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Danza 38, A portion of our registration and membership goes to paying our insurance. Be careful with the portion size as it could bounce about like the magazine part of our membership and eventually we may have digital insurance. Regards KP.

I have been out and about and quite busy.. Has anyone heard how the audit panned out? To be specific:- What is good? What needs fixing? Regards, KP.

Hello Sue I am back from my tour of duty and I am in a position to reply to some of this magazine issue. Sue save me the effort of typing the magazine survey summery, it is displayed in full in the latest magazine so it can be read by all and sundry. See Andy has a lot to say about the magazine being tooooooooo expensive..must save money. I have to ask, " Has there been a look at alternative print which is not too expensive"? There are less expensive forms of print out there. I have not seen anywhere where these alternatives have been considered. Seeing the magazine is going digital I thing there will be a big reduction in advertising because it is now going out only to the converted. Sue is going to print the mag off from her computer, what is the cost of the print ink and paper? To those people with slow data speed, the exercise will take these people days to get a print out. Do not get excited about satellite connection it is not that good has a lot of outage time. The mind set is, "We all have super data speed". Just look on this thread and see all the people with slow data speed. We will be up for buying data to get out digital magazine. Sue has to go to town with her dongle just to get down loads. How many other people are in the same boat? We hear from the noisey ones here what about the quiet ones? I think rick-p is OK he can reply quickly to the experts. Regards KP.

Good one "Regulate" or is this another name for a rule. How often have we seen the fix which is " Fix it with a new rule". I think ---- Good education would be a superior fix and has a better flow on effect. Regards, KP.

Satellite is not good either, it has drop out then stays out.. Basically useless however when you are out in the diglies it will something. I had it home and it was useless, bless the NBN little hearts there is a tower out in the scrub and here is hoping that this will be better.. There is stuffing about getting it connected. Do not get excited about satellite it is useless. Regards KP.

Andy.......I am a bit gob smacked, I can remember how you treated Steve Runciman and now you are a board member and people are expressing their views regarding the cessation of the paper magazine, these poor people are getting Andy treatment when their views are expressed regarding the cessation of the paper magazine (however for an individual this cessation will not happen when $90 is exchanged). Now the big question:- Why was the magazine survey completely ignored? Being a board member, I think you should be out helping us not fighting with us. I just feel like we have to cop what the board issues to us and this treatment is justified as "We have to make cost savings". There is one more point you have missed, the current board should be thankful that the old board had a saving plan, just wonder what the mess would be if there was not a $2mil saving, as I understand the situation the savings are diminishing quickly I must hasten to add that Steve was one of the frugal board members. Regards KP.

I did not doubt you in any way Maj.. Just imagine the noise if you got your membership and rego discounted in any way. KP.

Hello ---- I can remember not that long ago (Steve Runciman times)you would have had a continual yell regarding the magazine change. How is now different? These were the times you were very vocal about everything the board did, must have changed since you are a board member. This magazine issue is a case of membership increase by way of stealth, could it be fraud? When I first joined AUF my membership subscription was broken down in parts to show where our membership was distributed --- to this day I have not heard anything regarding recinding the magazine portion of the membership, until now. You are correct Rick-P the paper magazine is going to cost $90.00 how can it be said that is not correct. Could be a case for Fair Trading? Regards, KP.

That is a good idea because you will have a lot of peace. As soon as they hear about the big event no one will be seen because of the dust haze created by their departure. The reason being they do not want to make fools of themselves in front of us mob. Will happy flyer have a chuckle too?? Regards KP.

................................. and that is when we start learning Andy. The instructor will only let us go when he knows that we are super super cautious and there is a lot of paranoia about. It is only when we are half smart is when the problems creep in. Regards KP.

Thanks Andy just had to ask. Got to verify things, I am a bit twitchy I do admit it. That is good news that it is routine and not anything sinister. Regards, KP.

Must be a big audit Turbo. KP.

The Tech. Manager would be all over that or is he? It is a tech. issue I thought. Regards KP

The audit Andy, Is it good? Do we have a clean bill of health? Is it bad? What are they looking for? Are we grounded? Regards KP.

I think the car engines run a lot harder. Go back to the days of being a country boy on the country roads, those engines stayed together, none went bang but a few boiled their way along. The other thing the poor old engine used to get over the 3k rev range and be kept up in the high ranges for more than a couple of minutes. Regards KP.

Do not know if 440032 is a board member. Regards KP

As I have said many times a lot of regulation is only a wish list.. Have you ever tried to get regulations changed?? I have to ask you what have I not made clear ----- with only mate flying the tail dragger after he was apprehended CASA and RAAus were trying to work out what to charge him with, DPP advised them drop the charges or they will make fools of them selves. I do acknowledge the fact I have not revealed the person name, aircraft make and location, how ever all the mechanics of the saga are revealed. For revision read my first post in this thread and Dafydd's very good article in the RAAus magazine I think you will have your answers there. If not get on to the DPP. Regards KP.

One or both could be fibbing?? Just consider that.. Look what 440032 came up with he had one story regarding the regulation now with thorough reading look what has been revealed. Regards KP.

Yes Dazza 38 what I have read and gleaned I think you not to far off the pace. Regards, KP

Go back and refer to my post No:- 11..... May be that is what you are having a problem with. kgwilson's post was only mentioning Dafydd by fact of Dafydd's article not a crime.. Regards, KP.

Hello gandalph In short Dafydd was not the person in mention regarding flying a RAAus aircraft just with a PPL. I simply mentioned Daffyd in a congratulatory manner for producing such a good article and how the CEO chimed in saying Daffyd was wrong. I am sticking up for Dafydd. I thought I made that clear. Regards, KP.

Yes Rick-P.. I think he is having a dig at me, we will see. Regards, KP..

Yes Happy, The first post in this thread written by myself, read that in conjunction with Dafydd letter and consider the comments written by the CEO there is the answer for you. Regards, KP.

I thought I had told you enough.. I can not put names or towns in the information.. I think I have said too much already, the mechanics of the happenings is all there, as I see it people names and town name are missing. Happyflyer...... I will not give any names. I thought the PPL information was enough for you. Regards KP

In the case I just mentioned,, old mate was not a member of RAAus.. Yes pmccarthy ...... I think it is a case of ... if people wake up and have the courage to take the authorities on the results could be surprising.. But have the PPL with all the i's dotty and t's crossed. I like, "Skerrick of supporting legal evidence".. Tells a story.. Regards KP.