kaz3g

I still love the Alice Springs hills and trees and empty spaces. It's part of my dreaming and you don't have to be black to have a dreaming.

To this day, I don't understand why some people like cities and crowds. I look at a football crowd with horror, but nearly all the people there have chosen it.

I miss the red dirt like you wouldn’t believe. I worked in the Upper Gascoyne in the 70’s and the Alice in late 80’s. But at 76 it really is a bit of a dream.

so I’m currently looking at a life at sea instead ? have seen a nice steel trawler type set up for onboard living but the silly old fart comments are probably directing me to a houseboat on the Murray as a more sensible alternative.

I say this anti-bureaucratic thing as a South Australian. Here in South Australia, things are so bad that a Victorian company changed its mind about expanding into South Australia. At the time, our premier Weatherall defended the bureaucracy, in this case the roads lot.

Mind you, there are a couple of good things in the bleak outlook.. our absence of yearly vehicle inspections for one.

Neither does Victoria. Most of my clients would be in unregistered vehicles if they had to get annualRWC.

That is great to hear. Finally someone in authority is seeking a definite answer for us all. Hopefully whatever response is received, it will be for any and all the States. Too confusing to have different rules of what you can and can’t do depending on where you live.

Time for everyone to get their clubs to write to their local Members supporting this sensible approach to PM and Premiers.

kaz

Some of the members became capitalists and contrived to get rid of the co-ops & boards creating their own businesses to do what the co-ops & marketing boards used to, conned other members by low initial fees & once the critical mass had been obtained increased the fees and became wealthy. Part of the reason the rich are now richer & the less so, the new poor.

Dont get me started about Murray-Goulburn!

This is a good point. Protecting your industry is everything in these times when protecting the future freedoms to fly for recreation are secondary to what's coming in the economic world. People who have been thrown out of work are not going to be too enthusiastic about someone persuing a hobby or sport.

I think you just need to take a quick look at FR to see the surprisingly large number of GA aircraft in the air. I can’t see why the large flying schools with overseas students can fly around with impunity when all the rest of us is grounded for fear of offending the law or neighbours or anyone else.

perhaps RAAus will support the push from AOPA to allow single pilot ops, at least for reasonable maintenance purposes.

Even in these difficult times, a little initiative (with support by the regulator) has allowed GA pilots in the UK to contribute their skills for the national interest.

https://www.pilotweb.aero/news/new-delivery-service-for-nhs-supplies-1-6607065

https://www.pilotweb.aero/news/maintenance-flights-allowed-despite-lockdown-1-6612735

I don’t think so.

A little hard to prove your loss I would think.

Onetrack says that local build quality fell below imported build quality.

That was what Holden wanted. My first job in Australia was as a motor mechanic at Pagewood factory in Sydney.

We were turning out a Holden about every minute or so.

We had a batch with faulty ring gears. I could replace one in 45 mins, but was only allowed to do 3 per day, because that was the allotted time. The ring gear had a steel ball enbedded in it to be used for timing the ignition. WEE found that the ball could be as much as two inches out of position, so what chance was there of getting timing correct. The manager used to take a car home every night at knock off. Next day it came back with a fault list. The one on Monday morning was several pages long. That would be the car to buy.

I had one with a noise in the motor. A nut had been dropped through the carbie, resulting in bent valve, damaged piston and valve guide. I was allowed to replace the valve. Someone got a Holden which had a damaged piston and it probably failed fairly quickly, before the warranty ended I hope.

I dunno. I had several Holdens including a very nice HJ(?) two door SLE with baby V8 and auto, and a very nice SLX Torana Hatchback with the 308 and 4/speed and they just kept on going. My last car, a BMW 318ti coupe cost me heaps and stoppEd on the HUme twice! Lovely to drive but needed a trailer to cart the bank around behind it.

25,000 ft is well under the height of mount everest. I dunno just when the climbers use oxygen, or if they use it at all. Anybody climbed everest?

Not me... I don’t like heights. But later model Spitfires climbed past 40000 with just oxygen for the pilot (and lots of pullovers). Some of the PR flights were pressurised towards the end but the lids were screwed down which didn’t do much if you needed to abandon ship.

That's a theme developing in Australia too, mainly from people with no manufacturing experience.

