KRviator

However, previous generations were fighting a visible enemy. They also had old-age pensions to look forward too, they didn't have to self-fund their own retirement with superannuation - which you don't get paid if you have lost your job!. Oh, they also didn't have the Government telling them "If you've lost your job, you can raid your retirement savings to tide you through". They also benefited from house prices the likes of which we will never see again, with average house prices being only 3-4x the annual income (Source), they didn't have to save for 8 years just to achieve a deposit for a loan, yet alone the loan itself (Source). They also, typically, were able to enjoy a "job for life" if they so chose, casualisation was barely heard of and they didn't need to commute 3 hours a day from the house they could afford to their workplace, they didn't have the cost-of-living outstripping wage growth year on year, and they didn't have the Medicare Levy surchrage or PHI levies.... Yep, those previous generations have made so many sacrifices! And now they're asking the follow-on generations to make even more sacrifices to protect them. A quick number crunch suggests if you withdraw $20,000 from your superannuation at an early age (in your early-mid 20's), it will cost you in excess of $360,000 when you retire. That's based on a 7.5% compounded year-on-year return, which my super fund easily achieved on several options.... 456 hospitalised, of which 38 are in ICU out of 6489 currently active cases. 0.6% of cases need ICU. According to The Age, Victoria has 695 ICU beds, but "with the capacity to rapidly increase that if required" according to the Health Minister. To fill those beds would require a daily case increase between 960-1880 for 10 days straight, yet even nationwide we didn't achieve that lower figure. So to completely fill their nominal-capacity ICU beds with Covid patients would need ~116,000 currently active cases. But this would, presumably, exclude those beds from other patients, injuries, etc. We haven't even got close to that as a nation! But speaking of the nation's response to Covid, where's Mark McGowan or Anastasia Pala-howeveryouspellhersurname coming out and saying "We can help support our interstate citizens and shoulder our share of the health load by accepting some patients in our hospitals!" Or are we not 'all in this together'? Let's not forget the reason why NSW and Victoria have so many cases is because the vast majority of International Arrivals came through Melbourne & Sydney. I think they would be manageable. Just because you have it doesn't mean you will need hospitalisation, yet alone an ICU bed. People elsewhere (NSW & Qld) have shown the infection rate can be kept under control. I'm reminded of that old TV show "Dinosaurs" and their Hurling Day episode...

I applaud your optimism. You're right though, our Kiwi Kuzzie Bros did go all or nothing, and they did it as a nation. Not as individual states, provinces or postcodes. Victoria's lockdown, might, and I stress might solve their issue, but it won't solve the issue of other states forbidding Victorians, travelling interstate, or mandating quarantine if you do happen to get in to the state.

Read the latest from down south? Now you need a signed permit to be able to go to work. Holy snappin' duckshit what a world we live in where you need to prove your innocence to the state and effectively get permission from the authorities just to go to work in Australia. Anyone would think we were back in Nazi-occupied Germany or North Korea! Begs the question "What more draconian rules and regulations will be brought in if this lockdown doesn't work?"

There was the fatal accident at Johnson Ck a couple years ago, caught on video.

Sending it back to Microair isn't an option? I've not used them at all, but can't imagine anyone better unless they're too exxy...

Complete with lockdowns and armed officers patrolling the streets to ensure any violators are suitably punished. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine we would see civilian curfews enacted in a major city. But even as he is enacting these draconian regulations, what does the Victorian Premier say about the state of the hospital system? So despite the Victorian health system 'apparently' coping with the increase in case numbers, despite influenza infections - and the hundreds of fatalities associated with them every year - being a pittance of what they would normally be, he has imposed a state of emergency and civilian curfew on one of the biggest cities in the country.

Those chapters you've referenced in the AIP GEN3.4 are when in communication with an ATC/ATS unit, not for use when operating OCTA. And the only requirement in AIP ENR 1.1 that mandates radio usage in Class G is AIP ENR1.1.10.1.4 which states: My underlining. Unless you can provide a specific reference, I again stand by my assertion there are no mandatory broadcasts required by a radio-equipped aircraft operating OCTA except as necessary to avoid a collision.

IS that ADS-B equipment or MLAT? I have a vague memory they (ASA) introduced MLAT down there before ADS-B as a cost-cutting measure many years back. Anyone else have a similar recollection?

Couldn't agree more! Though there are a few ways in which you can use it to your advantage occasionally. And I probably came across a bit snarky above, apologies, wasn't the intent. ?

I did. I stand by my comment. Now howsabout you go look up the CAR's and CAAP's and tell us what the MANDATORY calls are...I'll wait.....

There's no mandatory calls these days though. You only have to use it to avoid a collision.

Try HERE, it's the FR24 forum where you can post database corrections. All 719 pages of it so far! :P

OOps, wrong 'fred. My bad.

The icons on FR24/FA bear no relation to what you transmit for ADS-B. The reason it shows as a Jet - the same as my RV-9A did - is because it cannot correlate the Rxxxx rego with a database containing the aircraft type, so it assumes a Jet. CAsA / ASA have nought to do with it.

The latest CAsA update in *.PDF format. Thou shall not stall the Bristell lest the earth rise and smite thee!

