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It was absolutely nothing to do with her politics and if you take the time to have a look at my posting history you might discover I'm not a party politic poster.I simply think that the consumption of alcohol airside by aircrew is unacceptable to the majority of the ill-informed public whose opinions hold far more sway with legislators than we small band of recreational flyers. And I'm not a wowser...just finished a stubby before dinner.

 

Perhaps it's more honest for you to say you do agree with her politics because I'm not commenting on them.

 

Kaz

I agree with your opinion and, in fact, alcohol consumption airside at some airfields is absolutely verboten and an offence with penalties.

And, like you, I enjoy a drink or two and have sometime been known to have partaken in more than an elegant sufficiency.

Nothing at all to do with Pauline, just not a good look.

Hi Flyers,Does anyone have any first hand experience or knowledge for converting a 2 seat Jabiru from tri-gear to a taildragger.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

RE

If you PM me I can put you in touch with the owner of the "Mongrel" which is based at Lethbridge and there was another at West Sale which has recently been sold - owner was/is a L2 and I can put you in touch with him as well.

Regards

Sport Aviation July 2017 issue has excellent article about burping Rotax.

It seems to me reading all the candidates statements that the transformation of RAA to GA mk2 is a feat a compli. All seem be reading from the same hymnal - are these candidates hand picked and asked to apply?.It all worries me. I hope there is a cat among the pigeons and Mike M misses out.

M & M is not a good candidate - way too much unimpressive stuff from TD - very sad that good people don't apply - not impressived with the CEO - everything is way too similar to a few years ago -

Love to hear some comments

Does anyone support the MM and the current CEO?

I started in 1968 in Chippies at RVAC - $10 ph solo

Then mixed in a bit of gliding at VMFG and more gliding with the ANU Gliding Club - ridge soaring at Lake George when it had no water in it - more gliding at various Clubs as well as GA.

Early adopter (Member 527) of ultralights - Thrusters & Drifters

Memorable flights:

A gliding course at Lake Keepit with the legendary Gary Speight

England to Australia in a C170 (before the days of GPS) - yep, had to be able to read a map

Around and criss cross New Zealand in a C170

Orange County to San Diego in a Stearman

YMMB to Adels Grove, Escott Station, Undarra, Cow Bay, coastal to YMMB with a few island stops on the way - Piper Archer

YMMB, is that Moorabbin DJP ?. . .sounds like it ( without checking wiki ) It was not far from there, that Lt.Col. Keith Hatfield ran 'Groupair' flying school at Casey Airfield at Berwick that I received my OFFICIAL introduction to the DH82A, ( VH-TIG )Bearing in mind that I'd been flying in these aircraft since 1956 with our next door neghbour and his Hurricane pilot shareholder in their £40.00 aircraft ( ! ). But of course none of this coud be legally logged as I was under age, but you can't UNLEARN what you have learned. I could sideslip one into a field by the age of 11. . .but I neeeded a very thick seat cushion to see over the side. . .

 

At Groupair, did my type conversion from the C-150 that I'd legally learned upon and later some aeros training from the Great ( well I think so ) David Squirrell. He was an instructor at Casey at that time, as well as being a part time Ag pilot. He taught at Moorabbin too. . . .he came over on the surface like a 'Cocky Farmer' with a brilliant sense of humour.. . .never saw him without a grin on his face ( Hope it wasn't my flying skills that made him giggle )

 

I have wonderful memories of that place and the people there. Shame that it has gone and passed into history. . . .

You must be old.

I have a few hours in the RHS of a B18 with Dave.

Thanks again.I'm going on the look out today.

OXLEY NETS Pty Ltd 20 Network Dr, Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Ph 1300 730 731

will make to order using normal net any size you like with shock cord on whatever edges you wish.

They have done stuff for me in the past and they are both professional and reasonable.

Thanks again.I'm going on the look out today.

[ATTACH=full]50431[/ATTACH] I've seen a number of options for storage of those loose items such as phones, glasses, maps, beacons etc.What have you found the best storage options - net type pockets, metal storage or elastic topped pockets in vinyl etc... .??

 

The above photo has a number of net type pockets and a larger net in the rear storage.

