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......the careless flying around here, particularly on the runway where seven elderly guests have complained about ...................

We can see from this post the degree of authority of Moderator 3 carries around here. A close confidant of Cappy, who had a deprived childhood, and a fetish (where he cried continuously for fresh nappies where most cried for milk, and Turbo just lay there happy for anything he got}, M3 as he is known around here has repeatedly been exposed as a cross-dressing psychopath, student of Hitler and would have been a serial killer if it wasn't for the fact that all 31 of his victims escaped.

Can a dead person give evidence?

Boeing whistleblower & former employee John Barnett was found dead. The day before his death he had been giving evidence at a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing. He died from a self inflicted wound on 9/3/24. He had been due to answer further questions that day.

Have a look on Google Earth.

And so fitting a battery isolator requires no more that the brain capacity of a praying mantis.

A person is overawed by each event so much that they are silenced.

.....bought hersek a Drifter (sort of AVREF) did a couple of flights training and flew out to see Captain Bull, landing neatly on the deck, but a little off the centre which sent a little old Italian off his deckchair and into the .......................

.......more of them really need to get a life, embrace the balmy Qeensland weather and swim in the estuaries and rivers. The photo above of the Bone RSL may not be understood by southerners. Local Bone residents only eat out in Bone when its free of QCs. A flock like this is a good indicator that Mavis is on the grog again and the customers are binning their half eaten steaks, or ....................

.......ate sticky buns covered in flys which quickly attracted flights of Queensland Crows. Tourists from the South have always been dismissive of the QCs which caw in a most feminine way, especialy whem they are flying or ........................... [One notes that Cappy has used embedded brackets (EB) this is rarely seen in today's society, more's the pity.]

.......mesh. When he was a boy he would look at fly screens for hours, and he built a collection of photos showing Queensland fly screens, which, as we know always seemed to have a hole somewhere. He carried this on to adulthood, the photos now digital and AI enhanced. Every grubby, smelly Pub in Queensland was represented. And because there were so many flies crawling on them he started a collection on flies and joined the Queensland Fly Spotters Association, an offshoot of the AUF whose members also seemed to have a lot of flies around them and ............................

sent a text to Captain Bull saying "Save me my hero!" However Captain Bull had been through tis before and replied " ..................

Remember that lines of code can't think. If the coding was "if A,B,C,D,E etc are met issue Class 5 or default to DAME" then if there's a coding mistake for C, the system will default and send you to a DAME. probably something very simple in the coding which has to be fixed.

The people who pushed the company structure dominated this site during the transition, pushing the line that we were not a cricket club, a BS analogy, and once it was voted in disappeared from this site.

....passed on from a social media site???????

......although I am from Wagga Wagga, I am human. At this it seemed that many in the crowd were not convinced. Perhaps it was the peroxide hair, perhaps it was the tattoos, perhaps it was the fact that se was from New South Wales, a dingy little State compared with Queensland or Tasmania or even Victoria. As the rumbling grew louder, ....................

By Guarantee I mean that the Self Administering Organization, by appointing an L2 has to eliminate all reasonably forseeable risks from their appointee (so they would need someone meeting the qualifications required for what an L2 does.) The L2 would also need to eliminate all forseeable risks from what he is doing. It's not that hard to reach that position if you create a position standard and an operating standard and everyone operates on a go/no go basis. The beginning isn't easy, but once there's a document people start to say "this is missing"or "that isn't necessary" and the process quickly comes together. The revese is if there's a body on the ground and a primary control with a missing nut and no hole for a cotter pin to suit a castellated nut, the flame goes to the L2 and bounces up to the organisation because an unsecured nut was a reasonably forseeable risk. I agree supervision is very difficult because you don't have statutory powers like the Inspectors did in the old days. In Speedway the Machine Examiners check the cars before every race and enter the results in a log book. The entries are exactly what was found. If there's a safety issue it goes to the Chief Steward. He decides whether the car is safe to race. If the driver is prohibited from racing he has access to a Tribunal Hearing, so by the time they've made the final decision, multiple people have assesed and judged the issue. Myles knew all this because I think he worked in the mines and was familiar with the processes, and I like the way he worked and fought very hard behind the scenes when people played politics to try to get him out. Based on the reasonably forseeable risk, you can't miss one aircraft. One of the ways we netted build qulity and mistake was to invite everyone to practice days where they could do laps to test their cars, and we'd show them how to fix the issues and those days attracted more and more people because it was informal. In some cases the fix would be done for them in the following days. Breakfast fly-ins are the ideal venues for doing this with aircraft. Audits are a way an organisation can step into an arena like Instructor, CFI, L2 without prescribing everything they do. For example CASA, which is at arms length from the jobs RAA Ltd is supposed to do, conduct "Ramp Checks" In doing that you could say they are carrying out a duty of care without the direct-line supervision which would allow the flame I mentioned to climb up to them. You have to be so diplomatic with Audits and have them planned out very carefully. One way is to just lay down a requirement that an Audit needs to be carried out every year, arrive with a clipboard, click all the items and move on. One one occasion we had the experience of a Promoter being sued at a city track for a lot of money for an incorrect safety cable assembly which injured someone. The case went for five years. The Promoter was a multi-millionaire but he was regularly on the phone crying for us to make it go away. I was out in a semi-outback area one day and decided to check one of our tracks to make sure the cable was correctly fastened. It wasn't, so the same thing could occur there, but the fix was easy so I raised it with the relevant Association at the next meeting. The immediate response was that the President might find himself charged with trespassing, so I told them they knew where to find me and moved a motion to shut down the track immediatelt pending making it safe. The Association advised at the next meeting that all the cables had been fixed. That could easily have backfired on me, but you have to get the job done if you are the self-administering organization. Yes which is why you need to develop the training documentation before going near the officials with a talk from the hip. They have to be empowered. If they know what the documents say and why they say it, they have something to point to if an aircraft owner arcs up at someone who suggests that he has to change something.

