Flying Binghi

Flys multiple call-signs, eh..

I see you put a question mark. (my bolding) Are you unsure of your claims now ? .

Proof of claim please. What is your evidence of "cooking the numbers" ? .

The classic coal income 'understanding' comes from former greens leader Bob Brown. In an ABC TV interview Brown said he wanted all coal mines closed. The interviewer asked brown how would we make up for the loss of income to Australia after all the coal mines were closed down. Brown suggested a 'super profits' tax on the coal miners............................... needless to say, brown were soon 'removed' from his position. Re foreign ownership - Whatever the figure, like a lot of minerals and farm produce, most coal is exported anyway. As long as Oz gets its cut along the way who cares. We carn't value add much to our farm and mineral exports because, amongst other things, Australia's power costs have in a few short years gone from the cheapest in the world to nearly the highest in the world. And why is that... ...So, getting back to the thread subject and the justification of even building unreliable wind turbines that are a hazard to aviation: A/ Wind turbines still need a back-up power source for when the wind don't blow. At this time the back-up is either coal power, or diesel or gas power. i.e., the back-up is carbon power. The stupidity of having two different hugely expensive power sources when only one is needed is beyond belief. B/ The wind tower operators are guaranteed to be paid for the power they produce when the wind blows though suffer no financial responsibility for when they carn't supply power. Imagine if yer could get a paying job like that - Turn up for work when yer feel like it, feck around for half an hour, maybe don't work for a while or maybe just come in once a week and work for a day. And all your work time you get paid ten times or more the market rate for your 'variable' efforts. In the meantime the employer needs to keep a full time paid employee on stand by to work when Mr Wind Power couldn't be bothered... C/ Turbulence and navigation hazard for aircraft. Nuff fer now... .

Anyway, moving on... So, Peter Ridd doing what any good scientist should do is threatened. Incredible, absolutely increadible... "...When marine scientist Peter Ridd suspected something was wrong with photographs being used to highlight the rapid decline of the Great Barrier Reef, he did what good scientists are supposed to do: he sent a team to check the facts. After attempting to blow the whistle on what he found — healthy corals — Professor Ridd was censured by James Cook University and threatened with the sack. After a formal investigation, Professor Ridd — a renowned campaigner for quality assurance over coral research from JCU’s Marine Geophysics Laboratory — was found guilty of “failing to act in a collegial way and in the academic spirit of the institution”..." https://myaccount.news.com.au/sites/theaustralian/subscribe.html?sourceCode=TAWEB_MRE170_a&mode=premium&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fhigher-education%2Freef-whistleblower-censured-by-james-cook-university%2Fnews-story%2Fc7aa0e0ac1c1dec1b065273d2e968f6d&memtype=anonymous&v21=test&v21suffix=test (Apologies for the font size of the quote though the new format wont downsize it ???) .

...and after all that, all yer had to do were supply a link just like every other polite poster. Though no, on and on it goes..... .

I wonder if the owners of the pprune forum (KKR) are involved in it ? .

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth... "...and there's a glut of capital that wants to sell coverage, ...The problem is that it's next to impossible to build actuarial models for events that have never happened and which aren't expected to reach their full impact for many decades to come. Claims data have varied year-to-year, with no clear buildup of warming-related storm losses,..." "..."So far, the effects of climate change, if any, have not affected the insurance market," Buffett said. "I calculate probabilities of catastrophes no differently than 10 years ago..." https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/19/warren-buffetts-on-climate-change-friend-or-foe.html I'd say there will be no shortage of coal insurers. Likely Indian or Chinese company's will jump in if the current insurers are really that stupid. (This new format forum will take a bit of working out re font size and colour) .

Throttle movements seems a bit excessive. Though, it might be a special French technique... https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uAHZy_1525523078 Note - film speeded up.

I wonder why they bothered. The power requirements of the airframe and rotor systems that were used is well known. The power out put of any battery and electric motor combination is easy enough to work out. The running time of the electric helicopter could have been worked out by any competent engineer before the projects were ever built.

I don't think anybody is laughing at the pilot (there but for the grace of god go i) ...more the media..

Let's try a post in this different format... Darwin iron ore. https://player.vimeo.com/video/77961159?app_id=122963

Nothing to bite on. Just reminiscing...

Them Jabaroo's are susceptible to snapping the lower wing attach carry through bolt when hard core aerobatics in excess of 9G's are pulled. The recovery technique if done correctly is to fly the aircraft back to the airfield up side down until on short final the aircraft is rolled to the upright position just before landing. Obviously the pilot has been poorly trained and did not do the well known 'right side up recovery' technique correctly......... .

Yeah, shoulda called the thread 'Threats to Adani airport and other QLD aviation business' ...though, the calls to shut down any heretical talk would likely be the same.. .

I have fond memories of the late night iron ore trains coming into Darwin wharf. If I were having one of those sweltering tropics sleepless nights the low rumble of the diesel electrics sent me straight off to sleep... .

Back to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and why a flying inspection of coral is fairly useless unless your a modern so-called coral 'research' scientist who's just out to get the taxpayer to fund your flying jolly's... Via, Studies on the Physiology of Corals. Younge and Nicholls. (on the GBR near Cairns) "...When walking over the exposed reef flat during the next spring tides on March 21st, (year 1929) great numbers of whitened skeletons of corals killed by the great heat a month previously, were seen. In addition there were a number of other corals, principally species of Favia and Goniastrea, which were equally white, but which, on closer examination, were found to be alive and perfectly healthy, but with colourless, transparent tissues..." Note - Before the eco-loons jump in, in other research, Younge and Nicholls also comment on same species coral in mild weather unaffected by heat stress having colour ranges from translucent through to brown within metres of each other. .

OooKaay, I think I'll leave you to play yer primary school games with others. .

Heh, seems us heritics are always called names... "Egyptian TV host kicks atheist out of studio, recommending psychiatric treatment..."

In much the same way of the fly_tornado method of thread bombardment... "...a 40 year career meteorologist who alleges that skeptics are silenced through intimidation and threats at the National Weather Service (NWS). He also says data is “altered for political purposes”..." Veteran Meteorologist talks of culture of intimidation — skeptics hide at National Weather Service, NOAA « JoNova .

So, is this a personal attack. What has my work status to do with anything ? .

Well, I don't know anything about the matter apart from the media reports I've read. Though I'm sure the Judge probably has a bit of an idea of what the party's are thinking. The Wagner family has extensive ties to the Toowoomba community and I'm sure the last thing they want to be doing is fighting with the council of a city they love. It may very well be the base of the problem is with a couple of self important dills that work for the council. A court imposed mediation sit down lets the party's revisit the issue. Be interesting to see who gets sacked. .

I think you miss-understand. No one is claiming coral bleaching/dieback is not happening - it happens all the time all around the world and in some years can be quiet extensive. It is a well documented happening that were first noted several hundred years ago. Re the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the first extensive study of coral bleaching/dieback were conducted in the 1920's at Low Isles near Cairns. The first media related GBR coral bleaching hysteria event were conducted in the 1950's... .

What about yer supply a link. fact_hunter will know your bias then.. .

I still haven't seen any reply to my questions about this chart ? fly_tornado, what's this "net additions" ? .