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  1. turboplanner
    I wasn't talking about insurance. I'm not thinking anything of the sort; I', trying to help people understand why RAA is doing what it does. No one's stopping you from seeking additional self reasurance, but there's an RAA process that has to be followed for their protection and that's a condition under which they will allow you to operate; if they go broke you don't fly. You're misunderstanding what this is all about; talk to RAA.
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    Third Party as in "Third Party Insurance" is a system where the taxpayer picks up the tab for someone's negligence. That's not done in sports like recreational aviation where the person who is negligent is sued, and if you are managing a group of people in a sport and you don't mitigate risks, you the administrator can also be sued, hence administrators can and will find ways to encourage participants to eliminate risky equipment.
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    [The last post should have read Caveat] Well, I pull the aircraft out of the shed and bolt its wings on by hand, get a phone call before I find a spanner, go out in the ute and help a friend then the next day come back to the aircraft and think "where was I, I know, fit the new hoses. The buyer goes around, everything feels fine hands over his money and takes off for home whereupon the wings clap and he and his passenger suffer serious injuries. Who do you think's going to pay for the injuries when they find the nuts aren't torqued?
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    .........when he tells them stories about flying, and the escapades of Cappy flying, or rather manhandling his J230 through the grape vines of the Riverina, like the time .........
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    ....except that in this case there's good reason for the mixups; the posts aren't numbered. If they were then of course neither of these polished performers would write post 12356 after post 12357. A small thing, but it shows that anyone can be caught out, particularly when trying to introduce new and original subject matter, although Turbo is a bit confused about how one would oggle a nurse ................
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    What you are talking about is the old Caviat Emptor; “Let the buyer beware” For safety items things are different these days.
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    Not these days. RAA have to address forseeable risk with the things they authorise. It sounds to me like they're on the mark. Guys employed out on the mines or in risk positions aren't left to find a friend or hire someone to cehck their equipment.
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    There is a big difference between what is a specification and what is a brand.
  9. turboplanner
    Don't do it, you'd be going off mfr specs and downgrading what was a plus feature.
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    .......tomatoes which were the envy of every gardener in the district. Of course the secret was mixing in a liberal dose of "CT Power" a new product. It was actually made by grinding down cats bones, thus solving the last sustainability issue of the cat farms, but we don't need to go into that here. CT Power was also sold in the car industry and was ideal to protect the inside of steel tubes from rusting. It was at a Recreational Aviation workshop seminar that ......................
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    .......great Austrian Air Force can starten fighten maybe with the Japanesen und make the War longeren. Turbo's grandfather had a tennis partrner named Adolph Schicklegruber, but that's another story. It was Turbo's grandfather who designed the original Thruster. AS had told him he needed a fighter aircraft to take on the English Pomegranaten. Ralph Turbine had done his best. He had left off the rear end of the fuselage on the grounds that it didn't do anything and was just dead weight.It would have worked but when the wheels clapped on takeoff, the pilots were exposed in the subsequent belly landing because it had no belly. 1,000 were built; AS called them ArsenSkratcjers as a result of the "multi-castor wheel" feature of clapping then falling off, and replaced them with the ME109, an older and heavier, and very basic design which had the fault of.....................
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    .........when they aimed at the enemy to the leften, the guns shot their own troopen to the righten, whereas the Pussy Moths could put a stitch of fire straight down the line and take out the Fochen Wulffs every time which shortened the war by ...........................
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    ........kills. The young Churchill had put it about that although these were Moths, the pilots were pussys and not up to the job. The German aces including Baron Von bullshyten couldn't help themselves in the pubs, calling the aircraft Pussy Moths, just as Churchill intended. As they loudly and drunkenly shouted thay they were going to wipe out the Pussy Moths, there were some misunderstandings .........................
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    There was no crisis with the major grid infrastructure resulting from these towers going down. 400,000 homes lost power when the hailstorms and wind hit. The Power companies advised the issue wasn't the towers; they were switching the grid to bypass them and the issue was the number of power lines brought down by trees and they would be carefully fixing these aeas one by one, on the grounds of safety. By about the end of the second day 300,000 were back on line, a couple of days later it was down to 12,000 then 3000, and then it got harder up in the Dandenongs where a lot of big trees had fallen over. A bit similar to SA a few years ago and a long way off "catastrophic" although the word stuck with one newspaper reporting the storms to be catastrophic.
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    No point guessing, take a look at the incident reports and you'll find hundreds of flip overs through the years, mostly on well developed (bitumen/hard surface) airstrips, and you'll find the reasons.
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    They're ahead of this industry that doesn't even know any details let alone naming them.
  17. turboplanner
    There is a long and very detailed thread about that on this site.
  18. turboplanner
    All WA people have that vicious streak in them; remember that movie "The Barbed Wire Fence"
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    ........ex RAAF dudes who still cultured 1915 moustaches and had big ears. They usually flew Pussy Moths whenever they could afford it and mainly fle round and round an aerodrome because they all had short sight and obviously knew how to bribe medics, who in the RAAF also cultured 1915 moustaches, but more ragged designs. These people immediately took to the low cost Thrusters operated by the TOS Club, a mysterious group who were always writing secret letters to each other and making mysterious posts which ....................
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    .....the people of Rockhampton hired buses to travel to Canberra, took the Parliament House lawn from the New Aborigines with a volley of their local pies which were hard as rocks, and demanded Albo give them Electric Lights and a Telephone Exchange, just like the HGTCG which in a clever move invited all locals to a Happy Hour every day with free drinks, free food and gambling. The gambling paid for the food and drinks and the Heavenly Gold Treasure Coral Garden was able to offer Recreational Aviation flights, formerly only available to rich people, at reduced rates and this is where ...............
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    ....through the Resort >boom>bust, Backpackers > boom > bust and Ute Musterers' Winternats boom > bust. Turbo had been quietly picking up coral from the Reef (the scientists had been reporting the bare patches as proof of global warming) and he now had 42 square kilometres of reef around Great Keppel and was about to start flying in the nouveau riche Chinese tourists for $3,450 per night. The only problem was ................
  22. turboplanner
    That Corflute's expensive stuff.
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    ....that airstripper is none other than"..............but before he could get it out the local constable said "Turbo, I'm arresting you for revealing it in a Public Place." The press went wild; all their stories starting "We can't say where this came from, but he was a distinguished gentleman of English line sometimes in the clutches of the Golbeys, but seems to have unmasked Mr Turbo at last and wehave been told .................
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    .........build a resort san.........build a resort san.........invite all the .........
  25. turboplanner
    .......Charters for this was the first tower Joh had kocked down. This enraged the Charters Towers Progress Association because they had been advertising the towers as "The 12 Apostles" and tourists by the thousands used to visit Charters Towers (God knows, there was nothing else to see there), and they "mobilised". Not many people know the saying "Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned" was adapted for a modern Play from an older saying "Hell has no fury than a Western Queenslander scorned." and this was the beginning of Joh's downfall which ended ......................
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