KRviator

And that's part of the problem. Mini-Me had a sniffle a month ago. School won't let them in with a sniffle, you must provide a Covid-Negative confirmation, so off we go and get him tested. As soon as you get a test, you must quarantine yourself - and your close contacts - until you get the result. 4 days later, we did. 4 days of no school for 2 kids. 4 days of (potentially) no work though I'm on leave as I can't get to work and the KRviatrix is working from home but we're particularly fortunate. Fast forward 6 days and what happens? Mini-Me II gets a runny nose. Wash, rinse, repeat. For two kids with a winter sniffle, that is 8 days of school missed, 121+ hours of pay (potentially) lost. It's easy to understand why so many people are willing to risk it, with the increase in casualisation of the workforce over the last decade or so. No work = no pay. Tale a look at the latest tripe coming from Mark McGowan Yet his own Chief Health Officer stated interstate travel is viable and indeed recommended between states that don't have outbreaks: This is no longer about keeping the population safe so much as Mcgowan sticking it to the Eastern states who have dudded WA for many years. That one person, just one, who is not an elected official, can dictate terms to a country of 26M people is ludicrous. The point of the restrictions was to flatten the curve. We have. With appropriate precautions the health system is reasonably capable of managing any increase in cases. WA's health system hasn't carried their share of the load in any case - wonder why there's so many cases on the East coast, Mark? Because where did the vast majority of international flights arrive? Now, with the above said, I'm not advocating we all go to the pub tomorrow or have 80,000 people watch the Origin at the MCG and another 50,000 at an AFL game, we still need to be careful, and take reasonable precautions, avoid excessively large gatherings and the like but the key word there is reasonable. Stopping healthy people from travelling, or working "just because" they "might" have Covid is unfair to both them, their families and the country as a whole. I hope Clive wins his high-court challange.

Yes. The reference you seek is not administered by RAAus, it is in the AIP. AIP GEN 1.5-3-1.5 That is terribly worded as "you can use it" but additionally "you can use it in Class G". Solo RPC training (or does the CAsA exemption only apply to FTF aircraft??)? PPL or above in an RAAus aircraft?

Avdata?

And look what happened!

So the real question becomes how many canaries does it take to fill a 747? But are we talking about a Classic, a -400, or even that cute little aberration they called the -SP? If we assume we're talking about the Atlantic Canary, they range 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) in length, with a wingspan of 21 to 23.7 cm. Split the difference and you get 11cm long and 22.25cm wingspan for an occupied area of 244.75cm2 per bird (Ref: Wikipedia) A 747-400F has a main deck area of 21347ft2 occupied by pallets (Ref: Cargolux), probably a bit more if you account for the pallet-handling equipment, but we'll use that figure. So 21347ft2 gives 1983.2m2. Assuming a single-layer of birds that 1983.2m2 gives 19,832,012cm2 which means you can fit 81,278 canaries on the main deck of a 747-400. But we're still 3.2m canaries short of our goal. To reach our needed 3.333333m canaries, we would need to have 41 layers of birds. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Canary's 1cm length means you can get 27 layers in the 300cm-high main deck. So we have a figure of 27*81,278 or only 2,194,506 Atlantic Canaries weighing 32.917 tonnes in a CargoLux 747-400F

Have a look at the build quality of the "factory built" Sierra that hit the ferris wheel at Old Bar! There's another photo in the Preliminary Report showing brake lines going straight through a drilled hole in the fuselage skin, no grommet, no chafe protection. WTF?!? width=492pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525322/ao2011126_fig2.jpg[/img] Edge distance? Never heard of 'im! width=489pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525335/ao2011126_fig4.jpg[/img] Power line cable-tied to the fuel filter, as you do. No attempt to remove the razor-edges of the zip ties, either! width=487pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525317/ao2011126_fig1.jpg[/img] Photos courtesy of the ATSB

Having built my own RV, I would personally take a well-built example of <Kit XYZ> by a homebuilder over a factory built one, but you do need to know what to look for to work out if it is a well built example. But as above, you cant put it online if that's something you would consider later.

You probably wouldn't find anything to do with registration matters in the AIP, that's operational information, not administrative or legislative, per se'. You can try one of the following from Part 47 of the CASR's...

My point was that the comment from Flyboy1960 was the list he was previously given was old and incomplete. As I have repeatedly made available free Australian databases for Dynon SkyView & Garmin G3X owners I have the ability to quickly & easily provide the most up-to-date list of Airport/ICAO code combinations for people to use as they wish. Most people would either say "thanks for the latest list", or remain silent if they had no need for it. I'm still trying to work out what your little tantrum is proving though... I hope you don't own one of the above-mentioned EFIS' as one of my databases you would probably find incredibly useful - but I fear if you are so hard up for bandwith you will never be able to download it without your 14.4kbps modem exploding. A pity...