The theme misses the critical factor that the consumer will always make that choice.

Where is your T shirt made, jocks, trousers, socks, shoes pens, calculator, computer, desk, chair, furniture, plaster roof tiles, in fact anythong that can be fitted into a container.

Laurence Hartnett got GM to set up car production in Australia, so we would never be short of cars again after Britain cut off supply at the beginning of WW2.

This theme is a repeat of that, but would your really pay for the amortisation and high unit cost for Australian products?

We currently buy bacon with 2% Australian content, the packaging, would we pay five times that cost for Australian bacon?

Would you pay $40.00 for $10.00 shoes?

Would you pay $350.00 for a $50.00 electric drill?

.......and so on.

If this theme is to succeed it has to start with a gigantic mind-shift by the consumer.

Let's not forget that the average consumer who works is paying higher taxes to cover payouts for the millions who don't, higher taxes for an artificial fuel price (which is currently quietly being manipulated back up by an agreement to cut oil production), higher taxes and emission costs on cars, higher Council rates, a GST system that didn't replace all other taxes, but now adds 10% on most other excises and taxes, and so on.

It has been largely China's ability to offer low consumer prices along with partners working that's allowed us to have a reasonable standard of living in recent decades.

But they were good drills! And the shoes lasted for years.

Looks like mnewbery is doing a runner..? ...and I were just bringing out my Weston Price book to get some references..?

 

...oh well. Let’s round it up.

 

Mnewbery, Way back when I first started commenting on the ChiCom virus I pointed out the air quality and general health issues of the Italian and other populations. A very definite factor. The darker skin references I’ve been utilising to back up the claims of the value of the sun and the seasonal virus effects.

 

 

https://www.amazon.com.au/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Comparison-Primitive/dp/1849027706/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1586816338&sr=8-1hi

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You obviously want to be removed.

Your reference to Weston Price (a dentist who died not long after I was born) puts your research back in the time when they were still studying skulls to gauge intelligence.

being able to find and understand true scientific research requires something more than google and a closed mind.

Now this is a wheeler! Done by a pilot who flew it (new) in 1961

happy days,

That’s very nicely done.

Kaz3g, I nearly missed your comment, you wrote it in the quote box..?

 

For starters, there’s more to the benefits of sunshine then just D3.

 

And on what do you base the claim of: “increased vulnerability is grounded in systemic disadvantage and poverty”..?....?

 

15 years of representing that cohort in the courts utilising a therapeutic jurisprudence approach based on extensive research here and across the world, authorship of multiple submissions to governments, and lived experience amongst other things.

And yet, in the USA we find...

 

“...As the novel coronavirus sweeps across the United States, it appears to be infecting and killing black Americans at a disproportionately high rate...”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/07/coronavirus-is-infecting-killing-black-americans-an-alarmingly-high-rate-post-analysis-shows/?arc404=true

 

 

Have a look-see at a lighter skinned peoples that have high sunshine and yet cover themselves up all year. Google search “...vitamin D deficiency in Iran...”

Note the higher D deficiency rates in Iranian females - Bit hard to get them healthy rays when yer all covered up in a sack every time you leave the house..?

 

The Washington Post didn’t make it into the peer-reviewed scientific publishing world but I’d hazard a guess that any increased vulnerability is grounded in systemic disadvantage and poverty rather than any D3 absorption characteristics FFS.

 

 

 

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Oxford continue to fly. Not much else happening In Vic.

You can see if stock are not acting normally, a flyblown blown sheep will walk/act differently to it's friends. You can see tracks through a fence if it's been pushed over, all from 500 feet. Big places it's very practical for stock/fence/tank inspection.

Going for a fly for inspection of some sort would be a more valid excuse than going to your holiday house on the central NSW coast for the weekend

You can also see if your stock have been panicked into rushing a boundary fence into your neighbour’s property, see wheel tracks in places they oughtn't be, and pick up on ferals and dog activity.

Clear as mud... I understand how one calculates the $13300, but the QLD govt website gives different fines in different paragraphs.

Its the difference between the fines that can be imposed by a court and the “fines” under an infringement notice.

The possible scenarios are many.

 

There will be hundreds, if not thousands, of experienced jet and prop-jet aircrew out of a job within 3-6 months. That will kill all the big flying schools because there will be no realistic professional career path for years. There will be hundreds of very highly qualified instructors driving Uber. Career prospects for instructors are gloomy atm.

