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Not sure why you would be contacting SAI Global. That's a different company from memory relating to ISO 9000 Series etc.

If you go over to the Recreational Aviation Australia website you will see at least one Recreational Aircraft under $10,000.00 and plenty affordable. I agree with you RA is what RAA should be promoting, so there's a question RA members should be asking.

How much fuel can be transported in a private vehicle: You'll need to search for it.

Take it up with Standards Australia; they're not based in Chicago; I've made a submission there and had unsuitable details changed.

You’ll be surprised to learn then that none of the lawyers will ignore that admission. Someone once said that ignorance is no excuse.

You specified a particular Australian Standard. There are others and a crossover where a Dangerous Goods specification is triggered.

AS1940, Title The storage and handling of flammable and combustable liquids. Published by Standards Australia. This standard applies throughout Australia (and if notated, in New Zealand.) You can contact Standards Australia for a copy which I would recommend you do, given what you've just said. Standards Australia has Industry committees come together and lay down Industry benchmarks and standards - the best people from each industry setting the standards for that industry. In answer to your dot points Dot 1: I would use it, and have on hudreds of vehicles across all jurisdictions. Dot 2: Yes both. Dot 3: The Standard spells that out. Dot 4: No These aren't enforceable standards, but should you have a fuel-related fire or accident, since the 1980's they have become a good defence of your duty of care where there's a forseeable risk, and conversely a good point for a Plaintiff if your aren't complying with its benchmark.

.......hand down from a few centuries ago when my GGGGGGGGrandfather used to Let one go every five minutes in the barn, at the dinner table, in bed, and at the pub. The Admiral profoundly apologised for the emabrassment he had caused and then said .............

This has nothing whatsoever to do with aircraft specifications, regulations or experimental categories. This is a MANUFACTURER (a company which manufactures engines, not sales outlets, competing brands and "experienced" commentators) specifying a specific oil. I've said it twice, but its worth repeating; manufacturers can have design difficulties or make mistakes which can be fixed by certifying a specific oil. This can be an oil which meets a certified, so can be any brand which meets that standard, or an oil blended by a Manufacturer to fix a problem, in which case, if you want the longest life out of the engine, you'll use it. It's not dogmatic fearmongering as you say; if something is correct the answer will be the same every time.

That would be what I would expect to see; inevitably people will go on social media and others will tell them they put "x" oil in their Rotax and its still going, they'll do the same, wreck the engine and trash talk it for the rest of their lives. You can't help some people.

...was wise to te poor quality control of the US Submarine manufacturers, saidslipped at the last minute, dived, used that inertia to quickly gain height, did a quick turn to starboard [old avref] and landed diagonally on the deck. There was loud clapping and cheering from the deck; this was the first plane to make a landing today; the rest were all splattered under the foredeck. Garry was greeted by the Captain (the Captain, not THE Captain) who said ......"

I forgot; Or Everyone can use the NAIPS Area Wind direction.

We've had two near collisions in RA this year, and I spent a lot of hours coming up with circuit measurements types of aircraft, where the aircraft should be, how to navigate to the airfied, join the circuit, fit into the pattern with the other aircraft there, where to look etc. No one has made an effort to try a trial circuit and comment on it and the people who haven't been trained in PPL Nav should have. If you're on mid-downwind as I have been on hundreds of occasions you will have been watching traffic in the circuit ahead of you and maybe one who went on an expedition and his base will be so long that you'll be turning final before he gets to base. At that point you're only looking at half the circuit (you've already made sure you've left a good margin in fron of the Baron that's coming behind you to allow for the jockying that's about to start. At mid downwind you pull on 1 stage of flap and 90 kts; your job now is to hang in the air behind the aircraft ahead of you until he clears the runway and you can land. If you're catching up, more flap, nose up, more power etc to slow down. Once on Final you watch every aircraft so you're actually seeing who's holding who up. On Final you hang in there until you are sure you can touch down AFTER the aircraft in front of you vacates the circuit. I've landed with five aircraft in front of me on Final just be being patient; every second one had to ground. So the answer to your question is that in the case of congenstion you'll be going round, effectively starting a new circuit so you won't have to spear off somewhere. The case I've described is where there are normally 10 to 12 in the circuit and where the pilots are all experienced with the continuous loop of aircraft. Where you're flying with two or three others in the circuit I accept it's hard to bring yourself up to speed, but you can still train yourself to follow the next one maintaining the same gap all the way down and be ready for the busy airport.

Just fly on the leg out to wherever........

