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  1. Keith Page
    Good on you Andrew, The sad fact about the situation and no one has woken up. Aviation has to go through a stage of expansion (cold hard fact). To achieve this everything who flys has to be acknowledged and considered or there will be no growth path for expansion. *Regulation is getting tougher *airports getting more restrictions --- now what does that add up to???? Look about and everyone will be able to see how aviation is shrinking. GA is in the doldrums. The little recreational and sports planes will shrink without good management. KP
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    I am stuck for suggestions.. What would be a winner for you Turbo? KP
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    Good on you DrZoos.. That is about their maximum mentality. You forgot the cane farms in Brazil nearly all members eat sugar. KP
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    Yes Nev, One vicious circle and the ones in the middle of the circle have no foresight. So we might be in this mess for a long time. The only way out for some of these airport operators is sell the land to a developer. (Regulators should step with a "No".) The biggest interests for our governments is bring in foreign owners and that pushes the prices up. If the governments stood firm and said, this is to stay in Australian control that would stop the rot of these massive capital value increases. Only to be sold to Australian in Australia. Look at the fiasco with the home units in Sydney foreign money pushing those values up and Australians can not afford them. KP.
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    Australia is in a bad position for investment. People want a return on their investment which is a correct attitude. However the capital out lay is so great and people want a return which is far too large for the situation. Gone are the days where people were satisfied with about 2% return now it is more like 10% they are after and the capital value of things is far too high. So with the high capital value and high percentage return no one will be able to afford these economic situation. There will have to be a correction of some type -- Australia will not be able to survive with everything on an a steep uphill curve. See business is trying to drive wages down but what about the capital value of the goods of life. People need money to buy these things if wages go down and the rest stays up guess what - looks like a lot of poverty will happen. KP.
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    These mining companies get me. When the coal leases were granted there were agreements. One agreement was develop and maintain infrastructure, over the years they have been able to wriggle out of these agreements. Their profits are in some tax haven because of their company arrangements, the Queensland premier of the day was awake to those schemes hence the infrastructure arrangement/agreement deals. Buy and sell through their own companies quite legal but not good for Australia.These current day wags would not know if they were on fire till they were very hot. KP
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    How will that grow a nation, as I see the situation the nation is shrinking because of that process. KP.
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    Go back a bit and look how Australia was developed. There were airfields, railways, roads, bridges, electricity, postal service, hospitals, special funds to develop Australia all for - a lot less tax than we are paying now, yes we did pay a bit for those services that is OK. There is another aspect - unemployment was also almost non existent. Now there are plans to take all that off us, sell to organisations to make a handsome profit and get us to pay full commercial dollar and still paying tax. And then we struggle harder with our wages. Looks like there needs to be another gravy train built just to carry the extra cargo. If you take all these services away there will be a severe case of centralisation and a big case to build bigger and more complicated services in the large cities. Would it be a good idea to set a situation where decentralisation would be the go? For me that is the go. Called foresight. What we could do -- utilise some of these centre link recipients to man these utilities. KP
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    I say that would not be true. Reason:- By now we would have something leaked to confirm that suspicion. More to the point these stupid teaching from Harvard. Everything must make a profit and how that profit formula is calculated. Public services and infrastructure formation and running of them is paid for by tax. Sad to say our tax is going to every other things but where it is supposed to be spent. This user pays idea for public services and infrastructure is a way our governments, are trying to rip us off more. What are we paying our taxes for.????????????????????????????? KP
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    Yes Col unavailable to light aircraft. Proserpine is council bureaucrats. The others BMA bureaucrats. We here all the time we must have progress and expansion. KP.
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    Been looking about and seeing some of these airport closures just because some small bureaucrat can flex his muscles -- what spite is that. I see Proserpine is on the list for us small aircraft that is including Dysart, Blackwater and Moranbah. What a disgrace -- these fully serviceable strips sitting idle for the light aircraft. What a great Christmas present to have these airports serviceable to light aircraft just by removing this bureaucratic ego. KP.
