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I quite certain that is the wrong tornado in your avatar.....Maybe you meant this one?

Medically, is there a reason that they would leave the aircraft upside down while they extract the occupants? From the photos in this thread, there were more than enough people to get it upright again. If events like those you explained occur, it would make it very sensible to flip it back over again, as soon as possible.

No-one WON the last election, the least worst option was elected to minimise the amount of damage.

That is really simple......If they do actually cause any damage or harm, make them pay for it. The strict liability is only to make life easy for prosecutors, if you break the law there needs to be proof that harm was done. No harm ,no case. It won't work with our current system of course because the lawyers will be looking for the deepest pockets, the regulators and the training establishments etc. It needs to be kept at the lowest level. Remember that article you posted about the idiot backpacker who turned herself into a quadriplegic in Tassie? Well that was her fault, no one else's. You always ask "who's going to pay for her lifetime of care?". Well she should have thought about that before being a dill. It's her problem. Unfortunately we have a system that works differently, and there's always someone else to blame. Before you rabbit on about seeing a PL lawyer, I know it doesn't work that way, I just think our current system is rubbish and needs to change.

I have no problem with training those who want it, but I am of the opinion that as a society , we need to let go of the idea that we can save everyone from themselves by controlling everything they do. Sure, have quality training available for all who desire it, and mandatory for those who fly where a mistake can harm others, but does it really matter if Joe bloggs smears himself doing low level aeros in his own back paddock? Instead of those twats on The Project saying "Are we doing enough to stop the senseless deaths?", we should be hearing something like "Another clown quietly chlorinates his gene pool, happily he didn't involve anyone else, so, moving on to other more important news now......" In any case Nev, I doubt that I will manage to change the way our society sees things given that their dependence of their government to provide everything for them is only growing, while personal responsibility is shrinking. So not much to worry about except the ever increasing regulation that comes with it.

You may be surprised (or not) to find that a lot of humour is not factually correct. The sentiment rings true on this one.......You know....the idea that an expensive piece of plastic will somehow stop terrorism.

As long as they do it by themselves away from anyone else, does it really matter? It's only a problem when they start taking out the public. It's not like we need more people on the planet.

What we've established is that people make mistakes even after they were taught. Mistakes will continue to be made because we're human, some of those mistakes are made because we are conditioned to be afraid of breaking the "rules", when we should be afraid ( or at least respectful) of breaking the laws of physics.

I put new ones on when I rebuilt an aircraft that had low hours but everything was 15 years old. I got them from Repco, who were the cheapest at the time, but not as cheap as one might like. Bought singly, the price is not so offensive. Go to line 13. https://www.ngk.com.au/products/resistor-caps/ edit: From memory NGK wouldn't sell them to me, just advised me who their dealers were. I had the Repco guy get them in for me and were somewhere between $12 and $15 a piece, which is good when you consider Supercheap is asking $31.00

The very idea that you tell someone how to do something but not actually allow them to do it. Pulling up ( To avoid the ground in a stall) and turning back (EFATO) seem to be quite instinctive, and people still seem to do it despite being taught otherwise. The correct action needs to be instinctive, and to do that I think the training in this respect needs to be repetitive hands on. not on a whiteboard.

You only have to look at the standard of driving in the country to see that people often do not do what they were taught to do. Don’t see why that wouldn’t carry over to aviation. That said, I believe the standard of driver training to be considerably worse than flight training.

If I’m not mistaken, that’s his current wife, Victoria.

The Angle of Attack and an Angle of Attack indicator are two different things. You can control the relative airflow by manipulating the controls according to you own senses or you could rely on an AoA indicator to guide you if you have one. Go straight to about 1min.....you may appreciate his sentiments

Either way way the lift vector, regardless of whether thrust contributes, has to exceed gravity at least long enough to become airborne. Lift could be from a moving airfoil, thrust from a rotating airfoil, pure jet/rocket thrust or a large pocket of of lighter than air material. In a tow launch glider the thrust vector is negative, but they still climb. The OP question didn't specify fixed wing powered flight only.

How would describe a jet pack? I would consider that flying using thrust vectoring.

And that’s why the question needs to be more defined. Rockets and missiles usually have control surfaces. They fly.

The very vague question has been used by at least one instructor that I have encountered. I think the idea was to ask a question vague enough so that whatever You answered you were wrong and the instructor would then enlighten you. I think the question needs to be more defined. to become airborne, lift must exceed gravity. If it doesn’t you’re not flying. There are quite a few different ways to do this though.

I disagree.... They were my first experiences of "feeling" the airflow and trying to control inputs accordingly.

That was the cue do kick it away and bail, or at least slide back to change the CoG. Weightshift flying.

I tried bed sheets for parachutes, usually off the water tanks which were close to gutter height. I wrecked my mum's umbrella doing that. I did find that I could get a reasonable glide laying on top of a sheet of masonite. Too much AoA and you would backslide, which wasn't as bad as negative AoA which would tuck under.

Don't spill fuel on it, especially where it is stressed from bending. Try that on a scrap piece.

I never broke anything trying to fly. I spent considerable time making my wings that attached to my arms, with my grandfather constantly over my shoulder "It'll never work". I wouldn't believe him until I had established that for myself. I didn't jump off anything with them. I just ran down the hill flapping my wings until I was tired. In hindsight, I had way too little wing area.

I tried that when I was about 4...I was unsuccessful.

I foresee some having an allergy to WD40 or hands slipping off the lubricated swing causing them to be quadriplegic.....