But it is the conspiracy theorists who most stridently defend the indefensible - the difficulty with leaving them unchallenged is that, emboldened, they will come out with more outrageous claims which will be raised to the level of holy writ by their fellow travellers.

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4 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

Makes sense. 

Only if you NEED/WANT a profit .

 

Lower the ' fee's & charges ' so you Don't need to invest surplus funds. 

spacesilor

Reserves can only be built up by achieving a surplus of income over expenditure (profit). RAAus doesn't have poker machines or a liquor licence to create the rivers of gold that you seem to imagine RAAus is achieving.  I don't know what the reserves policy is but I imagine it is confidential so as not to attract the attention of greedy litigants and avaricious legal firms.   If you read the Annual Report and attend the AGM you could ask the board - or better still run for a board seat.

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

Not for profit that owns investment properties in the a c t.

"The shit might happen"  and the unspent portions of members subscriptions reserves have to be invested somewhere. Why not property? It would be unwise not to get the best returns on members funds.

On 30/06/2023 at 9:39 AM, jackc said:

RAA is a company, not a non profit and it has to make money, which is easy for a monopoly. They are worse than Banks of which you get choices.

It might be a company but it is a not for profit owned by the members. There are disbursements, like wages for the staff, but the members get no dividends and the directors (elected by the members) might get lucky and score a Vegemite sandwich at the board meetings.

You do have choice, you could go GA and I don't see anyone with a gun at your head forcing you to go flying.

On 22/06/2023 at 6:25 PM, RFguy said:

has anyone been able to LODGE a flight plan with the Android version ? I get some weird hex code and ' unknown error' FFS.

Mine works fine.  Lodge a support request with RWY.  They are pretty responsive.

4 hours ago, RFguy said:

If Trig is transmitting ADS-B, SE2 should be set NOT to transmit ADS-B and be in a receive only mode,
Which do you have ?

A given but the transponder and SE2 details should match, including the both Air raft Id and ICOA code, when the transponder has no ADSB-OUT and the SE2 IS transmitting.

On 27/05/2023 at 9:08 PM, EyrekraftPylut said:

Hi everybody 

I have a Trig transponder in my plane. I believe this transmits as mode s. I don’t show up on Flightradar24. Am I able to use a sky echo2 as an extra safety device whilst the transponder is still switched to alt?

 

Make sure your Trig is set up with the right aircraft Id - ABC for GA or R1234 for RAAus and that you code the same into the SE2. FlightRadar24 can then see you properly and you can search it for your trips.  

Most organisations are subject to laws/rules that provide access to the membership register (in some way or other).  Expulsion can, sometimes, be a bastard act of executive tyranny or an act of organisational self preservation.

On 04/06/2023 at 3:08 PM, Chris_LSZO said:

Because my employer's office is there...

Actually I live in a very tiny village. I like Sydney very much (I've been there 5 times) but I will not live in the center, I look for a house about 1h-1.5h away. Never I would like to live inside this huge city. I'll work from home and travel around to visit clients.

 

Chris

You could buy at The Oaks - not a bad little town - and enjoy the conviviality of Dave's Flying School.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/?fbclid=IwAR2H7_ys5T1O-53SrKKnRu4OVbhmoqvbewk-sNun9vkZ1yHJnob5R6nXC1g

21 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Hard to beat the Jabs on price, rugged/durable airframe, predictable handling BUT "great aircraft to fly"  - what are you comparing it/them to ??

apart from the limitations on MTOW, "great aircraft to fly" !!

NSW GOV Property Report for 995 BURRAGORANG ROAD THE OAKS 2570

13006623-db84-4f8c-bf0b-f0df67222144.pdf

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

So far I haven't found the Local Planning Scheme link, but accidentally found the offshoot to input an address and get a lot of Planning Detail Mapping about the site.

 

Link:   https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/spatialviewer/#/find-a-property/address

 

This is an interactive map with a Menu list to bring up various aspects like differnt Zones in the map area. Takes a few hours to learn it well, but it will give you heaps of information.

 

 

 

The Home Map will look like this for the above address 995 Burragorang Rd, The Oaks.

Thanks Turbs.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Yes it has online data.

Go to DA Tracker area and you will see new Developments advertised.

In the module you should be able to put in the property address and see its history of DAs and their outcomes, any new ones and also get a set of reports on its current Zoning, permits, conditions, maps etc. That will tell you if there’s a current proposal to change it. Being a long term airfield it would have Existing Rights Use as an unhindered airport. Beware of the word Masterplan. This is usually the vehicle where the owner gives up his Existing Use Rights for whatever has been cooked up in the masterplan and the clock starts again from zero. The owners of a council airport are the ratepayers, but quite often they don’t bother to put their foot down. We’ve lost a few airports that way.

I've hit a wall on 995 Burragorang Rd, The Oaks NSW 2570, AU. I found the deposited plan number but that didn't work either.  Maybe the plans are still being developed for the owner(s).  Maybe, as they say, "move along, nothing to see here!" but we should keep our eyes and ears open just in case the bad people start getting greedy.

7 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

I am very lucky, in that I have a selection of headsets (acquired over many years/aircraft changes) to choose from. 

On long trips I favour a David Clark H10-13 XL ENC (noise canceling) set . Shorter sorties, I use a set pf Peltor 7004's. 

On my last aircraft both headsets worked perfectly. New aircraft and the  DC's have transmitting issues - sometimes good other times poor. The Peltor's are still great.

I have noticed that the DC's have a slightly diffrent transmit jack (more contacts) than the Peltor's

From distant memory, I think that I must have a transmit socket incompatibility  - please comment & advise.

