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On 14/02/2024 at 4:06 PM, FlyingVizsla said:

It was seriously suggested to me!  Qld car Rego goes on the number of cylinders .... 🙂

Simca Veddettes, beloved by public servants because they were only 2.4L but 8 cylinder and qualified for the highest level of travelling allowance when used for official travel.

3 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

They will have to do time with an RAA instructor to get a pilot certificate; in late March they will start process of ratifying the instructors and guess they will need to do such in a 'G' aircraft???

RAAus is user pays - I doubt that RAAus will be forking out much to support G.

4 hours ago, Kyle Communications said:

I am told by my source that CTA is well underway for RAAUS and the source is NOT RAAUS.

I said really most of us just want to be able to traverse CTA...I know I dont want to fly into Brisbane or Archerfield what so ever but was told CTA is CTA you will need the proper endorsements

The kicker of course is the technical details.

Your instruments need to be TSO'd no different to GA with the same regular checks/calibration and of course transponder/ADSB and all that which goes with that like a approved baro source for the equipment.

The aircraft whether factory built or amateur built or normal 600kg MTOW or the new 760kg Group G. 

The medical also "may" play a part in this but I think that is being worked on

 

Mark

 

 

For us in NSW, 2 towns, Sydney and Coffs Harbour! CTA transit rights are key to the continuation of enjoying RAA flying. I'm sure the other states can draw up their lists.

5 hours ago, turboplanner said:

There are 6300 active pilots in RAA so the extra 400 would increase the numbers by 6.3%

 

There are 3232 aircraft so the extra 400 would increase the numbers by 12%

 

There are 9000 financial members, so the extra would increase the numbers by 4.4%

 

There are only 160 Flight Training schools, which looks way under what’s needed to safely manage the pilots and aircraft.

 

Given that more management of pilots and aircraft would be required, the expenditure vs income percentages are going to wrong way unless RA pilots are happy to pay more for these people to be managed.

The extra 400 planes and extra 400 pilots would also be hit with fees which would pay for admin. As Scotty says "I don't hold a hose" and so it goes with RAA, the additional load is administration not mechanical handing or pilot training.

On 18/12/2023 at 6:24 PM, BrendAn said:

 

https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/depleted-uranium/en/l-3/2.htm#:~:text=Depleted uranium is less radioactive,missiles%2C forklifts and sailboat keels.

corporations - I think that it all boils down to - if the organisation couldn't run a chook raffle - that your problem for being involved - but there is sure to be a lawyer out there prepared to take your cash if you want to have a fight.

6 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Why would you be expecting serious coal-fired results now when Rishi Sunak only announced the reversal of bans on coal mining in June. There will be a reasonable lead time for the legislation to have been gazetted, people employed for mining, mines made safe, machinery brought up to working standard to produce coal, and a lead time for Coal-fired power stations  to also get their facilities into working order and emply operators. Coal- fired generation  doesn't take 40 years to come on line, but  it's still a long process.

That's the issue; well short of the 100% exepected if it was to power every house in the UK.

 

 

And Gas 25% - while still a source of CO2 gas is much more efficient and cleaner than coal - if nothing else, moving in the right direction.

1 hour ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Why not in the arid zone of Australia nev? It seems to me that groundwater is almost non-existent there and the stuff you would place there is less long-term radioactive that what has been dug out at roxby.

 

Mining company head offices? - Melbourne and Perth - sound like great places for toxic dumps!

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

England has " vast " underground caverns.  That were useful! ' before the " anti- coal " ,people shut them down .

What an ' opportunity ' to use those mines again,  Just to stuff them full of toxic waste. 

Stop subsidence & hide that waste for the next millennium or two. 

spacesailor

Or, given the shortcuts both mining companies and governments take, until next week.

I can't imagine that there will be much remediation in the Hunter just bloody big holes or the subsidence of Newcastle.

16 hours ago, BrendAn said:

so you don't think there might be a connection between the subs and the waste facility. and why would they put a medical waste facility on garden island.

Any ship in a navy is like a small town and with medical facilities to match (or better) so they need facilities to treat sailors and store the biological and hazardous wastes til their next friendly port visit.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Meetings can be stacked by people or by proxies. If you go back to the last Extraordinary Meeting, proxies best the vote in the room. So you need a Constitution which prevents proxies in general meetings.

I don't see the problem with properly informed proxies beating the privileged voters in the room. And motions from the floor discriminate against proxy givers.

It is quite easy to stack a meeting - the youth wings of the ALP, Liberal Party and Country Party are experts.

In a national organisation like ours proxies are the only way to maintain democracy.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

I would think it's also a concern that some members are reporting on here that they've been given new numbers for  the proposed Group G

Has CASA now approved Group G?

What would be the impact on Members if Group G was approved and people who couldn't meet the GA medical standard flowed into RAA Ltd for a lower standard and started making demands to get the same flying priviledges as they had in GA? etc.

What other flow on effects could occur.

