BirdDog

9 minutes ago, onetrack said:

The actual point is to reduce the COVID-19 virus to one where it is not termed a "pandemic". Perhaps you need to check up on the definition of "pandemic", which is exactly what this virus is, and what it has been declared in every country in the world.

I get that. But that was not my question. 
 

Let’s look at a scenario….

they don’t want to let unvaccinated in a pub. Ok Goodo. Let’s roll with that. 
 

99 vaccinated people in there, and the next guy walks in also vaccinated but has Covid. 
 

what was the point of keeping the unvaccinated out?  Was there any benefit to that?  
 

Now I can already hear people say “it reduces the chance.”  Ok. Reduce but not eliminate so we can pretty much guarantee one of the vaxed will have it (it’s delta after all) so the actual level of chance is unimportant. 
 

So again. What was the benefit of keeping the unvaxed out if the vaxed can still spread it?  Simple question.  

I guess the first question is. If I’m in my 40s. What is more of a risk?  My flying me aircraft or dying of Covid?

Of course the government does not want me getting it and passing it on to someone who is 70.  Sure. But the vaccine does not prevent that, so what is the actual point then?

I’m not saying we do nothing. Don’t get me wrong.  Of course Covid is a problem but I think the response needs to match the threats. 
 

These images attached are again from the governments own site and data.  Make of it what you will. But let’s discuss. I would like to hear what we all think of these graphs. 
 

Source - Health.gov.au

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021/09/coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance-1-september-2021.pdf

10 minutes ago, Garfly said:

 

 

That's not a PITA,  this is a PITA:

"I've seen full-grown men I work with just break down crying. That's a daily occurrence. We're already at the brink and I just don't know how 'opening up' is going to go. I'm so nervous about it. When will it end? It's just relentless". Belinda*, Sydney-based COVID ward nurse

"They say we’re coping now, but you only have to speak to the staff day to day, week to week, they’re suffering in silence. Just ask the ambos, ask the people in ICU, they will tell you we’re on the brink" - Greg*, 40-year veteran nurse, Victoria

"I've been called a 'COVID bitch' on my way home from work, people say to me: 'How do you sleep at night with your dirty COVID money?'. It's exhausting to hide part of yourself so that you can feel safe, even though you are helping keep people safe" Denise*, COVID vaccine nurse

 

Source:

Australia's COVID-19 Delta outbreak

is pushing frontline hospital staff to the brink       (6 Sep. 2021)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/covid-hospital-health-care-workers-stress/100423832

dude I have plenty of family in the health system and ambos. Don’t believe all the crap you read.  Keep perspective. 

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

Denmark's Covid -19 cum. death rate is 44.85 per 100,000 population - 13 times the rate of Australia

Australia's cum.is 4.2 per 100,000 population

Source: Johns Hopkins University of Medicine 9/9/21

 

If the Denmark performance was applied to Australia's population we would have 11,450 dead instead of 1066.

And Denmark is opening up now with Covid-12's exponential spread. vs Australia opening up maybe late October on our rate per 100,000 at that time.

Someone experienced at exponential equations might be able to predict the comparison by Christmas.

 

 

 

 

Let’s get some perspective lads. This straight from the ABS.  link below for you.  
 

IN AUSTRALIA 

• There were 5,043 deaths from respiratory diseases between January and May 2021. NOT INCLUDING COVID.  

There were 766 deaths due to influenza and pneumonia recorded between January and May 2021. NOT INCLUDING COVID. 

• 20,143 deaths from cancer occurred between January and May 2021.

Why are Covid deaths more important?

Source. ABS

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release

Let’s bow we go the way of Denmark. 
 

These Covid passports are going to be a PITA.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/denmark-becomes-first-country-in-eu-to-drop-all-covid19-restrictions-as-nation-passes-70-per-cent-vaccination/news-story/da8aebff81793d807a017fed4ec3772c

Again... just thinking out loud, and like a good aviation student, thinking about the what ifs.....


