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are the mob are overstating the threat of PFAS to force the cleanup?

People are dying from believing the mob's lies?

food for thought @M61A1

Qantas steers around 457 visa crackdown with deal for overseas pilots Qantas is undertaking one of the biggest pilot training programs in its history. Share on twitter by David Marin-Guzman Qantas has struck an agreement with the Turnbull government to get around new restrictions on skilled visa workers and recruit overseas pilots for long-term stays. The labour agreement granted last month allows the airline's regional arm, QantasLink, to bring 76 pilots and instructors into the country for up to four years, avoiding new two-year restrictions that block permanent residency. Qantas is the most high-profile company to be granted a labour agreement this year, in what is an emerging tool for employers to address the government's crackdown on the skilled visa system. The airline, which has 3500 pilots in total, is going through one of the biggest pilot training programs in its history, with plans to train 100 pilots a year in a new centre to open in 2019. The pending introduction of 14 Dreamliners has meant Qantas needs to train pilots to move up the ranks, to replace those it has promoted to fly the new aircraft. However, the airline has struggled to recruit enough instructors and believes two-year visa restrictions on overseas pilots, which came into full effect in March, are globally uncompetitive. The labour agreement will allow it to bring in overseas pilot instructors, as well as pilots for low-level propeller aircraft, with the intake to be renegotiated after the first year. While their visa stay will be limited to four years, the workers will be cleared for a pathway to permanent residency after that period. A Qantas spokesperson said: "Our focus has always been to recruit Australian-based pilots and that hasn't changed. "This agreement allows us to temporarily bring in a limited number of simulator instructors and experienced pilots from overseas to support one of the biggest training programs we have done in our history." Industry deals Labour agreements date back to 1989, but have attracted renewed interest after the Turnbull government restricted permanent residency pathways for skilled visa workers, scrapped a range of eligible occupations and introduced dozens of business prerequisites. Other companies granted labour agreements this year include Inpex Australia, which runs the Ichthys LNG project, beef exporter Teys Australia and Sydney harbour fine-dining restaurant Aqua Dining. Ernst & Young's global immigration head, Wayne Parcell, said his firm has seen an increase in inquiries from employers about labour agreements, particularly for airline services and the regional health sector. "They really provide the only pathway to loosening the criteria that people have to sponsor people who are not on one of those designated lists or are in occupations that don't quite fit," he said. 'No easy pathway' Department of Immigration and Border Protection secretary Mike Pezzullo told a Senate estimates hearing in May that labour agreements were a "better targeted measure" to address company-specific requirements for skilled workers. "There is no reason for anyone to be devastated about anything," he said in response to a backlash to the visa changes. "They can engage with us on a labour agreement, they can engage with us on any number of alternative pathways." However, Mr Parcell said his understanding was the department did not see such agreements as its "favoured option", as it viewed them as a "regulation breaker". Information requirements for the agreements were also "incredibly intensive", with documents needing to demonstrate economic benefit, labour market testing, skill and salary levels. "It's not an easy pathway by any means," he said. "You won't be looking at it for low-paid, low-skilled occupations because of the high level of sensitivity [surrounding such agreements]." Qantas strikes deal to relax visa restrictions for overseas pilots

who would have thought this would have gone this way when they introduced it. CASA changes "two in the cockpit" rule - Australian Aviation

Ka-ching

the Political Correctness Filter is working

just about every chinese generator you buy these days has a low oil level protection built in because dipsticks aren't idiot proof

cars don't need the same amount of care that they used to, there is a lot of innovation in automotive areas that aviation would resist implementing, lots of cars have removed dipsticks and replaced them with level sensors, aviation industry has resisted introducing a lot of electronic devices.

For the last 20 years, If QANTAS needs mechanics it leans on CASA to push for foreign mechanics to work here. It doesn't fix the system, it just bypasses the problem.

RAA could offer an entry path for mechanics, they do it for pilots. the RAA is probably the largest aviation training organisation in australia

there is a hole that the RAA could be filling that is not. Mechanics have to come from somewhere

older aircraft are bound to have asbestos brake pads and possibly fuel line flame shields. Anyone that has spent time at a major airport has been exposed to PFAS

I haven't seen anything like that on a rotax engine

there aren't a lot of rotary engines out there, so every new one is a step into the unknown

I looked into a rotary conversion and that was feedback that was floating around, the size and shape of the seals means it doesn't take much of a build up to destroy the compression

I wouldn't buy a samsung phone to be honest, Dynon are trying to get costs down, its a shame they aren't offering a fix.

have a listen to it start up from cold without a prop on it and see if the valve train is noisy

all of the documented conversions I could find on the net all complained that the lead deposits interfered with the seals eventually. might go ok if you run unleaded

Rotaries never worked with avgas

"Suspended" because the fuel submitted aren't fit for purpose, where are the alternatives?

Lycons are legacy technologies, the FAA has abandoned the unleaded fuel trial just recently. its not looking good for a lot of older GA aircraft

Lycons don't run on JetA1 one of the most spectacular failures of that technology

memory chips have a limited life you can only read and write to them so many times. in this case it looks like it just needs reflashing