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    Google Bob Hoover and read or watch a video about the start of his flying. Arguably the worlds greatest pilot, he overcame a serious airsickness problem
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    I agree with Turbs. One of the reasons our field is successful is the massive turnouts for working bees, so that council has no cost in its existence. It has a key local asset operating at no cost. And it is run very professionally, with no training allowed that isn’t locally based, no high-noise aircraft (except for during an air show) and careful noise mitigating circuits. It is all reflected in the master plan. The result - a supportive council and community.
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    VCAT would be a last resort. If it got that far, you have done something wrong in the community. Every activity has its crazy opponents, but a reasonable council will know that.
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    Whatever the approach, the reality is that council will reflect the views of residents. So, while legal precedence may be useful, a good relationship with residents and council is essential. That includes consideration of any ongoing costs, noise mitigation,community benefit and so on. It is the same in the mining industry, it doesn't matter how good your legal title might be, you have to work hard to maintain your social license to operate.
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    Have a look at this document, which has since been adopted by council with some amendments. It may be a model for what is needed. https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/council/news/your-say/draft-kyneton-airfield-master-plan-2019.pdf
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    That may be true, but my daily commute for twenty years was 220km and literally thousands of people in Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine and the dozens of smaller towns who worked in Melbourne did the same.
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    Teach me to brag about parts availability for old vehicles. I just tried to fit a gasket obtained from the UK and it was the wrong one! Back to making my own.
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    Steam powered horseless carriages took off, it was a false start. Then electric cars took off in cities, another false start. The ICE cars took off and worked. False starts are possible, even if they look good at the start and attract lots of investment. For EVs the constraints of available materials and power distribution will take decades to resolve at a national scale.
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    My restoration hobbies include 1932 Chev, 1936 Royal Enfield, 1949 and 1951 Ariels, 1949 Bentley and several 1970s cars and bikes. I can buy nearly every part from their home countries as NOS or repro, and can find a Youtube video on how to do something. If this is an indication, and considering developments with 3D printing, getting parts for ICE vehicles in the future will not be a problem.
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    So these are non-essential for Roos.?
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    The Americans have the answer to this, they never get Roos on runways.
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    I wonder when a new rule is badly worded, do the employees get reamed out or do they get praised for adding to the confusion?
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    My search result: According to the Audubon Society, birds are VFR creatures and do not intentionally fly into clouds. They have more common sense than some pilots and ground themselves on foggy days. (Small birds occasionally do get caught in IMC and fly into tall buildings, as do some pilots.)
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    Some of us understand the problems of communication and the media. It is strange that a view can take hold on a forum like this and alternative views get crushed. Yet in a different forum, club or group, the opposite views hold sway. Rest assured most of us respect the USA and its people. Don't be put off by the few extremists, we have lost good contributors to rudeness before.
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    Also keep people warm in a montain accident with heated sleeping bag and run a welder, grinder etc for rescues. Also recharge two elkectric motorbikes at once!
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    Mark Twain wrote a story about climbing Mont Blanc by telescope. He wrote it like he was in the climbing party, but he was on the balcony of his hotel. Sounds like Spacey's aeroplane and VR glasses! A good idea.
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    Three Hummock Island, off the coast of Tasmania. It has two airstrips, accomodation and wild coastal scenery. Degree of difficulty not high but you have to fly over water. From the mainland we track over King Island.
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    I bet he knows what it will weigh to the nearest few grams.
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    Most government sites were unable to accept data for a while yesterday. Nothing in the news about it.
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    I enjoyed the couple of episodes it took for him to make the engine cowling. I never miss an episode.
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    There would be plenty of brown in my case.
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    On my first job as a surveyor I was issued a chrome plated pocket watch, wind up type. You could buy them at the time for $2.50. My daughter had it now as a family heirloom.
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    Danny I hope you can persevere and complete the build. I looked at the Bushcat at the same time as you started, sat in one at Avalon. But my CASA medical came good and I postponed a decision. I think now I would probably go for a Foxbat or Vixxen, spending a fair bit more money.
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    In defense of Ballarat boy Henry Sutton... In 1885, Sutton designed, but did not construct, a mechanical television apparatus to see the Melbourne Cup in Ballarat.[34][3]:319 Sutton had published his Telephane designs in 1890.[34][27][35] According to historian Ann Moyal, the concept was never successfully demonstrated: "Sutton's 'TV system', which he called 'telephany', used all the latest technology, such as the recently-invented Kerr effect, the Nipkow disc (which Baird was to use in the 'twenties) and the selenium photocell. But its weak link in the 1870s was that the signal had to be transferred by telegraph lines, as radio had yet to arrive, and these were too slow to transmit the dashing horses of the Melbourne Cup successfully."[36]
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    Danny have you given up on the South African kit?
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