Photos please

Cheers

On 30/04/2023 at 10:54 AM, old man emu said:

Yes. I recall the discussion. But how does CASA justify denying a medical clearance that they claim is based on a medical standard that allows me to drive a fully loaded B-Double down Parramatta Road in peak hour, yet I am not allowed to fly a 1200 kg four-seater aeroplane (basic C-172) in Day VMC? Did I mention that the same NHVR medical report allows me to retain my Public Passenger Vehicle Driver Authority? Which means that I can drive a bendy bus full of primary school-aged children all over Sydney, and even from Sydney to Canberra so that they can visit the Seat of Government.

 

I haven't looked at the way to appeal, but since the name of the highly qualified medico who knocked me back is Obaid Soomro, I don't think an appeal would have a snowflake's hope in Hell of succeeding. To quote from the email: you have a disqualifying condition prescribed in subregulation 67.263(2) of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR). Or in other words:

I wouldn't give 75% of the drivers on Parramatta Rd a licence of any description.

27 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

"Masterplan" and "subject to council approval"  AKA (notoriously) as STCA are the RED ALERT signals.

 

I take it no one has taken my advice to go on the Council site and see what Planning Applications have been made on the property

A lot of airports have been lost to aviation simply because none of the owners bothered to check, or thought a new plan with neat factories couldn't do any harm.

.........

I did a quick check last night but nothing turned up.  Maybe STCA is as far as it got.

In NSW we have "freedom FROM information" which is implemented by either telling nothing, overloading the senses with an excessively excessive amount of info or by creating a clean space, placing the notice and then covering it with rubbish hoping that no-one will notice.

I will keep hunting.

Cheers

Is there any info about the future of The Oaks? (or any vicious rumours)?

14 minutes ago, Thruster88 said:

I stopped watching the news and everything else on free TV about 7 years ago  never been happier.  

I don't watch pay TV and I couldn't be happier (as is my bank balance)

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

The first report on this site was the ABC report, and I would say it helped because it showed an engine failure followed by much the same level on injury you'd get in a car that didn't quite hit a tree dead centre.

 

 

If you then asked the question of all the serious RA accidents over the past 15 years, the process is usually:

 

1. First on the scene are civilian witnesses, property owner.

2. Someone phones emergency services  and Fire, Police, Ambulance are on the scene.

3. The local newspaper gets a call and sends a reporter out.

 

At this point in most cases none of the people on site are aircraft/flying professionals; this sequence of arrivals occurs at every incident in town from a fuel spill to a car accident, an escape of stock onto a road, a fall on the footpath by one of the town treasures, an outbreak of a virus at the hospital, and so on.

 

The reporter these days goes through 5 years of Uni studying processes, sourcing, editing, etc., so starts asking questions, getting the vital details, time, location, how the incident started.

 

Not surprisingly the available interviewees providing the answers are not going to have industry knowledge e.g. they know a truck has crashed, but they don't know it's one of the new K220s, however the story is sourced, the source stacks up and the Editor approves the story for release. The next stop is the hospital to see how the people are doing and a new set of non-aviation people are now talking.

 

It's the same process when someone breaks their back falling off a horse; who among the first responders and the newspaper reporter would know it was a Palomino cross and that particular cross is known for getting rid of riders?

 

And in the course of a year in most towns there are probably  a couple of hundred similar incidents requiring a couple of hundred streams of personal knowledge stretching back decades. Neither the First Responders nor the journalist are expected to have those decades of knowledge on 200 different subjects.

 

But that doesn't stop the people that do have the detailed knowledge airing their expert views on the quality of the story, whether more than three readers would actually read a flying story or not so life goes on.

 

So let's look back over the reports of serious accidents which made the news over the past 15 years and featured on this site. In how many cases did you see a correct (for the unfolding situation) assessment from the RAA as part of the story, injecting that missing industry knowledge?

 

In Planning, I've had plenty of journalists phone me with what they've managed to get, and ask for a comment, and when I've asked what the deadline was so I could research it, the deadline was 40 minutes away, but I've still made the effort to get a few words in, and they've never been left out of the report, and that covers a lot of years.  For the 6 pm TV news that's usually no more than 7 words, but it balances the story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be nice if more journos had a better education at uni in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

53 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Not to be a nark, but this thread has gone way, way off the original topic. That's not to say that what is currently being discussed is not worthwhile of itself. So what if we return this thread to the original topic, but carry on the fuel storage topic elsewhere?

OME has provided a new thread/topic at

https://www.recreationalflying.com/topic/38977-on-fuel-bulk-storage-getting-clean-fuel-and-so-on/

please use it.

1 hour ago, skippydiesel said:

Schools fuel is brought in 20L containers as & when required - bulk fuel tank trailer no longer used.

Does that include the "newish" bulk trailer that is less than 5(ish) years old?

25 minutes ago, RFguy said:

I want to investigate buying drum or drums  of ULP98.  Anyone here much experience with buying drums? I bet there are.

 

IE not necessarily premium unleaded with all the fancy additives, just ULP98, which is listed in a few of the available products.

 

Is a single drum on a trailer and approved screw into drum pump/ filter reasonable or is it better to have a bigger - say 600-100 ltrs  fuel trailer and fill that up from a truck ?  I dont really want to encounter / infringe on needing large volume storage permits etc.  And a drum a week would be plenty.

-glen

 

talk to the people at Sydney Recreational Flying Club (SRFC) at The Oaks.  They have a fuel trailer and have used drums in the past.

5 hours ago, BrendAn said:

From what I have been told the 1600 was brilliant and the early solid lifter motors were great too. Has the gen4 overcome all the troubles of the last few models.

Can you provide links to any authoritative sources?