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OK Prince Ngambo. We're awake to your little Go Fund Me scam.

Not quite sure, but I think that the Pilliga scrub is a post-European product of overgrazing. I think I read that when first discovered, by the explorer John Oxley in 1818, that the landscape was like a grassy parkland. This enticed graziers whose sheep soon destroyed the native grasslands which were abandoned. Following that, and the cessation of Aboriginal forestry practices (controlled burning to rejuvenate grasses) the country was invaded by the cypress pine and eucalypt forests we dee today. If that is true, then the scary beasts of Aboriginal culture are unlikely to be native to the area, but are the Aborigines' bogeymen who ensure that children obey their parents and learn what dangers need to be avoided. As mothers have done since raising their young became a mammalian feature.

My greatest hate was in dealing with alleged domestic violence. A blind man could see that half the crap you were told was childish. But the rule was that you had to take action. The result of that action? She's calling you a bastard for taking her meal ticket away. Try to get her into Court to repeat what she told you" Pigs might fly!. Use your common sense and tell the couple to grow up, but not arrest, charge and slap the bloke with an Order and the Domestic Violence Officer hauls you into her office (she's never seen on the street, except to get her morning coffee from the cafe down the road) and reads the Riot Act and threatens disciplinary action against you. Forgetting all the time that if you arrest a person and bring a charge before the Court which fails due to the non-appearance of the witness, you, not the Police Force, are personally liable to have the arrested person's costs awarded against you and might even be charged with making an unlawful arrest. At least in NSW, a person holding the Office of Constable, is an independent agent of the Crown. No other person can order you to commence criminal proceedings against another person. Note the difference between the powers of a NSW constable and an Officer of the Law in the USA. Notice how they are portrayed asking a victim if the victim wants a person charged.

No! I fully agree with Spacey on that. Imagine this situation. You approach a set of traffic lights and the "yellow" has been showing for a while. You do what everyone else does and keep going, only to have the "red" show as you are crossing the stop line. The next thing, you hear the "whoop whoop" behind you. Immediately fear grips you. The constable approaches you and your first words are, "I know. I know" . From here things can go two ways. The constable gives you a ticket and from then on you regale all and sundry about how the bloody copper booked you for a split second of red. Or, the constable explains to you that actually it is an offence to run a yellow and because you did, you ended up running the red. The constable advises you that correct driving practice is to slow as you approach a yellow and prepare to stop, providing that by doing so, the idiot sitting on your tail won't run up it. The constable then bids you "Good day" and departs. What are you going to do the next time and the time after that when you approach a yellow that has been showing for a while? I'd say that the constable has succeeded in improving road safety, one step at a time.

Yeah. Sorry Skippy. Does have, but the naive young constable is lead astray by ignorant seniors. I agree, I did say that governments treat motorists as financial milch cows and at the same time flog people who do harm to others with cottonwool whips.

Yep. A mild trough is passing through at the moment with isolated rain showers. But there's an equally mild High Pressure cell behind If a deep Low Pressure area is described as "intense", what's a High Pressure area that's 20 hPa above MSL described as? If Area QNH is 1030, OAT is 22C and aerodrome reference height is 1380 AMSL, what's the Density Height on the runway?

They are classed as Tier 3 and self-report. They don't need an independent auditor. What is happening is that the companies I service are aircraft maintenance providers and they are being squeezed hard by increases in rents and overheads introduced by the head lease holder. It is pretty obvious. If you want to get compliance with the Airports (Environment Protection) Act, get rid of the sources of possible risk to the environment. A massive warehouse does not pose the environmental risks that a small hangar does with its 500 litres of waste oil awaiting collection for recycling, because a warehousing does not produce waste that is an environmental risk. I am switching my line of attack to take in the documenting and auditing of CASA Manuals of Standards relating to maintenance.

FFS Skippy get over it will you? How many times do you have to be told that when an constable issues a person with an infringement notice it provided the person with basically two choices - have the matter heard and determined by a Court, or, of for many, many reasons, the person decides not to take that path, then they can pay to the State Treasury a set amount as indicated on the notice. That money goes into the Treasury coffers to build the State's disposable income. From that income money is allocated to provide the services we demand from from the State Government. Part of the set fine for an offence might go to buying a lifesaving piece of equipment for a hospital, or for a book for a kid in kindergarten to learn to read with. Yes, some of that money from traffic fines finances policing, but it also finances a host of other government-run activities, and benefits, like energy bill rebates and free travel for pensioners of all types. I will admit that the motorist has always been viewed by Treasurers as a milch cow to have its teats pulled until they bleed. It is unfair that a thief can enter your house steal and ransack and cop a wrap on the wrist from a Court, but a driver trying to operate a vehicle in an environment of overwhelming visual and physical inputs can have hundreds of dollars extracted from them for say, not realising that it was 3:50 pm and that the school zone speed limit on an otherwise 80 kph length of public street was still in force, despite that by that time little Johnny and Mary were either at home, or at the local shopping center with Mum.