 

We might see a return of interest in recreational flying, and RAAus schools may get back into action by end of year - but it will be very slow. Many will fold. Unless you own the school aircraft, hangar and buildings outright, the going will be tough.

 

There will be zero demand for new RAAus aircraft for probably 2 years. Many owners will gradually quit their aircraft because of costs, and having their own finances very tight.. Probably more interest in shared or group ownership in our future. There will be thousands of GA aircraft available as the recession bites in the US, but with our A$ where it is - it won't be attractive to import.

 

As to prices in the used market - probably less owners likely to sell immediately as there won't be many buyers, so why slash prices? Many aircraft were changing hands late in 2019 at much less than the advertised price, so the market probably won't drop very much later this year.

 

Cheaper fuel will be nice, but the big items such as insurance, and hangarage are unlikely to reduce. I think there will be many more hangars for sale, and many more spaces available, especially on larger airports because charges are likely to rise as landlords recoup.

 

In conclusion, this CV event is looking like a disaster for aviation at every level. Not 'happy days' from me atm, but, it will pass, and life goes on.

Best wishes to you and your mates in the West, Pots. It makes you think, alright

kaz

Sorry Nev

i saw your posts just after sending mine. I must say a nicely executed wheeler looks nice to everybody. A nicely executed TW landing is doing it like it ought be done. ?

If there is only half a knot difference between a wheeler and a 3 pointer, then that wheeler is very much a 3 pointer that didn't quite make it.

I can assume an attitude that lets me wheel it on and continue down the runway for a long way, pulling back on the stick and slowing.

The thing that frightens me is flying with a nose wheel pilot, as they all seem to be going way too fast when they put the wheels on the ground.

The best tricyclists are those who land with and hold the nose off the ground until they have slowed. Too many 3 point then relax and end up with forward elevator pressure with potential to wheelbarrow.

Kaz, watch working AG pilots who fly for a living, they wheel it on. That's anything from Pawnee to 802 Air Tractor. Working all day on super in a Beaver (none left in Oz now on super) you would always wheel it on. A well flown tailwheel low wheel landing takes no more ground than a 3 pointer.

I will agree it's easier to 3 point Austers and Tigers, some of the lighter stuff like Avids and Thrusters are easier to land three point as well.

While I have never flown a Spitfire an Air Tractor 802 with 1700 Shp and narrow track I think would be as challenging, usually wheel them on. There are always if buts and maybe's.

Hi SP

Ag pilots are a breed apart and yes, a Beaver wheels well as does a Pawnee. And a wheeler gives you a better view of the site of the crash ? A wheeler may also be a better choice in a cross-wind.

But I respectfully disagree that a wheel landing (where the aircraft is still flying at the point of touching) takes no more ground than a properly stalled 3 pointer. The older TW stuff, like mine, was designed to fly out of pretty rough paddocks and landing 3 point put you down at the slowest speed possible, sometimes with nose very high and significant rpm.

In working tailwheel aircraft normally you wheel it on and depending on the aircraft and strip sometimes actually pole forward to keep weight off the tailwheel. As usual there's no one way of doing things, whatever works for you.

In smaller TW aircraft the most common technique is to 3 point. Moths, Tigers, Austers, Spitfires, Hurricanes for example. All Navy TW aircraft also used this method. It gives the best STOL result (and allows pilot to pick up a wire with the hook If deck landing).

Larger TW such as bombers did wheelers in a fashion, generally tail down and the venerable DC3 also as I had the excitement to experience nearly 70 years ago.

Yes, I know the C180 brigade and those that fly some of the newer types do wheelers, and some of the air show types too, but they need a lot of good runway comparatively speaking.

A quick check of flightradar24 shows business as usual for many large schools.

Business as usual at Mangalore...lots of them doing touch and goes at Shepp.

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Essentially the same process as coal liquefaction. Both rely on the production and catalytic conversion of methane in a hydrogen rich environment. We have all this coal sitting here that no-one apparently wants and it’s only cost of processing that stops us building large scale plants like the Germans did in WWII.

Methane hydrate doesn’t offer anything over coal as a source of liquid fuels unless you are a net importer of coal, like China.