So here is the scene....  

100 people allowed in the pub.  Stats say... Less likely to get it and pass it on.  So what... 1 in 100 chance?  Cool... so now we have one person in the room with the other 99 that is infected with Covid.  Then what?  The other 99 now also have the possibility of getting it, and now taking it elsewhere!

Do we know if this is a REAL possibility - Israel will say it is.  Just doesn't make sense to me.  But maybe I overthink things too much!


 

1 minute ago, aro said:

Vaccinated people are less likely to be infected, less likely to pass it on, less likely to end up in hospital, less likely to die.

 

Same logic: What is the point of changing my oil, if engines can still fail? In fact, statistics show that most engines that fail had had their oil changed.

Less likely is very different to can't!

If you are sitting at the pub across the table from someone with it for 3 hours, I am pretty sure we know the outcome!

 

So here is a question... and I am just playing devil's advocte here...

The Gov is saying if you are not Vaxed, you can't go to the pub.  Why?   If vaccinated people can still carry it, and still pass it on - what's the difference?  

I am not sure we are ever going to reach 100% vaccination.   

30 minutes ago, Garfly said:

Clarification and references please BD.

(I'd love to prove our Aro wrong regarding pilots and critical thinking.   ;- )

It's all over the news man!

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-records-1542-new-cases-of-covid19-nine-deaths-after-announcing-lockdown-exit-plan/news-story/bf28c66b26e6d28330b8008ab78f488a

About half way down.

“All of these individuals had underlying health conditions, three were fully vaccinated,” deputy chief health officer Marianne Gale said.

“Three had (received) one dose of a Covid vaccine, and three were unvaccinated.

I hope you are right Skip.  Saldy yesterday more people died Vaxed than unvaxed.  Let's hope that is not a trend!

16 hours ago, KRviator said:

So today, I went out to the hangar (read, I walked out my laundry door and past my clothes line to get there....🙃) to do a bit of troubleshooting to see if I could work out what happened yesterday.

 

I drained 55L of fuel from the right tank, had a look at the vent line (clear) and also a look at the CAV-110 fuel drain that showed it had a few small bits of accumulated debris in its' ports which led me to break out the borescope to try to verify the fuel pickup was unobstructed. 

I couldn't get a good view of the pickup, simply due to the angle and the borescope not being able to bend sufficiently - though I did get it stuck on the fuel sender for several minutes while I contemplated both how long it would take me to remove the tank + borescope from the wing to unjam it and how long Vans would take to get a new tank access plate gasket to me in the post....

After getting it sorted, I added 5L of the removed fuel and pulled her out to do some ground runs, and she started and idled smoothly on the right tank as she has for the last few years, ran up to full power and held it beautifully, but lo and behold, after getting everything up to temperature, she's stumbling and pig-rootin just like she did yesterday, however, using the diaphragm override on the Rotec, I could recover the RPM each time it faltered. Not well enough to hold a specific RPM, but enough to keep me airborne if needed. On shutdown to add some more fuel, I left the Dynon's powered and fuel pressure climbed from the normal 5PSI to well over 20PSI in around 4 minutes - the highest I can ever recall seeing it and well above the capacity of the electric boost pump, suggesting the fuel is indeed boiling in the lines.

 

She wouldn't restart and idle, yet alone run smoothly, after adding the extra fuel so I had to tow her to the Avgas bowser, but I refueled the right side with Avgas, added a few litres to the left to top it off and will repeat the ground runs tomorrow to see if she is more stable with Avgas instead of 98, but for now, I think @BirdDog wins the choccy frog. I use the same pump at the same servo every time, so all I can put it down to, is having different blends (summer v winter?!?) of 98RON in the left & right tanks though I thought that was more a diesel thing, a bit of Googling suggests it happens with unleaded as well.

Why do I win the Chocy Frog?

Well, All I can say, from someone who experienced this last year when we were locked down....

