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Kiwi's murder the vowels ...................... Australian's strangle them ............... !
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thanks techo's from the above .................. looks like the majority say you can log airswitch time - lift off to landing - for Rotax 912 that's good news ! - the finance ministries budget sheet looks healthier the difference between tacho and airswitch over 1500 hours would easily amount to ..................... (guessing 150 hours)
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I know its been discussed before ................. but just tapping into the huge think tank:book: For a Rotax 912 is the engine life (or for some 2000 hrs - whichever) is it Tacho time only ? (in other words you can't use air switch time .......... has to be tacho) Is this correct ? thanks
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lets be fatalistic ................ lifes a sexually transmitted terminal disease ! how and when you get to the big landing strip in the sky ................ is to a degree ......... your choice the following won't apply to most of us ?; but any coroners inquest or investigation report - concerning you - won't have any bearing on your own, one way trip, up top - however .............. for the sake of those left behind it would be good that such an investigation says ............................ (don't know how to finish that bit)
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Standard pilot/passenger weight ???........................
johnm replied to a topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I live in Gympie and the average weight per person is 85 kg Nearby Noosa the average weight is 72 kg -
Jabiru's lawyers said that, as far as the company was concerned regarding this particular engine, its commercial business was complete when it shipped the engine to the distributor. They also said the Australian company never had reason to expect it would end up in Arizona and never did anything to cause it to enter the state. See above ........... from the article ozzie posted - the law at work ?? - more like the law of deception - could be any aeroplane .............................. BUT I'd say the distributor wouldn't be to happy with Jabiru trying to throw the raw prawn their way
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thats a bit tough bushpilot ? I'm more interested in what some one has to say than how its spelt .................... in fact storchy neil seems surrounded in litigation and hopefully at the end of it - with his result - he can educate / warn ALL of us ............................ so we all benefit
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good work ! .............. at the time he lost a wing or 2 (presumably) ........................ the glider probably was then a land vehicle and I reckon he did an excellent job at parking it - off the street and paralell parked
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yes ......................... and 99 % of all lawyers give the rest a bad name JM
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aaaaaaahhhhhhhh ........................ politics (Confuscious say politics is an enevitable argument beetween any group (s) of individuals) You are all being a bit tough on all the current .................. and prospective candidates But then, I like the comparison that Australia is currently such a great place to live, safe, friendly, healthy & wealthy that 'snow white and the 7 dwarfs' could probably run Australia - so why the current complication ? MY GUESS ANSWER: the over enthsiastic efforts of individuals putting their aspirations before the good of Australia ............... a more cooperative approach would stop the bonfire .................... currently and always fueled by taxpayer dollars
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thanks OME - I think it was a new one for $ 1,000 In any case - I just thought - I'm an Australian taxpayer - I'm getting fleeced all the time JM
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I might have got fleeced ................ OME:bad_mood:
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Yep - chinese altimeter costs say $ 350 replacement - crap Good one with calibration - or whatever the word is - costs $ 1000 ? Replaced crap with good one jm
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re the chainsaw I could just imagine 'in flight' the airline hostess saying ..................... 'Sir you can't start that up in the chainsaw in the toilet - the toilet is fitted with a smoke detector'
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I thing a light hearted scrutiny of airport security does no harm ......................... however, other places you'd be shipped off to the gulag for doing so My latest venture thru security - I was contemplating what would happen if security did find a back pack of explosives ! Oh boy Chances are the terrorist / idiot concerned would then attempt to detonate the device ............... which would probably make a mess of all the clean airport terminal windows Can we get some 3000 x 3000 x 3000 concrete boxes - say 500 thick reinforced concrete installed in the terminal buildings - they could do bomb tests in there ?
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Tomo - if you could walk thru without being asked you might be recruited by some Columbian cartel - be careful When being tested for bombs - I asked the bloke and asked if the sensor senses 'drugs' - he said no - its purley a test for explosives - so I'd say a traveller with 'medicinal marijuana' ............ would pass - no questions asked
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to be sure to be sure - Dazza 38 - Roma will get a X ray machine one day - you can bet on it - Emerald just recently got one Boingk - at Emerald when they were going thru my pack .............. looking for sticks of TNT (no doubt) - I had my ASIC card on me and showed them - they said 'it don't matter - you are not exempt from the search even with an ASIC card' - security kept on looking for 'the bomb'
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I was catching Qantas at Emerald and the 2 pilots with the braid and hats walked to the door to go airside One of the airport satff had to swipe the door to let the pilots out At that point the airport staff made a great point of showing the pilots her ASIC card .................... apathetically ? the pilots then showed their cards (which they wear around their necks anyway) to the airport staff ? - mindless Sigmund Freud might say it's sexual ? - I'll show you mine if you show me yours ? All I can say is I am glad airport security don't wear six shooters - there'd be a stack of dead bodies in the corner
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your becoming to soft in your old age Ian remeber to keep a jar of coins for your retirement - don't give it all way
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met you at emerald neil when you were deleivering a storch to NT ? go get 'em neil ............. and no doubt - let us know what happens when the suits finishing arguing RGIB seems to offer very reasonably priced insurance ............................... I'm assuming that RGIB behave themselves .............. if a claim is made ?
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some one said ............... 'fighter pilot - the memoirs of legendary ace robin olds' isbn 0312569513 was good - bought that book - great bloke, read and one of the strangest but best endings I've read in an aviation book ................. cheap too - $ 15 ww2 and vietnam flying
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one or two JATO packs .................. if it proves a bit too heavy !
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ferris - regarding the holder ................... I drill a hole thru the card (breaching casa regulation 16 b) ii)) then slip knot a rubber band or such like thru it ................. this way you can hang it off a button, button hole, eye glasses (looks stylish), belt (western look out west), hat (fly swat), forehead (shade) etc still like to hear from someone that has lost a card - I'd like to hear what process was required when the said plastic was lost - the hallowed card - I suspect a stat dec might not be enough ? (stand on one leg and crow like a chicken at 10.25 pm on a waning moon ?)
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Got my 3rd ASIC card today - 3rd 2 year term with this card I'd say in summary the process was easy with RAAI (thanks) but in the great paper shuffle I was told RAAI did not have the old card and it was up to me to ..............blah blah........... ! The requirement is to return the old card before getting the new one Has any poor unfortunate sole lost the 'hallowed' card and what was required to appease the legislature ............................. prior issue of the next one ? As said many times before - by others - it's (ASIC card) the most irrelevant piece of plastic I carry - no ome has ever asked for it at the required aerodromes - I wonder what its (ASIC card) bureaucratic fate might be ?
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Another Jab bites the dust.
johnm replied to motzartmerv's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
sunrayisa says 'people are seriously hurt. And the insurance companies aren't concerned, Jabiru blame everyone ' sunrayisa also raises an interresting point - if there is a percieved danger and insurance companies reacted - things could get ....................... uncomfortable I magine there is no impost by any insurance company re this subject so insurance is not an issue ? ............................... which is good jm
