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OH Shit! I new Ray. He was a great bloke. Gone too soon!

Anyone know which organisation operated the aircraft?

While that statement is likely to be statistically correct, there will always be outriders in the data used to determine the statistical distribution. Those outriders range from "not bloody likely" to be videoing, to "never do anything without videoing" I don't know who the person was, but, based on the person's reported previous aeronautical experience, I think they'll find his phone back in the briefing room.

Let's give the poor kid a bit of credit. He's supposed to have had 40 hours experience, and it's pretty sure that he had soloed in another type long before this. While I could see a teenager of today on a very first solo being likely to want to Tik Tok the flight, this young person would probably be a bit blase about a flight that could possibly have been a simple type endorsement sort of flight. Afterall, how many of us have gained experience in a more simple plane like a basic C-172, then later trained for an CSU/Retractable endorsement? You do the training with the instructor who confirms that you know how to push and pull the levers correctly, then the instructor sends you off for a couple of hours of circuits and bumps to get more practice. My money is on something simple going amiss, like the seat coming loose. There's plenty of places for forced landings around that airport if there was a need for one due to power loss.

In another thread here, someone suggested that it may have been something so simple as the seat becoming unlocked and sliding back. If the pilot had accrued the 40 hours in RAA types before going over to the C-172, one could surmise that those hours were in a Jabiru. That aircraft doesn't have the adjustable seat positioning that the C-172 has. Could the cause have been the simple failure to ensure that the seat was locked to the support rails?

They look like this:

There is a big difference in culpability between the operator of any machine who loses control of it due to an unprecedented medical incident (heart attack, stroke, sneezing attack, or even an insect bite on the face) and a loss of control due to a failure to follow a the medical advice to manage a chronic condition. In the Daylesford incident, the driver had a chronic condition; had a means to obtain real-time information, and the means to deal with any adverse information. His failure to act on that information goes to prove an element of the charge against him - driving in a manner dangerous to the public. As to the comment that it took some time to lay charges against him, that's not unreasonable. Police are dealing with a complex investigation that not only includes a complete recording of the evidence and the obtaining of witness statements, but, as they say, the job's not over until the paperwork is done. The man faces the loss of his liberty for very many years. That fact must be held in the highest regard, as does the fact that a judicial Inquiry must find that the allegations made by the Crown have been found to be undoubtedly correct. Another delay will be caused by waiting for the completion of the Coronial Inquests into the deaths. Those Inquests will produce the evidence to prove that the beings named in the indictment were humans; that their deaths occurred as a result of the collision "in, near, or upon" the vehicle, and the date of death. Also remember that if a person was seriously injured in a collision, and died within a year and one day of the incident, all other causes of the death being eliminated, then the death is attributed to the collision, which would change the allegation from one of causing Grievous Bodily Harm to causing death.

I'm not being critical of the above posts, however, I am astounded that a country that is supposedly fighting for its very existence can continue to produce items that really are "luxury" goods. By "luxury goods" I mean things that are not immediately essential for anyone's survival. Another example of luxury goods are plastic scale model kits that are being produced in the Ukraine and exported worldwide. It seems that many of us have no idea of the size of the Ukraine, or how advanced its industry is. It makes one cry in despair that a Nation that has enjoyed peace and stability since its creation (Australia) and has a well educated population cannot establish an industrial base, despite the abundance of resources, both physical and mental, it possesses. Congratulations on developing the process to make these trim pieces. There is a very big market for them. I know I was looking for replacement trim items for a Grumman Traveler.

The words "rebuild" and "restore" have the implication of "big, bigger, biggest". A rebuild is a bigger task than a restoration. Renovate: restore (something old) to a good state of repair. Restore: repair or renovate so as to return it to its original condition. Rebuild: build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed.

Did the prop strike the ground during the incident? I think that there is a mod to make the nose wheel assembly less prone to folding. Keep us posted with progress.

Isn't the technique when taking off or landing a taildragger to look roughly 45 degrees ahead and to the side to keep the path of the aircraft parallel to the side of the runway to so you know the aircraft is going straight? With lack of forward vision, you could use the same technique to line up with the runway when on Finals.

The asbestos is there alright. The leaseholder knows all about it. The work I do on Bankstown and Camden is required so that the tenants meet the conditions of their leases. It is very simple stuff that is required to comply with the AIRPORTS (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) REGULATIONS. I've been doing it for ten years now and over that time have often tried to contact the Airport Environment Officer for clarification of matters. I await a response. The leaseholder has failed in its requirement to promote aviation at those airports. I am pretty sure that the same applies to the behaviour of the leaseholders of the major GA airports in the other Capitols.

So, for registration and licensing purposes, is it a watercraft or an aircraft?

That's convenient for the bloke who lives in the Sydney Metropolitan Area and has organised his finances to pay for a lesson per week. And where are these businesses going to erect premises at Camden? Any space between the present hangars and the river is flood-prone. The glider hangars are just dirt-floor sheds. You can't build on the slope above the hangar area because the ground is full of asbestos. There's not a lot of room beside Rwy 24 past Phoenix Aero Club. And those premises won't be simple steel-framed sheds sheeted with Colorbond. The building standards required by the leaseholder, Aeria, require adherence to today's commercial building codes.