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    I believe Parafield training operators were looking at using Leigh Creek some time ago.
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    TAKE ME WITH YOU! TAKE ME WITH YOU!
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    So, I guess "Ten Four Good Buddy" is ruled out?
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    Hi Bruce. I own my house, lock, stock and two smoking barrels but I cannot do any electrical work on it. The rules are there to protect others rather than the owners. It would scare the cr*p out of me if pilot/owners could do all the work they wanted because there are so many who 'think' they know what they are doing. One only has to read some of the posts on this forum to see what I mean. I dislike 'nanny' state situations but we see all the time that a few stupid people ruin things for the majority. Try working where I work, 1 day course to use the pencil sharpener and another to use the 'sharp' pencil...
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    Good Grief, that's 20 a week for twenty years
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    sigh...
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    Yes. In fact I had two friends who were confined to wheelchairs. Doesn't change my views on a crap insurance system.
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    Many years ago I knew a lazy slob that got paid out big time after an accident. The payout was for future medical expenses for the injuries, pain and suffering, lost wages bla bla bla. This loser blew the money on booze and drugs and other rubbish. Now has nothing and blames everybody but himself. Huge insurance payouts are BS in my opinion and the system needs to change.
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    Reporting news has become so pathetic these days. A few weeks ago, channel 9 reported how a bunch of baseball players wouldn't allow a 'tornado' to interrupt their game. A TORNADO!!!! It was a bloody dust devil, and a average one at that. I could scream when I see this kind of ignorance being exhibited on television.
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    Ham radio has been dumbed down so much, anybody can get a ticket.
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    I think some folks interpret the technical manual different from others. Section 11.1-3 is relevant to me. I do what I'm confident in and get help with anything else. So, oil, oil filter, spark plugs, brakes and stuff I do but if a head has to come off or the ASI drops dead, it's off to see the wizard. But, I'm always learning, and with a head like a sift, I learn over and over again!!
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    From RAAus Technical Team.... "It is not mandatory to complete the L1 practical training component as long as you have completed the online L1 component." Having said that, I would still like to do the practical.
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    My card is a 'debit card'. In the technical manual, section 11.1 paragraph 3.2.1 does that refer to the online training I did a few years ago or what? I have been doing oil, oil filter, plugs, etc. for the last ten years on my plane. Now somebody says I need to do the practical training to be able to touch my plane. I'm too old and grumpy to have people confusing me.
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    So, I try to enroll in the L1 maintenance training at Gawler but nope, RAAus won't allow payment except with a credit card, which I do not have. This is not acceptable and should change. While I have the floor, is true that without the L1 training one cannot even change the oil in their plane?
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    Probably the same way a Holden did. It's not rocket science. The idea of recreational flying is to keep it cheap for most of us 'plebs'. Cheap means simple and simple means easy maintenance and easy to understand. Only last week my mate was grounded because his two carbs were 'not in tune' (whatever that means) keeping is Savannah out of the air.
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    I'd like to go there but I think I have left it too late. At my age I need to be within 60 metres of a dunny, have a comfortable bed, coffee on call and a host of other luxuries that I think are not easily got at Birdsville. Maybe in the next life...
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    I made a suggestion, but then decided it was not going to work, now I can't delete this message (sigh...)
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    I got my PPL some thirty years ago. After the initial novelty wore off I found myself flying 99% of the time alone or with one passenger. In Tobago TB10. For the last ten years I have been flying out of Gawler. I have my own plane and hangar there. It's a great place because it's a club, not a business. We have 'meal and movie' nights and other club activities and the socializing is (to me) the most important part. Flying RAAus these days I do not miss controlled airspace at all. As for waiting until after the cold weather, I prefer winter flying because small recreational aircraft can be pretty awful to fly in hot lumpy weather.
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    That's one of those things used to find illegals working on farms etc.
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    That's pretty cool. Forty years ago I worked on the tallest office building in Europe (NatWest Tower, London). But that's pretty lame these days.
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    When our Chinese overlords finally take over, they'll fix it up I'm sure.
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    Stupidity has grown wildly since do-gooders stopped us from beating idiots on the kidneys with big tree branches.
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    This happened years ago but this is the first time I have seen any video... https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/11/19/41/news-nsw-plane-crashes-into-ferris-wheel-trapping-riders
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    Some years ago a student pilot (from China) was flying a Tobago and passed out. He flew right over Parafield and Adelaide in controlled airspace and out over the gulf before Adelaide managed to get in contact. He landed safely at Parafield. I think that ended his career for the CPL. Now, he probably spends his time making our socks and jocks for 50 cents an hour.
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