I didn't put what I said very well. My business is auditing tenants' environmental risk management systems. These are required ultimately due to the Airports (Environment Protection) Act. The holder of the head lease has created three tiers of risk level Tier 1: Possible major environmental risk incident e.g. Fuel Depot Tier 2: Possible medium environmental risk incident e.g. Aircraft maintenance, Fast Food Tier 3: Possible minor environmental risk incident e.g. warehouse, business office, hangarage only. I have one client who has been classed Tier 2, but on my assessment of his level of risk, should be a Tier 3. This would mean that he could submit his own annual reports without my having to come in and charge him for an independent report every three years. After the last audit, I wrote the the head leaseholder suggesting that change. I'm still waiting for even an acknowledgement of my letter. The reason I got into doing this is that when the head leaseholder took over they suggested a certain company to do the audits for them. I've seen a quote from one of these companies and back in the middle teens the quote was for over $5000. At the time I was working in the industry and knew how tight money was. So I got qualified (paid for by the first few who needed the audit done) and thereafter charged them a fixed fee of well less than $1000. In that way, they comply with their lease requirements for not too much, and I get some cream on the cake. The audits are only required every three years. Last was in the 21/22 financial year. I'm wondering if there will be any still on Bankstown for the 24/25 series.

OK. Here are the answers people have been waiting for: Before all else - get the information package. It contains a lot of safety related information. 1. The problem of cathead and Khaki weed burrs has been met with an agronomist-designed weed control programme. This was instituted last summer and the result is that you can now run barefoot down the runway and taxiways and never break into the Bindi Hop. 2. The runway and taxiways have been mown this week, so the grass is short (to CASR standards) 3. For those wishing to enter the Trophy event, we can now accept payment on the day via EFTPOS. 4. The entry form is contained in the information package and is submitted by following a link which can be found in the information package. 5. Arrangements have been made to obtain 98 octane fuel from a very clean source at the pump price applicable on the day. Use our containers or your own. $5.00 per order for the driver. 6. Refuelling aids in the form of a Mister Funnel, earthing cable and a ladder will be supplied. 7. Contact details for accommodation in Tooraweenah are in the information package. 8. If the Tooraweenah accommodation gets booked out, transport to and from Gilgandra motels will be arranged. 9. For those who can't bear to leave their aircraft alone at night, but don't want to smell like a gorilla's armpit on the flight home, showering facilities are available by donation to the local Agricultural Show Society. 10. While no formal activity has been planned for Saturday night, the pub is a short stroll way and a local community group will be running a bar-b-que at the pub. 11. Bacon 'n' egg rolls and hot coffee with be available at the aerodrome on Sunday morning. 12. If you know of any student pilots who want to share your costs, they can also enter the "Neatest Correct Flight Plan" contest for a mere $10.00, again payable by EFTPOS on the day. So email me at [email protected] for the information package THIS WEEKEND

Basically most of those movements are indeed training flights, but Australian and foreign students doing commercial licence courses in both fixed and rotary wing. Very few people who just want to learn to fly for recreation or self transport. The Royal Aero Club died yonks ago. Chieftain , Illawarra, Navair, Schofields Aero Club - all gone. Hoxton Park Aero Club - gone. Camden Aero Club - gone. Phoenix Aero Club moved to Camden and seem to have a youthful membership. Trying to talk to the functionaries of the lessee in an attempt to work together for mutual benefit is a failure since they don't reply. In my area of work, they change functionaries about every 6 months so that it seems to be a new broom that can't get into the corners. Not since 2013, but I've still got my reference book. The damned thing is 35 Mb and hard to email to people who would like it (free of course).

And I thank you, too. Friends have been made and help has been given. What a better compliment for someone's work? Thanks to for giving me such a free rein when I've been working on The Event. We could not have spread the word so far without your tolerance. I just wish that you could get some advertising material for these sites. I wish you could be there. Toora is not far from Narromine, and I know you've been there.

I don't sell. I provide a service to tenants that provides information required under their lease agreements. Therefore, when a tenant leaves, and either can't sell the same business on the same site, or the site is not occupied by a certain type of activity, I lose a client. What is happening is that businesses related to aircraft maintenance are closing and their buildings are being turned over to warehousing. The operators of warehouses have different lease requirements in my area of service, so they don't need me. Not that I'm whinging because what I did simply gave me cream on the cake. I wasn't supporting myself or family from that work. Directly? Because it explains why when you are serious, you bring home the bacon. Onya!

