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......baait." We should point out for the many NES readers around the world that the good Captain, who has his age listed on FB as 35 may have given away his real age in his last post. Paracutes are described differently by these generations: Silent Generation: - 1946 Bombe de Terre Baby Boomers: 1946 - 1954 Parachute Gen X: 1965 - 1980 Chute Gen T/Millenials) 1981 - 1994 shoot Gen Z: 1995 - 2009 Never heard of it Gen Alpha: 2010 - Who wants to fly THAT slow! Of Course, before Cappy had been told to take the Elvis photo off his FB profile, .......................

CASA is not an aviation Association. CASA is a Safety Authority appointed by the Commonwealth Government to oversee safe flying in Australia. CASA fits within the nesting of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. Most of the complaints on this site levelled at CASA belong with other bodies. Some of the complaints are due to misaligning CASA with the FAA, and not understanding that both bodies are progressively changing to align with ICAO. (so RAA members should always be keeping a close eye on the changes withing ICAO) The aircraft you describe from time to time do belong to an Association (of sorts) Recreational Aviation Australia Ltd. The Members of Recreational Aviation Australia, Incorporated (operating under the regulations specifically set up by the Department of Justice in the ACT to protect Sporting Bodies) voted to step away from that protective structure and form a Limited Company, by majority vote. If we look at the EAA link: https://www.eaa.org/~/media/0cbfb393d341470e8342c56b26662001.ashx I would expect similar thoughts and promotions to be coming from Recreatioal Aviation Australia Limited relating to recreational aviation in Australia, or one of the similar self administering bodies. The fact that you haven't had a good response from RAA could possibly result from proposals to hijack one on the RAA Australian aircraft categories and recommend Australians fly without registrations or licences. I know they read everything on this site because I've been contacted by them. The solution is to compare what's in the above link with the available RAA catergories and rules, and put up a comprehensive proposal, with draft amendments, proposed rules and proposed specifiocations to replace existing ones. An Association operating understaffed is more likely to accept that format.

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I thought you were in the transport industry?

The road statistics are pretty good these days collating the victim numbers and ages by a number of variants, but the causes would make the Bros Grimm proud.

I was having lunch in a local hotel today and a stack of bikies came pouring in and started to push tables together. They'd just been to the funeral of a female club member. She'd been killed in a pothole accident; five riders were injured, she was the one that died. The guy I was talking to wasn't sure who hit the pothole. Victoria currently has about a million potholes, all about 450 mm dia, all from 50 mm to 400 mm deep....like wells, all on the LH car/truck tyre line, many hard to see because there's no gravel spill.

Out of date now, too many people were getting the filters off so the engine designers mounted them upright, but under the vehicle near the sump, so you need two; one which loosens the filter from the top, which also needs a knuckle joint to get under some electronics and one to spin the filter on its top from underneath.

We went through that phase more than 20 years ago, starting with common rail systems, multi injections etc. Today we've caught up and beaten those old non EGR engines by so much they aren't worth buying at the wreckers. Also today, EGR is just one of three or four base engine systems.

In motor vehicles, we started taking visible particulates (black smoke) out of diesel exhausts in 1976. By 1992 we were down to about Ringelmann 3 (slight haze). Since 1992 we have reduced diesel particulates by 98.4% of the 1992 PM levels.

Yes. The automotive and transport industries are the leaders in this. Emissions are regulated from the time you turn the key on until you turn it off. Static Industries are way back in the dark ages with politically tainted legislation which allows them to emit but then average what they emit over 24 hours and that's on top of higher emissions anyway.

......way down the strip. As odd as this should have appeared, they were lost in the usual nightly traffic of dudes from Shanksville Ohio mooningeveryone from Cadillac convertibles to Rockers, hair Brylcreamed in Chopped A Models, to people dressed in Astronaut suits, to Rightly Cornute's gen shop where he stores Wayne Newton's suits. Eventually they could be seen parked near landmarks saying "What's up Dude, y'all wanna buy ma solid gold chariot? And eager buyers from Shreveport Louisiana saying .......................

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I had squares of 12 mm ply cut, fitted roller bearing castors and sat the scales on the ply. That let the tyres push where they beeded to and was able to get repeatable figures ........................on a level concrete floor.

I'm not sure, but it could possibly be as a result of fatalities of Instructors when doing them in non-CASA aircraft. I've definitely seen a report on one, possibly two, going back a few years but eventually a decision based on risk may have kicked in.

Unfortunately the question of training has been raised; certainly at the conclusion of a full training course with satisfactory industry benchmark pass figures that's a good tick of responsibility, but behaviour is a risk factor.

....anyone except those who had been cremated, because they'd lost the ability to control the aircraft and wouldn't listen to instructions, even from Epaulette. North Las Vegas Airport was a hive of acitvity every Saturday morning as the glitterati arrived with a trailer load of Ultralight parts and some could still be seen in the afternoons trying a tube here or there or there, or trying to start the Blueheads before calling "Bluehead Bernie" who helped out every time with his ratchet gun. By late afternoon there were Ultralights downed in every second street of Vegas as famous people misjudged the fuel consumption. By evening ............................... Not many people know that Howard Hughes was the first person to build an Utralight. He tried to build one out of gold. His mistake was rushing into the protect without checking the weight of the material. He managed to make a beautiful streamlined cylinder, and even overcame the fuelage blowups when the Las Vegas pilots took them to 30,000 feet because "That's the height I always fly at". What he couldn't solve was the tendency of the Hughes U2 to nose over and plop down off the edge of the runway unless to rotated at 200 kts or more.

Note that this hearing is still in progress.

NOx has been reduced in motor vehicles since the 1976 model year in Australia via the Australian Design Rule system and had been reducing to 1992 when major reductions started because it is one of the causes of Lung Cancers. Since 1992 in Australia we have reduced NOx in new vehicles by 99.4% on the 1992 figures. We pay a lot of money for this on new vehicles, and it would be interesting to see if there were any statistics on a parallel reduction in lung cancers.

You take a big risk working on the advice of "some forums". The comments posted below are a good example of where the flame can go, and it looks like it's going to go a lot further than that.

Nose down into the ground before it reached the runway.

That's two that didn't make the end of the runway in a month.

.......was so popular that he was signed for a six months Residency at the pub, which put him in the same bracket as current Las Vegas Headliner Residencies Rod Steward, Adele, Wayne Newton, Donny Osmond and Garth Brooks. Theth flew a Thruthter at the weekends when he could get away without having to glue on all those feathers, and it wasn't long before ................

.....firth in the family throng enough to fly from Thepparton to New Thouth Waleth under my own power." This was greeted by hoots in the local pub that night and so he was forced to superglue his feathers one and .......................

Let's put it this way; if you want to post a letter, you don't go to the pub. There was no last hurdle because there was no horse race.

I've read the above linked documents. I don't believe there was anything there that would normally be used to get an airport going. It was a case of talking to the wrong people and not understanding the correct process. The people they contacted should have been more forthright and it wouldn't have extended the way it did. However, the main issue here is Goulburn Airport.