 

I wonder where you get those nets? - auto shops etc..

 

Any ideas of photos of how you store those loose items old be appreciated..

Here's what I use in the Club Gazelle:

iPad Bag - clips stitched on with whipping twine (very strong) & bag clips on to door lock rods & is easily accessible

Bag contains - iPad Mini, Casa kneeboard (ERSA entries, flight plan forms, paper for notes, A/C specs & speeds etc in plastic sleeves). pens, rope, electrical ties, water bottle (CASA gift & when filled clips on to door lock rods), iPad lead, oil funnel, charts (VNC etc), mini multi tool, mini first aid (bandaids, steri strips, betadene wipes, panadol etc), sunglasses, pens

Headset bag has a clip and attaches to A/C structure behind pilot's seat and is accessible in flight - contains headset, PLB, large Leatherman, spare batteries

I have a number aviation books for sale on behalf of a friend. All are in as new condition and include a couple of classics (app $100 to replace) and some BAK texts which maybe a bit old bit BAK hasn't changed since I did it in 1960's.

The books are in Melbourne and the preference is to sell the lot to the best offer.

I know the "Classifieds" section is best for this post but I cannot post there with best offer only a price or giveaway.

Aviation Books For Sale TH.pdf

Aviation Books For Sale TH.pdf

Aviation Books For Sale TH.pdf

Good day. Did you get to Toronto in February? If not let me know as I can recommend a great uncontrolled airport and good pilots to guide you around. Not far from Niagara Falls etc. Cheers

Thank you for your response and sorry for my late one.

I didn't make in Feb but might later in the year.

Regards

Kaz - I know I might have asked this but what the Ship Meal Deal. Dates, time, menu cost etc

And we are going to bolt our clock to the wall when we get it back from you thieving bandits!

Hello

I may be in Toronto in March and would be interested in going flying in a recreational aircraft. I have a GA licence and a RA-Aus Pilot Certificate.

A dual flight is fine. Can anyone provide some info as to locations, recreational aircraft, rates etc?

I know there is a US/Canada Forum but I didn't get a response there

Thank you

Possibly this one? Eddie Seve - A bit of stall recovery practise with Pete... | Facebookrgmwa

Hello

I'm looking for a video that think was posted on this site in 2016 which showed an instructor in NSW (I think) demonstrating a stall / spin in a RV.

I can't fond the video now - can anyone assist?

Thank you.

Hello

I may be in Toronto in February and would be interested in going flying in a recreational aircraft. I have a GA licence and a RA-Aus Pilot Certificate.

A dual flight is fine. Can anyone provide some info as to locations, recreational aircraft, rates etc?

Thank you

Melbourne Area to Ozkosh

Hello All

Anyone going to Ozkosh from the Melbourne area who would like to share the flying/cost?

I have been flying for a while (learn't in Chippies in the 1960's) - ex GA IFR - been flying RA-Aus since 1987 & fly a couple of time a month.

I too only read the online version occasionally - maybe it's the presentation. There are lots of ways to present online content and I don't think RA-Aus has nailed it.With regard to communication, I received the following email today (i.e. a few days prior to the event) addressed to all Victorian members - this is at best sloppy -

 

We're heading to Kyneton and you're invited!

 

RAAus staff will be at Kyneton Airfield this Sunday (17 July 2016) and would like to invite members to join us for a free sausage sizzle lunch and informal member's forum.

 

Lunch will be available from 12.30 to 2.00pm

 

Staff will be in Kyneton developing training videos and an opportunity exists for our members to engage with our Training Coordinator, Hayley, and tech leadership team, Darren and Jared, over the lunch time period.

 

Our CEO, Michael Linke will also be in town as a guest of the GFA and will be presenting to members as part of their AGM on Saturday at Attwood. It's great to see aviation bodies coming together to share the passion.

 

Michael will also be joining Hayley, Darren and Jared at lunch to engage with members on Sunday.

 

So come on down to Kyneton this weekend, catch us in action, have some lunch, and find out what's been happening at RAAus.

