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  1. turboplanner
    Just ran Soar; in the area of southern Australia I looked at they were running Google Earth 2025 maps, so not razor sharp images like Near Map - they fudge them to avoid perverts etc. I got onto a live satellite feed at one stage; blurry down low but you were seeing actual current activity. Some people reported on FB their dog had run away from their remote beach camping site, they were leaving that day for Victoria and would have to abandon the dog. I looked along the beach, found their Landcruiser and campsite and told them if they drove half a km north there was a track off the beach, go half Km, turn right, go half km and there was a farm. Ask at farm. An hour later they posted that they's found their dog at the farm. Tried to use it a year later, had forgotten the site address.
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    Nearmap aerial mapping has been available for years, annual subscription approx $1800.00
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    The ABC journalist should have sourced the statistics on hobby flying and would have come to the RAA site, and smelled a rat. On the other hand, maybe he thought he was doing that when he spoke to its president, or maybe the 27 figure wasn't mentioned during the interview. The key thing is the story was to damage Recreational Aviation flying, and it was industry people doing the damage.
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    .......grab when a shark saw the enormous body in the water (head out of the water of course), concluded it was a female shark and started to mate. The Drifter, its silk wings groaning lifted out of the water, Turbo screamed, Xi's eyes bulged and the shark, a young one, thought WTF. Xi was in the most comfortable position as they climbed through 50 feet, and started to laugh. When he opened his mouth .............
  5. turboplanner
    ............ylon seat with the breathing hole in it through which, as Cappy correctly surmised.................
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    Interesting.
  7. turboplanner
    .....midriff dropped the hook right on the belt. Xi was away like a Taiwanese who'd booked the wrong flight destination. Just then the bluehead ran out of Start Ya Bastard, and Turbo's predicament, with the rope firmly under Xi's belt was very similar to a story an old boundary rider told Turbo at their campfire a few years ago out on the boundary of Old Mundowdna Station. They'd talked for hours, exhausted all the usual stories and finally the old rider said "I was camped up the track one night and needed a crap. I the dark I squatted down on a dingo trap an it grabbed me nuts" "That must have hurt" replied Turbo sympathetically. "Yes, it was the two most painfull experiences of my life" the rider said. Turbo was confused "How could it be two lots of pain?" asked Turbo The old rider poked the coals and said Once when the trap went off, and again when I ran out of chain!" Now as he looked over the side of the Thruster with nothing on the Tacho, a rope stretched out behind him, and Shark Strait below ...............
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    It's hard to know what was on his mind with that low and slow comment. Maybe he had been blindsided by the ABC journalist commenting on the subject matter then immediately asking for a reaction; that's the worst position to be in when there's a news story. Better to be the one doing the initial part of the story. I can see the possibility of ATSB handling a collision in a CTA circuit because of the complexity of key radio calls, correct circuit position, correct approach, correct choice of runway, failure to hold, wrong runway (on dual runways) etc, but even than doesn't take too long for a Recreational Aviation investigator to learn. If you look at the exhaustive procedure ATSB uses, even if they had a graded policy for top of the range RA with electronics down to a trike there just has to be big blowout in costs for not much return. On the other had it was RAA which submitted a list of engine failures one of which was a flat tyre, so maybe RAA has some work to do which would satisfy the complainants. It would be interesting to see if the trike guys out at Marian even know about this and what their thoughts are.
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    .....make more and more posts. It doesn't matter what's in them; every little bit helps, because Turbo donates a substantial amount of money maintaining the airstrip in the Spratleys, the upkeep on what is now the "Lodge" a five story building; one floor for Turbo, one for Chairman Xi, one for Cappy, one for the girls and one for Cappy's gin distillery. BTW Cappy has taken to wearing slippers and smoking a pipe while at the Spratley's Lodge. One sunny day, Cappy decided he'd Teach Chairman Xi to water ski behind the Lodge Thruster. It was failrly straightforward; the rider would float in the shallow water off the end of the runway. The tow rope would stream back to where the Drifter was moved up for take off. The Drifter would take off and Chairman Xi would be able to water ski in Shark Strait. On the first morning the bluehead wouldn't start .............
