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  1. ....allpoint pen to get that last bit of drying ink. Now some people might think it strange that a striped cat playing the part of a Tasmanian Tiger would have any use for a ballpoint pen let alone lick it but , good NES friends, take a look at what the serious flying community is talking about and ask why they would be treating aircraft engine mounts with KY jelly. bull had scared the cats and Cpatin dropped his pen and sank his teeth into bull's elbow as he passed. This led to the secondary action of yaw, and the Drifter cartwheeled into the cluster of cats which by now were well and truly revved up for a ................
  2. .....his spare Laptop at the lead Cat, which the others had Christened "Captain" because he was always r....
  3. .....the cats attacked, tearing the Drifters fabric to ribbons. bull .................
  4. ... he put the Drifter’s nose down and headed for the stripers. Something happens to a cat when it goes bush; it becomes very nasty and fights like a thrashing machine. bull got the Drifter just that little bit too low and 32 striped cats leaped up and hung on. The Drifter staggered and started to fall.....
  5. ..........sleepless nights. He'd tried advertising tours to the priceless lakes district which the Federal Government had stepped in to preserve for all time, but they'd have been better off seeding the area with gelignite. It was just a series of old dams the orchardists used to use when Tasmania grew apples. These days they just import the apples from Colombia. The new manager of Turbine Cat Farms Tasmania Ltd, Que Li Qi came to trhe rescue. Fur sales were slow in the summer and the sales didn't cover the processing cost, so Que and bull picked out an area of bush sprayed stripes on 5,000 cats and released them into the bush. bull started selling tickets, hinting that extinct Tasmanian Tigers were on the breed again, the tourists flocked in and he added competitions for the most sightings. Parks Tasmania started whining, but when the government slapped on a $10.00 Tiger fee, they all got a raise and could be seen with their Hiluxes, green uniforms and six packs of stubbies finding good vantage points. bull also went looking for Tigers in the Drifter with the intent of mustering them into the areas he could get his 4WD Build Your Dreams buses. It was a Tuesday and it was raining, so he was soaking in the sparse protection of the Drifter when he saw a pack of around 400 cats. He dived down and mustered them into a tight knot, but .................
  6. ....position. Here she was, lonely and reduced to sitting on the phone going through the dating apps everyday and coming up with people who used fake photos, had no teeth and couldn't spell. On the3 other hand she'd just abused the somewhat handsome and beefy bull, fresh from a huge trawling season, about to go to Melbourne to buy another McLaren and his favourite, a Cessna Caravan which he can fit out in plush lounge style for ................
  7. BS. CASA and its predecessors going all the way back to the Department of civil Aviation had developed what the Australian Government claimed was the highest standard of flying in the world. That was under a prescriptive system where the government would prescribe or proscribe and action with suitable penalties if people disobeyed the rules. In the mid 1980s the State and Federal Governments dismantled the prescriptive system, not CASA and that led to the self administration you are flying under today. Where, prior to 1985 inspectors used to visit factories to inspect and ticket factory equipment like chains and cranes etc. that was shut down. Where governments administered high risk activities they closed down their operations with the exception of a few activities like motor vehicles, roads etc which have remained a prescriptive system. The onus was on the activity to set its own rules and take responsibility for its own actions. We started to hear a lot about things like Occupational Health and Safety standards being developed by Companies. Where accidents occur and people suffer loss they take action against other parties in the civic courts around Australia. Our courts have been using the precedent of Donaghue v Stevenson 1932 which you can Google, and all the principles will start to make sense.
  8. .......tour of my ship, and the VOL jumped at the chance. As they approached the ship, with bull becoming more and more confident, the VOL caught the unmistakeable whiff of raw prawns. "Don't you come the raw prawn with me!" she said and turned ...............................
  9. The Corporate lawyer was proved right, someone screwed up, a bulletin was issued to all Dealer Principals and so far there have been no more incidents, but you don't need to know that. As I've mentioned before, in the self administration era the matter will always be between you and the injured party.
  10. two, three er.........er [Joe Moment) er...four,,,,,then Count von Count forgot to count because across the Bone Bistro was ..................................
  11. For seven short pages to learn? You'd rather fly across to the USA and fly around on a kitchen chair?
  12. It was the Commonwealth and State Ministers who started it industry by industry. Actually the benchmarks are reasonably good when you compare the pre-flight work load now vs the previous approved flight plans, full reporting.