Never again will I allow myself to go for months without getting in the cockpit to remain recent and proficient.  Last year when that happened, it could have ended very differently.  I won't go into details, only to say, CASA have recent and proficient policies for a reason.

I will probably get flogged by some of you for this, but myself and my organisation are continuing to work (we deliver training to government and other essential services) and I can tell you, me driving to the AD to go for a fly, is the least of your concerns! LOL! 

You do you... I will do me.  🙂  Enjoy!

On 05/09/2021 at 1:47 PM, skippydiesel said:

 

 

My position is simple ; You (we) either do quarantine as it should be done or forget it. Where there is the threat of highly infectious disease, there is no such thing as success partial quarantine.

I don't want to be "that guy" but I am just identifying that it can't be as stated above.  There are many reasons why people leave their home.

Work

Education

Essential Utilities

Medical

Care Givers

Zoo Keepers that need to feed animals

The list goes on and on and on.

To single out one person (ME) and state that I have contributed because I drove from my house to my hangar in a community that has never had a single case, is a bit insulting.

1 hour ago, skippydiesel said:

 

I don t get it - how do you/your CHO and others not understand - in a quarantine situation, your personal risk, situation, wants & desires is not the issue.

You are either in lockdown or not, there is no grey area.

Every time the authorities make an exception or an individual decides the rules do not apply to them, the quarantine is compromised eg Sydney and its fake lockdown, now in its 12th (?) week or something, costing a squillion of dollars to the economy and almost completely ineffective, has (wilfully) exported the virus to other States and the NSW hinterland.

The act of getting into your aircraft alone has zero risk of CV 19 spread/infection HOWEVER, presumably you had to travel to/from the airfield, your vehicle/aircraft required fuel, you picked up a takeaway going to/coming from, you had a conversation with the security guard/fellow pilot/LAIM, may be your aircraft didn't start and a "jump" battery was required, your car broke down, was involved in an accident - the list of potential human contact goes on and on. In short you have increased your risk of contraction/spreading of CV19.

Even if your risk of contracting/spreading CV19 was nil - the example you set, both in your trip to/from the airfield, as you buzz around overhead, is sending the worst signal possible to the thousands/millions in lockdown, who are not so privileged. Shame on you! 

Hmm but by your example, then we should be at home in the dark, because in your "true lockdown" example, nobody could leave home to run the power station.  Deliver food to woolies.  Run the TV station.  

So you see, there are plenty of examples where people MUST leave their home.

Wow. That’s a bit of an event mate. 
 

So what I do in these situations instead of looking for the issue, let’s eliminate some stuff. 
 

Carby icing. If it was icing, I’m thinking it should not matter what tank you use, as it’s all happening in the carbs. So I would rule that out. 

you say you did a fuel drain with now water. So we can rule out contamination. UNLESS what you drained was all water. I’ve seen that. 

Can you rule out the vent. Not yet unless you check now that it’s not blocked. So could be. 
 

One last thing is… after you swapped tanks did you go back and replicate the problem? Because it may well have been a lock that sorted itself as you coincidentally changed tanks. 
 

Very cool man!  Something similar is on my list.  I have a Bristell currently which is great for zooming off into the blue to go somewhere at a decent speed, but I also wanting something fun that I can plod about in.

Good on you mate!  You will have a blast with it I am sure.

3 hours ago, jackc said:

For me,  I am happy as a cat with 10 tails, I have trip to make tomorrow to buy another aircraft, deal 95% done. Hope its got some wings on it!

BIG bonus is……I don’t have to run the wrath of the COVID Policemen to go look at it and get it home……It’s a bonus living in Qld.:-)

 

NICE!!  I upgraded not that long ago - what ya gettin?

Oh man. I ended up in a rabbit hole of CDC and Pfizer websites so I can’t tell you the exact link but I took a screen shots of the document. See attached. I will dig and see if I can find the exact site. 
 