These would normally be discussed in general meetings, and in some cases rules changed and others new conditions applied, and for that you ideally need open meetings taking as long as it takes to ensure the changes don't compromise the flying of the existing members and the structure of the organisation with new negative impacts.

 

I looked at the RAA Ltd Constitution. If you remember the change was done in a hurry, and it's not ideal for things like no confidence motions and urgent Member resolutions.   

 

Clause 19 discusses calls for General Meetings by Members.

Clause 27 refers to Members resolutions and statements

  27.1 to 27.5 cover the process. In my opinion the current clauses work against the Members and make if very difficult for a Member to get something fixed.

Clause 27.6 says "This Clause does not limit the right that a member has to propose a resolution at a general meeting under the Corporations Act."

               (Under Clause 65, Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).                       http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca2001172/

This is a big document to wade through.

 

To participate in these decisions, you really need to get to the ability to ensure there is a General Business section in every General Meeting, and each Member in attendance has the right to raise without notice an issue in General Business, explain the contents and move a resolution to be voted on by the quorum present.

 

 

Nah, raising stuff from the floor without prior notice prevents those not in the know having a voice and a vote.  The proper way to deal with floor matters is for members to raise the issues and the meeting can discuss, the board can then take the issue on board for possible resolution. If it is not resolved to the members are entitled to bring the matter back to an AGM or GM with due notice and then the attendees and potential proxies can take an informed decision.  

The reason for allowing the corporations law to have an impact on motions at a meeting is that there may be issues under corporation law where a particular resolution must, may or may not be moved or carried. I'm not a great fan of the corporations law as it forced companies and their members into the claws of lawyers and whackjobs at ACCC and ASIC. But on the other hand it attempts to keep everyone honest (but fails miserably in the case of big business and the NSW Club industry). It appears that the behaviour of the RAAus Board was to prevent gaming of the system - NRMA was pretty good at that.

14 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

A few weeks ago, I was talking a very experienced/long time pilot (GA/Experimental), on this very topic - he felt that RAA was more expensive than GA.

 

On exploring costs further, turns out he is quite correct for his circumstances . He has what he calls self insurance ie none. Hard to compete with that.

A lot of politicians are very experienced/long but they still tend to make it up as they go along or forget to review their sketchy back of the envelope calcs

12 hours ago, FlyingVizsla said:

So I guess Rod's group were hoping to raise the No Confidence from the floor, and didn't get the opportunity. 

And without due notice to the rank and file - an abuse of process.

Same here, at least you got admitted.

You could contact

Fraser Anning
Skyfox Aviation
PO Box910
Caloundra QLD 4551

Ph: (074) 91 5355
Fax: (074) 91 8237

But you might have trouble finding him

"Australian Electoral Commission drops case against missing former far-right senator Fraser Anning

2 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

A turbine , only need a valve opened for it to spin .

The  boilers on the other hand need to be " fired up " hours before , and as they know when they will  be called on, they , (  bureaucrats  ) , who run the show,  ' Should have done their ' job.

spacesailor

 

Depends! A steam turbine needs a boiler

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

...... prime beef country lost to miles of solar panels.....

And around cities, prime agricultural land turned into solar farms with housing built underneath.  Farmers are entitled to get the best price for their land and in this case land bought or leased would be at the best price.  This is much better than going slowly broke or waiting for the vultures to turn up and selling out for a song to the farmer next door.

Not a monopoly - one has many choices on how to burn ones cash. owning a power boat is a very good way to destroy a fortune if you don't like the way the board and staff of RAAus is running the show

26 minutes ago, Carbon Canary said:

The need for CTA access is possibly more urgent at Ballina if it becomes a Class D. 

Giving Ballina a tower would make it even more dangerous, they would then have to give it class C or D airspace status.

Once transited Coffs airspace - we were directed over the water - there didn't appear to be any Coffs traffic at all.  Does RPT pay really, really, really big bucks for the vast areas of private airspace around Australia.

51 minutes ago, onetrack said:

WSI is the IATA code for the new Western Sydney Airport. There is no ICAO code for WSI at this point in time.

Should be YSLH - Sydney, Lawrence Hargrave or YSHI - Sydney, Hargrave International or even YKHI, just a boost for the trogs in the blue mountains

YLHI was already taken

31 minutes ago, onetrack said:

WSI is the IATA code for the new Western Sydney Airport. There is no ICAO code for WSI at this point in time.

Wirrida Siding Airport - YWSI

55 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

There is only one authority in the world like CASA & that's CASA.

If you want to measure incompetence you can't really go past ACCC, ACMA or ASIC - actually they are as bad as all the other QANGOs and departments.

7 hours ago, FlyingVizsla said:

I couldn't watch the AGM as we were otherwise engaged.  Does anyone know which resolution got up?

Motion 4 was withdrawn by the board

Motion 5 failed to get the numbers in a poll and was roundly defeated in the ballot.

I appreciate the sentiment but maybe an entrenched board member should be re-voted every year after having served 9 years unless there is a gap of 1 year after which the clock starts clocking again.