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I think I read a while back the average annual hours of RA pilots is 3 hours. Would it be wise to teach low level flying under those conditions? Since we switched to Visibility 5 km (5000 m) ahead, I think the fatality rate has dropped significantly. In GA we don't seem to get that batch of people killed around May, and given all those people were trained for hours under the hood, I would suggest the 5 km visibility is the more significant life saver of the two. There's also the factor that in RA there is very little cross country flying, and in particular flights from Victoria to Queensland or vice versa where you need to manage the flight to suit two or three weather changes.

I wasn't looking for any point, I was correcting an error. The Australian Warbird Association Ltd, under CASR Part 149, is part of the Self Administering Organisations.

Go back a few posts to where I quoted you, and spent the time going onto the CASA site and transcribed all of the Self Administering Organisations and you will see it listed there.

Not as of this morning according to CASA.

You were given good advice on where it can be fitted in, so no point in repeatedly telling us you can't fly it.

Well VH Experimental is totally in the clutches of the John McCormacks whereas under CASR Part 149, RAA is part of the Self Administering Organisations. Self Administering Organisations as at January 2025 Australian Parachute Federation Australian Sport Rotorcraft Association Australian Warbird Association Ltd Gliding Federation of Australia Recreational Aviation of Australia Ultralight Recreational Weight-shift Microlight Light Sort Aircraft Sports Aviation Federation of Australia Hang gliding Paragliding Weight-shift Microlights The members of each of these bodies can draft or redraft their Constitutions, so they self-administer their organisations and take direct responsibility for any issues. CASA does issue broad guidelines. The part that is sometimes forgotten is that all of these people fly in CASA, and Airservices airspace so must also learn and comply with CASA and Airservices safety regulations I would agree that CASA and Airservices need to simplify the way they communicate these regulations. I broke down the Recreational Aviation Australia and Sports Aviation Federation of Australia sections to show how some activites migrate from one organisation to another or can be duplicated. Re your comment on paperwork, confusion, cost, these are things that Members need to act on at regullar meetings or change the Constitution to ensure these things are addressed and there are pathways to do this other than just barking at the Government which is now at arms length from these self-administering organizations, so unlikely to step in. SAFA is by far doing the best job of promoting to the general pubic in my opinion.

Was that Damien Christensen, the Geelong footballer?

........words we can't mention on this site.#1 It was during this training that most of the people were groomed, and joined the Tasmanian hordes. Today thousands of them flock into UTAS in Hobart to get their degrees in Climate Science. Mant of them visit old Bob Brown haunts like ................ #1 Turbo got this line from his local newspaper yesterday. The innocent young female journalist who wrote the story about an Australian punk rock group, described how every second word was an unacceptable swear word, and inuended that some of them were REALLY bad. There was a poll at the end of the story for readers to vent their degree of shock. Attached to the story was a link to the group singing the song, so the young lady was not quite so chaste, and Turbo, then a teenager, had to go for a walk to recover from the shock of hearing the worst coupling of foul language since, he was captured by an older girl and 20 of her mates to be the floor show at a secluded beach party.

.....model Tasmanians and taught Tasmanian words like "Mainlander", or .......

....Queenslanders and WAliens disappear to Tasmania where they are recycled, re-educated and re............

.......sheep studs of the Riverina, where jackaroos educate them and relieve them of any wealth they might be carrying on their backs, their phones and their credit cards. They are then carted out in the back of a ute to the back of beyond - somewhere like Balranald or Moulamein where the locals offer them a ride to Victoria for a grand payable up front. So they all finish up going on the fruit, where they find out what its like to work for Italians.........

Quote your own rubbish.

.....like everyone in that sliver of no man’s land between Victoria and just north of Kapooka to indenting the inbred grovelling population. Queenslanders called Victorians Mexicans but as we know they have difficulty with maps and these isolated people resented it and for years blamed the government for being picked on. when they saw Albo taking the Mickey out of them In his sombrero they attacked him with their ingrown nails and......

........head for Mexico." Albo wasn't sure if this was good advice or someone else taking advantage of him, so he did nothing and finished up in the ...........

This is different but there’s a record in ATSB where the engine dropped out of a 150 and the pilot used the falling leaf method at times going backwards to keep air flowing over the wings and he survived.

Are you saying that should be added to the RA training at extra cost?

.......he was carrying the bag. Without recognising the press, R a'C handed the bag to Turbo and said "Thenks auld chap, you did a great job fixing thet much." You would think that after that, Turbo's career would have been finished, his empire crashed, whole populations sinking into recessions. But the Press hadn't noticed the bag or the conversation, or for that matter R a'C who'd just sauntered off. The teals did exactly what their job entailed, (a) Not being worried about the subject matter, or even understanding it, and (b) completely missing the point. The Press had fallen for it and no one saw Turbo quietly step into the Hummer and drive away. When Albo was told about it, he .............

.....underhanded scum action of match - fixing.....and he appeared to swoon with shock. The journos were all convinced and the story was about to drop when around the corner came Ra'C with a bulging Wallabies bag and ...........

.......and see about putting you on as a junior member of the team. "How much would I get?" asked bull. "151 kina per fight" replied Cappy. "But why would I be fighting?" asked bull. "Whenever we start to do a deal, the Minister sends about 20 rascals after us to steal the money back" replied Turbo. bull realised he was getting the raw end of the bird of paradise, and decided........

......they want more. bull's eyes glazed over. We know from his precise statement of "150 kina" that he had only been mixing with the Bemal St rascals, and he wondered how an upstanding skipper could get into this Rugby Team scam. Cappy noticed the eyes and had no intention of losing good money to an over-eager crustacean squasher, so he.............

If it was an outlanding it would have been a glider. Multiple strips in paddocks there in sight of the freeway.

Numbers under the wing.

Could be a heart atack.

......The Torres Strait Islands. Not many people know that the Papua New Guinea government shows two flags in government buildings, one of them the PNG national flag with bird of paradise and the other a rich blue with tiny light green dots representing the thousands of Torres Strait Islands. Each Island got a budget of one million dollars from the PNG people for bets and roads and picking up rubbish and stuff. This might come as a surprise to the thousands of Shire Councils who show a completely different flag; the rear end of a bull with his nuts represented by a star. And of course we pay $5 million per island just so they don't start dreaming up old massacres and their kids being stolen. Turbo once spoke to a group on one of the islands when he was doing one of his around Australia outboard trips and old Merc seized near Mer Island "Dat Aussie Bull flag not our flag" he said, "we not Australian, they just showed it to us and asked what we like to make it and we said Bullsh!t. You funny people Australians, dumb too" and Italian suit shimmered in the cool island breeze. Over on the Mainland (PNG) .......

The horse has bolted on this, with a lot of discussion on various FB and other websites. It affects RA Instructors, RA students, RA pilots and RA flying schools, so I would recommend these people hit the net and see who the players are and what they are saying and how it might affect you. Discussing it publicly just gives them a heads up.