jackc

I don’t see this enforcement is a real possibility, so someone dumps on an L2, is RAA going to inspect said aircraft and audit logbooks? IF someone reveals a dodgy job, will that person be prepared to give evidence in court of law and provide evidence to the prosecution? What will RAA do? This could turn into a minefield in more ways than one. If an owner does work, under the table…..they simply deny it and it’s up to someone in authority to prove they actually are guilty. RAA is a company, what authority do they have in this instance? Does CASA become involved? This whole thing is a giant mess, perpetrated by a slow loss of L2 and L4 from Aviation. NO organisation wants to train any, so the shortage will make problems worse over time. So, the peak bodies need to get off their a……and work out a training regime. otherwise the availability of qualified people will simply dry up, those remaining……will give the game away, from too much stress. And, more people will undertake work on their own aircraft, some at great risk…….

Well, then give us an overview of the 30 non compliant issues, so that they are identified to ensure that people are aware of important requirements. Infact, ALL non compliant findings should be reported after any audit or investigation regime. IF all this is not out in the open, then it’s being run as a secret squirrel operation. If RAA wants respect as a peak body, it has to show respect or people’s attitude to compliance etc will go backwards.

Well, I think the system is broken but over regulation is not really needed, there are some good people at RAA, but there are some with a fixation on making a big deal about certain things……we are approaching GA CASA type regulation. Training L2 people would be a start, because there will be a major shortage soon, that is already the case in some ways, so RAA needs to up their game in several ways.

When I complained about my ‘historical’ condition report and detailed some of the deficiencies, no one cared at RAA. I think the whole system needs an overhaul and a regulations rewrite. To make it clear, simple and unambiguous. Next, can RAA demand to see a copy of an aircraft log book? Under what documented regulation.?

Has this always been the ruling?

Unfortunately true. However I still hope for the impossible, or something like it being the FAA FAR Part 103 segment of aviation that the U.S. has which harkens back to our old Ultralight days. I have no interest in flapping around in an RAA reg Cessna 150. They should all be in low budget GA Flying Schools, instead of the fast and flash glass cockpit equipped, costly to learn aircraft.

So, it looks like my last line says it all? ’So, where to now? Backwards, unless something is done quickly.’ So there will end up no one available to service rural areas? Well, maybe it’s time for Members to ask RAAus what their plan is for a solution to what is a looming problem? Maybe there needs to be a change in rules as well. Turn clocks back 20 years or more would be a good start, take us back to the Ultralight days instead of fast forwarding to GA?

RAAus can make new rules to suit themselves where they believe deficiencies need to be addressed, but there is a major problem. A lack of trained people to do inspections, work and sign offs etc. Because, there is is no plan for training people by RAAus. Sure, you can do an L1, IF someone decides to run them. I did one in early days run by Darren Barnfield and it was hosted by Dan Compton at Wings Out West. Good, informative and well run course, too. After that, I thought…….whats next? NOTHING? Cant do an L2, can’t work on someone else’s plane? It’s a dead end for training and upgrading qualifications? Soon there will be no one left to work on aircraft, many retiring. Many aircraft owners will not have access to an L2 within a reasonable distance. So RAAus can make all the rules they like and……….there will be no one to do the work, so what then? Maybe RAAus need to do cooperative training with SAAA? but I doubt that will ever happen. People will have no choice but to break rules and work on their own aircraft, I was told a horror story last week, by someone who did just that, said person was that useless they could burn toast……yet own an aircraft, their aircraft? Was well how should I says it……maybe a death trap, due to poor work. So, where to now? Backwards, unless something is done quickly.

