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Toyota HICE Technology is there now, since we don’t have an NOx limit on aero engines.

Yes, in some cases that might be necessary.

In my case I had about 1900 members throughout Victoria. In theory all were within 7 hours travel to a meeting. In practice, attendance was about 30 month by month, year by year. It's the in practice that you set your Constitution for because that's the one which will work because that's the reality. You very soon get to know if your are not communicating well enough because people are quick to complain, and you then have to adjust the constutution to suit. Out of a hundred constitutions, all should be different to suit the purpose. There are some cases where the members take no notice of the constutution at all but just have a way of getting by. In some cases the constitutions are changed to disperse a clique which has rebuffed all others to do what they want to do. In some cases people who have never held a management position in their lives develop a Hitler ego and the Association becomes a can of fighting worms. Your flying club is pretty typical of groups which work around Australia. The bottom line is you can't sit still; if things aren't working you have to identify they cause and a majority of members have to want to fix it. There is an issue if the Constitution has been set to prevent that change.

.........OT cringed; he was a long way past 12 years of age and while he was male. he was a little short of a dollar in fitness - too many long lunches on the Esplanade. OT pretended he was swatting a fly, missed and tripped in the opposite direction to the Bishop, pointed at something and quickly walked away. Who should be coming towards him but.................................

........"official biscuit" around the Vatican. (The Pope was mindful of the ramifications among the Z-Gen and Seniles of using the words "body of Christ".) OT seized on this, and tagged his biscuit ads with: "as used by the Vatican." He was summoned by the Catholic Bishop of Perth, who said "OT, my son ................................"

I took this question seriously. If you were serious, here's a legal explanation of Act of God. https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/commercial-law/national/tort-law/acts-of-god You then have to look at the parking contract.

WA biscuit business. Cappy has mistaken a Mitre for a WA Biscuit tin. You don't see too many around today but in the 1890s when WA was mostly sparse, except for mice, solid silver biscuit tins were crafted inj Nottingham and shipped to Melbourne. The silver lids were too heavy for a mouse or rat tor 2 yo child to lift and kept the biscuits dry. WA had no equivalent of R.M. Willians in those days so men wore the biscuit tins upside down to protect themselves from the sun, and hold biscuits while riding on a horse. particularly the travelling priests, and some people called them "mitres", but they were just ......biscuit tins. While not wishing to be critical of our beloved Cappy, the Death Card above shows a medieval helmet and not the biscuit tin common in WA. In fact OT became something of a Biscuit Baron always carrying a few under his hat. In pubs he would often use that gauche method of hitting his glass with a fork and when the bar had qiestened down, say: "The next round's on me", and hand out round biscuits. He was one of the first to wear the silver biscuit tin upside down and gained so much fame that OT Biscuit Corp made a fortune, and he was said to be "tinny" and the saying had gone into history. OT ..................

OK, but with uninformed proxies gathered for a stack if needed, a result can be the opposite of good governance. Proxies are usually reserved for voting on known events, e.g. elections at AGMs or Extraordinary General Meetings where there is an advertised decision to make, and Members can't be there, or where the Constitution specifies. General meetings are just that. If you show up, you're part of the vote; if you don't you accept the decisions made at the meeting. This takes a load off Committee Meetings which is usually where the members shove the hard work. General Business can often have around a dozen items. Where there's a very active President or Committee acting in the best interests of the group, listing proposed decisions, all researched, all checked and ready to go in General Business it allows members to have a say and be part of the decision. It's not unusual for 10 resolutions to rattle though and be processed under 30 minutes unless there's some controversy.

Meetings can be stacked by people or by proxies. If you go back to the last Extraordinary Meeting, proxies best the vote in the room. So you need a Constitution which prevents proxies in general meetings.

As I explained, act of God is a formal insurance term; the person I was addressing has the chance to get an answer to his question.

It is a formal Insurance term.

Ok, I'm out of it; you provide the answers.

I'm sure the comedians will find some applause somewhere, but a serious question was asked.

