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  1. turboplanner
    Worse than the journalists!
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    Should have read not a lot of the I
  3. turboplanner
    Its a good sign when a journalist corrects things as new information comes in.
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    .....victim; a poor traveller just trying to do the right thing by his customers who are the most ............. Hi, I'm Samanth. How may I help?
  5. turboplanner
    It's interesting that the chatbots seem to be set up by the Company's Ad Agency and the AI runs out of gas when the advertising material plus a few more sentences run out; we can get the A, but a lot of the I.
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    .......AirOar. Boaties used to wave their oars in the air laughing when they saw Orville T standing on the said waiting for that sea breeze to subside. The breakthough came when Orville T was talking to a fellow student Mathisa Einsten who got interested, cracked the numbers and said, "If you got 150 oars in a row and moved them forward the thrust would be greater than....... but youg OneShaft broke in with "you could tie them onto the spokes of wagon wheels. The others all chuckled but Orville spent a few nights over his parchments by the light of a bullock-fat candle re-did Einstein's calcs and set up an axle with four oars, ran a fitted a flat pulley in the centre and ran a belt down to a Steam engine powered by distilled gin. He built a dreaw bar behind the engine and hooked up an onld baby's pram from where he could reach the steam engine's knobs and levers. He knew he had something when he started passing horses and carriages down the main street. He knew there were a few "issues" to sort out when he ran off the bridge on the curve at the end of the street. But there was no doubt that a new era of the AirOar had started and ........
  7. turboplanner
    Did you get an answer from the ABC journalist?
  8. turboplanner
    ........wing, which he had developed over a period of 17 years. He started with the original Drifter wing which, as everyone knows...............
  9. turboplanner
    Your aircraft according to your detractors.
  10. turboplanner
    Just ran Soar; in the area of southern Australia I looked at they were running Google Earth 2025 maps, so not razor sharp images like Near Map - they fudge them to avoid perverts etc. I got onto a live satellite feed at one stage; blurry down low but you were seeing actual current activity. Some people reported on FB their dog had run away from their remote beach camping site, they were leaving that day for Victoria and would have to abandon the dog. I looked along the beach, found their Landcruiser and campsite and told them if they drove half a km north there was a track off the beach, go half Km, turn right, go half km and there was a farm. Ask at farm. An hour later they posted that they's found their dog at the farm. Tried to use it a year later, had forgotten the site address.
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    Nearmap aerial mapping has been available for years, annual subscription approx $1800.00
  12. turboplanner
    The ABC journalist should have sourced the statistics on hobby flying and would have come to the RAA site, and smelled a rat. On the other hand, maybe he thought he was doing that when he spoke to its president, or maybe the 27 figure wasn't mentioned during the interview. The key thing is the story was to damage Recreational Aviation flying, and it was industry people doing the damage.
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    .......grab when a shark saw the enormous body in the water (head out of the water of course), concluded it was a female shark and started to mate. The Drifter, its silk wings groaning lifted out of the water, Turbo screamed, Xi's eyes bulged and the shark, a young one, thought WTF. Xi was in the most comfortable position as they climbed through 50 feet, and started to laugh. When he opened his mouth .............
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    ............ylon seat with the breathing hole in it through which, as Cappy correctly surmised.................
  15. turboplanner
    Interesting.
  16. turboplanner
    .....midriff dropped the hook right on the belt. Xi was away like a Taiwanese who'd booked the wrong flight destination. Just then the bluehead ran out of Start Ya Bastard, and Turbo's predicament, with the rope firmly under Xi's belt was very similar to a story an old boundary rider told Turbo at their campfire a few years ago out on the boundary of Old Mundowdna Station. They'd talked for hours, exhausted all the usual stories and finally the old rider said "I was camped up the track one night and needed a crap. I the dark I squatted down on a dingo trap an it grabbed me nuts" "That must have hurt" replied Turbo sympathetically. "Yes, it was the two most painfull experiences of my life" the rider said. Turbo was confused "How could it be two lots of pain?" asked Turbo The old rider poked the coals and said Once when the trap went off, and again when I ran out of chain!" Now as he looked over the side of the Thruster with nothing on the Tacho, a rope stretched out behind him, and Shark Strait below ...............
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    It's hard to know what was on his mind with that low and slow comment. Maybe he had been blindsided by the ABC journalist commenting on the subject matter then immediately asking for a reaction; that's the worst position to be in when there's a news story. Better to be the one doing the initial part of the story. I can see the possibility of ATSB handling a collision in a CTA circuit because of the complexity of key radio calls, correct circuit position, correct approach, correct choice of runway, failure to hold, wrong runway (on dual runways) etc, but even than doesn't take too long for a Recreational Aviation investigator to learn. If you look at the exhaustive procedure ATSB uses, even if they had a graded policy for top of the range RA with electronics down to a trike there just has to be big blowout in costs for not much return. On the other had it was RAA which submitted a list of engine failures one of which was a flat tyre, so maybe RAA has some work to do which would satisfy the complainants. It would be interesting to see if the trike guys out at Marian even know about this and what their thoughts are.
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    .....make more and more posts. It doesn't matter what's in them; every little bit helps, because Turbo donates a substantial amount of money maintaining the airstrip in the Spratleys, the upkeep on what is now the "Lodge" a five story building; one floor for Turbo, one for Chairman Xi, one for Cappy, one for the girls and one for Cappy's gin distillery. BTW Cappy has taken to wearing slippers and smoking a pipe while at the Spratley's Lodge. One sunny day, Cappy decided he'd Teach Chairman Xi to water ski behind the Lodge Thruster. It was failrly straightforward; the rider would float in the shallow water off the end of the runway. The tow rope would stream back to where the Drifter was moved up for take off. The Drifter would take off and Chairman Xi would be able to water ski in Shark Strait. On the first morning the bluehead wouldn't start .............
  19. turboplanner
    See the existing thread on this. It's still very unclear what the agenda is on this but a very dirty story.
  20. turboplanner
    These questions and answers are all on the record on this site. Some of our guys put a lot of effort in to help. Fixes ignored and the carping continued.
  21. turboplanner
    No it's not, those interested need to do a little more study than that.
  22. turboplanner
    He was given advice on what to do.
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    I was looking for a comparison to see if subscription costs were getting out of hand but both organisations have splits for classes, endorsements, children etc. Both have had increases over 2010 era for Public Liability policy, and so on. All up it looked like RAA and SSAA were facing roughly the same increases - sports are getting mor expensive., so not much to do with trhis subject.
  24. turboplanner
    Talk to RAA. This is a very serious thread about a threat to RAA Members based on incorrect information.
  25. turboplanner
    Well that's two characters now trying to get the narrative off the subject matter.
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