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What are you calling commercial and what are you calling private in GA? Aircraft ownership is a different trend. There are 6300 RA pilots sharing 3232 RA aircraft (jan 26, 2024) There are 10,804 GA PPL?RPL pilots and 11,970 single engine piston

I pulled data from Airservices for Secondary City Airports, Regional Airports and some Towns for the latest full Year 2023. The figures on sheet WX00278 show the monthly movement figures. WX00279 On the graph, the monthly figures are shown in bundles for each location. I worked in a Company which had about 40 different types of Transport products and each month we would arrive in the board room at 6 am and finish at 6 pm analysing the months performance of each product. The production for the month would be decided for each product, cut back if we hadn’t sold enough stock, increased if sales were ahead, and an advertising programme introduced if we were behind along with incentives. Some businesses do this daily. To make some sense of this we need benchmarks, so we might pick population for the City Airports. 5.2 million for Moorabbin (Melbourne), 5.1 million for Bankstown, 2.5 million for Archerfield, 1.4 million for Parafield, 2.1 million for Jandakot. Using these benchmarks, Bankstown is holding up well against Moorabbin, Archerfield is punching above its weight, and Parafield is either sliding down or Jandakot is performing above its population base. In general though, all reasonably stable against population catchment. Essendon tells its own story, which we are not going to here. Camden fits into the peri-urban character. Then we have: Townsville: 205,000 Mackay: 139,000 Albury/Wodonga: 100,000 Rockhampton: 84,000 Coffs Harbour: 82,000 dropping below the pack Karratha: 21,500 punching well above the pack Tamworth: 65,500 The Albury – Tamworth group introduces the factor of Rural activities and income groups. Karratha gets a big boost from mining. Roma, Queensland is one of the best examples (although I couldn’t get movements) In the 1960’s a local was selling tickets from the back of a Ford Falcon Ute. In 2013/14 the airport processed 254,000 passengers, ranking 29th in Australia The population of Roma is just 6,522. Another variable is the type of activity. The Upper and Lower South East of South Australia produces half the Agribusiness income for the State, so we would expect airfields to do better there than in the baren areas of the north. In the South East, in the 1960s the Naracoorte airport consisted of two sheds, this is it today, Population of Naracoorte is 5,960. In other areas the agribusiness is dying, the population doesn’t get the money to spend on flying and operations are shrinking. In the mining areas, airfield operators are buying newer, bigger aircraft and running their own coaches around the towns to pick up the FIFOS. It’s a free world; as the Mayor of the Gold Coast used to say “Two men looking out through bars, one saw mud, the other stars.”

..........runs he'd ever had. The trail behind the trawler spread for two square kilometres. After this he polished up his HAACP skills, and focused on the Drifter Flight programme, setting up deck chairs along the side of the runway so the guests could get that "up front and personal" view lie Jonah nd the whale, but a student on approach .......................

If we had numbered posts I could point out the one which pointed to a glitch in the software causing the problem rather than an onslaught by CASA.

Really? You need to be running an AOC to apply for a Class 5 Medical?

You started out on the right track in the previous post, but if you are referring to Recreational Aviation it's a self administered body. You have to manage it yourself; you have to train people yourself. This thread is indicating that training may be an issue.

That's correct.

......a baitlaying pilot and Captain Bull built a deck on top of his trawler, and Captain Bull's Aircraft Carrier Flights using the Drifter. He added "Cocktails on the deck at 5 pm and Dinner (Giant Barra) at .............

It's beginning to look like RAA has been neglecting this area; it's problematic for sure given the geographic spread you point out but if they issue a qualification they need to be able to measure and guarantee it. Maybe they need to establish a TAFE network and develop a course, or piggyback on an existing TAFE course with variations which the geographic goup of TAFES to teach and examine. When you read some of the scary discussions here, it could do with bumping up the priority list before a serious accident occurs.

Good point; when you read that ongoing saga it takes care of itself.

....smoke and fairy dust. It all cost money and Captain Bull realised he would have to take on some extra work like charters to Tahiti or ....................

