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  1. .....would be a part of the great peoples of the West, even if only an irrelevant swill of swishing ..........
  2. How about you do the research, find out what the government gives each private school every year what it's for, and what the school has to do for it in return. Anything else is blowing bubbles at the sky.
  3. Looks like the interest in Goulburn Airport has petered out, and most have said they wouldn't go there anyway, so best to wait until it has been sold and then see what the new owner wants to do with it. Same with RA around Canberra, plenty of opinions but no appetite to support Goulburn by flying there, or buy a property and build an airstrip.
  4. Your choice Skippy, I've seen both recently. A lot depends on the Public School Headmaster. Ours applied for the John Howard School Hall programme where the whole school +parents fits in for major events and also applied for new classrooms when Civid hit and the kids were doing online schooling.
  5. ......calm with occasional murder atmosphere of the Lost State as WA is known in the East. OEHOR pondered for a moment, still reeling at the news that Chairman Dan was heading for WA as Twiggy's Left Right Hand Man to fulfill his promise to China that they could have all that red dirt stuff in WA for a song. It was OEHOR's job to make sure it was a song that .................
  6. ........what was know as "The Blockages", not unlike the "Troubles" in Ireland which also started over a shortage of toilet paper. As we know, the Poms have always been frugal with "the paper" whereas the Irish would always help out a neighbour, and this difference inevitably led to civil war. Of course when the King sent soldiers to Ireland he was perplexed at how easy it was for the Irish to find concealed English soldiers and escape, but of course now we know. This also was why .............. Cappy's heartfelt explanation explains a few things that Turbo had always wondered about. When he was building the Jabiru, he'd made his own wheels, since wheelwright skills had been passed down the Cook family. This explains why the Jab had steel rimmed wagon wheels. It might be unfair to say this but there were wheel ruts all over the Kapooka Paddock, where the taxpayers, through the ADF had graded an airstrip) Another novel feature of his Jab was the girth strap and the draf chains, beautifully made, but limiting him to only one case of Brown Bros Red at their short strip. Our US NES readers might ben interested to know that the symbol for Florida is no longer the Orange, but in a deal carved out by Turbo and the Governor or Florida Enrico Garcia, the State is limited to claiming Turbine Orange Juice, and Turbine Orange Blossom. Here's a young Turbo playing Banjo (note the ring with the Turbine Family Crest. Playing along is the great Roy Clark who could play any instruments including a milk can. Turbo wrote this song for Florida.
  7. Having said that, you go on to apply horizontal policies to vertical, which of course will fail. Nothing like it. Private and Church schools are required to train, teach and evaluate to the State School curriculum and they are paid for that base teaching, which helps commonality when they arrive at Uni or into the workforce. Anyone who has done part of their schooling in one State and then abruptly been shifted to another State would see the benefit of that. The Private schools then need an arm and a leg from the parents to add the components which bring the TERs needed for Uni entry in the best positions and character building to be able to hold down management jobs and professions.
  8. It would seem straightforward to me. You may not be neatly in one camp or the other, but you're not wanting to just fly in one camp either. If you want to fly a GA plane just go GA.
  9. An outstanding cry for democracy, Skippy but i would equate it more with Australia's never ending cycle from vertically integrated businesses to horizontally integrated businesses where every separate activity/location is required to make a profit. There's still room in the horizontal model for a sub group to operate at break-even cost.
  10. This plays no part in the Planning Process as I found out on a couple of cases in the early days. No one has stepped up and said they want to build an alternative to Goulburn, but they would be looking at NSW as well, which offers locations closer than Goulburn.
  11. I assume that when you set the bolt stretch cold, the manufacturer is working on that being the optimum setting at working temp.
  12. The fact that the affluent haven't migrated to Goulburn is of note. If you are making policy for General Aviation you will either be working (as in regularly visiting) or doing the same thing digitally at every GA site in Australia. There was a time where I was doing a National job and was on an aircraft somewhere, often twice a week. Digital allowed me to do that from a desk. Perhaps the reason our coastal city GA airports have such good aircraft movements is that policy is taking account of the newer types and categories of GA flights and training; for example at Moorabbing now if you want to get a PPL you can book accommodation on campus and do the lot without leaving the airport. Based on the last Google Earth photo, at the Canberra Airport on grass I counted 32 single engine GA, on the bitumen 2 SE and 9 twins, and there would be others in hangars, but a low number of GA. with room for plenty more. I found a projection for Canberra Airport to be at 153,000 aircraft movements in 2023/24, against Melbourne Airport's 217,000. If you want to meet a potential market requirement as you appear to be doing, guesswork isn't enough; you have to do the hard yards and go out and talk to the market; they'll give you the whys and why nots on their travel arrangements. As for giving your local member a lift, if he isn't already limited by policy to only flying in twin aircraft, don't forget to point to the conditions plaque, and don't forget to tell him what singe engine VFR is really like on a yearly basis. I finally gave up trying to do business flying VFR after I was grounded waiting for weather to clear for three days; that cost me orders worth a lot more than the cost of RPT and rental cars.
