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Actually it is the same Dan Gryder and while there may be good reasons to take that position, that article might not be one of them. The man himself explains why:

Those charges were eventually dropped, though, for lack of solid enough evidence. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-08/josh-hoch-supreme-court-charges-dropped-plane-sabotage/13226466

Ah, yeah, a nice little outing to Culin. Some great picnic spots there at Culin - for the STOL mob who can get in, that is.

He did have a licence to fly passengers so he may not have been all that dangerous as a pilot per se. He was convicted basically of fraud and of running a charter business without an Air Operators Certificate. https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/7987752/qld-pilot-guilty-of-illegally-flying-mps/ "Hoch had a private pilot licence but was not certified with an AOC when he engaged in charter and cost-sharing services with the KAP politicians." He had, though, been charged with far more serious offences in the past: https://www.avweb.com/news/australian-pilot-accused-of-sabotaging-rivals-planes/

Sure, we know what it's called and nobody's standing up for Medvedev here, so far. The Reuters article we're on about, though, digs out some geo-political detail behind the headlines. I'd guess Medvedev's 'Anglo Saxon' comment refers to those who control the banks that hold those frozen Russky dollars. U.N. General Assembly calls for Russia to make reparations in Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-general-assembly-calls-russia-make-reparations-ukraine-2022-11-14/

True, but that General Assembly resolution may be taken as justification enough for having those frozen Russian assets redirected (by the countries holding them) towards Ukraine's reconstruction. This quote from that article might not be too far off the mark: 'Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on the Telegram messaging app that the "Anglo-Saxons are clearly trying to scrape together a legal basis for the illegal seizure of Russian assets.'

Hopefully a bit of inspiration from the heyday of country air races and early TV melodrama:

True, though I was meaning cartoons of this kind ... ;- )

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-general-assembly-calls-russia-make-reparations-ukraine-2022-11-14/

Actually, just about everybody nowadays. A single tap on your EFB/tablet, shows your NM/degrees FROM a list of every airfield within cooee. As well as any other type of aeronautical waypoint (editable for taste).

Same town, same farm, same plane and pilot, 6 months ago! ;- )

Having had a few days to gather facts and make a video, Juan Browne now offers this preliminary report:

Yeah, in some ways, the circuit is the most useful place for it. Obviously, your eyes will be 95% outside and on a swivel, but if it's well set up and used, a traffic screen needn't be more distracting than your ASI, say, or your downwind checks. Sure, less than half the VFR fleet is currently on-board but that's changing fast. Anyway, by the time you're near the airport, you might have sussed out which of your chatty circuit mates are true icons and which not. At least all commercial machines in the mix should light up. Might save the travelling public, at least. I've breathed quite a few sighs of relief near airports, catching possible conflicts on the fish-finder. For sure, my best efforts at converting circuit-chat to geo-locations are never as good as the wee pics on the iPad (and never as negligible a distraction).

For what it's worth, that 2016 FAA Advisory Circular has recently been replaced by AC 90-48E. If you wade through the whole belaboured document, you're likely to find its main message quite contradictory. It insists both that a pilot's visual scan remains the main game and that a pilot's visual scan is totally inadequate to the job of avoiding midairs. For example: 7.1 ... The NTSB released Safety Alert SA-058 on midair collision prevention technology, which states, in part, “The ‘see-and-avoid’ concept has long been the foundation of midair collision prevention. However, the inherent limitations of this concept, including human limitations, environmental conditions, aircraft blind spots, and operational distractions, leave even the most diligent pilot vulnerable to the threat of a midair collision with an unseen aircraft.” Then it goes on to push the need for ADSB ... before returning to its original theme. (I get the feeling that this is because regulators, in general, abhor the idea letting - or even appearing to let - pilots off the hook - any hook, especially in advance.) In any case, even CASA's equivalent circular, AC 91-14 v.1, takes a bit of a swipe at some of the FAA's visual scanning recommendations: 7.1.2 The current version of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) AC 90-48 details a scanning technique that involves eye movements in sectors of 10 degrees of one-second duration per sector. However, scanning a 180-degree horizontal and 30-degree vertical sector would take a minimum of 54 seconds. US military research found that it takes a pilot 12.5 seconds to avoid a collision after target detection. Therefore, it can be deduced that considerable time gaps exist where traffic may not be detected during a normal scan period. Such a structured and disciplined scan technique may also be difficult to achieve. LOL FAA AC 90-48E.pdf advisory-circular-91-14-pilots-responsibility-collision-avoidance.pdf

Yeah, I'd have thought that in a fast jet formation your eyes need to be on your lead. Maybe the mistake was having two acts on stage at the same time. I'd have thought that the fighter guy had a right to expect clear air below during the show.

This young chap does a pretty good job of gathering what's knowable at this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf3fZx8yntw

In his RV, maybe, but in his Thruster? nah, he'd barely have moved (other than to 6 o'clock ;- )

Which is probably why Juan Browne declined to show it.

Juan Browne's take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OZf0NnHLU

Yeah, I believe you are both very familiar with all of that; just at cross purposes. Something I've discovered recently is that if you run AvTraffic along with OzRwys (a published feature) you can have all available ADSB targets (plus FLARM et al) show up on the OzRwys display. 'Real' ADSB targets also display (fed by an SE2, or similar). Of course, you tend to get shadow a/c icons due to variable latency, but you get that anyway if you run OzRwys traffic with your ADSB-IN traffic. Plus, you can get an audible traffic alert (from AvTraffic) as long as you hook up your iPad audio to your intercom. I've never bothered with all that in the air but it's a good way to be able to see-it-all in one place (minus Mode C transponders, unfortunately) while you're sitting on the ground (wishing you were up there. ;- )

How about "Traffic! Traffic! See iPad for details." ;- )

I guess murmurations would blow the mathematical mind. LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVko9jyAkQg

Yeah, at $169 p.a, VFR Premium is about $1 a week more than the base version but I reckon it's worth it for Smart Brief and the Pilot's Touring Guide and being able to run it on 4 devices, quite apart from ADSB hardware integration. I haven't compared it feature for feature to the opposition but, tbh, once you know a platform well there's a bit of resistance to starting over again to save a buck. ;- ) https://www.ozrunways.com/au/products/plans-and-pricing/