That gets you what you've got now - just goes around in a circle. If you don't have a General Business section in a meeting, the members lose a lot of control on fast moving issues. Proxies should not be used as weapons; if there is a quorum at the meeting you can get a decision on the day instead of things dragging out for months. Where you have to forecast a routine business item, you can be beaten by proxies every time, so you don't have a democratic association.

A company in receivership which is shat we have in Australia has gone belly up, fininshed, doors closed, everyone sacked and in an instant is controlled by a Receiver who will make the decisions on getting the creditors their best outcome which is why you don't get information. Mostly there are auctions where various assets are sold. Sometimes the Receiver will decide to trade on in the hope of selling it as a going concern and you will then get information from the Receiver and his staff, and anyone he employs.

I would think it's also a concern that some members are reporting on here that they've been given new numbers for the proposed Group G Has CASA now approved Group G? What would be the impact on Members if Group G was approved and people who couldn't meet the GA medical standard flowed into RAA Ltd for a lower standard and started making demands to get the same flying priviledges as they had in GA? etc. What other flow on effects could occur. These would normally be discussed in general meetings, and in some cases rules changed and others new conditions applied, and for that you ideally need open meetings taking as long as it takes to ensure the changes don't compromise the flying of the existing members and the structure of the organisation with new negative impacts. I looked at the RAA Ltd Constitution. If you remember the change was done in a hurry, and it's not ideal for things like no confidence motions and urgent Member resolutions. Clause 19 discusses calls for General Meetings by Members. Clause 27 refers to Members resolutions and statements 27.1 to 27.5 cover the process. In my opinion the current clauses work against the Members and make if very difficult for a Member to get something fixed. Clause 27.6 says "This Clause does not limit the right that a member has to propose a resolution at a general meeting under the Corporations Act." (Under Clause 65, Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca2001172/ This is a big document to wade through. To participate in these decisions, you really need to get to the ability to ensure there is a General Business section in every General Meeting, and each Member in attendance has the right to raise without notice an issue in General Business, explain the contents and move a resolution to be voted on by the quorum present.

Is it so hard to understand what "example" means without getting lost in a witch hunt. There are people here who bought the Van's product, need Van's Spares and probably others who want to buy the product. The examples simply show that under Chapter 11 reconstruction can take place.

Chyeck whether the insurance excludes an "act of God"

........who pushed back shoving OT into ............................

US Chapter 11 allows breathing space for a Company to find a way forward from a difficult time. It's not the Australian Receivership wind up, but a bit like our putting the Company under Administration with a Scheme of Arrangement. Here are a couple of Chapter 11 examples. General Motors went for Chapter 11 in 2009 It was rejuvenated and a new GM bought out the old GM. Most members of the public would be reading this for the first time. Chapter 11 allows an organization to find its way back to profitability. Sometimes financial problems are solved by evolution. Cyrus McCormick invented the Reaper in 1831; before that farmers and their employees had to walk through fields cutting the wheat, oat and barley stalks by hand. For those on the land, he was the person who invented those triangular blades rivetted to a strip which slid between guards – the blades which seemed to find every rock in the paddock. Not all seasons were good and although by 1902 Cyrus was exporting his reapers in the thousands all over the world the industry was in disaster mode. He solved it by merging with his competitors, Deering Harvester Co and three others, forming the International Harvester Company. Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy, designed the Coke bottle and the Studebaker car with the flat boot. (it stood out so much that people said you couldn’t tell which way it was pointing when it was coming towards you.) He also design the IH logo which went on, like the coke bottle to be worth millions. In 1981 following a crippling strike in 1979, International Harvester was possibly the first company to transition to build vehicles using robotics. When a recession hit, IHC also discovered you can’t lay off robots; you had to keep paying the loans and went for Chapter 11. They renamed the Company “Navistar” and opted to come out of Chapter 11 with just the core products of trucks and school buses. They retained the Truck name “International”. They sold the IH logo, Construction Equipment (bulldozers etc), Tractors and Implements to Case, which rebranded itself Case IH and changed its colours from yellow to red. This allowed people in the three different industries to keep on buying the products they wanted. Today if you’re watching a movie and there’s a city scene, you’ll most likely be looking at an International truck or school bus. A few days ago I passed a hugged CASEIH/Steiger Row Track tractor big enough to need a four axle Low Loader trailer pulled by a heavy truck. Chapter 11 allowed that long term product evolution to continue for the past 42 years. As for the Van’s Chapter 11: I took part in the International Harvester Chapter 11 process. Freed from the crippling debt, given time for the recession to end, we were able to heavily discount product to reduce a huge excess stock, spend a lot of time looking at core strengths and core products, and off-load non-performing areas. We had the money to step up advertising and the business went on, particularly where the customers came to us and asked us what was going on. We were free to tell them exactly what was happening in terms of sales service and parts. So I’d add a caution to some of the comments above, and recommend anyone who is concerned, just contact Van’s and ask for regular updates. Then you’ll know what’s happening as against reading information which may or may not be correct or may or may not be out of date. Remember, while they are under Chapter 11, they have the time to address some of the issues raised here. I’m not saying they’ll come out of it; I’m not saying they won’t; I’m not saying their prices will go up; I’m not saying their prices will go down, I’m not saying their quality will change; I’m not saying their quality won’t, and they don’t have to advise every self-appointed expert on what their plans are; they still have competition.