The problem is main stream media will not fact check stuff.  I have a very good friend who is involved in one of the biggest. They just run stuff. If another network runs it, so will they.  If it’s a lie, they will simply repeat it. Sad. 

I don’t know mate. Mine is working perfectly.  460 hours in and still going good. 

4 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Thanks BD - Many of the higher econamy, island states, have managed at least once, to achieve Zero  Community Transmission.

 

I have never suggested that Australia can remain CV free indefinitely, or even that this is practical objective. All I have suggested is that Zero Community Transmission is achievable & desirable, in the short term, while we develop a suitable plan (herd immunity being a significant part) and systems for on going management/minimisation of CV impact on society and the econamy.

 

As for your flying activities & your shopping (why not get delivered/click & collect?) - sure you as an individual have probably acted responsibly, as far as inter person contact is concerned. BUT successful  quarantine, does not allow for individual determination/interpretation/action, its an all in/out situation (no grey area). You have subverted the concept, even if you have acted within the wholly inexplicable NSW Gov rules.

 

Alarmist?? - I have some previous exposure to quarantine environments, nasty disseises - I can tell you, what Gladys has been doing, is nothing like what I understand a successful quarantine would require - not even close. This is not alarmist it is frustration with the political subversion of a well understood , tried & true concept,  that has been around for hundreds of years. 

 

My position is simple ; You (we) either do quarantine as it should be done or forget it. Where there is the threat of highly infectious disease, there is no such thing as success partial quarantine.

while I agree with some of your comments, I will say that there’s no way we will get anything like heard immunity.  Take a look at the likes of Israel. They are heavily vaccinated and going through more pain. The whole idea that these vaccines are a silver bullet is a farce, and our dumb governments just give people hope that “vaccines are our way out of this” 

Another comedy routine.
 

I am in no way anti vaccine. I am fully vaccinated (except for Covid) and the data I have read up re these vaccines (from the manufacturer themselves) is plain scary.   You should look into  it. Not media data.  Not Facebook data. Go to the sources. Trawl through their data and have a read. You will be shocked. I will give you one example. Pfizer themselves give little affect for their vaccine in people over 70. Yep. Read that again. 
 

Anyways. One thing is for sure. History will either see us look back and say we did the right thing based on science or the wrong thing based on Money. I have my suspicions which one it will be. Sadly. 

I don’t know but I’m also going to ask the question of Fitti as to what happens if the motor dies at full course. 
 

My last woodcomp would go full fine if it failed in flight. 

1 hour ago, skippydiesel said:

Well done - You and all the other quarantine breakers, are the reason why the virus has/is spreading.

 

Of course your metal health is important - if the quarantine/Lockdown had been swiftly/fully implemented. the few days-3weeks to get it under control, would not have had a significant impact on your metal wellbeing.

 

You may thank Pandemic Gladys for the negative impact on your metal health.

LOL. You are a laugh a minute. 
 

along with with what Garfly has said I have another question. 
 

Can you give one example of a country that has controlled the virus  - at all, let alone with lockdowns.  It’s surely a comedy routine to think any measure is going to get rid of it.  It is going to be with us forever, and so we better get used to living with it. 
 

And for what it’s worth, not that I need to explain myself to you, I go from my house to my hangar and come into less contact with people than when I go do my food shopping. 
 

Alarmists like yourself do nothing to aid the cause. Let’s get a real grip on what we are in middle of, and do the best we can to remain human, because right now it appears humanity is out the window, and I see nothing but division and hatred amongst us all. God help us. 

Hello all

I have a Garmin G3X system and have just recently had the XPDR replaced after it failed.  
 

the other day I was up flying and noticed it flashing up NO ADSB on the glass.  Just a couple of times but also noticed when I checked out flight aware the track ends right where the first NO ADSB error popped up.  Nothing past that point. 
 

I was above  3500 over Cootamundra area at the time. 
 

any info that could help would be greatly appreciated.