A good example of online presentation is John Roake's "Gliding International" -https://http://www.glidinginternational.com/account/issuehttps://www.glidinginternational.com/account/issuehttps://www.glidinginternational.com/account/issue

You will need to contact John to get a sample - there are plenty of others - as I said, the online mag idea is fine - RA-Aus hasn't nailed the presentation.

Kids are over loaded with information these days, they don't want to read magazines. Pop into your local news agent and see how many teen and preteen magazines still exist.The falling readership of the magazine is symptomatic of the RAA's poor communication policy. I'm sure someone will work that out eventually but not before the damage is done.

With regard to communication, I received the following email today (i.e. a few days prior to the event) addressed to all Victorian members - this is at best sloppy -

We're heading to Kyneton and you're invited!

RAAus staff will be at Kyneton Airfield this Sunday (17 July 2016) and would like to invite members to join us for a free sausage sizzle lunch and informal member's forum.

Lunch will be available from 12.30 to 2.00pm

Staff will be in Kyneton developing training videos and an opportunity exists for our members to engage with our Training Coordinator, Hayley, and tech leadership team, Darren and Jared, over the lunch time period.

Our CEO, Michael Linke will also be in town as a guest of the GFA and will be presenting to members as part of their AGM on Saturday at Attwood. It's great to see aviation bodies coming together to share the passion.

Michael will also be joining Hayley, Darren and Jared at lunch to engage with members on Sunday.

So come on down to Kyneton this weekend, catch us in action, have some lunch, and find out what's been happening at RAAus.

A Chipmunk

Don

Accountants should stay away from the law ;-)

http://lawcentral.com.au

Title Fight: Contracts vs Deeds

Do you know the difference between a deed and an agreement? Do you know which of these legal documents is most suitable for your transaction? You may have seen these different commercial documents but never asked what the difference is and what requirement or effect they have.

Choosing whether to use a deed or agreement for a transaction may have huge consequences later on, should a dispute arise between the parties. Making the right decision at the start could save you a lot of unnecessary time, money and stress.

What is a Contract?

One of the fundamental principles of contract law is that in order to have a legally effective contract certain legal elements must be met. These elements are:

1 An offer by a party;

2 Acceptance of that offer by another party;

3 Consideration (exchange of something of value); and

4 Intention to create legal relations.

For example: Joe wishes to purchase a car from Sam (an intention to create a legal relationship). Joe offers Sam $10,000.00 for the car and Sam accepts. In consideration of Sam providing the car to Joe, Joe gives Sam the $10,000.00. In this simplistic scenario it is clear that all 4 elements have been met.

What happens if one or more of the contract elements are not met?

If any of the four key elements are missing, your ‘contract’ will not be a contract under law. Therefore, if something goes wrong in the transaction, you may not be able to sue under the written or oral terms of the ‘contract’. Of course, you may be able to sue under another cause of action, under specific legislation or under equity – but this is likely to be a more complex and costly exercise to do so (especially when it comes to obtaining evidentiary proof). As well, it is likely that the remedies available to you (including damages) will be different depending on whether you can sue under the breach provisions of the contract, under specific legislation or under equity.

What is a Deed?

A deed is essentially a binding promise or commitment to do something. Unlike a contract, a deed does not require the element of consideration. The elements required are that it be:

1 In writing;

2 Signed by all parties (can be in counterparts if there is a specific clause included);

3 Witnessed by at least one person not a party to the deed;

4 Expressed to be a deed in the document itself (e.g. “This Deed hereby....”);

5 Delivered to all parties (although some states specifically require deeds to state that they are “signed, sealed and delivered”; and

6 Supported by evidence that the parties intended to be legally bound by its terms.

A unilateral promise unsupported by consideration, is not a legally binding or enforceable contract. However, if this unilateral promise is made by deed, then it will be enforceable.

Some Examples

An agreement must exist for a contract to exist, but on its own is not sufficient to meet the elements required for a contract. Simply put, all contracts are also agreements, but not all agreements are legally enforceable contracts. In order for an agreement to be a legally enforceable contract consideration must be provided as well as the intention to be legally bound.

Here are some scenarios to consider:

A Sam says to Joe “I am going to give you $1,000.00”.