........he/she would take part in the speech session. (We thank Cappy for this video from his extensive library) Normally the females would give a talk on "How to change a truck tyre" or "My time in the SAS" and the males would talk about "How embarrassing it was last Saturday night at the BoB", or "How to get a grease stain out of the carpet" (referring to the dog's last three pointer), and who could forget bull's "Making Scones when there's no water". The only jarring note in recent years was CT's "Popping Bunnies" which caused shrieks of outrage from the men. This particular night at the Tasmanian School of Arts was going normally when OT arrived in a limousine dressed as Marilyn Monroe. He spent half an hour darting around the foyer looking for a puff of wind to blow his dress up, and then started a slow, suggestive walk (some said it was more sexy than Marilyn used to do) through the school, past the Life students, entwining himself around the model which on that night was a 40 year-Wharfie from Newcastle, while singing "Diamonds are a girl's best friend." Social media went off the clock as the wharfies hoed into the LGBTAMS at their friend being demeaned by such a trashy performance, The Academy for the Arts sided with the LGs and added their own shrill voices, forty five people advised the readers this was due to global warming, and sixty two branded OT as unsustainable, but OT bravely continued his progress through the School singing which, although off-key and out of time was appreciated by many from the Art world. Eventually, when looking back, he accidentally bumped into ........................

This relates to Figure 1 from the above ATSB report, but in no way suggests what happened. I just think the visual is a good example to discuss identifying where we are in the mountains and picking the right valley to get us home. We know that the intent of the Pilot was to fly down the Pioneer Valley. If he was flying VFR just before he started the turn to the left, he would have seen the road that runs into the Pioneer Valley, but not the river. As he turns toward higher ground, he may have been searching for the Pioneer Valley higher up; he was about to make it with a downslope ahead of him. When he crossed the highest peak line he was on track to intersect the Pioneer Valley; when he turned left he was flying away from it. One question I have is what mapping he had on board at that moment (or what mapping WE might have had on board at that moment. Was Ozrunways or WAC chart be detailed enough to show him he was on track to intersect the valley and then that he had turned away from the valley? For VFR flying you have to be able to see 5 km ahead. There's an old adage for bushwalkers: "If lost never walk down, the valleys keep multiplying as you go. Walk up; there is only one summmit. In this case he was going down. How easy or difficult was it flying this track VFR to be sure you were intersecting the Pioneer Valley? What were the key markers of this particular valley? Where would you flight plan to intersect the valley?

Yes, just saw it on Channel 9 news.

My mistake. Channel 9 footage tonight shows the top aircraft from the other side with a tie down chain still firmly attached to a wing and the ground cable ripped out. Wind speed was 169 km/hr.

It seems tying down your own aircraft is not enough these days.