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  1. Student Pilot
    The LATs or light air tankers when loaded are close to their max operating weight and performance suffers. The VLAT that was in Oz a few years ago was carrying 40,000 litres and still well below max weight and performed very well with a full load. The operating cost was only just more than the LAT's and delivered nearly 4 times the load. LAT's say loads from 10,000 to 15,000, usually their drops are around the 10,000. My experience is the LAT's loads are delivered not heavy enough, they string the loads out and don't get enough coverage. Many times SEAT's (single engine air tankers) are called to reinforce retardant lines or to tackle where fires have burnt through lines. Never had to do that with the DC10.
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    That's what I use and seems to work well, only problem (discussed before in this thread? I haven trawled through the previous pages) is when other aircraft don't have it. Around fires most use it and it's just one tool to have good situational awareness. I have seen mixed results with the Skyecho, some great others not. Setup variable with those or you just turn it on?
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    Beware charities https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/new-cars/investigators-target-heartbreaking-car-giveaway/news-story/fbf97ad63a66795118ebfd25be404a36 I'm not saying AF is the same. Most charities have a CEO on big money with a lot of overheads, a tiny percentage of donated funds actually get to where they should. It's very hard to find lists of salaries of CEO's of charities. That could be my incompetence with a keyboard. Phone calls saying they are calling for and on behalf of a charity are scam, they can take up to 75% of your donation for handling. Charities know of and use such tactics.
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    It's the way of CASA, there's a term some people use covers this "Always was, always will be" Another "We're from CASA and we're not happy till your not happy"
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    Not all
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    I will leave it to the experts......
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    Plugga, where is this research? Does it include all configurations of aircraft? What percentage of high wing ditchings result in fatalities? Does it include an airliner full of pax ditching in the Hudson? My comments might be off the cuff but come with a lifetime of being around aircraft and discussing this very subject with all sorts of EXPERIENCED pilots including pilots who fly rough country for a living. Feel free to correct my grammar and spelling if you feel the need.
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    No such thing as a gentle turn over in water, you will be most likely incapacitated when the windscreen caves in. Bit hard to egress when your unconscious.
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    The rotary pump with filter a good basic way of fueling. You can demount the stem and hose/filter for transport. Pumped an estimated 2,000,000 litres in by hand no problems.
  10. Student Pilot
    Any electronics can be be turned off, apart from movement triggered hidden camera the only solution I can see is surveillance.
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    What sort of illegal activity? If your worried about your aircraft then maybe a trail camera triggered for movement or a security system. Is this to get landing fees? Are you a council member or law enforcement? Is there lots of after hours illegal activity?
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    Porters can have fuel issues with the wing/ferry tanks.
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    I think you'll be right Nev.....
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    Has an English look to it.....
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    I think we have as much to be feared from the US as Russia. Expecting Oz the follow their lead with actions, sanctions and policies then first in to take our markets after. Overzealous bureaucrats, incompetent regulators and entrenched "we know better than you" attitude from the powers that be seem to be more the problem than some sinister plot to take freedoms away. GA is just a shadow of it's former self, the ASIC is partly to blame along with privatisation of public airfields, councils milking/extorting, price of avgas, CASA's detrimental intrusion into every crevasse, every minor detail of aviation are all to blame for the demise of GA. All these combined have made GA out of reach to the average man. To fly GA you have to now have more than a considerable income to participate. RAA seems to be resisting the forces so far....
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    There are asic based security checks as well as ASIO checks, why both? If it's terrorism based threats the worry then why not leave it to ASIO? They have files on all pilot licence/firearms/explosive licensed holders why duplicate the checks?
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    There are many levels of security from local to federal, it seems none talk to each other.
  19. Student Pilot
    With formation flying most time is spent with your eyes outside, being so close a display of traffic on a screen is not that helpful.
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    Possibly a 30 year old aircraft and a rotary wing one at that. There are many things that can go wrong with choppers, have you had a close look at the mechanical gadgets required? There are many things to check with a walkaround on a Hughes 300, not the lest being a heap of what look like fan belts that transfer power to the main mast.
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    I use normal Apple maps (less clutter) with ozrunways, most of my flying is away from zones. If I'm going through or close to airspace I use a VTC.
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    Belphor or summit like that. A 70' span biplane pure jet, what a brilliant idea! The 2 hoppers might give some problems with emptying on solids giving a few asymmetric problems. They were that confident in the design that two seats were incorporated behind the pilot for an engineer an a joyrider 😁
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    Distinct difference the way it's commented on between an accident in Oz and overseas. An accident in Oz there's outrage if anybody makes a comment of why, how. Always indignant criticism about waiting till all the facts have been looked at and the accident investigated. Anybody who makes any comment is called an armchair expert and derided. Hands up all those with airshow, warbird, formation and American circuit procedure experience?
  24. Student Pilot
    I was thinking more battered Sav....
  25. Student Pilot
    What's a Sav?
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