Student Pilot

Version of Cavalier?

You climate deniers/Lib/Trumpf voters are never going to convert people that believe we have to do something. Yes Australia is a small fish compared to some, it has been commented on that if all the smaller countries started some action then those totals add up to the same as India. As an induividual nation not much but with others doing their bit as well we can contribute to action.

That's just a sideslip, that's what they were known as in the olden days. I did read description in the wikithang, news to me. The half a dozen instructors I've flown with just called them sideslips, that was a few years ago though.

Don't know what a forward slip is, it's just a side slip either side. All very easy to criticise, sitting in it is a different thing to keyboard commentating.

Similar concept to Scotty Wintons machine. Flying wings never seem to catch on except where money is no object such as military B2

DC10 arrived Sydney this morning, at 45,000 litres it's 3 times the load of any of the large tankers in Oz

Our Prime Minister along with his happy clapper church have been praying for rain. Maybe they aren't praying loud enough? Still many aircraft in Victoria not being used on fires in NSW and QLD

To the bottom, the gloss has well and truely worn off. Pay and conditions are still going down in this country. With the recent change in work Visa's there are more foreign pilots being employed when locals are unemployed. It's not just aviation, wages have been stagnant for over 30 years, the bulk of Australians are worse off.

Even if they had insurance the company providing it can say weather is an act of some God then not have to pay out...............................then say you should have read the fine print provided in the link that led to over 12,000 pages of legal speak.

Because of this litigation madness the cost of living has skyrocketed with everything from just household or property third party to business indemnity insurance costing prohibitive amounts, are the only people who benefit lawyers and legal representitives?

CL415 still only carry 6000 litres, that's 2 Fireboss loads, we currently have maybe 8 Fireboss in this country now operating. They are the float version of the 802, we also have vitually unlimited number (80+) of wheeld 802's available that carry 3000 litre loads of retardand or water. The wheeled 802's can operate off highways or airstrips. They are the most under utilised firefighting asset in Australia.

My reply might have bin a bit fatuous. I have better things to do than trawl online for legal cases which will require the retention of a legal adviser just to try and find what is actually said in 50,000 words that could have been said in 20 words. We have reached a stage where US attorneys now envy Australia on litigation.

What sort of person would sue for not receiving advice? By that logic if the driver had an accident by driving on the wrong side of the road, the person who said you can get that part on the other side of town would be liable for NOT telling the driver to stay left on the road?

Seek legal redress through a class action, what a great suggestion. Call Blackman Turner Overdrive or whoever it is is advertises on TV then pay 60% of the payout so if 2000 join the class action you'll only owe $1000 each. Just what the world needs, more legal parasite action.

Bloody classic ?

Firstly, his private life has nothing to do with anybody else. Next, I have read an article somewhere about Qantas financial history but can't find it now. Joyce did not save Qantas. The artlicle laid out how much Qantas made before Joyce, it was considerably more in less time under the previous CEO.

There must be a formula for working out the average pedant numbers per forum, be higher than the average population I recon ?

French Reims/Cessna originally produce the Wren? Sure there were a couple in Oz. Not a fecesbook person so can't access that.

There's something like 90 Air Tractor 802's in the country plus a few high capacity Thrush's, at a guess I would say 2/3's would be on standby for fires in an Australian summer. That number might not be used, depends on the person running the fire attack plan, not all know how to utilise all in their arsenal of equipment and the capability of fixed wing fire attack.

They get so bored loogin out the window they have to have TV's on the dash?

Of all the regional towns to land at I found Dubbo the worst, with security being way beyond sensible.

From distant memory I think the original Bearhawk was built on a Piper airframe, converted Tripacer I think. The original Maule was based on Piper Pacer airframe as well, lotsa designs so called "New" were based on existing designs. This patrol appears to be on a similar base, the fuse looks to be same width as Tri and just set up for tandem seating. Would make for a comfy 2 seater, plenny room either side of the seats but still close enough windows for a bewdy view.

If you have unlimited funds then you can get the result you want through "Proper process". A couple of barristers arguing for 3 days about the definition of a single word at $10,000 a day each, fair and reasonable? The law does not catch all those who transgress.

It does have some dihedral then, quite a pretty design. Never seen one before. Looking at that last image it looks to be a powered conversion of a glider.

I know it's the only law we have but as you know it can be an ass. The fact still remains that those jailed (with lawyer x) for bad crimes still did those crimes, they are still bad men.