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Aus Roads Standards at Austroads - Assessing Fitness to Drive 2016 (as amended up to August 2017) What is not indicated is if you can get a Basic Class 2 if you only qualify for a conditional private or commercial MV licence eg Diabetes with Insulin control.

looks like you will have to plan a trip to Cessnock - please report back and give us a heads up on things like locating the cafe, distance to the flight line etc.

From AOPA 30/11/17 11am(ish) BASIC CLASS 2 - PRIVATE PILOT MEDICAL ANNOUNCED! Thursday 30th November Thousands of pilots are set to benefit from major reforms to the aviation medical certificate system. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is cutting aviation medical certificate red tape to make it easier for pilots to continue to fly safely. The reforms include creating a new category of private pilot medical certificate, allowing non passenger carrying commercial operations under a full Class 2 medical certificate and increasing the delegation of medical decision making to medical professionals. The new medical certificate category to be known as a basic Class 2 will be available to private pilots flying piston engine powered aircraft carrying up to five non fare paying passengers. Operations will be limited to the daytime visual flight rules and will be permitted in all classes of airspace. This basic Class 2 medical certificate will require an assessment by a doctor using the Austroads commercial vehicle driver standards. General practitioners will be able to carry out assessments. These commercial vehicle medical standards currently apply to drivers of heavy vehicles, public passenger vehicles and vehicles carrying bulk dangerous goods. They cover medical issues such as cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, psychiatric conditions, blackouts substance abuse and vision and hearing disorders. The new basic Class 2 medical will be valid for a maximum of five years up to the age of 40 and a maximum of two years above the age of 40. The current unrestricted Class 2 medical certificate will remain in place for private pilots operating aircraft up to 8618 kilograms with a maximum of nine non fare paying passengers. This unrestricted Class 2 medical will be used under all flight rules and allow for operations in all classes of airspace. Importantly, pilots flying commercial operations with no passengers – such as flying training and aerial agriculture – will now be able to do so on the basis of an unrestricted Class 2 medical certificate. Previously these operations required the pilot to hold a Class 1 medical certificate. CASA’s CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, Shane Carmody, said the reforms to the aviation medical system maintain appropriate safety standards while offering flexibility and reduced red tape. “CASA has been engaged with the aviation community and made a series of fundamental reforms to aviation medical certification,” Mr Carmody said. “We have initially focussed on changes that benefit general aviation because this sector has been telling us the current medical certification system was causing real difficulties. “In the interests of public safety it is important that pilots meet relevant medical standards but the system must not make unnecessary demands and should meet the needs of the aviation community. “I am pleased we are making changes that will see more appropriate medical standards applied to flying training and aerial agriculture – two vital sectors of Australian aviation. “CASA will now continue to review the aviation medical system to identify possible improvements in areas such as using medical data more effectively, further streamlining processes, further reducing CASA involvement in medicals and harmonising with global best practices. “It is CASA’s role to maintain appropriate aviation safety standards but the requirements must not unnecessarily burden Australian aviation and hinder development and growth.” The reforms to aviation medical certification will be progressively introduced during 2018.

Congratulations!! Set yourself up for a visit to HARS in Wollongong, they make great steak sandwiches. Don't forget your ASIC.

Engineers and designers are acutely aware of the stresses and strains that their products are put through. there is some beef built in to all products to cover material variability, environmental and operator extremes but at the end of the day all products need to be built to a price that satisfies the market. If people want absolute fail safe and idiot proof that is an entirely different market with an entirely different price point. Engineers and designers can build for that market but are the idiots who need this design prepared to pay for it? automotive engineers build for a fit for use market as do all engineers. what we need is a market that buys for THEIR INTENDED use.

Are you quoting peak or continuous power?

There are 1 each from Vic and NSW, three from Qld, and one each from Tas and SA. Hardly NSW and Vic ruling.

You can do RPC at Bankstown, Camden, The Oaks, Warnervale or Wollongong. The prices will be higher at both Bankstown and Camden as will be the congestion. There appear to be some difficulties doing RPC solos at YSBK and YSCN but this may have been overcome. Where do you live?

Nope! I just described the nanny private enterprise. Under the state sponsored laizez faire economy in NSW we will continue to have compulsory insurance with no obligation on the insurance companies to pay out and no recourse to the courts. It is not a nanny state but state sponsored FU.

It is not the nanny state but the insurers imposing all sorts of strange conditions so that their exposure to injury claims can be minimised. I was a Marshall at a bike ride last week and was forced to wear enclosed shoes. I can't recall anyone having had a toe injury before and it really is shit giving. I suppose it is different in the states because the greatest threat, guns, cannot be excluded from public liability insurance so everything else is OK. Maybe we should legalise the open carry of loaded firearms to really give the insurance companies something to think about.

At 700 you can load up a Jab230 (or equiv) with 2POB, full tanks and more than a handbag (being under 100Kg would also help). I won't go into whose money is propping up RAA and whose planes load up the expenditure. RAA is less than transparent in this regard and I would imagine the guesswork about this on this forum is just guesswork.

You can always feed it from wind or solar or even another hydro system at peak water capacity. You could even use Liddell power while ever it is between breakdowns. Obviously AGL, a power provider and the owner of Liddell, is of the opinion that Liddell is a basket case and that they, AGL, can't make cheap electricity or a profit for its shareholders ,who include anyone with superannuation, by following the coal route or the entreaties, and sometimes outright lies, of the miners council, the coal companies and the idiots sitting on the extreme right of the Liberal and Country Parties.

Are you asking us to reject the mainline data in favour of outliers that supports the status quo? When I did experiments at school, university and in the workplace it was the outliers that were greeted with suspicion, but tested. Invariably outliers, which represented a small count in the data set could be explained by a variety of reasons including contamination.

You can't use your "new" BMIs with the old grades of redispositions. You need to associate new grades with the new BMIs "NBMI". An NBMI of 27 might mean that you are morbidly obese rather than Whippet thin.

At what point in training would you allow anyone to do what they pleased? Sometimes my parables are a little too thick.

In a country inhabited by imbeciles!!

Consider a medical student. At what point should they be permitted to conduct a vasectomy?

Might be filthy but they produce nothing like our levels of pollution Per head of population. If Asia increased its per capita pollution to our levels the result to the world would be catastrophic.

Most people understand the difference between selective logging and clearfelling, however the timber industry and politicians seem to think that clearfelling is actually selective logging.

Actually, it is the National Party, with its gun to the Liberals' head, that is the blight on government, business and community in Australia (and its states)

A better comparison would be RAA Certificate compared with the Recreational Pilot Licence. (Plus some endos). A bare bones licence doesn't get you instrument or night flying privileges.

what are the fees and in what aircraft?

You just missed your chance Hargraves. You could have used the AGM to bring on a vote about that which you have concern. There will be another General Meeting early next year for you to urge the members on.

It would also suggest that the council is confused and the requirement for an ASIC was never lifted nor the Certified status revoked. Council confused ticks all the boxes.

Thanks JEM, perhaps we should point John Barnden towards ERSA so that he can work out what the left hand has been up to (right hand)