That is a useless statistic, a minimum of five years out of date. No. The airport lessee is using false numbers to hide the fact that it has basically destroyed Bankstown as a General Aviation terminus. It was also supposed to maintain the aerodrome as a General Aviation facility. It does that by mowing the grass around the runway. Because the lessee made it uneconomical even to use the aerodrome when flying into Sydney to conduct business or for personal reasons and park your aircraft for a day or two. Cheaper airfields?????? Just about as soon as they got the leases for the three Sydney Basin aerodromes - Bankstown, Camden and Hoxton Park - they closed Hoxton Park and turned it into a warehousing centre. Now Sydney is left with no publicly owned aerodromes. Aviation-related businesses on Bankstown and Camden are being squeezed into bankruptcy or premature closure by the lessee's constant imposition of higher rents, expensive electricity supply and outdoor parking fees. I hope I'm wrong, Turbo, but sometimes I think from your posts that you are closely involved with those corporations that hold these almost perpetual leases.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: EFTPOS facilities will be available at the Event Office for those who would like to pay their entry fee on the day instead of doing a bank transfer.

Seems there are giant ones and pygmy ones. Now I'm starting to wonder what is the root of worldwide stories of elusive mischief makers from elves and goblins to the gremlins who disconnect wires in awkward places or snatch away the last nut needed to reassemble the essential widget you are working on. If we accept that the Aboriginal peoples of Australia have been isolated from more recent human migrations that place the arrival of humans there at 50,000 years ago at earliest, while others have suggested that these first settlers of Australia may represent an older wave before a more significant out of Africa migration and thus not necessarily be ancestral to the region's later inhabitants, the idea of creepy creatures must have arisen very early in human's cultural development. Or maybe the big hairy ones are an ancestral memory of early contemporary species.

I laughed at first, out of ignorance, but I've since learned of the Pilliga Yowie, or Jingra, a 10 ft (3.0 m) tall, hairy, man-eating beast. So feared is the Pilliga Yowie that truckies travelling on the Newell Highway between Coonabarabran and Narrabri will not use the rest areas along the 100 kms through the Scrub. The Pilliga Yowie is the protagonist in the movie There's Something in the Pilliga. Once has to wonder that if Yowies, or Jungra are part of Aboriginal culture, if they are real, then they must have existed through many generations of their species. Or are they a disciplinary tool used by Aboriginal mothers to teach their children of Life's dangers, much as the Bogeyman and Hansel & Gretel's witch?

Thanks for introducing me to Eric Rolls. I must start reading him. I didn't realise he had lived so close by. It gives me an idea for the route of the "Pillaging the Pilliga" event if we have it. What do you think of it?

OK. We have aircraft from RNAC coming up for the event

In the parlance of Economics, it's called vertical integration. In common parlance it's called Up you, Jack.

Arthur Butler Aviation Museum would like to obtain a wooden propeller to use as a perpetual trophy for its flying event. If someone has an unserviceable one, possibly from a Jabiru (most common one, I think) and would like to part with it for a good cause, please PM me. Old Man Emu

If the first one comes off as I hope it will, we probably will be running a similar event every two years to alternate with the air show that Coonabarabran Aero Club runs. If that happens, the next one will ne "Pillaging the Pilliga". The Pilliga Forest, sometimes known as the Pilliga Scrub, constitutes over 5,000 km2 of semi-arid woodland in temperate north-central New South Wales. It is the largest such continuous remnant in the state. The forest is located near the towns of Baradine and Narrabri and the villages of Pilliga and Gwabegar. The route might be something like this:

But that is the the idea of the event. It's too easy to rely on an electricky thing. The role-playing is to put yourself in the position of a Butler Air Transport DH84 captain in the late 30s, and early post-war period when you had to do the sums yourself and, since you had to connect with a scheduled flight, you had to be on time. I'm not stupid to think that EFBs aren't going to be used during the flight. I did that the other day when I surveyed the route. But it is more a test of oneself to see how professional one can be in flight planning. Can you actually be at a location exactly when you planned to be there. Unfortunately, the country lacks outstanding landmarks for a lot of the course, so the observation trial part might need to be bolstered by some aviation history questions. All I can say is that before the event, pilots and navigators should consider all phases of a flight and plan accordingly.

I can see myself being as busy as a one-armed paperhanger in a windstorm on the morning of the event. That doesn't worry me, as I can plan for it. What annoys me is that the information package contains the strongly suggested lanes of entry to Tooraweenah for arriving aircraft. I did all the work preparing those in order to make arrivals safe. If people who are either wanting to compete, or simply treating it as a social event, don;t at least ask for the package, then the risk of mid-airs is increased. There's a custom in the Country. If you need to open a gate to go forward, close it behind you. I'd like to apply something similar. If there's a suggested route, use it.