  12. Keith Page
    Why not do some lobby work to get some of those closed airports available to RAAus operations.? KP
  13. Keith Page
    Yes -------------- They love themselves in Canberra. Poor mob they have not heard about "decentralisation". As Frank said - Australia is big. What use would an airport in Canberra be to us in Nth. Qld? A very good place to start the airport lobby is Blackwater, Dysart, Moranbah. Last time I did a search regarding member's post codes Emerald was the winner hands down. Those airports are closed to the general public. The big mining companies are running the country and also the airports. Now would it be a good idea to get off their little soap box in Canberra and take these mining companies on, that will be a useful achievement. Remember Australian"s own Australia not the non tax paying multi nationals with their accounting tricks. Just a task for the "Airport Funding Brigade" might be a bit hard for them as they will not be using members money to purchase an airport. Then again, "Why not start a satellite club in Blackwater"? Food for thought. KP.
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    "Thank you Ian". I do liken the progress to building high rise buildings. One must keep digging till the foundations have 100% structural integrity - then the part which all can see is happening, that is up into the air. It is getting very close as we speak. Except for those hidden hurdles. (Challengers). You know those challengers which arrive unannounced, them which no one can predict. We will see what we have to jump over to open the doors for business. Regards, KP
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    Could be a rolling seize, could be a freeze seize, consider the original evidence -- spit a piston then seized. Fuel will cause seizures. Restricted fuel will cause seizures. No evidence for a sensible comment. KP
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    Oi! Yen.. He most likely run out of fuel and with embarrassment gone and hid. Now the 5 min. experts are continuing the noise. KP.
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    Yep those bush barristers and 5 minute experts they are the gospel to live by. Just ask them they will tell you the unadulterated truth and it is 100% accurate. Guess what I know which knowledge NOT to base to use. I use a saying and it is quite appropriate. "I would love to buy them at my price and sell them at their price". KP
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    2Stroke training Eh Doug? I do have to laugh at the sequence of events.. KP.
  20. Keith Page
    I will answer it like this.. Baaa, Baaa is many sheep but Bah is only one sheep. This is a case, I am not sure of the burden of the question. Hope that answer will suffice.. KP.
  21. Keith Page
    Well Sue, I am only pointing out what happens when one dose not listen. Orange:- Read the news. Cost to send the constitution to Fair trading. Cost to send the revamped manuals to CASA. The board situation will not get a comment from me. The members need to be clearly aware of what is being manoeuvred. KP
  22. Keith Page
    I am going political (only for demonstration purposes only) please forgive me, only to show how people are sick of wool being pulled over their eyes. Point one, "Look what happened in America" for those who had their ear to the ground knew that answer well before the people voted. Point two, "Look what is happening in Orange" bit early to know that out come people are wishes are being ignored. We are being served what pollies want us to have. Point three, "Don Ramsay told me it was easy to resubmit a manual/constitution to CASA, no hassles, no costs, just so easy" I can not find that post where I was told that---- that was the answer I was told after I did mention it would be treated as a new document and there will be a cost involved. Look what Aeroshute Kev was told. With those three points considered, clear demonstrates to me people are being sick and tied of accepting what our leaders are giving us not listen to our requests. What is next is a big clean out. KP
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    Thing is you getting very close to the point and the poor gentlemen/ladies are going down and for the last chance of a win they implicate more people. Poor fellow are just running out of puff, they will go shortly. KP.
  24. Keith Page
    Good on you Bull that will stop a lot of rot quicker than a flash of lightening. The sticky beaks are just to hard to cop at times. KP
  25. Keith Page
    If the L1 dose not need a prac session so why have a L1 at all? The academic aspect of what we can and can not do, where is the documented evidence where it is demonstrated that we can do what we are allowed to do? (Manually) A great number of us received the L1 at the time we received our Pilot Certificate because we had gained maintenance experience. Then for the armature builders that is an absolute insult removing their L1. Some of these fellows need to be awarded an honours with some of these kits we are expected to complete, there is no doubt regarding the 51% rule. KP
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