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  1. johnm
    ironically you are our ? potential benefactor sfGnome - you could well enrich this website and one members life with this potential half-built project !
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    call me a dinosaur but I can't see how a car (a 2 dimensional thing) can ever be a flying car (a 3 dimensional thing) - a flying car for the masses (I mean you've just picked up Pizza - all the drones could not fly that 24 hour period) so it was a drive / flight to the Pizza shop and it was time to get home ............ quick case in point - insurance claims for cars - some good ones such as below: “Going to work at 7am this morning I drove out of my drive straight into a bus. The bus was 5 minutes early..” “I knew the dog was possessive about the car but I would not have asked her to drive it if I had thought there was any risk.” “I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way” “The pedestrian had no idea which way to run as I ran over him. “Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.”
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    good work on your first post Ben I don't even know what bankstown looks like ! - but I think commercial pressure for capital and rent seems to exceed what flight schools can generate in income ...................... they move to where things are a bit cheaper ?
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    re AVDATA - Council's logic would be money ! - some money is better than none
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    i tried looking for performance specs for some of these planes - stall speeds seldom mentioned (if at all) my guess is: - lowest stall speed - Hurricane - 80 knots - fastest stall speed - Electric Lightning - 155 knots Any one wants to argue ? .................................... winner takes all (plus the light green 2 tone '55 vauxhall velox (with 5 new ! retreads))
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    hope the terminology is right ? been wondering when a radial motor has hydraulic lock (oil bottom cylinders) I imagine you either pull the prop through or take the spark plugs out a) how is that achieved when a radial powered flying boat is moored in water ? thanks
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    and also the moderators are very well rounded individuals with superior life skills that WE mere members can only dream of (the moderators know best)
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    RE RAA member numbers I tired of the incessant financial commitment owning a plane so sold it and built a ................... When my RAA aircraft rego lapsed RAA rang me and said 'rather than paying the incessant $ 200 rego fee per year - you can be a non flying member ?' - think that's the term ........... and was only $ 35 per year So when you say 10,000 members - there's probably lots of deadwood in that number
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    Heard you say that once before FH I'm curious to know the circumstance if you care (of course I (we) understand if you decline) ?
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    or by attrition and time in service ............... some call it seniority ? ................... they are next in line for the next level
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    so what you are saying OME is that when you get a speeding ticket - personalised with 'on site' attendance by Mr Plod - they are actually giving you an 'in built' $ 197.20 discount I'll have to start driving with more panache
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    another option might be that some aero clubs have a preferred insurer (in other words the 'insurer' gets all the business - some provisos are that you are a member of that club) the aero club gets buying power - you might swing that one AvidSteve (get some club members on side - ................. an admin / aeronautical task for the future !)
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    OK Asteve - when I had plane - these people insured it and were good (it had a training wheel up front though) give them a go ?
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    probably telling you how to suck eggs ASteve ................... have you tried an insurance broker ?
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    that's ridiculous - the 4 engined plane would glide twice as far as the 2 engined plane - its got twice as many engines - do themath
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    don't know if this has been posted - could be applied to planes ? see link https://youtu.be/MNnB_50Z20I
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    .................. the lady in the bikini ........... will she be there ?
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    philosophical with a drizzle of physcological FH - well said
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    definite NZ my guess ? would be 1950 ? - new plymouth or perhaps blenheim .......... good photo though - everyones busy
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    lunch - tea and bread - tiger moth days ?
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    looks like a tiger moth
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    joining the coversations: a tecnam bravo with a V8 ............. that'll attract some ulcers
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    I bet this one did more than 204 mph cruise
  24. johnm
    Some initiatives CASA now realises some ideas have not tracked as initially anticipated don’t work; work has identified thinking through the initial idea new dependencies and issues that require proposals to be re-sequenced and rescoped – it now seems bl@@dy obvious to CASA that this needs more work
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    Danny, she wasn't a cop, she was only playing at being one. She was a county official, essentially a ranger, as Dan says, "equivalent to a dog catcher". 'similar to an animal control officer' ...................... please 😇
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