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  1. coljones
    You can do RPC at Bankstown, Camden, The Oaks, Warnervale or Wollongong. The prices will be higher at both Bankstown and Camden as will be the congestion. There appear to be some difficulties doing RPC solos at YSBK and YSCN but this may have been overcome. Where do you live?
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    Nope! I just described the nanny private enterprise. Under the state sponsored laizez faire economy in NSW we will continue to have compulsory insurance with no obligation on the insurance companies to pay out and no recourse to the courts. It is not a nanny state but state sponsored FU.
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    It is not the nanny state but the insurers imposing all sorts of strange conditions so that their exposure to injury claims can be minimised. I was a Marshall at a bike ride last week and was forced to wear enclosed shoes. I can't recall anyone having had a toe injury before and it really is shit giving. I suppose it is different in the states because the greatest threat, guns, cannot be excluded from public liability insurance so everything else is OK. Maybe we should legalise the open carry of loaded firearms to really give the insurance companies something to think about.
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    At 700 you can load up a Jab230 (or equiv) with 2POB, full tanks and more than a handbag (being under 100Kg would also help). I won't go into whose money is propping up RAA and whose planes load up the expenditure. RAA is less than transparent in this regard and I would imagine the guesswork about this on this forum is just guesswork.
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    You can always feed it from wind or solar or even another hydro system at peak water capacity. You could even use Liddell power while ever it is between breakdowns. Obviously AGL, a power provider and the owner of Liddell, is of the opinion that Liddell is a basket case and that they, AGL, can't make cheap electricity or a profit for its shareholders ,who include anyone with superannuation, by following the coal route or the entreaties, and sometimes outright lies, of the miners council, the coal companies and the idiots sitting on the extreme right of the Liberal and Country Parties.
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    Are you asking us to reject the mainline data in favour of outliers that supports the status quo? When I did experiments at school, university and in the workplace it was the outliers that were greeted with suspicion, but tested. Invariably outliers, which represented a small count in the data set could be explained by a variety of reasons including contamination.
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    You can't use your "new" BMIs with the old grades of redispositions. You need to associate new grades with the new BMIs "NBMI". An NBMI of 27 might mean that you are morbidly obese rather than Whippet thin.
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    At what point in training would you allow anyone to do what they pleased? Sometimes my parables are a little too thick.
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    In a country inhabited by imbeciles!!
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    Consider a medical student. At what point should they be permitted to conduct a vasectomy?
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    Might be filthy but they produce nothing like our levels of pollution Per head of population. If Asia increased its per capita pollution to our levels the result to the world would be catastrophic.
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    Most people understand the difference between selective logging and clearfelling, however the timber industry and politicians seem to think that clearfelling is actually selective logging.
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    Actually, it is the National Party, with its gun to the Liberals' head, that is the blight on government, business and community in Australia (and its states)
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    A better comparison would be RAA Certificate compared with the Recreational Pilot Licence. (Plus some endos). A bare bones licence doesn't get you instrument or night flying privileges.
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    what are the fees and in what aircraft?
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    You just missed your chance Hargraves. You could have used the AGM to bring on a vote about that which you have concern. There will be another General Meeting early next year for you to urge the members on.
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    It would also suggest that the council is confused and the requirement for an ASIC was never lifted nor the Certified status revoked. Council confused ticks all the boxes.
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    Thanks JEM, perhaps we should point John Barnden towards ERSA so that he can work out what the left hand has been up to (right hand)
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    YWOL is already security controlled and currently requires an ASIC. Details of the security status of airports can be found in ERSA. For YWOL see note 2. under remarks. Presumably, some owners are using the ASIC as a security tool for their assets regardless of RPT activity
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    My comment was about the average member of RAA. Almost every member of the board was/is unknown to to the vast majority of members. I know of Frank, I have read his contributions over the years with interest but generally, as I said, I am more familiar with a bar of soap, despite any good work that Frank and the others have done (and the bad is probably well hidden)
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    Same old, same old. Unless you were in Tasmania or maybe NT there was a good chance that you were more familiar with a bar of soap than your were with any of the candidates or board members. Can you work out what the individuals on the board have done since corporatisation. Could we work out what they were doing before?
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    That is the point Bill. The high cost of access to CTR is a disincentive for quite a few. Consider flying around Nowra, or Coffs Harbour or Gold Coast and Brisbane. The need to have a CASA Licence and a class 2 medical drives the price of flying Rec Australian in these areas to intolerable heights. So much for low cost flying.
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    "FCL"? And for the rest - will respect BUT!
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    Yes you can, if you also hold a CASA Licence with CTA privileges. Birddog should talk to his CFI who bears some responsibility in training him about operations in the middle of Mil Space (I presume Nowra)
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    "Treated as Class C" is indicative of the level of equipment required on the aircraft eg at least a VHF radio and transponder. There are also personal requirement on the PIC to enter other than E or G space, usually a CASA Licence with a CTR Endorsement.
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