  13. Firstly, let's be clear for this discussion: The title of the thread refers to Uncontrolled airports which are in Class G for which I provided a link. Uncontrolled airports have their own particular problems in that one minute there's nothing to indicate someone else is there and three minutes later as you let down on final, someone is tracking the entire length of the runway. And at many locations there is very little traffic so very few transmissions making it more difficult to learn to subconsciously the correct phrases. What they don't generally have is a problem getting your transmission out given that you might get up to six in the circuit at one time vs CTAF where you might have 11 competitors all using clipped transmissions because that's what they do every day. For that reason the easy plain English document I posted here about five times shouldn't be too hard to learn. CTAF pilots also need to learni it if they are going to fly cross country. I'm assuming you're flying in both Class G and at Moorabbin. I've posted the Class G requirements. For Moorabbin, there are different requirements. The confusion you've met in talking to various instructors was always there, because there is a mixture of people training for CPL who are instructing for income and long term Instructors. So you need to get source documents from CASA. If you don't have them you need to get training and fit aircraft equipment for which you talk to a school at Moorabbin. I did comment, from memory telling you my teachers over the years have used about 20 different versions if you don't count the barrel rolls to and from the training area by one of them. My point was it was a waste of time. 1. You need to know what you are supposed to listen for and transmit, so you can learn the correct procedure. 2. Then you have to sit there lap after lap and listen to the instructor, who may well be taking shortcuts or doing other things to teach you the key actions for the circuit (so radio might get butchered for some). During that phase you will certainly get to understand why some calls should never be missed and how to get a clipped call in when the circuit is jammed how to join, how to fly slow if you are catching up, how to build more distance going long; all the little tricks a CTAF instructor will show you. I can understand the Instructors being a bit bemused. In your case, with a lot of current US operations plus Class G plus CTAFI would be keeping a ring binder with the procedures to go over and over to stay current, but you need the source documents, not Social Media and not random airfields or instructors.
  14. The software is not breaking up the quote, so I'll refer to sentences. Sentences 2,3. Correct, but..... You invent your own single transmission in the circuit, a collision occurs - where do you stand? For about a generation now these issues have been settled by civil courts. Where do you stand there? You made your own system up, its failed; what's your defence? Even worse, if the aggrieved pilot was complying with See and be Seen he may win. So no point in manipulating words; the principle will get you. Next paragraph quoting the word ALL. All means all the time. You need to follow the benchmark to protect yourself all the time. "When there is other traffic" The document is clear enough; you can thell there's other traffic by seeing it or hearing it transmit on radio. Last Sentence: "Your Corporate Lawyer is wrong (if in fact you actually consulted one)" A Corporate lawyer is employed by the company; in this case she outlined roughly what I've been saying and answered the questions as a qualified lawyer would.
  15. RSL where a slightly mors shrivelled Mavis was allocating tables for dinner at the Bone RSL/ For those who might not know where thye Don River is, the entrance if a kilometre north of Dog-off leash Beach. By default this meant the crew could wreck Bowen's iconic Grand View Hotel well into the night without being disturbed by that booming controlling bull voice box calling them .................
  16. You missed the emphasis. Page 4 says: "Calls recommended ALL the time." There is clearly no time when it is ok not to make these calls. That part of the sentence uis clear and unmistakeable. The use of the word "recommended" is intentional and frees CASA from a prescriptive command. That's so the taxpayers won't be paying if we screw up our radio and a collision occurs. If its any help, I've been through this before with other people reluctant to take on responsibility, so I arranged for our Corporate Lawyer to come to a meeting with the people involved. One opened up with, "If a document says it's recommended that I do something do I legally have to do it?" The lawyer immediately said "No, it's just a recommendation". I said "What's the situation where the document is a safety documents to prevent accidents and says It is recommended that calculations for XXX are made?" She said "YES", you'd be crazy if you didn't do it. Page 5. "CALLS WHEN THERE IS OTHER TRAFFIC Other radio calls may be useful at a non-controlled aerodrome, if there is traffic in the area that would benefit from this additional communication." The paragraph is correct English. The action words are bolded in red. Another way of saying this is: "If you're aware of traffic in the area it might be safer to add additional traffic-specific communication. The people you're concerned about are prevented from going silent by Page 4's instruction ALL THE TIME.
  17. This is a good opportunity to check whether what you've been taught is current with today's requirements in plain English and a very short read and whether you are a hazard to other fliers.
  18. "recommended" simply means the government agencies are not Prescribing (instructing or dictating a rule). However, the government agencies made it clear they were no longer prescribing and the onus was on the PIC when the changes came through decade ago for Class G. So far in this thread people have been talking about CTA as well as Class G (different rules), what happens in the UK, what some airfields do, what some instructors should do etc. Circuit Diagrammes have been posted which are wrong etc. That just confuses everyone. Instead there are recommendations for Class G in this link.: They include: When you MUST make a call When you SHOULD make a call Calls recommended ALL the time Calls when there is other traffic https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-05/radio-procedures-in-non-controlled-airspace.pdf If there is a bad accident, and you were complying with the above radio procedures, you have an industry benchmark to defend any negilgence action against you. You will also be in synch with the rest of us who follow those procedures.
  19. ....quiet reminder from the helmsman that he was navigating a ship. bull didn't like the raised eyes and made the mistake of taking his concentration off the ship; the cunning helmsman allowed him to run it into the North...........................
  20. Summarising what you've said, you remodelled the pipe and since then it has been running hotter than the other one with an EGT probe?
  21. .........followed the magenta line back to safe Harbour. Suddenly he realised he was in Goulburn which is not on the coast..........................................
  22. ........bowsprit figure on the ship, and was horrified to find it was of rotund build, the spitting image of CT, although unshaven, and was carrying a Brno .222 in its hand and ...........
  23. Pointless is bringing US confusion to Australian students who are never going to operate there.
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