Jerry_Atrick

Hi Dave., Not on the other side of the world for some ;-) Welcome to the forums... JA.

Hi Andy, Welcome... I did it the other way round to you.. although not the CPL.. I flew from Redcliffe while I lived in Brissie for a short while -great aeroclub...

Many congrats @GoFly241! The C172 is a great platform (although I still prefer manual flaps and a low wing). Of course, there are LSAs that are quicker and use less fuel, but there is something about Cet a/c that keep me with them...

Welcome to the forums, @BreezyLog .. Given users can get their data at any time, your product should be a hit. Interested to know what tech stack you used to develop and deploy BreezyLog. I am using Java with a Postges DB.. Postgres good; Java bad... It really ius carp - don't know how a whole industry fell for it like they did.. Should read the Python books (or go back to COBOL! ;-))

I am sure, with the pints that are drink here, it would not be as "stiff" competition as you think.. ;-)

Many happy returns for your 70th, squire.. Glad to hear you will be spending it with family, even if distanced by 2m (these Aussie whimps can only cough 1.5 metres, it appears ;-))

I have spent the last 15 years earning realtively good money ding carp I hate.. I look back now and owuld have preferred earning enough to get by and doing stuff I love (ironically, when I lfeeted with the idea of being a professional pilot, night freight was where I wanted to go). As a very smart young woman said to me.. how often, on your death bed do you look back and think how great your working life was (compared to family and friends).. The reality is, if you can look back on your death bed with fond memories of work, then it doesn't matter how much you made as long as it kept the wolves from the door.

Proves the British also have a sense of humour (Note, if the AT3's first D in the registration was an O, it would be very poignant).

I don't disagree at all.. But as I pointed out on the one hand people want the freedome to move between states, but on the other hand, people want to have differing extents of the lockdown based on location - rural v. urban.. which sounds OK, bit to work, would have required even more stringent lockdown because I would not be able to move between the two otherwise the lockdown would have bene a farce. I agree with the eternal vigilance.. I just happen to think that in some cases, one's vigilant assessment is to ensure that while the action is justified (as it appears to be), it is checked. I mentioned one of thread that there was news that Andrews was seeking to extend some of the extaordinary powers into normal life afterwards because it was easier for police to round up the crooks (paraphrasing). That should be resisteed at all costs until at least it has been presented under the normal democratic process... as should un unjustifiable extension to the lockdown, etc. As I said, there are a lot of people here now criticising the government and the medics for its tardy response.

Isle of Mann...

Hmm... German regos, eh?

Apart from the beat up about the states being communists.. last time I looked they are operating in democratic laws and if you want to (and you are in the right jurisdiction, you can vote against the sitting MP.. etc. Just a little bit of propaganda there.. But I do agree that it is insane that it applied across the states.. However, that is where the powers are - not federally.. and each state CMO provided advice they thought necessary for the protection of their state - that is their remit. Of course, they should have come to a more consistent approach - but then... OK - so from above - why shoud each state differentiate - and now are we saying se should micro-differentiate based oin rural and urban areas - that's even smaller than a state.. It's a tough act to work out what to do that is practical. I agree, however, that it may have been better to allow such differences.. But, you would have to enforce even more draconian travel restrictions as you wouldn't want the city folk descending on the rural areas so they could enjoy quite a bit more freedom than in the city.. In this case, the government is damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Personally, stopping the spread in built up areas is a darned good job they should be patted on the back for.. regardless of political affiliation. @Flightrite - your "Welcome to reality" was in response to a post that was stating the problems with not having a lockdown continue, yet you then say it is draconian to continiue it.. I am guessing your welcome to reality is a "get used to it" type welcome to reality rather than a "wlecome to the fact there are a lot of seriously incosiderate and selfiosh people in the world who are oblivious to the problems they may cause".. Maybe you shouuld look up the damage it does to people who survive it as well...

Which is, if I am notmistaken, the reason why on the medics advice, the governments have taken the actions they have - despite them being accused of being draconioan and dictatorial... ?

Why wait until virtually everyone is infected before taking action?

I think the minimal negative outcome is because of the action the government - well the chief medical advisers - took. Just look at other hotspots where they were more relaxed but implemented social distancing only. These figures speak for themselves. The government erred on the side of caution.. In hindsight, closing the borders entirely, stuffing everyone's house with enough food and dunny paper for a few weeks, finding places for the homeless for that time and going into total lockdown (obviosuly, medical cases excepted) probably would have nipped it in the bud and we would all be back to normal... (gross oversimplification, but you get the idea).

