Flightrite

Holding the appropriate ratings or not failing any checks means zip! Corruption is in ALL industries! It's clear these Neanderthals where going along for the ride! They where criminal in their behavoir!!

The whole thing is nuts! I used to jump from heavy metal into RA into GA into experimental all the time, I fail to see the big deal?

Have to agree. As much as plenty bag the old aero engines the Lyc especially are very reliable, 40 years of operating them I've never had an issue that's pit my life in jepardy?

Had the privilege (twice) of flying in wealthy terrorists to Purnulula national park in the 90's, 'clamping' was the new tag for fancy camping? Amazing getting a personel tour thru off limits areas by an Abo guide?

More like stick fiddlers! Unfathomable what transpired!

I was watching Jaun's excellent comments almost cringing! I've got 1000's of hrs driving the 320 bus and just don't get how thess guys even got a drivers ticket! A kid on a Flt sim could do far better!

Whilst it's general std SOP's for a sterile cockpit below 10K' I never observed it once in all the years I drove multi crew ABV 10K'! We humans can't help ourselves!?

Plenty of shonky operators out there! Asia, the Pacific Islands etc years ago where corrupt as! I had to carry around $US10K ( Green backs talks all languages!) in a brief case to bribe everybody from the refuelers & their many cousins, the ATC guys, the handling agents even a guy who operates the Rwy lights at some Island dromes!

I'm getting itchy feet again??

Must have been a heavy R/C plane that one!??

.......and this is news? It's well known in the industry but as usual nothing gets done until the horse has bolted! Anyone flying heavy metal long enough would already know such things, I've seen it first hand!

Sad to see but inevitable? When I was last in YBAS (Alice Springs?) around a year ago the surplus machines where gathering then.

Mine went up a few $$$ this year, I think it was across the board. My two airframes combined $140K 3G's. I can only fly one at a time so insurance is cheaper. I don't have any other pilots on my policy as I never let anyone fly my rides so that helps with premiums.

Well said but save your breath, it's wasted on some!?

There's already a thread about the SkyGods.

Saaaaaba?

Ditto, been there done that! Retrenched means sack everybody, start up a new shelf Co & hire the weaklings, that's exactly what the Co did!

It's called CHOICE, I think there a few planes flying around using Mogas, I don't see the countryside littered with bodies from Mogas planes falling out if the sky!

Me thinks the skipper believes the ailerons are meant to go the wrong way to normal technique, he's good at it though!?

Now let me see, controlled product? Hmmmm in the late 99 (I think it was) the so called 'controlled' product IE: 100 Oct was severely contaminated down Sth playing havoc with plenty of A/C fuel systems grounding LOTs of GA piston machines! ANY fuel is a man made product handeled by man used by man, that guarantees nothing!

It was only a matter of time before the SkyGods took a bath on this,

Exactly!?Combine the use of ULP AND this funnel means I sleep like a baby???

I operate a 80gee gee solid Jabby donk and I use 95 RON with a flashlube mix, 480 hrs, the Pistons valves etc are whilstle clean as far as I can tell/see?

The DAH is part of the AIP, freely available to all pilots, actually anybody who likes to read& doesn't have a life!?