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    It is times like this that no words will ever seem to say what you really want to say. Like many others, I only knew David through the forums, but felt that he was very passionate about flying and indeed, this forum. RIP mate, and thanks for all the wise words.
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    Can't say I am much of a fan.....but I was up recently with my youngest son (11) and it was a very bumpy ride. I asked him if he felt okay, and whether the bumps were too much. His reply - it's just like driving on a road filled with big potholes you can't see!
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    Your excitement is palpable Tomo....!!!!
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    Different generation Kiwi....I was driving a Leyland tractor at age 10 - the brakes didn't work. Now that same tractor has working brakes, and my 14 year old son doesn't get to drive it yet.....
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    Great story and a happy ending (relatively). Not as severe consequences, but a long time ago I was managing residential services for young adults with intellectual disabilities. My hobby at the time was restoring crashed motorcycles, and I often brought some tools and a bike to work on (live in, 10 on 4 off). The guys absolutely loved to help, so we spent many a weekend working on bikes, followed by a BBQ. One day I walked in to see that one had decided to start working on my regular bike (Kwaka GPZ1000RX) which wasn't in need of restoring. But the young guy decided to work on it anyway, and was busily dropping tools down into the mufflers
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    Great feature!
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    I had the same thing for a while, and then realised it was because I was reading without being logged in, so it continued to show all the threads in "What's New" without removing the ones from the list that I had just read.
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    I would suggest that it takes a lot more than the training that is provided to the average instructor. Remember that most of the big risk takers are wise enough to not do anything in front of an instructor (especially if they need a logbook signed off for a BFR or similar). As Nev said, it is so hard to create that culture of reporting dangerous behaviours, and I suspect for many people it just becomes something where they write the incident off as "well, it's their life and will be their problem if something goes wrong - I'd never fly with them anyway". Another factor that may contribute is the so called bystander effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect which has been pretty well documented over the years. The more people who observe a dangerous behaviour and look around to see that no one else is reporting or intervening, the less likelihood that it will be reported or acted on. Alternatively, everyone presumes that someone else will report it, and so they personally don't have to act.
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    Works fine for me - the PC version didn't offer anything that I needed (beyond what the style version offered) when I was just wanting a quick update on what has been happening when I was on the move.
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    So far so good. I've just had a look around with my Samsung (Google branded) phone and everything that I use works fine. One point is the appearance Ian. When I view on the computer, the background of the posts are white, and quotes are a darker colour. On the phone it is the opposite with normal posts in a dark background and quotes in a light background.
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    The real problem with RAA is how everone is unscrupulous and cuts corners on their cheese sandwiches.......
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    Ouch....the owner, Time Berry, taught me to fly a long time ago. That looked like a costly failure.....
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    Somewhere on another thread, Solomon talked about an accidental fire while welding that has slowed down his progress.....
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    Two hail marys, close your eyes and clench? Or is that just me? Others may have a better method
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    It is true that often a coroner will make comment about other findings not directly related to the cause of death but uncovered in the process of determining cause of death. One of the reasons for this is also because the coroner can hear information not totally related to the death, and also information that would never have been admissable in a criminal court. My lovely better half regularly prepares briefs for the coroner in Victoria regarding deaths due to fire or explosives, and the scope of a coroner's authority and recommendation is very wide. With all that said, it seems that RA-Aus may have benefited from providing what information and recommendations it could to the coroner in a proactive manner prior to the investigation concluding, rather than waiting for a bunch of unrelated findings to be brought to the attention of our transport minister......
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    Andy, your summation is clear and succinct.
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    A timely reminder for all Ian.....
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    I don't think anyone will be offended - there are a few members who still currently fly multi engine jets. Some even pre-date jets, like Facthunter, who is rumoured to have flown Gotha bombers in WWI! Feel free to share any of your artwork.
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    Having failed colouring betwen the lines in kindergarten, I take my hat off to anyone with artistic talent! Welcome to the forums, don't forget to tell us a bit about what aircraft you drove around!
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    Nor was I aware, and my reply was not meant to be personal. I spend about half of my working week assessing kids for learning disabilities, autism, ADHD and others, and I tend to jump in if these conditions are mentioned. Certainly no offence was intended, but I can never go along with the suggestion that something like ADHD was a major contributor. Sadly, plenty of people have made similar choices over the years, with similar results, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that medical conditions were to blame.
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    Great vid Tomo
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    I would be very wary of putting much weight to a family member's testament of ADHD as a causal factor. Especially as she said that he has been off meds since the age of 6 - even if the meds worked then, they rarely work the same or have much effectiveness at all in adults. And you have to allow for the dark period of the nineties, where many kids were given the latest buzz diagnosis (ADHD) who were nothing worse than disobediant and distractible, and other pervasive developmental disorders such as autism were also often misdiagnosed as ADHD. It is a fantastic cover for many parents who have done a shocking job; a good excuse for a number of kids to not bother trying to improve their behaviours; and a genuine problem for a much smaller group who can be treated very successfully. I wouldn't expect the prevalence of ADHD to be higher among pilots than the general population. Too many of the observations listed would get in the way of successfully learning to fly for someone who has not socialised at least some of their behaviours.
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    The suspense is just killing me
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    Wow.....what a career!
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    Yep, I believe his expectations of people were extreme, but were mirrored by his own dedication and drive to do what he asked of others and even more. There was a doco in the UK recently which looked at documentation and discussed the possibility that he was actually shot down by friendly fire rather than colliding with an enemy aircraft - would love to find a copy one day.
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