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    See the existing thread on this. It's still very unclear what the agenda is on this but a very dirty story.
  11. turboplanner
    These questions and answers are all on the record on this site. Some of our guys put a lot of effort in to help. Fixes ignored and the carping continued.
  12. turboplanner
    No it's not, those interested need to do a little more study than that.
  13. turboplanner
    He was given advice on what to do.
  14. turboplanner
    I was looking for a comparison to see if subscription costs were getting out of hand but both organisations have splits for classes, endorsements, children etc. Both have had increases over 2010 era for Public Liability policy, and so on. All up it looked like RAA and SSAA were facing roughly the same increases - sports are getting mor expensive., so not much to do with trhis subject.
  15. turboplanner
    Talk to RAA. This is a very serious thread about a threat to RAA Members based on incorrect information.
  16. turboplanner
    Well that's two characters now trying to get the narrative off the subject matter.
  17. turboplanner
    Over the years, studying accident rates, you gradually learn about the difference between clusters and trends and take a closer look at a trend in case it continues, in which case you then have the data to stop it.
  18. turboplanner
    You understand what the subject of this thread says and that this is a public site and that some people in authority might generalise your thinking as reality and use it
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    ........cut on every white line marking on every airport. Given the massive load of social media comments recently, Turbo has also been investigating the possibility of a royalty on every post, like singers get in return for a modest management fee or ......
  20. turboplanner
    Check the RAA categories and you'll be able to fly to your heart's content.
  21. turboplanner
    From memory one of our most experienced members has already tried to do that.
  22. turboplanner
    Current Full Flying Membership is $325.00 Sporting Shooters Association Membership is $115.00 RA flying is based on established designs. If you want to change a design, engineers need to get involved and they need to be paid so of course it gets expensive. Today I can buy a dual cab ute for about $30,000 - $180,000 I can make it an ambulance or a prime mover legally at an engineering cost of around $1.8 million for the trial unit. These crossover ideas have been touted for years now. The achilles heel has been the extra cost of having to learn and train on two systems. I haven't heard any derision of it. We have our equivalent and there's no derision that I've heard of it either, just people who want to fly longer distances. Well you've mixed with the likes of Dick so you know the practical limits.
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    The current system as others have said revolves around economics - information return on investment, or "if the cause is obvious, why go through the expensive ATSB comprehensive process." In the current process, where police investigate the accident and call in Recreational Aviation Australia for specialised assistance, it's been normal for RAA to call in ATSB for more specialist advice, which others have said. There's no reason that any data would not be recovered if undamaged and presented to NSW Police forming part of their brief to the NSW Coroner. One issue is that the Coroner is looking for the cause of death and we are looking for the cause of accident. Another issue is that some Coroner reports take a very long time, and can be poorly referenced for pubic access. We could probably get what we want for learning purposes if the Coroner released the Police Brief with redactions.
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    No I'm not and now is no time to start questioning categories that have worked well and demonstrated their safety in design, construction and operation for decades.
  25. turboplanner
    ........told of their racing history with the once great CAMS, the razor sharp racing with only a few hay bales for protection; driving the race cars to the tracks; leading to one epic case where Turbo was chased by the South Australia Highway Patrol in one of their Chryslers. The Chrysler Royal at the time had the fastest 0-100 km/hr in Australia surpassing the Jags, but unable to deviate from a straight line because of their US boulevard suspension. Turbo knew the trick was to suck them in with a lame duck performance, weave so they couldn't pass then when a corner loomed up, flatten it and hope they ran off the road. While they were coping with brake fade and avoiding trees, the next trick was to park up a side road. Not everyone knows that at that time Turbo's father was busy developing Australia's first Ultralight aircraft. He made this huge kite from tubular chair tube, a meterial which was strong and flexible yet very light. He covered it with rag, painted dope onto the rag, and strapped himself to it while Turbo age 4 gave the Jag powered speedboat full throttle. A few heads were warped before they established a signal process between them that didn't throw old Harvey Turbine off the kite and into the water. As others copied the designs they became known as "Rag and Tube aircraft" and this led to............
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