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Ironically about the only "New GA/LSA" aircraft to consistently pass through the eye of the Auditors is Jabiru... Seems to be an awful lot of Seamax/Savanah/Speed/Sierra/Paradise/Ibis/Petrol/Fly Synthesis/CTSW etc etc types out of the 57 out of 71 files with problems from my quick reading...

If it doesn't tell us anything in regards to the "New GA" problem brought upon us a quick read of the AUDITS certainly will....

Received my last (as a current Member for now) Ra-Aus magazine today... Page 45 has an article from the Operations Team about HP and LP endorsements... It seems that there are plans underway to "fix" the High Performance/Low Performance Certification System... To quote... "Essentially, what is proposed is a list of aircraft categorized into LP or HP for those aircraft which 'blur' the line." Aircraft specifically mentioned as those "fitted with higher performance engines" are Foxbat, Savanah and Eurofox... So... If you learnt to fly on any of these aircraft chances are that you will soon have a new category on your license of LP to replace your no longer valid HP endorsement... Can of worms now open....

I am currently reading through the Audit... I feel sorry for the sacked former Tech Manager Adam Finn... and find it absolutely scandalous and inexplicable that the CEO was not fired as well, but rather allowed to resign.

Page51... and there about... On I think the 3rd visit from CASA... of 71 aircraft files examined 57 were non-compliant!!!! And this 7 odd months after the issues were raised by CASA!!! Fascinating reading... and damning IMO.

The mess Qld finds itself in??? Hang about... weren't these people running the show when the mess was created... ?

Is that an Icarus? Looks to me like a Plastic fuselage with Fabric wings...

I would be happy with no Passengers in order to have less regulation and it's associated BS.

I disagree... Another option is to hand ALL the commercial ops over to CASA... Flying Schools, LSA etc etc Ra-Aus changes it's name back to Ra-Aus and gets back into the field it was designed to handle... simple aircraft, simple certification based upon prototype hours flown, minimum pilot licensing requirements, no controlled airspace, below 5000 feet (heck even say 2000 would work I reckon)... We can always learn to fly with the "Whatever the Commercial Operators Want to call their new Operation"... I would be happy to pay for that.

They DID! It used to be called AUF! Then it got hijacked by a lot of ex-GA pilots who had already stuffed up their own playing field by sitting on their bums.

I bet that reading about the accident bought on some serious emotions for you Maj. Sounds like a great read... Will have to look out for it at the local Library.

How much does a Ventus cost Bruce? Seems to be a bloody expensive sport these days, at least when it comes to buying new Sailplanes. I have noticed you can still pick up some reasonably prices older sailplanes like Libele's... Yours isn't old GTX by any chance is it? I would give up this power flying if only there was a club near me like a shot. Sailplane solo is on the top of my bucket list.

We really screwed up as there didn't we Turbo? I reckon this generation of parents needs to say enough and take back our responsibilities for raising our own children... hard to do with both parents being required to work in order to fill the ever increasing tax burden required to feed the corporate machine the preceding generations put in place.

This is a big part of the problem... The magazine has been used as a one sided political mouthpiece.

How much did they pxxx up against the wall against all advice to pay the original contractor??? Bas Scheffers offered to do it for the same fee he is charging now at the beginning. You may have most of the facts correct Error... but you left out the part about how the Board made a complete hash of it and then Bas stepped in to save their bacon... absolutely nothing to do with any good management from the board... move like the good will and upstanding actions of a fine upstanding member who has made a contribution way above and beyond... and I would be willing to lay money on the fact that he is not happy with the Executive... I vote BAS for President!!!

I just watched a brilliant old black and white movie called "The Flying Irishman"... Bloody amazing story based upon real events and starring the real Douglas Corrigan himself... The flying scenes were brilliant... some dodgy looking models... BUT also featuring flying and cockpit footage of the one and only SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS of which Douglas Corrigan was one of the builders as well as some beautiful live flying scenes featuring original Jenny's, other classic US Biplanes of the era and his Curtis Wright Monoplane which over the years he modified extensively, even building his own motor from 2x Wright Whirlwinds for a much greater output of 165hp. The then new Civil Aviation regulators in the US refused to give his machine an airworthy... and the rest is history, although one you don't hear so much about. Below is an quote from The Adventures of Wrong-Way Corrigan about this amazing and dogged aviator... "When 31-year-old Douglas Groce Corrigan took off from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field on July 17, 1938, in a modified Curtiss Robin, he carried two chocolate bars, two boxes of fig bars, a quart of water and a U.S. map with the route from New York to California marked out. Corrigan, who had spent three years trying to get permission to fly from New York to Dublin, had been told that he could fly nonstop from New York to California, but an ocean crossing was out of the question. It was a foggy morning. Corrigan flew into the haze and disappeared. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Dublin and instantly became a national hero."

I second that Ozzie... Please... Someone ask the question. It is my opinion that this sort of question goes to the very heart of the matter and goes a long way to explain the actions today of some on the Board.

THIS... is something that can be followed up upon at the coming EGM.

I reckon you are right Kaz...

I like where this is going Maj... Bloody awesome work.

Loving this thread... It is like competitive Pietenpol building.

We should all find it alarming that Public Servants over the last 30 years have taken such a flippant attitude to their work... and more alarming that they can be so flippant about the whole thing publicly. It is public money and if this is not a very, very tongue in cheek comment then I reckon you need to go out the back and give yourself a good upper-cut to the chin on behalf of us Victim Taxpayers that you screwed over and who are now paying for your "Service". Heck...even if it is tongue in cheek it bloody stinks.

"Feels" faster to me.

I did like the choice music... and thought that this was a bloody masterful mix to the footage... the timing and the mood of the music fits much better than most Youtube clips I have seen. Must have taken some serious thought and brilliant timing with the editing... Bloody well done with that. Awesome work. Really was quite impressively done ... BUT... I still prefer to hear the Aviation noises in my Youtube clips... Perhaps you could stick the individual circuits up with the original noise on their own as well?