weather.

That attitude is encouraged by some employers

Good afternoon Captain Garry. How many words does it take the relevant Australian rule/law/ regulation to say the same thing? Are the legal consequences similar in both countries? I can't be bothered looking it up I am enjoying the day too much.

Wholeheartedly agree but that is much too simple for CASA, why put something in 50 words when you can use 5000 along with penalty points and punishment for non compliance. There is no hope, CASA will only be happy when no GA aircraft are flying only then will flying be safe. 45 years flying for a living and dealing with CASA has just got worse and worse, CASA is to be avoided at all costs.

Depends who you talked to about the Go300 Nev, I know 3 people who used to own 175's and speak highly of them. The main problem I have read about with them was operator induced by not running with enough revs. Pilots were used to running low to mid 2000's, the GO300 was made to run harder at low 3000's. Those that thought they knew better ran them too slow causing problems. The only valid complaint I've seen is the cost to overhaul the 6 cyl Continentals.

Even with all that Nev, gearboxes are still used, every day in every way......

GSIO 480/540, Tiara and GO300 continental are examples of geared engines in production and use, not the last few years but were used extensively. There are all sorts of old wives tails of gearbox's and the use there of. I think Rotax and PT6 engines have proven they are not a problem.

Not only choppers, standard practice in some areas of GA. Cooking the books in all sorts of ways has been condoned/overlooked by all sorts of government agencies.

Flying over water to avoid Williamtown airspace?

There will be more ground to lease when the runways are closed. Bankstown has already ceased to be a general aviation airfield. There might be "movements" but that doesn't equate to a vibrant facility available to the public. It's only a matter of time, between greedy developers and an incompetent tone deaf regulator, GA is on a downward spiral. No matter how some try to justify the greedy antics and developer destruction of an airfield it is happening and it will destroy Bankstown as a GA airfield. Manipulation of statistics aside.