A long read but hey.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Parachute repacking
> At 07:51 PM 25/05/2007, you wrote: >>Ok I maybe thinking completely out of the box here.... but what if ?? > I dont really see any one else trying to think of a way around the current problem, other than tackling insturance clashes between to organisations... thats progressing forward at a million miles per hour isn't it?.. no offence to the people trying to resolve this problem, i know its not there doing but a legal issue., keep up the good work ! > > Does an organisation with a rapidly decreasing number of members (6% > in 2006 according to John Roake) really need another layer of > operational bureaucracy? Maybee if its a way around the current problem, whats shrinking membership numbers got to do with this parachute problem ? surley the amout of parachutes is not shrinking , if the amount of chutes and people are shrinking why do people sell parachutes in australia if its a dying market ? > I was trained to repack chutes by an SAS sergeant and sport skydiver > in 1973. In those days you could legally pack your own emergency > chute. It's one of those personal responsibility things which if it > doesn't work there's nobody to blame but yourself. Excellent the military still do that as far as i know, i have never been trained to pack chutes only open them. I agree why have APF pack chutes when we ( As a organisation ie the GFA ) could do it our selfs ! >I wouldn't pack a chute for $25. Neither would I , I would charge a shit load more for my time , just a ball park suggestion .... just trying to keep our great sport affordable. >Nor would I trust any GFA insurance policy supposedly > taken out on my behalf. So you trust the APF's insurance policy, if the shit hit the fan, it doesn't matter who buy's the policy lawyers will null and void it if something happened, thats what there there for limit liability in a payout case. >If you would, I've got a nice bridge you Sorry Mike just put a workshop up at home to get my aircraft out of my house so got no room for a bridge . > > Your scheme also leaves your mates who might fly aerobatics in > powered aircraft and those who test fly homebuilts out in the cold too. > My scheme was for out inhouse packing of gliding chutes only not every tom dick and harry who owns a "meat bomb arresting device" As some one who some times wears a parachute in a powered aircraft in both Certified and Homebuilt aircraft thats where CAR 30 packer as a single entity come into play, When i have my homebuilt finished i will be flying with a chute. > What we are seeing is where the slippery slope of "a piece of paper > for everything and a rule for everything" leads. It starts off as a > minor annoyance and ends up with you being unable to reasonably > comply. It is complicated by the absolute regulatory shambles that is > sport aviation in Australia. The only reason its a shambles is because CASA is slowly washing its hands of the regulation of day to day things, ie why APF, SAAA, RAAaus,GFA exist as the regulators for there corner of our flying world. But in saying that CASA are opening up there fist hold on regulation , which i one thing i admire.... now i can build my starlet under expermental rules with out the constricting crap of 101.28, thank you CASA now i can do my own maintence work on my own engine and self certify its compliance without having to pay a LAME a thousand dollars a hundred hourly , which also brings one point out howmany CASA LAME's have wood and fabric tickes these days F### A## , supply and demand if only a hand full of lame's have these tickets then the price goes up, my estimated cost of a hundred hourley for me under experimental is $ 143.00 dollars under 101.28 Who knows? If this aint progress then what is ..... If CASA have in there rules and regs provisions that people can be cerified to carry out work , then why not use the Regs to OUR ADVANTAGE ! If people dont use these regs to there advantage then CASA have justification to pull the regs and Shaft everyone ! Is seems you see this as all to hard but who's ganna pack your chute ? You would think we all flew in alternate > universes rather than the same airspace. > No we fly in the same universe just different airspace. > Mike > > > Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments > phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 > fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 > cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 > Int'l + 61 429 355784 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > website: www.borgeltinstruments.com _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
