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  1. coljones
    I'm not sure if I would set much store in what Jefferson has to say "Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 600 enslaved African Americans during his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived, five others were freed after his death, including two of his children from his relationship with his slave (and sister-in-law) Sally Hemings." I suspect that the US founding fathers were a bunch of crooks!
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    Which airfield? Public or private?
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    Maybe 10 times more globally but not in Australia. A more appropriate measure would be failure RATES by category.
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    Your subject line should have been "Do we need ASICs for an event at Tooraweenah?". That would have limited the scope for extraneous and irrelevant answers although, not reading NewsCrap papers I am in the dark about Islamic operatives and a Melb bookshop.
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    A topic which is rarely discussed is the setting of flaps on take-off. It can mean a long flat flight into the fence or a Harrier Jump jet take-off depending on the conditions and settings.
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    Forgot the biggy- submarines
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    I'm not so sure about spectacular profits. The government has a habit of taking the lowest tender and sometimes this is with the intention of driving operators out of business so they can sponsor production in China. Another taktic is to defer government expenditure so that an Australian manufacturer will scrap their assembly line because there is no certainty about ever getting another contract. Think ships, armoured vehicles, planes, trains, automobiles, ferries, footwear, clothing, electronics. It is almost as if politicians and public servants hate Australia.
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    Yes, I was expecting this rubbish to turn up but your speed on this occasion was peerless.
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    But we don't know what background checks are undertaken as part of the ASIC investigation. I would have thought that "working with children" checks would be equally extensive but are much cheaper in comparison. The 100 point check is absolutely no guarantee of a persons integrity. Plenty of crooks, criminals, paedophiles and other lowlifes have licences and bank accounts. The 100 point check is only there to ensure that the gummint doesn't miss out on run of the mill taxes. We can't even get pollies to agree on a cashless gaming cards to keep ne'er do wells out of pubs, clubs and casinos. The owners and administrators of airports are entitled to ensure the bonafides of users of their facilities - to a certain extent the ASIC is about the best it gets BUT at a very high price.
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    I'm not sure that RAAus is dragging anything. CASA is the devil in the detail. An RAAus medical costs bugger all, Class 2 medicals of any description can attract some horrific costs.
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    That would appear to be the case at Camden but they haven't sought the protection of an ASIC and they don't have RPT. If you decide to go to lunch and visit HARS at Shellharbour you will need an ASIC (now $290.40 - inc CC fee)
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    "Free" - sweet words to my ear. What app/product are you using?
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    The SE2 is a very effective front end to a variety of apps - it provides an ADSB-out signal that contains an accurate GPS position (lat, long, height and ident) and receives similar ADSB-In info from all ADSB-out equipped A/C in range. What is required is to get some smarty to integrate the Out and In info in plane to produce an accurate system to provide proximity alerts. The beauty of SE2 (and some other ADSB systems) is that it does not depend upon ground stations or mobile towers (and which suit your SIM card). I may have missed it but there are some smart people out there doing majik things with Raspberry Pis and who may have already built an ADSB Prox detector that doesn't require one having one's head inside the plane staring at a tablet screen. I'm not sure that an ADSB prox device could/would/should be built by the regulators.
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    RAAus has insurance - I'm not sure what it covers. Might be on their website.
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    And they sell Coopers Stout.
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    Have you tried to get the wheel nuts off with a standard brace?
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    I'm sure there is an ADR that covers spares. The performance of some of these spare tyres is probably no worse than XPly tires on early holdens, fords, morris minors or gogomobiles. these days you probably need to call out NRMA to change the tire anyway (who carries a 6 foot wheel brace these days?) and their agent will give you instructions about what to do next. Got a 6 foot wheel brace? you don't need advice from us.
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    My spare is 80k which is fast enough to get to a repair point (or even back to the big smoke for an exotic replacement). Being a member of NRMA helps.
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    the number of drivers with CASA medicals is bugger all. Rather than caving in to each pressure group (like those with self certification following the homeopathic manual) the transport authorities have decided to insist on people doing it their way. Seems fair to me, I don't want to share the road with someone with an iridologist medical cert.
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    or maybe they have.
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    No, but the dopey politicians might forget what BOM stands for and claim that bombs is already provided for as part of the RAAF budget
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    But it isn't private enterprise so it needs to be ahead of the game during budget time otherwise the smarties from the right wing media and the right wing think tanks will start up a pogrom of misinformation. How good do you think windy weather would be if they didn't get a daily feed of free data from BOM.
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    Yes, I can see that but you should turn off "mobile data only" when at home to avoid a big bill when doing AvPlan and RWY data updates. You might also need to check on the need for other apps to be switched to "mobile data only" so you can continue to get data for things like Chrome, Google Search, Google Maps etc when in the air.
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    I have a Samsug Tab S6 Lite using RWY (OzRunways). I turn on WiFi on the tablet to see the SE2. I then go to the WIFI (samsung) settings and disable "Auto reconnect" against SE2 and make sure SE2 is NOT connected. The samsung/RWY will then see the GDL-90/UDP 4000 info packets from SE2 as well as the internet via mobilenet when the external device setting in RWY is turned on. The downside is that you need to fiddle to CONTROL (rather than LISTEN TO) SE2. To save confusion I SETUP/Turn On the SE2 via my phone.
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    The aim of companies is to act in the interest of members. "Not for Profit" companies, like RAAus, RAC -Qld and the AMA can't distribute profits to the owners, the members, so in the long run sell cheap beer, build Taj Mahals, charge low fees or some other means to avoid making a surplus of cash.
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