Garfly
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Nobody's giving olde-world personal briefings to recreational flyers these days. Of course It's all done by machine (and if you're using an EFB's 'smart brief' app, it's based on your electronic flight plan - submitted or otherwise) and it's ready in an instant, no matter how close to your ETD. But the point is that people in power don't regard notams as conveyors of information so much as coverers of backsides (that is, their own). Who cares that the one crucial bit of info was buried deep in the middle of masses of irrelevant garbage.: "You can see, Your Honour, that the information was plainly available and so the agency itself is blameless and the prosecution rests its (strict liability) case."
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U.S. House Passes Bill to Improve NOTAM System https://www.flyingmag.com/u-s-house-passes-bill-to-improve-notam-system/ I, for one, am hoping that the same happens here. As I posted above: "Last year I wrote to OzRwys support about the way NOTAMs are handled in their SmartBrief feature" "I’m curious about how and by-whom notams get selected/ordered? Is there a way around having to wade through tons of dross to get to the few morsels that matter. For example in this little (test) plan, I was interested to see if the notam about the grass strip at Taree being unavailable, due soft and wet, would turn up. I reckon that this would be, perhaps, the most important piece of info for anyone flying in who didn’t otherwise know that. Well yes, it does turn up ... but right at the bottom of the very long list - at #58 in this particular instance." (15/7/21) OzRwys reply: "This is because NOTAMs are very poorly sorted by the authorities (currently under a big review by CASA) and we are not given geographical information to link them more logically for users." "
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So the next Boeing will be ... a strutted high wing?
Garfly replied to Garfly's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
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And even those who DO have "understanding of what a single engine landing entails" can not know what it MIGHT entail (what, with one having quit for unknown reasons). I'd be rolling the ambos if it was up to me, if only for fear of looking like a goose if it ended badly - a BA38 style arrival, say - with nary a first-aider in sight. (BA Flight 38: the 777 that fell a bit short at LHR 15 years back.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38 )
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But operating single-engine mid-ocean ain't no walk in the park. Surely, there were no options but an immediate MAYDAY/Datalink SOS in this case. It would have triggered responses from the system. I'd suppose - and expect - that AMSA was already sussing-out shipping near the route. MAYDAY may be "the HIGHEST risk level" - but it's not like there are heaps of levels. Heck, aren't crews now bound to declare MAYDAY-FUEL even if they're going to land just a smidge under legal reserves. No such thing as a cool PAN-PAN-FUEL call. Of course there's heaps of hype around such events. The public holds endless crazy notions, panderable to for profit. Koshie even rolled out Richard de Crespigny today for us to fawn over. Insider insouciance is, I guess, the reaction.
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In any case, losing one of two, mid-ocean - and wondering if #2 might follow suit - sort of makes "possible assistance needed" a little understated.
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Apparently the accident was live-streamed from inside the pax cabin. https://7news.com.au/travel/plane-crashes/chilling-videos-show-the-moment-passenger-plane-plunges-into-mountainous-nepal-c-9459068 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jet-carrying-72-people-crashes-into-gorge-in-nepal
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I agree. I think I was just as nervous going solo on the roads as in the air, maybe more so. (Probably with good reason.)
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368,244 views Sep 11, 2020 Taking off from Old Park Farm, South Wales. Aircraft is a Streak Shadow fitted with a new Rotax 582 engine which had about 20 hours on it since I fitted it to the aircraft. Cause of failure still being investigated. 840 views Jan 24, 2022 In 2020 I posted a video showing the cockpit view of my engine failing on take off. I posted the video and it has many views, but of later interested parties (and other pilots flying similar aircraft) have asked for a `Follow Up,` video of WHAT CAUSED IT.
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Okay ... but "If it's Boeing, I'm not going!" is just a play on the cap-cliché : (unfortunately, way out of date, nowadays ;- )
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Yes, the link above is from that series, located in the sidebar menu: "Resources >> Tutorials". Section 6.3 seemed a likely candidate for "anything else"; key information which may not get its due in the PPL subjects listed in the original post.
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That'd be John Brandon (see post above).
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Yes.
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I'm not sure about that, Mark, but thanks for the tip. I'll have it checked out.
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Yeah, Glen's (RFguy's) design definitely looks the go (when it arrives). I've had the MGL V16 with Vega head for a while now. I like its features and its overall quality. I'm having some problem with intermittent noise in the system but I doubt it's the radio itself that's to blame. (It's at its worst taxiing as if there was a dry joint somewhere in the audio-out chain. I have checked the obvious ones like the headphone output sockets without luck, so far.)
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How have you been finding your MGL V16 Mark? What control head do you use with it?
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I would definitely recommend taking up Franco's great offer but if your son is not able to travel down there, then you might just want to get him a gift-voucher from the the North Queensland Aero Club based at Mareeba airport. https://www.nqac.com.au/gift-vouchers
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HARS = Historical Aircraft Restoration Society https://hars.org.au/
