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Not fun? Try C30 T5 Polestar!! Now if only I could get that cockpit up into a Jab:cool:

Done (to the staff), an hour ago - after all $45 is 20 minutes in a Jab!!

Hmm! You get 18 months? I only got 12 on a tax receipt dated 1st June. Is this us city dwellers getting screwed again? Col

I don't have a problem with the stability of Windows (except Vista).

I think Steve was encumbered with a disfunctional board. His reaction was probably a military one which he was unable to implement due to our laws. My reaction to the board at the EGM was one of disbelief that this mob had control of OUR Association. Jim Tatlock was, however, a standout and presented to me as a person of intelligence and integrity and not prepared to be bullied by the others. Everyone should support Jim. Perhaps we should all wear campaign badges for Jim

A and B were probably Alpha and Beta - versions that were verry buggy and only test examples. There are some that say the P76 was the best car ever built in Australia but others would claim it was just the Alpha version rushed to market. Lollipop is quite nice. I have a Nexus 9 tablet and am trialling it with RWY from Oz Runways. I have only taken it flying twice and it seems pretty neat but lacking in a lot of the geewizz stuff from the Oz-Runways full version. Printing out the flightplan is easy but it would be good to also print out the tracks and ERSA as backups. A work in progress with lots of promise. Certainly much easier to drive than Flight Sim X It is gratifying that we have 2 software companies in Oz prepared to produce full feature Av Nav software - Thank you AvPlan and Oz-Runways. (but I wish they would pull their fingers out and do it for Windows tablets!!!!)

I wouldn't imagine that occuring - the next code series could be pizza rather than sweets. Lets try "anchovy" followed by "brussel sprouts", "calzone" etc etc

Lollipop is version 5 of the Android OS The versions are Cupcake (1.5) Donut (1.6) Eclair (2.0–2.1) Froyo (2.2–2.2.3) Gingerbread (2.3–2.3.7) Honeycomb (3.0–3.2.6) Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0–4.0.4) Jelly Bean (4.1–4.3.1) KitKat (4.4–4.4.4, 4.4W–4.4W.2) Lollipop (5.0–5.1.1) Version 6 will probably be Marzipan, mango, mooncake, marzurek or some such

ATM? Is that a threat? Jim is a keeper, the only one after Runciman and Ramsay who knew how to read books and present information.

Aviation watchdog CASA shares safety role THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 05, 2015 12:00AM The aviation watchdog has buckled to more than a decade of pressure from aviators including businessman Dick Smith, agreeing to allow airport ground staff including firemen to provide air-traffic information to pilots as they do in the US. The move follows revelations in The Weekend Australian last Saturday that outdated regulations had stopped regional airports that did not have air traffic control towers and controllers from making use of other staff to improve air safety by relaying basic observations of aircraft movements. The change is likely to be taken up first by larger airports that have fire services including Ballina in NSW, Gladstone in Queensland and Newman in Western Australia. It could also apply to smaller airports — such as Hervey Bay in southeast Queensland, within the seat of Wide Bay held by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss — where other ground staff could provide the radio service. Mr Smith willsoon hold public meetings in Wide Bay to apply pressure on Mr Truss, whose ministerial portfolio includes aviation, to adopt the US air traffic controlsystem. He described the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s decision as a “cave-in”. “It’s a great change, because for 15 years they have done everything to prevent what they have now allowed,” he said. CASA’s change of heart was welcomed by Ballina Byron Gateway Airport manager Neil Weatherson, who is keen to establish a radio operator at the burgeoning facility, which now handles 430,000 passengers a year, making it the biggest regional airport in NSW after Newcastle. Mr Weatherson said he would prefer to do so without having to pay for a dedicated radio crew, given the recently built $13.5 million fire station had a roster of 17 full-time staff and a viewing tower. “It’s an option,” he said of the possibility of having the fire crew man the Unicom radio service. “If they do it in the US, it’s possible here.” Ballina Byron Gatew ay Airport manager Neil Weatherson w elcomes the change in CASA rules: ‘If they do it in the US, it’s possible here’. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: New s Corp Australia 6/5/2015 Aviation watchdog CASA shares safetyrole | The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/aviation-watchdog-casa-shares-safety-role/story-e6frg95x-1227383785233 3/4 Mr Weatherson pointed out, however, that it would not be his exclusive call, because while the airport was owned by the council, the fire and rescue operation is run by Airservices Australia, which is financed by the airlines. Ballina Byron fire station manager Wayne Morrison said he had “not formed a view”. Last week, before CASA’s change of policy, an Airservices spokesman said the possibility of fire station staff providing radio services was “not currently being considered”. Yesterday, an Airservices spokeswoman said it was “a matter for the airport”. As late as last week, CASA said US fire crews did not provide air traffic information services to pilots, but was this week forced to admit they did after The Australian cited an airport manager in Colorado and three pilots who had flown in the US attesting to it. For a decade, CASA regulations have sharply restricted ground staff who are not licensed air traffic controllers, or held a controllers’ licence within the past 10 years, from providing any but the most basic weather information to pilots, and banned them from communicating air traffic movements beyond “unscheduled landings by aircraft”. According to Mr Smith, this reflected CASA’s yielding to unions over demarcation issues and a desire in the aviation establishment to restrict who could perform such services to “retired air traffic controller mates”. Under the new policy announced yesterday, CASA will, on a case-by-case basis, allow airport operators to have designated ground staff trained in handling the Unicom radio service and providing pilots with information such as what aircraft are in the circuit around the airport, and on the runways and taxiways. It will grant official exemptions from regulations to allow such radio operators to do so lawfully. “Allsafety issues would be addressed in the assessment of the application,” CASA said. “In the case of a Unicom this regulatory support would include an appropriate legal instrument needed to enable basic information on air traffic to be provided by the Unicom operator to pilots.” In the US, a wide range of ground staff operate the Unicom, including fire and rescue officers, aircraft refuellers, maintenance staff, baggage handlers and check-in employees. Mr Smith will continue his campaign for his other major proposed change to the way Australian airspace is managed: having air traffic controllers direct aircraft wherever radar is available.

