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Is a legislative security mandate, ASIC is not going away, regardless. IF you are a CPL, it’s part of your flight bag, if you are a PPL you will need it at some time, if you are RAA, just don’t have one and go to airfields where it not needed. Just fly happy and IF you need extra fuel? Take a fuel bladder or make arrangement to avoid ASIC required airstrips. You would have more chance of tow starting a 747 made out of concrete, than getting ASIC repealed?

If there ever was a chance I could go, this is the flyin I would like to attend. A personal friend of mine from 50 years ago ,was a luminary in Aviation for that place. Sadly, I never got back there in recent times, Bryan Gabriel RIP 😣 one of the most knowledgeable in the country on Ultralights. One day I will get there, to see his legacy 👍

I would allege any correspondence from Maxine, would be penned by others, I can guess who but won’t name them. A reply I received from Maxine, in good faith was worded exactly as I would expect from a certain person. It would be horrible sad if she goes down with the ship, if it all turns pear shaped. But I hope the man in question? He deserves to end up living in a Bunnings Tent, his history precedes him.

Let me say this, none of this is gonna get any better as time goes on. There will be more charges or restrictions on where you can land so the best bet is that as many people as possible band together and make landing places that are informal not widely published but shared amongst like-minded groups of people, and that way you can stage impromptu fly ins wherever you want on an as needed basis and stay away from the general area is populated by airports themselves. you can have barbecue days get together’s whatever. For those that can build air strips with no restrictions or potential problems well then do it.. I’ve looked closely at this and decided I’m simply going to have a large paddock big enough to land anything in it of reasonable size, it won’t have a wind sock but it will have a weather station link through a large antenna set up on a Wi-Fi hub so you can fly within 5 km of my paddock. Read the weather station with the app on your iPhone or iPad and get wind speed wind direction. How much rain in the last 24 hours and whatever else that weather station will put out. Next, the weather station will also be on the Internet and shared amongst people who are like-minded and may want to come to my paddock and land so that a day in advance they can see the weather conditions at my property. I could even make drums of fuel available for visitors and barbecue facilities. share the information amongst like-minded people and simply have fun doing it without the world or anyone else knowing what’s going on. That way no visible windsock identifies it as an airfield its simply a large grass area. It happens to be conveniently available for aircraft to land on and takeoff. I can even make a car available for people who want to go to the local Bunnings or Supercheap Aerospace to buy Chinesium parts to fix their planes if they need to. The only problem will be the paddock won’t be large enough for 727s to throw big doughnuts in 🤩🤩

Please don’t, for my wife’s ashes will be in a ring on my finger, and she will be flying with me, no matter where I go, so I don’t need a right seat 🤩🤩

Don’t need to worry about that, kids long gone. Wife is terminally ill, so only ME to worry about 🤩

So if it becomes too hard to fly your N number aircraft? Because of increasing regulations, increasing fees? Unfriendly airports? Those people who are sick of all the increasing b/s in Aviation in the U.S.? They can still enjoy their Aviation pastime, albeit with some restrictions, just change to FAA FAR Part 103? At least they are still able to fly low budget, and have fun 🤩

Yes and while everybody cooperates and works together and no egos get in the way and there is a resolution policy in place if anything comes up yes it can all work together and work well but some organisations just seemingly can’t get themselves together and ends up in a disgruntled mess Unfortunately

Chicago is pretty dangerous, even on the ground 🤩

Like everything the intent was probably quite good and the ideas for an execution likewise but the more people that become involved in anything and wanna make changes to it. It grows faster than a Los Angeles phonebook and ends up like everything, the original intent was probably quite good and the ideas for its execution likewise but the more people that become involved in anything, and wanna make changes to it. It grows faster than a Los Angeles phonebook and ends up with a whole lot of complexity and add-ons far away from the original concept. unfortunately, it’s what happens. The more the human beings become involved in anything.

No, I will not cancel my membership at this time or take a plane off the register unless I transfer my Jabiru to VH which is something that can be done. I’m just a bit peeved with RAA at present on a few things, I know I am not popular on my Part 103 stuff, but really it is only my opinion and no one has to agree with me if they don’t want but it is on my bucket list 🤩

IF he did not ruffle the tail feathers, and have an incident, the no fly zone violation probably would not have come to light at all.

Turbs, there is a lot of things going on in the background for many people, I spend time on the phone these days, and all I hear is unhappy people, my experiences with RAA have never been good mostly, I feel,I am the enemy to them. They hammered me this week to pay my membership, a month early, I need to do an article for the mag, I bet they don’t publish it. I am a target on their lunch room dart board, because yes I am outspoken. we all have that right to express our selves.

I’m in contact looking to buy, been investigating this for a while now…….

There is, go to U.S.A and fly FAA FAR Part 103 aircraft NO licence NO rego, All rules on an A4 page. Get a check ride, hire or buy plane, free as a bird to go 🤩

So having read through bits of this, and comments made to me in conversation say that an MARAP must be RENEWED every year? MARAP even needed for simple things? I could not use factory tech documentation to fit a BRS to my 19 reg aircraft? I had to go through the MARAP process? So, I just bought a wearable parachute, open left door……..bail out, damn it watch the tail feathers, and job is done 🤩 No MARAP, no fees to pay, no RAA b/s, what is not to like 👍

I am glad the paper planes I fly in my lounge room are not regulated by RAA 🤩

You will keep hearing it, scroll right past if you don’t like it. Because I see no bright light ideas from you, only kicks in the guts for things you don’t like.

Look at what it’s doing to Recreational Aviation? Increased costs, more onerous regulation, they grounded one of my aircraft on a phone call, no supporting documentation. They could not manage a kids sandpit, from phone calls I have discussions about, it’s a mess, they have shut down flying schools and owners walked away, had enough. Yes, there are some great people in the organisation, tainted by the few. But don’t worry, plans are being made by CASA if it all goes down in a heap. Sadly, that is what it may take. For me? It’s no problem, even confiscate my planes, I will go to the U.S. get my factory built Aerolite 103, go there 4 times per year for 3-4 weeks a time and fly happy, in the most enjoyable aviation sector, who’s rules fit on one A4 page. Just image getting my radio call for the biggest air show in the World ‘Jack Aerolite, you are clear to land runway, 19 please exit taxiway J and proceed to ultralight parking’ Screw Australia, I don’t need any registration or licence to fly into the biggest Airshow in the World 🤩🤩

And……if the organisation no longer exists?

Not if the whole show folds, it’s the the problem for those charged, IF found guilty?

Winner winner, chicken dinner 🤩🤩

But are Manual of Standards ready? I suspect there is paperwork not yet ready? Show me the readiness of what is planned?

And next we have to deal with RAA and the TAFE College New South Wales project for Training? When I read the communique from RAA, I felt there was many unanswered questions there.?

Right now, the legal element is that RAA withheld certain evidence from the Coroner. RAA got busted and the amount spent to date on legal costs has been some alleged $300,000. Ordinarily, the Coroner could simply have found the pilot died by misadventure of his own doing. However, when the RAA cover-up was discovered, the wheels fell off everything. now we sit and wait and see whether the DPP do anything. I am not so sure the family has any real claim but again that is by legal determination in the future.