I'm told this long runway and loop is for the Country Fire Service to pick up water and Crop dusters to load dry product. We've had a few discussions where Aviators trying to save Council Airports from residential or industrial development have given evidence to Planning Tribunals that their airport needs RFDS/Fire fighting capability, but the Tribunals eyes seem to glaze over anyting but Planning terms. Here's a Country Airport that's walked the talk and set it up. I'm assuming the tanks are connected to the town water supply which on that contour would have a lot of pressure.

5 pages and no answer? A 19 registered aircraft is supposed to be low cost, simple design, easy to build. The purpose of a cutout is to isolate the negative terminal of the battery from the electrics to prevent a fire on colliding, or suppress the source of an electrical fire. Therefore: (a) a battery isolator on a 19 aircraft should be required. (b) a mandatory word Solenoid should not be in the regulation (c) If the wording is battery isolator ther's not a problem requiring 5 pages (d) If the wording includes "solenoid" the questioner should write to RAA Ltd drawing their attention to this oversight and asking for it to be removed.

Yes, when marketing we are looking at the ability of people to eat donuts rather than holes which is why we don't bother lamenting about the holes being smaller these days. There are two differences here: 1. CASA's function is Compliance and Enforcement of aviation; effectively the highway cops of the air. Most complainants never talk about Airservices. 2. Property development, mining, agriculture and manufacturing do their own Compliance and Enforcement. Most have developed their own OHS policies and many have adopted ISO 9000 - 2015 Both of these safeguards are available to aviation. And yet in a relatively short time I was able to find 14 Australian Airports thriving with a total of 1.5 million movements per year, and that's without the Capital City RPT Airports or the bulk of Country aviation across Australia, and on drilling down to one Airport, Moorabbin found consistent activity volume dating back 62 years. The key takeaway from that data is not high risk of investing, but the need to research demand before selecting a location. You would know that when you've picked an Industry to research for investment opportunities, you then look at the possibilities. I touched on some very basic markers for drilling down, one of them being the obvious Very High Performers, way above the town population metric. Start looking at those instead of the run down airfields with 60 yo fleets, and you get acceptable risks. I used Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles as the comparison with Moorabbin. It probably has more Executive jets than Moorabbin, but the annual movements were about the same. If you want to compare an enterprise in Australia vs Overseas Countries, Critical Mass is important; for example Australia no longer has the critical mass to manufacture cars; USA does. The start of this calculation is population which will give you an idea of market viability; for example if you want to sell a product into the US market which is successful in chain stores in Australia which might number 20, you have to finance advertising and stock supply for a campaign in 1,000 US stores if you want to catch the Spring market. The populaation calculation is like this: Australia: 26 million USA: Australia x 13 UK: Australia x 2.6 Canada: Australia x 1.5 NZ: 19% of Australia If there was NO investment in Australia, yes there would be no economic activity, no jobs, but the Airservices data showed steady, viable markets in all our Secondary City Airports (without taking into account the revenue they earn from non-aviation activities) and the Regional/Country Airports they had website data for. Given that some of the most spectacular growth, like Roma weren't on the Airservices list the stories of ruin are fanciful.

.......omplained (Turbo has had ro banana-hop because Cappy got carried away by his post.) Turbine Dolphin Series Inc has made $1.2 million nett this year with their AI DolphinEye progamme, the first line being .................................

.....Queenslanders take bananas too small for the markets, quarter them and cut rings around them, paint them orange and sell them as cooked banana prawns. ACIS have made many attempts to stop this traffic because Victorians don't know what a prawn is and have become partial to banana prawns, but the Queenslanders argue that they are legally selling bananas shaoed like prawns and no one's c......................

Well OK, That's two pilots. It just happens that I posted the researched statistics on another thread today and there are: 6,300 RA pilots 10,804 RPL/PPL ----------------- 17,104 total So 17,102 left to go.

CASA are bastards? I'm a sycophant? Funny how you can't tell us exactly what your problem is.

We're in a free enterprise society so the fine details don't matter so much. The available statistics show enough movements for the available study group to be viable, and with a consistent customer base including Bankstown which was what this thread was about. From there it shows that in the smaller cities and towns around Australia flying viability will vary based on the local income activity. Like any business, when the customer base moves you have to move with it; in fact if you want to make good money the smart way is to move first. Mr A.T Berry did with his Falcon Ute terminal at Roma and around 36 years later the Mayor was dedicating the new A.T. Berry Terminal to him. The stories we should be telling are the wins, like being able to compress your RPL/PPL with live-in on the field accommodation at Moorabbin, and the investment going in sealing runways around Australia. Better still as you pointed out we should be promoting Rereational Aviation rather than getting embroiled in the politics of GA.