  13. Then, have you not heard of the ACT Government's Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate? Whether you want to build a house, factory or Airfield the primary decider on whether it can be done on a property you select will be Planning status. Step 1 is to select a suitable property you think would be ideally located, with suitable weather conditions and meet the technical requirements for an ALA etc. Step 2 is to go on the EPSDD site punch in the property address, and get a property report and map of the property. This will show the Zoning of the property. Step 3 is to read through the Uses for that Zone. They may be split into three groups; 1. Permitted Uses without a planning Permit. This may include "farming", something like a tool shed on a farm with a size not more that 10 sqare metres 2. Permitted Uses requiring a Plannning Permit. This would be where you start looking for "Airfield" 3. Prohibited Uses These usually include Motor Racing Tracks, and may include Airfields, making a decision on the property easy; go to the next property. If you find a property which allows a Use of Airfield, you then provide a Development Application (DA) to the Local Government Authority for approval. Anyone can submit a DA, however for an airfield I would recommend hiring a qualified Planning Consultant. These people have done 5 years Planning study at a University and know their way around the very complicated system. You particularly don't need a politician or public servant, or need to know someone. As you can see from this process it's relatively easy for someone to identify land suitable for an airfield, buy it and, where it meets the Planning Scheme for that area, get approval to build one with private hangars etc. obtaining Planning approval for these items where specified.
  14. Have you been reading the posts? You don't realise you can fly in CTA with the right specifications and training?
  15. ............encouraged car owners to do the same, and the English cars which had rusted their way onto the Australian market, and which had suspensions that defied the most experienced Chiropractors in Australia, and seats which collapsed after the warranty expired disappeared almost overnight. During the paper shortage of 1983, WA Sand was used in toilets which led to .............. Turbo is in awe of Cappy being asked by Phil Ward, one of the pioneers of Bathurst, to help fit an engine. Turbo walked around the pits many times but when offering to help was only told to XXXX off!
  16. ....an opportunity for the clever to take advantage of this low price, and some of these people started posing as identities on tractors sites, car sites, aviation sites starting innocent threads called things like "Looking after your Engine" where, once the discussion got going they would say something like "the cure for slow acceleration is a cup of WAGreat in every tankfull of fuel" and they would be inundated with orders from the faithful. In medical forums in discussions like Why Chemotherapy is bad for you" they would insert the suggestion that a teaspoon of WAGreat in every coffee could cure the cancer, and Latte Joints all over the cities began sporting big WAGreat signs. Soon land values in the east had risen so much that the began to break new Sales Records when advertised as Sea Level - proof, and the Indian Oceam began pouring over WA. Drifters [avref] replaced cars as the only way to get to work and ..................
  17. .....understand what it was or what they were supposed to be looking at; a bit like K'Gari#1 where if you stad looking at it for too long a dingo will come along and bite your finger off. oT Advertising's little Creative Director "TO" came up with some videos based on the Flintstones, but that fell flat because no one in the East knew who they were. "TO" then tried giving awa a bottle of sand for every airline ticket bought with a WA destination, but ..................... #1 Brought to you by the Tribe that never had apostophes because they hadn't been invented.
  18. ......42 ways of cooking it. On the great NorthWest Highway if you can stay awake looking at all the sand there's a Rest Stop which features "Big Sand" Its problem is no one can find it, so the visitor's book and website feedback are both still blank. even though it was opened by the Leyland Brothers in 1973 after they'd become lost looking for Monkey Mia. When they finally found Monkey Mia they discovered there were no monkeys to film, so they filmed ................
  19. In the days of collapsible head gaskets you could tighten the head bolts to the specified nut torque (after a series of even tightening with a socket) and that was it, you had a seal for life. As aluminium became more widespread and non-collapsible gaskets were used, the sequence tightening became more critical and instead of the final tension being measured by rotational friction to trip the torque wrench, a torque wrench final socket figure is quoted then a rotation amount is specified using the thread depth to obtain the tension required. For this reason you ALWAYS fit new head bolts after a head has been removed. Leaks and loose bolts are the byproducts of this system for even minor mistakes. I agree the manufacturers have fallen behind in providing exact details of the process required and you have to hunt for it because not all manufacturers work on the same figures.
  20. I get the feeling that the GA people out there and on social media are not aware of any change or they would have resurrected their ‘“not Goming to a CTA near you” thread
  21. This is a question better asked of GA IFR pilots. For VFR PPL I was told not to touch it but did, and set the frequency of the nearest tall hill and got a signal from a town behind it. Good lesson.
  22. ........Fortabre network known by the in-people as the Black Web, because the Dark Web people can't see what the Black Web people are talking about, so when the Black web people see the Dark Web Sock Puppets in action they can introduce their own Sock Puppets to watch them. The hot debates of course are about Climate Change and the UN, and the TWASLF is prediction Adelaide, and in particular Gawler Airport to be up to its knees in WA sand within the next three years. Hindly Street is predicted to fill up. The DWSPs are saying that Adelaide will sink under the incoming sea and the new beaches at Springfield will become the new Riviera, with luxury yachts parked around the hills. Conversely theTWASLFCPs (who BTW) are not backed by the TWASLF are saying the only difference will be that all the sand will be washed to the low spots and fill up Hindley Street which was always a hole anyway. The Goolwa Aerodrome started buying Earth Scrapers until they .................
  23. I would focus on the Australian aviation classes we have in RA, and try to get some real flying done.
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