And where is this "total control" term defined? As I said above, it is a vaguely-defined and incredibly subjective description that is open to interpretation by anyone for their own ends. WA still won't open their border to Tasweigans or Territorians and they are light-years ahead of NSW, Victoria and Qld - and WA itself - so it isn't about having the pestilence under control in the location from whence you came. Those half-dozen colleagues trapped in Perth I mentioned above have been asked to re-commit for another 3 month stay in WA. That will total between 8-9 months away from their families depending on their roster. Would Australia as a whole be up for another round of lock downs, when it's been shown the first round didn't really work? The hotel quarantine debacle in Melbourne & Sydney while it has worked, hasn't stopped the virus getting back into the community following the 2 week detention - the latest NT case is someone who came out of quarantine in Melbourne. I'd be all for a NZ-style 3 week lockdown to stop it once and for all in Oz, but it has to be backed up by detention on arrival for international travellers that will work. But so far, the state governments of all persuasions, have shown they can't be trusted to implement such a system.

So...A question for the masses: COVID-19 is a corona-type virus. As best I can tell, there has never been a successful vaccine for any corona-type virus. Working on the assumption that will continue to be the case, until this thing dies out itself, - if it ever does - it will always be 'out there'. Are we expected to live with these restrictions indefinitely "just because" it is somewhat fatal to the older population should they actually happen to catch it... So, what is this "right" we need to achieve? Is it 0 cases? Is it 0 community transmission? Where has anyone come out and said "This is what has to happen for WA to open our borders" or "If we can achieve <this> then we can recommence international travel". All the health officials and politicians have come up with so far are vague and ill-defined statements about reducing the spread or "protecting our state". We have flattened the curve like they wanted, but it appears it is no longer about that.

I agree. The problem I have is summarised by this question: "For how much longer can we keep the restrictions going?" As I've said, hundreds of thousands of people are out of work. The Government is propping up these citizens, which is admirable, however...with vastly reduced taxes coming in, yet ever-increasing support payments going out someone is going to have settle the tab at the end of the party...As it is, many of those job-seekers will likely not return to their pre-covid hours and salaries for months, if not longer. We will be paying this off for decades - which further reduces spending on other, more important, projects. Except in that case, there is a vaccine, and it works. Covid restrictions were only ever intended to buy us time to get the health system prepared enough that it could cope with the expected increase in case numbers. "Flattening the curve" we were so often told...Except Australia didn't flatten it, we smashed it, and then, suddenly, it wasn't about reducing the number of cases - because if it was, Qld would have opened their borders weeks ago, and WA wouldn't be sitting in their ivory tower pi$$ing on the rest of the country while demanding a further reduction in International arrivals to keep their numbers at 0...I personally know a half-dozen colleagues trapped in Perth who haven't seen their families on the east coast for 6 months, because the WA government mandates they re-enter quarantine if they come back to WA from the east coast. Assuming they were to even get their border pass approved for re-entry in the first place...The health system has had over 6 months to prepare for the increase, yet there is no point if these lockdowns and restrictions continue to come and go with only 27 cases in ICU nationwide... The US is hardly a valid comparison - we have universal healthcare. They don't. And we don't have half the apparent conspiracy theorists as they do over there. As a general observation, Australian's do recognise the general threat of Covid-19 and, by and large, are taking sensible precautions because of it. We aren't out there screaming "Liberty or Death!" I'm not saying we don't need to do anything and carry on exactly as before. We still need to be smart about it, practice social distancing so much as practical, wash your hands and don't pick your nose, but as a country we are prepared enough to cope with the expected increase. There is no vaccine available - and given there has never been a vaccine for a corona-based virus likely never will be one for Covid-19 either - so how long are we expected to keep the population under such restrictions and the economy in such a mess?

I wouldn't call COVID "overwhelming"...even with the outbreak in Victoria! According to Sonic Health Plus last Flu season we had 310,000 confirmed cases of the flu that caused over 800 fatalities across all age groups. As at 1500 this afternoon Australia had: 10,251 total cases of Covid 108 Fatalities from Covid and; 7,835 "Recovered" cases, so we currently have: 2,308 active cases of Covid-19. Of those, only 90 - yes, 90 are currently admitted to hospital, with only 27 of those in ICU. So purely on a numbers standpoint, of those active cases, barely 1:100 requires ICU admission. Source data

I understand your viewpoint SSCBD, but why shouldn't it be like that? We accept 1180 fatalities in 2019 for the convenience of the motor car but don't ban vehicles. We accept 9,000 fatalities in 2019 from lung cancer, but still allow smoking and tobacco sales to continue unabated. Yet we are supposed to destroy the economy, peoples livelihoods, businesses, lives, and futures to prevent an illness that would likely result in a similar number of fatalities from a similar group of people as a bad influenza season? 800+ deaths from the common flu in the 10 months to October 2019 alone. Where do you draw the line? Where would you draw the line?

At 10,000 cases, and 109 deaths, a mortality rate of 1% is pretty good. A death rate of 109 in 6 months is wonderful in the big scheme of things - we lost a third of that last Christmas on the roads. Hell, we lose 10x that number on the roads every year...Then there is the estimated 9,000 people that died from lung cancer (predominately caused by voluntary smoking) in 2019 - but do you see the Government banning cigarettes? Chart sourced from this Health.gov.au page.

