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    The Menindee lakes are overflow lakes, as is the Anabranch an overflow for the Darling. They naturally filled in flood times. A campaign began in the 19th century, later supported by Henry Lawson, to make them artificial reservoirs. This was done, with weirs and the Copi channel, so when I was growing up they were always full. I sailed on Lake Menindee and we camped alongside the lakes never thinking that they might empty. The decision to run them empty was based on concerns about the evaporation loss and salinity which affected downstream, including the Murray into South Australia. I am in favour of keeping them full whenever possible, but I don't understand the big picture. I suspect that irrigation elsewhere is a much, much bigger problem.
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    There are only two approved routes for light aircraft to Tasmania.
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    In the good old days we got all updates by mail, every week or two. A conscientius person (I was back then) would go through all the ring biders and write in the amendments. It was inefficient, but after a while you got to know your way around all the regulations etc.
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    Quite a few aircraft are listed privately and then appear in a broker's advert. So the broker must actively pursue sellers who have listed shiny aircraft that he can boost.
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    Just Another F....... Oracle?
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    Then that didn't take long.
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    It depends how much risk you think there is and how much trouble you want to take. If the plane is $10k less than others and you think the worst that can happen is a $10k fix, then a test fly and glance through the log books might be enough. That’s what I have done anyway, and haven't been disappointed.
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    I reckon you could land either direction on the sealed runway. I would not risk the grass without further information.
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    A close-up of any blemish is a good idea but few do it. A stop-drilled crack in a skin, a chip in the prop, are excuses for last-minute low-ball offers if you didnt show them up front with all the other info.
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    Most of those are Cessnas.
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    I knew it!
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    In 1954 Australian National Airways pilot Captain D. Barker reported seeing a UFO at 10.15 a.m. on January 1st, not far from Melbourne. He described a semi-transparent object with a top shaped roughly like a dish, about 2000 ft. above the Yarra Valley, in the direction of Templestowe. He said it looked about four times the size of a DC4. "It was travelling at high speed," he said, "and seemed to be oscillating in and out of clouds." He reported it to the Civil Aviation officer at Essendon before ringing the Herald newspaper. He later described it to an Argus reporter as a semi - transparent object shaped like "a mush-room with stalk. The object, which was flying well below the safety level in that area, was travelling faster than any jet I have seen. It appeared to have something trailing beneath it like a thick stalk, which could have been a small observation car. When I reported it to Flight Control they said I should take more water with it, and told me a Convair was in the air in that position at 10.15 a.m. My flying mushroom was nothing like a Convair in appearance. I have been flying since 1937 for A.N.A., and served for three years with the R.A.A.F., so there is no question of confusion." The recently released video from the USAF looks just like a flying mushroom!
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    We are not supposed to understand these messages, even when they are not f...d up.
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    I thought the student was following him. He overflew the downed Cirrus.
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    Is this where the saying “off your rocker” came from? 😮
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    He was chafed around the cockpit.
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    Some brave bidding there for ex-school planes.
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    Re previous post - this plane landed safely! Hit by a Cirrus that popped its chute.
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    Latest mid-air collision yesterday. Unbelievable result. https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/12/small-plane-crash-mid-air-collision-cherry-creek-reservoir-denver-colorado/
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    It’s that guy from Parks and Recreation, but I don’t know why.
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    I was not asked for my ASIC in Birdsville. Maybe slipped through.
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    No submission shown for AOPA or RAA.
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    The pic is a clipped wing variant, for a faster roll rate in ground attack ops.
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    Plenty of people paying around $200K for new RAA aircraft these days.
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