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    Hi Thommo, Are you at Orange Airport on a regular basis. I was thinking about flying up next week (or even tomorrow) from The Oaks to see my brother. If you are around we could chat about some training in the C140 so I can get a TW endo. Cheers, Col
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    Godspeed Andy and thanks for being an extremely open and dedicated member of the RAA Board. Your presence will be missed but I hope you stay on the forum and continue to contribute your sage advice. Cheers Col
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    The control Instrument CASA 292/14 ceases on 30th June, 2015. Does anyone have any insight about what CASA proposes to do from the 1st of July? CASA 292/14 Directions/Civil Aviation as made This instrument prescribes operating limitations on aircraft fitted with engines manufactured by, or under licence from or under a contract with, Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd to manage risks arising from a high incidence of engine loss-of-power events and other reliability issues. Administered by: Infrastructure and Regional Development Made 22 Dec 2014 Registered 23 Dec 2014 Date of Ceasing To be ceased 30 Jun 2015 Reason for Ceasing Self Ceasing http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_102353
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    Did you do a flight review?
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    It isn't the L2 or LAME or the self educated pilot who keeps across the maintenance needs of the plane they own. The people who worry me are those who don't know what they don't know but will still do their own maintenance. I suspect that this is the true reason that our costs are so high - insurance to cover the potential that an owner maintained aircraft is going to fall out of the sky together with the necessary bureaucracy to ensure that someone will offer insurance. The true cost of going over the road over 300 feet
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    Now, if he had just gone via Geralton he could have picked up CAGIT on the way. London would be an interesting place to bring it back from. You are doing well Michael. Enjoy, skål!!!
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    Successive government have worked on the basis that they are running an economy not a society and that the experts in the field are the manufacturers not the consumers. So the government (a commonwealth) now does not act for its members and even on its own behalf fails the test of informed client - how can they receive good advice on fx engineering and mining when they don't engage professional engineers and scientists to provide this advice rather than lawyers and accountants. DCA used to be an engineering organisation - I'm buggered if I know what it is now.
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    And equally, of course, a nose over may well, also, lead to an engine stoppage. As would turning off the magnetos. The stoppage in both cases would not have been the root cause but was a secondary effect.
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    Don, My CFI told me that I need 3 different hats - 1 for the Warrior, 1 for the Foxbat and 1 for the Jabiru and don't wear the wrong one on the wrong day in the wrong plane. You are correct about the blurring between heavy/powerful RA and less powerful lightweight GA. I don't have a LP RAA rating but I would imagine that the step from say a Warrior to a Drifter might take a little time to master. Perhaps RAA, in its continual review of services, might examine the range of services it provides to work out which ones are core (registration, licencing, advocacy) and those which could be regarded as non-core eg insurance and charge a fee for service for non-core. RAA has, for instance, already decided that the paper magazine is non core and thus separately chargeable. If your illustration of PPL(only) in an RAA plane holds true is the insurance compromised or is that attached to the hull and therefore not a logical charge against the pilots and FTFs but rather a charge against the hull owners?
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    ???? I keep getting told that the new board is cleaning up its act. This is terrible news!!
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    As is commonsense and quiet contemplation of the whole task at hand.
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    You suggested "Do you wish to fund the ABC, if so state $ amount" this then leads to all sorts of optional payments "Do you wish to fund the defence forces?, if so state $ amount", "Do you wish to fund the pensions?, if so state $ amount", "Do you wish to fund education?, if so state $ amount", "Do you wish to fund sport?, if so state $ amount", "Do you wish to give tax breaks to farmers?, if so state $ amount". I thought we were trying to cut down on the paperwork in filling out a tax return. It may well be that the ABC is a left wing rat hole from your perspective because you are somewhere over there to the right with the feral commentators who are paid by Murdoch and Gengis Khan.
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    Thanks for the meat, now we can work on it. WRT millions - I'm not sure about the numbers but if 2/3 of the membership is plastic pilots then they are contributing over a million a year. I am hoping that part of the audit of Services V Revenue that RAA "should" be doing will reveal who are the "Lifters" and who are the "Leaners". Part of my complaint about ditching the magazine was that it may be the major return I was getting for the membership fee I pay.
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    Rather a broadbrush series of statements. Perhaps you should put some meat and muscle on the skeletons so we can see where you are missing out. A similar statement could be made that the cookiecut, manufactured aircraft have less problems per member (and plane) than the homemades. The millions of dollars the readymades pour into RAA goes to help all planes and pilots and the necessary activities to support them.
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    For RAA See https://www.raa.asn.au/contact/forms/ Section "Applying for an ASIC" but first read https://www.raa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Before-applying-for-your-ASIC1.pdf If your licence is CASA try http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_90103 Cheers (og skål)
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    Why should they go. Other than the demands of NIMBYs what good reason is there to screw over the armed forces by sending them out to Cobar. It is not a matter of looking down or up someones nose but maybe the people who demand that the services vacate should themselves move and those doing it tough for the rest of us can continue in congenial accommodation where the facilities and families currently exist. Putting the NSW Parliament at Cobar might be a great idea
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    The developer mentality - just kick the sailors, soldiers and airmen out of the way. Where to? Who cares, just not in my backyard!!!
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    But slotting into that tight spot requires human intervention and if you don't worry yourself about forced landings and do some serious training that tight spot my come, and go, before your very eyes when you most need it. The training should include bringing the bird all the way down with the throttle off to 500 feet and on final to prove to yourself that you can get into that tight spot.
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    Well, there are chief engineers and chief engineers and chief engineers. One once told me that if Gough got elected there would be no more elections. Some chief engineers are just a little too touchy. I don't regard myself as being proficient in engine failures recoveries although I am intrigued by all this talk about how quiet it gets when the fan stops. Maybe in my next 300 hours. Or, perhaps, take up gliding to experience quiet solitude. Have you worked out where the plane was going from and if there was fuel on board?
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    That is the problem with metrics it doubles the distance. Same thing happened with decimal currency, it doubled the price of everything. Daylight saving faded the curtains as well.
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    Whittling - no, not at all - the Telegraph starts with something innocuous and conflate with rumour, inuendo, misinformation and bile to wholly transform the narrative into something totally useless except to a conspiracy theorist. By contrast farmers' re-purposing usually works very well.
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    Everyone is holding off, waiting for that journal of erudition and truth, the Daily Telegraph, to cobble together a sow's ear out of a silk purse.
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    Ah, the Telegraph, a journal of repute and truth in Sydney.
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    RAA has scholarships as does the federation of AeroClubs. Check with an RAA Flying School or https://www.raa.asn.au/gyfts/ you local aero club or http://rfaca.com.au/learn-to-fly-scholarship/ Do you need a car? trains and pushbikes will save you lots of money - even a cheap postie big will deliver value for money. Keep well
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    At SFC, Bankstown - PA28 $345/hr dual + $19 landing fees/flight or circuits block. GST INCLUDED At Gostner , Camden - PA28 $310+$31/hr dual + $25 landing fee. GST INCLUDED I would suspect that among PA28s in the cities that this rate would be competitive. If you only ever expect to fly a Jabiru or Foxbat into controlled airspace then do your RPL in something like those. If you want to fly an RAA plane into controlled airspace you will probably just need the RPL with the controlled airspace endorsement and a PC. This will save you having to do a nav endo and instrument hours - I suspect - any ideas anyone? There is still the question of what plane do you do your RPL Flight Review in.
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