You're right, we haven't transitioned to an elimination strategy. So why is it that WA is still locked down? Why is it Queensland has only just opened its borders after thumbing their nose at the southern states for weeks? They've "contained" it, but they don't want any of those filthy east-coast scum infesting their 'Covid-Free' colony... At what cost? Hundreds of thousands of people are out of work, the Government is funding some, temporarily, but again, at what cost? You don't need an Accounting degree to know that the federal budget will not see a surplus for generations to come. How much longer is the population supposed to tolerate these restrictions to guard against a virus that, for the most part, is survivable. So who is going to pay the piper? We will be in a budget deficit for decades trying to pay off what we have already spent. Yet alone if the government wants to continue throwing money at people. I would be astounded if the government doesn't use the need to restore the budget as an excuse to increase the GST to 15 or 20%

Couldn't agree more. We have "flattened the curve". The healthcare system is prepared to cope with the infections we're likely to encounter. We seem to have transitioned from a reduction strategy to an elimination strategy - and the various Governments are focusing on eliminating it to the detriment of everything from businesses, the economy, people's mental health and even so far as their superannuation balance in 30 years time!

I had to go to a TAFE center to get mine, and like yours, it was extraordinarily basic. I can easily see how Engrish speaking students can bluff their way through in that context, while still being completely unintelligible in an operational environment where they have to talk and fly.

Aahh, Grasshopper, what their website says, and what their legislation says are not always the same. (Maybe it's the same webmaster CAsA use?!?) If you look at the legislation, you can go outside the area if what you want to do cannot be done inside the area, so long as it is a permitted activity. IF you lived in the CBD and your plane was hangared at Mangalore, you can drive there to fly it if you are practicing to obtain or upgrade your licence. Personally, I wouldn't bother. If I was in that situation and sure I was in the right, I'd simply suggest "If you're sure I'm in the wrong, write the fine and I'll see you in court". Arguing with a police officer is like arguing with your missus - you aren't going to win...

You can leave home to go shopping. So go to Woolies and buy a loaf of bread and dozen eggs. What you do after shopping is irrelevant - you left home to go shopping and you went shopping. That being said, you are permitted (under the Stat At Home (Restricted Areas) directions) to leave home to attend a lesson to operate a vehicle or to practice for the purpose of obtaining a licence to operate a vehicle. Chapter 10(h). Vehicle is defined as the definition contained inthe Public Health & Wellbeing act -which happily defines it as " vehicle means any means of transport, whether self-propelled or not, and whether used on land or sea or in the air.". Chapter 1(B) of the Stay at Home directions says you must not leave the restricted area except as allowed under Clause 6,7,8,9 or 10 - with 10 allowing the operating a vehicle exemption. So yes, you can still go flying if you're putting in practice to obtain a licence - even if you need to leave your locked-down post-code to do it. Maybe organise a BFR at Mangalore if you really want to get the police excitable?? So go flying to practice for your PPL, or your RPL, or something else and tell the rozzers to sod off - even if you haven't bought that loaf of bread first!

The one I'm looking at - for certified aircraft anyway - is the TailBeaconX tied to an AV-30 to replace the AH. For the price of just a transponder, you get a multi-function EFIS that is TSO'd to replace your AH, and a 1090 ADS-B capable transponder & GNSS source for $7,200AUD. That's great value based on current prices of things like the GNX-375 which goes for $13K+ though in fairness the GNS-375 gives you a GNSS Navigator as well, which in turn gives you sole-means nav for IFR operations if you're that way inclined. If you want to go the AV-30/TailBeaconX route, and add a navigator, your total cost would be $7200(AV30/TailBeaconX)+$7600(GPS175)=$14,800

How many of us have Dynon or Garmin EFIS gear that is approved for ADS-B elsewhere, yet CAsA have ignored that. Best I can tell, you still need an uber-expensive GNSS position source to drive your transponder if you have such an EFIS...

KLM246 Heavy, wind calm, runway 05 clear for takeoff, caution wake turbulence!

Enough to know your generalised statement doesn't comply with the RAAus Ops manual. Yes, you can fly RAAus if your GA BFR is current, if, and only if that BFR was conducted in a GA aircraft under 1500Kg MTOW (or you were issued a rating/certain endo, etc). Hence my question about a Bonza or Cirrus - it ain't about performance and the ability to adapt, it is about complying with the Ops manual. If it (your last GA BFR) was conducted in a GA aircraft that has a greater MTOW, you don't comply with the requirements of the Ops Man and you still need an "RAAus" BFR - even though you are legal to fly a GA aircraft. Because - as has been proven in this thread - even when provided with the definitive answer, people still get it wrong and want to introduce personal opinion and hearsay into their response. Look at the grief I went through with my RV-9A & trying to get it on the RAAus register! Met the requirements of the CAO, proved it to anyone who asked, and yet I still had people upto and including RAAus Head Office saying "You don't meet the payload requirements, you can't register it RAAus", when that aspect only applied to LSA's, not homebuilt aircraft.

And if your last BFR was in a Bonanza or Cirrus...? It is not as simple as saying "If I can fly GA I can fly RAA"...