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  1. Student Pilot
    I'm a lazy sod so can't be bovered looking up the figures but........Bankstown is an example of the decline in GA. Now compared to 70's, 80's? I disagree with Turbo's optimistic rosy view of GA and that CASA staff are keen flying enthusiasts. (Turbo, you employed by CASA or an ex CASA employee?) I've been flying professionally for 40 years and have had my own aviation business and been chief pilot for several others, in 40 years I can only think of one positive experience with CASA. Others I fly with have the same experience. Any rural town in Eastern Oz walk outside and listen, 70's and 80's you would always hear an aircraft. I might hear one 3 times a year now. Over-complication of regs, unnecessary changes in licensing and compliance for no reason, take Part 61 licence as an example. Read the prune thread with Glenn Buckley as to an example of CASA's treatment of GA. CASA moto......"We're not happy till your not happy" is the joke line, if it wasn't so true it would be funny.
  2. Student Pilot
    Needs bigger tyres! 😁
  3. Student Pilot
    Edenhope is a good airstrip, I usually do a few loads from there each summer. The CFA boys and girls there are top notch and do a great job. You load the bombers at all Bruce?
  4. Student Pilot
    Not a lot different to threading under powerline and staying constant height above a crop only spraying it's done all day, not just for 30 seconds or so. It is now not possible to fly under or anywhere within something like 75 metres from a powerline with aerial application in Australia. So basically every pilot spraying in Australia has to brake the law to do the job. Easy to see why aerial spraying is virtually banned in the UK.
  5. Student Pilot
    The world record thing has progressed to stupid levels, yes it's first but so what? Doesn't prove anything. How many of you are "world record" holders? Longest taxi without lifting off? Most donuts/groundloops in a single go?
  6. Student Pilot
    Chinese/Taiwanese/Russian/Israeli variation on some billion dollar must have, won't be in service till 2050, whizz bang jit.
  7. Student Pilot
    The report said he stalled at 4 to 500 feet doing a slow run after flying around t height for 17 minutes, no mention of a beatup
  8. Student Pilot
    Gordon Bedson did the same thing with his 2 seat Resurgum
  9. Student Pilot
    Do you drink alcohol or smoke? Have you flown commercially in airlines? All of those have risks way in excess of the odds of any vaccine problems. Are you a risk taker?
  10. Student Pilot
    Flightrite, jackc...... you blokes had a vaccine shot?
  11. Student Pilot
    Or too many people are believing stupid conspiracy theories and their political bias and unreasonable logic is going against doing the sensible and right thing for the population. Dan is the best premier Australia has. The current covid crises in Vic is due to the NSW premier complying with Scotty from marketing's bullying and locking down 2 months late, spreading the virus to the rest of the country.
  12. Student Pilot
    Very reminiscent of a Whitman design, the Tailwind.
  13. Student Pilot
    Wellcamp is an International airport, I notice they said "If the federal government won't allow aircraft to fly to Wellcamp, we will bus them there". Didn't they offer to build the centre in September last year? The feds said they wanted it built on Commonwealth land in Brisbane.
  14. Student Pilot
    CASA not interested in bullet holes, I reported to them about being shot at and getting damage to the aircraft. All the bloke from CASA said was "Yeah, we used to get that all the time in Vietnam". No follow up, no investigation. Police were the same, not interested. This happened in the early 2000's.
  15. Student Pilot
    Have you seen another photo of the wings somewhere else?
  16. Student Pilot
    You forgot loathsome, blame shifting and talking of blame shifting Scotty from marketing has been absent. One of his very few public appearances he said the mission in Afghanistan was accomplished so all OK. After the Russians left there 20 years ago the place was overun in a couple of weeks, now Scotty from marketing says it happened too fast to try and help those that helped us. Those that don't learn from history. Thread drift, spin is the connection.......
  17. Student Pilot
    Their god must be busy doen all sorts of favours, especially in the Us where all those evangelical leaders are asking for more jets and mansions
  18. Student Pilot
    I'm sure it is very entertaining Captain Gazza but as soon as the words came up "Why we Pray" I glazed over and everything went blurry. How does loosing your tailwheel finish upside down in a wreck?
  19. Student Pilot
    America were right in there with first concentration camps in the Philippines, if they weren't the first they perfected it.
  20. Student Pilot
    Cessna's from 180 onwards are VERY heavy, I doubt I could overpower a full deflection trim especially if the seat was not in the optimal position.
  21. Student Pilot
    Didn't watch the rundown on it only about 5 seconds off the ground to crash. Control lock or seat slid back
  22. Student Pilot
    I'm happy what Dan is doing, would you rather be in the mess NSW is in? That's what happens when politics gets involved, Gladys and Scotty from marketing have shown how badly handled policy and blame shifting doesn't work with covid.
  23. Student Pilot
    Because there's still not enough vaccine to go around, vaccine hesitancy has been blamed, that was to try and cover the fact that there is just not enough vaccine. People 12 to 50+ the only choice is AZ if they can get it. If Scotty from marketing refused AZ so you can see why some of the population don't want it either.
  24. Student Pilot
    If our esteemed PM would only have Pfizer then you can't blame others for refusing AZ
  25. Student Pilot
    I think that would have a nickname of legbreaker
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