.....Albo is paying $125 mil. for a tunnel plus sealing withing the next 30 days or sooner. In the Golden days of American Tourists in Australia where our friends, whether from New York or Des Moines, Iowa would land in the Qantas Super Constellation after a 15 day trip, buy the Sydney Harbour Bridge, catch the Ansett flight to Hayman Island or if it was booked out, the Gold Coast and sit down at a restaurant for a $500 dinner and a black & white photo of Mayor Bruce Small, who made his money out of Malvern Star bicycles. As Chuck picked up the menu he would say: "Ethel (there was once a Ford model called an Ethel), Ah think ah'll hev the Barrymundi, and if the cut of flake was small, would shrug it off as part of eating the most exotic fish in the world, today's tourist, after going out to Sea World to make sure all the flags were the Indian National Flags and not Aboriginal or North Sea islands and there was a "Welcome India" sign out the front then watching the two guys dive off the specator area, retrieve a floating ball and throw it to an indian in the audience (Which replaced the old Cypress Gardens Water Ski Spectacular which had 42 blondes being towed by a boat with a 30 hp motor), would negotiate a dinner with all you can eat for $15.99, decide to have one of "Captain Bull's Giant Barramundi" and on seeing a lonely little whitebait on the plate, erupt into the foulest language ever ................

Just a suitable PL policy and a short course on duty of care to make sure you didn't make repeat breaches. You can't indemnify against a Tort.

Agree, you identified the problem as an IT issue rather than a decaying CASA out to get anyone they can.

Or Valda Oss who flew for Southern Airlines in a De Havilland Heron in a very smart Ferrari Red on the Essendon - Bairnsdale, Essendon - Millicent - Naracoorte routes as a feeder airline around 1958 A year or so later Reg Ansett ran DC3s into these country airports at a lower rate and shorter trips times and sent Southern broke.

The problem is Rodger the people complaining most likely don't know how to order a pizza or an Uber, and, like the old geysers that used to wander abound the banks saying they were "awful" for not having as many counters, one day there's going to be a puff of fairy dust and it will be learn the systems or nick off.

.......our new free trips to Israel deal. But there were no takers. Perhaps it was the smell of the incense, CatP, perhaps it was the long flowing gowns and flea-ridden hair; too much a reminder of the past where Hare Krishnas would run through the streets banging on cymbals and drums and afterwards you'd find you didn't have a wallet. So the Mosque people ended up in a blnid alley ...................

It's in the bowels of something, but I don't think the Crimes Act 1914 would be an help.

.......witness should Jehova come along and ................................

Well you've talked yourself into a theory there posing your own questions and providing your own answers but what I was referring to is now many posts back. Manufacturing is not a perfect science yet and they still get to choose their own way of resolving issues, or achieving a longer life edge. They are free to choose a novel manufacturing process, exotic materials or exotic lubricants to solve a particular problem. Because there are a lot of people out there, who use the same lubricant on everything, the cheapest lubricant, what their father used, what Dick Johnson used to use at Bathurst etc. the manufacturers usually change the part so they can get the same long term durability. Sometimes the cost of the components or lubricant are higher, sometimes the manufactuer absorbs the extra cost of the exotic ingredient. Before 1992, when diesel smoke was still visible under acceleration and Police were issuing roadworthy infringements for "smoky exhausts" on near new trucks some of our fleets had problems in one particular area with one particular group of Police who would sit at the bottom of a long downgrade, and as soon as the driver put his foot down the exhaust would belch black smoke, the truck would be pulled over and a Roadworthy fine would be issued. Where the trucks were within warranty they would arrive at our dealer's workshop with instructions to fix it. We would pull the engine down, rebuild it, check it, and thee weeks later it would be back. The issue was solved at first by our Japanese engineers would found an exotic liquid, "PFM" which dissolved the particles and was airfreighted out in unbranded 20 litre dums. It cost a fortune but we delivered these drums at no cost to the fleets involved, they put some in with each refuel, and the problem was solved until I eventually brokered an agreenment with the local Police based on Ringelmann Chart 3. That's an example of solving a problem with an exotic specification.

Someone else found the documents, explained wha was required, not having problems.

Why, I'm not the one who's likely to be told "Not Warranty"

It would be for anyone using sub-standard oil when the Manufacturer was trying to hekp them.

I can only repeat what I said, which I thought was clear enough. Manufacturers will specify a specific oil where they consider it necessary. That is for the benefit of the customer, not some pathetic Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Rotax theory. A friend of mine has a Caterpillar D7 Dozer; Caterpillar specifed a lubricant for a main driveshaft; he found a cheaper alternative; the failure cost him $45,000.00. These threads are very informative and make a good case for LAME maintenance only.

nuts. In fact they would have done better throwing nuts over the side. The Australian inverse attitude kicked in and dozens of Politicians reached out to Captain Bull asking to be prawned. Turbine Consulting suggested some business models for him and soon Captain Bull’s Prawning Cruises swung into action bringing Pollies out to the trawler in the R44 “Prawn”. Of course Captain Bull couldn’t catch prawns so ha placed a $1500 order each week for uncooked prawns and he had a business, until.....