Well, I made a purchase decision being a green horn, I asked for work to be done and it wasn’t, modifications not in log book, 5 year Rotax rubber replacement using date stamped hoses 6 years old……..I could go on, but won’t. Complained to RAA about how useless a condition report was anyway, as aircraft ended up a death trap…….yeah, I have raved on about all this before. My previous Flying School would not hand over my log books, complained to RAA, care factor zero. RAA are too busy dreaming about how much money they can score out of members for an MARAP…….and the b/s you need to go through for simple stuff. Rant over 🤩

Do all your own work on your own plane and accept all liability that goes with it. There are some qualified people I would not trust to make a paper plane fly across a lounge room and there are some I would trust with my life to get the right advice from. RAAus? Sorry but I have lost my faith in most of that place. It’s losing its way with regulatory direction.

I hauled my Aeropup, with folded wings Gympie to Rocky on a car trailer with low pressure in trailer tyres, no problem.

Well, the person who built my 19 reg plane did a pretty ordinary job of it, but worse was the LAME who did major works on it and did not enter the major works in it logbook and did a dodgy condition report and represented to me the aircraft was good and ready to go. I grounded it as a death trap based on my small amount of Aviation knowledge and when I complained to RAAus, thy did not seem to care. So, you can imagine how much respect I have for some of their stupid rules, which is SFA…….

RAAUs need to pull their heads in and get with the times, more GA b/S everyday. Slowly eroding our sport with more and more rules. Someone please tell me I am WRONG?

Garmin Aera 660, I have one laying around here somewhere…….

My Aera 660 I guess will be good enough, along with my round eyes!

Not in this millennium……when Qprime software was in use, maybe. Not anymore, Police must have an active investigation going for authority to do it, or a higher rank to approve. Who would want to be a Police Officer these days……many resigning, what a horrible job for many. 🤢🤢

I am wondering IF the new CEO will be good news for us, wondering if the last man bailed out because Part 149 was too hard for him?

They can jam the lot…..good old ERSA, Whiz Wheel will still work, along with the other stuff we have had, since the Wright Bros first flew……

But Turbs, It’s true and no matter what you do…….its not possible, it comes back to the acceptable deficiencies that regulators will allow or disallow that sets their policies. No air crashes? It’s easy just ground all aircraft or, make it so over regulated the people won’t bother to fly anymore. OR, people will say shove it, take a chance and fly illegally in some way, or another with the attitude the buck stop with them if it goes pear shaped and on statistics they could probably die, anyway?

The World can never be made perfect, no matter what you do………

4 tablets in a 600ml bottle of water, about an hour before I fly or do any work in the sun during hot weather, then bottle of water an hour or 2 later..

Like everything I look for multiple sources of information, I should have added that I have spoken to my Pharmacist and GP about this stuff and they gave me suggested dosage rates and how often. My six monthly blood test regime has many added tests at my request for reasons I have outlined to my GP and he has not knocked me back on a request yet, because I tell him why, based on medical research I do. Yes, I m a medical freak, amongst other things 🤩

Luckily for me, my GP is a friend, it pays to have good contacts, likewise my Wife’s Cardiologist who we have dealt with for 23 years, have even been in his operating theatre will working on my wife. We often have medical conversations by phone. Good contacts with knowledgable people in your life will always pay dividends in your life, no matter what their calling may be. Even politicians, lawyers etc, Police etc. you can learn something from them all, rule is mouth shut and ears open. But you also need a good brain to sort the Wheat from the Chaff 🤩

Gp is starting point, a once over, blood tests and ECG. Luckily my GP is also a DAME

Case in point in this published incident, I find it hard to believe in this case that the pilot has no prior symptoms that would have warned him of a possible impending problem. Fortunately, no other people were injured, or worse. Another good reason to assess yourself as fit to fly or…….maybe need an appointment with your GP. Sore left arm, back pain and heartburn are some of the indicators of possible Cardiac problem, amongst others. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/104866/pdf?fbclid=IwAR2G-uEw62ysU5zx6STWFAoXV631p_uUMeT788t3o09greH_2TryeAwKKCY_aem_ASXbHZr42gJk5JtZP7GoBWlIf8Nqo0rSsFK80M0rTidO5y9IuU03AwQ7XGvPkZRqTB8