And that's part of the problem. Mini-Me had a sniffle a month ago. School won't let them in with a sniffle, you must provide a Covid-Negative confirmation, so off we go and get him tested. As soon as you get a test, you must quarantine yourself - and your close contacts - until you get the result. 4 days later, we did. 4 days of no school for 2 kids. 4 days of (potentially) no work though I'm on leave as I can't get to work and the KRviatrix is working from home but we're particularly fortunate. Fast forward 6 days and what happens? Mini-Me II gets a runny nose. Wash, rinse, repeat. For two kids with a winter sniffle, that is 8 days of school missed, 121+ hours of pay (potentially) lost. It's easy to understand why so many people are willing to risk it, with the increase in casualisation of the workforce over the last decade or so. No work = no pay. Tale a look at the latest tripe coming from Mark McGowan Yet his own Chief Health Officer stated interstate travel is viable and indeed recommended between states that don't have outbreaks: This is no longer about keeping the population safe so much as Mcgowan sticking it to the Eastern states who have dudded WA for many years. That one person, just one, who is not an elected official, can dictate terms to a country of 26M people is ludicrous. The point of the restrictions was to flatten the curve. We have. With appropriate precautions the health system is reasonably capable of managing any increase in cases. WA's health system hasn't carried their share of the load in any case - wonder why there's so many cases on the East coast, Mark? Because where did the vast majority of international flights arrive? Now, with the above said, I'm not advocating we all go to the pub tomorrow or have 80,000 people watch the Origin at the MCG and another 50,000 at an AFL game, we still need to be careful, and take reasonable precautions, avoid excessively large gatherings and the like but the key word there is reasonable. Stopping healthy people from travelling, or working "just because" they "might" have Covid is unfair to both them, their families and the country as a whole. I hope Clive wins his high-court challange.

Yes. The reference you seek is not administered by RAAus, it is in the AIP. AIP GEN 1.5-3-1.5 That is terribly worded as "you can use it" but additionally "you can use it in Class G". Solo RPC training (or does the CAsA exemption only apply to FTF aircraft??)? PPL or above in an RAAus aircraft?

Avdata?

And look what happened!

So the real question becomes how many canaries does it take to fill a 747? But are we talking about a Classic, a -400, or even that cute little aberration they called the -SP? If we assume we're talking about the Atlantic Canary, they range 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) in length, with a wingspan of 21 to 23.7 cm. Split the difference and you get 11cm long and 22.25cm wingspan for an occupied area of 244.75cm2 per bird (Ref: Wikipedia) A 747-400F has a main deck area of 21347ft2 occupied by pallets (Ref: Cargolux), probably a bit more if you account for the pallet-handling equipment, but we'll use that figure. So 21347ft2 gives 1983.2m2. Assuming a single-layer of birds that 1983.2m2 gives 19,832,012cm2 which means you can fit 81,278 canaries on the main deck of a 747-400. But we're still 3.2m canaries short of our goal. To reach our needed 3.333333m canaries, we would need to have 41 layers of birds. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Canary's 1cm length means you can get 27 layers in the 300cm-high main deck. So we have a figure of 27*81,278 or only 2,194,506 Atlantic Canaries weighing 32.917 tonnes in a CargoLux 747-400F

Have a look at the build quality of the "factory built" Sierra that hit the ferris wheel at Old Bar! There's another photo in the Preliminary Report showing brake lines going straight through a drilled hole in the fuselage skin, no grommet, no chafe protection. WTF?!? width=492pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525322/ao2011126_fig2.jpg[/img] Edge distance? Never heard of 'im! width=489pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525335/ao2011126_fig4.jpg[/img] Power line cable-tied to the fuel filter, as you do. No attempt to remove the razor-edges of the zip ties, either! width=487pxhttps://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3525317/ao2011126_fig1.jpg[/img] Photos courtesy of the ATSB

Having built my own RV, I would personally take a well-built example of <Kit XYZ> by a homebuilder over a factory built one, but you do need to know what to look for to work out if it is a well built example. But as above, you cant put it online if that's something you would consider later.

You probably wouldn't find anything to do with registration matters in the AIP, that's operational information, not administrative or legislative, per se'. You can try one of the following from Part 47 of the CASR's...

My point was that the comment from Flyboy1960 was the list he was previously given was old and incomplete. As I have repeatedly made available free Australian databases for Dynon SkyView & Garmin G3X owners I have the ability to quickly & easily provide the most up-to-date list of Airport/ICAO code combinations for people to use as they wish. Most people would either say "thanks for the latest list", or remain silent if they had no need for it. I'm still trying to work out what your little tantrum is proving though... I hope you don't own one of the above-mentioned EFIS' as one of my databases you would probably find incredibly useful - but I fear if you are so hard up for bandwith you will never be able to download it without your 14.4kbps modem exploding. A pity...

And where is this "total control" term defined? As I said above, it is a vaguely-defined and incredibly subjective description that is open to interpretation by anyone for their own ends. WA still won't open their border to Tasweigans or Territorians and they are light-years ahead of NSW, Victoria and Qld - and WA itself - so it isn't about having the pestilence under control in the location from whence you came. Those half-dozen colleagues trapped in Perth I mentioned above have been asked to re-commit for another 3 month stay in WA. That will total between 8-9 months away from their families depending on their roster. Would Australia as a whole be up for another round of lock downs, when it's been shown the first round didn't really work? The hotel quarantine debacle in Melbourne & Sydney while it has worked, hasn't stopped the virus getting back into the community following the 2 week detention - the latest NT case is someone who came out of quarantine in Melbourne. I'd be all for a NZ-style 3 week lockdown to stop it once and for all in Oz, but it has to be backed up by detention on arrival for international travellers that will work. But so far, the state governments of all persuasions, have shown they can't be trusted to implement such a system.