At 12:26 AM 19/02/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Looks like things are just going to be more complicated!
>Gliders are exempt from transponder/radio carriage in "G" & "E", but for
>how long?
>
>http://www.airservices.gov.au/Pilotcentre/lamp/index.htm
MMA/Ansett have operated RPT
>turbo-props & jets for over 30 years outside controlled airspace in W.A.
>without any fatalities, so what's new?
Not quite true, John, but it didn't have anything to do wth a mid air
collision. An MMA Viscount lost a wing on descent into Port Hedland in
about 1967 or 68 with about 20 or so fatalities if memory serves me
rightly. The cause was traced to a fatigue failure of a spar boom due to
incorrect installation of a bushing for an engine mount, I believe.
Mike Borgelt
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