Don't you mean "many of the HUD options including current / next area frequencies, closest local QNH, etc aren't on RWY on the Android".

The words are "self ceasing" eg. it ceases to have effect.

The first actually is the refuge of the scoundrel when caught with their hand in the till - "you can't stand success" they and their acolytes and running dogs cry. "The tall poppy syndrome" is all about pegging back the egomaniacs in our lives, not pegging back those who make a genuine success with their lives and contribution to society.

"Made 22 Dec 2014 Registered 23 Dec 2014 Date of Ceasing To be ceased 30 Jun 2015 Reason for Ceasing Self Ceasing" The instrument self ceases at the end of June. CASA may choose to raise a new Instrument which would require DAS approval. Does anyone know if CASA intends to raise a new, similar or different instrument or live with the restrictions being lifted. Or is this query goading the bull?

Godspeed Andy and thanks for being an extremely open and dedicated member of the RAA Board. Your presence will be missed but I hope you stay on the forum and continue to contribute your sage advice. Cheers Col

The control Instrument CASA 292/14 ceases on 30th June, 2015. Does anyone have any insight about what CASA proposes to do from the 1st of July? CASA 292/14 Directions/Civil Aviation as made This instrument prescribes operating limitations on aircraft fitted with engines manufactured by, or under licence from or under a contract with, Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd to manage risks arising from a high incidence of engine loss-of-power events and other reliability issues. Administered by: Infrastructure and Regional Development Made 22 Dec 2014 Registered 23 Dec 2014 Date of Ceasing To be ceased 30 Jun 2015 Reason for Ceasing Self Ceasing http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_102353

Did you do a flight review?

It isn't the L2 or LAME or the self educated pilot who keeps across the maintenance needs of the plane they own. The people who worry me are those who don't know what they don't know but will still do their own maintenance. I suspect that this is the true reason that our costs are so high - insurance to cover the potential that an owner maintained aircraft is going to fall out of the sky together with the necessary bureaucracy to ensure that someone will offer insurance. The true cost of going over the road over 300 feet

Now, if he had just gone via Geralton he could have picked up CAGIT on the way. London would be an interesting place to bring it back from. You are doing well Michael. Enjoy, skål!!!

Successive government have worked on the basis that they are running an economy not a society and that the experts in the field are the manufacturers not the consumers. So the government (a commonwealth) now does not act for its members and even on its own behalf fails the test of informed client - how can they receive good advice on fx engineering and mining when they don't engage professional engineers and scientists to provide this advice rather than lawyers and accountants. DCA used to be an engineering organisation - I'm buggered if I know what it is now.

And equally, of course, a nose over may well, also, lead to an engine stoppage. As would turning off the magnetos. The stoppage in both cases would not have been the root cause but was a secondary effect.

Don, My CFI told me that I need 3 different hats - 1 for the Warrior, 1 for the Foxbat and 1 for the Jabiru and don't wear the wrong one on the wrong day in the wrong plane. You are correct about the blurring between heavy/powerful RA and less powerful lightweight GA. I don't have a LP RAA rating but I would imagine that the step from say a Warrior to a Drifter might take a little time to master. Perhaps RAA, in its continual review of services, might examine the range of services it provides to work out which ones are core (registration, licencing, advocacy) and those which could be regarded as non-core eg insurance and charge a fee for service for non-core. RAA has, for instance, already decided that the paper magazine is non core and thus separately chargeable. If your illustration of PPL(only) in an RAA plane holds true is the insurance compromised or is that attached to the hull and therefore not a logical charge against the pilots and FTFs but rather a charge against the hull owners?

???? I keep getting told that the new board is cleaning up its act. This is terrible news!!

As is commonsense and quiet contemplation of the whole task at hand.