@Bruce Tuncks - I understand where you're coming from.. But recall for the Anzacs, that they were under the impression that they were just going to have a crack at the enemy and come home. DO you think that if it were known how horrible the conditions were that they would have signed up in the first instance And as a result of there being an initial wave of volunteers, if you didn't sign up once the communty had already paid dearly with the first recruits, you were pressured/ostracied into signing up (white feathers or something I recall). Although conjecture, I would wager they wouldn't have been initially so quick to sign up if it were known in the first place the hell they were going into. With respect to the idiiots, such as those on Bondi Beach, well, I would have to agree with you. Except, unfortunately, we don't live in isolation (otherwise a lockdown would not be required). We live in a community where those idiots interact with others who may be be doing the right thing. The problem is they can be running around for 2 weeks without knowing they are even infectious. You may be the one who opens the door they have left the virus on; you may have been forced to go to work against your will and they have come into the shop you are working and passed it onto you, despite you taking all the precautions.. The smoking analogy I used is but one.. but consider this... your son or daughter are married.. they have a couple of kids and their partner decides to sleep around.. The parther knows the risk of contacting HIV, but they are stupid enough to sleep without protection (or lets say they get into drugs and share needles,.. or whatever). And they pick up HIV.. After all, like COVID, it is a while between contracting HIV and the symptoms showing.. Your son or daughter is faithful and has no idea aout what is going on, however, picks up HIV because of their patner's stupidity.... Just because your son or daughter have contracted it do they deserve to die as obviosuly, it is their stupidity for allowing themselves to catch it? Of course not.. They have been faithful, etc and it is the stupidity of others that led them to their position - and that is exactly what could happen with COVID. Now, before I am told that, it may be the case, then why don't they outlaw sex or some such thing.. Well, they have to an extent here.. it is an offence to have sex with someone else when you know you have HIV and don't disclose it. But remember, HIV is a lot harder to contract that COVID. (or the SARs virus attached to it). COVID is so easy to get, it warranted a lockdown. It's not forever.. things won't quite be the same, but things are changing all the time. I accept there may be an increase in mental health issues and that there may be a suicide increase. I know the docs are talking about it as our neighbours are acutely aware of it. However, the question would have to be which is the lesser of the two evils.. and where is the modelling to show it? Also, don't forget, the vast majority of mental illnesses suffered are of a temporary nature - we only hear about the chronic conditions.

In the middle of March, this thread was started: COVID-19 Virus. I am guessing the deat toll at the time for the UK was low.. only dead that day.. Coming up to three months later, the UK has reported almosy 37,000 deaths.. on a linear scale, that would be over 12,000 a month. While I admire your opinions, they are just opinions.. Others have provided stats and facts to support.. not quaint and old-fashioned assertions of tyranny.. Apart from a few early stuff-ups, Australian states have done very well globally and are in the news here as an example of what should have been done. The government and the medics here are coming under fire for the slowness in handling it. Only last week, they decided to impose self-isolaton for 2 weeks for people coming to the UK and it really isn't enforced as all they have to do is tell border control where they will be self-isolating so they can be checked up on..of course, the government won't provide the resources to make sure they are checked up on. 36,000 dead for a population 3 times Australias. Yes, it is much more densly populated, but the lockdown was not strictly enforced, either... and I know of people who went to work when they didn't have to - and got it.. and like Nev says, they aren't quite right (yet). You may take it ias denying your liberty - and you are right.. It's sort of like smokers though - preserve their right to smoke in the face of denying others around them their right not to smoke. We know this is a doozy... unlike the flu... So I would like my right in a democractic and supposedly intelligent society not to be forcibly subjected to it because my grocery delivery driver has been. I was listening to a radio program about the spanish flu, which incdentally may not have originated in spain. Virtually all of Europe went into lockdown to eradicate it (after it took its toll but was still growing). A Scottish doctor sort of started the process much like the process your government has done a good job of protecting you from... Because, let's face it, when they first introduced measures for social distancing, effing idiots like the bondi folk couldn't adhere to it, or maybe they thought like you do now, that their liberties were unfairly removed. Virtually every pandemic has shown to be quickly contained through lockdown. As the docs next door say, once it's dead because it hasn't spread, it's gone. No second wave (which is probably why despite a potential reducing rate, the lockdown was maintaned). It became known as the Spaish flu becase Spain didn't go into lockdown and it maintained its stranglehold there and ripped harder through the population there than anywhere else. My revenue has all but dried up.. But I would prefer that than to cop this thing.. I have no known coindition and can ride a bike 30 odd miles on a hilly route reasonably comfortbly. But I sure don't want to find oiut through dying that I have some unknwon condition - nor do I want anyone I know to. But more importantly, I want the current resources we have allocated to saving people able to handle normal volumes. It is clear that the deat rates other countries (incuding the US where morgues were overflowing - remember) that without drastic - but temporary action, it could be you the docs sacrifice because there isn't enough beds, ventilators, etc. And the fact comorbitity may be a factor, does not mean someone who has a condition doesn't have the right to live... or have we suddenly lost our sense of humanity.

Nah.. FOr the likes of me, Australia is still open.. and offering a free two week holiday at a luxury hotel on returning

Meeting Luke Hodge is good enough for me! (big Hawks fan). Great to hear you are getting exposure to a variety of a/c. You'll be very welcome here... Can't wait to get back to Aus for some flying... Everyone on this forum is causing be to go green with envy!

Brings back memories... (of the song.. not me doing any of that!)

Very hard to watch through... and a poignant reminder of things that can go wrong - it can happen to any of us at any time. As with many accidents we see on YT, we think they may have a death wish,but it could be as simple as something outside of our control - a cable snapping for example; A lot of the time I sit there and wonder why pilot didn't do x or y, but we have no idea - did they misintepret what was going on? Or as simple as the decreasing brain capacity with increasing stress simply couldn't process everything happening quickly, let alone react to it. More training helps alleviate it, but in the real world of private flying where people have families and jobs and a be-ennial check flight (not even techically required as a training flight in EASA land - an instructor just has to sit next to you), self-training, which takes self-discipline is the only real way to go. I try and recite various emergency procedures at least once/day, including mimicing the actions.. I doubt too many even do it once a month.