B Sam owns the company Red Rubber Pty Ltd (“RR”), which is a subsidiary of its parent company Silver Steel Pty Ltd (“SS”). SS offers to pay Joe $1,000.00 to on behalf of RR in return for Joe providing machinery to RR’s rubber factory. RR itself provides no consideration in return for Joe providing the machinery.

In both scenarios Joe would be unable to enforce the promise under a normal contract as he provided no consideration to Sam or to SS. However, if either agreement was made with a deed, then Joe would be entitled to enforce the terms of the promise in both scenarios.

Should I Use a Deed or a Contract for my Transaction?

There may be some circumstances, like the above scenario with Sam and Joe, where there is no choice but to use a deed. Deeds are commonly used for changing your name (by deed poll), financial guarantees, confidentiality agreements, terminations or indemnities. As a general rule, if the existence of consideration is in doubt (or if consideration has been provided only in the past), then you should use a deed instead of a contract. Other factors to consider are:

1 When it is to be binding on a party: deeds are binding when they are signed, sealed and delivered by one party to the other - even if the other party has not yet executed the deed document (see Vincent v Premo Enterprises (Voucher Sales) Ltd [1969] 2 QB 609 at 619 per Lord Denning).

2 Limitation periods: each State or Territory has its own legislation regarding limitation periods. The limitation period is extended for deeds and varies between 12 and 15 years, depending which State or Territory the deed is governed by. The limitation periods for contracts are 6 years in the States and the ACT, whereas in the Northern Territory it is only 3 years.

3 Corporate restrictions: some company representatives are not allowed to sign deeds on behalf of the company, therefore a contract is necessary.

4 Remedies: legal remedies differ between deeds and contracts, therefore this should be considered

Conclusion

Hopefully this discussion has helped you better understand the differences between deeds and contractual agreements. It is important to note that this is not a simple area of the law and sometimes even the Courts don’t agree on this issue.

In the recent case of 400 George Street (Qld) Pty Limited & Ors v BG International Limited [2010] QSC 66 (“George Street”) the Queensland Supreme Court ruled that the document in question was not a deed, and was rather a contractual agreement because of a number of factors. However, on appeal in 400 George Street (Qld) Pty Ltd v BG International Ltd [2010] QCA 245 (“George Street Appeal”), the Queensland Court of Appeal found that the document was in fact a deed, and not a contractual agreement.

Lightspeed have a good app - http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/content/lightspeedaviation/CustomPages/FlightLink.htm

Interesting .... His card from 1992 (valid for 2 years) has "Membership No. 101523" and "Pilot Certificate No. 004446". According to John Brandon's history http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/regulations/benchmarks.html there were 2400 members in 1990.  

 

I found some handwritten (Kalamazoo system) AUF receipts from the late 1980's - some with no detail apart from date, name and amount. I found one for 1988 for membership renewal and one for aircraft registration. John Brandon reports 1,150 members in 1987.

 

 

 

So, at some point the Pilot Certificate number became the Membership number. It also appears that the certificate number exceeds the number of members at the time of issue.

 

 

 

I am guessing there was some form of coding in the numbering. Eg 4 for Qld, or 10 to start off, being 95-10 (member number 1,523 seem more reasonable for the time than 101,523). Another theory - after the great Server collapse (when no one did a back-up and all the records had to be re-entered from paper files), perhaps it was easier to use the Pilot number rather than a separate member number?

 

 

 

Sue

Hi

Most of my flying is GA - Australia, New Zealand, US, UK to Australia in C170 and learnt to fly in Chippies in 1960's

Got the AUF bug in 1987 (Thrusters & Drifters) - my initial AUF Pilot Certificate (little blue book) had a membership number of 0527 - my Ra-Aus membership is 000527.

That said, my AUF membership cards (some of which I still have): 1988 No. 302245, 1990 No. 302245, 1991 101012

Sort of strange set of numbers.

Hello

I am going to Tassie mid November on a driving holiday bit would also like to hire a RA-Aus aircraft and do some flying. I have experience on a number of types both GA & RA-Aus and don't mind hiring from either private or commercial operator.

Any suggestions appreciated.