A $450K Sling owner tossing it for a US FAR103?

The duty runway with a Towered/Manned strip is what they are calling, otherwise into wind, but as Skippy said there was virtually no wind. If the first one decides on a runway, nothing wrong with the followers all joining on. Usually an airfield is busy because of training, and a student in the circuit is probably setting the nil wind duty runway, but these were all arrivals.

Was there nil wind, or did some of them prefer crooswind/downwind/anywind etc.?

Although this was a Recreational Aviation Australia event, the aircraft shown is a new or near-new GA aircraft, so totally different pricing structure. The new low volume GA aircraft all have their quirks, such as specific engine management to prevent cooking the engine etc, ability to spiral out in the turn onto final, and high price. However, as we've seen in the past few days, when you hire GA aircraft as most in GA do, these expensive aircraft are at the top end, often have a hire cost profile based on long total investment, so the up front impact is not so visible, and right behind them in ever-diminishing hourly hire rates are the depreciated aircraft that are put on the hire line dropping down to some affordable hire rates below some RA hire rates.

I understand.

Time to dump the characters and get back to work.

.....foredeck [avref, Carrier] said Garry Twobottems, I'm gunna fly my Foxhit whether it's safe of not. How dangerous can it be compared to working on the wharves? This was considered to be a good point but quite a large sector of the RBNF until Garry proved how silly it was by .....................................

What's all that attack about? I just read this: "Ballarat Airfield has Historic Classification. Should remain forever.. Nev" and thought I'd check the planning Register to see if it was being kept safe. The result is alarming. If you want me to buy it, sorry but no.

It has a Heritage Overlay but bits of it have gone already; not a good look for tourism for a City the size and importance of Ballarat. It looks as if everyone has been assuming everyone else is protecting it. This list shows the Planning Applications on the airport since 2018 Planning Applications are not required for repairs to existing hangars such as fixing what's there now but are required for changes and proposed changes in Uses, (such as for boat sales etc) If you go by the recent survey of City Airports which handle about the same aircraft movements per day as they did in the sixties, this list of major modifications to hangars is either showing a huge growth in aircraft use at Ballarat Airport or it's possible that most of the hangar applications spelt "Hanger" may not be for aircraft. That still leaves a lot of unusual growth. The list to me looks transformative - transforming from an Airport to an Industrial Use. If a Use is Transformative, that's possibly a Ground for rejecting it by Council or in VCAT. The newest application for a Solar Park, could be a concern because it could be a developed area where everyone has to use solar power in their factories or it could be a large array of Solar Panels in which case if you happen to make a forced landing you'll be shorting out a serious amount of current with sparks flying all over the place just s you start to crush fuel tanks etc. What there wasn't time to do was find out the status of each Application (where objections were still open, whether anyone could appear at VCAT, whether the application had been approved, whether the Application had been built etc.) However, if you want to fly at Ballarat I'd recommend getting out of the starting blocks. Public Planning Applications, Ballarat Airport from 2018 to 2024 Zoning: SUZ (Special Use Zone) SUZ6. SUZ14 HO (Heritage Overlay) HO190 Abbreviated list of Applications (starting from 2018 to 2024) · Use and development for land as Solar Park. · Use of land for purpose of office, development of a new building, aircraft area and associated works. · Major promotion signage. · Use of land for a Transfer Station (Green Waste Interchange facility). · Development of an Industrial Building and dispensation of car parking requirements. · Development of a Store. · Development of aircraft hanger (sic). · Use and development of trade supplies, business identification sign, and reduction of car parking. · Development of Aircraft Hangar. · Development of an aircraft hanger (sic) and display of business signage. · Building & works to an existing airport hanger (sic). · Development of an aircraft hanger (sic) and display of business identification signage. · Development of an aircraft hanger (sic). · Use and development of an airport hanger (sic) used as a transport terminal. · Changes to colour scheme as per approved plans from Heritage Victoria. · Remove native vegetation for the extension of Liberator Drive as part of the Ballarat. West Employment Zone project. · Use and development of transport terminal and hangar.

And that's because the design engineers of the manufacturer know what the issues are with THAT engine design whether deliberately in their design or by issues in the manufacturing process that can be solved by a special blend of oil, and that's why you refer to the manufacturer of the engine and use what the manufacturer specifies. As an example, if the manufacturer is specifying a specific oil or a specific oil change interval, and you decide to follow what someone you've never met says on social media, you could halve the life of your engine or worse.

You had your opportunity and stood him up.